(Pooja Dubey, Intern Journalist) The Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who gave 12–14 hours to the Uttar Pradesh government, did the same despite not wanting to. Highly placed sources in Lucknow say that the lack of coordination with officers in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat brought the entire state government to the fore.
There is a lot of laughter among the state secretary and principal secretary-level officials regarding the role of Avneesh Awasthi, very close to the chief minister. The source says that the lack of coordination has made Hathras a big plot of politics. A recently retired IAS officer of UP cadre says that look at the developments of the last three-four months, it does not seem as if a government is running.
Hathras’s Ladli was admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital, the ears of the UP government began to stand up. According to the senior state government officials, the state government strategists were engaged in the management art of handling everything peacefully as per the wish of the Chief Minister after the death of the girl in the hospital. It is said that a lot of strategies was made between the arrival of the post mortem report and the body of Ladli leaving for Hathras. Local bodies were asked to prepare for the cremation and the dead body was also burnt late in the night, but the story backfired as early as dawn.