New Delhi: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Monday submitted a letter to President Ramnath Kovind demanding the resignation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over Hathras gangrape case and said that he has no right to take decisions by looking at caste.
Speaking to ETV Bharat, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, said, "I have sent a letter to President Ramnath Kovind and UP CM Yogi Adityanath's resignation because a person who takes decisions by looking caste has no right to sit in power."
Chandrashekhar Azad said that he has also appealed the court to grant the custody of the family of the Dalit girl who died a fortnight after being gang-raped in UP's Hathras district.
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Speaking on an FIR filed against him and 400 others by the UP Police for violating Section 144 during his visit to the Boolgrahi village in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district on Sunday, he said, "hundreds of people are protesting in support of the boys who are arrested for the gangrape and murder of the girl. They are getting the government's support and one can understand that the country which is holding meetings in support of criminals will go in which way."
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and founder of Azad Samaj Party slammed Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati for not coming openly on the Hathras gangrape case and said that these are the only people who have made her the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for four times and now she can't see their pain.
"If she could see their pain then we might have fought this battle more strongly but the relation between Dalits and Mayawati is over. That's the reason she does not talk about poor Dalits," he added.
Speaking to ETV Bharat, Chandrashekhar Azad said that in his letter to the President, he also demanded a time-bound enquiry by a panel of retired Supreme Court judges into the Hathras incident.
