The Indian Express (Delhi Edition)
‘BJP should stay away from Amanmani, his kin’
THE SISTER of Madhumita Shukla and mother of Sara Singh on Monday warned the BJP against inducting Amanmani Tripathi or any of his family members.
While former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani are in jail for Madhumita’s murder, their son Amanmani has been booked by the CBI for allegedly killing his wife Sara.
At a joint press meet, Madhumita’s sister Nidhi Shukla and Sara’s mother Seema Singh said Amanmani and his family were trying to influence the CBI probe against him.
They alleged that Amanmani had met Yogi Adityanath soon after winning the recent state polls from Nautanwa in Maharajganj district as an Independent. This was before Adityanath was named Uttar Pradesh CM.
Thetwosaidtheyhadwritten to Deputy CM and state BJP president Keshav Prasad Maurya, requestinghimnottoinductamanmani or his relatives in the BJP.
“Amanmani and his family members are spreading rumours that they are going to join the BJP. It would be an insult to the mandate given by the people of UP to the BJP for maintaining law and order and providing dignity to women if someone like Amanmani is inducted. When I had told former CM Akhilesh Yadav about his offence, he had denied a ticket to him and handed over the investigation to the CBI. If he joins the BJP, he would try to influence the CBI investigation,” Seema said she had written in her letter.
Alleging that “suspicious people” had been visiting her home in Lucknow, Seema demanded Amarmani and Madhumani, who are serving life term, be sent to a jail outside Uttar Pradesh. She said she would also challenge the bail granted to Amanmani by the Allahabad High Court.
Nidhi said Amarmani and Madhumani should not be kept in Gorakhpur jail as “they were being allowed to meet more people than what was the norm”. “They should be in Varanasi Central Jail and not in Gorakhpur District Jail. Amarmani is trying to get his family inducted into the BJP so that he can influence the cases. I had called the office of Yogi Adityanath after he met Amanmani. His staff only told me that Amanmani could have come to visit the Gorakhnath Mutt.”
“Amanmani had put up several hoardings in Gorakhpur welcoming Adityanath when the CM visited the area after his election. We hope the BJP and the CM would realise it does not need a criminal,” she added.
Amanmanicontestedtheassembly polls while he was in jail and bagged 79,666 votes against SP’S Kaushal Kishore Singh’s 47,410. Amanmani was expelled by the SP in February.
Initschargesheetfiledonfebruary 18, the CBI concluded that Amanmani was guilty of killing Sara by strangulation with a “premeditated plan” of getting rid of her, and portraying a “fake” road accident as the cause of her death.