Akhilesh Yadav alleges violence in Sambhal linked to BJP conspiracy, demands action against guilty officials, highlights threat to secularism.

Opposition stages walkout from Lok Sabha. Rahul Gandhi likely to meet families of those affected by violence on Wednesday

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged the violence in U.P.’s Sambhal district was part of a ‘well-planned conspiracy’ and that the talk of digging across the country by the BJP and its allies will end up hurting communal amity.

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav said that Sambhal had been converted into a police cantonment and people were baffled as to why this was being done

Earlier, the Congress slammed the BJP government, saying it was trying to hide its failure with its 'anti-democratic' actions. The Congress workers moving from Delhi towards Sambhal were also stopped at the UP border by the state police.

Akhilesh said the obsession with excavating structures that ‘BJP functionaries and their friends’ have adopted would destroy the country’s harmony.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, along with five MPs, plans to visit Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, following unrest during the ASI's examination of a Mughal-er

A delegation of Samajwadi Party met the accused people of Sambhal violence lodged in Moradabad District Jail and heard about their pain and suffering here on Monday.