A Dalit government employee in Uttar Pradesh has resigned from service after receiving death threats from fellow Dalit and BSP legislator, BR Ambedkar.
A Dalit government employee in Uttar Pradesh has resigned from service after receiving death threats from fellow Dalit and BSP legislator, BR Ambedkar.
The MLA denied the charges, calling them a conspiracy by the opposition. However, chief minister Mayawati has taken the matter seriously and ordered an inquiry by the principal secretary (irrigation).
Meanwhile, the threatened engineer has gone missing. The latest episode has reminded people of the killing of engineer Manoj Gupta in Etawah on December 24 last year, allegedly by BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari and his henchmen. Gupta had allegedly refused to donate to the party fund.
The Dalit executive engineer, Shivdas Dohre, posted in the irrigation department in Etawah district sent his resignation to the chief minister, the irrigation minister and the principal secretary (irrigation) saying he decided to quit because BSP legislator from Lakhna (Etawah) BR Ambedkar threatened to kill him on Saturday. “I am resigning to prevent any harm to my family and myself,” he wrote.
The enginner has mentioned in his letter that Ambedkar had threatened him a number of times earlier and on each occasion he had informed the irrigation minister.
On Saturday, Ambedkar allegedly threatened to kill Dohre if he did not listen to him. The MLA was upset as the engineer had refused to dig tubewells at certain sites in his constituency as the water was found to be salty and unfit for agriculture.
However, the MLA has denied all charges. “I had only asked him for a list of the tubewell sites in my constituency… but he was quite rude and refused, saying I had no business asking him these details. That is all… I never threatened him… it’s a conspiracy by my political rivals,” he told reporters in Etawah on Sunday.
Meanwhile, UP Engineers’ Association (UPEA) president AA Farooqui has alleged that the MLA was keeping the engineer under duress to prevent him from approaching the media.
He said that the engineer had not been able to attend his son’s wedding due to the MLA’s “terror tactics”. Several engineers had been similarly threatened by BSP MLAs and UPEA would take up the matter with the government, Farooqui said.
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