Issue-440-11-02-2022

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Doubts on Mamata's control deepen
with 'unauthorised' nominations
Kolkata : Despite being not approved by the
two deputies appointed by the Trinamool
Congress,candidates from two municipalities -
Diamond Harbour Municipality and Budge Budge
Municipality - filed their nominations, making
room for doubt over Chairperson Mamata
Banerjee's control over the party.
Interestingly both the municipalities fall under
Diamond Harbour Parliamentary constituency,
from where Chief Minister's nephew and the
party's national General Secretary Abhishek
Banerjee is the MP.
Not only that, the coordinator for South 24
Parganas state Minister Arup Biswas, who was
nominated by the Chief Minister herself, was suddenly
replaced by Kunal Ghosh and Soukat
Mollah, who are considered to be close to
Abhishek Banerjee.
According to party insiders, the fall-out was a
result of the differences between Mamata Banerjee
and her nephew and led to the fiasco over list of
candidates for the upcoming polls in the state's 108
civic bodies.
One list, which was approved by the Chief
Minister, was physically released by the party's
Secretary General Partha Chatterjee and national
Vice President Subrata Bakshi, while the other was
uploaded on the party's Facebook page and Twitter
handle. Though there was no official confirmation
Kejriwal a 'snake in grass',
says AKALI DAL
Chandigarh : The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday
described AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal a "snake in the grass let
loose in Punjab by corporate and the anti-Sikh lobbies".
Talking to the media here, Harcharan Bains, Principal Adviser
to SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal, asked farm organisations
and their leaders, including Joginder Singh Ugrahan and Balbir
Singh Rajewal, to wake up to the shocking reality that although the
farmers movement forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his
government to revoke the three "black" farm laws, the most dangerous
of these laws is still in force in Delhi with Kejriwal refusing
to annul it in the state assembly.
He said, "It is shocking that while the entire country has rejected
these laws, Kejriwal typically quietly keeps them in force. One
can well imagine what his true anti-farmer intent and agenda in
Punjab is." Bains said Kejriwal "has also filed a case against
Punjab farmers and sought a fine of Rs 1 crore per case of stubble
warning even when the Supreme Court itself refused to blame the
Delhi pollution on the farmers of Punjab and even delivered a
rebuff to the Delhi Chief Minister".
The Akali Dal spokesman said that while the AAP leader is
promising to abolish private bus operators and ending the mafia raj
in liquor trade, the fact is that he has "virtually killed" the DTC in
his own state.
"As for stopping liquor trade from passing into the hands of the
mafia through public distribution and sale by the government-run
liquor shops, Kejriwal has handed over the entire liquor trade to the
liquor mafia patronised by big business houses," Bains added.
who was responsible for uploading the list, several
party leaders believe that I-PAC - the professional
group of election strategist Prashant Kishor - hired
by the party before the assembly polls was behind
it. Kolkata Mayor and Mamata Banerjee's close
aide, Firhad Hakim, said the second list was
uploaded by people who were given unauthorised
access to the party's digital media passwords, indicating
strongly that I-PAC was behind it.
Even as Mamata Banerjee, before going to Uttar
Pradesh for Samajwadi Party's election campaign,
made it clear that the list released by Chatterjee
and Bakshi was official, but even after that the socalled
non-authenticated list not only existed on
the digital platforms like Twitter and Facebook but
even the candidates from that list filed their nominations.
The Trinamool supremo is not happy with the
"unnecessary" interference of Kishor and I-PAC
was evident when she gave a dry 'Thank You' in a
reply to his request that he doesn't want to work
with the Trinamool in West Bengal, Tripura, and
Meghalaya. But senior Trinamool leaders believe
that by merely severing ties with I-PAC will not
ease out the situation, and rather the problem is
much more complicated and deep-rooted.
Meanwhile, one of Abhishek Banerjee's close
associates, who also happens to be the observer for
Budge Budge Municipality seat, Jahangir Khan
told the media while conducting a rally with one of
the controversial candidates - "We need to make
Abhishek Banerjee's hand stronger".
Few hours later, the state home department
withdrew the 'Y' category security which he had
been enjoying for the last two years. Undeterred,
Jahangir, however continued on with the candidates
who are not approved by the Chief Minister.
"In the history of Trinamool Congress this has
never happened. No one has ever dared to ignore
the directives of the Chief Minister. The problem is
very serious and if the Mamata doesn't step in to
control the situation then it might go out of her
hand," a senior party leader said.
5-year-old girl killed in
monkey attack in UP village
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) : A fiveyear-old
girl was killed by a troop of monkeys
in the Bichpui village under the limits
of Bithri Chenpur police circle.
The girl, Narmada, was playing with
her friends near the Nakatiya river when
the monkeys attacked the children.
After hearing their cries for help, locals
rushed to the spot and rescued Narmada
and others. Her skin had been ripped off by
the monkeys and she died due to excessive
bleeding at the community health centre.
Narmada was the youngest of three siblings.
Her father, Nand Kishore, a daily
wager, said, "There have been cases of
monkeys attacking children but, in this
case, the monkeys were extremely aggressive
and had bitten my daughter almost
everywhere. When I reached the spot, my
daughter was crying for help." Ashok
Kumar, station House Officer (SHO) of
Bithri Chenpur police station, said, "The
family has been assured compensation
under relevant acts. The locals had
demanded that the monkeys be trapped.
We advised them to take help from the forest
department and gram panchayat office.
No FIR is possible in this case." There
have been multiple cases where monkeys
have injured people in Bareilly.
Odisha vigilance arrests
Assistant Collector in DA case
Bhubaneswar : The Odisha
Vigilance Department has arrested
Manoranjan Nayak, Assistant
Collector, Rourkela, for possessing
properties disproportionate to his
known sources of income, officials
said on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip-off, the vigilance
sleuths led by an Additional SP conducted
simultaneous raids at five
locations including the office of
Nayak in Sundargarh, Jajpur and Khordha
district of Odisha.
During the raid, it was found that he possesses
movable and immovable properties
worth around Rs 2 crore. The properties
include one triple storeyed building of about
Rs 75 lakh and one double storeyed building
worth Rs 35 lakh in Rourkela city, the officials
said.
Similarly, one 3 BHK flat worth Rs 50
lakh at Gothapatna in Bhubaneswar city,
two four wheelers, one two wheeler, bank
deposits, gold, cash and other movable
and immovable properties were
also unearthed by the vigilance
department during the raid.
A case has been registered at
Rourkela vigilance police station
against Nayak and his younger
brother under sections of Prevention
of Corruption Act.
Nayak, who is an Odisha
Revenue Service (ORS) officer, has
been arrested and forwarded to the Court of
special judge, vigilance, Sundargarh today.
Further, the vigilance is looking into suspected
transactions made by Nayak for
acquisition of benami assets, officials
added.