By IANS,
Mumbai : Demanding a roll back of the hike in prices of cooking gas, diesel and kerosene, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati Saturday said the hike is uncalled for.
“I shall write to the central government and request them to roll back the price hike,” she told reporters after inaugurating her party office here at Chembur in southeast Mumbai.
She also said that the hike is owing to wrong financial policies of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister is on a two-day visit to Mumbai with an aim to strengthen the party organisation in Maharashtra. She will also address a party workers’ rally in Goregaon in northwest Mumbai Sunday.
Expressing grief over the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, Mayawati said that the killers should be arrested soon.
“Strict action should be initiated against Dey’s killers once they are arrested,” she said.
Answering several queries by reporters on the rising crime in Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati said that crimes take place in all states and all cities and that she should not be targeted for the same.
The recent suspicious death of Lucknow’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Y.S. Sachan in Lucknow jail has created controversy.
Sachan, the main accused in the murder of Chief Medical Officer (Family Welfare) B.P. Singh, was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside the Lucknow district jail hospital Wednesday night.
A recent surge in rape cases and the anti-farmer action by the government in Bhatta-Parsaul village of the state have also earned the government a bad name.
According to official reports, out of 72 districts in Uttar Pradesh, rape incidents have been reported from over 20 districts in the last 15 days.