Mulayam pulls up Akhilesh for law and order situation in state
5 Jun 2013 6:09 AM IST
Realising that much needs to be done to improve the law and order situation Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said that if he was chief minister everything would have fallen in place within a fortnight.
‘I don’t need more than 15 days to improved law and order situation in the state and bring it at par with Bihar or other state but unfortunately Akhilesh had failed to do so far,’ he lamented.
In a press conference Yadav said that there was a need to control district officials and if they do not perform they should be sent to jail.
‘It only requires 15 days for Akhilesh to bring a change in UP,’ Yadav said. ‘No one can stop SP from roping home in forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, but the government has to perform and work for the people,’ he said.
When his attention was drawn that Akhilesh was not given free hand in the state, the SP president said, ‘I have never interfered in the government functioning and only gave suggestions from time to time. I have the right to do so as CM is not only my son and I am also the president of the party,’ he said.
However, Mr Yadav refused to answer any questions on national politics or over SP’s relationship with the UPA-II government.
He even parried question on the CIC’s decision to include political parties under RTI ambit. ‘Ask this question to Akhilesh,’ he said.
The SP president was bit annoyed when a scribe asked that if the party was placing weak candidates against sitting Congress MPs and the union ministers. He said, ‘no candidate is weak as all candidates enjoy the support of party’.
When his attention was drawn on why he did not join the UPA-II dinner on its fourth anniversary recently, Mr Yadav said that he was not a part of UPA-II hence there is no question of attending such party.
Meanwhile, a senior bureaucrat and former IAS officer Tapendra Prasad on Tuesday joined the party in presence of the senior leaders.
Prasad had recently taken VRS from the IAS job. A native of Manda tehsil in Allahabad district, Prasad, had worked as a CDO of Etawah, the home district of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
‘I don’t need more than 15 days to improved law and order situation in the state and bring it at par with Bihar or other state but unfortunately Akhilesh had failed to do so far,’ he lamented.
In a press conference Yadav said that there was a need to control district officials and if they do not perform they should be sent to jail.
‘It only requires 15 days for Akhilesh to bring a change in UP,’ Yadav said. ‘No one can stop SP from roping home in forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, but the government has to perform and work for the people,’ he said.
When his attention was drawn that Akhilesh was not given free hand in the state, the SP president said, ‘I have never interfered in the government functioning and only gave suggestions from time to time. I have the right to do so as CM is not only my son and I am also the president of the party,’ he said.
However, Mr Yadav refused to answer any questions on national politics or over SP’s relationship with the UPA-II government.
He even parried question on the CIC’s decision to include political parties under RTI ambit. ‘Ask this question to Akhilesh,’ he said.
The SP president was bit annoyed when a scribe asked that if the party was placing weak candidates against sitting Congress MPs and the union ministers. He said, ‘no candidate is weak as all candidates enjoy the support of party’.
When his attention was drawn on why he did not join the UPA-II dinner on its fourth anniversary recently, Mr Yadav said that he was not a part of UPA-II hence there is no question of attending such party.
Meanwhile, a senior bureaucrat and former IAS officer Tapendra Prasad on Tuesday joined the party in presence of the senior leaders.
Prasad had recently taken VRS from the IAS job. A native of Manda tehsil in Allahabad district, Prasad, had worked as a CDO of Etawah, the home district of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
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