NRP Desk
Lucknow: WITH several ministers in his government as well as ruling BJP MPs and MLAs going vocal about lack of cooperation from officials in their regions, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has taken matters in his own hands. On Friday, Energy Minister A K Sharma’s outbursts against his department’s employees, who have been holding protests over plans to privatise power distribution in the state and seeking his removal. On Sunday July 27, Adityanath held a development review of Kanpur, Chitrakoot and Jhansi divisions at his official residence, where MPs and MLAs of the area as well as officials were present. The message was that the officials should keep public representatives in the loop on development projects and schemes in their regions. A similar meeting was held for the Lucknow division on July 30, with such ‘Mandalwar Samwad’ planned for regions across the state in the coming days. Sources say that while friction between legislators and officials in the state has been building for about two years – since the BJP returned to power, and Adityanath became CM again – voices are growing now because of the forthcoming panchayat elections, followed by the Assembly polls in 2027.
