UP govt invested UPPCL employees' hard-earned money in 'dubious' company: Priyanka Gandhi

Hitting out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the EPF scam, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday accused the state's BJP-led dispensation of investing the hard-earned money of UPPCL's employees in "dubious" companies.

She said "catching the small fish to deviate attention" will not do and the real culprits should be exposed.

According to a statement issued by the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday, Rs 2,631.20 crore of the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited's (UPPCL) employees' provident fund (EPF) was invested into the scam-hit Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL).

This was done by Praveen Kumar Gupta, former secretary of the Uttar Pradesh State Power Employees Trust and the Provident Fund Trust of the UPPCL, and Sudhanshu Dwivedi, the former director, finance, beginning March 2017, the statement said.

Both of them were arrested on Saturday.

"The money belongs to the (UPPCL) employees and the decision to invest their money in a dubious company is that