Senior Samajwadi Party leader and Minister Shivpal Yadav created stir in political circles and the ruling party on Sundayby threatening to resign and join the opposition ranks if there is no perceptible improvement in law and order in the state and the harassment of the common people in police stations and Tehsil office is not stopped.
“Despite my repeated efforts and directions to the government officials there is no material change at the ground level. There are certain officials who are deliberately ignoring my directives. If this situation continues to prevail and no change in the behaviour of the officials than I can also resign from the government’’ said Shvipal Yadav.
“If the corruption , harassment and humiliation of then people is not stopped forthwith than I am ready for big sacrifice and I will resign from the government and join the opposition ranks for serving the people’, said Shivpal Yadav.
“I have directed the officials that there should be no harassment of any person at any office of the government and the police station. Nobody should be humiliated and there should be no illegal activity in any premises’’, said Shivpal Yadav adding ``office of Tehsil and police station are the front office of the state government and are meant for serving the common people and farmers but they have turned into centres of harassment’’.
Shivpal Yadav made these observation in Mainpuri while addressing a meeting after inaugurating the school of the ex MlA Manic Chand on Sunday. Shivpal Yadav is the younger brother of the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle of the Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. He holds important portfolios in the cabinet like PWD, irrigation, revenue and cooperatives department. He is also the in charge of the state unit of the Samajwadi Party and also the chief spokesman of the ruling party.
Meanwhile the BJP jumped in to fish in troubled waters and slammed the Samajwadi party government. ``The situation within the Samajwadi party and the government is really serious as the senior most minister and an important member of the first family of the party is threatening to resign’, said the general secretary of the party Vijay Bahadur Pathak. He said the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav without any delay should step down.
He said earlier the senior Samajwadi party leader and minority affairs minister had blamed the political conspiracy behind the gang rape incident in Bulandshahar. “SP has lost the moral ground to defend itself following the criticism of law and order by none other than Shivpal Yadav’’, said the BJP leader.