Moradabad/Lucknow: In what could douse the raging fire between the Congres and the Bahujan Samaj party in Uttar Pradesh, the state police have booked a BSP MLA for burning the house of UP Congress Chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi.
FIR has been registered against MLA Jitendra Singh Babloo, accusing of setting the state congress chief's house on fire on Wednesday night.
BSP's Lucknow unit president Intezar Abdi has also been booked.
BSP had earlier accused the Congress of torching Bahuguna Joshi's house and trying to indict BSP for it.
The issue has been raging since Rita Bahuguna Joshi made disparaging remarks about UP Chief Minister Mayawati.
The BSP government of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday arrested state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi for her alleged derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati and booked her under a law related to prevention of atrocities against Dalits.
Joshi, at a rally in Moradabad on Wednesday, allegedly mocked the state director general of police for flying down to Dalit rape victims and giving them compensation.
Joshi said the state government’s compensation was a farce and won’t bring justice to rape victims. She allegedly offered to pay Mayawati Rs 1 crore if she suffered the same trauma.
Joshi was arrested in Ghaziabad on Thursday morning and around the same time her house in Lucknow was set ablaze by a mob of alleged BSP workers.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi distanced herself from Joshi's remarks and expressed her "deep pain and anguish" at the events.
Joshi offered to apologise but called the attack on her house "state-sponsored terrorism". The Congress was cautious but called the torching of her house was "state-sponsored vandalism”.
Mayawati alleged a Congress conspiracy to slander her. "The manner in which Sonia Gandhi has failed to chastise Joshi and has chosen to remain silent arouses suspicion that whatever this woman did was on the direction of the Congress high command," she alleged.
Meanwhile, earlier on Thursday, BSP General Secretary Satish Mishra told CNN-IBN that the Congress was trying to frame BSP in Rita Bahuguna Joshi's house burning incident. He alleged that it was the Congress party that staged the entire episode.
"There was deliberate plan and they managed the fire issue in the house where she was living," he said.
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