BJP govt. in UP ‘dictatorially inclined’: Rahul

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of being “dictatorially inclined” and said party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s “imprisonment” at Chunar guesthouse is an attempt to trample upon democracy.

Priyanka Gandhi was on Friday detained and stopped from going to Sonbhadra where 10 people were gunned down this week, triggering a standoff with the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh. Refusing to furnish a personal bond, Gandhi stayed put at a guesthouse in Mirzapur district where she was taken after she squatted on the road with her supporters, insisting that she be allowed to proceed and meet the victims’ families.

“The imprisonment of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi, on way to meet the families of Sonbhadra massacre victims, in Chunar guest house through the night without water and electricity by a dictatorially inclined UP government is an attempt to trample upon democracy,” Rahul Gandhi said in a Facebook post in Hindi.