Priyanka takes a dig at CM Yogi

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took a dig at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over deploying PWD engineers to restrict stray cattle from his programme during Ganga Yatra in Mirzapur.

“In the entire Uttar Pradesh, farmers are facing a lot of problems due to stray cattle menace but for the chief minister’s programme in Mirzapur, the government deployed engineers armed with ropes to check entry of cattle which could hinder Yogi’s fleet or during his programme,” tweeted Priyanka.

The Congress leader asked the Bharatiya Janata Party government in UP to take up responsibility of providing safety to farmers’ crops from stray cattle.

Interestingly, Priyanka also uploaded a video along with her tweet in which farmers are seen singing folk songs to highlight how stray cattle are destroying their cops after entering their fields.

A few days back, Public Works Department Executive Engineer in Mirzapur, Kanhaiya Jha, had issued an order asking nine junior engineers to be present from Reserve Police Lines to the CM’s programme venue in Birohi with ropes to prevent entry of stray cattle on the route that the CM was to take to go to the venue. The junior engineers were also asked to keep the cattle tied in case any one was found roaming near the venue.

Diploma Engineers’ Sangh had reacted strongly to the order and its chief Vijay Singh, while condemning the order, claimed that JEs were not trained to catch stray cattle so who would take responsibility in case any one of them got injured. He suggested that such duties be assigned to specialised cell of nagar palikas and nagar nigams concerned.

After the objection of Diploma Engineers’ Sangh, District Magistrate of Mirzapur took cognisance while the executive engineer who issued the order tried to come out clean, saying the order was issued by default and it had been withdrawn.

Sources confirmed that even the CM’s office took a serious note of the order and asked the Mirzapur administration to send a detailed report on how and on whose direction the order was issued and later withdrawn.
Action is likely to be initiated against the PWD officials responsible for issuing the order.