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Madhya Pradesh

Assembly polls:

Opposition unity

in delusion

• Graft probe In the wake of the upcoming assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, BJP is
Mayawati and raking up controversies of erstwhile to thwart ‘Mahagathbandhan’ win in the
Akhilesh Yadav
are likely to state, writes mudit mathur
face corruption
probes ahead he road to opposition- Maurya bitterly failed to counter vestment of 21 state-owned sugar
of 2019 polls unity in the upcoming realignments of Dalit, OBC and mills in 2010-11 during the Maya-
Madhya Pradesh assem- Muslim resulting in new phenom- wati rule, the Yogi Adityanath gov-
bly election seems to be a ena, setting aside communal po- ernment referred the matter to the
T distant reality in wake of larisation even in the strongholds CBI on April 12, 2018, giving it long
the mounting pressure on chiefs of of ‘Hindutva’ in Kairana and Noor- rope for investigations. The terms of
Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwa- pur of western Uttar Pradesh. The reference for investigations include,
di Party, ever since their alliance de- extension of the alliance in Mad- “entire sale proceedings of 21 sugar
feated Bharatiya Janata Party in the hya Pradesh of Congress and other mills and money trail through shell
by-elections held in Uttar Pradesh smaller parties appeared to be the companies and related documents
for Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha. most worrisome proposition in the with regard to the purchase of sev-
Analysing the impact of the future continuance of BJP rule as the cru- en closed mills of Deoria, Bareilly,
prospects, the BJP stalwarts have cial assembly polls are barely five- Laxmiganj, Hardoi, Ramkola, Chit-
started shrewd moves to counter month away and its outcome would tauni and Barabanki.” It is alleged
them on account of alleged corrup- indicate emerging public mood to that it had caused a loss of 1,179
tion and disproportionate of assets form a political picture for the sev- crore to the state exchequer. The CBI
during their rules. enteenth Lok Sabha. quickly swung into action acceding
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Questioning the alleged corrup- to the state’s request and undertook
and his deputy CM Keshav Prasad tion in procedural haste on disin- the high profile political case into its

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