SP leader meets Governor, demands UP govt be sacked

In a memorandum submitted to the Governor, Verma said the crime rate andpolice excesses in the state were on the rise despite Rajnath’s Singh’s promise to curb them.

Verma, who returned from Balrampur after probing the incident in whichsome minority community members had fallen prey to alleged police excesses,also demanded the suspension of the guilty policemen. The policemen at theGaisari police station of Balrampur had arrested 22 people under the Gangsters Act, Sections 147, 149, 332 and 307 of the CrPC for protesting against the release of one Bablu Jaiswal who had earlier been arrested for beating up a member of their community.

Verma went on to allege that the concessions announced for farmers had not reached them. The state government had promised the farmers that all the paddy would be procured by government agencies but the paddy was beingpurchased from traders, and not from the farmers.

He said the BJP government, which had a soft corner for traders, had sofar not taken any action against such traders who were offering paddy togovernment agencies at Rs 510 per quintal after purchasing it for Rs 350per quintal from farmers, thus making a net profit of Rs 160 per quintal. Noaction had been taken against the officials who were conniving with thetraders.