SP demands Mayawati's resignation

Demanding the resignation of UP chief minister Mayawati on "moral grounds", the Samajwadi Party said on Wednesday that she should tender a public apology following the Allahabad High Court verdict on reinstatement of 18,000 police constables.

"The High Court verdict has reiterated what the Samajwadi Party had been saying ever since the recruitment had been in conformity with the rules and it has now been proved that their dismissal had been an outcome of Mayawati government's vindictive politics," Samajwadi Party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said.

The UP government, meanwhile, said it will decide the next course of action after receiving a copy of the judgement.

"The government will decide its future course of action only after getting copy of the HC judgement", Secretary Home Kumar Kamlesh said.

Over 18,000 personnel appointed in police and PAC under the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav regime were terminated from service by the the BSP government in September 2007, less than a year after having assumed power in Uttar Pradesh, citing alleged irregularities in recruitment process.

"The chief minister should take moral responsibility and resign," Chaudhary said adding that his party also demands that "she publicly apolgise for her inhuman, insensitive and unconstitutional act".

"It would be better that she repents her actions by immediately reinstating them," Chaudhary said.