Congress (I) has said the past four years of Mayawati’s rule in UP has led to spiraling criminalisation, corruption, violence on women, land grab, killing of farmers and repression on people’s movements. Mayawati came to power by making ‘law and order’ an issue, and dalits and women in particular had high aspirations from her government. But the aspirations of dalits have been busted and brutally betrayed. Shekhar Tiwari, BSP MLA from Auraiya, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of PWD engineer Manoj Gupta, who was given electric shocks and left to die outside a police station after he refused to meet Tiwari’s demand for a ‘donation’ for Mayawati's birthday celebrations in 2008. Anand Sen Yadav, BSP MLA from Milkipur (Faizabad) and former Minister facing several other cases of murder and extortion, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of a young Dalit woman in October 2007.
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