Mainpuri,

20 November (HS): On Wednesday, a 23-year-old Dalit lady was discovered dead

here with her relatives, claiming she was murdered because she refused to vote

for the Samajwadi Party in the Karhal assembly byelection. Police in the

Mainpuri district apprehended two people on Wednesday after they were suspected

of kidnapping and murdering the lady. The woman's father filed a complaint with

Karhal police station, accusing Prashant Yadav, a resident of Tapa ki Nagaria,

of kidnapping his daughter.

According

to the FIR, he said that Yadav stole his daughter at 12 p.m. on Tuesday and

then poisoned her to death with the help of another person named Dr. Mohan

Katheria.

The

woman's corpse was discovered in a field near Kanjara hamlet on Wednesday

morning, authorities said.

Both

the suspects, Dr. Mohan Katheria and Prashant Yadav, identified in the FIR,

have been detained, and additional investigation is underway, according to

Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar. The matter erupted into a political

debate, with the BJP and SP throwing blows. The BJP expressed worry over the

event, accusing the SP of creating an atmosphere of terror in their

heartland.

In

Karhal, Samajwadi Party leader Prashant Yadav and his friends killed a Dait

girl just because she refused to vote for the 'cycle' (the SP's electoral

symbol). The Saifai family and Akhilesh Yadav's thugs are once again attempting

to instill fear in Mainpuri, according to a post on X by the BJP's Uttar

Pradesh branch, which also included a video of the mourning father.

Bhupendra

Singh Chaudhary, the BJP state president, too resorted to social media to

criticize the SP on the subject. Meanwhile, at a news conference in Lucknow, SP

president Akhilesh Yadav said that the Election Commission was turning a blind

eye and deaf ear to his party's complaints over the BJP's alleged use of

government machinery to skew the bypolls in its favor. The BJP, which

frequently participates in similar actions, has orchestrated a scheme to malign

the Samajwadi Party. This has nothing to do with the SP, SP

spokesperson Rajendra Choudhary stated. Separately, the SP criticized the

police for their participation in Karhal during the bypolls.

In

Mainpuri's Karhal assembly constituency, Police Inspector Lalit Bhati is

instilling terror in the name of patrolling with the force, which may influence

voting. The Election Commission should take notice and guarantee fair voting,

the SP wrote on X in Hindi, beside a video of police patrols.

Tej

Pratap Singh, a grandson of party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, is running in

the Karhal by-election against his 'fufa' Anujesh Pratap Singh. The BSP has

fielded Avanish Kumar Shakya. The seat has seven contenders, including nominees

from the Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram), Sarvjan Sukhay Party, Sarva Samaj

Janata Party, and one independent.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi