Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday (July 25, 2025) hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government saying that the “own people and workers” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were “not getting justice” in the State.
His comment was directed at a viral video in which BJP leader and former MP Anil Shukla Warsi could be seen protesting at a police station in Kanpur after five BJP supporters were booked in a case under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Act.
“No one is heard in the BJP government. Their own people are not getting justice, even the Deputy CM was being scolded. In 10 years, we have come to know that the BJP is not suitable for secularism, democracy, socialism, electricity, and the future of children,” said Mr. Yadav.
In the video, Mr. Shukla, whose wife Pratibha is a junior Minister in the State government, is seen confronting Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak over the phone and accusing him of “failing to provide any security to the Brahmin community”.
“Either I should leave politics or hang myself… You were made Deputy CM to protect and provide security to Brahmins, and here Brahmins are being abused, and fake cases are being registered. This cannot continue,” Mr. Shukla is heard saying in the video.
Ms. Pratibha and her husband protested for six hours outside the police station in Kanpur Dehat on July 24, demanding suspension of the local station in-charge and an inspector for allegedly filing a “fake case”. The two accused the inspector of “misusing” legal provisions and working under political pressure.
Top district officials reached the spot and diffused the tension by promising an inquiry against the inspector. They also removed the station in-charge.
Earlier, the police had registered an FIR on a complaint by a man named Baburam Gautam who had accused Abrar, Yusuf, Aslam, Yasir and Shiva Pandey of using ‘casteist slurs’ and issuing threats over a land dispute.
All five are said to be known to Ms. Pratibha and her husband.
