Rakesh Sachan, an influential Kurmi leader from central Uttar Pradesh, has been in the news since last year, when an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s court sentenced him to one-year imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1,500 in a 1991 Arms Act case. , Photo Credit: Facebook/@RakeshSachanBJP
The Uttar Pradesh government canceled the allotment of 72 industrial plots to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) minister Rakesh Sachan on February 21, amid allegations from the opposition that all the plots were lying unutilized without any lease deeds . Not a single rupee has been paid against these plots since 2012. On the report of the two-member inquiry committee, the state industries department ordered cancellation of allotment of these industrial plots located in Fatehpur industrial area of Fatehpur district.
The department is also planning to initiate action against the officials who allotted these industrial plots on a large scale. 32 plots were allotted in Mini Industrial Asthan Chakrata and 40 in Saduapur. The Uttar Pradesh Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDC) had 367 plots in the industrial area of Fatehpur, out of which 72 plots were allotted to Shri Sachan, the then Lok Sabha MP of two educational institutions. The revelation came when the state government identified vacant plots at the recently concluded Global Investors Summit (GIS) 2023.
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Mr. Sachan, an influential Kurmi leader from central Uttar Pradesh, has been in the news since last year, when an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s court sentenced him to one-year imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹1,500 in a 1991 Arms Act case. It was also alleged that the minister “ran away” from the courtroom with a copy of the court order. The reader of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court had filed a complaint against him at the Kotwali police station in Kanpur for allegedly carrying the copy of the order.
The minister, however, denied the allegations, claiming that incriminating material was going against him and asked the police to examine the CCTV footage. Mr. Sachan was later granted bail as the sentence is less than three years.
Shri Sachan, who started his politics from Samajwadi Party (SP), won assembly elections in 1993 and 2002 from Ghatampur assembly seat on SP ticket and also won parliamentary elections in 2009 from Fatehpur Lok Sabha seat. He joined the saffron party ahead of the 2022 assembly elections.