UP govt most corrupt ever, alleges BJP MLA Nand Kishore Gurjar; Akhilesh takes dig
Ghaziabad, Mar 21 (PTI): BJP MLA from Loni, Nand Kishore Gurjar, on Friday alleged in a press conference that Uttar Pradesh has the "most corrupt government ever", and the officers are misleading Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and looting the exchequer.
Gurjar attended a press conference in a torn kurta alleging that "the police had torn my clothes".
He alleged that the chief secretary had tied the brain of "Maharaj Ji" by applying occult arts on him.
"The chief secretary is the most corrupt officer in the world. The officers have looted land in Ayodhya," said Gurjar.
Samajwadi Party president and former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav latched on to Gurjar's statements and attacked the Yogi Adityanath government.
"In the BJP's rule, the BJP members themselves are revealing secrets how injustice and corruption have spread everywhere. Now will they get his reports changed as well?" Yadav said in Hindi on X, sharing a news report about the BJP MLA's claims.
Gurjar told reporters that the women of Loni were carrying out 'Ram Kalash Yatra' on Thursday but police tried to intercept it. This took an ugly turn, the MLA noted.
ACP (Ankur Vihar) Ajay Kumar Singh said the MLA and his supporters were trying to bring out the Yatra without any permission. On the other hand, the MLA claimed an application for permission was given by the SDM of Loni.
Gurjar told the media that Ram Kalash Yatra is traditional and permission was never sought by the organisers before this year.
He attacked his party-led government, alleging that cow slaughtering on a mass scale is going on in UP and that people are being killed in fake encounters.
In a video, he urged the Gurjar Samaj not to jam traffic and to maintain peace everywhere.
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Rupee falls 9 paise to all-time low of 90.58 against US dollar in early trade
Mumbai (PTI): Rupee depreciated 9 paise to an all-time low of 90.58 against US dollar in early trade on Monday, weighed down by uncertainty over an India-US trade deal and persistent foreign fund outflows.
Forex traders said rupee is trading with a negative bias as investors are in wait and watch mode and awaiting cues from the India-US trade deal front.
At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 90.53 against the US dollar, then fell further to an all-time intraday low of 90.58 against the greenback, registering a fall of 9 paise over its previous close.
On Friday, the rupee had slipped 17 paise to close at an all-time low of 90.49 against the American currency.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.05 per cent lower at 98.35.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was trading higher by 0.52 per cent at USD 61.44 per barrel in futures trade.
On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share benchmark index Sensex was trading 298.86 points lower at 84,968.80, while the Nifty was down 121.40 points at 25,925.55.
Foreign Institutional Investors sold equities worth Rs 1,114.22 crore on Friday, according to exchange data.
"FPIs continue to be in selling mode in equity and debt while RBI has been selling dollars to fund their long positions," said Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP.
