Delhi: AAP workers hold protest outside police headquarters
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called for a meeting with state Police Commissioner BS Bassi on Monday to discuss the law and order situation in the national capital in the wake of the stabbing of a 19-year-old girl last week. Aam Aadmi Party leaders said that they would continue to raise the issue of the lack of accountability of the Delhi Police, which lies under the control of the Central government. Meanwhile, workers from the party on Sunday held two separate protests in the city, one of which was held outside the police headquarters. Several AAP volunteers were detained as police officers resorted to firing water cannons to disperse the crowd. Later, Bassi said that he would use the meeting to try and dispel the “misconceptions” about the functioning of the police in the state.
West Bengal: Rights group to sue government over Kishenji killing
A Kolkata-based civil rights group on Sunday said that it was planning to sue the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal over the killing of Communist Party of India (Maoist) leader Kishenji in 2011. The members of the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights said that they were “coordinating” with Kishenji’s family in Telangana to file a Public Interest Litigation with the state High Court. The development took place days after Banerjee’s nephew and TMC member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee said that the state government had “murdered” the Maoist leader. While the state administration has maintained that Kishenji was killed in an encounter with security forces in the Paschim Mednipore district of the state, civil rights activists have alleged that he was “abducted and tortured to death in cold blood” by the state administration.
Punjab: Amarinder Singh threatening bureaucrats, SAD says
The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab on Sunday alleged that Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh was threatening bureaucrats in the state. SAD spokesperson Dr DS Cheema said that bureaucrats in the state were “working day and night for the development of Punjab”. He further alleged that Singh had earlier attempted to “terrorise” officers to prevent them from “performing their bona-fide duties”, adding that the Congress leader had also asked former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop providing multi-crore rupee grants to the state. The SAD’s remarks came a day after Singh cautioned bureaucrats over the rising debt situation in the state. Later, Congress MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh defended Amarinder, saying that the SAD was attempting to borrow money as they knew that they would not win the upcoming 2017 assembly elections in the state.
Bihar: Paswan says caste data will affect Lalu, Nitish
Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday said that the release of the caste data of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census would affect Bihar leaders Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar the most. Advocating for the classification of the data before its release, the LJP chief said that “some delay” was preferred as it would affect those “making the maximum noise over it”. Paswan further claimed that members of the Extremely Backward Castes had shifted their allegiance to the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance. Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal and Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) along with other parties have criticised the Central government for not releasing the data. Last week, the Centre set up an expert group to start collating the findings of the Census.
Maharashtra: State working on measures to help farmers, Fadnavis says
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said that his government was working on long-term measures to help farmers in the state. Fadnavis said that farmers in the state would sow their crops even in the absence of rains, adding that it was “essential for the government” to plan for such a situation. The long-term measures would benefit farmers in the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of the state, the chief minister said. “The crisis faced by farmers cannot be overcome if the agriculture sector is viewed from the angle of elections,” he said. “I will speak about it in the House tomorrow.”
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called for a meeting with state Police Commissioner BS Bassi on Monday to discuss the law and order situation in the national capital in the wake of the stabbing of a 19-year-old girl last week. Aam Aadmi Party leaders said that they would continue to raise the issue of the lack of accountability of the Delhi Police, which lies under the control of the Central government. Meanwhile, workers from the party on Sunday held two separate protests in the city, one of which was held outside the police headquarters. Several AAP volunteers were detained as police officers resorted to firing water cannons to disperse the crowd. Later, Bassi said that he would use the meeting to try and dispel the “misconceptions” about the functioning of the police in the state.
West Bengal: Rights group to sue government over Kishenji killing
A Kolkata-based civil rights group on Sunday said that it was planning to sue the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal over the killing of Communist Party of India (Maoist) leader Kishenji in 2011. The members of the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights said that they were “coordinating” with Kishenji’s family in Telangana to file a Public Interest Litigation with the state High Court. The development took place days after Banerjee’s nephew and TMC member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee said that the state government had “murdered” the Maoist leader. While the state administration has maintained that Kishenji was killed in an encounter with security forces in the Paschim Mednipore district of the state, civil rights activists have alleged that he was “abducted and tortured to death in cold blood” by the state administration.
Punjab: Amarinder Singh threatening bureaucrats, SAD says
The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab on Sunday alleged that Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh was threatening bureaucrats in the state. SAD spokesperson Dr DS Cheema said that bureaucrats in the state were “working day and night for the development of Punjab”. He further alleged that Singh had earlier attempted to “terrorise” officers to prevent them from “performing their bona-fide duties”, adding that the Congress leader had also asked former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to stop providing multi-crore rupee grants to the state. The SAD’s remarks came a day after Singh cautioned bureaucrats over the rising debt situation in the state. Later, Congress MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh defended Amarinder, saying that the SAD was attempting to borrow money as they knew that they would not win the upcoming 2017 assembly elections in the state.
Bihar: Paswan says caste data will affect Lalu, Nitish
Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday said that the release of the caste data of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census would affect Bihar leaders Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar the most. Advocating for the classification of the data before its release, the LJP chief said that “some delay” was preferred as it would affect those “making the maximum noise over it”. Paswan further claimed that members of the Extremely Backward Castes had shifted their allegiance to the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance. Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal and Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) along with other parties have criticised the Central government for not releasing the data. Last week, the Centre set up an expert group to start collating the findings of the Census.
Maharashtra: State working on measures to help farmers, Fadnavis says
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said that his government was working on long-term measures to help farmers in the state. Fadnavis said that farmers in the state would sow their crops even in the absence of rains, adding that it was “essential for the government” to plan for such a situation. The long-term measures would benefit farmers in the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of the state, the chief minister said. “The crisis faced by farmers cannot be overcome if the agriculture sector is viewed from the angle of elections,” he said. “I will speak about it in the House tomorrow.”
