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Re-induction after Minister gets clean chit from CBI: Mayawati

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW JUNE 20. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, today said that the dropped Minister of State, Amarmani Tripathi, would have to wait till the CBI proved him innocent before he could be re-inducted into the Council of Ministers.

Talking to newspersons here, Ms. Mayawati said that she had earlier announced her intention to re-induct Mr. Tripathi pending the CBI investigations provided he was given a clean chit by the family of the murdered poetess, Madhumita Shukla.

A message, meanwhile, had been received from the mother of Madhumita saying that she had never accused Mr. Tripathi of her daughter's murder.

The message of Madhumita's mother could, however, not be relied upon in view of her changing statements during investigations into the case.

Once she demanded an enquiry by the CB-CID and then changed the demand to seek an enquiry by the CBI and wrote that she was not satisfied with the CB-CID investigations.

Her frequent vacillations proved that Madhumita's mother did not have coherence in her utterances and her latest statement could not be relied upon, Ms. Mayawati said.

As the Chief Minister, she firmly believed in the rule of law and did not think that anyone, howsoever powerful, was above the law.

She had proved her "impartiality in the present case by handing over investigations to the CBI" and hoped that the investigating agency would go to the root of the case.

There was no legal compulsion for her to keep Mr. Tripathi out of her Council of Ministers pending the CBI investigations but she had decided otherwise only to protect the values of justice, Ms. Mayawati added.

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