BSP focus on ‘govt conspiracy to let mafias grab Dalit land’, minister who ‘threatens’ media
He said the face of police brutality has been exposed in the incidents in Barabanki, Hamirpur and Sitapur, where policemen were accused of atrocities.
A day before the state Assembly begins its brief Monsoon Session, the BSP Thursday said it will “strongly oppose” the Akhilesh Yadav government’s recent decision to amend the Land Reforms Act and other issues affecting the populace.
Addressing the media, Leader of Opposition in the UP Legislative Assembly, Swami Prasad Maurya said the state’s law and order situation has “become worse” with the public stuck between “the goons protected by the ruling Samajwadi Party and the goons in khaki”.
He said the face of police brutality has been exposed in the incidents in Barabanki, Hamirpur and Sitapur, where policemen were accused of atrocities.
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Maurya also criticised the government’s attempt to amend the UP Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, saying that the amendment was a “conspiracy to facilitate the mafias to grab Dalits’ land”. The amendment proposes to simplify the procedure of enabling a land owner (belonging to Scheduled Caste) to sell or transfer his land. The BSP leader said the government wanted to remove the restriction which mandates that Dalits can only sell their land after gaining approval from the district collector.
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Maurya further slammed the government for “not doing anything” to help the farmers. “They have once again been hit by the drought. Sugarcane farmers are still waiting for their dues to get cleared. All this when the SP leaders do not get tired of calling themselves dhartiputra (son of the soil),” the BSP leader said.
Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council, Naseemuddin Siddiqui said the government was bringing a supplementary budget of Rs 22,000 crore in this Session while the funds allocated in the primary budget have not been utilised even up to 10 per cent by any of its departments.
“We want to know on what basis is the government introducing this supplementary budget when the earlier one is still lying unused,” he said.
Siddiqui also said that ministers like Vijay Bahadur Pal “have no right to be in the ministry” and that Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav should write to the Governor seeking his removal.
Addressing the closing ceremony of a cycle rally in Kannauj, the state secondary education minister had said on Wednesday: “Unko lagta hai ke woh patrakarita ki talwar se hauwa paida kardenge… Woh nahin jaante ki hum Samajwadi hain… agar humein gussa aa gaya, to halla bol denge… auquat yaad aa jayegi. (Some journalists think they can frighten us through their writings. They don’t know if Samajwadis get enraged, they will be cut to size).”
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