UP government’s campaign to run bulldozers on illegal buildings and commercial establishments continues. On Thursday, the administration started a bulldozer at the petrol pump of SP MLA Shahjeel Islam in Bareilly. The administration says that the map of this petrol pump was not nearby, it was made illegally. Bareilly Development Authority’s Vice-Chairman Jogendra Singh said that SP MLA Islam’s petrol pump located at Parsakheda on the Bareilly-Delhi National Highway was bulldozed. The administration has also seized the CNG gas and petrol machines installed there. This action of Bareilly Development Authority has created a stir.
Shahjeel Islam is the MLA from Bhojipura assembly constituency of Bareilly. Recently, he had allegedly made a statement regarding CM Yogi, on which he had come into controversy. He had said for CM Yogi- “If a sound comes out of his mouth, then there will be no smoke from our guns, bullets will come out. Gone are the days when his dictatorship used to run in the house, now there is a strong opposition. We will do the work of fighting from the house to the road.”
However, Shahjeel Islam says that the video is edited and he has been falsely accused. He said that those leaders respect the House and the Opposition. They have not said such things. Said that even before this, an attempt was made to tarnish his image by editing the video.
The statement was made on April 2 at a felicitation ceremony for MLA Shahjeel Islam and former minister Ataur Rahman. The program was organized at the office of SP District Vice President Sanjeev Kumar Saxena on Pilibhit bypass. After the video of the statement went viral, the officials of Hindu Yuva Vahini had complained to the police officers. A case was also registered on this.
It is being said that the action at the petrol pump is in response to the same statement, although the administration says that a case is registered on the statement and the police will take appropriate action after investigation. It has nothing to do with running a bulldozer at a petrol pump. Due to not passing the map of the petrol pump and illegal construction, the administration has run a bulldozer on it.