ALLAHABAD: Popular for its music "gharana", small town Kairana in Shamli district and Lord Krishna's playground Mathura hogged the limelight during the BJP national executive which commenced here on Sunday. The national executive pledged to take the issue to its logical end. 'Bose cult' leader Ram Vriksha Yadav's alleged association with Mulayam Singh Yadav 's family has been raked up repeatedly.The national executive too took it up, showing the party will continue to attack the ruling SP in the state, highlighting grave lapses in governance and patronage of anti-social elements. "UP government's denial about existence of Kairana issue explains failure of the government machinery," telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad , who briefed media about Shah's speech to the national executive, said.Meerut MP Hukum Singh had recently given to NHRC a list of 350 Hindu families which migrated from Kairana due to alleged persecution by Muslims in the past two years. However, neither 'swaras' (musical notes) of Kairana families nor Krishna-Leelas of Mathura were the subject of debate for the political outfit.On the contrary, BJP members debated highly sensitive and polarising issues related to the two places, which saw strong words coming from party president Amit Shah with enough indications about the tone and tenor campaigning in Uttar Pradesh will take.

Source: Economic Times June 13, 2016 06:16 UTC