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Mayawati sacks four ministers for corruption
NDTV Correspondent, Updated: December 25, 2011 21:13 IST
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati sacked four ministers on Sunday.
In a decision ratified by state Governor BL Joshi - Rakesh Dhar
Tripathi, Minister for Higher Education, Rajpal Tyagi, Agriculture &
Rural Development Minister, Avdhesh Kumar Verma the Minister for
Backward Welfare and Hari Om, Minister for Home guards were dropped
from the UP cabinet.
The decision to remove these ministers comes close on the heels of a
scathing indictment of these ministers soon by Uttar Pradesh
Lokayukta.
Rakesh Dhar Tripathi has been indicted for corruption. Besides facing
a slew of corruption charges, Hari Om, the Home Guards Minister has
been booked for kidnapping. And the CBI is investigating the role of
Rajpal Tyagi for his alleged role in a fake encounter.
The minister's portfolios have been reallocated between three senior
ministers in her cabinet. The ministers are Naseemuddin Siddiqui, who
is now the Minister for Higher Education. Indrajit Saroj is now the
Minister for Backward Welfare. Laxmi Narayan is now the Minister for
Agriculture and Rural Development. The Minister for Home Guards has
not been assigned so far.
Mayawati's clean-up act comes a day after the poll schedule for Uttar
Pradesh was announced by the Election Commission. The
politically-sensitive state will witness seven phases of polling from
February 4 to February 28.
In the run up to the polls, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister has been
targeted continuously by Congress' Rahul Gandhi over the issue of
corruption.
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