“If we trusted (the government reports) why would we go? We know that the government’s eyes and ears are the district administration. The government must use different mediums when the District administration itself is made a party in the matter. The way things have spiralled in Sambhal is very saddening. Sambhal (issue) didn’t finish, the Ajmer Sharif (issue) already started. Where are we going? Where are we going to stop? This is a very big question,” senior SP leader Harendra Malik told ANI.Senior SP leader and LoP in the state assembly Mata Prasad Pandey was also stopped by the police early morning in Lucknow from visiting Sambhal. Pandey on Saturday morning informed that the district magistrate (DM) of Sambhal called him over the phone and asked him not to visit the district amid the ongoing tensions in the area. He said that a written notice should be given to him as per the rules, saying that he cannot go to Sambhal.SP chief Akhilesh Yadav lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that imposing restrictions was a failure of the BJP government. He said that the government should have restricted those who dreamt about starting riots and raised “frenzied” slogans.The security deployment in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district continues for the sixth consecutive day on Saturday amid tensions over the Shahi Jama Masjid Survey.Tension in Sambhal has been ongoing ever since the local court ordered a survey of the mosque on November 19. Opposing the court-ordered survey of the Jama Masjid people clashed with police, resulting in the deaths of four persons. The survey followed a petition filed by some persons in the local court, claiming that the site of the mosque was previously a Harihar temple.
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