A day after U.P. Lokayukt recommended his dismissal on disproportionate assets charges, Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday sacked secondary education minister Rangnath Misra and also labour minister Badshah Singh, who too is under scanner of the anti-graft ombudsmen.
Cracking the whip, the chief minister ordered vigilance inquiry against them, state president of BSP Swami Prasad Maurya said in a statement quoting Ms. Mayawati.
Both the ministers have been asked to fight the graft cases in court and if they are proved innocent, they would be reinstated in the ministry, the statement said.
Earlier on the basis of the Lokayukt report, Animal Husbandry minister Avadhpal Singh Yadav and religious endowment minister Rajesh Tripathi had also lost their ministerial berths.
