Congress rubbishes Kairana ‘exodus’ reports

“As per reports of our district and city units, there is no migration,” Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Pradip Mathur told reporters here. “I have personally talked to people who said they have gone to places like Shahadara, Delhi or Baghpat for livelihood... BJP cadre are showing old ration cards and are playing this fraud with an eye on the 2017 polls,” he said. 

Mathur said a three-member team of Congress legislators will go to Kairana in Shamli district of western UP in a- couple of days and submit a report after which the party will chalk out its future course of action.  The team, led by Shamli MLA Pankaj Malik, will personally visit the area to see that BJP and SP do not succeed in ‘replaying Muzaffarnagar’ where riots took place months before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, he said.