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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | As crimes soar in Uttar Pradesh, is Yogi Adityanath's honeymoon phase over?

As crimes soar in Uttar Pradesh, is Yogi Adityanath's honeymoon phase over?

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published Published on May 23, 2017   modified Modified on May 23, 2017
-IANS

Crimes from murders to rapes to dacoities to caste conflicts and communal tensions

Lucknow:
Two months is not a long time in politics to fall from grace, especially when a landslide of public support has propelled you to power.

But in Uttar Pradesh, the honeymoon period of the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government seems to have been spiked by a series of incidents of heinous crimes and law and order issues. Serious crime figures have seen a sharp increase — in many cases going up manifold.

Having come to power in March with a three-fourths majority, riding on anti-incumbency and promising a turnaround in the law and order situation, which the BJP said had collapsed during the Samajwadi Party (SP) regime, the situation in less than two months has turned against the ruling party.

From murders to rapes to dacoities to caste conflicts and communal tensions, the government seems to be tottering in face of soaring crime and shaken public confidence.

The situation has come to such a pass that the Allahabad High Court (HC) last Saturday expressed concern over the crime situation in the state.

While disposing of a petition, a bench of Chief Justice D B Bhonsle and Justice Yashwant Verma directed the Principal Secretary (Home) and the Director General of Police to rein in the criminal and mafia elements.

The twin murder of bullion traders in Mathura earlier this week seems to have set the alarm bells ringing in the ruling establishment, so much so that within 24-hours of the incident, 67 IPS officials were transferred across the state, apparently in a desperate bid to control the fast-slipping law and order situation.

"Yes, indeed the soaring crimes are our first and foremost challenge but we are doing enough to rein in the criminals and restore law and order in the state" said a senior cabinet minister while admitting that the confidence of the people in Adityanath's government "for now stood shaken". Statistics on the ground reveal that the minister's "enough" claim is apparently not enough.

Data released by the state police paints a rather grim picture. Between March 15 and April 15 this year, rapes increased four times over the past year, murders doubled and dacoities grew manifold. In 2016, in this corresponding period, there were 41 rapes against 179 this year and dacoities rose from three to 20.

Murders have gone up from 101 to a worrying 240 and robberies from 67 to 273. It's not only the statistics. The perception of the people on crumbling law and order should worry the ruling elite.

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Business Standard, 22 May, 2017, http://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/as-crimes-soar-in-uttar-pradesh-is-yogi-adityanath-s-honeymoon-phase-over-117052200828_1.html


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