New Delhi, Aug. 5 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav\u2019s move to suspend the 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Durga Shakti Nagpal is absolutely correct.
\n\u201cIt is a correct decision. If the government had not taken a decision it would have been a problem,\u201d he told media outside the Parliament here.
\nYadav, however, refused to comment on whether the suspension would be revoked.
\nAmid a deepening political row over the officer\u2019s suspension, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister today questioned the \u2018outcry\u2019, and said the officers are punished if they make mistakes.
\n\u201cIf an officer makes a mistake, he or she is punished, just like children are punished in school. That is how a government works,\u201d he told media in Lucknow.
\nCommenting on Nagpal\u2019s suspension, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh earlier in the day said there are rules laid down and that will be followed.
\n\u201cThere are rules laid down and the rules will be followed. And we are in touch with the state government to find out the full details of the case,\u201d said Dr. Singh.
\nThe Prime Minister\u2019s remark came hours after the Uttar Pradesh Government slapped a chargesheet accusing Nagpal of flouting norms and lacking administrative acumen.
\nAccording to reports, a copy of the chargesheet along with a report has been sent to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) at the Centre.
\nThe Samajwadi Party government’s 10-page chargesheet accuses Nagpal of violating norms while ordering the demolition of the wall of a mosque built illegally on government land at Gautam Budh Nagar in Greater Noida.
\nThe chargesheet came a day after Congress President Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter to the Prime, asking him to ensure that the suspended bureaucrat is treated fairly.
\nThe Congress Party yesterday hit out at the Samajwadi Party for attacking Sonia Gandhi for her support to Nagpal, and said the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh is trying to hide what is essentially a case of corruption and illegal mining.
\nCongress spokesperson Sandeep Dikshit also dismissed Samajwadi Party\u2019s comments that Gandhi should also write a letter in support of Ashok Khemka, the Haryana IAS officer who had scrapped her son-in-law Robert Vadra\u2019s controversial land deals and was transferred.
\nNagpal was suspended last month ostensibly for taking on the sand mafia and for ordering the demolition of a wall of a mosque that was being built on government land in the state\u2019s Gautam Buddh Nagar District, where she was posted as SDM.<\/p>\n\n