Corrupt will be brought to book, BJP warns UP opposition

Uttar Pradesh's ruling BJP on Monday welcomed the state government's move to hand over to the CBI the probe into the sale of 21 sugar mills by the then Mayawati government to private owners, saying that no corrupt politicians will be spared.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state spokesman Manish Shukla said that the decision had proved that the government had zero tolerance for graft.

"Then Chief Minister Mayawati (of the Bahujan Samaj Party) had sold these sugar mills for pittance to private players, hurting the interests of the farmers, forcing them to change their crop cycle and causing revenue loss to the state exchequer," he told reporters here

The hasty decision also led to loss of employment for thousands working in these sugar mills, he said.

During the tenure of the Samajwadi Party government, the then Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav played with the lives of unemployed youth and there were gross irregularities in various recruitment processes, alleged Shukla, adding that these too would be probed and the guilty brought to book.

He also claimed that the SP and BSP had forged an alliance to thwart any action against them by the Adityanath government.

--IANS

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