MINISTER LODHA, POLICE ACCUSED OF DISCRIMINATION
A complaint has been filed at Maharashtra Lokayukta against several city police officials and the state cabinet minister and BJP leader Mangalprabhat Lodha in connection with riot cases filed in the wake of a communal skirmish during Ramnavmi celebration in Malvani on March 30.
The complainant Jameel Merchant has accused that Lodha reached Malvani on the night of Ramnavmi and pressurised the police to take action against only Muslim community in this matter. Since Lodha is a minister as well as the guardian minister of Mumbai city, due to which he should have handled the situation without discrimination, but on the contrary, he misused his position and ordered the police to take a unilateral action.
Merchant had earlier also filed a petition in Bombay High Court, accusing the police of one-sided action. Merchant said that he pacified the clashing groups after the atmosphere in Malvani had deteriorated on March 30 at the behest of the police. In spite of this, the police later made him an accused in the matter.
In the complaint made in the Lokayukta, evidences have also been placed against the minister, indicating how he put pressure on the police from the beginning. The seven other people named in the complaint include Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police Satyanarayan Chaudhary, Additional Commissioner of Police Rajeev Jain, DCP Ajay Bansal, ACP Shailendra Dhiwar and Senior Inspector Shekhar Bhalerao.
POLICE COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST KCR FOR UNFULFILLED PROMISES
The Congress party on June 22 lodged a police complaint against Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar and other BRS leaders for not fulfilling the promises made by the ruling party in the last nine years.The complaint, seeking registration of a cheating case, was lodged at the Banjara Hills Police Station by Congress MLA DanasariSeethakka and Khairtabad (Hyderabad Central) DCC President Dr C. Rohin Reddy. The Congress leaders enclosed the copies of TRS Manifestoes released in 2014 and 2018 along with pictures of the release of the manifestoes by the Chief Minister.
Speaking to media persons later, Congress MLA Seethakka strongly condemned CM KCR and BRS party for not fulfilling any of the promises it made to the people in the last two elections. She alleged that CM KCR first betrayed the people by not honouring the electoral promises and now he has been cheating in the name of the decennial celebrations of Telangana Formation. “By organising 21-day long celebrations using public money, KCR is creating an illusion as if his government has fulfilled all the promises he made with the people,” she said.
Seethakka said that the BRS Government was targeting the Congress leaders by placing them under illegal house arrest and implicating them in false cases for raising their voices.
EXTENSION LECTURE ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT #G20
Prof Sharmistha Banerjee, Former Head, Department of Business Administration, University of Calcutta, while delivering an extension lecture at the Department of Commerce, Aligarh Muslim University, urged upon all to ensure delivery and fulfilment of women’s rights to them in order to promote women’s empowerment in society.She was delivering the lecture on “Women Empowerment”, held under the celebrations related to India’s G20 Presidency.
Prof Banerjee elaborated upon the findings of her research on women empowerment and discussed the key lessons derived by her. She emphasised the need for cultural understanding of women’s empowerment as opposed to a simplistic understanding of women’s rights.Earlier, welcoming the guest speaker, Prof S. M. Imamul Haque, Chairman, Department of Commerce highlighted the need for women’s empowerment in every sphere of life.