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6 Jan, 2012, 10.56AM IST, PTI
With scams & murders, Uttar Pradesh in thick of action in 2011;
testing times for Mayawati
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LUCKNOW: Scams, murders and controversies reigned supreme in Uttar
Pradesh in 2011 providing testing times for Chief Minister Mayawati
amid heightened political activities which saw Congress and SP
preparing to give a tough fight to the BSP in the coming assembly
polls.
In the midst of the problems, the chief minister moved a proposal to
divide the state into four parts and also got it hurriedly passed in
16 minutes in the assembly.
The move, seen by analysts as one to address to the demand being
raised from different regions, especially Bundelkhand and Purvanchal,
and in turn gain from it in the coming elections, also stunned her
political opponents.
It not only pushed the ball back in the court of Central government
and cornered the Congress but also forced others like the SP and the
BJP to take a clear stand on the issue which either way is likely to
benefit BSP's poll prospects.
The year also saw more than five ministers losing their berths
following inquiry by the state Lokayukta who received complaints of
serious corruption charges against 22 ministers and 28 MLAs, mostly of
the ruling BSP.
With an eye on the assembly elections, all the major parties undertook
extensive yatras with the Congress' Rahul Gandhi and SP's Akhilesh
Yadav leading the way.
The Gandhi scion first went to Bhatta Parsaul followed by his arrest
in May while expressing solidarity with farmers agitating for better
land compensation and then undertaking massive mass contact programmes
attacking the BSP.
The farmers' agitation brought into focus lacunae in land acquisition
process underlining the need for a new bill. Land acquisition in
various villages in Noida extension was also set aside by the court
leaving thousands of allottees in the dark.
For the first time, Mayawati's family was also in the line of
Opposition fire with the BJP launching a campaign against her brother
Anand Kumar for allegedly floating fake firms in the NCR region in a
scam which it claimed could run into Rs 10,000 crore.
The state witnessed major train and road accidents with 69 people
losing their lives in Kalka Mail derailment in Fatehpur district in
July and 38 others being killed when a passenger train rammed into an
express train at an unmanned railway crossing in Kanshiram Nagar just
a couple of days earlier.
As many as 41 people died in Ballia in August when the tractor trolley
in which they were going overturned and ITBP recruitment drive in
Shahjahanpur in February saw the tragic death of 15 youth travelling
on train tops.
Two sitting BSP MLAs Shekhar Tripathi and Anand Sen Yadav were
convicted in the engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta and Shashi murder cases
respectively of Auraiya and Faizabad.
The UP Assembly set a new record of sorts of holding the briefest
winter session of a day which passed important resolution of division
of state and supplementary demands.
Veteran Hindi litterateur Lal Shukla Amar Kant earned national acclaim
winning Jnanpith award. But sadly, he died 10 days after receiving the
award on October 18.
Besides, long time confidante Babu Singh Kushwaha falling out of
favour of Mayawati and being shown the door, sitting SP Rajya Sabha MP
Rashid Masood joined the Congress.
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