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Caught on camera: Samajwadi Party workers thrash toll booth attendant

Published On: January 4, 2014 | Duration: 4 min, 00 sec

Workers of the Samajwadi Party on Friday assaulted a toll plaza attendant on the Lucknow-Faizabad national highway when asked to pay the toll fee. The incident, at the Raunahi toll plaza on National Highway 28, was captured by CCTVs installed there

Bahujan Samaj Party Lead by Miss Mayawati


Uttar Pradesh NRHM Scam is an alleged corruption scandal in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in which top politicians and bureaucrats are alleged to have siphoned off a massive sum estimated at 100 billion (US$1.5 billion)[1] from the National Rural Health Mission, a central government program meant to improve health care delivery in rural areas. At least five people are said to have been murdered in an attempt to coverup large-scale irregularities.[1][2] Several former ministers of then ruling party, Bahujan Samaj Party have been investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation[3]
The NRHM scam came to light after two Chief Medical Officers (the top health functionary of the district) were successively murdered in wealthier localities of the state capital, Lucknow. Dr. Vinod Arya (Oct 2010) and Dr. B. P. Singh (April 2011) were shot dead in broad daylight outside their homes, by motorcycle assassins, using the same weapon.[4] Deputy-CMO Y.S. Sachan, who is thought to have had a role[5] in the murders, was arrested, but died mysteriously while in custody. Subsequently, three other functionaries who were under investigation have also been murdered or died under suspicious circumstances.[6]
In Feb 2012, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself accused the Mayawati government of misusing NRHM funds


Uttar Pradesh food grain scam

Uttar Pradesh food grain scam took place between years 2002 and 2010, in Uttar Pradesh state in India, wherein food grain worth 350 billion (US$5.4 billion), meant to be distributed amongst the poor, through Public Distribution System (PDS) and other welfare schemes like Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), Jawahar Rozgar Yojana and Midday Meal Scheme for Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders, was diverted to the open market. Some of it was traced to the Nepal and Bangladesh borders, as in 2010 security forces seized Rs 11.7 million worth of foodgrains like paddy and pulses being smuggled to Nepal, another Rs 6062,000 worth of grains were confiscated on the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The scam first came into light in 2003, during the Chief Minister ship of Mulayam Singh, in Gonda district in the distribution of foodgrain meant for the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana and soon complaints started pouring in from other districts as well. After initially ordering an inquiry into the scam Mulayam Singh withdrew it.[3] The Special Investigation Team ( SIT) set up by the Mulayam Singh government in 2006, lodged over 5,000 FIRs.[4] Subsequently the next UP chief minister Mayawati upon assuming office, ordered a CBI probe into the scam on 1 December 2007.[1][2][3][5] Media dubbed it, "mother of all scams", and TV news channel, Times Now reported the scam which started in 2002, under the reign of following Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh, estimated to be at over 2000 billion (US$31 billion).[6] Uttar Pradesh as with other states and UTs, is allocated a monthly quantity of foodgrains, i.e. rice and wheat, by the Central government for distribution amongst AAY, BPL and APL families, under TPDS managed by the state government. For the period from Apri1 2010 to March 2011, this quantity for the state was 528395 tons.
The latest of the scam series in India, initially referred as the 'UP rice scam' could be the biggest of them all, even outdistancing the so-called 2G Spectrum scam. The scam involves goofing up of rice worth 2000 billion (US$31 billion). It was a scam that stretched to almost 7 years and 300 FIRs. The scam was reported in UP (Uttar Pradesh, India) between the years 2003-2007, the period when Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav was the chief minister of the UP.