Uttar Pradesh: Bouncers were deployed for the security of tomatoes, police arrested 2, SP worker absconding
Police have arrested a vegetable seller and his son in connection with the deployment of two ‘bouncers’ by a Samajwadi Party worker for the security of expensive tomatoes. Giving information about this case, Lanka police station in-charge Ashwini Pandey said that Samajwadi Party worker Ajay Fauji, who showed himself as the owner of the shop in a video, is absconding. Jagannarayan Yadav and his son Vikas Yadav were arrested on Sunday in a ‘defamation’ case, police said.
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‘Bouncers deployed to avoid people’s anger’
In the video, the SP worker had claimed that he had deployed 2 bouncers to avoid the anger of the customers while negotiating the prices of tomatoes. The SP is targeting the BJP government at the Center and the state over the increase in the prices of commodities. Fauji had recently cut a tomato-shaped cake and distributed tomatoes on SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s birthday. Police said that an FIR has been registered against the arrested accused under sections 153, 291 and 505 of the Indian Penal Code.
जिस देश-प्रदेश में स्वस्थ व्यंग्य और कटाक्ष के लिए स्थान न हो वहाँ समझ लेना चाहिए, दूसरों को डरानेवाली सत्ता, स्वयं डरी हुई है। ‘मदर ऑफ़ डेमोक्रेसी’ की बात इस माहौल में बेमानी जुमला लगती है। देश के प्रमुखतम संसदीय क्षेत्र में लोकतंत्र का ये हाल है तो बाकी देश में क्या होगा।
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‘To what extent is it appropriate to make the vegetable vendor sit in the police station’
SP President Akhilesh Yadav tweeted in this matter without naming anyone, ‘In a country and state where there is no place for healthy sarcasm and sarcasm, it should be understood that the power that scares others is scared itself.’ He had tweeted on Sunday that to what extent it is appropriate to make the vegetable seller sit in the police station for drawing the attention of the government on the issue of public interest like price rise in Varanasi. At the same time, this step of the SP worker was being seen as an attempt to take political advantage.
‘…So I decided to deploy bouncers’
Earlier speaking on the need to deploy bouncers, Ajay Fauji had said, “Due to the high prices of tomatoes, there were reports of heated exchanges between people while buying it.” People who came to our shop tried to do the same. When I realized enough was enough, I decided to deploy bouncers at my shop.’ Fauji’s shop also has a placard referring to the rising prices of commodities in the last ‘9 years’, which is clearly Formally indicates the tenure of the central government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
