Former Indian Police Service officer Amitabh Thakur, who announced that he will contest next year’s Assembly elections against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath, on Saturday said that the police barred him from going to Gorakhpur and Faizabad.
Adityanath has been a member of Parliament from Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms from 1998 to 2017. He is currently a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.
Thakur, in a video message on Twitter, said on Saturday that when he was preparing to leave Lucknow for Gorakhpur, the Gomti Nagar Police told him that he could not do so on account of security reasons.
गोरखपुर तथा अयोध्या यात्रा को पुलिस द्वारा निरस्त किये जाने के पूरे घटनाक्रम पर मेरा वक्तव्य pic.twitter.com/V7uJ4OxBZf
— AmitabhThakur (@Amitabhthakur) August 21, 2021
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