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The Tamil Nadu Congress chief, K Selvaperunthagai, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste, was reportedly prevented from participating in the Kumbh Abhishekam rituals. The incident occurred when Selvaperundagai attempted to take part in the holy water offering ceremony.
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Hindustan Times
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- Hindustan Times
Electoral roll update exercise dangerous and bizarre: Singhvi
New Delhi: Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi called the Special Intensive Review of the Election Commission in Bihar 'dangerous and bizarre' and claimed that the EC exercise, in its original form, could have struck off about 2 crore (20 million) of the state's 4.9 crore (49 million) voters. Addressing a press conference at Indira Bhavan, the Congress headquarters, on Saturday, Singhvi said EC's plan to consider voters who were added after 2003 as 'suspects' was an 'arbitrary and legally questionable move.' (PTI) Addressing a press conference at Indira Bhavan, the Congress headquarters, on Saturday, Singhvi said EC's plan to consider voters who were added after 2003 as 'suspects' was an 'arbitrary and legally questionable move.' Singhvi was one of the legal counsels who opposed the EC's move. The Congress leader said on Saturday that party is satisfied with the orders of the Supreme Court, wherein it asked the EC to accept the Aadhaar card, the voter card and the ration card as valid proof of identity. 'The Election Commission's plan could have disenfranchised nearly 2 crore voters out of around 4.9 crore voters registered after 2003. These voters were asked to furnish citizenship proof. It is beyond the jurisdiction of the Election Commission of India to verify the citizenship of people,' said Singhvi. Singhvi, however, clarified that the Congress had it never sought a stay of the SIR. The Congress leader also questioned that, 'Ten elections have been held since the last special revision in 2003. What was the hurry to carry out another revision when the Bihar election was just a few months away?' Singhvi pointed out that the 2003 special revision was done a year before the Lok Sabha polls and 2 years before the assembly election. The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to also consider Aadhaar cards, voter IDs and ration cards, as acceptable proof of eligibility for inclusion in electoral rolls in its ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the list in Bihar, even as it agreed to examine whether the poll body's exercise violated legal provisions or could potentially lead to mass disenfranchisement ahead of assembly elections due later this year. Underlining that the matter 'goes to the root of the functioning of the democratic republic' and involves 'the right to vote,' a bench of justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi said it would examine three key questions -- ECI's powers to conduct such an exercise, the manner in which the SIR is being conducted, and its timing, and fixed the matter for next hearing on July 28.
Hans India
an hour ago
- Hans India
State BJP chief urges lawyers to come forward for a change in TG
Hyderabad: State BJP president N. Ramachandra Rao said that lawyers should again come forward in the state, as the time has come to fight anti-people policies and wage a just agitation. Addressing the felicitation event organised by the BJP legal cell on Saturday, he urged, 'let us work together to bring a BJP government in Telangana.' Lawyers are always leaders in movements. They have the power to change the social and political awareness of society. Therefore, if we want to bring awareness among the people again, lawyers are important. He said the Congress government, which is ruling with anti-people policies, should be thrown out. Asserting that he wants to work hard to bring the BJP government to Telangana, he recalled his association with lawyers. He said, 'I have very close relations with lawyers.' In United AP, once I saw 100 reserve policemen destroying a shop in Tarnaka in 1993. 'I interfered in it, and in response, they lathi-charged me, arrested me, and filed a case. Seriously injured in the police attack, I received treatment in the hospital for almost two months. A major operation took place.' Further, at that time, lawyers in united Andhra Pradesh boycotted the courts for 43 days. 'Even though I was personally against the boycott, another senior lawyer, including me, condemned the police brutality; he called for a boycott among the lawyers. Ultimately, we were able to get the Judicial Commission appointed,' he added. Then the lawyers fought for me. That's why he considers the lawyers' community as his family. If lawyers resolve, anything is possible. He stressed that helping the BJP is an important thing for Telangana. He said that without the BJP's support, Telangana would not have been formed, and it is history. He recalled the key role of lawyers in the process of passing the Telangana Bill in Parliament without legal issues. 'If Telangana is to be transformed into a developed state', it is possible only with the BJP, he said.
The Print
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- The Print
Ghaziabad court issues non-bailable warrant against Congress MP Imran Masood in forgery case
Ghaziabad (UP), Jul 12 (PTI) A CBI court here has issued a non-bailable warrant against Congress MP Imran Masood in a 2007 forgery case, instructing the Ghaziabad Police to produce him before it. Confirming the development, government counsel Adesh Kumar Tyagi said on Saturday that the case originates from an FIR lodged in 2007 by the executive officer of the Saharanpur Municipality against Masood under sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code.
