Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday issued direct threats to senior Indian Police Service officer Amitabh Thakur who has been running a fearless crusade against UP Mining minister Gayatri Prajapati, widely known as Mulayam’s blue-eyed boy.
The recorded telephonic conversation between Mulayam and Thakur,was released to the media by the IPS officer’s wife Nutan, a vocal social activist on Friday evening. The IPS officer is currently posted as inspector general (civil defence).
In the conversation, it is clear that the SP president was reminding the officer of an incident where the IPS office was apparently saved from the wrath of local politicians by the former, during his stint as chief minister in the past.
In the voice clip, he warns Amitabh Thakur , “Usse zyada ho jayega , bata de raha hoon….ab aap sudhar jaiye; itta hi kah diya maine” (It will be worse this time, I am telling you…. You better mend your ways. I am telling you this much).
When contacted, Thakur told this scribe, “I am shocked at the way Mulayam Singh threatened me. I do understand that he was trying to remind me of how he had shunted me out of Firozabad district where I was SP during his chief ministerial days. And that was simply because I refused to accede to the unlawful demands of his close relative Ramveer Yadav, against whom I had got a first information report registered because he had his goons had assaulted me.”
Asked if Mulayam’s threat came on account of the crusade launched by him against the UP mining minister, Thakur said, “Although Mulayam Singh did not take the minister’s name, it was clearly implied that he was angry with me on account of my tirade against the corrupt minister.”
When asked what he proposed to do now, he said, “Now that it is a direct threat from Mulayam Singh who is not only president of the ruling party but also has full control over everything in UP; I have no choice but to apprise the state governor as well as the Union Home ministry.”
He added, “Meanwhile, I will also try to meet the chief secretary and the state director general of police in this connection.”
