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  • Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani calls for SIT probe into IIT Bombay pupil’s dying

    By means of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Congress MLA and Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani on Thursday demanded probe by way of a Particular Investigation Group (SIT) into the dying of a pupil of the Indian Institute of Generation Bombay to determine whether or not it used to be a case of homicide, caste discrimination or ragging.

    After assembly the Ahmedabad-based members of the family of Darshan Solanki (18), who allegedly died by way of suicide by way of leaping off the 7th ground of a IIT hostel construction on Sunday, Mevani stated the Dalit neighborhood suspects it to be a case of homicide, caste discrimination or ragging.

    The Congress chief from Gujarat stated the Dalit neighborhood has given a decision for a national candle march on February 19 in strengthen of Solanki, who used to be a first-year pupil of BTech (chemical) path.

    A Mumbai Police crew visited Solanki’s area right here on Thursday to file the statements of his members of the family in connection together with his dying.

    Mevani stated, “Darshan’s father Ramesh Solanki advised me that he used to be no longer even allowed to look the face of his lifeless son when he went there to gather the frame. He used to be advised various things over telephone by way of the institute, and the IIT Bombay professors advised other tales. All the factor seems suspicious.”

    ALSO READ | Suicide bid in IIT Madras: One pupil dies; any other hospitalised

    He claimed officers weren’t able at hand over the papers in regards to the unintended dying case registered at a police station in Mumbai to the scholar’s father, and the dean and different officers of the IIT didn’t behave with him within the delicate way required within the given state of affairs.

    “Because the incident is suspicious, the scholar’s members of the family and the Dalit neighborhood imagine this might be the case of homicide, caste-based discrimination and ragging,” Mevani stated.

    He stated the federal government will have to shape an SIT comprising “non-corrupt cops with integrity” to habits a probe into the case and to determine the reality.

    Mevani additionally appealed to Top Minister Narendra Modi to interfere into the subject, meet the grieving members of the family and order the type of investigation demanded by way of them.

    He stated Solanki used to be a shiny pupil who controlled to protected admission within the prestigious institute at a time when unsuitable implementation of the reservation coverage has resulted in only some scholars from the Dalit and tribal communities getting admission in such institutes.

    “Almost definitely, Darshan used to be a sufferer of the identical type of discrimination skilled by way of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi because of which he dedicated suicide on the IIT Bombay,” Mevani claimed.

    Vemula, a analysis student of the College of Hyderabad, allegedly hanged himself in a hostel room in 2016.

    Tadvi, a second-year gynaecology pupil of TN Topiwala Nationwide Scientific Faculty in Mumbai, allegedly died by way of suicide in her hostel room in 2019.

    (Help for the ones having suicidal ideas is to be had on Tamil Nadu’s well being helpline 104 and Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline 044-24640050)

    AHMEDABAD: Congress MLA and Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani on Thursday demanded probe by way of a Particular Investigation Group (SIT) into the dying of a pupil of the Indian Institute of Generation Bombay to determine whether or not it used to be a case of homicide, caste discrimination or ragging.

    After assembly the Ahmedabad-based members of the family of Darshan Solanki (18), who allegedly died by way of suicide by way of leaping off the 7th ground of a IIT hostel construction on Sunday, Mevani stated the Dalit neighborhood suspects it to be a case of homicide, caste discrimination or ragging.

    The Congress chief from Gujarat stated the Dalit neighborhood has given a decision for a national candle march on February 19 in strengthen of Solanki, who used to be a first-year pupil of BTech (chemical) path.

    A Mumbai Police crew visited Solanki’s area right here on Thursday to file the statements of his members of the family in connection together with his dying.

    Mevani stated, “Darshan’s father Ramesh Solanki advised me that he used to be no longer even allowed to look the face of his lifeless son when he went there to gather the frame. He used to be advised various things over telephone by way of the institute, and the IIT Bombay professors advised other tales. All the factor seems suspicious.”

    ALSO READ | Suicide bid in IIT Madras: One pupil dies; any other hospitalised

    He claimed officers weren’t able at hand over the papers in regards to the unintended dying case registered at a police station in Mumbai to the scholar’s father, and the dean and different officers of the IIT didn’t behave with him within the delicate way required within the given state of affairs.

    “Because the incident is suspicious, the scholar’s members of the family and the Dalit neighborhood imagine this might be the case of homicide, caste-based discrimination and ragging,” Mevani stated.

    He stated the federal government will have to shape an SIT comprising “non-corrupt cops with integrity” to habits a probe into the case and to determine the reality.

    Mevani additionally appealed to Top Minister Narendra Modi to interfere into the subject, meet the grieving members of the family and order the type of investigation demanded by way of them.

    He stated Solanki used to be a shiny pupil who controlled to protected admission within the prestigious institute at a time when unsuitable implementation of the reservation coverage has resulted in only some scholars from the Dalit and tribal communities getting admission in such institutes.

    “Almost definitely, Darshan used to be a sufferer of the identical type of discrimination skilled by way of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi because of which he dedicated suicide on the IIT Bombay,” Mevani claimed.

    Vemula, a analysis student of the College of Hyderabad, allegedly hanged himself in a hostel room in 2016.

    Tadvi, a second-year gynaecology pupil of TN Topiwala Nationwide Scientific Faculty in Mumbai, allegedly died by way of suicide in her hostel room in 2019.

    (Help for the ones having suicidal ideas is to be had on Tamil Nadu’s well being helpline 104 and Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline 044-24640050)

  • ‘Silent wave’ in Gujarat, upcoming state polls to present new path to nation: Jignesh Mevani

    Through PTI

    GUJARAT: Congress MLA and Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani feels a “silent wave” has gripped the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration-ruled Gujarat the place a metamorphosis is inevitable, and the impending state Meeting polls will give a brand new path to the rustic.

    The Congress will win 120 out of the entire 182 Meeting seats within the state polls, scheduled in two stages on December 1 and 5, he claimed in an interview with PTI.

    “This election is in opposition to autocracy, unemployment and value upward push,” he stated.

    Mevani (41), who’s eyeing a 2nd time period from Vadgam, this time at the Congress price tag, is slogging it out within the ballot enviornment, masking round 10 villages in an afternoon in his Meeting seat, reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) applicants.

    He used to be elected as an unbiased MLA from the similar seat in 2017 with the Congress’s reinforce.

    “This time there’s a silent revolution, a silent wave has gripped the state. Other folks have made up their thoughts as they believe that sufficient is sufficient,” Mevani claimed in keeping with a query that the BJP is regarded as unbeatable in Gujarat.

    Mevani stated the “Gujarat elections will give a brand new path to the rustic”.

    The MLA stated his overview is that the Congress will win 120 Meeting seats and lay the basis for rebuilding Gujarat.

    “A metamorphosis is inevitable,” he stated.

    “Despite the fact that the BJP is attempting rake up emotional problems comparable to Hindutva, this time it may not paintings,” the Congress chief stated, including he has been telling other folks to vote for him protecting in thoughts the cost of a gasoline cylinder.

    “Other folks elected (Top Minister) Modiji with nice love, no longer as soon as however two times, however after such a lot of years unemployment has no longer reduced, worth upward push has no longer stopped,” he stated.

    “Now, other folks have witnessed that they’re a repressive executive as they began concentrated on those that lift their voice in opposition to them together with opposition leaders, advocates, reporters. They (other folks) understood that it is a dictatorial executive,” he stated.

    Requested about Top Minister Narendra Modi having a fan following and an air of mystery of unbeatability in Gujarat, Mevani claimed, “He does no longer have an air of mystery, however it has been constructed by means of cash energy, public family members and symbol development.

    “It’s to be noticed what number of people will come to hear him on their very own if he does a public assembly with out the use of officers (equipment) and protecting buses to ferry the folks,” he stated.

    Mevani claimed the time has come for the high minister to ‘retire’.

    “He must retire as he does no longer have anything else new to mention now, not anything to supply, other folks shouldn’t have a lot expectancies from him,” the legislator stated.

    “He (Modi) stated they are going to make sensible towns, the place are sensible towns? They stated they are going to give employment to 2 crore other folks, the place are two crore jobs? They stated they are going to give everybody Rs 15 lakh of their account the place is the cash? What have other folks were given together with his type of vikas (construction)? What took place to his slogan of ‘acche din’– not anything,” Mevani added.

    He additionally brushed aside claims of the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration being a 3rd drive within the state.

    “There is not any race right here. Mark my phrases, the AAP is not going to win even a unmarried seat in Gujarat,” he stated.

    “No birthday party can win elections in any state by way of social media marketing campaign for two-four months and setting up a couple of the city corridor conferences. The place are their staff, they’re nowhere to be noticed right here (in Vadgam),” he stated.

    However, Mevani said that All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) can devour into his votes within the Vadgam seat.

    The Asaududdin Owaisi-led AIMIM has fielded 13 applicants within the state, together with one from the Vagdam seat.

    “The AIMIM will wreck my votes in my opinion and of alternative Congress applicants (in different seats), They can not win right here, what else can they do? However they are able to simplest make the BJP win by way of splitting the votes. Those that are within the combat in opposition to fascism, those that wish to save democracy and the Charter don’t do that,” he stated.

    Mevani’s supporters wish to see him as the executive minister of Gujarat if the Congress involves energy and they’re telling this to citizens in his village conferences.

    Requested about this, the MLA stated, “It’s for the Congress prime command and birthday party MLAs to make a decision who would be the leader minister of Gujarat. First let Congress get a majority and simplest then do a lot of these questions come. Mevani expressed self belief he’ll win with a thumping majority for the second one time from Vadgam. The ambience this is in my favour greater than what I had anticipated,” he stated.

    GUJARAT: Congress MLA and Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani feels a “silent wave” has gripped the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration-ruled Gujarat the place a metamorphosis is inevitable, and the impending state Meeting polls will give a brand new path to the rustic.

    The Congress will win 120 out of the entire 182 Meeting seats within the state polls, scheduled in two stages on December 1 and 5, he claimed in an interview with PTI.

    “This election is in opposition to autocracy, unemployment and value upward push,” he stated.

    Mevani (41), who’s eyeing a 2nd time period from Vadgam, this time at the Congress price tag, is slogging it out within the ballot enviornment, masking round 10 villages in an afternoon in his Meeting seat, reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) applicants.

    He used to be elected as an unbiased MLA from the similar seat in 2017 with the Congress’s reinforce.

    “This time there’s a silent revolution, a silent wave has gripped the state. Other folks have made up their thoughts as they believe that sufficient is sufficient,” Mevani claimed in keeping with a query that the BJP is regarded as unbeatable in Gujarat.

    Mevani stated the “Gujarat elections will give a brand new path to the rustic”.

    The MLA stated his overview is that the Congress will win 120 Meeting seats and lay the basis for rebuilding Gujarat.

    “A metamorphosis is inevitable,” he stated.

    “Despite the fact that the BJP is attempting rake up emotional problems comparable to Hindutva, this time it may not paintings,” the Congress chief stated, including he has been telling other folks to vote for him protecting in thoughts the cost of a gasoline cylinder.

    “Other folks elected (Top Minister) Modiji with nice love, no longer as soon as however two times, however after such a lot of years unemployment has no longer reduced, worth upward push has no longer stopped,” he stated.

    “Now, other folks have witnessed that they’re a repressive executive as they began concentrated on those that lift their voice in opposition to them together with opposition leaders, advocates, reporters. They (other folks) understood that it is a dictatorial executive,” he stated.

    Requested about Top Minister Narendra Modi having a fan following and an air of mystery of unbeatability in Gujarat, Mevani claimed, “He does no longer have an air of mystery, however it has been constructed by means of cash energy, public family members and symbol development.

    “It’s to be noticed what number of people will come to hear him on their very own if he does a public assembly with out the use of officers (equipment) and protecting buses to ferry the folks,” he stated.

    Mevani claimed the time has come for the high minister to ‘retire’.

    “He must retire as he does no longer have anything else new to mention now, not anything to supply, other folks shouldn’t have a lot expectancies from him,” the legislator stated.

    “He (Modi) stated they are going to make sensible towns, the place are sensible towns? They stated they are going to give employment to 2 crore other folks, the place are two crore jobs? They stated they are going to give everybody Rs 15 lakh of their account the place is the cash? What have other folks were given together with his type of vikas (construction)? What took place to his slogan of ‘acche din’– not anything,” Mevani added.

    He additionally brushed aside claims of the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration being a 3rd drive within the state.

    “There is not any race right here. Mark my phrases, the AAP is not going to win even a unmarried seat in Gujarat,” he stated.

    “No birthday party can win elections in any state by way of social media marketing campaign for two-four months and setting up a couple of the city corridor conferences. The place are their staff, they’re nowhere to be noticed right here (in Vadgam),” he stated.

    However, Mevani said that All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) can devour into his votes within the Vadgam seat.

    The Asaududdin Owaisi-led AIMIM has fielded 13 applicants within the state, together with one from the Vagdam seat.

    “The AIMIM will wreck my votes in my opinion and of alternative Congress applicants (in different seats), They can not win right here, what else can they do? However they are able to simplest make the BJP win by way of splitting the votes. Those that are within the combat in opposition to fascism, those that wish to save democracy and the Charter don’t do that,” he stated.

    Mevani’s supporters wish to see him as the executive minister of Gujarat if the Congress involves energy and they’re telling this to citizens in his village conferences.

    Requested about this, the MLA stated, “It’s for the Congress prime command and birthday party MLAs to make a decision who would be the leader minister of Gujarat. First let Congress get a majority and simplest then do a lot of these questions come. Mevani expressed self belief he’ll win with a thumping majority for the second one time from Vadgam. The ambience this is in my favour greater than what I had anticipated,” he stated.

  • Jignesh Mevani, 19 others sentenced to six months prison

    Through IANS

    AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad court docket on Friday convicted Congress chief Jignesh Mevani and 19 others accountable in a 2016 vandalism case and sentenced them to 6 months imprisonment.

    The Metropolitan Justice of the Peace awarded 3 other sentences underneath the 3 other sections of IPC – six months prison underneath one, Rs 500 high quality underneath some other, and Rs 100 high quality within the 3rd.

    It has stayed the operative a part of the order, so Mevani and others can attraction the order prior to the periods court docket.

    In 2016, Mevani and others had been main protests not easy to call Gujarat College’s Regulation Division as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan. The protest became violent and the premises had been vandalised. All protestors had been arrested and produced prior to the court docket.

    AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad court docket on Friday convicted Congress chief Jignesh Mevani and 19 others accountable in a 2016 vandalism case and sentenced them to 6 months imprisonment.

    The Metropolitan Justice of the Peace awarded 3 other sentences underneath the 3 other sections of IPC – six months prison underneath one, Rs 500 high quality underneath some other, and Rs 100 high quality within the 3rd.

    It has stayed the operative a part of the order, so Mevani and others can attraction the order prior to the periods court docket.

    In 2016, Mevani and others had been main protests not easy to call Gujarat College’s Regulation Division as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan. The protest became violent and the premises had been vandalised. All protestors had been arrested and produced prior to the court docket.

  • Gujarat: Two netas give up Congress over Mevani’s rising stature; to sign up for BJP

    By means of Specific Information Carrier

    AHMEDABAD: Unsatisfied with the rising stature of Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani throughout the Congress, the birthday celebration’s senior SC chief and previous Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar has introduced that he’s quitting the birthday celebration along side former house minister and three-term MLA Naresh Raval. Each are most probably to sign up for the BJP.

    The prominence being accorded to Mevani through the top command, particularly Rahul Gandhi, has unsettled reasonably a couple of leaders within the Gujarat Congress. Parmar claimed that Mevani was once being promoted even supposing he hadn’t achieved a lot for the birthday celebration up to now.

    Any other senior SC chief of the Congress instructed this newspaper that Mevani was once prone to be propped up because the birthday celebration’s Dalit face nationally. The chief mentioned that Mevani’s affiliation with the birthday celebration had now not yielded any sure effects, but he was once made operating president, even supposing he didn’t have any “reference to the grassroots”.

    Mevani was once elected from Vadgam meeting constituency in 2017 as an ‘Unbiased’ can didate after the Congress vacated the seat for him.

    “I and Raju Parmar have determined to renounce from Congress. We will be able to sign up for BJP at a serve as on August 17. A lot of our supporters will even sign up for the BJP on that day,” Raval instructed newshounds in Gandhinagar.

    Parmar, a distinguished Dalit chief in Gujarat Congress, showed that he’ll be leaving the birthday celebration within the subsequent two days.

    He’s going to talk at a joint press convention about long term plans, he added.

    Raval mentioned he was once leaving Congress because of a number of causes together with betrayal through colleagues.

    “I had many sour stories within the birthday celebration within the closing ten years. The birthday celebration now lacks teamwork. Leaders make selections with none inside dialogue and make others really feel inferior. I additionally skilled betrayal,” he mentioned.

    Congress’s beef up stage has long past down enormously in comparison to 2017 when it had received 77 seats within the 182-member Meeting, he claimed.

    He has now not demanded a ballot price ticket from the BJP, Raval added.

    Meeting polls in Gujarat are anticipated to be held in December.

    (With PTI Inputs)

    AHMEDABAD: Unsatisfied with the rising stature of Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani throughout the Congress, the birthday celebration’s senior SC chief and previous Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar has introduced that he’s quitting the birthday celebration along side former house minister and three-term MLA Naresh Raval. Each are most probably to sign up for the BJP.

    The prominence being accorded to Mevani through the top command, particularly Rahul Gandhi, has unsettled reasonably a couple of leaders within the Gujarat Congress. Parmar claimed that Mevani was once being promoted even supposing he hadn’t achieved a lot for the birthday celebration up to now.

    Any other senior SC chief of the Congress instructed this newspaper that Mevani was once prone to be propped up because the birthday celebration’s Dalit face nationally. The chief mentioned that Mevani’s affiliation with the birthday celebration had now not yielded any sure effects, but he was once made operating president, even supposing he didn’t have any “reference to the grassroots”.

    Mevani was once elected from Vadgam meeting constituency in 2017 as an ‘Unbiased’ can didate after the Congress vacated the seat for him.

    “I and Raju Parmar have determined to renounce from Congress. We will be able to sign up for BJP at a serve as on August 17. A lot of our supporters will even sign up for the BJP on that day,” Raval instructed newshounds in Gandhinagar.

    Parmar, a distinguished Dalit chief in Gujarat Congress, showed that he’ll be leaving the birthday celebration within the subsequent two days.

    He’s going to talk at a joint press convention about long term plans, he added.

    Raval mentioned he was once leaving Congress because of a number of causes together with betrayal through colleagues.

    “I had many sour stories within the birthday celebration within the closing ten years. The birthday celebration now lacks teamwork. Leaders make selections with none inside dialogue and make others really feel inferior. I additionally skilled betrayal,” he mentioned.

    Congress’s beef up stage has long past down enormously in comparison to 2017 when it had received 77 seats within the 182-member Meeting, he claimed.

    He has now not demanded a ballot price ticket from the BJP, Raval added.

    Meeting polls in Gujarat are anticipated to be held in December.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • 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.

  • Jignesh Mevani completes prison formalities in Kokrajhar, to depart for Gujarat 

    Via PTI

    KOKRAJHAR: Gujarat’s Dalit chief Jignesh Mevani, on Saturday finished pending bail formalities on the Kokrajhar Court docket and is slated to go back to his house state after travelling to Guwahati, the place he’s going to be assembly Congress leaders who supported calls for that he be launched.

    Mevani, an unbiased MLA from Gujarat, advised journalists right here after finishing the formalities that it was once “shameful that false circumstances have been filed” in opposition to him within the land of Srimanta Sankardeva, a respected Vaishnavite saint.

    ALSO READ | My arrest was once a conspiracy: Jignesh Mevani

    Mevani was once granted bail by means of the Kokrajhar courtroom previous on Monday in a case associated with a tweet on Top Minister Narendra Modi however was once rearrested in an instant afterwards and brought to Barpeta in keeping with allegations by means of a girl police officer that he assaulted and molested her whilst he was once being escorted by means of a police posse.

    After being given bail by means of the Barpeta district pass judgement on on Friday, who pulled up Assam police for registering a “false FIR” within the alleged attack case, Mewani got here to Kokrajhar previous this morning to finish the unique bail fromalities.

    He additionally took the permission of the courtroom to depart the city, as certainly one of his bail prerequisites was once to stick inside the limits of the courtroom’s jurisdiction.

    “All of the procedures associated with the Kokrajhar bail order has been finished and Mevani will cross to Guwahati earlier than leaving for Gujarat,” his legal professional stated.

    “It was once completely a conspiracy to annoy me and to make use of a girl reputable for the aim (which) displays their cowardice and is in opposition to the tradition of the state,” Mewani stated.

    Alleging that the BJP management was once in the back of his arrest, he requested, “Why will the Assam police abruptly arrest me, check in circumstances, ask for remand, vehemently oppose the bail software?” “It’s because they have directions from their political bosses’, the Dalit chief alleged.

  • Jignesh Mevani’s arrest: Legal professionals to transport bail plea, Congress to protest throughout Assam

    By way of IANS

    GUWAHATI: The legal professionals of Impartial Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani, who’s now beneath five-day police custody in Assams Barpeta district, stated on Wednesday that they might transfer the classes court docket on Thursday in search of bail for the Dalit activist.

    Mevani’s recommend Angshuman Bora stated that he, accompanied through different legal professionals, would transfer the district classes court docket on Thursday with a bail plea.

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    In the meantime, Congress leaders on Wednesday introduced to degree a sit-in towards the arrest of Mevani, who had previous pledged out of doors strengthen to the birthday celebration, in all 34 districts of the state on Thursday, when High Minister Narendra Modi would seek advice from Assam to kick-start a slew of tasks.

    On Tuesday, Mevani was once despatched to five-day police custody after his bail petition was once rejected through Barpeta’s Leader Judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM).

    Previous, quickly after the CJM’s court docket in Kokrajhar district granted him bail on Monday, six days after he was once arrested through Assam police from his house state in Gujarat in reference to an “objectionable” tweet towards High Minister Narendra Modi, he was once re-arrested through the Assam police on other fees, together with “outraging the modesty of a woman police officer”.

    The Gujarat legislator was once arrested following a grievance filed through an Assam BJP chief in search of motion towards him beneath the IT Act.

  • 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.