Tucked In Biggest Reshuffle, Yogi Adityanath's Solution To Cop-Lawmaker Row | Read

Carrying out his biggest bureaucratic reshuffle over the last five weeks, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday ordered transfers of nearly 140 officials bringing in new faces to take charge as collectors and police chiefs in over two dozen of the state's 75 districts. One of them was Love Kumar, the Senior Superintendent of Police of Saharanpur district, who stood his ground and dispersed a procession backed by BJP lawmaker Raghav Lakhanpal that led to violence. At an impromptu protest at Mr Kumar's residence, Mr Lakhanpal - who was later named in two police cases for rioting - called Mr Kumar "naalayak" (worthless) and put his prestige at stake when he declared that the SSP would be removed.