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UP minister axed over comments against women officials
Sunday April 14, 2013 12:06:55 AM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Saturday booted out Raja Ram Pandey, a Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator and minister for Khadi
and Gramudyog, for his unrepentant public utterances against women
officials.
In a notification issued by the state chief secretary, it was
informed that the minister was being divested of his charges with
immediate effect.
Pandey, a three-time legislator from Vishwanathganj, hogged the
limelight in February when he openly admitted of being enamoured
by the district magistrate of Pratapgarh, detailing and comparing
her beauty to her predecessor.
While the minister got away then despite condemnation by woman
social workers and activists, he made another comment Friday at a
public function that he would ensure that the roads in the state
were made akin to the cheeks of film actress Madhuri Dixit.
Sources say the statement had angered the chief minister so much
that he told his father and party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav that
he would not settle for anything but Pandey's exit from the
government.
"The chief minister was very cut up by such a remark and decided
enough was enough," a close aide told IANS.
Once Mulayam Singh Yadav gave Akhilesh the go ahead, he asked the
needful to be done and Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani went ahead
with the press communique.
This is the second instance in the last one day when Akhilesh
Yadav took charge and took decisive decisions.
Yadav Friday removed the state Director General of Police A.C.
Sharma for non-performance.
He further reshuffled the state bureaucracy Saturday and
transferred 23 IAS officials and 63 PCS officials.
This, party leaders point out, was a clear indicator that Akhilesh
"was coming in his elements" and perhaps walking out of the shadow
of his father and party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
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