UP mantri caught insulting disabled

Lucknow: UP minister Satyadev Pachauri has landed into trouble for insulting a physically disabled employee during a surprise inspection. The video clip of the incident has gone viral on the social media. Mr Pachauri who is the minister for Khadi and Village Industries, allegedly made a derogatory reference when he came across a ‘divyang’ contractual employee during an inspection of the department’s office in Dalibagh area here. “You have kept a loola-langda on contract. What will he do? This is the reason behind lack of hygiene here,” he is seen telling senior officials during the inspection. The minister later clarified that he meant that the employee was malnourished and should not have been made to work. The incident comes days after the Yogi Adityanath government renamed the Handicapped Welfare Department as the ‘Divyang Jan Shasaktikaran Vibhag’ (Divyang Empowerment Department). Meanwhile, in another video that has gone viral, BJP MLA Mahendra Yadav is shown slapping a toll plaza employee in Bareilly district. The MLA denied that he had beaten up the employee though he admitted that he had only ‘pushed’ him. The MLA said, “The toll plaza staffers misbehaved after I asked them to let go all vehicles in cavalcade as MLAs are exempted from toll fees.”