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United News of India
9 hours ago
- Politics
- United News of India
Cong blames Nitish Govt for rise in crimes against women, demands accountability
New Delhi, June 2 (UNI) The Congress on Monday accused the NDA-led Bihar government for rise in crimes against women and demanded immediate accountability from the Nitish Kumar administration. 'Within just 15 days, numerous girls in Bihar have been subjected to horrific atrocities,' alleged All India Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba said while addressing a press conference alongside Uttarakhand Congress spokesperson Garima Mehra Dasauni. Lamba outlined a series of cases to highlight the deteriorating law and order situation in Bihar. 'In Muzaffarpur, a class 5 girl was raped and murdered. In Chhapra, a student was abducted while returning from school, then gang-raped and killed. A minor was gang-raped in Sitamarhi, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl was raped in West Champaran, and two more minors were raped in Munger and Araria,' she stated. Accusing Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of presiding over a period of "poor governance," Lamba said the responsibility for the situation squarely lies with him. 'We demand that the Bihar government ensure accountability in these issues,' she added. Raising the issue of Prajwal Revanna, accused of sexually assaulting women in Karnataka, Lamba claimed "had the Congress party not been in power in the state, Revanna would still be roaming free - the same person for whom Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned". Lamba also alleged that both the National Women's Commission and the State Women's Commission have become mere puppets of the BJP. She also slammed the governmentfor failing to deliver on promises regarding One Stop Centres, claiming they are "nowhere to be found either in the country or in Bihar". Meanwhile, Garima Mehra Dasauni targeted the BJP in Uttarakhand, accusing the party of misusing the Ankita Bhandari murder case for political gain. 'The BJP is so desperate for publicity that even before the verdict was out, it released a poster giving all credit to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami,' Dasauni said. "This BJP poster is filled with lies. It claims that the accused in the Ankita Bhandari case were jailed within 24 hours, which is completely false," Dasauni alleged. She also claimed that Uttarakhand has witnessed a rise in cases of crime against women in the last six months. 'Given the current situation, we need to save our daughters from the BJP. The involvement of BJP leaders is evident in several such cases in Uttarakhand,' she alleged. UNI RBE GNK
Hindustan Times
17 hours ago
- Health
- Hindustan Times
‘Running on ventilator': Congress slams Nitish Kumar government after minor rape victim dies in state-run hospital
The Congress came down heavily on the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government after a 10-year-old rape survivor died at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) on Sunday, saying that the administration is 'running on ventilator'. According to a report from the news agency ANI, the girl was initially under treatment at the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur on May 26. She had severe neck and internal injuries. The PMCH in-charge superintendent, Dr Abhijit Singh, told the news agency, "After she arrived here, the doctor examined her in the ambulance. She was taken to the ICU, and doctors from all departments treated her for the entire night." The minor girl's uncle Virendra Paswan alleged that the accused lured the 10-year-old by offering her chocolate near her aunt's house and then took her to a maize field where he raped her. "The boy has been arrested. He strangled the girl and slit her throat. We called 112," he said. Additionally, Paswan has alleged negligence on the part of the hospital administration and doctors, saying that she was kept in the ambulance for two hours before being admitted to the hospital. "The doctors referred us to Patna, but we didn't like it there either. It's not a good hospital. Yesterday, we came, and we waited for three hours in an ambulance. When everyone started creating a ruckus, they admitted her at 4 o'clock. There was no convenience for anything. The child was uneasy and started crying at night. The doctors got upset and gave sleeping medicine to the child all night long, and at eight o'clock in the morning, she died," Paswan told the news agency ANI. These allegations have been denied by Dr Singh. "If such an incident takes place with anyone, the family will make allegations of negligence. We actively treated her right after we learned about this case. The doctor examined her in the ambulance, and then she was admitted." Further, the minor victim's uncle alleged that he had to spend ₹25,000 at the hospital despite it being a government institution. "PMCH hospital is negligent. This hospital means that anyone who comes will become a dead body. Even the doctor is negligent. Yesterday morning, they said that everything would be taken care of at a government hospital, but they take money to give blood; no money means no blood. Here we spent ₹25,000," he said. Paswan added that if one gives blood, then they will get blood, otherwise, they won't. The hospital administration is negligent, he reiterated. The incident has drawn the ire of Congress, whose party leader Aditya Paswan demanded action against the hospital administration and the government. Aditya blamed the NDA-led Bihar government for the negligence of the doctors at PMCH and demanded that the superintendent of the hospital be suspended immediately. He also called for the resignation of the state health minister. "The Bihar government is running on ventilators, and this is just a pretence that a world-class hospital is being built.. If this were the case, it would not have happened to that girl, a Dalit; whether Dalit or poor, people are equal. If someone says you will have to struggle for one hour to admit the girl, it is a shame," he added. Citing that the girl was made to wait in the ambulance for over two hours, Aditya Paswan said, "There is a system where there is no cost to the life of a Dalit, then there is no price for the life of the poor, then there is not point in staying with such a government". The Bihar spokesperson for Congress told news agency ANI," When we met the superintendent there, he said that he had to refer to Patna. We asked for a reference to AIIMS, which has better facilities, but for some reason, he referred us to the PMCH. After arriving at PMCH, the girl was lying in the ambulance for about two and a half hours." "Following that, we came with the state president. I brought Mr Rajesh Ram with me... We met the superintendent. After struggling for one hour, the girl was taken away. If the girl had been admitted on time, then today the girl would not have died," he added.
New Indian Express
5 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
'Justice Yashwant Varma to be impeached?' Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde explains
The NDA-led government at the Centre is reportedly preparing to introduce an impeachment motion against Justice Yashwant Varma. This could be the first time a judge is impeached from the Indian judiciary from a motion passed in both the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. We will be talking to Sanjay Hegde, a senior advocate and a leading voice for civil rights, about this case.
New Indian Express
6 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Impeachment proceedings against Justice Yashwant Varma likely
NEW DELHI: The NDA-led government at the Centre is reportedly preparing to introduce an impeachment motion against Justice Yashwant Varma during the forthcoming Monsoon session of Parliament. This follows serious allegations of a substantial cash recovery at his official residence, which reportedly came to light after a fire broke out on the night of 8 April. According to reliable sources, the government is expected to proceed with the impeachment process through the relevant ministry. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and Home Minister Amit Shah recently held a meeting with the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, a development that has fuelled speculation regarding the potential initiation of proceedings against Justice Varma. A three-member in-house enquiry committee, constituted by the Supreme Court to examine the allegations, has reportedly not given Justice Varma a clean chit. The committee's findings are said to include photographs and a video of burnt currency notes recovered from the judge's residence. Despite these developments, no First Information Report (FIR) has yet been lodged, and Justice Varma has not tendered his resignation.
Indian Express
7 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘Master-distorian active in Nehru-bashing': Congress's 5-point rebuttal to PM Modi
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued his stern remarks against Pakistan following Operation Sindoor, he took a veiled dig at former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his address in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on Tuesday. While underlining that Pakistan realised that they were no match for the Indian armed forces, they started a proxy war against India via cross-border terrorism, tracing back to the Partition, Modi said chains should have been cut but instead, hands were severed during that time. 'In 1947, when Maa Bharti was partitioned, 'katni chahiye thi zanjeerein par kaat di gayi bhujayein (chains should have been cut but instead, hands were severed)'. The country was divided into three parts. On that very night, the first terrorist attack took place in Kashmir,' Modi said. 'A part of Maa Bharti was captured by Pakistan using terrorists in the name of Mujahideen. If on that day, these Mujahideen were killed, and Sardar Patel's wish was that until we get back PoK, our armed forces should not stop. But no one listened to him and now, we have been facing this (terrorism) for the last 75 years. Pahalgam was also a perverse form of it,' the prime minister said. Modi's remarks came on the 61st death anniversary of Nehru and it did not go down well with the Congress, which aimed salvos at him. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, in a tweet, lambasted the prime minister. Jairam Ramesh accuses NDA of attempting to diminish Nehru's legacy In a previous post on X, Ramesh paid tribute to Nehru and accused the NDA-led government of attempting to defame and diminish his legacy. 'Today is the 61st death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, who simply refuses to go away in spite of a systematic 6D effort being made — since 2014 especially — to defame, distort, deny, denigrate, diminish, and demolish him and his legacy,' he said.
