JANJIVAN BUREAU
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today shunted out ex chief minister Akhilesh Yadav dearest S Javeed Ahmed and appointed Sulkhan Singh as the DGP. The govt also reshuffel 12 senior officers today.
Mr Ahmed, who superseded nearly a dozen police officers when he was appointed by the Akhilesh Yadav government in January last year. Sulkhan Singh, the senior most IPS officer of the 1980 batch of the UP cadre.
As part of Friday’s reshuffle, Daljit Singh Chowdhury, who headed the Law and Order Wing and Aditya Mishra who led the state’s Economic Offence Wing have been ordered to swap places.
Hours before the reshuffle, the Chief Minister had signalled that he was not exactly impressed with the performance of the state police. Most of these changes have come in the backdrop of the new Chief Minister promising a better law and order situation in the state – the former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government’s record on this front had been patchy.
