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In the corridors of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), some officers always remain in the headlines for some reason or the other due to their frank style of working, administrative decisions and political turmoil. Well-known and senior IAS officers of Uttar Pradesh cadre Pranjal Yadav (IAS Pranjal Yadav) These days, he has once again come into the center of discussion in the political and administrative circles of Uttar Pradesh. Pranjal Yadav, who was playing the role of observer in Varanasi during the recently concluded Legislative Council (MLC) elections, has been accused of serious bias by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and workers, after which his name has cropped up from social media to mainstream news. As soon as the name of Pranjal Yadav came up, people also remembered the year 2014 when he came in the headlines during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi rally. Let us know in detail who IAS Pranjal Yadav is, what is his connection with the 2014 controversy and what kind of allegations have been made against him in the latest MLC elections.
Who is IAS Pranjal Yadav? Dabang officer of 2006 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre
IAS Pranjal Yadav of Uttar Pradesh cadre Highly skilled and senior administrative officer of 2006 batch Are. During his long and checkered administrative career, he has served on important and sensitive posts in many districts of Uttar Pradesh.
Pranjal Yadav mainly came to the attention of the entire country when during the year 2013 to 2014, he attacked the city which was considered very sensitive religiously and politically. District Magistrate (DM) of Varanasi Took charge as. As a District Magistrate, he is counted among the officers in the administrative staff who take tough decisions and strictly follow the rules. Due to his working style, he has many times come under the target of political parties, but in terms of administrative efficiency, he is considered a strong officer.
Old controversy related to 2014 Lok Sabha elections and PM Modi’s rally
IAS Pranjal Yadav’s name had earlier echoed in the 2014 general elections during the biggest political event at the national level. This was the period when the candidates for the post of Prime Minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party Narendra Modi For the first time, he contested the election from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat and the eyes of the entire country were fixed on this seat.
During that high-profile election, Pranjal Yadav was posted as the District Magistrate (DM) of Varanasi. During the election campaign, a big election rally of Prime Minister Modi was to be organized at the historic Beniyabagh ground in Varanasi, for which permission was sought from the administration. Citing security reasons and local arrangements, some technical objections and hurdles were raised by the district administration in granting permission for that rally, after which BJP and the local administration came face to face. The issue had become a huge political controversy across the country and the opposition parties as well as the BJP had seriously accused the district administration of adopting a biased attitude. At that time, the decisions of Pranjal Yadav as District Magistrate were discussed across the country, and once again during the MLC elections, the same old incident of his has come on the lips of the people.
Counting of votes in Varanasi graduate MLC election and allegations of bias against Pranjal Yadav
The latest controversy is related to the recently held Legislative Council (MLC) elections in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Bihar. Voting was held on October 23 for a total of 28 seats in these four states including Uttar Pradesh. In this series, famous people of Uttar Pradesh varanasi graduate mlc election To IAS Pranjal Yadav Election Observer Was entrusted with important responsibility.
The counting of votes for this election in Varanasi started on 27 October and continued till 28 October. As the counting of votes was progressing, the tension between the political parties was increasing. During this sensitive phase of vote counting, the atmosphere suddenly heated up when local BJP leaders and workers openly raised questions on the functioning and role of election observer Pranjal Yadav.
Protest by BJP workers and allegations of working in favor of SP
During the counting of votes, the situation seemed to go out of control when Varanasi BJP candidate Kedarnath Singh and hundreds of his supporters started a vigorous protest outside the counting venue. Angry BJP workers raised slogans against election observer Pranjal Yadav and Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav.
It was a direct and serious allegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party that instead of playing his impartial role, election observer Pranjal Yadav was secretly working in favor of the Samajwadi Party (SP) under the ruling or opposition equations. BJP leaders claimed that there was a lack of transparency in the vote counting process and some decisions were taken at the observer level which appeared to be one-sided. Due to this protest and uproar, there was a stir among the administrative staff and this whole matter became the biggest hot topic of state politics of Uttar Pradesh. On one hand, while the administrative officials are claiming to conduct fair elections as per the rules, on the other hand, this high-voltage drama has once again brought Pranjal Yadav into the center of headlines.