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Political Notes : BSP seeks Mulayam’s resignation |
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BSP chief Mayawati has demanded the resignation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav following the Allahabad HC order quashing his government’s notification abolishing the nine districts and four commissionaries created by her government. Terming the court verdict “historic”, the former Chief Minister said: “If Yadav has even an iota of morality left in him, he should submit his resignation to the Governor saying he can’t provide justice to people of the state.”
Saying that the order vindicated her stand, Mayawati said the Yadav government’s decision to abolish the districts was taken due to political vendetta and to please some industrialists.
The petitioners had challenged the government order on the ground that it was decided in an arbitrary manner and on political considerations. The nine districts were disbanded by a government notification of January 13.
Jayalalithaa’s U-turn on vendetta policy
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa,
appears to have drawn the right lessons
from the rout of her party, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election. Within a week of the declaration of the election results, Jayalalithaa has announced the withdrawal of most of the controversial policies and actions that had been the focus of the campaign of Opposition parties. The Chief Minister responded positively to the powerful message conveyed by the voters against the unpopular measures adopted by the AIADMK Government in the last three years.
In one stroke, she removed the income ceiling for those entitled to get essential commodities under the Public Distribution System, restored free power supply to farmers and hut dwellers, revoked punishment imposed on Government employees who had gone on strike, and extended the free bus pass scheme to all students.
Jayalalithaa also announced that the Government would immediately withdraw the large number of defamation cases filed against newspapers and take steps to drop the privilege proceedings in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly against The Hindu and Murasoli. She also promised repeal of the Act against forcible religious conversions, which had provoked widespread protests from minorities and other sections of society who saw in the enactment a threat to the fundamental right to practise and propagate religion.
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