Maya's cause of concern

Neck-deep in crime (corruption, rape and related violence), the state is squirming hard to come out clean.

Ironic is the fact that each time a crime occurs in the state, involvement of government employees or people directly or indirectly linked to the Bahujan Samaj Party, is established. Over two dozen government officials - including one superintendent of police as well - had been either suspended or transferred in this month alone for their involvement in different crime incidents. The government had to force its two ministers also to put in their papers as their names were taking rounds in a murder case.

The latest of all is the expulsion of a BSP MLA Shahnawaz Rana from the party. The party chief Mayawati today expelled Rana from the party after his personal security guards were charged with a rape attempt on two girls from Delhi. The case is being investigated by Special Task Force.

Reading out an order issued by the BSP head Mayawati, the Principal Secretary Home, Government of Uttar Pradesh Kunwar Fateh Bahadur said there are strict instructions that Rana should not be invited or be seen in any of the party related events in future.

Obviously dejected with the behavior of her own people, Mayawati has reiterated her warning to the party members, ``The kind of conduct displayed by the MPs, MLAs, Ministers and other party office bearers of the previous government, will not be tolerated in my rule.''

It is to be noted that Mayawati could get the miraculous majority win in the 2007 assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh by playing her caste card well. The political move was coupled with her assurance of improved law and order to the people of the state who were looking for an alternative to the unruly governance by the Samajwadi Party.

Now, seeing these poll planks, which worked well for the Bahujan Samaj Party well in the last assembly elections, Mayawati is obviously perturbed. The harsh decision on her MLA Shahnawaz Rana underlines the frustration that Mayawati is looking for some magic wand to improve the situation, which is going against her, in her favour.

Maya's cause of concern - her own men