In an unusual mood, Bahujan Samaj Party president and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday gave
a patient hearing to her ministers and MLAs, and even hinted at turning the heat on the corrupt bureaucracy and police.
Though not many could muster up the courage to speak up, those who did were candid enough to spell out all that was going wrong with the functioning of the government and once she had sufficient feedback on where things were going wrong, The BSP chief made it clear that action would follow against officials who were becoming a stumbling block in the implementation of various welfare schemes.
What surprised all and sundry was the patience with which Mayawati heard everyone out for a good hour and a half during the three-hour long closed door meeting at her official residence in Lucknow.
While the ministers mostly preferred to maintain studied silence, it was the MLAs who vented their ire against various ills in the government. Some of them even blamed the lack of implementation of schemes and the rampant corruption in the administration as well as the police as the main reson for the party's poor showing at the hustings.
Significantly, most of the speakers trained their guns at bureaucrats occupying key positions in the government as well as the police in