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Tripathi dropped from Mayawati's council of ministers
Press Trust Of India
Lucknow, December 25, 2010
First Published: 21:34 IST(25/12/2010)
Uttar Pradesh minister Rajesh Tripathi was on Saturday dropped from
Mayawati's council of ministers after the state Lokayukta accused him
of collecting money on the dead through an NGO run by him. "On the
request of the chief minister, Governor B L Joshi has divested
Tripathi from the post of
minister of state," an official release said here this evening.
Though no reason was cited for the sudden removal of the minister of
state for Homoeopathy and Religious Endownment, the move comes after
Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta asked Tripathi to either step down from the
post or relinquish chairmanship of the society that runs an illegal
crematorium in Gorakhpur.
In a report submitted to Chief Minister Mayawati, the Lokayukta said
the minister, through his NGO Mukti Path Sewa Sansthan, encroached
upon 1.219 hectares of central government's Narcotics department at
Chillupar and collected money on the bodies that came for cremation,
sources said.
The income from the shops constructed by him on the land was also
going in the NGO's account, they said.
The Lokayukta in his report dated December 23 also asked the
government to check the activities of the NGO.
Stating that income from the government land cannot be credited to the
account of a person, the Lokayukta suggested the state could take the
land on lease from union government and hand it over to various
departments for development.
The report said the local authorities worked under pressure of the
minister and did not take steps to vacate the land.
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