The meeting of Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav with the legal experts has given rise to the speculations over the change in Member of legislative Council (MlC) list that was presented to the Governor Ram Naik last week. A long meeting was held between the Principal Secretary for law Department a retired justice of High Court, advocate general of the state and Chief Minister, who, returned from his 9-day-long tour of Netherlands and France.
The ruling Samajwadi Party(SP) had sent the list of 9 people for nomination to the Uttar Pradesh Governor for nomination to Upper House of the state legislature. Naik raised objections to some names and sought information regarding the bank details and criminal backgrounds people whose name were in the list. He also asked about the expertise of people in their respective sectors. Samajwadi Party Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav also met Naik after he sought the information regarding names of people in the list. Naik had said the decision of nomination will be taken after CM Akhilesh Yadav returns from his foreign visit, as he wanted to talk to him over the issue.
Though the nine seats of nominated members fell vacant on May 25, there is no boundation on Governor to fill the posts by the allotted date. The nomination depends on Governor and he can nominate the people who have expertise in some fields. Sources said that the list includes the names of Sanjay Seth, a builder from lucknow considered close to Mulayam’s second son Prateek Yadav. Another person who made to the list is Jitendra Yadav, father-in-law of RlD chief lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Ragini. He had left the SP in 2012 to contest the assembly election on the Congress ticket which he lost. later, he rejoined the SP. In addition to these names the list contains the names of SRS Yadav, Ramvrakhcha Singh, Ranvijay Singh, lilawati Kushwaha, Rajpal Kashyap, Abdul Sarfaraz Khan and Kamlesh Pathak, according to the sources.