Operation Riot For Votes: How the Akhilesh Govt is responsible for the Muzaffarnagar violence

The Headlines Today Special Investigation - Operation #RiotForVotes - revealed how in a matter of days, naked communal insanity took over as politicos and top cops watched the macabre spectacle. The powers-that-be rolled the dice and the streets and chowks of Muzaffarnagar turned into their chessboard.Going undercover, the Headlines Today team spoke to UP Police officials responsible for handling Muzaffarnagar and the aftermath of the worst communal flare up in the area in a decade.The men who report to Akhilesh revealed all. It is the biggest expose of an administration hell bent on doing the oposite of what it is entrusted with, all for a few more votes.Shockingly, this is what the cops had to say:All sorts of things were said. There are a lot of things. We are in a lot of pressure right now. There's a lot of work. We'll talk in peace some day.Headlines Today: But madam tell why was murder given a communal taint?Kalpana Saxena, SP, Crime: What do I say? If I tell you in detail, then all this is very political. Muslims are thinking something. Hindus are thinking Muslims are being appeased. A lot of that is going on.Followed by:Attacks on a particular community are increasing day by day, in that context, both police & administration are not taking proper action. We have to keep in mind what the govt wants & how we can save our job. Vote bank politics has ruined the country.Let me tell you one thing, the fact that I'm sitting in this police station is because I have said yes to what they wanted, otherwise I would have been suspended, sent home. I'm getting old, my kids will be troubled, where will I get food from?It's true that false FIRSs have been lodged. Even those who filed the FIR know this. 2 boys came & they were killed. Their parents were old. All these things were picked up by political groups, farmers' union took it up. Even before the police could do anything, it got caught up in law & order situation.Actually there was another big mistake. DM & SSP shouldn't have gone to the meeting that was held in Khala Paar.