Security personnel have reached the Uttar Pradesh Assembly after suspicious white powder was found under MLA Manoj Pandey’s seat. (Source: ANI) Security personnel have reached the Uttar Pradesh Assembly after suspicious white powder was found under MLA Manoj Pandey’s seat. (Source: ANI)A day after a packet containing white powder, later identified as explosives, was found inside the Uttar Pradesh Assembly during the ongoing budget session, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the NIA (National Investigation Agency) should be given charge of leading the investigation into the major security lapse. Terrorists want to spread their nexus all across the nation, but they won’t get the access to Uttar Pradesh or its Assembly,” UP minister Sidharth Nath Singh told ANI. The law and order situation lacks order.”The UP Assembly session began this week in which the Adityanath-led BJP government presented its first budget.

Source: Indian Express July 14, 2017 05:09 UTC