YOGI’S DIKTAT TO UP BABUS, WORK 1820 HRS OR QUIT

Chief minister Aditya Nath Yogi on Sunday gave a terse message to the state bureaucrats as well as the BJP leaders and workers.

“The state government will not tolerate any laxity in implementation of government schemes. Officers who can work 18-20 hours daily can continue with the government or else are free to leave,” he said.

Addressing a meeting of MPs, MLAs, MLCs, party office-bearers and senior workers in in Beniganj, Yogi made it clear that fulfillment of promises made during the assembly polls will be a priority. He told BJP leaders and workers not to interfere in the state government’s working and also not to put pressure on government officers for contracts.

MEAT SELLERS IN UP TO GO ON INDEFINITE STRIKE FROM TODAY

Meat sellers across Uttar Pradesh would go on an indefinite strike from Monday against the crackdown on illegal and mechanised slaughterhouses.

Fish vendors were also claimed to have resolved to join the stir which has seen non-vegetarian delicacies go off the menu in several parts of the state.

“We have decided to intensify our strike from tomorrow. All shops will remain closed. Fish sellers too have joined us and are extending support to us,” Lucknow Bakra Gosht Vypar Mandal office bearer Mubeen Qureshi said.

He said, in the wake of the crackdown, there was no question of the strike being called off anytime soon. “It will go on indefinitely,” he said.