Modi man is given UP charge by BJP
The BJP leadership on Sunday handed over crucial Uttar Pradesh to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi’s right-hand man Amit Shah, naming him the state in-charge. Speculation is rife in BJP circles that Mr Modi, considered the PM candidate frontrunner, might also contest the Lok Sabha polls from Lucknow, a constituency from where former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee won five times.
BJP president Rajnath Singh also appointed other state in-charges, working groups and convenors of various party cells on Sunday.
Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi was made West Bengal in-charge, while general secretary Dharmendra Pradhan is now the Bihar in-charge. Vice-president Prabhat Jha is in charge of Andhra.
But in-charges in states heading for Assembly polls — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh — have not been changed.
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U.P. death: CBI may probe, 42 cops face FIR
Amita Verma
Lucknow, May 19
UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has recommended a CBI inquiry into the death in police custody of Khalid Mujahid, a terror accused, on Saturday. This was at the request of his family.
A FIR was also registered in Barabanki against 42 police officials, including former DGP Vikram Singh and DGP (training) Brij Lal, part of the special task force and anti-terror squad that arrested Mujahid. They were booked under IPC Sections 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 302 (murder). The FIR was filed by Khalid’s uncle Zaheer Alam, who alleged a conspiracy against the deceased and said he had been “framed” by the police in a blasts case.
The CM also ordered a probe into Mujahid’s death by the state home secretary, an additional DGP-level officer and an IG-level officer.
Khalid Mujahid, an accused in Gorakhpur, Lucknow and Faizabad serial blasts cases, died Saturday while being brought to Lucknow from a Faizabad court in a police van. In November 2007, blasts in the three cities killed over a dozen people.
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