Lucknow, October 01: Congress today criticised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati over her statement that the Centre would be responsible for any law and order problem in the state and said that she should tender her resignation on failing to run the state.
”The law and order matter is the responsibility of the state.
Ms Mayawati should tender her resignation on failing to manage things,” alleged All India Congress Copmmittee secretary and in-charge of UP Parvej Hashmi here.
He lashed the Bahujan Samaj Party president for blaming the Centre for it. ” If Ms Mayawati is really concerned about the law and order problem of the state, she should resign and immediately Centre will intervene and take control by enforcing the President’s rule,” Mr Hashmi said.
Addressing a press conference at the party office here along with party’s UP president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Mr Hashmi said Ms Mayawati has also violated the Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya Title Suit by asking the Centre to implement the judgement immediately, when the court had put three months restriction on its implementation.
The leader even went to the extent of charging the UP CM with being hand in glove with the communal forces and trying to create communal disturbances in the state.
He also contradicted the allegations of Ms Mayawati that central forces were not sent to the state during the Ayodhya verdict. ”The Centre always take the stock of the state police force before assessing the security requirement of the state and when there was already 1.9 lakh policemen in the state, there was no need for huge contingent of central forces,” the AICC secretary further added.
Meanwhile, Dr Joshi has also criticised Ms Mayawati for her ‘childish’ statement, blaming the Centre for not sending more central forces during the Ayodhya verdict issue.
”Demanding such number of forces proves that she wants the state to go into a communal turmoil and was thus, putting the blame on the Centre,” she said.
Yesterday, Ms Mayawati had said that the Centre would be responsible for any law and order problem that would exist as the Centre had sent only 52 companies of central forces against the demand of 642 companies.
–UNI