Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday was at the KGMU Trauma Centre to meet the injured people who sustained injuries when a police jeep met with an accident on Saturday evening while securing the route for UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s cavalcade.
At least 15 people, including five police personnel, sustained injuries in the accident that took place in Arjunganj.
The police jeep was securing the route for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s cavalcade. It remains unclear whether the chief minister was present in the convoy at the time of the accident, which occurred while the convoy was returning from the airport in Lucknow.
Lucknow District Magistrate Surya Pal Gangwar on Sunday told reporters that whoever was injured are receiving treatment and good arrangements are being made.
According to police sources, the accident occurred when the speeding jeep collided with two vehicles parked on the roadside while attempting to avoid an animal that suddenly appeared in its path. The police jeep was reportedly approximately a kilometer ahead of the CM’s convoy.
Lucknow Police Commissioner S B Shiradkar told PTI that among the injured included five police personnel who were in the police jeep and 10 in the two other cars that it hit.
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav said the stray cattle menace has become a “dangerous truth” of Uttar Pradesh.
“The convoy of the chief minister himself met with an accident today due to the problem of stray animals not being taken seriously. Many people have been injured. (It is) Sad as well as worrying,” he said in a post on X in Hindi.
“The problem of (stray) animals is a dangerous truth of Uttar Pradesh. This is a question of people’s lives. The BJP should take a lesson from this incident,” he said.