IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal (File photograph)
Lucknow:
The Samajwadi Party today suggested that IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, who was controversially suspended last month in Uttar Pradesh, should apologise.
"She did not do her duty....she destroyed the credibility of the cadre," said Ahmed Hasan, a minister in the state government that's headed by Akhilesh Yadav. Continuing the party's rant against the bureaucrat, he described her as "mindless" and added, "When we reveal which family she belongs to, then you will realize what are you supporting."
Mr Yadav and his party say that on July 27, Ms Nagpal endangered communal harmony in a village in Noida by asking for the removal of a wall of a new mosque being built there, funded partly by local Samajwadi leaders.
The ruling party has derided allegations that it is her effective campaign against the local sand mining mafia that was the real reason for Ms Nagpal's removal as Assistant Sub Divisional Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar.
The 28-year-old's case has triggered a national discourse on the need to protect honest officers from political persecution. A Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Supreme Court today, demanding the revocation of Ms Nagpal's suspension.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi wrote on the weekend to the Prime Minister, requesting him to have Ms Nagpal's case examined and consider amending the rules of service, if needed, to help bureaucrats.
That intervention has inflamed the Samajwadi Party. Yesterday, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is also the Chief Minister's father, declared that Ms Nagpal's suspension is "correct and final."
Fortifying the impression that Ms Nagpal is the victim of political vendetta, his party also said on Monday that it will investigate an alleged array of complaints by villagers that Ms Nagpal is involved with "land-grabbing" in the area where she was posted.
"She did not do her duty....she destroyed the credibility of the cadre," said Ahmed Hasan, a minister in the state government that's headed by Akhilesh Yadav. Continuing the party's rant against the bureaucrat, he described her as "mindless" and added, "When we reveal which family she belongs to, then you will realize what are you supporting."
Mr Yadav and his party say that on July 27, Ms Nagpal endangered communal harmony in a village in Noida by asking for the removal of a wall of a new mosque being built there, funded partly by local Samajwadi leaders.
The ruling party has derided allegations that it is her effective campaign against the local sand mining mafia that was the real reason for Ms Nagpal's removal as Assistant Sub Divisional Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar.
The 28-year-old's case has triggered a national discourse on the need to protect honest officers from political persecution. A Public Interest Litigation was filed in the Supreme Court today, demanding the revocation of Ms Nagpal's suspension.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi wrote on the weekend to the Prime Minister, requesting him to have Ms Nagpal's case examined and consider amending the rules of service, if needed, to help bureaucrats.
That intervention has inflamed the Samajwadi Party. Yesterday, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is also the Chief Minister's father, declared that Ms Nagpal's suspension is "correct and final."
Fortifying the impression that Ms Nagpal is the victim of political vendetta, his party also said on Monday that it will investigate an alleged array of complaints by villagers that Ms Nagpal is involved with "land-grabbing" in the area where she was posted.
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