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“Law & order situation has worsened in U.P.”

NEW DELHI: While the law and order situation under the Mulayam Singh government was one of the main planks of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party when it rode to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2007, the situation now was worse than what it was 18 months ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party said here on Friday.

Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar noted that the BSP slogan at the time was: “Chad goondon ki chhati par, mohar lagado haathi par.” (Stamp out the goondas by voting for the BSP’s elephant symbol). Now, the people have coined a new slogan: “Goonde chade haathi par, goli maren chhati par.” (Goondas riding on elephants are pumping bullets into people).

More than 8 MLAs of the BSP, including four Ministers of the Mayawati government, have been arrested on charges of heinous crimes, the BJP alleged. The party demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the ‘lynching’ of engineer Manoj Gupta who had allegedly refused to cough up cash demanded from him as a contribution to Ms. Mayawati’s birthday celebrations by a BSP MLA.

“If the BSP does not respond to the demand for a CBI probe into the murder of Manoj Gupta, the Governor should send a report to the Centre suggesting tough action,” the BJP said.

He said a full month had elapsed since terrorists struck at several places in Mumbai. “The government should do what it is suggesting it may do. So far the government has met with no success in getting back to India fugitives like Dawood wanted for the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.”

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