Adityanath, Mayawati spar on policing as Noida prepares for commissionerate

Adityanath had blamed the previous regimes in UP for failing to adopt the police commissioner model owing to the lack of "political will"

On the day Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath (pictured) gleefully announced that the state cabinet had approved the proposal to introduce the office of police commissioner in Lucknow and Noida, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati lost no time in taking a potshot at the government. In a Twitter post, she observed merely making changes in the police hierarchy at a few places would not improve law and order, but tough action was needed against criminal elements by rising above the political divide. In his press interaction after chairing the state cabinet meeting on Monday, Adityanath had blamed the previous