UP govt remained unaware as 2000 people grabbed land..what type of govt is this, questions Rajnath Singh

When police went to clear the occupied land last week following an order of the Allahabad High Court, the cult members indulged in large-scale violence, in which 29 people, including two police officials and outfit’s leader, were killed.

“If state government demands a CBI probe, we are ready for it,” Singh said addressing a ‘Samajik Nyay Sammelan’ in Mau district.

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Later, when asked about state government’s claim about presence of Naxals in Mathura, Rajnath told reporters in Lucknow, “We have no information about the presence of Naxalites in Mathura…I have yet to go into the report sent by the state government.”

Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who was present in Rampur, said: “If the dispensation had no knowledge about such a gigantic, horrific activity, then we may ask whether there is any government worth the name in UP”.

Addressing media persons here, Rudy, the Minister for Skill Development, asked, “Why are the government’s pivots avoiding handing over of the entire horrific act to CBI?” He underlined that a thorough impartial probe is inevitable in view of the seriousness of the issue.

Meanwhile, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar too held the SP government responsible for the Mathura incident. “It’s shameful that such incident took place near DM and other government offices in Mathura. Why is the state government not demanding CBI probe into it,” he said in Firozabad.

He said that after witnessing misrule of SP and BSP, people of the state are now in favour of BJP.

Addressing the media in Mau district, Rajnath said that he “feels” that law and order situation has deteriorated in UP and claimed that when he was chief minister of UP, no one could dare to extort money from trucks. He also said that when Kalyan Singh was CM in 1991, all the goons and miscreants had confined themselves to hideouts.
The Home Minister said that he has come to know that recruitment of the police constables was done in the state in certain districts only.

“This is a very pathetic situation. People having affiliation to any political party or having faith in any caste and religion, they all are equal for a government and they should be given justice too,” Singh said, adding that to prevent anomalies, the Centre has decided to remove provision of interview in recruitment for Class III and Class IV posts.

Singh also asked the Akhilesh Yadav government to show more alacrity in implementing the central government schemes, a comment that comes close on the heels of BJP president Amit Shah alleging that the state government was creating roadblocks in this endeavour.

Replying to the allegations levelled by SP leaders that his relatives had tried to disturb the atmosphere in Bisara village in Greater Noida where they were conspiring to hold a mahapanchayat, Singh said “they can call for an inquiry into it. Whosoever had tried to do it should be put behind bars.”

Singh also announced that foundation stone will be laid for upgradation of Gomti Nagar railway station within one month as world class railway station.