Surprising! UP govt cries hoarse about corruption in Lucknow Metro

Sanjay Bhatnagar
Published on: 12 Dec 2017 10:42 AM GMT
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Lucknow: In a rather queer manner, the Chief Minister office of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday took to social media to state, for the first time, the financial irregularities in Lucknow Metro project.

The official twitter handle of the Chief Minister Office of UP has come out with the resolve of the Yogi government to root out corruption from Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) beside mentioning irregularities in Lucknow Metro and Janeshwar Mishra park in the state capital, arguably the biggest park in Asia. It said that there had been financial bungling to the tune of Rs 500 crore.

https://twitter.com/CMOfficeUP/status/940487585520062464

It may be recalled that the Yogi government has launched probe into many of the projects executed during the previous regime of Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party. It was the first time the officer twitter handle was used to mention about the corruption.

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Significantly, the much-hyped Lucknow-Agra Expressway project and Gomti River Front project were also under probe but the clean chit was given in the former while River Front project was being probed by the CBI.

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The twitteratis had some interesting reactions on public display of government's preliminary findings as some said it has nothing been short of pressure tactics because the Yogi government has hardly found any anomalies in several projects.

Sanjay Bhatnagar

Sanjay Bhatnagar

Writer is a bi-lingual journalist with experience of about three decades in print media before switching over to digital media. He is a political commentator and covered many political events in India and abroad.

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