Word: mayawati
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...states, too, few chief ministers are untarnished by scandal. Perhaps most notorious today is Mayawati, who resigned in August as chief minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, to fight charges that her freewheeling administration threatened to undermine the very foundations of the country's national symbol, the Taj Mahal. According to charges drawn up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Mayawati and others in the state government flouted rules on the environment and competitive tendering in their plans for a $60 million tourist mall, positioned uncomfortably close behind the marble mausoleum. The construction required the Yamuna River...
...million was spent by the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh?Xwhere 645 people died from the cold?Xto entertain 25,000 guests at Chief Minister Mayawati Kumari's birthday celebrations last Wednesday...