Continuing the unfortunate tradition of BSP supremo, Mayawati, reacting strongly to the alleged ‘lackadaisical attitude’ of the Tamil Nadu government on the murder of BSP state president K Armstrong, has sought a CBI inquiry into the matter.
Mayawati, who was accompanied by her nephew and BSP National Coordinator Akash Anand, returned from Chennai on Sunday to pay her last respects to K Armstrong, who was killed in a brutal attack near his residence on July 5. Speaking to her party at a workers’ conclave, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister raised serious concerns about the state’s law and order situation.
She said that the way Armstrong has been murdered, there is no law and order situation in Tamil Nadu, and the main culprits have not been arrested yet. The actress immediately blamed the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government for not being serious about the murder.
Asserting further, Mayawati said that if the state government did not hand over the case to the CBI, then they, too, were involved in this murder. A question was posed about the security of the Dalits in the state and informed that the entire Dalit community is feeling insecure, and many Dalit leaders have started feeling the danger to their lives.
The BSP supremo also warned her party cadre not to take the law into their own hands but to come forward and ensure action against the accused while still following the country’s legal formalities.
52-year-old K Armstrong was attacked by a group of unknown men donned in the uniform of food delivery agents/riders in front of his house located in the Perambur region. The CCTV footage of the incident has also fuelled the existing apprehensions about the law and order situations in the state getting worse day by day.
Ongoing investigation into the high-profile murder continues, and Mayawati has pressurized the Tamil Nadu government for a CBI inquiry, putting the Dalit community attentively on the case.
