UP ministers plotting to kill me: Jailed SP MLA

Controversial Samajwadi Party member of Legislative Assembly Vijay Mishra, arrested in connection with bomb attack on Uttar Pradesh minister Nand Gopal Nandi, has alleged that two ministers in Mayawati government were plotting to get him murdered.

Amid tight security, the SP MLA from Gyanpur, who was booked under stringent Gangsters Act, was last night shifted to Meerut district jail from Allahabd's Naini prison where he had been lodged following his arrest in Delhi on February 8. He is accused of engineering the bomb blast outside state cabinet minister Nand Gopal Nandi's residence in Allahabad on July 12, which killed two persons besides injuring the minister grievously.

Mishra told reporters outside the jail that he never had anything against Nandi and claimed that attempts on his life have been made twice in the past.

"I am being falsely implicated in the case at the behest of the Mayawati government," the MLA alleged. He accused two ministers in Mayawati cabinet of plotting to kill him with the help of the police.

Mishra alleged that the UP police chief harboured an old enmity with him.

Santosh Kumar, senior Superintendent, Meerut jail, said the MLA has been lodged in a high-security barrack.