New Delhi, Apr 1 (India Today): After Uttar Pradesh, now the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Madhya Pradesh is all set to launch a campaign to check 'majnoo-type' behaviour from men in the state.

"We will reform 'majnoo' type of persons. They don't know how to respect... They are not good for the civilised society... A campaign will be launched against Majnoos," Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.

To ensure that women and girls are safe, police should keep a vigil and create a safe environment for them, he went on to add.

Chouhan said that women are no less than anyone in terms of courage, valour and in their duties and therefore one-third posts in police department are reserved for them.

"Police should create such an atmosphere so that women are able to move around independently without any fear. It should take stern measures against criminal elements," Chouhan commented.

This comes soon after Yogi Adityanath entered the chief minister's office in Uttar Pradesh and ordered his top police officials to form 'anti-Romeo squads.'

The move was hailed by some and criticised by others. Critics said that the squads were nothing but just another form of moral police by the state.

Adityanath and other Uttar Pradesh officials have taken pains to clarify that the squads are not for moral policing and that police officials will not trouble couples.

With inputs from PTI