By IANS
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has been repeatedly issuing sermons to her party legislators to maintain discipline or else face the music.
Barely 25 days in office, it was her fourth closed-door interaction with the legislators at the party's state headquarters here Monday evening.
"Don't do anything that could tarnish the image of the party in any manner. Remember if you commit a wrongful act, be prepared to face stern action," was Mayawati's warning to her 211 MLAs, including her ministers, who attended the three-hour-long meeting.
The chief minister also made it a point to draw the attention of her legislators to the recent arrest of BSP MP Uma Kant Yadav for terrorising a local resident in his constituency Azamgarh.
The MP was arrested last month at the instance of Mayawati herself and that too from her residence where he was waiting to call on her.
"I don't want you all to turn into another lot of Samajwadi Party legislators, who had become notorious because of their high-handedness and because they sought to become law unto themselves," she told her legislators.
"Often one hears about the craving of MLAs to have a full contingent of bodyguards hovering around them more to show-off or to intimidate others," she said.
She told them to ensure that the family members of the ministers of legislators did not take any undue advantage of their position. "If any such a complaint was brought to my notice, the concerned legislator would be punished as I will not tolerate anyone giving a bad name to the party", she pointed out.
In an earlier meeting last week, Mayawati had told her party legislators not to crib against her decision to appoint bureaucrats as heads of public undertakings.
"Let the IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officers become chairpersons of these undertakings because I want to hold them responsible for lapses. Legislators will be made vice-chairpersons of these organisations", she declared.
The chief minister was also quite firm about ensuring the attendance of the all legislators and ministers during the state assembly session that starts June 27.