Narendra Modi ordered MPs of UP

New Delhi march 24: PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah advised MPs of Uttar Pradesh to don't inter fear for seeking favors or pressuring officials in a state.

At a breakfast meeting with the party's 71 Lok Sabha MPs from the state, the two leaders asked the lawmakers to help the new UP government with development-related work.

"Let the officers work. If someone is doing any wrong, the state government will look into it," Modi and Shah told BJP MPs at the first such meeting with parliamentarians from UP, according to sources.

The two leaders told lawmakers to not seek transfers and postings of government officials or put undue pressure or police and administration, sources said. They also stressed on good governance being the mantra of the new state government.

Sources said when Amroha MP Kanwar Singh Tanwar raised the issue of BJP supporters being arrested, Modi and Shah asserted that the law would take its own course and no favour would be extended to any culprit, merely because they were associated with the ruling party. Ballia MP Bharat Singh, too, raised the issue of party workers' recommendations getting unheard.

Sources reported Modi and Shah as saying that it was the duty of every party worker to ensure no compromise on the issue of corruption and law and order. "Good governance should speak for itself," the PM said, advising party leaders against talking to media out of turn.

Riding on Modi's popularity and Shah's poll management, the BJP swept to victory in India's most-populous state earlier this month, consolidating the prime minister's sway over national politics.