Within 24-hours of praise for his father Mulayam Singh Yadav by prime minister Narendra Modi, Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav took on the Central Government alleging that National Democratic Alliance government was ignoring all the request from the State to provide funds for different development and welfare schemes.
“I have written hundred of letters to the Centre but there is no response, which is unfortunate for a big state like UP,” Yadav said while making an indirect attack on Narendra Modi for not taking cognizance of his letters. The CM was speaking at a function held at his official residence here on Saturday morning after distributing cheques of Rs 5 lakhs each to the widows of the 17 lawyers, who died before reaching 60 years of of age. Most of the beneficiaries were from Allahabad. Akhilesh had written almost one letter on an average to Prime Minister every day demanding financial assistance for different schemes in the state.
Meanwhile Yadav said that his government was trying to provide all facilities to the lawyers of the state. “ We have also given enough funds for construction of the new High Court of lucknow Bench in Gomati Nagar area and have facilitated to improve the road condition between lucknow and Allahabad which is being used prominently by the lawyers for their work,” he said.
The CM further said that the Centre has rejected the four lane highway between Rae Bareli and Allahabad due to less users.” If the Centre is not ready then it should permit UP government to do it,” he said adding that efforts are also on take up work for Metro Rail in Allahabad.
The CM said that there is already Rs 120 crores in the corpus fund for the lawyers benefit hence there is no paucity of funds. He claimed that his father and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is always having concern for welfare of the lawyers and now his government is trying it’s best to follow same lines.
State advocate general Vijay Bahadur Singh said that government was doing good work for the welfare of the lawyers. He said that there are 3.5 lakh registered lawyers in the State and announced that the corpus fund for the lawyers would be increased to Rs 200 crores.