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Some hope for sacked recruits

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday said she sympathised with the sacked recruits and suspended police officers.

Over 17,000 recruits were dismissed and 25 IPS officers suspended recently in the wake of alleged irregularities in recruitment during the previous regime.

The Chief Minister said efforts would be made to re-employ those eligible when fresh recruitment was made. She said the action was taken as rules had been flouted in the selection process.

The Chief Minister was speaking at the “savdhan raho aage badho” rally here on Tuesday.

Ms. Mayawati blamed the Samajwadi Party government for violating the rules of police recruitment, but sought to give a clean chit to the officers saying they were pressured by the previous regime and had to save their jobs.

Ms. Mayawati’s reaction comes a day after reports said the sacked policemen were coming together in Etah, Agra, Aligarh and Allahabad.Simultaneously, the Chief Minister described the ban on student union elections as a temporary measure and said they would be held once rules were formulated for keeping criminal elements out of the poll process.

Interestingly, the Chief Minister expressed her party’s support for the creation of smaller States. She said that if the Centre agreed to carve out Bundelkhand, Purvanchal and Harit Pradesh from Uttar Pradesh, the BSP government would send it a Vidhan Sabha resolution on the issue.

She said the value added tax would soon be implemented in Uttar Pradesh.

Accusing the Opposition parties of launching a malicious campaign against the BSP, the Chief Minister said attempts were being made to target senior Minister Satish Chandra Misra.

She cautioned her partymen against the designs of the Opposition to weaken the BSP support base and warned her supporters not to be misguided by Opposition-sponsored media reports.

Ms. Mayawati defended helping her brother Anand Kumar.

Since he had left his job to assist her, she had given him money to start a business from the money gifted to her by the BSP cadres.

Ms. Mayawati said she would take political sanyas if the charge that she bought government bungalows were proved.

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