Patna, July 23: The three-month old BSP-BJP combine government in Uttar Pradesh was running smoothly and would successfully complete its full five-year term, state chief minister Mayawati said today. The major hindrance in the combination, sacked BJP leader and now chief of Rashtriya Kranti Party (RKP) Kalyan Singh due to whom "the BSP-BJP coalition failed twice earlier in the state is no more there and hence the third experiment with the combination is running smoothly without any hiccup,” Mayawati told reporters here.
"BJP has done the right thing by identifying the black sheep (Kalyan Singh) and throwing him out of the party. Now there is no hindrance in the smooth running of the BSP-BJP combine,” she added.
Mayawati, a third time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, denied there was any differences with the BJP and other coalition partners in UP. "Neither the BJP nor any other party have any complaints. I am taking everybody into confidence to run the state smoothly,” she said charging the media with cooking up baseless reports about differences in the BSP-BJP government. Mayawati said that her government had initiated several measures to tone up law and order and uplift the downtrodden.
District magistrates, senior district police officers, DIGs and officers of the 70 districts had been instructed to stringently enforce the rule of the law in their areas and book criminals, she said adding senior district officials were asked to hold regular open door meeting with the locals to solve their problems so that "they do not have to rush to Lucknow."
Bureau Report