UP ‘revenge drive’ prompts call for CM code of conduct

United by their rivals’ alleged vindictive actions in the states, members across party-lines demanded that the Prime Minister convene a...

United by their rivals’ alleged vindictive actions in the states, members across party-lines demanded that the Prime Minister convene an all-party meeting to devise a code of conduct for Chief Ministers.

What started as an Opposition move to put the BJP and the BSP in the dock over Mayawati’s drive against Mulayam Singh Yadav culminated in an exchange of allegations of vendetta. Much to the embarrassment of the BJP, its two allies, Shiv Sena and the Samata Party, chose to back Yadav against Mayawati’s ‘‘politics of revenge’’.

After the House took up Mulayam’s notice for an adjournment motion, former PM Chandra Shekhar warned of a civil war ‘‘if immediate steps are not taken to bring the situation under control.’’ He wondered why the ‘‘BJP leaders in Delhi are silent while their UP leaders are sad about what is going on.’’ Another former PM, H.D. Deve Gowda, said: ‘‘I request Vajpayee to convene a meeting in this regard to save our system and democratic institutions.’’

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Rejecting the adjournment notices, Speaker Manohar Joshi said, ‘‘It is for the PM to take a decision on convening a meeting of political parties to evolve a code of conduct for Chief Ministers.’’

Mulayam said that he was not scared of going to the jail. He suggested that a committee comprising leader of the Opposition Sonia Gandhi, Chandra Shekhar, CPI(M) leader Somnath Chatterjee and BJP chief whip Vijay Kumar Malhotra go into the matter. Chatterjee called for a code of conduct for chief ministers underlining that ‘‘this politics of revenge should be stopped.’’

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