PIL in Allahabad HC against Mayawati statues

Social activist and National RTI Forum convener Nutan Thakur has filed a PIL in the Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench on the way statues of living political leaders are being installed on public land at the expense of the public exchequer.

The petitioner has prayed before the High Court to direct the Centre and the UP government to ensure no such statues of living persons are installed at public place at public expense. She said it was only because of this reason that the Election Commission had issued an order for covering the statues of Mayawati put up in public places at government expense.

Old food scam may haunt Akhilesh govt

Ahead of Akhilesh Yadav taking the reign of Uttar Pradesh following the startling debacle of Mayawati controlled BSP government in the recent polls, Uttar Pradesh government is already caught in the web of old food scam.

An estranged Congress activist and lawyer Vishwanath Chaturvedi has sought lifting of stay on the pending probe into the food scam that was sown when Mulayam Singh Yadav was the CM and continued to enrich the state when Mayawati succeeded him. On his law suit, the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to CBI, UP government and the Centre among others seeking their response  to why the probe shouldn’t be allowed.