Lucknow: The BJP today asked the union and the Uttar Pradesh governments to stop "issuing hollow statements" on the Muzaffarnagar riots and instead work to nail the guilty.
The state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the Congress and the Samajwadi Party governments of paying lip service to the violence in Muzaffaranagar that left 48 dead.
Both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Monday said the guilty would be booked, but what stopped them from doing so, state BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak told IANS.
"Both these governments have intelligence set-ups with them and police. So instead of issuing hollow statements, they should act," the spokesman said.
The spokesman questioned the divergent views emerging in the Samajwadi Party on the Muzaffarnagar clashes.
