In Adityanath's UP, bureaucrats in the firing line

BJP-led govt has put various Akhilesh- and Mayawati-era projects under the scanner

In the backdrop of former coal secretary H C Gupta being handed a two-year jail term by a special CBI court in New Delhi after being convicted, along with two others, of cheating, a similar fate could befall several serving and superannuated bureaucrats of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) cadre.

After coming to power, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at its helm, had announced to unearth alleged irregularities and syphoning off public money in flagship government projects during the previous Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav governments.

Adityanath has already ordered probes into several key projects