who is believed to be one of the few engineers close to top ranks in bsp he got extension in service twice his influence over the department continued even after his retirement even as he went on to become advisor to chief minister mayawati stories of him owning an opulent house in vipul khand besides stakes in a private airlines have been doing the rounds for quite some time i am surrounded with 300 people around me i cant talk to you right now is what he said when toi contacted him to get his version the peace party too wishes to upset calculations of other political parties with its strategy framed by none other than a group of retired bureaucrats the party already has in its panel former up dgp yashpal singh while singh is not contesting election his son yashraj singh has been given a ticket by peace party from gonda sadar yashpal has a company of two more former senior cops brijendra singh former additional dgp and rp singh former ig then there is sp arya who was principal secretary to cm during the regime of rajnath singh and rama shankar singh who was once posted as faizabad commissioner observers see this trend as nothing but an attempt by people who once held high position to regain their lost glory the kind of job they were in gave them all the security so they wish to have the same even after they retire it is like a drug addict facing withdrawal symptom commented former up dgp ishwar chandra dwivedi some bureaucrats have managed to do that successfully like in case of panna lal punia who was once the principal secretary to chief minister mayawati he contested as congress candidate from barabanki in 2009 lok sabha election and won at the same time if the bureaucrats themselves are not contesting then they have got their childrenkin fielded in the up assembly elections like in case of juhi singh the daughter of ups former chief secretary akhand pratap singh who was once voted as one of the most corrupt ias officer juhi is now a samajwadi party candidate from lucknow east likewise former housing secretary js mishra son abhishek mishra too is in the fray from lucknow north when bsp formed the government in 1993 captain sikandar singh was appointed as an officer on special duty osd to the then cm mayawati he has now jointed samajwadi party uttar pradesh assembly elections 2012elections 2012 news