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SP’s new troubleshooter
AFTER the exit of Amar Singh,the Samajwadi Party has got a new troubleshooter. It is none other than Ram Gopal Yadav,cousin of chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and also the party’s national general secretary. Party insiders say he has demonstrated that he can deal with political friends and adversaries with the same aplomb and dexterity as the Thakur from Azamgarh,but without making unnecessary noises. According to sources in SP,Ram Gopal Yadav held discussions with the Congress floor managers ahead of the vote on the cut motions to the Budget in Parliament on April 27. Again,Ram Gopal Yadav discussed SP’s support to Congress candidate Satish Sharma in the Rajya Sabha election,after the the Congress had already cut a deal with Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal. The SP leadership believes that the decision will be beneficial for the party in the coming days.

Record of sorts
WHEN Prabhat Mittal,an officer of the Provincial Civil Service,was removed as estate officer and posted as municipal commissioner of Bareilly,he set a record or sorts. Mittal,who took over in February 2004 in the Mulayam Singh regime,had an uninterrupted tenure of six years,which is something unique in UP. First,Mittal survived the regime change in May 2007. Later,he was untouched even when transfers under the Mayawati regime became frequent,so much so that certain officers were shifted ten times,some even more,in the last three years. The estate officer allots government houses to everyone — right from ministers to peons — and handles an annual budget of Rs 500 crore. Apart from Lucknow,government properties in New Delhi,Mumbai and Kolkata are under his control. Only an officer who enjoys the confidence of the chief minister can survive in this post. Obviously,Mittal enjoyed the confidence of Mulayam Singh and then Mayawati,which was unusual. What led to Mittal’s undoing,say officials,was his failure to maintain a balance between his old contacts in the SP and those who matter in the BSP. But Mittal is not complaining. For a sensible officer,it is good to get rid of the stamp of any political camp well before the next elections to be held in less than two years.

Another stable career
B L YADAV is another rare officer who has had a stable tenure,though not as long as Prabhat Mittal. Before his transfer last week,he had been the ADG in Moradabad’s B R Ambedkar Police Academy for three years. Under the previous Mulayam Raj,Yadav was IG (Personnel). In that capacity,he handled the postings of IPS officers. Later,he got promoted to the ADG rank,but kept doing the same work of ADG (Personnel). After the Mayawati government assumed office in May 2007,Yadav was sent packing to Moradabad where he had little work. Now,he has been posted as the head of the training directorate in the police in Lucknow. The government has also promoted him to the rank of DG. IPS officers link the government’s belated kindness to Yadav to the fact that the UP Police has to make arrangements for the training of the newly-recruited 35,000 constables.

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