Now BJP lawmakers themselves are facing a pinch of Yogi’s misgovernance  

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath may have claimed that his government is doing “exceptional” work in all sphere of governance, but the party lawmakers have exposed the Chief Minister by claiming that all is not that well as claimed by the Chief Minister and other senior leaders. People are facing the brunt of the misgovernance while the government is looking the other way.

In the on-going Budget session of Uttar Pradesh State Legislature, a piquant situation arose for the government several times when members of the treasury benches supported the opposition. They sometimes came up with more startling facts and figures than the opposition members inviting cold stares from the parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna.

Early this week, when Sushma Verma (BSP) raised the issue of stray cattle and how it is destroying the crop, the government came up with the answer that there is no stray cattle menace. Animal Husbandry Minister Chaudhry Laxmi Narain said that stray cattle are being kept in cowsheds or state-run animal shelters.

Even as the minister was justifying his claims, Surendra Singh, BJP lawmaker from Ballia, stood up and said that issues related to cows should not be dealt with casually. “This government says that it is protecting cows, but the fact is that I have seen stray dogs devouring the carcass of a cow. It was a pathetic sight.  A cow died on the streets and then its body was being devoured by dogs. This shows that the government has failed to fulfil the promise it has made to the people,” he said.

As the members spoke, opposition members thumped the desk while the stunned minister tried to bring the situation under control saying that he has no information about this incident.

In the Legislative Council, BJP’s Vijay Bahadur Pathak raised the issue of rampant corruption, prevalent under his own party’s government in the Azamgarh Development Authority (ADA).

Highlighting the scarcity of staff in the Azamgarh Development Authority, Pathak said the entire district is witnessing illegal construction creating a big problem for the free flow of traffic movement.

Pathak said that even the government departments were engaged in illegal construction and the common man has been running here and there to get the map of his house cleared from the ADA. Pathak requested his own government to immediately hire more employees in the ADA and take necessary action so that the illegal construction could be stopped.

When contacted, Pathak, who is also the state general secretary of the party, said that as a legislator he has the responsibility to raise people’s issue in the House (Legislative Council). “My Government is doing its work effectively. There are some people with vested interests who are throwing a spanner in the good work being done by the Yogi Government. I only raised that issue in the Vidhan Parishad,” he said.

Leader of Opposition in State Assembly Ram Govind Chaudhry said, “In a state where even ruling party legislators are saying that there is corruption in the government, what more proof do you need for the misgovernance under the present regime?”