Lucknow, Aug 18: Samajwadi Party today asked Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri to dismiss the Mayawati-led coalition government in Uttar Pradesh which it alleged had implicated several party MLAs in fake cases. In a memorandum submitted to Shastri here, a delegation of party leaders headed by leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council Ahmed Hasan, alleged that the government had forcibly acquired about 5,000 bighas of land belonging to the SC, ST and poor farmers in Chandauli district to be sold through the industry department.
They alleged that police had made lathi-charge on the farmers, who had staged a protest demonstration at Chandauli on August 8 adding the SP legislator, who led the demonstration, was implicated in SC/ST Act. Bureau Report