Overview

• Leader of Opposition Mata Prasad Pandey and senior SP figures were in Gorakhpur on June 25 to meet traders who allege harassment over the Virasat Corridor project’s road-widening scheme.
• A group of BJP workers and allied traders shouted slogans demanding the SP delegation turn back and smashed the windscreens of five vehicles in the convoy.
• SP president Akhilesh Yadav condemned the assault as a state-backed effort to suppress dissent and called for strict, impartial action against the perpetrators.
• Pandey criticized security officers for remaining passive spectators and said he will raise the breach in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly session.
• No arrests have been made and the local administration has yet to issue an official response following the incident.