“Government should take cognisance of the truth and before anyone else, get (UP Cabinet Minister) Azam Khan arrested, as TV channels are showing his involvement in the riots...but that would not be done,” Som alleged.
Denying that his party had convened a panchayat in Muzaffarnagar in violation of prohibitory orders imposed there, Som said had that been the case; there would have been flags and banners of the BJP, which were not there.
“The panchayat was called by the Kisan union and we were invited as people's representatives...and if we had not gone, it would have been wrong,” he said.
Som faces a non-bailable warrant for allegedly posting a fake video online that instigated tension in the western region claiming 47 lives and rendering thousands homeless.
