Take on Mulayam in polls from Mainpuri, AAP tells Durga Shakti Nagpal

Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 2 (ANI): The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Admi Party (AAP) on Friday asked suspended Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Durga Shakti Nagpal to join it and contest elections against Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav from Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri constituency in the 2014 general elections.

AAP leader Kumar Vishwas said Nagpal should set a new example by coming forward.

"We have invited Durga Shakti Nagpalji to contest against Mulayam Singh Yadav from Mainpuri constituency on the Aam Aadmi Party ticket, so that no other officer like her faces the wrath of a corrupt Samajwadi Party government," Vishwas told reporters here.

Nagpal 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's Gautam Buddh Nagar District, where she was posted as Sub-Divisional Magistrate.

According to reports, the 2009-batch IAS officer had seized nearly 300 trolleys of sand being illegally mined from the Yamuna river bed.

Though the Uttar Pradesh Government has called it as an 'administrative decision', against her for demolishing a wall which was part of an intended mosque, but many believe that it was the result of pressure from the mining mafia.

Should Durga take on Nagpal?

That's a question on everybody's mind.

Not everybody is Arvind Kejriwaql who can give up a comfortable job in the IRS to serve the country. But then Arvind has his wife to look after their day to day expenses.

We do not know the family back=ground of Durga, whether she has the financial backing to give up her job for if she contests the elections, she will have to give up her IAS job.

I am of the opinion that she will not take the plunge

You can be assured that Mulayam sill use all the dirty tricks he has up his sleeves to win the election including all the criminals at his disposal.

But then, it would be an approprite fight - Maa Durga vanquishing the Demon.