The CM explained further that when a violent rioter comes to the road prepared to kill innocents and is challenged by a policeman, either the policeman or the rioter has to die.
Ram and Sharad Kothari who were brothers were killed in police firing on November 2, 1990, and their bodies were found in a narrow lane near Hanumangarhi in Ayodhya
Mayawati was attacked by Mulayam Singh Yadav's goons inside the Meerabai Guesthouse in Lucknow in June 1995. BJP leader Brahmadautt Dwivedi had risked his own life to rescue Mayawati.