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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Another UP minister sacked over corruption charges by Ashish Tripathi

Another UP minister sacked over corruption charges by Ashish Tripathi

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published Published on Dec 1, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 1, 2011
-The Times of India
 
Ambedkar Village development minister Ratan Lal Aheerwar has resigned after being indicted by UP Lokayukta of corruption. He was found prima facie guilty of land grabbing and misuse of MLA fund and Bundelkhand development fund.

Aheerwal is the fifth UP minister who had to resign after being indicted by Lokayukta in last one year. Panchayati Raj minister and BSP state president Swami Prasad Maurya has been handed over the charge of Ambedkar Village Development department after Aheerwar's removal.

According to senior government officoals, Aheerwar was called by UP chief minister Mayawati and asked to put his papers as recommended by Lokayukta justice (rtd) NK Mehrotra in his report. The Lokayukta had asked chief minister to order a thorough probe by a specialized state government agency and remove Aheerwar from the post of minister so that he cannot influence the inquiry.

The Lokayukta has also recommended recovery of the money that he has misused.

The complaints against Aheerwar included diverting Rs 27 lakh of his MLA fund for construction of a school run by his family. He was also accused of grabbing government land and anomalies to the tune of Rs 9.50 lakh in Bundelkhand development fund and pressuring government officials to flout norms.

The Lokayukta took the decision after verifying evidences produced by complainant against the minister. Justice Mehrotra also took into account the defece put up by Aheerwar.

In his report, the Lokayukta has also mentioned that in July 2010, Ahirwar along with his two sons was sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a Madhya Pradesh court for possession of illegal arms

Earlier, five ministers - religious affairs minister Rajesh Tripathi, animal husbandry minister Awadhpal Singh Yadav, secondary education minister Rangnath Mishra and labour Badshah Singh - were made to resign by Mayawati on Lokayukta's report. At the same time, Lokayukta so far has dropped charges against seven ministers for want of evidence.

The two other ministers, who were not indicted by Lokayukta but had to quit on corruption charges were health minister AK Mishra and family welfare minister Babu Singh Kushwaha. The two ministers were asked to resign after their name figured in scam in implementation of National Rural Health Mission.

Though Mayawati herself is facing corruption charges, by asking ministers to quit she has tried to take high moral ground on the issue. She has also told all former ministers to vacate official bungalows allotted to them as ministers.


The Times of India, 1 December, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Another-UP-minister-sacked-over-corruption-charges/articleshow/10943184.cms


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