Kanpur: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Saturday hit out at the state government over the violence and stone-pelting incident in Kanpur and demanded action against the culprits "rising above caste, religion and party politics". In a tweet, Mayawati wrote, "The outbreak of riots and violence in Kanpur during the visit of president and prime minister to the state is very sad, unfortunate and worrisome and is a sign of the failure of the police intelligence machinery. The government has to understand how it is possible to invest and develop the state in the absence of peace and order?

Former CM Mayawati further said, "The government should rise above religion, caste and party politics and conduct a free and fair and high-level inquiry into the incident and take strict legal action against the culprits so that such an incident does not continue." Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo  Mayawati also urged the people to avoid inflammatory speeches etc. to maintain peace and law and order. It may be recalled that in Kanpur, people from two communities clashed and pelted stones at each other after Friday prayers. There was also firing during this time.  

A senior police official said that when the people of the Muslim organisation tried to forcibly close the shops, both sides came face to face and not only threw stones at each other in protest against the alleged controversial remarks made against Prophet Mohammad during a recent discussion in a debate on TV by BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. In fact, there were also bullets fired during this time.

Who was injured in the violence?

Inspector Sisamau Kailash Dubey, Sepoy Vivek Kumar, Civil Defence Deputy Divisional Warden Naresh Kumar Bhagatani and the common people mukesh, manjeet yadav, rahul trivedi, amar batham, sanjay shukla, ashish, anil gaur, mukesh devegowda, saurabh gupta, shivam, adarsh, puttal, kailash etc. were injured in the violence that broke out in kanpur.

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