UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said law and order is the top priority of the state government and the government shares the concern of the opposition. Chief Minister however admitted that there are certain incidents over which the government has no direct control and such incidents happen. Chief Minister dismissed the criticism by the opposition party saying the government has delivered on all fronts and the state is moving ahead on the path of the double digit growth.
“We share the concern of the opposition parties on law and order issues but some incidents like that happened in Hyderabad over which the government has no control. From next financial year the state government is launching an ambitious programme `Dial 100’ service for ensuring the prompt response of the police on the complaints by the common people and any other eventuality’’, said the chief minister in his hour long speech while replying to the debate on the motion of thanks to the joint address by the state governor Ram Naik on January 29.
“I am the chief minister and I cannot disown the responsibility for the incidents relating to the law and order. The ambulance service 102, 108 is working efficiently in the state. I want the police to perform and deliver to the people in similar manner. There are three complaints against the police, first that police never responds to phone call, even if they respond then they don not take action or the FIR is not lodged. Dial 100 seeks to address this problem’’, said the Chief Minister.
Defending the state police chief minister said `` if there were flaws in the police then there were many shortcomings in the society also. In lucknow an incident of crime had occurred in one temple or the recent incident of the abduction of e commerce company executive in Ghaziabad , who later safely returned to her home’’,. CM said `` both the cases were worked out by the police and also there are many incidents which fail to catch our attention’’.
Brimming with confidence chief minister Akhilesh Yadav trashed the charges leveled by the Bahujan Samaj Party and other opposition parties. Chief Minister specifically targeted the BSP and dared to place its achievements during its regime. CM also targeted the BJP saying the state was not getting the due benefit of the 73 MPs of the party elected from UP. Chief minister was particularly soft on the Congress and also praised the previous Congress led UPA government at the Center for sanctioning Sainik Schools and Post graduate institute of medical sciences for the state.
Chief Minister said Samajwadi party government has delivered on all fronts on development particularly added fresh capacities in power generation and transmission. ``leader of opposition spoke for over two hours but failed to establish that the governor’s address was a bundle of lies. Samajwadi party during the last four years not only implemented its poll manifesto but all those programs and policies were translated on the ground’’, said the Chief Minister.
“SP government has worked for the balanced and inclusive development of the state. The government has constructed expressway, four lane highway, power plants and also constructed agriculture mandi yards and linked the villages with the mandis so that the farmers could get the remunerative price for their produce’’, said the CM adding`` the model for the development of the NOIDA-Agra expressway was a fraud committed by the previous BSP government on the people . The Agra –lucknow expressway is more then double in length and will provide big boost to the tourism in Agra besides helping the farmers to sell their produce in bigger markets like Delhi and NCR’’.
On the power front CM said `` the sale of invertors and power generations has nosedived in Kanpur by 40 percent but the opposition made no mention of improvement in power supply’’.
“The previous. BSP regime did not on power front. Had they done anything we could have taken it forward. They only signed the MOU for new power plants. The SP government has added fresh generation capacity of 11,000 MW, besides construction of large number of transmission and distribution sub stations and also adding solar power generation capacity of 500 MW’’, said the CM. The government for improving power distribution has launched project for laying of underground cables in Mau, Azamgarh, Manipuri, Rampur, Kanpur, Bahriach and some other districts, added the CM.
Referring to the dairy project ‘kamdhenu Yojna’, the CM said: “We are not getting the desired cooperation from the banks for financing the projects under kamdhenu yojna, so we are strengthening the district cooperative banks (DCBs) by infusing fresh capital and UP land development bank’’. The CM added: “The banking institutions of the state were destroyed during the BSP rule and RBI had suspended the licenses of over a dozen DCBs’’.
Akhilesh Yadav maintained that the government has not discriminated against any part of the state on political lines. “UP government is working for the metro rail in Kanpur and Varanasi, the constituency of the prime minister while the financial assistance for medical treatment was given on the recommendation of the MlAs and leaders of all the parties.”
The assembly after the chief minister’s reply formally adopted the resolution thanking the State Governor for his joint address. During the four day long debate on the motion of thanks to the governors address 23 MlAs of the ruling Samajwadi party and 56 MlAs from the opposition parties including the BSP, BJP, Congress and RlD participated in the debate. The opposition had moved over 200 amendments to Governor address which was rejected by the house.