<b>Letters:</b> Advantage BJP

Inaction against Prajapati has dented Yadav's otherwise clean image at crucial point amid elections

Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik is within his constitutional right to question the continuation of the absconding Gayatri Prajapati, who is accused of rape, as a minister in Akhilesh Yadav’s (pictured) cabinet on the grounds of “constitutional morality and dignity”. It is a different matter that such concerns were not raised in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Gujarat where a minister reportedly continued in the state cabinet even after his conviction. The BJP, too, is justified in questioning the UP police for failure to apprehend the minister, as the same force had traced stolen buffaloes of an influential minister. This has dented Yadav’s otherwise clean image at a crucial juncture amid elections. The least that he could have done under the circumstances to salvage his own image was dismiss the minister from his cabinet beforehand. It is now too late, and he may have to pay a heavy political price. It is advantage BJP.

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