Say no minister, and face the music

Manjari Mishra / TNN / Apr 12, 2006, 01:55 IST

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Giving goose bumps to bureaucrats is a new band of marauders - the ministers - with an impressive arsenal of blackmail, public threats and worse.

LUCKNOW: Giving goose bumps to bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh is a new band of marauders - the ministers - with an impressive arsenal of blackmail, malicious campaign, propaganda, public threats and worse.
Senior officers are trying to come to term with the new lingo of power during private audience like - "tujehe dekh loonga", "khatam karva doonga", "pitwa doonga"or a comparatively civil "yehan se dafa ho ja bey"- even as none would like to go on record for obvious reasons.
While untold tales of harassment by the bully bosses abound in the Secretariat, there have been at least half a dozen cases where the mantrijis pulled open the laundry bag in full public view.
The list of the more daring amongst them includes minister for rural development Rajpal Tyagi, minister for externally-aided programme Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, minister for dairy development Kameshwar Upadhyaya, former state minister for medical and health Jaiveer Singh with the latest entrants to the gallery - minister for SC and ST Dinanath Bhaskar and minister for minorities Haji Yaqoob.

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Party View

Seats: 90

L + W

Majority: 46

BJP

48

CONG

37

INLD

2

AAP

0

OTH

3

Leads + Wins: 90/90

BJP LEADING

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On April 5, Bhaskar dashed off a complaint to chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav against superintendent of police, Bhadohi, Mahaveer Prasad.
The four-page catalogue, later released to the media, charges Prasad with every possible misdemeanour, including hatching a conspiracy to eliminate Bhaskar or to implicate him in crime.
The officer has been talking about my Naxalite connections, Bhaskar writes, in addition to painstakingly recording a dozen other allegations, in the communication.
However, though the charges are vicious the language used is not. Something Vishambhar Prasad Nishad could learn.

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