Opposition Parties Corner Yogi Govt Over Gangster Vikas Dubey's 'Encounter' Killing

Vikas Dubey, the main accused in the Kanpur ambush in which 8 policemen were killed, surrendered in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Yet, on Friday morning, the Uttar Pradesh Police shot dead Dubey while he allegedly tried to escape while in custodial transit to Kanpur. While the Yogi government and the police are getting accolades from some quarters on Dubey's killing, Opposition parties have raised serious doubts over the 'encounter'.

Former UP CM and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav took a shot on the Yogi Govt over the alleged encounter in a tweet. 

दरअसल ये कार नहीं पलटी है, राज़ खुलने से सरकार पलटने से बचाई गयी है.

— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) July 10, 2020

Priyanka Gandhi, Congress general secretary and in-charge of UP Congress, also tweeted on the alleged encounter.

अपराधी का अंत हो गया, अपराध और उसको सरंक्षण देने वाले लोगों का क्या?

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) July 10, 2020

BSP spokesman Sudhindra Bhadoria tweeted - 

https://t.co/3KQMmRw4M3 आतंकवादी अपराधी,8 पुलिसवालों की हत्या करने वाला क्रिमिनल जब गिरफ़्तार हुआ तो लगा कि अब सारा अपराध का कच्चा चिट्ठा बाहर आएगा,उसे कोर्ट द्वारा सज़ा मिलती तो सच का भी पता चलता व कड़ी सज़ा भी मिलती और इस दुर्दंत अपराधी द्वारा किए अपराध के राज को सभी जानते।

— Sudhindra Bhadoria (BSP) (@SudhinBhadoria) July 10, 2020

Shiv Sena Deputy Leader and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi tweeted - 

न रहेगा बाँस, न बजेगी बाँसुरी#VikasDubey

— Priyanka Chaturvedi (@priyankac19) July 10, 2020

Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah also tweeted saying, “Dead men tell no tales.”

Dead men tell no tales #VikasDubey

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) July 10, 2020

The manner in which Vikas Dubey was arrested on Thursday morning, even then many opposition parties raised questions on the entire development. On Thursday, Akhilesh Yadav, while raising the question, asked that the government should clarify whether it was surrender or arrest and demanded to make his call recording public while Priyanka Gandhi had asked for a CBI inquiry.