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Youth Akali Dal to 'gherao' Delhi Police

Chandigarh : The Youth

Akali Dal will 'gherao' Delhi

Police personnel for singling out

Punjabi youths for arrest by

allegedly registering "false

cases" against them in connection

with the January 26 violence

in the national capital.

After a meeting, Youth Akali

Dal President Parambans Singh

Romana said the wing had

received reports of Punjabi

youths being unfairly targeted

for punishment by Delhi Police

and the central government.

"We have decided to stand by

our youths. Our rank and file

will rush to support any youth

who is unfairly targeted by Delhi

Police. I request all affected families

to seek the support of the

Youth Akali Dal in this connection.

We will not allow any discrimination

against our youths at

any cost."

Romana also expressed shock

at the manner in which the

Congress government in Punjab

had abrogated its duty towards

its citizens and allowed a free

hand to the central government

to arrest its youths in Punjab.

"It is now clear that Chief

Minister Amarinder Singh is

playing a fixed match in league

with the central government.

That is why he has not directed

Punjab Police to ensure Punjabi

youths are not subject to discrimination

in any manner whatsoever."

"Delhi Police cannot make

any arrests in Punjab without

taking Punjab Police into confidence.

If Delhi Police is acting

on its own then its officials

should be booked for indulging

in illegal practices," he said.

He also announced the Akali

Dal youth wing would hold rallies

in all constituencies in the

state starting from March 15. He

said the wing would organise a

rally on March 23 at

Hussainiwala to mark the martyrdom

day of Bhagat Singh.

Myanmar envoy to UN sacked

after anti-army speech

Nay Pyi Taw : Myanmar's military

rulers said they have fired the country's

ambassador to the UN, a day after he called

for help to remove the army from power.

In an emotional speech, Kyaw Moe Tun

said no-one should co-operate with the military

until it handed back power to the

democratically elected government, the

BBC reported. Security forces intensified a

crackdown on anti-coup protesters on

Saturday. Local media say dozens were

arrested, and that a woman was shot in the

city of Monwya. Her condition is not clear.

The country has been rocked by protests

since top government leaders, including

Aung San Suu Kyi, were overthrown and

detained after the army took power on

February 1.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly

on Friday, Kyaw Moe Tun urged the international

community to use "any means

necessary to take action" against the military

to help "restore the democracy", saying

he was representing Suu Kyi's ousted

government. "We need further strongest

possible action from the international community

to immediately end the military

coup, to stop oppressing the innocent people,

to return the state power to the people

and to restore the democracy," he said.

The speech was met with applause and

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the new US

envoy to the body, was among those praising

his remarks as "courageous".

In a further show of defiance, Kyaw

Moe Tun held up three fingers, a gesture

against authoritarian rule that has been

adopted by anti-coup protesters in the

country.

Myanmar's state television announced

his removal on Saturday, saying he had

"betrayed the country and spoken for an

unofficial organization which doesn't represent

the country and had abused the

power and responsibilities of an ambassador".

Further protests were held in several

cities with water cannon reportedly

deployed and journalists among dozens

detained. In the main city of Yangon,

crowds of protesters were advanced upon

by police firing tear gas.

LJP post-poll meeting held in Patna

Patna : After its dismal performance

in the Bihar Assembly polls, the

first major meeting of the Lok

Janshakti Party (LJP) was held at the

party's head office in Patna on Sunday.

The meeting was headed by LJP

chief Chirag Paswan. The party invited

all important leaders to analyse the

defeat in the recent Assembly polls.

Besides, leaders are also accessing the

situation after several members left

the party and joined JD-U. Ex-LJP

MLC Nutan Singh recently joined the BJP.

LJP contested 143 seats in Bihar and

managed to win just one seat. Moreover,

the only MLA Raj Kumar Singh and MP

Chandan Singh met with Chief Minister

Nitish Kumar on February 15.

These two leaders however claim that it

was a courtesy meeting with Nitish as he is

heading NDA in Bihar. The statements of

these two leaders are different from the

party line and stand of Chirag Paswan

against Nitish Kumar.

Chirag Paswan is extremely critical of

the Bihar CM while the meeting of these

two leaders had given an impression that

there is a possibility of them joining the

JD-U.

Chirag Paswan is facing the challenge

of keeping his flock together in Bihar. He

is facing the heat after Nutan Singh

joined BJP.

LJP is not the part of NDA in Bihar,

still Paswan advocates the ideology of the

saffron party and backs Prime Minister

Narendra Modi. He has donated Rs 1.11

lakh for construction of Ram temple in

Ayodhya.

Eye on 2022 polls,

Kejriwal woos Jats in UP

New Delhi : In view of the Assembly elections in Uttar

Pradesh slated for next year, AAP national convenor Arvind

Kejriwal on Sunday tried to woo the 'Jat' community in the western

part of the state while addressing a Kisan Mahapanchayat in

Meerut.

The AAP's Mahapanchayat came months after the party had

announced to contest the UP Assembly polls next year.

Kejriwal's address focused mainly on the ongoing farmers'

protest against the three Central farm laws. The AAP convenor

reiterated his party's slogan calling the three farm laws as "death

warrants" for the protesting farmers.

In a gesture of his party's support, the Delhi Chief Minister

had torn the farm laws' documents in the Assembly in December

last year, terming the laws as "death warrants".

Amid slogans of 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan' and 'Kisan Eklta

Jindabad', Kejriwal said that the protesting farmers have faced

atrocities which were not meted out even during the British rule.

He also accused the BJP of making false cases against protesters.

"Our farmers can be anything but traitors. But the BJP has

called them terrorists and Khalistanis," Kejriwal said.

Through his speech, he also tried to woo the villagers in the

western part of UP reiterating his own line - 'at present, one son

of a farmer is at the border and another at Delhi's border'.

He also accused the BJP of orchestrating the Republic Day

violence at the Red Fort and extended his support to the protesters,

claiming that AAP has provided civic and WiFi facilities at

the protest sites in Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders, where

scores of farmers have been sitting on protest for nearly 100

days.

"The Centre is behind the Red Fort violence and not the farmers.

It misguided the farmers who did not know Delhi roads.

More than 250 farmers have died in these three months, but the

Centre has done nothing about it," Kejriwal said.

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