UP Election 2022: FIR Lodged In Connection With 'Attack' On Minister SP Baghel's Convoy In Mainpuri

UP Election 2022: SP Singh Baghel alleged that some people who came out of the fields in Karhal on Tuesday night pelted stones at his car and opened fire.

New Delhi: An FIR has been filed against two named and about 20 to 25 unidentified accused in connection with the attack on the convoy of Union Minister of State SP Singh Baghel, BJP candidate from Mainpuri's Karhal assembly seat. 

Baghel's convoy was attacked in the Karhal area on Tuesday evening. The attackers had shattered the windows of the vehicles of his convoy. A case of murderous assault, stone pelting, firing has been registered at Karhal police station. 

The FIR was lodged against Umakant Yadav, Bittu, and others under sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with a deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the relevant provisions of the Representation of the People Act.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday has filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) and demanded strict action against the attackers.

“I had to come to [the] EC as after the first and second phases of Uttar Pradesh elections, Akhilesh started sweating. His workers and goons are instigating violence,” he told news agency ANI.

Meanwhile, Union minister Piyush Goyal also reacted to the incident who was quoted by ANI saying, "The mafia raj and criminal activities that Uttar Pradesh saw before 2017, created an environment of fear. It never let UP become a developed state. It stayed a BIMARU state. People were subjected to atrocities, it was the calling card of Samajwadi Party".

After the attack on the convoy, Baghel has been given Z-category security by the central government, that is, now the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel will be responsible to protect him.

Baghel is contesting against Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav as a BJP candidate from the Karhal assembly.