The BJP expressed concern over the deteriotion in law and order situation and held chief minister Aklilesh Yadav responsible for increase in the crime rate. State party spokesman, Vijay Bahadur Pathak said here on Tuesday that the chief minister has totally lost control over his workers . This is one of the factors responsible for their involvment in criminal activites.At this point of time, the chief minister should come forward to check the unscruplous activites of his party workers to restore normalacy ,Pathak added. It is surprising that Samajwadi Party’s local office-bearers are often giving instructions to the senior police officials and also warned of disciplinary action,if the officer concern fails to take action, he added and said the police officals has to oblige him because the former is enjoying patronage of high up in the party and cited example of recent incident of Farrukhabad and Kanpur where they beaten the police officials in full public view. Meanwhile, Pathak deplored the chief minister for not initiating substantial plan for the farmers to improve their financial sitation and ridiculed the state government for not clearing the arrear to the sugar-cane growers which has accumulated to 10,000 crores. He called upon the state government to pay arrears to the farmers at the earliest instead of favouring the powerful sugar lobby.