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Now Now...Bachon ko rulayega kya bhai saaab?
Already they are in depression...Now this
Top 10 mei Pappu ka naam be hai
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Yogi Adityanath Bans Employee Strikes in UP Colleges, University
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, banned any strike by employees in state universities and colleges till 30 June, under the stringent Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA).
ESMA gives police the powers to arrest, without a warrant, anybody violating the Act's provisions.
A UP government order said that any strike in these higher education institutions will remain banned "in public interest" for a period of three months till 30 June.
The period has been chosen, keeping in mind the busy academic calendar, as a number of examinations are scheduled in these three months.
"The ban will be applicable to all services in universities, constituent colleges and affiliate colleges," according to an official release here.
Uttar Pradesh has, around 30 state universities, besides 25 private and 10 deemed varsities.
Under ESMA, employees in "essential services" are strictly prohibited from going on strike.
The Act allows the states to choose the essential services on which ESMA can be invoked. Under its provisions, any person taking part in a strike, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term of up to six months.
Any person who instigates a strike, which is illegal under the Act ,shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term of up to one year, as per provisions of the 1968 Act.
Yogi Adityanath Bans Employee Strikes in UP Colleges, University
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, banned any strike by employees in state universities and colleges till 30 June, under the stringent Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA).
ESMA gives police the powers to arrest, without a warrant, anybody violating the Act's provisions.
A UP government order said that any strike in these higher education institutions will remain banned "in public interest" for a period of three months till 30 June.
The period has been chosen, keeping in mind the busy academic calendar, as a number of examinations are scheduled in these three months.
"The ban will be applicable to all services in universities, constituent colleges and affiliate colleges," according to an official release here.
Uttar Pradesh has, around 30 state universities, besides 25 private and 10 deemed varsities.
Under ESMA, employees in "essential services" are strictly prohibited from going on strike.
The Act allows the states to choose the essential services on which ESMA can be invoked. Under its provisions, any person taking part in a strike, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term of up to six months.
Any person who instigates a strike, which is illegal under the Act ,shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term of up to one year, as per provisions of the 1968 Act.
Rigzin Samphel appointed as the Special Secretary to UP CM Yogi Adityanath,
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rigzin-samphel/1/105663.html
On June 14, when the district magistrates of 17 flood-prone districts gathered in the state Secretariat in Lucknow, all eyes were fixed on Rigzin Samphel, who has had many pathbreaking initiatives to his credit. He did not disappoint this time as well. The state lapped up his idea of the introduction of WAT-SAN (Water-Sanitation), a unique pyramid- shaped handpump, which can provide safe drinking water to those marooned during floods. He got it designed in consultation with the needs of the villagers as well as the NGOs. Some 200 flood-affected villages would have 800 such handpumps before the monsoon hits.
Rs 14,000 is what one WAT-SAN hand pump will cost
A 2003-batch IAS officer, the 35-year-old district magistrate of Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh's Tarai region, believes in mixing bureaucratic powers with business management skills to bring relief to the poor and is usually found among the villagers, listening to their problems and helping them find innovative solutions. A commerce graduate from SRCC and an MBA from Delhi University, Samphel is too busy reforming the country to get married. Hailing from a royal family of Ladakh, he says, "The idea is not only to paint the life of the have-nots with bright colours but also to change the landscape of poverty zones."
"He is like the monk who wants to see every poor person in India own a Ferrari."
Sanjay Singh, Bundelkhand-based Social Activist
Samphel has got high plinth pucca public conveniences with large septic tanks designed especially for village women near the flood relief camps as traditional soak pits become unusable when floods hit the area. As the dm of Jalaun in Bundelkhand in 2002, he introduced the system of paying National Rural Employment Guarantee Act salaries directly into the bank accounts, and making the implementation of the scheme easier. In 2008, his development work got The Economist to call him one of the "hardest working bureaucrats in the world". In 2008, he received an award from the Ministry for Rural Development for the best NREGA implementation.
In the past, he has used cellphones to prevent black market trading in PDS in Bahraich. As soon as PDS shops were stocked, ration card holders got SMSes and before the dealers could dump the commodities in the black market, they reached there to pick up their allotment. He says: "Development engineering is less about formulas and more about integrity. If an administrator is sensitive to the problems of the public, he can find innovative solutions within the given resources."
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rigzin-samphel/1/105663.html
On June 14, when the district magistrates of 17 flood-prone districts gathered in the state Secretariat in Lucknow, all eyes were fixed on Rigzin Samphel, who has had many pathbreaking initiatives to his credit. He did not disappoint this time as well. The state lapped up his idea of the introduction of WAT-SAN (Water-Sanitation), a unique pyramid- shaped handpump, which can provide safe drinking water to those marooned during floods. He got it designed in consultation with the needs of the villagers as well as the NGOs. Some 200 flood-affected villages would have 800 such handpumps before the monsoon hits.
Rs 14,000 is what one WAT-SAN hand pump will cost
A 2003-batch IAS officer, the 35-year-old district magistrate of Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh's Tarai region, believes in mixing bureaucratic powers with business management skills to bring relief to the poor and is usually found among the villagers, listening to their problems and helping them find innovative solutions. A commerce graduate from SRCC and an MBA from Delhi University, Samphel is too busy reforming the country to get married. Hailing from a royal family of Ladakh, he says, "The idea is not only to paint the life of the have-nots with bright colours but also to change the landscape of poverty zones."
"He is like the monk who wants to see every poor person in India own a Ferrari."
Sanjay Singh, Bundelkhand-based Social Activist
Samphel has got high plinth pucca public conveniences with large septic tanks designed especially for village women near the flood relief camps as traditional soak pits become unusable when floods hit the area. As the dm of Jalaun in Bundelkhand in 2002, he introduced the system of paying National Rural Employment Guarantee Act salaries directly into the bank accounts, and making the implementation of the scheme easier. In 2008, his development work got The Economist to call him one of the "hardest working bureaucrats in the world". In 2008, he received an award from the Ministry for Rural Development for the best NREGA implementation.
In the past, he has used cellphones to prevent black market trading in PDS in Bahraich. As soon as PDS shops were stocked, ration card holders got SMSes and before the dealers could dump the commodities in the black market, they reached there to pick up their allotment. He says: "Development engineering is less about formulas and more about integrity. If an administrator is sensitive to the problems of the public, he can find innovative solutions within the given resources."
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...eaucracy-the-jitters/articleshow/57962553.cms
Yogi Adityanath is giving UP's bureaucracy the jitters
LUCKNOW: For the burgeoning and slack bureaucracy of India's most populous state, peace of mind is the first casualty after the saffron-robed Yogi Adityanath took over the reins as its 21st Chief Minister almost a fortnight back.
From day one, as the 44-year-old Yogi began functioning out of his suite in the VVIP guest house, bureaucrats have been burning the proverbial midnight oil to get in his good books and also to fix the "wrongs" of the predecessor government. As Adityanath inspected the Annexe office at the Shastri Bhawan, sprucing up of the dingy, unkept offices across the state began at lightening speed.
The officials lost no time in making employees read out and take the "swacchta shapath" (cleanliness oath) and wield the broom to make the offices and the premises spic n' span.
Officials like the district magistrates of Ghaziabad (Nidhi Kesharwani), Lalitpur (Roopesh Kumar), Gonda (Ashutosh Niranjan), Sant Ravidas Nagar (Suresh Kumar Singh) and Hathras (Avinash Krishna Singh) have gone into proactive mode to ensure the tehsil and collectorate offices are clean and drinking water is available for people coming to meet them.
Adityanath's surprise inspection of the Hazratganj police station in the state capital has also spurred the men-in-khakhi into action, with many happily wielding the broom and cleaning up police stations. This seemingly has annoyed former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav so much so that he told mediapersons last week that he did not know that "adhikaari itni acchi jhaadoo lagate hai, warna main bhi inse khoob jhaadoo lagwata" (had I known the officals can sweep so well, I too would have got them to would have got them to wield the broom).
Inspector General of Police (Lucknow) A. Satish Ganesh has been conducting daily inspections at various police stations, ensuring they are clean and that complainants are attended to in a proper manner. As a result of a diktat from Adityanand, referred to as "maharaj ji" by the faithful, almost all police stations now have earthen pitchers (ghadas) full of clean drinking water and jaggery to go with it.
The new Chief Minister's "desire" that officials work for 18-20 hours has also sent jitters down the spine of the babudom.
The effect is for all to see as at a public holiday -- Jhulelal Jayanti -- contrary to deserted offices earlier, government offices were abuzz with activity as many senior officials were spotted working, preparing presentations for the next review meetings that the chief minister's office has scheduled over the next few weeks.
Pictures of Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav -- the presiding deities of the past dispensation, have been consigned to the store rooms and smiling portraits of Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi now occupy the place of pride in all major offices.
Time was when government vehicles with blue bacons could be spotted till as late as 10 a.m. in the popular Lohia and Janeshwar Misra parks. They have suddenly gone missing. Fitness freaks in the bureaucracy now wrap up their morning walks early to be at the office by 9.30 a.m., something which was termed "flexible working hours" during the previous government. Gutkaa, paan and paan masaala which hitherto were part of the 'nawaabi rehan sehan' (princely lifestyle) now stand banned and anyone found chewing these prohibited items is hauled up.
On Friday, a driver in the VVIP fleet of the Chief Minister's cavalcade was fined Rs 500 by the Secretariat Administration Department (SAD) for chewing tobacco in the secretariat premises.
A religious and committed cow lover, Adityanath's ascendancy has also meant more care for stray cows who are now being herded to 'gaushalas' (cow shelters) across the state and given privileged treatment.
Closure of illegal abattoirs, one of the core agenda points of the BJP during the 2017 state assembly polls, has been taken by officials a wee bit more seriously than expected.
In a bid to outdo each other in the maddening race to impress the Chief Minister, they cracked down on slaughter houses across the state, even downing the shutters of legal, license-holding shops. Thousands of people employed at these places were rendered jobless and meat delicacies went off the plates, forcing intervention of the Chief Minister himself, who warned officials against any overzealousness and asked them to stop harassing legal meat traders.
Adityanath's diktat of "perfect" wheat purchase centers for procurement -- to eliminate middlemen -- has also sent the officials into a tizzy. Having doubled the purchase targets for earlier target of 50,000 metric tonnes, Adityanath got going in his first week of work to provide succour to the farmers, who seemingly voted for the BJP overwhelmingly. These purchase centers began work from Saturday and the Chief Minister has asked legislators and party MPs to go and monitor their functioning so that feedback could be gathered on "compliance of his orders".
After a terse warning from Adityanath to ensure pothole-free roads across the state by June 15, officials have begun work on an "elaborate action plan" to get "things moving at the earliest" an official said on Saturday. The task is uphill, rue officials, while pointing out that this would mean work on some 53,615 km of roads under the Public Works Department.
"We do not know the Chief Minister much, he is still unknown territory," said an official while trying to explain how difficult it is for them to gauge Adityanath's mind.
Yogi Adityanath is giving UP's bureaucracy the jitters
LUCKNOW: For the burgeoning and slack bureaucracy of India's most populous state, peace of mind is the first casualty after the saffron-robed Yogi Adityanath took over the reins as its 21st Chief Minister almost a fortnight back.
From day one, as the 44-year-old Yogi began functioning out of his suite in the VVIP guest house, bureaucrats have been burning the proverbial midnight oil to get in his good books and also to fix the "wrongs" of the predecessor government. As Adityanath inspected the Annexe office at the Shastri Bhawan, sprucing up of the dingy, unkept offices across the state began at lightening speed.
The officials lost no time in making employees read out and take the "swacchta shapath" (cleanliness oath) and wield the broom to make the offices and the premises spic n' span.
Officials like the district magistrates of Ghaziabad (Nidhi Kesharwani), Lalitpur (Roopesh Kumar), Gonda (Ashutosh Niranjan), Sant Ravidas Nagar (Suresh Kumar Singh) and Hathras (Avinash Krishna Singh) have gone into proactive mode to ensure the tehsil and collectorate offices are clean and drinking water is available for people coming to meet them.
Adityanath's surprise inspection of the Hazratganj police station in the state capital has also spurred the men-in-khakhi into action, with many happily wielding the broom and cleaning up police stations. This seemingly has annoyed former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav so much so that he told mediapersons last week that he did not know that "adhikaari itni acchi jhaadoo lagate hai, warna main bhi inse khoob jhaadoo lagwata" (had I known the officals can sweep so well, I too would have got them to would have got them to wield the broom).
Inspector General of Police (Lucknow) A. Satish Ganesh has been conducting daily inspections at various police stations, ensuring they are clean and that complainants are attended to in a proper manner. As a result of a diktat from Adityanand, referred to as "maharaj ji" by the faithful, almost all police stations now have earthen pitchers (ghadas) full of clean drinking water and jaggery to go with it.
The new Chief Minister's "desire" that officials work for 18-20 hours has also sent jitters down the spine of the babudom.
The effect is for all to see as at a public holiday -- Jhulelal Jayanti -- contrary to deserted offices earlier, government offices were abuzz with activity as many senior officials were spotted working, preparing presentations for the next review meetings that the chief minister's office has scheduled over the next few weeks.
Pictures of Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav -- the presiding deities of the past dispensation, have been consigned to the store rooms and smiling portraits of Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi now occupy the place of pride in all major offices.
Time was when government vehicles with blue bacons could be spotted till as late as 10 a.m. in the popular Lohia and Janeshwar Misra parks. They have suddenly gone missing. Fitness freaks in the bureaucracy now wrap up their morning walks early to be at the office by 9.30 a.m., something which was termed "flexible working hours" during the previous government. Gutkaa, paan and paan masaala which hitherto were part of the 'nawaabi rehan sehan' (princely lifestyle) now stand banned and anyone found chewing these prohibited items is hauled up.
On Friday, a driver in the VVIP fleet of the Chief Minister's cavalcade was fined Rs 500 by the Secretariat Administration Department (SAD) for chewing tobacco in the secretariat premises.
A religious and committed cow lover, Adityanath's ascendancy has also meant more care for stray cows who are now being herded to 'gaushalas' (cow shelters) across the state and given privileged treatment.
Closure of illegal abattoirs, one of the core agenda points of the BJP during the 2017 state assembly polls, has been taken by officials a wee bit more seriously than expected.
In a bid to outdo each other in the maddening race to impress the Chief Minister, they cracked down on slaughter houses across the state, even downing the shutters of legal, license-holding shops. Thousands of people employed at these places were rendered jobless and meat delicacies went off the plates, forcing intervention of the Chief Minister himself, who warned officials against any overzealousness and asked them to stop harassing legal meat traders.
Adityanath's diktat of "perfect" wheat purchase centers for procurement -- to eliminate middlemen -- has also sent the officials into a tizzy. Having doubled the purchase targets for earlier target of 50,000 metric tonnes, Adityanath got going in his first week of work to provide succour to the farmers, who seemingly voted for the BJP overwhelmingly. These purchase centers began work from Saturday and the Chief Minister has asked legislators and party MPs to go and monitor their functioning so that feedback could be gathered on "compliance of his orders".
After a terse warning from Adityanath to ensure pothole-free roads across the state by June 15, officials have begun work on an "elaborate action plan" to get "things moving at the earliest" an official said on Saturday. The task is uphill, rue officials, while pointing out that this would mean work on some 53,615 km of roads under the Public Works Department.
"We do not know the Chief Minister much, he is still unknown territory," said an official while trying to explain how difficult it is for them to gauge Adityanath's mind.
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NEW DELHI: The crackdown on gangsters in UP jails is continuing. After Mukhtar Ansari, the Yogi Adityanath government has also changed the jail of former MP and strongman, Ateeq Ahmed. The new government has also cleared Rs 42 crore for installing mobile jammers in 12 sensitive jails.
Ahmed, who is in jail in an assault case, is being shifted from Allahabad's Naini Jail to Deoria jail. Allahabad is the home town of Ahmed and he has been lodged there for almost two months now after being arrested in a assault case and has been denied bail by the Allahabad High court. A member of the Samajwadi Party, he was granted a ticket to fight from Kanpur Cantonment seat in the recent elections but stepped down after Akhilesh Yadav was not inclined to approve his candidature. Ahmed has multiple cases against him, including one for the murder of a BSP MLA.
Earlier this week, the UP government had also shifted Mukhtar Ansari out of Lucknow jail, where he had been brought last year from Agra jail after his party had merged with Samajwadi Party. Over two dozen dreaded criminals have been transferred from one jail to another in last week.
The new mobile jammers being installed in UP jails is also a step to stop gangsters from having a free run from behind bars, as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the election campaign. Seven jails are being specially fitted with solar-powered mobile phone jammers as criminals were able to use their mobiles in jails during power cuts, as the jammers got shut down. The Yogi government has also approved Rs 3 Cr for installing 'Pole Metal detection system' in 38 jails across UP in order to stop entry of banned items inside jails for criminals and reduce dependence on physical frisking for the same. 20 jails are also being fitted with CCTVs. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has kept the jails portfolio with himself to effect such measures.
NEW DELHI: The crackdown on gangsters in UP jails is continuing. After Mukhtar Ansari, the Yogi Adityanath government has also changed the jail of former MP and strongman, Ateeq Ahmed. The new government has also cleared Rs 42 crore for installing mobile jammers in 12 sensitive jails.
Ahmed, who is in jail in an assault case, is being shifted from Allahabad's Naini Jail to Deoria jail. Allahabad is the home town of Ahmed and he has been lodged there for almost two months now after being arrested in a assault case and has been denied bail by the Allahabad High court. A member of the Samajwadi Party, he was granted a ticket to fight from Kanpur Cantonment seat in the recent elections but stepped down after Akhilesh Yadav was not inclined to approve his candidature. Ahmed has multiple cases against him, including one for the murder of a BSP MLA.
Earlier this week, the UP government had also shifted Mukhtar Ansari out of Lucknow jail, where he had been brought last year from Agra jail after his party had merged with Samajwadi Party. Over two dozen dreaded criminals have been transferred from one jail to another in last week.
The new mobile jammers being installed in UP jails is also a step to stop gangsters from having a free run from behind bars, as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the election campaign. Seven jails are being specially fitted with solar-powered mobile phone jammers as criminals were able to use their mobiles in jails during power cuts, as the jammers got shut down. The Yogi government has also approved Rs 3 Cr for installing 'Pole Metal detection system' in 38 jails across UP in order to stop entry of banned items inside jails for criminals and reduce dependence on physical frisking for the same. 20 jails are also being fitted with CCTVs. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has kept the jails portfolio with himself to effect such measures.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/w...ucracy-shackles-in-uttar-pradesh-3363310.html
Will Yogi Adityanath break the ‘committed bureaucracy’ shackles in Uttar Pradesh?
Ratan Mani LalApr, 01 2017 15:55:03 IST
On 1 April, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh completed two weeks in power, admittedly a small amount of time to judge any individual who has occupied a seat of power. But the “saffron-robed monk” – as many describe him – has shown a different style in handling the complex issues that this vast state faces.
Traditionally, in the past decades, one of the first things that any new chief minister has done after taking over is building a team of chosen and trusted officers, right from the chief minister’s secretariat to the chief secretary and the director general of police, to departmental secretaries, district magistrate of Lucknow and some other districts. This has been the practice during the tenures of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati, and even Kalyan Singh, Rajnath Singh and Akhilesh Yadav followed this timeless tradition when they took over as chief minister of the state.
In fact, people in media, business circles and elsewhere used to be ready with their own list of officers who were expected to rise up in the order of reckoning whenever a certain chief minister took over. The list included the names of the principal secretary to the chief minister, chief secretary, DGP, principal secretaries of key departments, and a little later, the district magistrate of Lucknow, the vice chairman of Lucknow Development Authority, head of the Information Department, and other heads of departments. About a month ago, the spokesman of a certain political party rattled off names of several officers who could become chief secretary, DGP, principal secretary to the chief minister, district magistrate of Lucknow besides other posts, in case the Bahujan Samaj Party came to power. He asserted that this list was taken seriously among other party leaders also. Needless to say, the names on this list were along predictable lines of caste, community and region.
Yogi Adityanath. PTI
However, the Yogi government has set an entirely different example. Not only did he surprise people by visiting offices in the UP Secretariat a day after taking over – something no chief minister has done so far – he didn't bring in a team of his chosen and perhaps favourite officers either to the chief minister's office or in other key departments. Officers known to be very close to the previous chief minister and other functionaries of the Samajwadi Party are still continuing in their positions, causing widespread bewilderment among leaders of both SP and the BJP.
The current chief secretary, DGP, secretary information, power corporation chairman, secretary housing, vice chairman of Lucknow Development Authority and Lucknow superintendent of police are only a few officers in UP who have been known for their proximity to the previous regime, but remarkably, all of them are continuing in their posts.
Not only this, Yogi Adityanath has managed to bring a small but significant change in the working of government officers and employees despite the presence of his so-called favourite officers. Could it be that Yogi is trying to give a signal that he does not need a coterie of select officers to get done what he desires? At least the experience of the last fortnight indicates so.
The chief minister has not even constituted the team of officers in the Secretariat, where previously Akhilesh Yadav had had seven officers posted. Going by convention, all of them including Principal Secretary Anita Singh – who has been a regular on this post since the days of Mulayam Singh Yadav as chief minister – resigned from their posts the day the new chief minister took over.
But Yogi Adityanath took 14 days to appoint only one from amongst them – Ringzin Semphel, a young officer originally from Ladakh — as special secretary in the chief minister's office. By retaining one officer who is not from any particular caste (he is a Buddhist) or region of UP, and has an impeccable reputation of honesty and hard work, Adityanath has again sent out a signal that he probably does not need a team of officers from Gorakhpur or from a particular caste to get things done according to his plan.
The names of several officers of the UP cadre serving at the Centre have been making rounds, apparently being considered for chief secretary, principal secretary to the chief minister and other principal secretaries. It is also reported in some quarters that some officers in the PMO have been given the responsibility to set up a team of appropriate officers for UP. But nothing has materialised so far.
According to a former officer who retired as secretary to the UP government, the chief minister, by choosing to take work from the previous regime’s team, could be trying to stay away from the very idea of a committed bureaucracy, much like what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done in the last two years. Also, this could be an indication that officers will have to follow the chief minister’s orders regardless of their former political proximity or affiliations.
Will Yogi Adityanath break the ‘committed bureaucracy’ shackles in Uttar Pradesh?
Ratan Mani LalApr, 01 2017 15:55:03 IST
On 1 April, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh completed two weeks in power, admittedly a small amount of time to judge any individual who has occupied a seat of power. But the “saffron-robed monk” – as many describe him – has shown a different style in handling the complex issues that this vast state faces.
Traditionally, in the past decades, one of the first things that any new chief minister has done after taking over is building a team of chosen and trusted officers, right from the chief minister’s secretariat to the chief secretary and the director general of police, to departmental secretaries, district magistrate of Lucknow and some other districts. This has been the practice during the tenures of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati, and even Kalyan Singh, Rajnath Singh and Akhilesh Yadav followed this timeless tradition when they took over as chief minister of the state.
In fact, people in media, business circles and elsewhere used to be ready with their own list of officers who were expected to rise up in the order of reckoning whenever a certain chief minister took over. The list included the names of the principal secretary to the chief minister, chief secretary, DGP, principal secretaries of key departments, and a little later, the district magistrate of Lucknow, the vice chairman of Lucknow Development Authority, head of the Information Department, and other heads of departments. About a month ago, the spokesman of a certain political party rattled off names of several officers who could become chief secretary, DGP, principal secretary to the chief minister, district magistrate of Lucknow besides other posts, in case the Bahujan Samaj Party came to power. He asserted that this list was taken seriously among other party leaders also. Needless to say, the names on this list were along predictable lines of caste, community and region.
Yogi Adityanath. PTI
However, the Yogi government has set an entirely different example. Not only did he surprise people by visiting offices in the UP Secretariat a day after taking over – something no chief minister has done so far – he didn't bring in a team of his chosen and perhaps favourite officers either to the chief minister's office or in other key departments. Officers known to be very close to the previous chief minister and other functionaries of the Samajwadi Party are still continuing in their positions, causing widespread bewilderment among leaders of both SP and the BJP.
The current chief secretary, DGP, secretary information, power corporation chairman, secretary housing, vice chairman of Lucknow Development Authority and Lucknow superintendent of police are only a few officers in UP who have been known for their proximity to the previous regime, but remarkably, all of them are continuing in their posts.
Not only this, Yogi Adityanath has managed to bring a small but significant change in the working of government officers and employees despite the presence of his so-called favourite officers. Could it be that Yogi is trying to give a signal that he does not need a coterie of select officers to get done what he desires? At least the experience of the last fortnight indicates so.
The chief minister has not even constituted the team of officers in the Secretariat, where previously Akhilesh Yadav had had seven officers posted. Going by convention, all of them including Principal Secretary Anita Singh – who has been a regular on this post since the days of Mulayam Singh Yadav as chief minister – resigned from their posts the day the new chief minister took over.
But Yogi Adityanath took 14 days to appoint only one from amongst them – Ringzin Semphel, a young officer originally from Ladakh — as special secretary in the chief minister's office. By retaining one officer who is not from any particular caste (he is a Buddhist) or region of UP, and has an impeccable reputation of honesty and hard work, Adityanath has again sent out a signal that he probably does not need a team of officers from Gorakhpur or from a particular caste to get things done according to his plan.
The names of several officers of the UP cadre serving at the Centre have been making rounds, apparently being considered for chief secretary, principal secretary to the chief minister and other principal secretaries. It is also reported in some quarters that some officers in the PMO have been given the responsibility to set up a team of appropriate officers for UP. But nothing has materialised so far.
According to a former officer who retired as secretary to the UP government, the chief minister, by choosing to take work from the previous regime’s team, could be trying to stay away from the very idea of a committed bureaucracy, much like what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done in the last two years. Also, this could be an indication that officers will have to follow the chief minister’s orders regardless of their former political proximity or affiliations.
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Yogi Adityanath serves legal notice to National Conference leader for ‘spreading hatred’ against BJP
It has been demanded that an apology be published within two weeks in favour of the saffron party and Adityanath failing which, legal action would be initiated.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has served a legal notice to National Conference spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu for allegedly spreading hatred against the BJP.
“UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has sent a legal notice of defamation to National Conference state spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu through counsel for Government of India Abhishek Atrey for ‘a habit of spreading hatred against the Bharatiya Janata Party’ and ‘spreading false stories against Mahant Yogi Adityanath by blaming him that he asked Hindus to rape dead Muslim women’,” the NC said in a statement.
The legal notice alleges that Mattu has made such statements to cause “intentional” hatred among the people towards the BJP and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, thereby directly inciting hatred against the government of that state and hence, they are seditious in nature.
It has been demanded that an apology be published within two weeks in favour of the saffron party and Adityanath failing which, legal action would be initiated. Reacting to the development, Mattu said he would not be deterred by such “cowardly acts”.
“Those who have openly incited violence against Muslims are ironically sending a legal notice to me for defamation. It seems that Adityanath has mistaken notoriety for reputation. “He has used intimidation and harassment as political weapons in Uttar Pradesh. He has openly threatened Muslims of serious consequences and defamed them. I will respond to the notice through my lawyers. They are examining it and will respond in an appropriate manner,” he added.
The NC spokesman described the BJP as an “anti-minority, especially anti-Muslim” party, which believed in “selective morality”. “It encourages hate speeches as it finds it politically expedient (to do so) and has the audacity to hold others to completely different standards,” he said.
Asserting that he was proud of his identity “as a Kashmiri and as a Muslim”, Mattu said the NC was committed to mounting a “strong, unapologetic” fight against “these forces of tyranny, oppression and bigotry”. “Mahant Yogi Adityanath, his party and his followers should have no doubt about the fact that we are not going to bow down in front of their tyranny,” he added.
Regarding the demand that sedition charges be slapped on him, Mattu said speaking the truth and opposing communalism could not amount to sedition. “If standing up to bullies and hate-mongering is seditious, one should be proud of it. I am not scared of these legal threats, sedition or no sedition. We will respond strongly, unapologetically and legally,” he said.
It has been demanded that an apology be published within two weeks in favour of the saffron party and Adityanath failing which, legal action would be initiated.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has served a legal notice to National Conference spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu for allegedly spreading hatred against the BJP.
“UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has sent a legal notice of defamation to National Conference state spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu through counsel for Government of India Abhishek Atrey for ‘a habit of spreading hatred against the Bharatiya Janata Party’ and ‘spreading false stories against Mahant Yogi Adityanath by blaming him that he asked Hindus to rape dead Muslim women’,” the NC said in a statement.
The legal notice alleges that Mattu has made such statements to cause “intentional” hatred among the people towards the BJP and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, thereby directly inciting hatred against the government of that state and hence, they are seditious in nature.
It has been demanded that an apology be published within two weeks in favour of the saffron party and Adityanath failing which, legal action would be initiated. Reacting to the development, Mattu said he would not be deterred by such “cowardly acts”.
“Those who have openly incited violence against Muslims are ironically sending a legal notice to me for defamation. It seems that Adityanath has mistaken notoriety for reputation. “He has used intimidation and harassment as political weapons in Uttar Pradesh. He has openly threatened Muslims of serious consequences and defamed them. I will respond to the notice through my lawyers. They are examining it and will respond in an appropriate manner,” he added.
The NC spokesman described the BJP as an “anti-minority, especially anti-Muslim” party, which believed in “selective morality”. “It encourages hate speeches as it finds it politically expedient (to do so) and has the audacity to hold others to completely different standards,” he said.
Asserting that he was proud of his identity “as a Kashmiri and as a Muslim”, Mattu said the NC was committed to mounting a “strong, unapologetic” fight against “these forces of tyranny, oppression and bigotry”. “Mahant Yogi Adityanath, his party and his followers should have no doubt about the fact that we are not going to bow down in front of their tyranny,” he added.
Regarding the demand that sedition charges be slapped on him, Mattu said speaking the truth and opposing communalism could not amount to sedition. “If standing up to bullies and hate-mongering is seditious, one should be proud of it. I am not scared of these legal threats, sedition or no sedition. We will respond strongly, unapologetically and legally,” he said.
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It's the doable and simple things when executed well, brings about great change.
This move is simple and can be applied all over India.
Great going Yogi.
It's the doable and simple things when executed well, brings about great change.
This move is simple and can be applied all over India.
Great going Yogi.
All the hindutva Sanghis here on PDF are from South..
Should give you an indication of what the south wants.
Trust me, if your wish comes true, there won't be a place for non-Hindus in south. That's how rabid the Hindutva brigade in south is.
Just to give you some info, the RSS guys in Kerala (South India) are giving bloody nose to Hindu haters for a while now. They have been doing this all the while not being in power.
The last thing non Hindus of South India want is a separation because it will be an existential issue to them.
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