You can’t improve law and order,MP MoS tells his boss

The minister was cut up because the Congress’ protest against law and order blocked his and his family members’ movement to hospital where his younger brother had been admitted. Kushwah shooed away the cops waiting outside his home in anticipation of Gupta’s visit,saying he wouldn’t let any one of them be posted there. “Where were you when the Congress workers were protesting,” he asked them before making them leave.

“When the Cabinet minister presides over senior police officers’ meeting he should be held responsible if the law and order situation worsens,” Kushwah maintained. Refusing to relent after his outburst,Kushwah announced that he will hold a counter protest outside Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia’s house over price hike. “If my status as minister comes in the way I will prefer to resign,” he warned.

To placate the angry minister,the MP Cabinet on Tuesday began its scheduled meeting by holding two-minute silence for the minister’s brother.

When law and order situation began to worsen in Gwalior,Kushwah had first suggested transfer of some officers but not only was his recommendation ignored his complaint to the Home Minister and the Chief Minister met the same fate. A senior BJP leader from the region said the minister felt humiliated because Congress workers were not prevented from burning his effigy in front of his house and no attempt was made to disperse them. Former Congress Home Minister Satyadev Katare alleged that the BJP minister’s outburst was symptomatic of corruption in transfers. “Officers who have paid heavily for plum postings can’t be easily removed,” he claimed.