UP Government's image dented

The embattled Akhilesh Yadav-led SP Government in UP, which had been forced on the defensive by the recent communal carnage in Western UP and the collapse of the state’s law and order machinery, on Saturday
UP Government's image dented

The embattled Akhilesh Yadav-led SP Government in UP, which had been forced on the defensive by the recent communal carnage in Western UP and the collapse of the state’s law and order machinery, on Saturday suffered  further loss of face with a group of sulking ministers raising the banner of revolt against the CM and a clerical error in a Home Department communique inadvertently championing the issue of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. In fact, the 18 ministers had earlier met SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to apprise him of their protest at being rendered “idle ,jobless and frustrated” since the Cabinet ministers had been gobbling up all the “important work”, leaving them high and dry.

“Why are we in the government. Are we here for the lal batti (red beacon) and an Ambassador car to roam the streets only. Or, are we here to perform some duties also,” was their general refrain before the party supremo.

Some ministers, who spoke to Express, revealed that even the transfers and postings of minor officials were not assigned to them. Not only that, their inspection reports were dumped in the dustbin and the officers simply failed to heed them! Meanwhile, it was a blooper which had inadvertently crept into the Home Department missive – that a meeting of the police top brass will be convened here tomorrow (on Tuesday) for the construction of the Ram Mandir on the lines of the Somnath Temple in Gujarat -- that left the Akhilesh Government squirming in embarrassment.

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