The Samajwadi Party-led opposition on Tuesday attacked the BJP government in the UP assembly over withdrawal of communal violence cases against leaders of the saffron party.

The opposition stressed that the move would escalate communal tension in the state.

This led to a heated discussion on the issue and subsequent walkout by SP members. Leader of opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary referred to the government’s decision to withdraw cases against CM Yogi Adityanath , which were filed in Gorakhpur when he was an MP. “Are cases being withdrawn to spark more communal violence in the state? The leader of the House, that is the CM, is also facing such cases,” Chaudhary said amid din in the Assembly.

The issue was raised during the question hour when SP MLA Sanjay Garg sought to know the number of communal violence cases reported in UP between January 2017 and July 2018.

