Yogi Adityanath’s name will be written in golden letters for reining the anti-social elements, goondas and mafia dons, who had infested the entire state of Uttar Pradesh during the long misrule of all parties. There is still a lot to be done but even then, what he has done has, undoubtedly, brought huge relief to the people of the state. Lawbreakers flourished particularly during the dispensation of Mayawati and Mulayam. Akhilesh Yadav should be considered as the extension of his father. In fact, the goonda elements of his father’s time got more pampered and became more emboldened during his regime. Goondas have no parties; they keep on switching their loyalty with the change of regimes. For example, Ramakant Yadav, who has been in almost all major parties is now with the BJP in the hope that he would continue to get protection but thanks to Yogi ji, he is feeling suffocated in the party and the days are not far away when he will say goodbye to it. Thanks to Yogi and not to the Party.
Not a long ago, the state was reeling under the terror of the likes of Mukhtar Ansari, Hari Shankar Tiwari, Atique Ahmad, Ramakant-Umakant Yadav brothers and Azam Khan etc. were considered to be big fishes but there have hundreds of tinpot musclemen in the state when the district administration used to dance to their tunes. Ansari brothers have had complete sway in the entire eastern Uttar Pradesh. No officer had the courage to cross their paths. Once Mukhtar Ansari was coming from Varanasi to Mau (which was then the part of Azamgarh) and the car of the DIG of the Police of that range overtook his cavalcade. He got so infuriated that he asked his driver to overtake the car of the DIG Police, which he dutifully did. After overtaking the DIG’s car, Mukhtar Ansari got down and hurled the choicest abuses on him. The DIG felt deeply humiliated and insulted but was helpless because Ansai’s benefactor Mayawati was at the helm of Uttar Pradesh at that time. Ansari used to wield the same, in fact, more influence in the time of the hair-brained socialist politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and his bumpkin son.
It is the fear that Yogi ji has now drilled in the mind and heart of these goonda elements that do not even apply even for the bail because they know that they would be dealt with the same coin which they understand well. Earlier they considered themselves to be the monarch of all they surveyed. No DM or SP had the courage to lock horns with them. Jails had become their hunting grounds. All jail mates were at their beck and call. One may not believe but it is a reality that there is an Advocate in the Supreme Court, who is remotely related to Mukhtar Ansari, but he will always sing paeans in his praise. He often says that Ansari has been helping in the marriages of the daughters of all communities. Generally, this modus operandi is adopted by most of the goondas and extortionists. Mukhtar Ansari has also been doing the same thing just to get some public support. These people hardly find any fault in the spree of loot, murder and extortions by the bad guys. In fact, they build up their image of Robinhood of ‘robbing Peter and paying Paul’ to win the elections.
The shamelessness on the part of the Congress Party is all the more worrying which has been criticising the Yogi government to bring Mukhtar Ansari from Punjab to UP jail, where he was flouting all the rules of the jail book in Ropar jail. He was allowed to have an ambulance, that too, with a fake registration number. It was more a battleship than an ambulance.
Law and order are the prerequisites for the progress of any state. The basic responsibility of it goes to the head of the state. Needless to say, that Yogi Adityanath has come out with flying colours in controlling the crime and criminals in Uttar Pradesh. Promotion and protection of goondas have been mainly responsible for the tardy or no progress of the state.