Lucknow: Controversial Samajwadi Party leader Gayatri Prajapati, who is facing rape allegations, on Monday broke down while addressing a rally in Amethi.
An emotionally chocked Gayatri Prajapati, who was seen wiping his tears, said that he is being framed in the rape case.
Prajapati further said that he has full faith in court, which will listen and do justice to him.
Prajapati reportedly got a shot in the arm when it emerged that UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will campaign in Sultanpur from where he has been fielded by the ruling party.
Prajapati is accused of repeatedly gang-raping a woman along with his associates and molesting her minor daughter.
On Friday, an FIR was registered against the minister on the orders of the Supreme Court, which has also sought a police report within eight weeks.
Denying his involvement in the crime, Prajapati had called it a "political conspiracy at the behest of the BJP to tarnish his image." However, he admitted knowing the woman who had made the allegations against him.
Prajapati has earlier been accused of promoting illegal mining and was sacked as minister last year by Akhilesh Yadav over corruption charges but was reinstated at the insistence of the Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
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SP leader Gayatri Prajapati breaks down during a rally in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh says the court will listen to me and will do justice pic.twitter.com/RQqxxYwWsO
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