New Delhi: In a significant political development, police personnel were deployed outside the residence of the Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Mata Prasad Pandey, in Lucknow early on Saturday morning.

The move comes as the senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader was scheduled to lead a party delegation to Bareilly, where recent incidents have triggered tension and raised law and order concerns.

A 14-member delegation from the Samajwadi Party had announced plans to visit Bareilly on Saturday to assess the ground situation and hear public grievances following recent communal unrest in the region. The team was to be led by Pandey himself, who had insisted the visit was intended as a peaceful, democratic attempt to understand the concerns of the people.

However, the Bareilly

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