Zeenews Bureau
Lucknow: Worried about the fallout of one of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA threatening an engineer of the state irrigation department, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday ordered a swift inquiry into the incident.
Executive engineer Shiv Das had yesterday sent his resignation letter to Mayawati seeking to draw her attention to "repeated demands for money" by Bhimrao Ambedkar, who represents Lakhna Assembly constituency in Etawah district.
According to Das, Ambedkar had warned him that he would meet the fate of Manoj Kumar Gupta if he did not comply.
Gupta, an executive engineer of the public works department, was allegedly beaten to death by BSP legislator Shekhar Tiwari in the neighbouring Auraiya district in 2008.
"That is why I have chosen to resign from service rather than meet a gory end," Das wrote in the letter, copies of which were sent to the state Irrigation Minister and Irrigation Secretary.
(With IANS inputs)
First Published: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 17:56