New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) Holding Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati directly responsible for the increasing crime in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said it will take up the matter with the state governor.

 
 Talking to reporters here, BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi called the Uttar Pradesh government a "history-sheeter government".
 
 "The murders, one after another, are an uncommon situation and the wires are attached to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. This is not my allegation but a fact," Naqvi said.
 
 "The law and order and constitutional system in Uttar Pradesh has collapsed. BJP leaders from the state will meet Uttar Pradesh governor and will request him to take the list of the criminal acts of this government to the centre so that the centre can take action," Naqvi said.
 
 He also said that the party will approach the Election Commission and urge them to keep an eye on the state where assembly polls are scheduled next year.
 
 "The fact that some senior officials of UP (Uttar Pradesh) are acting like peons of UP government is a dangerous situation. The elections in UP are close and in all the procedures, these officials will try to influence the lower officials. We will also meet the Election Commission on this," he said.
 
 He also slammed the Congress and central government for ignoring the situation.
 
 "The Congress, which was so far busy in clicking pictures in a Uttar Pradesh village, is mute on the whole incident," he said.
 
 The recent murder of Lucknow's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Y.S. Sachan in Lucknow jail has raised fingers at the Uttar Pradesh government, which had called the death a suicide. 
 
 Sachan, the main accused in the murder of Chief Medical Officer (Family Welfare) B.P. Singh, was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside the Lucknow district jail hospital Wednesday night.
 
 A recent surge in rape cases and the anti-farmer action by the government in Bhatta-Parsaul village of the state have also earned the government a bad name. According to official reports, out of 72 districts of the Uttar Pradesh state, rape incidents have been reported from over 20 districts in the last 15 days.