The Asian Age

UP makes news with a croc near CM house, leaking roof

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Monday was a day for “news with a difference” in Uttar Pradesh.

A crocodile was sighted in a canal near chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s house on Monday while UP health minister Siddhartha Nath Singh tweeted a video of his official bungalow in which the roof was leaking.

Some people strolling along the Haider canal near the chief minister’s residence on Monday morning saw a crocodile sleeping on the side of the canal. The men made a

Health minister Siddhartha Nath Singh tweeted a video of his official bungalow which had a leaking roof

video, and the crocodile, seeing activity around, quietly slipped back into the water.

As the video went viral on social media, the forest department officials swung into action and reached the spot but the crocodile was nowhere to be seen. Forest officials have put up wire mesh at several points along the canal that runs between the chief minister’s residence and the director general of police’s office but the crocodile remained elusive.

Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh minister Siddhartha Nath Singh created a furore when he tweeted a video of the leaking roof of his officials bungalow at 19 Gautam Palli.

The minister wrote “pathetic condition of a minister’s bungalow and we have to still depend on government agencies. Time to look beyond them and bring competitio­n/quality.”

 ?? — THE ASIAN AGE ?? (From left) New CJI Justice Dipak Misra, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, President Ram Nath Kovind, PM Narenda Modi, law and justice minister Ravi Shankar Prasad during a ceremony at Rashtrapat­i Bhavan in New Delhi on Monday.
— THE ASIAN AGE (From left) New CJI Justice Dipak Misra, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, President Ram Nath Kovind, PM Narenda Modi, law and justice minister Ravi Shankar Prasad during a ceremony at Rashtrapat­i Bhavan in New Delhi on Monday.

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