UP riots: Akhilesh govt fails to reply Centre's letters

Written By Unknown on Senin, 30 Desember 2013 | 22.44

NEW DELHI: Even as a fact-finding committee set up by the Uttar Pradesh government recently admitted to the death of 34 children at relief camps housing Muzaffarnagar riot victims, repeated letters from the Union home ministry seeking similar information have failed to elicit a direct response from the state administration.

The MHA had first written to the Akhilesh Yadav government soon after media reports claimed that nearly 40 children had died due to extreme cold in relief camps across Muzaffarnagar and Shamli. Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde had, at his monthly press conference on December 10, confirmed that details had been sought from the state government in this regard.

These details included the number of children who had died at the relief camps in western Uttar Pradesh, the reasons for the deaths and the steps taken to prevent further casualties.

"We have sent four letters (to the state), beginning December 8. The latest one was sent on Monday (December 30). However, UP government has ignored all our queries," agencies on Monday quoted a senior government official as saying.

Though the UP government initially denied any death of children in the riot relief camps, sustained pressure from the NGOs and media led it to appoint a panel on December 13 under the Meerut divisional commissioner Manjit Singh to authenticate the "deaths" and look into the "specifics".

The district magistrates and chief medical officers of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli were nominated as members of the panel. The committee initially confirmed the death of 11 children, but, more recently, revised the number to 34 children.

The state of relief camps in Uttar Pradesh has been a subject of hot political debate, with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, during a recent visit to these camps, slamming the state government for the poor living conditions. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Yadav, however, retorted saying that there were no riot victims in the camps but "only conspirators and political activists planted by the BJP and the Congress".

On top of all this was the controversial remark by the UP principal secretary (home) Anil Gupta that children in the camps may have died of pneumonia, not cold. "Nobody can die of cold. If people died of cold, nobody would have been alive in Siberia," Gupta had said, forcing a miffed J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah to suggest through Twitter that the bureaucrat be sent out in less clothes himself. " ... let's see if he isn't singing a different tune pretty damn quick," he had tweeted.


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