| Akhilesh takes U-turn over Rs2m cars for lawmakers |
LUCKNOW Faced with widespread criticism of his decision to allow legislators to buy cars worth Rs2 million from the local area development (LAD) funds, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav did a U-turn on Wednesday and withdrew the largesse doled out a day ago.
Announcing this, the chief minister said he had offered the sop as many members of the legislative assembly were not in a position to buy cars.Saying that the media and the opposition had misinterpreted the thought behind the move, Akhilesh Yadav said he was withdrawing the order with immediate effect.
The grant of freedom to the legislators to buy luxury cars with a price tag of Rs2 million from the local areas development fund had invited flak from all opposition parties. The Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) had announced that their legislators would not avail of the offer since the decision was “anti-people”.
Faced with opposition in the Vidhan Sabha, the chief minister had clarified that a depreciation value was to be fixed and after five years, the legislators must pay the depreciated amount and then buy the car they had acquired from the fund.
Indo-Asian News Service
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