bjp: Ex-IPS officers help BJP build ‘War on Crime’ narrative

Two former IPS officers who are actually BJP leaders are enjoying a big function in highlighting the distinction within the law-and-order state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh in the course of the rule of Yogi Adityanath and the earlier Samajwadi Get together regime.

Asim Arun had served because the commissioner of police in Kanpur earlier than becoming a member of the BJP just lately and his function within the occasion is but to be determined. Brij Lal, a former UP DGP who was as soon as thought of near Mayawati, joined the BJP in 2015 and is now a Rajya Sabha MP.

Arun is being propped up by the BJP as a “youth mannequin” and “Dalit icon” with the occasion juxtaposing him to SP’s candidates with felony backgrounds. In the meantime, Lal has been attacking the SP on the law-and-order state of affairs that prevailed underneath its tenure and, on Tuesday, enumerated the instances lodged towards SP’s candidates and accused the opposition occasion of taking an anti-Dalit stance.

Arun informed ET that the “unbiased inquiry” into each act of crime has develop into the Yogi Adityanath administration’s hallmark and helped officers work with out the concern of working into battle with leaders of the ruling occasion.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has requested the Election Fee to probe Arun’s tenure. There was an understanding between Arun and the BJP for a clean political entry, Yadav has alleged, demanding that his work as Kanpur police commissioner be investigated too.