Yogi Deserves Praise for Restoring Rule of Law
One often wonders and marvels at the will
and commitment of UP Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath to maintaining a peaceful
atmosphere in the state. Some forces at the instance of their masters sitting
inside and outside the country were hell-bent on creating disturbances and
communal tensions in Uttar Pradesh at the time of Ram Navami and Hanuman
Jayanti but thanks to the alacrity and firmness of the Yogi government not even
one untoward incident was reported from any part of the state. These forces got
frustrated and they gave vent to their designs in other states by staging communal
riots.
When the
Varanasi court this month itself directed for the preservation of Shivling in
the Gyanvapi and for making alternative arrangements for the Waju (ablutions)
of the permitted number of Namajis, it was feared that the state would be engulfed
in extreme turbulence, but nothing happened in any part of the state despite
extreme provocations by the likes of Owaisi and others. A few days earlier, the
Advocate Commissioners were prevented from surveying the Gyanvapi premises by
the troublemakers but when Yogi made it clear that no nuisance would be brooked
and they would be dealt with an iron fist, nothing happened. The message
reached in time to those who were planning to stoke communal tensions in
different districts of the state.
Was it possible
in any other dispensation? The obvious answer is an emphatic NO. During
the regime of different governments, Uttar Pradesh had seen the worst communal
riots. Mayawati was certainly a shade better than others, but the Yogi
government is incomparable, and it is head and shoulder above any government of
the state at any point in time. Although former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav
wanted to deride the Yogi government by nicknaming as the government of the
Bulldozer Baba, that name proved to be a blessing in disguise for the
people of the state.
The state has
suffered a lot, as it has been fed up with the goondaism and casteism of some
political parties. Government contracts used to be awarded only to those
who belonged to a particular party or persons. Officers used to bend backwards
to please their political masters. The Police Sub-Inspectors had become more
powerful than Superintendents of Police because they were in the good books of
their political bosses. It is an open secret that corruption was at its peak
during the time of Mulayam Singh Yadav (Akhilesh Yadav included) and Mayawati.
Mulayam Singh and his son had patronised some journalists, who shamelessly sang
their paeans. These journalists were openly indulging in brokering. It
must be stated, in all fairness, that the Yogi government has restored the
people’s faith in the rule of law.
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