UP min blames media for defaming SP govt over law and order

A Uttar Pradesh Cabinet minister today blamed the media for presenting a "wrong picture" of the state on the law and order front.
"Samajwadi Party believes in democracy and media is misusing it by making a hue and cry over the law and order situation whereas government, backed by statistics,has already clarified in the Vidhan Sabha that it was okay," Ram Govind Chaudhary, the minister for Basic Education, told reporters here.
"Why media failed to see corruption and crime during the five years of BSP government... I myself have seen the newspapers and electronic channels and know how much truth they show," Chaudhary, who was here to take part in the death anniversary of senior party colleague Shardanand Anchal, said.

Meanwhile state's Transport minister Durga Yadav, who was also present on the occasion, told the media to make an exit from the venue when he was asked to comment on the party MLA Ziyauddin Rizvi's statement that officials were working in an "arbitrary" manner.
Earlier during the anniversary function, Rizvi had stated that officials were working with the mentality similar to that of BSP government's time and creating hurdles in development works.