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Mayawati wants widespread probe

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LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday took on the Samajwadi Party for demanding a judicial inquiry into her assets and said she had no objection to the probe provided an inquiry was also conducted into the assets of Central and State leaders, including the Prime Ministers, Union Ministers, Chief Ministers and Ministers who have held office since Independence. Ms. Mayawati said the assets of these Central and State leaders and their close relatives before they entered politics and what were their assets after joining politics – the manner and the source -- should be made the terms of reference of the probe.

Hits out at Congress

“Let the people know the truth,” she said, adding that no political leader had the courage to accept her demand.

Simultaneously she hit out at the Congress for trying to stage a dharna in Badalpur (her native village) in Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida) on Tuesday and dubbed it as a political drama.

Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh had on Monday demanded a judicial inquiry into Ms. Mayawati’s assets and levelled charges of corruption against the Bahujan Samaj Party regime. Describing the SP statement as politically motivated, the Chief Minister told reporters here that her property and assets, and their sources, had been documented by the Income Tax Department. Besides, the Central Bureau of Investigation had also conducted a probe into her assets and the reports by different officers had been in her favour, Ms. Mayawati said, adding that the facts had been presented in Parliament.

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