Senior leader of Samajwadi Party, Shivpal Singh Yadav, met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in lucknow on Thursday and apprised him of corruption rampant in police stations and sought action against the corrupt officers.
The meeting took place at the Chief Minister’s 5, Kalidas Marg official residence.
“I told the Chief Minister that corruption in the Bharatiya Janata Party rule has increased almost 10 times. There is no thana (police station) in my Jaswant Nagar assembly constituency where inspectors are not taking bribes. The rate of bribe is exorbitantly high. People are suffering because they are being deprived of natural justice because no FIR is registered without paying a bribe,” Yadav told reporters.
The SP leader said: “I have asked the Chief Minister to seek a report and take stern action against the erring officials as the corruption is bringing a bad name to the government.”
Yadav said that he had handed over details of corruption in his Assembly constituency to Yogi in black and white.”
“I believe if the situation is so bad in my area, it will be the same across the state,” he said.
When asked about the thaw in relation with his ‘bhatija’ and SP president Akhilesh Yadav, Shivpal said that he would only talk about corruption today as other things were fine.