'Now Mafia Can't Scare Anyone': CM Yogi During His First Address After Atiq, Ashraf Ahmed Murder

UP CM Yogi Aditynath, in his first address after the murder of Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf, said that his government has made the state riot free.

CM Yogi Adityanath says mafia cannot scare anyone in Uttar Pradesh.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that now the mafia cannot scare anyone in the state. Speaking for the first time after the double murder of Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf, the CM said that the UP's law and order was worse before 2017 and there used to be riots every day in the state. He said that there has been no riot in Uttar Pradesh since his government came into power in 2017. The CM said that his government made the state riot free. 

#WATCH | Now mafia cannot threaten anyone in Uttar Pradesh, says CM Adityanath days after Mafia brothers Atiq-Ashraf were killed amid police presence & Atiq's son Asad was killed in a police encounter pic.twitter.com/hjfeBVF6qt

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He said that a period had come when the identity of UP was destroyed but today, the development of the state is not hidden from anyone. He added that now there is excellent connectivity in UP. He further said that every capital of the investors will be protected in UP. 

"Earlier there was a crisis for the identity of the state, today the state is becoming a crisis for them," the CM mentioned in the speech.

Shahista's Letter To CM Yogi

Three days after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother were shot dead in the middle of a media interaction in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, letters of wife Shaista Parveen surfaced which she had written to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court seeking for a CBI or judicial investigation into the killing of Umesh Pal. In two separate letters, she claimed that Atiq, his brother Ashraf and his sons were falsely implicated in the murder case and that they had no reason to kill Pal. 

Umesh Pal, a key witness in the 2005 Raju Pal murder case, was killed on February 24 outside his residence in Prayagraj.  

Parveen, who is among the accused and has been on the run ever since, claimed that Cabinet Minister Nand Gopal Gupta - also known as 'Nandi' - was the key conspirator of the killing of Umesh Pal, therefore an investigation was necessary. Gupta is the sitting MLA from Prayagraj. 

In the letter to CM Adityanath written on February 27, she also alleged that the Paraygaraj Police were working under the pressure of Gupta. She also named Prayagraj Commissioner Ramit Sharma and STF ADG Amitabh Yash, who she said were planning to eliminate Atiq and Ashraf. 

"If you (CM Adityanath) don't intervene, my husband, brother-in-law, and sons would be killed," she wrote in the letter.

Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were shot dead at point-blank range by three men posing as journalists on Saturday night while police personnel was escorting them to a medical college in Prayagraj for a checkup.