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  • Provide Rs 50 lakh aid to kin of those who died due to COVID during poll duty: Akhilesh Yadav to UP govt

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday demanded the BJP government to provide Rs 50 lakh financial aid to families of officers and teachers who died due to COVID-19 while performing their duty in the Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls.

    He said the Yogi Adityanath dispensation should provide them assistance otherwise government employees and teachers will be forced to boycott the counting duty.

    “The government should provide Rs 50 lakh financial assistance to families of officers, teachers and employees who died due to coronavirus while performing their election duty in the panchayat polls,” Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi.

    Uttar Pradesh is among the 10 worst-hit states in terms of coronavirus deaths and cases.

    A record single-day rise of 298 COVID-19 fatalities in the state pushed the death toll to 12,241 on Thursday, while the infection tally mounted to 12,17,955 with 35,156 fresh cases.

    The Allahabad High Court had asked the Uttar Pradesh government to conclude the panchayat election process by May 25.

    The counting of votes will take place on May 2.

  • Samajwadi Party leader and former UP minister Rammurti Singh Verma passes away

    By PTI
    SHAHJAHANPUR: Former Uttar Pradesh minister and Samajwadi Party leader Rammurti Singh Verma died here on Friday following a prolonged illness, family sources said.

    He was 71.

    Verma was admitted at a private hospital in Bareilly on Wednesday and was undergoing dialysis.

    He passed away during treatment around 2.30 am on Friday, the party’s district president Tanveer Khan told PTI.

    Last month, the SP leader was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi and was discharged later.

    Verma was a four time MLA — three times from Jalalabad seat and once from Dadraul.

    He also represented Shahjahanpur in Lok Sabha.

    In 2015, he was accused of killing a local journalist and an FIR was registered against him.

    Later, the victim’s family members reached a compromise with him and the case was closed.

    SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav condoled Verma’s death and said he was among founding members of the party.

    Meanwhile, BJP MLA from Auraiya (Sadar) Ramesh Diwakar, 56, died due to COVID-19 on Thursday night.

    Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condoled his demise and termed it a loss for the party.

  • ‘No place in crematoriums, no beds in hospitals’: Akhilesh Yadav slams Uttar Pradesh government

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Attacking the Yogi Adityanath dispensation in the state over the coronavirus crisis, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday alleged the government has lost control over administration which is why the pandemic was spreading fast in the state.

    In a statement issued here, he also slammed the chief minister for campaigning in elections in West Bengal and other states. “The BJP government has lost its control over administration. Ignoring warnings of scientists and doctors, the CM became star campaigner and left for election campaigning in other states and his Team 11 (core team of 11 officers) went in the rest mode. Due to this, neither the spread of coronavirus nor the number of deaths due to it could be controlled,” Yadav said in a statement issued here.

    ALSO READ| Allahabad HC orders week-long lockdown in five cities, Uttar Pradesh government ‘refuses’

    “The government is still doing formality in meetings and not bothered about lives and problems of people. The state never had such an insensitive government. The news that are coming are very horrifying. In Bareilly, there is no place left in crematorium. In Agra, Ghaziabad and Kanpur too, there is similar situation,” he alleged.

    He said the situation is miserable in Lucknow too where one could not get ambulance and admission in hospitals have become impossible, leaving people to die.

    “Is this the manner in which the BJP made the state happy? There is no place in ‘shmashan’ (crematoriums) and no beds in hospitals. The government has become deaf and dumb. There are the arrangements which the prime minister and the chief minister used to advertise about. It will be better if the BJP leaves the government and stops playing with the lives of people,” Yadav said.

    Meanwhile, the state BJP on Monday said it will start a “helpdesk” to provide medical and other help to people.

    BJP state media in-charge Manish Dixit said that the helpdesk will have district presidents, medical cell office-bearer and on other senior party office-bearer and it will coordinate with the local administration, people’s representatives and ministers to help people.

    The decision was taken at a meeting of the party state president with other party leaders.

  • Former Samajwadi Party MLA who tested positive for Covid-19, dies at 70

    By PTI
    PILIBHIT: Former Samajwadi Party MLA Gopal Krishna Saxena, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died at a hospital in Bareilly on Monday, his son said.

    He was 70.

    “When he could not get proper treatment in Lucknow, he was admitted to a hospital in Bareilly on Saturday. On Monday, around 5 am, he breathed his last,” Rajat Saxena said.

    He said his father was having difficulty in breathing for the past few days, and had tested positive for COVID-19.

    Gopal Krishna Saxena represented Puranpur in the state assembly.

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  • Yogi govt to drop case against ex-cop who recommended POTA on Mukhtar Ansari

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: In a major decision, the Uttar Pradesh government has proceeded to drop the charges against former deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Shailendra Singh, who had resigned from the services in 2004 after he had a fallout with the ruling Samajwadi Party government for recommending arrest of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).

    The decision of the Yogi government to drop charges against the ex-cop was accepted by a Varanasi court. The cop was slapped with dozens of charges by the then SP dispensation for allegedly challenging the might of the mafia don.

    The Yogi government had moved the Varanasi court seeking to drop the charges against Shailendra and the plea was accepted by the Varanasi court on March 6. Shailendra was handed over a copy of the court order on Tuesday (March 30, 2021).

    While reacting to the decision, the former cop heaved a sigh of relief saying the truth had finally prevailed. He told the media persons that it was because of the criminal case that he was unable to procure a passport or an arms licence.

    The ex-cop claimed that the criminal case slapped on him was an arm twisting tactic of the then political masters to silence him.

    It may be recalled that Shailendra Singh, DySP, enjoying the image of an honest and upright officer, had faxed his resignation to the then UP Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri after he was allegedly ‘asked by his bosses’ not to initiate POTA proceedings against Mukhtar Ansari in a gun-running case in February 2004.

    The move rocked the state assembly that was in session as the opposition mounted its attack on the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led government. The then leader of opposition Lalji Tandon had termed the developments as an indication of prevailing rot in the system. He had urged the governor to keep the option of recommending dismissal of the state government as the development was seen as the breakdown of Constitutional machinery in the state.

    However, after the resignation by the DySP, the Mulayam government tried to tame the officer by slapping a criminal case on Shailendra Singh and he was arrested later.

    After quitting the police force, Shailendra decided to contest the 2004 Lok Sabha election from Varanasi as an independent candidate but lost. He then joined the Congress party and tried his luck from Chandauli in 2009. In the 2012 assembly elections, he contested on the Congress ticket from Saiyadraja assembly constituency in Chandauli but lost.

    After almost a seven-year stint with the Congress, Shailendra Singh joined the BJP on April 15, 2014. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, he was in charge of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘war room’ in Varanasi.

  • SP chief Akhilesh Yadav claims ‘voices of dissent are surfacing’ within Uttar Pradesh BJP

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav claimed on Tuesday that voices of dissent have started surfacing within the Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

    He also claimed that various senior officials in the administration and police are not attending phone calls from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), despite directives.

    “When BJP leaders were making claims of their victory in the next state Assembly polls from the dais during the party’s working committee meeting, several office-bearers and leaders were raising their voice against the misgovernance under the party’s rule,” Yadav said in a statement released by the SP here.

    ALSO READ | FIR filed against Akhilesh Yadav, 20 others over assault on journalists in Moradabad

    “The BJP might make all-out efforts to hide the reality and spread lies, but it is not going to succeed since voices of dissent and dissatisfaction have started surfacing within the party,” he claimed.

    The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister was referring to the daylong meeting of the state BJP’s working committee held in the state capital on Monday, which was inaugurated by Defence Minister and former party president Rajnath Singh, while Chief minister Yogi Adityanath addressed the closing function.

    Senior BJP leaders, who took part in the meeting, claimed that the saffron party will script a historic victory in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election.

    The SP president pointed out that his party has been saying since the very beginning that anarchy, disorder and corruption are rampant in the 

    BJP regime in the state and there appears to be no control of the government or administration over it.

    Ministers have also complained that officials do not listen to them, he said.

    Different district magistrates (DMs), senior superintendents of police (SSPs), SPs and commissioners are not attending phone calls from the CMO despite directives, he said, claiming that there are reports given by government sources to this effect.

    “When nobody takes the chief minister seriously, what can be expected about the fate of people’s problems?” Yadav asked.

  • FIR filed against Akhilesh Yadav, 20 others over assault on journalists in Moradabad

    By Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Acting on a complaint by a local journalist, the Moradabad Police has registered an FIR against the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and 20 unidentified party leaders and workers who had allegedly heckled the media persons during a press conference in the district on March 11.

    The FIR has been lodged under Sections 147 (rioting), 342 (wrongful confinement), and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the IPC against the SP chief and 20 others at Paakbada Police Station in Moradabad after local journalist association president Dr. Awadhesh Parashar gave a complaint to the SSP.

    A few journalists were injured, one of them seriously, when SP workers and Akhilesh Yadav’s security guards allegedly attacked media persons.

    Fareed Shamshi, a video journalist, had sustained a fracture in his leg. While talking to media persons, Parashar said the journalists invited to the press conference asked the SP chief some questions on party MP Azam Khan at which Akhilesh Yadav got furious. This was followed by an assault on journalists by the security men of the SP chief and the party workers.

    Meanwhile, a counter FIR was also lodged by the Samajwadi Party district president Jaiveer Singh against Ubaidur Rehman of ABP News and Fareed Shamsi of News 18 under Sections 160, 341, 332, 53, 504, 499, and 120-B of the IPC.

  • Samajwadis change Uttar Pradesh govt whenever they take cycle rides, says Akhilesh Yadav

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Friday claimed that every time his party workers and leaders hit roads on their bicycles, they change the government in Uttar Pradesh.

    Yadav made the claim a day before his party’s state unit president Naresh Uttam Patel is to flag off Saturday the party’s “cycle yatra” from Ambedkar Park in Rampur, culminating in Lucknow on March 21.

    “When we had undertaken cycle rides before the 2011 state assembly elections, the UP government has lost the polls,” said Yadav, addressing a rally in Rampur district. 

    The rally was organised also to highlight the alleged persecution of SP veteran leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan by the BJP government.

    Referring to the cases lodged against Azam Khan, Yadav alleged that even as when they were planning to launch the cycle yatra, the district administration, under government pressure, was preparing to lodge criminal cases against party workers.

    With the sunny weather suddenly turning cloudy during his address to the rally, Yadav said, “Look what has happened even before we have hit the cycle paddles. When we will actually hit roads on cycles, not only the weather but the government too will get changed.”

    “Somehow, God’s blessings too are with socialites. We will not have to suffer the harsh sun while cycling,” he remarked.

    Speaking about the cases against Azam Khan and his family members, the SP president said not only Khan but all those associated with him have been framed in false cases.

    He said Azam Khan is the only leader against whom so many cases have been lodged in one go.

    Yadav also accused the Uttar Pradesh government of regularly gunning down criminals and suspects in fake police encounters.

    “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s government with which we have to fight knows only one language — thok do (shoot them),” he alleged.

    “What can be expected of those who know only the language of encounter?” he asked.

  • UP: Journalist injured amid jostling at Akhilesh Yadav event

    By PTI
    MORADABAD: A journalist suffered injuries allegedly after being pushed by a security personnel guarding Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav as mediapersons jostled to get a byte from the leader in Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.

    After the incident, Shalabh Mani Tripathi, the media advisor to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, alleged SP goons badly beat up journalists for asking questions to Yadav, threatened, humiliated and chased them away.

    “Many were injured,” he claimed.

    Rejecting the allegation, Samajwadi Party MP from Moradabad Syed Tufail Hasan, who was with Yadav during the incident, said the former chief minister did not refuse to talk to mediapersons.

    “Some electronic mediapersons broke the security cordon and fell amid jostling after being stopped by guards. One journalist suffered injuries in leg and has been sent to hospital,” Hasan told PTI.

    Yadav has expressed his grief over the incident, he said.

    The Samajwadi Party chief is here to attend the wedding of an MLA, Hasan said, adding that he will move to Rampur to join a cycle rally of the party on Friday.

    Adityanath’s media advisor Tripathi tweeted, “The most tarnished day in the history of UP after the state guest house incident. Out of power at the moment and yet so much hooliganism. Imagine how intoxicated they must have been when in power.”

    In his tweet, Tripathi was referring to the attack on BSP supremo Mayawati by SP workers at the state guest house in Lucknow in 1995.

  • Bengal polls: After Tejashwi, now Akhilesh to campaign in Trinamool’s favour

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday of misleading the people in West Bengal and said the party would campaign in favour of the TMC for the Assembly election.

    The comments came a day after Adityanath addressed a rally in minority-dominated Malda district where he alleged that cattle smuggling and “love jihad” were continuing unabated in West Bengal and the Mamata Banerjee government was endangering national security by indulging in “appeasement” politics.

    In a statement, Yadav said the BJP wanted to come to power in the state by spreading “confusion and propaganda” during the Assembly polls.

    “The Samajwadi Party will not allow this conspiracy of the BJP to succeed,” he added.

    He alleged that Adityanath was “misleading” the people and appealed to the voters not to fall prey to the designs of the BJP, which “indulges in politics of hate”.

    “It’s in the interest of democracy to be cautious of it (BJP),” the SP leader said.

    Yadav said SP vice president and former minister Kiranmoy Nanda would conduct an election campaign in support of the TMC in the state.

    Incidentally, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav had also met TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee two days ago.

    “West Bengal is home to a large number of Hindi-speaking people from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand,” he had said, adding the RJD’s stand is to provide “full support” to Banerjee.

    The high-stakes elections in West Bengal, poised to be a tough contest between the TMC and the BJP, will be held in eight phases between March 27 and April 29.

    Votes will be counted on May 2.