LUCKNOW: Within hours of taking over reins of power in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday suspended two IAS officers on charges of neglecting upkeep of a park named after dalit icon B R Ambedkar.
Lucknow Development Authority Vice-Chairman B B Singh and former PWD Principal Secretary S K Agarwal were suspended after Mayawati visited the park in posh Gomti Nagar area in the city.
The Chief Minister also ordered a probe against retired engineer of Rajkiya Nirman Nigam R S Yadav in connection with “utter neglect” of the park.
“Sentiments of the Bahujan Samaj Party have been hurt by this utter neglect,” Mayawati told reporters at the park.
“Regimes keep changing but it is not proper to neglect the ideological symbol of any party,” she said.
Expecting a visit by Mayawati, authorities made frantic efforts to clean and beautify the park pressing a large number of labourers into the job.
Other statues of Dr Ambedkar in the state capital were also cleaned in anticipation of Chief Minister’s visit.
Source : DNA
May 14th, 2007
NEW DELHI: As the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are over, Delhi Police have re-issued notices to the four MPs whose names were mentioned by a suspect in the human trafficking case.
The MPs — Ramswarup Koli (BJP) and Mohammad Tahir Khan, Ashok Kumar Rawat and Mitrasen Yadav (all BSP) have been asked to appear before the police by May 14.
Initially, the police had issued notices to them on April 23 but the MPs expressed their inability to adhere it, citing assembly polls in UP.
A BJP MP and two BSP MPs communicated to the police about their inability to come over to Delhi on Saturday for questioning but the fourth one, also belonging to BSP, has not replied to the notice so far.
The police have issued notices to them after their names cropped up during the interrogation of Sunder Lal Yadav, an alleged conduit in the high profile case.
Police decided to grill the four MPs after going through the travel details provided by the Foreign Residents Registration Office (FRRO).
The MPs have also been asked to bring their passports as police wants to “physically verify” the travel document.
The police have so far arrested six persons, including Katara and his aide Rajender Kumar Gampa in the case after the Dahod MP was nabbed at the international airport last month while trying to smuggle a woman and a teenaged boy out of the country in his wife and son’s passports.
Source : Times of India
May 12th, 2007
LUCKNOW: Within hours of taking over reins of power in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday suspended two IAS officers on charges of neglecting upkeep of a park named after dalit icon B R Ambedkar.