Allahbad, July 12 (IANS) An Uttar Pradesh minister was critically injured in a blast outside his residence in Allahabad district Monday, police said. Nand Gopal Nandi, the minister for institutional finance, has been admitted to the Jivan Jyoti Hospital here.

‘The bomb was placed inside a vehicle which was parked outside his residence in Muthi Ganj,’ a police official said.