Meet the ex-IAS officer pushing for probity in public life through his NGO

The mild-mannered Shukla devotes four-five hours daily to Lok Prahari

The wiry frame and cheerful disposition of septuagenarian S N Shukla mask his firm resolve of while taking on the high and mighty of Indian politics and pushing for electoral and political reforms through the judiciary.

The man, who fought for disenfranchising former Uttar Pradesh chief ministers of government accommodation, lives in Nirala Nagar, a quiet residential enclave in Lucknow’s trans-Gomti area.

It is because of Shukla’s petition in the Supreme Court that the A-list UP politicians were forced to vacate their palatial government bungalows situated 5 km apart on the opposite side of the Gomti!

The evicted leaders, many