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  • Jignesh Mevani calls Gujarat executive ‘pointless’ on his go back from Assam

    Via PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Dalit chief and MLA Jignesh Mevani on Tuesday arrived in Gujarat, just about two weeks after being arrested by way of the Assam police, and hit out on the state’s BJP executive calling it “nikamma” (pointless) for doing not anything when a legislator from the state used to be “abducted” and brought away.

    Addressing a meeting quickly after touchdown in Ahmedabad, Mevani additionally threatened to offer a decision for ‘Gujarat bandh’ on June 1 if instances towards Dalits in Una tehsil (filed over protests put up attack on some Dalits in July 2016) and different agitators within the state don’t seem to be withdrawn and calls for of grade pay for policemen and different protesting teams no longer met by way of the federal government.

    “I want to inform the Gujarat executive that you’re so ‘nikamma’ (pointless), that it is advisable do not anything when the Assam police got here to Gujarat to trample upon its satisfaction. You will have to be embarrassed about it.

    “The Assam police kidnapping an MLA from Gujarat and taking him to Assam is an insult to six.5 crore other folks of Gujarat,” the unbiased MLA stated on the accumulating the place state Congress president Jagdish Thakor, and senior birthday celebration leaders like Arjun Modhwadia and Amit Chavda had been additionally provide.

    He made the folk assembled for the programme take an oath to by no means vote for the BJP or attend an RSS shakha.

    Mevani additionally focused the Assam executive for no longer announcing “sorry” over a decrease court docket’s essential commentary relating to an FIR filed towards him within the north-eastern state.

    “As a substitute of feeling ashamed over the commentary made by way of the court docket, wondering its moral sense and reviewing its persona, it (Assam executive) got here out with a keep order (from Gauhati Prime Courtroom) in order to not submit that evaluate order (of decrease court docket). However it’s not but able to ask for forgiveness,” he stated.

    Amongst different issues, the HC had stated that the decrease court docket’s commentary concerning the case towards Mevani showing to be “manufactured to stay him in custody for longer” used to be past its jurisdiction in a bail topic.

    Mevani arrived in Ahmedabad within the night to a powerful welcome by way of his supporters on the airport.

    The MLA from Vadgam in Banaskantha district thanked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and different nationwide and Congress leaders from Gujarat and Assam for his or her make stronger all through his arrest.

    Two weeks in the past, Mevani used to be picked up by way of the Assam police from Palanpur in Gujarat over his purported tweet towards High Minister Narendra Modi.

    Quickly after being launched on bail within the tweet case a couple of days in the past, he used to be rearrested for allegedly assaulting a policewoman who used to be a part of the police birthday celebration which accompanied him to Kokrajhar in Assam.

    The Gujarat MLA used to be granted bail in the second one case additionally and on Saturday closing he finished pending bail formalities at a court docket in Kokrajhar.

    He used to be granted permission by way of the court docket to depart the Assam the city as certainly one of his bail prerequisites used to be to stick throughout the limits of the court docket’s jurisdiction.

  • My arrest pre-planned conspiracy designed via PMO, act of cowardice: Jignesh Mevani

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Gujarat legislator Jignesh Mevani on Monday alleged that his arrest via the Assam Police is a pre-planned conspiracy “designed” via the Top Minister’s Place of work to break him forward of meeting elections within the state and termed it an act of “56-inch cowardice”.

    Mevani additionally introduced that he would take to the streets and make sure a Gujarat Bandh on June 1 on a raft of problems — in the hunt for motion towards the ones in the back of the leak of twenty-two examination papers, the hot restoration of “Rs 1.75 lakh-crore” value of substances from the Mundra Port, and to press for the withdrawal of all instances towards Dalits in Una and towards minorities within the state.

    “My arrest is an act of 56-inch cowardice and it has undermined Gujarat’s delight,” Mevani stated at a press convention in an obvious swipe at Top Minister Narendra Modi’s 56-inch chest statement.

    “My arrest via the Assam Police used to be a pre-planned conspiracy. It used to be in blatant forget to protocol and laws for an MLA,” added the Unbiased MLA from Vadgam who has pledged his beef up to the Congress.

    Mevani used to be picked up via the Assam Police from Gujarat on April 19 and brought to the northeastern state after a purported tweet that Modi “thought to be Godse as God”.

    After being launched on bail within the case, the Dalit chief used to be rearrested on fees of assaulting a policewoman.

    A court docket in Barpeta granted him bail within the case and steered the Gauhati Prime Courtroom to imagine directing the Assam Police to reform itself to ‘save you registration of false FIR like the existing case.

    ” Mevani stated he had best tweeted asking the top minister to offer a choice for peace and solidarity in Gujarat, a state he considers “Mahatma’s temple”. Does this imply you do not need to attraction for peace and solidarity. I problem BJP leaders to mention Godse murdabad from Crimson Fortress, if they aren’t Godse-bhakts,” he stated.

    “It’s my rate that it is a conspiracy designed via the Top Minister’s Place of work. Gujarat elections are due quickly and that is being achieved to break me. I worry there’s each probability that via now they’ll have planted one thing on my pc which has been seized via them,” he added on the Congress headquarters right here.

    Mevani additionally requested what the hobby of the BJP or the top minister might be in arresting him over a trifling tweet as though he have been a terrorist.

    “Such issues are very unhealthy for our democracy.” He alleged that the girl police officer used to be put below “force” to whinge towards him, however he’ll now not cross towards her “öut of generosity”.

    The try to harass him had failed, Mevani declared.

    On Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s declare that he used to be now not conscious about the arrest, he stated, “It’s unimaginable that the Assam CM does now not even find out about my arrest. He were given offences registered towards me on the example of his political bosses.”

    In Mevani’s view, it’s shameful that the judiciary had said that Assam is changing into a police state.

    Detailing his subsequent plan of action, he stated he would struggle all of the instances registered towards him.

    “The way during which all instances towards Patidar neighborhood registered all through their agitation had been taken again, all instances towards Dalits in Una and towards minorities in my Vadgam constituency must even be taken again “Paper leak instances be investigated via a SIT (Particular Investigation Crew) and Gautam Adani be investigated in terms of seizure of substances value Rs 1.75 lakh crore from Mundra port,” he stated placing out an inventory of calls for. The Gujarat legislator stated there were 22 paper leaks in Gujarat, Rs 1.75 lakh crore value of substances present in Mundra port and a Dalit girl pressed rape fees towards a sitting minister, a subject that used to be mentioned within the Gujarat meeting.

    No motion has been taken in those instances.

    But even so, Mevani added, there used to be no motion towards the organisers of a Dharam Sansad for genocide towards a selected neighborhood however there have been two FIRs towards him on a tweet and a girl used to be used to get any other case registered.

    “What does it display? What’s the goal and precedence of the Modi executive?” he requested.

  • AAP phases protest towards value upward thrust all over PM’s Assam seek advice from

    Through PTI

    GUWAHATI: Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP), a brand new entrant to Assam politics, on Thursday staged state-wide demonstrations towards value upward thrust coinciding with High Minister Narendra Modi’s seek advice from to the northeastern state.

    Police detained a number of AAP participants who had been protesting in Guwahati, whilst demonstrations had been additionally staged in Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Dhubri and Tinsukia.

    “Our participants organised protests around the state over the fee upward thrust factor,” AAP Assam unit president Bhaben Choudhury stated. “The protestors at Guwahati had been detained by means of the police and are within the strategy of being launched. However they confronted harassment all over the detention,” he stated.

    Choudhury stated one of the most celebration participants sustained minor accidents after they had been being forcibly taken clear of the protest venue.

    Police stated the protestors, who had been detained from close to the state secretariat complicated, had been being launched on Non-public Recognisance bond.

    “The process of legislation has been adopted. They’re being launched on PR bond as is finished in such circumstances,” an officer stated.

    AAP chief Rumi Ullah claimed that passersby had joined the demonstration at Guwahati and stated, “Worth upward thrust is a matter that is affecting everybody. Persons are uninterested with it and so they spontaneously joined our protest.” She stated demonstrations had been additionally staged in Dibrugarh, Dhubri and Tinsukia, whilst in Golaghat, the celebration submitted a memorandum to the district management over the fee upward thrust factor.

    Because the celebration expanded its footprint around the country after storming to energy in Punjab and successful an meeting seat in Goa, the Arvind Kejriwal-led celebration had additionally lately tasted its first electoral victory on this northeastern state.

    Its applicants had emerged victorious in two wards in city frame polls in March, whilst it bagged one ward within the Guwahati Municipal Company election this month.

    The AAP have been contesting Lok Sabha in addition to Meeting elections in Assam for a couple of years, however hadn’t been in a position to make a mark but.

  • Courtroom sends Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani to one-day judicial custody; will listen bail on Monday 

    Through PTI

    KOKRAJHAR: An area courtroom right here on Sunday despatched Gujarat Impartial legislator Jignesh Mevani, arrested from the western state via Assam Police on Wednesday for a purported Tweet towards the high minister, to one-day judicial custody, a police reliable stated.

    The listening to in his case, together with his bail petition, might be taken up on Monday, he added.

    Further superintendent of police of Kokrajhar Surjit Singh Panesar advised journalists right here that the courtroom of the Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) determined to remand him to in the future of judicial custody.

    Mevani’s three-day police custody had ended on Sunday, and then he used to be produced prior to the courtroom overdue within the night time.

    Panesar additionally stated Mevani might be produced once more on the courtroom on Monday morning and his listening to will proceed, together with on his bail petition.

    Mevani, noticed with an Assamese gamocha (conventional towel) round his neck, used to be taken to the Kokrajhar prison from the place of abode of the CJM, the place the listening to used to be held.

    Mevani, an Impartial MLA supported via the Congress, used to be apprehended from Palanpur the town in Gujarat on Wednesday night time after a First Knowledge File (FIR) beneath quite a lot of sections of the IPC and the IT Act used to be filed in Kokrajhar Police Station over his purported tweet towards the high minister.

    In keeping with the FIR, he had purportedly posted a tweet, claiming High Minister Narendra Modi “thought to be Godse as God”.

    Mevani used to be flown to Guwahati from Gujarat on Thursday morning after which taken to Kokrajhar via street, the place he used to be produced on the leader judicial Justice of the Peace’s courtroom, which remanded him to 3 days’ police custody.

  • Assam police arrests Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani over tweet

    Via PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani used to be arrested by way of Assam Police from Palanpur the town in Gujarat on past due Wednesday evening over a tweet and brought to Assam by way of air within the early hours, officers mentioned right here on Thursday.

    The outstanding Dalit chief from Gujarat used to be arrested quickly after a First Knowledge Record (FIR) underneath phase 153A of the Indian Penal Code, which offers with offences associated with selling enmity between communities, used to be registered at Kokrajhar police station in Assam, mentioned his aide Suresh Jat.

    “As in step with a file shared by way of the officers of the Assam police, an FIR has been lodged over a tweet by way of Mevani few days again. On the other hand, the tweet has been withheld by way of Twitter. It used to be about Nathuram Godse. Mevani used to be first dropped at Ahmedabad by way of highway after which taken to Assam by way of air early nowadays morning,” he added.

    Mevani is unbiased MLA from Vadgam seat in Banaskantha. He lately joined Congress. In a commentary, Mevani’s place of business mentioned he used to be arrested by way of Assam police from Palanpur circuit Area at 11:30 pm on Wednesday.

    Gujarat Congress president Jagdish Thakor and different Congress leaders rushed to Ahmedabad Airport after studying about his arrest and shouted slogans towards the BJP executive.

  • Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma guarantees advanced infrastructure forward of Guwahati municipal polls

    Through PTI

    GUWAHATI: Assam Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday began his marketing campaign for Guwahati Municipal Company (GMC) elections, promising advanced infrastructure for folks. Sarma addressed a number of rallies in numerous portions of the town, together with Narengi and Chandmari spaces.

    After addressing a gathering, he tweeted: “Kicked off my marketing campaign for applicants of @BJP4Assam-led alliance in #GMCElection by way of addressing a rally at Narangi. In subsequent 4 years, we promise to arrange Executive hospitals, supply ingesting water to most families, and give a boost to different infrastructure amenities within the GMC wards.”

    This night, Ganeshpara appears so overwhelmingly pleasant. On the #GMCElections rally, folks grew to become up in huge numbers, showering their plentiful affection. Your religion in us helps to keep us going.

    Please vote for @BJP4Assam-led alliance applicants for endured construction of Ghy. percent.twitter.com/elK5cVqSmY

    — Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) April 17, 2022

    He additionally confident of ok executive price range for endeavor the developmental works. “There will be no dearth of price range for devp paintings within the wards. To decongest the town, Executive workplaces will probably be shifted to Betkuchi,” the manager minister wrote.

    Expressing pride on the public turnout at his rally in Chandmari, Sarma wrote, “I’m assured that the entire applicants of @BJP4Assam-led alliance will sweep the polls to be hung on April 22.”

    Election for all 60 wards of GMC is scheduled on April 22 and the counting of votes will probably be undertaken on April 24, the Assam State Election Fee had introduced previous. A complete of seven,96,829 electorate are eligible to workout their franchise in 789 polling stations.

    The Fee has made up our minds to make use of EVMs within the election.

  • Former Assam Congress president Ripun Bora joins TMC

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Former Assam Congress president Ripun Bora on Sunday joined the TMC within the presence of birthday celebration’s nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee right here.

    “Thrilled to welcome Shri@ripunbora, Former Minister of Panchayat & Rural Building, Minister of Training in Assam, former Rajya Sabha MP & former President of Assam Pradesh Congress committee! He joined us nowadays within the presence of Shri @abhishekaitc,” the Trinamool Congress mentioned on Twitter.

    Bora, as a joint candidate of the opposition events in Assam, had unsuccessfully contested the new Rajya Sabha election.

    Banerjee additionally welcomed him to the West Bengal’s ruling birthday celebration.

    “Extending a very hot welcome to Shri @ripunbora, a stalwart and professional baby-kisser, who joined the @AITCofficial circle of relatives nowadays. We’re extraordinarily happy to have you ever onboard and sit up for running in combination for the well-being of our other people!,” he tweeted.

  • SC seeks Centre’s answer on plea in quest of to prevent harassment of minorities in Assam

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Splendid Courtroom on Monday sought responses from the Centre and Assam govt on a plea in quest of to prevent harassment of folks belonging to non secular and linguistic minority communities within the State at the pretext of detection and deportation of alleged foreigners.

    A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant issued realize and directed for the list of the subject after the disposal of the 2015 subject pending ahead of the Charter bench which relates to the validity of provisions of the Citizenship Act, offering the root for Assam-NRC.

    The bench stated, “In view of the reference made, listing after the disposal of reference. Writ Petition be indexed after disposal of the reference”

    Senior suggest Sanjay Hegde, showing for Asom Sankhyalaghu Sangram Parishad, stated that there’s a pronouncing that individuals go borders, however every now and then even borders have crossed folks.

    He stated that the state coordinator of Assam NRC has filed an software in quest of re-verification of the Nationwide Check in of Citizenship (NRC).

    Hegde stated that the petition has additionally searched for prohibiting the authority to delete or exclude someone from the overall listing of the NRC of Assam dated August 31, 2019.

    He added that the petitioners have additionally sought to strictly limit the state from doubting one’s citizenship with out discharging the preliminary burden of amassing the related knowledge.

    The plea has additionally prayed for guiding the Registrar Common of India to finalize the draft listing of NRC revealed on August 31, 2019, factor NRC identification playing cards to all individuals integrated within the ultimate listing, and supply amenities to want an attraction to the not noted individuals from the NRC.

  • Congress claims cross-voting by means of AIUDF in Assam Rajya Sabha polls

    Via PTI

    GUWAHATI: The Congress on Saturday alleged that the AIUDF indulged in cross-voting within the recently-held Rajya Sabha election in Assam and forged their vote in favour of the ruling BJP-led alliance’s applicants, ensuing within the defeat of the Opposition’s joint nominee.

    Chief of Opposition Debabrata Saikia, addressing a press convention right here, stated, “We need to explain that out of 27 Congress MLAs, 25 voted for our joint candidate. One vote used to be disqualified whilst some other one voted for the ruling alliance’s candidate.”

    The disqualified vote used to be from Siddique Ahmed and the opposite used to be from Sashi Kanta Das, who had already declared that he would enhance the ruling alliance’s applicants.

    Each MLAs had been suspended from the Congress.

    Election for 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Assam used to be hung on Thursday with the ruling alliance’s applicants, Pabitra Margherita and Rwngra Narzary, rising winners in opposition to outgoing MP and the Opposition’s joint nominee Ripun Bora.

    Margherita polled 46 votes and Narzary 44, whilst Bora controlled simply 35 votes.

    All 126 contributors of the Meeting had voted, with one vote being disqualified.

    Saikia claimed that all of the last 25 Congress MLAs voted for Bora as did the lone CPI(M) MLA and Unbiased legislator, accounting for general 27 out of 35 votes that Bora gained.

    “The celebration that had confident of 15 votes gave handiest 8 in our favour and the remaining went somewhere else,” he stated, it appears relating to the AIUDF which has 15 contributors within the Area and had introduced its enhance for Bora’s candidature.

    Saikia additionally pointed that the Congress has moved a breach of privilege movement within the state Meeting over BJP legislators’ purported remarks inside of in addition to outdoor the Area that Congress MLAs had voted for the ruling alliance’s applicants.

    “The Speaker has confident us of taking a look into it,” he added.

    The senior Congress chief puzzled the AIUDF naming its agent for the election with out consulting the opposite events within the Opposition camp.

    “They mysteriously introduced their polling agent with out even informing us. Why they did this can be a riddle to me,” he stated.

    Saikia maintained that the Congress’ agent for the polls, Prithviraj Sathe, used to be named by means of the celebration’s central management, which used to be accepted by means of the state’s legislature celebration to appoint the polling agent.

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