Lucknow/New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah has got a clean chit from the UP police in a case related to hate speech in Muzaffarnagar in April 2014 during the Lok Sabah elections. The police told the court that they could not find any evidence against the BJP chief. The final report would now be placed before the judicial magistrate who will take a final call in the case.
The state police had lodged an FIR in Kakroli police station against Mr Shah, accusing him of making an objectionable speech in 2014. Mr Shah had allegedly said that, “If Modi wins, ‘mulla’s’ (Mulayam) government will fall.”
Amit Shah set to be BJP chief again
With Amit Shah set to be re-elected as BJP president the process for election to the top party post got under way on Wednesday following issuance of notification of the poll schedule.
Nominations for the post of party president would be accepted on January 24 and scrutiny will take place the same day. The election, if required, would be held on January 25.
Mr Shah’s tenure at the helm of the party is ending on January 23 and he is likely to be re-elected unopposed, party sources said.
If re-elected, this would be the first full tenure for Shah as he is now completing the remnant of the three-year term of Rajnath Singh, who left the post after joining the Union Cabinet.
