She also went on to claim that she had not only brought various mafia dons to book in the state, but had also seized their ill-gotten property and assets to the tune of Rs 230 crore over the past three years.
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, she said: "The July 12 blast was carried out to target my minister, Nand Gopal Nandi, whose popularity had become an eye sore for the entire Opposition, whom he left far behind at the 2007 state assembly election."
She said, "The fact that Nandi gave a devastating defeat to influential nominees of the Samajwadi Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, signalled his emergence as the most popular leader of the area, thereby becoming a threat to different Opposition parties."
Describing the minister's assailants as 'close associates' of criminal-turned Samajwadi Party legislator Vijay Misra, she said, "It is an open secret that Vijay Misra's close kin Dilip Misra had intimidated and beaten up Nandi whom they wanted out of the election fray." She said, "Nandi, however, decided to fight
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