"Baba saheb gave us the biggest priceless gem 'Constitution of India' and today the constitution is in danger. Institutions are being destroyed one by one. Governments are working to destroy the constitution which was given to us by Dr Ambedkar," he said.
Hours after the son of gangster Atiq Ahmed was killed in an encounter, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused the State government of carrying a "fake" encounter in a bid to divert the attention of people from real issues
"It is a message to criminals that this is the new India. It is Yogi govt in UP, not Samajwadi Party in power which gave protection to criminals," Maurya said.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday requested the Allahabad High Court to decide at the earliest the plea of disqualified Samajwadi Party MLA Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan seeking a stay of his conviction in a matter related to a protest in 2008.
Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mohammad Azam Khan's son, Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to stay his conviction in a matter related to a protest.
Atiq Ahmed, who was never punished in any case in the last 43 years, despite a hundred cases being registered against him, was finally given life imprisonment on Tuesday, in what could serve as an example for the whole country.
The opposition parties which participated in the meeting include DMK, Samajwadi Party, JD(U), Bharat Rashtra Samithi, CPI(M), RJD, Nationalist Congress Party, CPI, IUML, MDMK, Kerala Congress, TMC, RSP, AAP, J-K NC and Shiv Sena (Uddhav faction).