UP Panchayat Election: Kidnap from father’s funeral procession to cast vote, wait for fire

Lucknow : A BDC member of Sant Kabir Nagar has been kidnapped from his father’s funeral procession for forcibly casting votes in the Panchayat elections of UP. Police is looking for him. And the people of the house are sitting on the banks of the river with a pyre decorated that if the son comes, he should light the father. Ajay of Thathar village of Sant Kabir Nagar has become a BDC member in the Panchayat elections. They have to vote to choose the block head of their block.

The people of the party for which Ajay is a supporter had taken him to Varanasi to save him from the other partymen. But as soon as his party got the news of Ajay’s father’s passing, they immediately sent him back home to attend the funeral of his father. On Friday afternoon, Ajay was going for the last rites on the banks of Saryu with his father’s funeral procession. For a long time, he kept shouldering his father’s car. But as soon as he got tired at one place, he removed his shoulder from the wheel and started walking behind, only then some people in the car kidnapped him.

Ajay’s uncle told NDTV, ‘What kind of Kaliyug has come that now kidnapping has started happening in the funeral procession too. Hey, God! Never seen such an election.

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After this incident, instead of taking the dead body of his father to the Saryu coast, Ajay’s family went straight to the Ghanghata police station in the area and lodged a complaint about the abduction of Ajay. Ghanghata’s circle officer Anshuman told that, ‘Ajay’s abduction has been reported from the funeral procession of his father. Police will find them. And those who are guilty of this, strict action will be taken against them.

Later, Ajay’s family reached Saryu’s ghat with his father’s body and kept waiting that if Ajay somehow comes free from his clutches, then he should light the father. But Ajay did not come.