Mayawati cracks first whip on criminals
May 15, 2007 - 8:47:09 PM
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The Samajwadi Party government turned a deaf ear to violent protests raised by the BSP. Mayawati's demand for a CBI probe into Raju Pal's murder was rejected by the Mulayam Singh government.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] Lucknow, May 15 - Keeping her promise to send criminals behind bars, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Tuesday took the first step by cracking the whip on Azeem Ashraf, younger brother of dreaded mafia don-turned-Samajwadi Party MP Atiq Ahmed, whose name spells terror in Allahabad.
On her second day in office, Mayawati ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation - probe into the alleged role of Ashraf in the 2005 murder of Bahujan Samaj Party - MLA Raju Pal, in which he is key accused.
Raju Pal's widow Pooja Pal defeated Ashraf from Allahabad - assembly seat in the recently concluded state elections.
The BSP legislator had been sprayed with bullets in a broad daylight ambush on Jan 25, 2005, in a rural pocket of Allahabad after he defeated Ashraf in a by-election in November 2004.
The subsequent by-election witnessed a battle between Pooja Pal and Ashraf with the latter winning. Ashraf, a Samajwadi Party nominee, was accused of booth capturing and rigging the election with the patronage of then chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The Samajwadi Party government turned a deaf ear to violent protests raised by the BSP. Mayawati's demand for a CBI probe into Raju Pal's murder was rejected by the Mulayam Singh government.
Even the intervention of courts did not give any relief to Pooja Pal.
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