NEW DELHI: The Lucknow 'state guest house incident' of 1995 in which BSP supremo Mayawati was alleged to have been encircled by Samajwadi Party suppor.
Former Uttar Pradesh DGP O P Singh recalls the Lucknow state guest house incident of 1995 in his memoir Crime, Grime & Gumption: Case files of an IPS officer . Singh dedicates a chapter to this infamous episode, calling it an indecorous political drama that changed the politics in UP and impacted the country. He provides a blow-by-blow account of the events that took place on June 2, 1995, when he took charge as SSP (Lucknow). Singh was suspended by the new government but later reinstated.
Varanasi: A 35-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified miscreants near Parshurampur area under the limits of Adalhat police station in Mirzapur aft.