‘Double engine’ govt won’t allow ‘demography change’: Yogi on Sambhal violence report

Lucknow: Apparently referring to the alleged change in the demography of communally sensitive town of Sambhal, in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that there was now a double engine government in the state, which will not allow ‘demography change’ anywhere.

‘’Ab double engine ki sarkar hai jo kisi bhi khestra ki demography nahi badalne degi. Jo koi aisa karne ki koshish Karega use khud jilse aur Pradesh se palayan karne ke liye majboor hona padega’’ (Now there is a double engine government which will not allow change in demography of any region. Those who try to change the demography, will be forced to leave the district and the state), Adityanath said while speaking at a function in Pratapgarh on Friday.

The chief minister alleged that during the rule of Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Hindus were ‘targeted’. ‘’The Hindus were persecuted and riots were deliberately engineered to force the Hindus to leave the place causing change in demography,’’ he added.

Incidentally it was Adityanath’s first reaction after the judicial commission, formed to investigate the violence in Sabhal during a court mandated survey of a Mosque in which four people were killed, has, in its report, claimed that the Hindu population in Sambhal declined from 45 percent in 1947 to just 15 percent at present while the Muslim population increased from 55 percent to 85 percent during the same period.

Although the content of the 450-page report was not made public, according to the sources, the report contained details of history of communal riots in the town, change in its demography after independence and evidence of existence of a Hindu temple in the foundation of the Mosque.

The report has caused a political storm in the state with the BJP and its rival parties trading barbs on its content.

The report was handed over to Adityanath on Thursday.