New Delhi: With hardly a fortnight left for the Uttar Pradesh elections to get under way, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh faces a day of reckoning on Thursday when the Supreme Court pronounces its judgement on a PIL seeking a CBI probe into the allegation that Mulayam and his family members have amassed wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income.
On its part, the Yadav family has questioned the maintainability of the PIL.
The petitioner, Uttar Pradesh resident Vishwanath Chaturvedi, however alleges that the Chief Minister and his family members, including his MP son Akhilesh, acquired wealth in crores through illegal means.
He has also named Akhilesh's wife Dimple and Yadav's other son Pratik as beneficiaries of the alleged disproportionate assets acquired by the family between 2001 to 2005.
The CM has alleged that the PIL was motivated by political vendetta as Chaturvedi was associated with the Congress Party. He claimed that Chaturvedi was the head of the Public Interest Litigation cell of the Congress, who in the last Assembly election had contested against BJP President Rajnath Singh.
Chaturvedi had maintained that he was not guided by the political considerations to file the PIL against Yadav.
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