UP to name roads after kar sewaks killed in 1990

Uttar Pradesh will pay a tribute to the kar sewaks or religious volunteers who were shot at in 1990 by the police in Ayodhya, during the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party regime, by naming roads leading to their houses after them, said deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya.

The move comes in the run-up to next year’s assembly election, which is expected to see the SP-led alliance as the main opposition to the ruling BJP.

Maurya, who holds the public works department (PWD) portfolio, among others, made the announcement in Ayodhya on Wednesday, when he also unveiled the statue of another devotee killed at the time – Ram Achal Gupta – and met with his family members. He said the government will make such “kar sevak margs (roads)”, which will have names and pictures of Ram bhakts slain on October 30, 1990 and November 2, 1990.