The DM immediately ordered the documentary to be stopped and warned the tourism department not to repeat such a mistake again. With the district administration becoming strict on this issue, several calendars and publicity material containing images of Akhilesh can now be seen dumped in dustbins of government offices including the office of the district magistrate, where a calendar outlining Akhilesh Yadav government's developmental works was thrown in the dustbin. Political pundits claimed that removing pictures of the previous governments is nothing new in a democracy, although the way it was being done could be questioned. They claimed that the Akhilesh Yadav government had used several public welfare schemes to the Samajwadi Party's benefit by either printing pictures of SP leaders on the publicity material or by naming the welfare schemes as 'Samajwadi'. Also read:Meat sellers on strike in Uttar Pradesh: Action only on illegal slaughterhouses, says ministerYogi Adityanath gets cracking: 3 days, 5 big decisions of new Uttar Pradesh chief ministerIndia Today Expose: How Uttar Pradesh's money-for-marks mafia worksAlso watch:India Today special: How Gorakhpur welcomed Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath

Source: India Today March 28, 2017 12:24 UTC