Muzaffarnagar: Even as Muzaffarnagar riot victims stare at an uncertain future in relief camps which are slowly being wound up, the Samajwadi Party continued with its celebrations at the Saifai Mahotsav, ringing in the new year with a grand celebration amidst the ligting of firecrackers worth lakhs of rupees.
But there is no celebration for the Muzaffarnagar riot victims. Only four relief camps in Shamli and one in Loi remain, the rest have been wound up and victims say they are being forced to leave, while many are complaining that they are yet to recieve the compensation.
The SP came under blatant attack over holding the annual festival of song and dance at the Yadav family's native village at a time when hundreds of victims of Muzaffarnagar riots were living in difficult circumstances in relief camps.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, however, defended the two-week long "Saifai Mahotsav" that commenced on December 26, calling it a Samajwadi tradition and said he is well aware that the event will come under the scanner of the media.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh condemned the staging of the event and slammed the SP government for "demolishing few relief camps" meant for the riot victims of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli. "UP government should compensate victims and do something for them," Singh stressed.
Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma was among others who attacked the SP leadership over the annual event. "While children are dying daily in these relief camps, Yadav is organising Saifai Mahotsav and programmes by dancers from foreign countries. He should immediately postpone Saifai Mahotsava. He is making fun while children are dying. The curse of these children will finish him," Verma, who has been always critical of the Yadav family," Verma said.
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