This Article is From Oct 25, 2014

Uttar Pradesh Government Sacks 72 Chairmen, Advisors of State Minister Rank

Uttar Pradesh Government Sacks 72 Chairmen, Advisors of State Minister Rank

File photo of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Lucknow: Seventy-two chairmen and advisors of different organisations and institutions enjoying minister of state rank in Uttar Pradesh were today sacked by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav with immediate effect, an official spokesman in Lucknow said.

Earlier the spokesman said that 82 chairmen and advisors have been sacked but later ten of them were exempted from it. The chairman of Hindi Bhasha Sansthan, Gopal Das Neeraj, chairman of UP Hindi Sansthan UP Singh and deputy chairman of UP Planning Commission NC Bajpai would also continue on their posts, the spokesman said, adding that these three having constitutional posts enjoy the status of Cabinet minister.

Those who have managed to safeguard their positions include chairmen of Hindustani Akakemi Allahabad, UP Agro, UP Pollution Control Board, advisor vocational education department, chairmen ex-servicemen welfare corporation, Urdu Academy, the spokesman said.

Head of SC/SC commission, women commission, backward commission and minority commission have also been exempted.

The move comes, ostensibly in the wake of an incident of alleged misbehaviour by the father of the chairman of the Centre for Remote Sensing with policemen in Baghpat on Wednesday. The father of the chairman, had allegedly threatened a sub-inspector and two constables who had gone to Mavikala village under Balauni police station area on Wednesday of stripping them of their uniforms, when they had gone there to arrest some people in a case.

The matter later came up in the local media, as a villager had reportedly recorded the incident on his mobile phone.

Meanwhile, the BJP has welcomed the government's decision saying that those sacked had been "misusing government machinery." It also asked the government to tell the people about what contribution they had made for the welfare of their respective organisations and people.

State unit spokesman of the BJP, Manoj Misra demanded an inquiry into the works done by those sacked.

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