Irfan Solanki innocent, falsely implicated in criminal cases: Akhilesh defends party MLA

TIL Desk/National/Kanpur/ Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has claimed that party MLA Irfan Solanki was innocent and he has been falsely implicated in criminal cases. Yadav said police registered false cases against Solanki to keep him behind bars and also made a fake Aadhaar card to implicate him in yet another case.

He defended the MLA’s decision to be on the run, saying if he had not fled from Kanpur, police would have done the same as it did with Balwant Singh, who died in police custody, and Vikas Dubey, who was killed in an encounter.

Yadav, who met the party MLA in district jail here, alleged that it was a deliberate attempt of the BJP government to implicate SP MLAs and other leaders in criminal cases. The BJP government has a plan to push the opposition leaders behind bars to win the next election, he claimed, adding it has even left the Britishers far behind.

Yadav said the opposition leaders are also being implicated in false cases to divert attention from real problems like inflation and condition of roads. “If the MLA himself remains trapped, then how will he raise his voice against the problems,” he added.