IAS and IPS officials are on a collision course in Uttar Pradesh. The confrontation has been triggered by chief minister Mayawati's tendency to post police officers in posts meant exclusively for the IAS cadre.

The UP IAS Association has written a strong letter to the department of personnel and training (DoPT) complaining of the impropriety of such postings. The association has also apprised the UP chief secretary of the resentment in the state IAS cadre. However, the conflict does not have its roots in these postings alone.

Sources say it is fuelled by apprehensions in the state bureaucracy that Mayawati might implement the commissionerate system in UP, which would empower the IPS cadre and take away some important powers now with IAS officials.

New Delhi, Feb 13: The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed income tax authorities to reassess the income of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for the financial year 2001-02.

A bench headed by Justice Vikramajit Sen dismissed Mayawati''s plea that sought a restraint order on assessing her income, claiming that a prior mandatory notice was not served on her.

The court, while passing the order, said Mayawati had failed to prove her case.

Lucknow, Feb 9 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati, on Monday said that Bharatiya Janat Party''s Ayodhya chants were nothing but an `election gimmick', as the party remembers Lord Rama only when the poll are around.

"The BJP thinks of Ram temple only when polls are around. But, the public knows about its real face. Even saints are ridiculing the party," Mayawati told reporters in Lucknow.

Lucknow, Jan. 15 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday used her 53rd birthday celebrations to urge her supporters to observe Congress president Sonia Gandhi's birthday as "Ghulami Diwas", or "Slavery Day".

Targetting each of her political rivals on the occasion, she also said that her predecessor and Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav''s birthday should be observed as "Dalal Diwas", or "Brokers' Day".

New Delhi, Jan. 12 : The Supreme Court on Monday gave Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati a month''s time to respond to the Central Bureau of Investigation claim in a disproportionate assets case against her.

The CBI has claimed that there is ample evidence to prosecute her in a disproportionate assets case registered against her five years ago.

Mayawati, through a plea before the court, has asked to quash any criminal proceedings against her in the stated case stating that was registered against her due to political vendetta.

Chennai, Dec 23 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati addressed a huge rally here in an attempt to expand her party base in Tamil Nadu.

Mayawati addressing the rally said that her party was not caste-based and support of all sections was required for obtaining power in the state.

"Our party believes that we need to address the concerns of all sections of the society in Tamil Nadu because without that neither our party can benefit all sections, nor can it come to power in the State," said Mayawati.