Journalist’s death in UP: Priyanka says state government ‘nurturing jungle raj’ | India News
New Delhi: Congress the leader Priyanka Gandhi Bhadra on Monday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of a journalist, who recently ran a story on the liquor mafia and was killed in what the police said was a road accident. Congress general secretary’s complaint Yogi Adityanath Arrangement of “Jungalraj Lalan”.
News channel journalist Sulabh Srivastava, 42, died after being hit by a pole near a brick kiln at Sukhpal Nagar under Pratapgarh’s Kotwali police station area on Sunday, police said.
“Liquor mafia from Aligarh to Pratapgarh: Deaths across state. Govt silent.” Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
“Journalists expose the truth, warn the administration about the dangers. The government is asleep,” he alleged.
Does the government that is “nurturing Jungle Raj” have any answer to the cries of journalist Sulabh Srivastava’s family, asks Priyanka Gandhi.
Srivastava recently launched a news campaign against the liquor mafia in the region. Then on June 12 he sent a letter Prayagraj Additional Director General of Police asked for security.
Additional Superintendent of Police Surendra Dwivedi said Srivastava died in an accident while returning from Asrahi village under Lalganj police station after an illegal arms manufacturing unit was uncovered there.
After the accident, the critically injured Srivastava was taken to the district hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead, he said.
