MUZAFFARNAGAR: On the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the infamous Rampur Tiraha firing Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Tuesday targeted former UP CM and SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav for the attack on unarmed protesters demanding a separate state of Uttarakhand.Rawat, who was in Muzaffarnagar during the day, visited a memorial built in the memory of the six statehood activists who had died in police firing on October 2, 1994. “Evidence was destroyed and facts were twisted at the instance of Mulayam Singh Yadav. No wonder cases are still going on even after two decades,” Rawat said.“Everyone knows that evidence was destroyed. In fact, every sign of police excess was erased at the behest of the former UP CM. That is why the families of those killed haven’t got justice till date,” the Uttarakhand CM said.According to officials, a large number of people from the mountainous(present Uttarakhand) were en route to Delhi to demand a separate state on October 2, 1994 when they were stopped by police at Rampur Tiraha in Muzaffarnagar. After the protesters tried to defy orders and move forward, the situation turned tense and cops resorted to lathicharge and firing in which half-a-dozen people were killed and many others sustained injuries. Several cases of sexual harassment were also reported on that day.A few years later, a memorial was built here in the memory of the six activists who had died in police firing. Since then, every year, the Uttarakhand CM visits the memorial to pay tribute to the deceased statehood activists.