04-12-2006, 10:26 PM
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By Manjari Mishra/TNN
Lucknow: Giving goose bumps to bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh is a new band of marauders â the ministers â with an impressive arsenal of blackmail, malicious campaign, propaganda, public threats and worse. Senior officers are trying to come to term with the new lingo of power during private audience like â<b> âtujehe dekh loongaâ, âkhatam karva doongaâ, âpitwa doongaâ or a comparatively civil âyehan se dafa ho ja beyâ â even as none would like to go on record for obvious reasons. </b>
While untold tales of harassment by the bully bosses abound in the Secretariat, there have been at least half a dozen cases where the mantrijis pulled open the laundry bag in full public view.
The list of the more daring amongst them includes minister for rural development Rajpal Tyagi, minister for externally-aided programme Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, minister for dairy development Kameshwar Upadhyaya, former state minister for medical and health Jaiveer Singh with the latest entrants to the gallery â minister for SC and ST Dinanath Bhaskar and minister for minorities Haji Yaqoob.
On April 5, Bhaskar dashed off a complaint to chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav against superintendent of police, Bhadohi, Mahaveer Prasad. The four-page catalogue, later released to the media, charges Prasad with every possible misdemeanour, including hatching a conspiracy to eliminate Bhaskar or to implicate him in crime.
The officer has been talking about my Naxalite connections, Bhaskar writes, in addition to painstakingly recording a dozen other allegations, in the communication.
Lucknow: Minister for externally-aided programme Vishambhar Prasad Nishadâs threat to his secretary âMain joota le ke aata hoon maarne ke liyeâ, when he headed the ministry of geology and mining, had sent a shiver down the collective spine of UP bureaucracy. Secretary RM Shrivastav had merely declined to sign certain files till the CM cleared it first.
A fire-breathing Nishad then held a press conference to âexposeâ the officer and the tussle continued for three months before the ministerâs department was changed.
Rajpal Tyagi has more faith in muscle power than words. The minister, against whom a section of employees had carried out a campaign last year, is known to flaunt his âpast recordâ to get his way. The list of casualties in the department includes at least two senior IAS officers, including Anil Swaroop who, unable to cope, preferred to quit.
Kameshar Upadhyay is known for his foul tongue and aggressive ways with seniors in PCDF even as a battle scarred IAS officer, Mohammad Mustafa has created a record of sorts by making two VVIP enemies. After Raghuraj Pratap Singh, the district magistrate Rampur finds Haji Yaqoob snapping at his heels for his âdubious partisan activitiesâ.
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By Manjari Mishra/TNN
Lucknow: Giving goose bumps to bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh is a new band of marauders â the ministers â with an impressive arsenal of blackmail, malicious campaign, propaganda, public threats and worse. Senior officers are trying to come to term with the new lingo of power during private audience like â<b> âtujehe dekh loongaâ, âkhatam karva doongaâ, âpitwa doongaâ or a comparatively civil âyehan se dafa ho ja beyâ â even as none would like to go on record for obvious reasons. </b>
While untold tales of harassment by the bully bosses abound in the Secretariat, there have been at least half a dozen cases where the mantrijis pulled open the laundry bag in full public view.
The list of the more daring amongst them includes minister for rural development Rajpal Tyagi, minister for externally-aided programme Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, minister for dairy development Kameshwar Upadhyaya, former state minister for medical and health Jaiveer Singh with the latest entrants to the gallery â minister for SC and ST Dinanath Bhaskar and minister for minorities Haji Yaqoob.
On April 5, Bhaskar dashed off a complaint to chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav against superintendent of police, Bhadohi, Mahaveer Prasad. The four-page catalogue, later released to the media, charges Prasad with every possible misdemeanour, including hatching a conspiracy to eliminate Bhaskar or to implicate him in crime.
The officer has been talking about my Naxalite connections, Bhaskar writes, in addition to painstakingly recording a dozen other allegations, in the communication.
Lucknow: Minister for externally-aided programme Vishambhar Prasad Nishadâs threat to his secretary âMain joota le ke aata hoon maarne ke liyeâ, when he headed the ministry of geology and mining, had sent a shiver down the collective spine of UP bureaucracy. Secretary RM Shrivastav had merely declined to sign certain files till the CM cleared it first.
A fire-breathing Nishad then held a press conference to âexposeâ the officer and the tussle continued for three months before the ministerâs department was changed.
Rajpal Tyagi has more faith in muscle power than words. The minister, against whom a section of employees had carried out a campaign last year, is known to flaunt his âpast recordâ to get his way. The list of casualties in the department includes at least two senior IAS officers, including Anil Swaroop who, unable to cope, preferred to quit.
Kameshar Upadhyay is known for his foul tongue and aggressive ways with seniors in PCDF even as a battle scarred IAS officer, Mohammad Mustafa has created a record of sorts by making two VVIP enemies. After Raghuraj Pratap Singh, the district magistrate Rampur finds Haji Yaqoob snapping at his heels for his âdubious partisan activitiesâ.
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