Yogi releases White Paper, targets SP, BSP
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday released White Paper- 2017 that targeted the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party-led governments for their ‘misrule’.
Adityanath also claimed that his government inherited high indebtedness, debt-ridden PSUS and poor law and order situation from their governments of the past 15 years.
The 24-page White Paper referred to cases of corruption, including the Comptroller and Auditor General report for the year ending March 31, 2016, on construction of roads during SP regime and the CBI inquiry ordered by the Yogi government into appointments made by UP Public Service Commission from April 1, 2012, to March 31, 2017.
It also referred to the CAG report for year ending March 31, 2013, on irregularities in construction of monuments in Lucknow and Noida during the BSP regime. “This White Paper is an effort to let people know about the conditions that we have inherited from the previous regimes…we are releasing this White Paper a day before completing six months in office and will come out with our achievements on Tuesday or Wednesday,” the CM said.
Though he did not name the two parties, the document speaks about the working of governments that ruled in the past 15 years — 2003-04 to 2016-17. “As previous governments stopped or started spending less on development projects instead of curtailing wasteful expenditure, development came to a stop. A mischievous attempt was made to balance deficit during the period,” said Adityanath.