Upping the ante against the Akhilesh Yadav government, BJP MLAs on Monday began their two-day-long dharna against alleged failure on part of the State government to check deteriorating law and order in Uttar Pradesh. The opposition MLAs also alleged that the Samajwadi Party government was not doing enough to give relief to farmers affected by drought and floods. Led by their State unit chief Laxmikant Bajpai, the MLAs are sitting outside the Vidhan Sabha. Interestingly, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who has also been the State’s Chief Minister, is also in Lucknow for two days and he may join the agitating MLAs.
Accusing the State government of having failed on all fronts, Mr. Bajpai said the Chief Minister has let the people of the State down.
Farmers were still to get their dues and youth were jobless, while all development works have come to a standstill. The BJP would continue to pressurise the State government so that it could mend its ways, he added.
