Arresting Prajapati is to be BJP's UP govt first task: Shah

March 05, 2017 17:59

Ruing the UP government's failure to arrest its rape-accused minister Gayatri Prajapati, the BJP today listed sending the minister "behind bars" as one of the first task after forming the government in the state.

Addressing an election rally, BJP chief Amit Shah said, "As soon as the BJP forms the government in UP on March 11, we would search (Gayatri Prasad) Prajapati even from the hell and send him to jail."

Prajapati holds transport department portfolio in CM Akhilesh Yadav's Council of ministers, but is facing arrest following a Supreme Court order to lodge an FIR against him for his alleged role in a rape case.

Shah also alleged that the rape-accused minister campaigned for the SP for nearly six days, and even exercised his voting rights on February 27.

"But, the police was not able to do anything. On the other hand, the CM appealed to Gayatri to surrender. The job of the police is to hold the criminal by the collar and send him behind bars," said Shah amid a thunderous applause from the crowd.

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