Sting exposes candidates in UP willing to do illegal acts for mone

New Delhi, Apr 6 (UNI) Exposing the deep rooted corruption in the political system, a sting operation has revealed that candidates of various political parties in Uttar Pradesh were willing to bestow a litany of favours to corporate houses, including horse trading, lobbying to stop governmental investigation against them, help in toppling the government and even arranging fake encounters for their enemies.

The sting operation carried out by a Cobrapost-IBN 7 team telecast this evening has exposed ten candidates of different political parties including BSP, SP, Congress, RKP and BJP, in return for money were willing to bestow a litany of favours to journalists posing as businessmen affiliated with an imaginary corporate group.

Lasting two months, the undercover operation unearthed deep-rooted corruption in political parties across the spectrum as politicians, including MLAs, ex-MLAs and ex-ministers, demanded money ranging between Rs15 lakhs to 1.5 crores for doing several favours to the corporate house. The 10 future MLAs made promises and assertions some of which were clearly criminal in nature and violating the law and order of the land.

The candidates exposed in investigation were two sitting MLAs Kalyan Singh Dhore of BSP and Madan Gautam of Samajwadi Party, former minister Awadh Pal Singh Yadav of BSP, two ex-MLAs Ramveshwar Dayal Valmiki of the Congress and Santan Pandey of the SP and political leaders Mamtesh Shakya of BSP, Sujan Singh of BJP/JD(U), Satya Prakash Yadav of BSP, Vyas Munni Yadav of RKP and Uday Veer Singh of SP.

The favours that these politicians were prepared to do for the imaginary corporate house ranged from indulging in horse trading, lobbying to stop any governmental investigation against the corporate house, help in toppling the government, arranging fake encounters with enemies of the corporate house and asking questions at the behest of the corporate house in the state assembly.

Some of them even promised to stop any investigation against the corporate house and even fix someone through encounters in return for Rs 50 lakh from the reporter posing as a businessman.

Kalyan Singh Dohre, BSP candidate from Kanauj claimed, ''Hamne panch panch encounter karwaye hai, hum pachas booth capture kar lenge. Company ko nukshan pahuchane wali policy ka assembly me virodh karenge (I have arranged even five encounters, We will get 50 booths captured. I will oppose the policies affecting the business interest of the company in the assembly).'' MORE UNI AJ RP KN2003