LUCKNOW: Is BJP rewinding its 2017 election script to pin down SP in the same political frame? The question assumed pertinence with BJP amplifying the Kairana exodus issue, stoking the narrative of another rift in the Yadav first family and cornering SP on criminalisation of politics.
A senior BJP leader affirmed the ‘Kairana exodus’ issue continues to touch a raw nerve among people. “The exodus of Hindu families from Kairana has always been a cause of concern for BJP, before and after it came to power. Our priority was to help these people return home,” he said. In June, 2016, then BJP MP, Hukum Singh, released a list of 346 people who were forced to migrate from Kairana, a Muslim-majority town in western UP, because of “threats and extortion by criminal elements from a particular community”.
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