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Mayawati to hold rallies in abolished districts after HC orders
Lucknow, Feb 04: Buoyed by the Allahabad High Court order asking the Uttar Pradesh government not to further implement its notification scrapping nine districts, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has decided to hold rallies in the disbanded districts by next month.
Lucknow, Feb 04: Buoyed by the Allahabad High Court order asking the Uttar Pradesh government not to further implement its notification scrapping nine districts, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has decided to hold rallies in the disbanded districts by next month.
BSP sources said today that the former Chief Minister was upbeat following the HC directive and wanted to hold rallies at the earliest in the districts. ''The decision has given our party a weapon to target the Mulayam Singh Yadav government,'' said a senior BSP functionary here.
''Earlier, when the state government had announced to scrap four divisions and nine districts, the party in its national executive had decided to hold rallies just before the coming Lok Sabha elections. After the HC directive, it becomes important for us to hold the rallies within the next few days,'' he added.
Yesterday, a division bench of the Allahabad High Court comprising Chief Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice Ashok Bhushan had passed an interim order on the different writs through which the notification of the state government scrapping the four divisions and nine districts had been challenged.
The bench had directed the state government not to further implement the notification. The bench had, made it clear that the impugned notification shall not at all be given effect in respect of the functioning of district courts as they were functioning before the issuance of the notification.
Meanwhile, state BSP unit president Barkhuram Verma told reporters here that the high court decision indicated that the move of the Mulayam Singh government to disband divisions and districts was ''illegal and incorrect”.
''This shows that the previous BSP government decision to create new districts was correct since we had taken into account the hardships of the common man faced in a bigger district whose headquarters was located several km away,'' he said.
The Samajwadi Party-led government had on January 13 announced the abolition of four divisions and nine districts to save the state exchequer Rs 5,000 crore. The divisions are -- Devipatan, Basti, Mirzapur and Saharanpur. The nine districts which had been disbanded are Jyotibaphulenagar, Shravasti, Mahamayanagar (Hathras), Santkabirnagar, Kaushambi, Auraiyya, Gautam Budh Nagar, Chanduali and Ambedkarnagar.
''I know the people would protest the decision. But the districts had no utility,'' Mulayam Singh Yadav had said.
Mayawati had announced the formation of most of the nine districts during her previous stint in power.
The BSP also said that it would nail the state government on various issues during the budget session of the state legislature, which began today. Bureau Report
''Earlier, when the state government had announced to scrap four divisions and nine districts, the party in its national executive had decided to hold rallies just before the coming Lok Sabha elections. After the HC directive, it becomes important for us to hold the rallies within the next few days,'' he added.
Yesterday, a division bench of the Allahabad High Court comprising Chief Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice Ashok Bhushan had passed an interim order on the different writs through which the notification of the state government scrapping the four divisions and nine districts had been challenged.
The bench had directed the state government not to further implement the notification. The bench had, made it clear that the impugned notification shall not at all be given effect in respect of the functioning of district courts as they were functioning before the issuance of the notification.
Meanwhile, state BSP unit president Barkhuram Verma told reporters here that the high court decision indicated that the move of the Mulayam Singh government to disband divisions and districts was ''illegal and incorrect”.
''This shows that the previous BSP government decision to create new districts was correct since we had taken into account the hardships of the common man faced in a bigger district whose headquarters was located several km away,'' he said.
The Samajwadi Party-led government had on January 13 announced the abolition of four divisions and nine districts to save the state exchequer Rs 5,000 crore. The divisions are -- Devipatan, Basti, Mirzapur and Saharanpur. The nine districts which had been disbanded are Jyotibaphulenagar, Shravasti, Mahamayanagar (Hathras), Santkabirnagar, Kaushambi, Auraiyya, Gautam Budh Nagar, Chanduali and Ambedkarnagar.
''I know the people would protest the decision. But the districts had no utility,'' Mulayam Singh Yadav had said.
Mayawati had announced the formation of most of the nine districts during her previous stint in power.
The BSP also said that it would nail the state government on various issues during the budget session of the state legislature, which began today. Bureau Report