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| Critics Want Me to Lose But I Will Stay Strong: Akhilesh Yadav
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| INDIA
, 17-June-2014
2:51:32 AM |
| A series of rapes and killings are forging a reputation of "a failed state" for Uttar Pradesh but its chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has said, "Critics are making me more strong and they think I'm going to lose. No, I'm going to be strong and I will work more hard. In a good way I will improve."
The 40-year-old's remarks were made to news agency AFP as Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced he was "closely monitoring" the "prevailing law and order situation" after another gang-rape and the fatal shooting of two policemen were reported in the troubled state.
"Because UP is a big state, politically, it is a very strong state and critics don't want to see a young chief minister here, they think 'let's damage him'," Mr Yadav said at his residence in Lucknow.
Since he became India's youngest chief minister two years ago, Mr Yadav has struggled to shake off the impression that he is merely doing the bidding of his powerful father Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is chief of the Samajwadi Party.
In the campaign for the recent national election, the senior Yadav triggered outrage with comments about rape in which he said that "boys will be boys". The chief minister says he is in favour of capital punishment for rapists. "The society that respects its women, only that society progresses," he said.
The state's police have frequently been accused of failing to properly investigate accusations of rape, covering up for perpetrators who have family or caste connections.
The lynching of two girls in Badaun a fortnight ago gained international attention after villagers prevented police from taking the dangling bodies down from a mango tree until the local media had captured them on film.
AL Banerjee, Uttar Pradesh's top police officer, acknowledged there had been some "bad handling" of cases but said claims of apathy among his force were wide of the mark.
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