Mulayam not so Soft

So it is out in the open. Again. The ruling party chief threatening a serving IG ranked IPS officer of

dire consequences if he didn’t mend his ways. The brave officer though had other plans than just being flabbergasted by this unnatural heed of "advice", as the CM puts it. Before I delve into the knitty gritties of the case let me just reproduce the transcript of the conversation that allegedly took place between the IPS officer and the SP supremo. So here it is:

It’s a matter of amusement then what the CM Mr Akhilesh Yadav had to say about it when asked by the media. He replied, "Jab CM ko suna dete hain toh officer kya cheez hai". The CM’s wit is funny indeed except for the fact that the threat is very real and existent. For an officer to discharge his duties in an honest and sincere manner is almost impossible. You as an officer either toe the line of the politicians or perish in ways galore including but not limited to pseudo rape cases, corruption charges (ironic?) and illegalities in discharge of official duties.

Questions

It was amusing watching the open debate on times now; it became so hilarious at one point of time when the sitting party MLA said that being a fatherly figure Mr Yadav was only advising the officer and was well within his rights to do so. He tried justifying the crass behavior of the supremo by being pious towards him and calling him father of all the people in the state and thus justifying the call given by Mulayam to the officer, Mr Amitabh Thakur. It appears as if casting aspersions and intimidating others has become engraved in the party ethos. Such was the shamelessness on display by the MLA on air that when asked about the rattling of Land Mafia being the reason why Mr Thakur got the call from Netaji, he replied show me the proof that there is land mafia. I fully credit him for that. UP has been shining for so long now with development and progress that all illegal activities including land grabbing, sand mining, goondaism etc do not exist there. What a shame that Mr Arnab Goswami doesn’t understand this simple fact. Viva la UP.

 

 

 

-Sunny Gusain

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