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Mail Today Bureau New Delhi, January 4, 2012 | UPDATED 10:37 IST
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's sinister trick
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seems to have taken the misuse
of government machinery to buttress the poll prospects of the ruling
party to a new level in India's most populous state. According to
reports she is using state intelligence units to choose her party's
candidates for the assembly elections.
In what appears to be a sinister move, the Bahujan Samaj Party
government is allegedly even employing its machinery to pressure
candidates most likely to win to join their party.
Considering that the model code of conduct is already in force in the
state, this is a matter that must be looked into seriously by the
Election Commission of India. District officials who are willing to
act as pollsters for the ruling party can hardly be expected to
conduct the poll process fairly, and the EC must seek their removal.
But the larger issue here is of our governments habitually misusing
intelligence agencies for petty political purposes. This ensures that
the task of genuine intelligence gathering, critical for checking
crime and terror activities, gets the short shrift.
Here, Ms Mayawati seems to have picked a leaf out of the book of the
central government which, recent reports have revealed, makes the
Intelligence Bureau devote a large chunk of its resources on political
tasks rather than security duties.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/uttar-pradesh-polls-mayawati-intelligence-units-bsp/1/167100.html
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