One more Mulayam-Rajeshwar slugfest
Nov 23, 2006 - 10:24:11 PM
, Reviewed by: Priya Saxena
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'How can the governor talk about impartiality when his own conduct is liable to be questioned in the light of the fact that he is making accusations even after the opposition was convinced after the prolonged discussion in the house.'
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By RxPG News Service,
[RxPG] Lucknow, Nov 23 (IANS) Tensions between Uttar Pradesh's top authorities spilled over to the public arena Thursday with Governor T.V. Rajeshwar questioning police partiality in the civic polls and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav hitting back an hour later saying the governor should mind his own business.
'The governor must follow the democratic and constitutional norms expected of the high office; I would like to advise him to shun indulgence in matters that should not concern him,' Mulayam Singh told reporters Thursday noon.
Shortly before the press conference, Rajeshwar was at the annual state police parade here and raised questions over the role of the cops in the recently concluded civic elections and also focussed on the law and order situation in the state.
'From what I have been told, the police has not been impartial during the conduct of the civic elections in the state; you must see that such conduct is not repeated in future elections,' he said in his speech.
Referring to the law and order scenario, the governor, who was Intelligence Bureau chief in the 1960s, remarked: 'It is regrettable that kidnapping has virtually become a Rs.200 crore (Rs.2 billion) industry in large parts of western Uttar Pradesh.'
Expressing deep concern over the issue of licences for carbines to private persons, he said: 'Of the 840,000 arms licences issued across the state, as many as 360 were for the otherwise prohibited carbines.'
Barely an hour later, the chief minister came out of a cabinet meeting to address the press and focussed all his attention on the governor's remarks.
'If the governor says that he received 1,000 complaints about the conduct of civic elections, why doesn't he come out with the names of those who have made these complaints?' he asked.
'What he also needs to find out is how many of these complaints were politically motivated and how many were factual.'
The chief minister went on to ask whether it was fair for the governor to express his views on the law and order situation when the issue had been debated threadbare in the state assembly 'barely 24 hours earlier'.
'How can the governor talk about impartiality when his own conduct is liable to be questioned in the light of the fact that he is making accusations even after the opposition was convinced after the prolonged discussion in the house.'
Mulayam Singh reiterated his challenge for a comparative law and order study in different states. 'I am confident that if the task was entrusted to a sitting Supreme Court judge, Uttar Pradesh will prove to be far better on the law and order front than any Congress or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled states.'
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