Lucknow, Aug 31 - In a late night move, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday offered a job to the grandson of Abdul Hamid, one of the heroes of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war who was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra for gallantry.

According to a spokesman of the chief minister's office, 'When the chief minister came to know that Abdul Hamid's aged widow Rasoolan Bibi and grandson Shamim were staging a dharna outside the state assembly to press their long-pending demand for a government job to one of their family members, she promptly issued instructions to appoint Shamim in the UP Power Corporation.'

He said, 'Since the grandson's qualification was Intermediate (Class 12), there were only two options - either to offer a peon's job which was stagnant, or a labourer's position that provides scope to rise to the junior engineer's level.