The agency said Yadav, who also held the mining portfolio for sometime, had cleared 14 leases, of which 13 were cleared on February 17, 2013, in violation of e-tendering process
Congress' Azad said he is apprehensive that the BJP govt will target more opposition leaders by initiating action through probe agencies as the general elections approach
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday slammed the Modi government for "shamelessly unleashing" the CBI on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and said it is time to throw out "this dictatorial and undemocratic regime". According to reports, the Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to quiz the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister in an illegal mining case. "In its last weeks in office, Modi govt shamelessly unleashing CBI on @yadavakhilesh is a reminder to all that we must not forget what Modi's political opponents have faced during last five years. Time to throw out this dictatorial & undemocratic regime (sic)," he tweeted. On Sunday, Yadav said he is ready to face the probe agency, but people are also ready to answer the BJP. The CBI carried out searches at 14 locations Saturday in connection with its FIR against 11 persons, including IAS officer B Chandrakala, SP MLC Ramesh Kumar Mishra and Sanjay Dixit (who unsuccessfully contested the 2017 assembly election on a .
The CBI searched 14 places Saturday in connection with its FIR against 11 persons, including a former Samajwadi Party minister.
Another former minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati is also likely to be summoned by the CBI in the case
Stating that the intention of the RSS and BJP are 'anti-people', Yadav said, 'both work to flare up communal sentiments, divide society and hatch conspiracies'.
Both Mulayam and Akhilesh last month vacated their official bungalows on Vikrmaditya Marg following Supreme Court orders
The estate department of UP reacted by saying it would check the inventory and if it was found that the damages were done intentionally, it would serve a notice to the former occupant
The Supreme Court, on May 7, observed that former Uttar Pradesh chief ministers cannot retain government accommodation after demitting office.
The apex court, in its order, said former chief ministers of the state were not entitled to government bungalows
He also spoke of his continuing friendship with the Congress and the "good rapport" with all opposition parties, including the Bahujan Samaj Party
The former chief minister said the impact of the jinx was "visible"
Yadav said that the BJP had won the UP Assembly polls with two-third majority but in the civic polls it had failed to win in the same manner
Much was made of the child and pictures of Yadav chucking him under the chin were all over the internet
Yadav claimed that demonetisation and GST had forced people to come out on the road
Mulayam Singh Yadav failed to turn up at the party's 10th National Convention in Agra despite reports of him arriving at the Lucknow airport had earlier made rounds
His re-election was announced by senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav at the SP national convention
At the SP meet, the passage of political and economic resolutions will be highlighted as well as the amendment of party's constitution to extend tenure of party chief
Mulayam and his brother Shivpal Yadav were not invited to the party's state executive meet held here on September 23
Former UP CM says they have tried to stop the Samajwadi movement many times in the past