Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s “bulldozer justice” has significantly boosted Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s popularity, but it’s also increasingly becoming a source of trouble for his government.
On Wednesday, a fresh controversy broke out in Moradabad after Chetan Saini, a local businessman and the elder brother of BJP mandal vice-president Gajendra Singh, died by suicide hours after his shop was demolished during an anti-encroachment drive.
ThePrint has learnt from police sources that Saini jumped from the roof of his house early Wednesday morning, following the anti-encroachment drive in the Mandi Samiti premises in Moradabad the previous night.
According to his family, Chetan was under stress after his fruit shop was demolished during the drive. The shop, which had been running for over 20 years under his father’s name, was located in the Agricultural Production Mandi Samiti area of Majhola. Saini and his brother used to run a fruit business there.
Upset by the action, he later posted an emotional message on social media, saying: “The administration attacked Moradabad Mandi, ruined it, ruined everything. Who is responsible for this, you tell me.”
The situation reportedly escalated after an earlier incident on Monday, when local BJP MLA Ritesh Gupta and his supporters allegedly assaulted Mandi Secretary Sanjeev Kumar.
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