Former Uttar Pradesh minister Ashutosh Tandon passes away
Nov 09, 2023, 01:41 PM ISTAshutosh Tandon, popularly known as Gopal ji, was in Medants Hospital since the past few months after he developed a lung infection and then dengue.
Ashutosh Tandon, popularly known as Gopal ji, was in Medants Hospital since the past few months after he developed a lung infection and then dengue.
Sanjay Rana, a reporter for a YouTube channel, asked questions related to unfulfilled poll promises made by UP minister Gulab Devi. Subsequently, he was arrested on the charges of misbehaving with the minister.
A total of 5 officials including the Public Works Department (PWD) Head & Chief Engineer Manoj Gupta suspended due to transfer irregularities in the department. This is after the action was taken on PWD Minister Jitin Prasada's OSD Anil Kumar Pandey on July 18.
This will be in the line of leaders like Rahul Gandhi wearing ‘janeu’ and Akhilesh Yadav visiting Hanuman temples to pay his obeisance amid the strengthening BJP’s ideology, UP's Panchayati Raj Minister Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary asserted.
Earlier in the day on Saturday, the Samajwadi Party demanded the sacking of UP minister Shukla for accusing Yadav of getting economic support from ISI.
He directed the district police chief to hold an enquiry into the matter and take stern action against those found guilty.
Speaking to news persons on Wednesday, Arun Dwivedi said the registrar of Siddharth University, Rakesh Kumar, informed him that his resignation had been accepted.
Vijay Kashyap is the third UP minister who has succumbed to the virus. Last year, Uttar Pradesh ministers Kamal Rani Varun and Chetan Chauhan had died from the infection.
The body of Shubham (20), who had gone out of his house on Thursday evening, was found on the railway track, Amethi Station House Officer (SHO) Shyam Sunder said.
Seven locations in Lucknow, Kanpur and Amethi are being searched by the central probe agency under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Police officials requesting anonymity said an FIR was registered against Lalit Agarwal on December 26 at the Hazratganj Police Station in this regard.
Singh was elected MLA from the Khatoli Assembly Constituency on a Bharatiya Kranti Dal ticket in 1974.
Chetan Chauhan is the second UP Minister who died due to coronavirus.
The minister said that burqas were being used by 'terrorists' to conceal their identity, apparently in reference to protests by women protesting against CAA in the Shahjamal area in Agra.
Shukla, who also holds the portfolio of rural development, said posters of former Congress president and party general secretary adorn walls of that country.
Neetu Nishad added that she has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, seeking their intervention in the matter as she had tried to file a complaint against her husband several times but to no avail.
"India is a country where Bharat ruled Lord Ram's kingdom for 14 years with the kharau (wooden slippers) of the latter on the throne. This (gesture of someone helping him wear shoes) should be appreciated," said UP Minister Laxmi Narayan.
BSP supremo Mayawati will address public rallies in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur and Kannauj, on Thursday, to garner votes for her party in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.
"Lord Ram is a personality, which is incomparable -- be it as a son or a warrior. Lord Ram is our role model... It was due to Lord Ram that India became a global superpower," Chaudhary said.
The minister says he got the idea from Amar Singh, who recently paid him a visit. "Amar Singh ji suggested that if authorities were not paying head to my requests, I should at least fix the road temporarily myself. Today the idea struck and I did it."
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