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A delegation of 14 Samajwadi Party MPs and MLAs who were scheduled to visit violence-hit Bareilly connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) were allegedly stopped astatine their homes by police, Leader of the Opposition successful Uttar Pradesh Assembly Mata Prasad Pandey said.
LoP Pandey, who was to pb the delegation, alleged that constabulary are deployed extracurricular the homes of each S.P. enactment workers, helium said.
The LoP said they person received 2 letters, 1 from the constabulary and different from the Bareilly territory magistrate, saying that the S.P. delegation volition "worsen the atmosphere" successful the city.
Mr. Pandey added that the Yogi Adityanath authorities was "stopping them to fell its failures".
Bareilly witnessed unit pursuing the Friday namaz past week.
U.P. curate J.P.S Rathore said absorption MPs and leaders who are talking astir wanting to sojourn Bareilly are conscionable trying to "vitiate the atmosphere". The authorities volition not let anyone to disturb the bid and tranquillity of Bareilly, helium said, adding that determination is present implicit bid successful the city.
Speaking to PTI Videos astatine his residence, the LoP Pandey said, "The ellipse serviceman and a elder Local Intelligence Unit serviceman are here. They are telling maine not to spell determination (Bareilly)."
"What volition hap if we go? This was done successful the lawsuit of Sambhal and Bahraich. When our delegation goes there, we volition found bid there, due to the fact that this isn't a communal riot, not a Hindu-Muslim conflict, that our sojourn volition escalate it further," Mr. Pandey said.
Referring to protests successful the metropolis past week, Mr. Pandey claimed that the Muslim assemblage lone wanted to springiness a missive to the authorities, but constabulary resorted to excessive unit against them.
"The main curate should personally spell determination to spot what went incorrect and close the mistakes that person occurred," helium said.
Chief spokesperson of Samajwadi Party, Rajendra Chaudhary, said constabulary confined each members of the delegation to their homes.
The delegation included LoP Mata Prasad Pandey; Lok Sabha MPs Harendra Malik, Iqra Hasan, Ziaur Rahman Barq, Mohibullah Nadvi and Neeraj Maurya; erstwhile MPs Virpal Singh Yadav, Praveen Singh Aron and Shivcharan Kashyap; MLAs Ataur Rahman and Shahzil Islam Ansari; erstwhile curate Bhagwat Sharan Gangwar, SP leaders Shamim Khan Sultani and Shubhalesh Yadav.
This is condemnable and shameful, Mr. Chaudhary was quoted arsenic saying successful a statement.
MP Ziaur Rehman told reporters that a constabulary unit was deployed astatine his residence astatine Deepa Sarai country successful Sambhal.
"We wanted to spell to Bareilly, but we were not allowed to go. We wanted to conscionable the families of the victims. The full satellite is witnessing the oppression and atrocities being committed against them. This is mounting a precedent, tarnishing the representation of the country," helium said.
The Sambhal MP said radical are being targeted and the injustice they are facing "is unimaginable".
"Our ancestors could ne'er person imagined that we would spot specified a time successful a escaped country," helium said.
Mr. Rehman said protesters successful Bareilly were lone going to taxable a memorandum connected September 26, but 10 cases were filed against them.
He said the constabulary person besides accused them of pelting stones and opening gunfire. "If the constabulary medication has specified photos and videos, wherefore haven't they shown them to the federation yet? What's their fault? Why doesn't the constabulary medication supply impervious of this to the media?" helium said.
J.P.S. Rathore, however, launched a scathing onslaught connected the S.P., saying the absorption party's leaders present privation to spell to Bareilly "to shed tears for the aforesaid rioters, who attempted to termination constabulary and guiltless people".
"For whom are they going to Bareilly? Those who broke the law, threw stones, and attacked the police?" helium said, asserting that nary guiltless radical were harmed successful constabulary enactment and that lone those who broke the instrumentality were sent to jail.
"Markets are open, postulation is normal, and the constabulary are vigilantly monitoring. The medication says that the concern volition instrumentality to implicit calm successful the coming days," the curate said successful a statement.
Mr. Rathore, who is the curate of authorities (independent charge) for Cooperation, said absorption parties thought that if Bareilly was engulfed successful flames, they would summation immoderate governmental vantage but the administration's strict enactment thwarted their plans.
Those who erstwhile invoked the Constitution are present trying to interruption the instrumentality and dispersed violence, the curate added.
Reacting to the SP delegation's sojourn to Bareilly, U.P. BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi told PTI, "The Samajwadi Party wants to disturbance up the delicate ambiance successful Bareilly." "The authorities and administration, with patience and restraint, thwarted the conspiracy to incite unrest successful the state. The Yogi Adityanath authorities volition not let immoderate conspiracy to foment communal riots to succeed," helium said.
On September 26, protesters who were opposing FIRs implicit "I Love Muhammad" posters clashed with constabulary successful the bosom of Bareilly pursuing Friday prayers aft they were not permitted to clasp a demonstration. Several radical were injured successful the violence.
Police person lodged 10 FIRs and booked hundreds of people, mostly unidentified, successful transportation with the violence. More than 70 people, including cleric Tauqeer Raza Khan, his aides and immoderate relatives, person been arrested.
