With the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) protesting against the gruesome murder of PWD engineer MK Gupta at the hands of a BSP MLA, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday ruled out a CBI probe into the incident saying “suitable action had been taken against the accused.”
Violence and arson rocked Auraiya town as SP workers took to the streets to protest against the killing and alleged extortion by the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs for giving donations to Mayawati’s birthday on January 15.
BSP MLA Shekhar Tewari has been arrested in connection with the murder.
The Chief Minister described the murder as a fallout of a commission dispute Gupta had with fellow engineers. She said that with two PWD engineers named in the FIR, it essentially appeared to be a departmental dispute.
She added that once the name of the party MLA surfaced in the murder she ordered his immediate arrest.
Attempting to play down the controversy she said that she was aware of Tewari’s criminal record at the time of his joining the party, but wa informed that he had been implicated in false cases by the previous Congress, SP and BJP regimes.
She authenticated his stand before giving him a party ticket and also told him that if his implication was not found to be false, he would not be spared. Tewari’s “involvement” in a commission racket was being investigated, she told reporters.
Denying that the BSP was a “laboratory of criminals,” she said that persons with criminal antecedents and victims of political conspiracy had to be given a chance to reform. She admitted that some BSP MLAs and Ministers had a criminal past.
Taking the battle into the enemy camp Mayawati charged the Congress-led UPA government was dancing to the tunes of few industrialists, “who dictated the Centre’s policies.”
She also blasted the previous SP regime as one synonymous with loot, corruption, criminals and mafia.
Violence and arson rocked Auraiya town as SP workers took to the streets to protest against the killing and alleged extortion by the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs for giving donations to Mayawati’s birthday on January 15.
BSP MLA Shekhar Tewari has been arrested in connection with the murder.
The Chief Minister described the murder as a fallout of a commission dispute Gupta had with fellow engineers. She said that with two PWD engineers named in the FIR, it essentially appeared to be a departmental dispute.
She added that once the name of the party MLA surfaced in the murder she ordered his immediate arrest.
Attempting to play down the controversy she said that she was aware of Tewari’s criminal record at the time of his joining the party, but wa informed that he had been implicated in false cases by the previous Congress, SP and BJP regimes.
She authenticated his stand before giving him a party ticket and also told him that if his implication was not found to be false, he would not be spared. Tewari’s “involvement” in a commission racket was being investigated, she told reporters.
Denying that the BSP was a “laboratory of criminals,” she said that persons with criminal antecedents and victims of political conspiracy had to be given a chance to reform. She admitted that some BSP MLAs and Ministers had a criminal past.
Taking the battle into the enemy camp Mayawati charged the Congress-led UPA government was dancing to the tunes of few industrialists, “who dictated the Centre’s policies.”
She also blasted the previous SP regime as one synonymous with loot, corruption, criminals and mafia.
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