Just in: UP minister of state for PWD and irrigation, Surendra Patel, slaps a boy during a blanket distribution camp in Varanasi. 

The Samajwadi Party minister was caught on camera slapping the boy at Rohania village yesterday, where he went to promote a government-sponsored blanket drive.

On Friday, making a mockery of deaths in the Muzaffarnagar relief camps, Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary for Home Anil Gupta had said that children living in the relief camp did not die of cold.

Children died because they were taken for treatment outside the camps in which they were living, he said.

Gupta said that the children died of pneumonia, premature deaths and not of cold. "No one can die of cold. If people die of cold then nobody will survive in Siberia, " he said.