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Congress MLA had ordered 2000 kgs of namkeen before 2017 Gujarat assembly elections, didn’t pay the shopkeeper after party lost

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Congress MLA had ordered 2000 kgs of namkeen before 2017 Gujarat assembly elections, didn’t pay the shopkeeper after party lost

A shopkeeper in Gujarat has accused Gujarat Congress MLA Poonambhai Parmar of not paying dues amounting to Rs 4,75,000 for the snacks he purchased ahead of 2017 state assembly elections. Journalist Janak Dave took to Twitter last evening to share a letter supposedly written by a shopkeeper from Anand to the MLA requesting him to clear his dues.


In the letter, the shopkeeper requests the MLA to clear dues of 2,000 kgs chavana (a savoury Gujarati snack) purchased at Rs 65/kg ahead of 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections in the state. He alleges that the MLA owes him a total of Rs 4,75,020 as per bill no. 507 dated 29th November, 2017. The shopkeeper says that when he had earlier requested clearance of dues, Parmar had given him a cheque of the same amount on 20th December 2017 with a request to not deposit the same in the bank. As per the letter, the shopkeeper says that Parmar had said he would make the payment in cash later.

“After the elections were over, I time and again requested you to clear the dues. In April 2019, you finally paid me Rs 2 lakh and had assured me you will pay the remaining amount in next 2-3 months. We informed you many times that our financial position is currently weak. We are unable to even pay school fees of our children,” the shopkeeper Amitbhai Rana said. The shopkeeper further said that if dues are not cleared, he, along with his family, will sit on a fast outside the Congress MLA’s house.

No plan to give unemployment allowances: Kamal Nath government’s U-turn on election promise

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No plan to give unemployment allowances: Kamal Nath government’s U-turn on election promise

The Kamal Nath government has made a u-turn on their pre-election promise of giving unemployment allowance to the youth in the state. As per reports, Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath stated in the assembly yesterday that his government has no plan to give unemployment bonus to the youth in the state.

Kamal Nath made the announcement as a reply to MLA Munnalal Goyal’s question. Earlier, the Congress government had promised that it will pay an unemployment allowance up to Rs 4000 to the registered unemployed youth in the state.

Congress MLA Munnalal Goyal had asked in the assembly yesterday whether the state government has any plans to keep its election promise and whether there are any plans to create new jobs for the registered unemployed youth in the state.

CM Kamal Nath had submitted a written reply to the question, saying that the government has no plans to give an allowance. He added that through the implementation of various state and central schemes, the government is trying to provide skill training to the youth so they can be employed in the private sector.

Previously, leader of the opposition Gopal Bhargav had stated that the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh had cheated the youth of the state by not keeping its election promise. He added that the state budget has made no mention of any kind of unemployment allowance, only clever wordplay.

Bhargav also pointed out that instead of publicising the branding of Mava Bati, Jalebi, and Chiraunji Barfi, the state government should take concrete steps to fulfil the promises on which they sought votes from the people.

While campaigning in the state for the assembly elections, then Congress president Rahul Gandhi had announced last year that the unemployed youth in the state will be provided with an allowance of Rs 10,000 per month. The Kamal Nath government has made no progress to fulfil that claim either.

It is notable here that the Kamal Nath government had earlier announced a ‘Yuva Swabhiman Yojna’ for giving allowance to the unemployed youth in the state. The Madya Pradesh cabinet had also approved the proposal.

In February this year, the Kamal Nath government had announced that the young men and women in urban areas will receive an amount of Rs 4000 per month and under another plan, they will be provided work for a minimum of 100 days. The opposition is alleging that after much fanfare and publicity, the government has now reneged on its promises.

Railway official forced to retire early for being careless at duty, could have caused major accident

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Railway official forced to retire early for being careless at duty, could have caused major accident

A major accident was averted at Goraul railway station in Bihar after two trains were placed on the same track. On the 23rd of May, Sivan-Samastipur Passenger train and Bihar Sampark Kranti Express came together on the same track but a massive tragedy was averted at the last moment.

After an investigation was completed on the matter, the station superintendent was punished with forced retirement. The investigation concluded that Sunil Kumar Singh’s mistake on a fateful day could have resulted in a major tragedy. The decision was taken after the investigative team of the Sonpur circle of the Muzaffarpur-Hajipur Division submitted its report on the matter.

It’s believed to be the first instance of such strict punishment in the Sonpur circle.

Chaos had erupted on the 23rd of May when the Sampark Kranti Express headed towards the Sivan-Samastipur Passenger. A stampede had broken out when passengers ran helter-skelter to save their lives. Shalu Devi, Savita Devi, Chandan Kumar and Shaukat Khatun had suffered grievous injuries.

It was only when Ravi Shankar Kumar, the driver of the Sampark Kranti Express, put the brakes on after noticing the other train on the same track. Fortunately, the train stopped with 200 meters between them. The passengers went on a rampage afterwards and the station superintendent himself was injured in the process.

The Modi government has forced to retire 312 government officials over either corruption or inefficiency since 2014. Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh had said in the Parliament that the decision was taken after reviewing the work of about 1.2 lakh officials both at the Group A and Group B levels. The retirement was recommended for 125 Group A officers and 187 from Group B.

Last month, days after sacking a handful of tainted officers from service, the Modi government passed a directive to all departments and ministries to prepare monthly reports identifying officials facing charges of corruption and other wrongdoing against them.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal recently spoke about how the Modi government is attempting to clean the system of corrupt and inefficient officials.


Goyal said that even the Railway Ministry is now looking at profiles of officials to identify the corrupt and inefficient officials.

TTE seen taking money from poor man in viral clip, suspended by Railways

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TTE seen taking money from poor man in viral clip, suspended by Railways

A viral video has been shared several times on Social Media where a railway official who appears to be a Traveling Ticket Examiner (TTE) can be seen taking money from a poor man travelling on the train.


In the video, it can be seen that the poor man is giving the railway official money and then standing there with folded hands seemingly pleading with the Railway official. After a while, it can be seen in the video that the TTE gives the poor man a couple of notes back that he had taken and keeps the rest with him.

After the video went viral, several people tagged the Railway Minister, Piyush Goyal and the Railway Minister official handle to alert them of the transgression. While the date and location of the video were unknown, many said that these transgressions are a regular feature and the ones who get affected the most by it are the poor folks who travel by train.

The Railway Ministry first responded to one such tweet and asked for the details of the video so an investigation could be conducted into the matter.


Then, the DRM of Mughalsarai station responded to the viral video where the railway official is seen taking money, stating that the official in the video had been identified and had been suspended pending a full investigation.

The DRM said that the video is 6 to 8 months old and the official said that he had accepted money to get a ticket made for the poor man. He also said that after accepting the money, the official claims that he did get the ticket made. However, he has been suspended pending an investigation into his actions.

Imran Khan says Pulwama was an ‘indigenous thing’ by a Kashmiri ‘boy’ who was radicalised by the ‘brutality of security forces’

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Imran Khan says Pulwama was an ‘indigenous thing’ by a Kashmiri ‘boy’ who was radicalised by the ‘brutality of security forces’

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on his maiden visit to the US as head of state washed his hands off the Pulwama attack. Speaking in Washington, Khan said that Pakistan had nothing to do with the Pulwama terror attack that took place in February this year.

Khan said, “This whole thing, Pulwama, what happened in February last year, it was clearly an indigenous thing. It was a Kashmiri boy radicalised by the brutality of the security forces. He blew himself up. But because this group (Jaish-e-Mohammad) claimed responsibility which was in India as well, Jaish-e-Mohammad was operating in India, Pakistan suddenly came into the limelight.”

This is not the first time Pakistan has played victim and obfuscated from taking responsibility of the terrorism thriving on its soil. In a video released days after the Pulwama attack, Imran Khan had not even once condemned the dastardly attack on CRPF soldiers. In his statement, Khan claimed that his country had nothing to gain from attacking India.

Ahead of Khan’s visit to the US, terror organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed was taken into a judicial custody, again. He is the mastermind behind the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai and is accused of terror funding. Many speculated that the arrests were made to save Khan’s face before he visits the US.

Amusingly, Imran Khan’s bid to blame Pulwama attack on India is also a line the Indian ‘liberals’ and Indian opposition parties have toed. Following the Pulwama attack, many Congress supporters had floated conspiracy theories that Pulwama was an ‘inside job’ carried out on behest of Prime Minister Modi. One Congress leader and conman who questioned Pulwama as an ‘inside job’ was given a Lok Sabha ticket by the party. A Goa Congress leader had even asked for proof of the terror attack and accused PM Modi for ‘planning’ the Pulwama attack. A Karnataka Congress MP even said that the Pulwama attack was a ‘match-fixing’ between PM Modi and Pakistan.

Following the Pulwama attack, India carried out Balakot airstrikes where Indian Air Force pilots went across the LOC and destroyed the terror camps on the other side. Here, too, Pakistan denied destruction of any terror camps. Congress and opposition leaders again came to Pakistan’s rescue asking for proof of Balakot airtrikes.

Senior citizen who used to put lizards in his own food on trains to get free meal caught by railway officials

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Senior citizen who used to put lizards in his own food on trains to get free meal caught by railway officials

A string of unusual incident where “lizards” were being found in railway food was finally unriddled after a senior citizen, who was supposedly a regular offender, was rounded up by the railway authorities.

A senior citizen named Surender Pal, in his 70s, was found guilty of contaminating his own meal to get free ones from the national transporter. The matter came to the fore when a senior divisional commercial manager noticed the uncanny similarity in the modus-operandi in the cases that were transpiring for a while.


“He was the same person. He claimed to have found a lizard in the samosa he ate at Jabalpur station on July 14. Then he complained that a lizard has been found in his biryani at Guntkal station. I became suspicious and alerted the senior DCM and shared the man’s photo. He turned out to be 70 plus and did it for free meals,” Basant Kumar Sharma, Senior DCM, Jabalpur, told PTI on phone, adding that it seemed Pal was doing this for some time.

After some senior official at the Guntkal station accosted Pal, he confessed to his nasty prank, which he had been carrying out for a while now. The officials even recorded a video, in which Pal is heard not only confessing to the crime but also saying he has been using a “fish which cured mental illness” for his tricks.

In the video, the officials at the Guntkal station can be seen explaining to the man that railways is a national pride and it belonged to the public.

Though Pal was chastised for giving railways a bad name, he was also assured that no action would be taken against him if he promised to mend his ways.

In the video, Surendra Pal is heard admitting to the nasty prank he carried off to procure free meals from the railways and is also heard apologising for the same. Claimed to be mentally unstable, he begged for forgiveness from the railway authorities, “I have done a wrong thing. I am an old man, I am mentally unstable, I have blood cancer. Please let me go. In Punjab, there is an ayurvedic medicine. I used a fish which cures bone diseases and mental illness,” said Pal.

Pal also claimed his father was a senior DCM, to which officials said it was not right for him to fraud the railways that was like his family.

Railways have until last year received more than 7,500 complaints from passengers over bad quality of food served on trains. The railways, in turn, had imposed Rs 15.5 million fines on vendors, warned 2,322 of them, terminated the contract of one and found 555 complaints unsubstantiated until October last year.

Gujarat tops the list of states with installed rooftop solar projects at 261.97 MW: Govt informs Parliament

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Gujarat tops the list of states with installed rooftop solar projects at 261.97 MW: Govt informs Parliament

Gujarat tops the list of states to have installed rooftop solar projects with an installed capacity of 261.97 megawatts, informed R K Singh, Minister of State (MoS) for New and Renewable Energy and Power Tuesday.

In response to a question raised by Member of Parliament Parimal Nathwani, Singh pointed out, at present, total rooftop solar installations within the country stands at 1,700.54 MW. While Gujarat tops the chart, it is closely followed by the states of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with 198.52 MW and 151.62 MW capacities respectively.

He further pointed out the government has set a target of installing 40,000 MW of rooftop solar projects by the year 2022 in the country, which also includes installation of RTS on the rooftop of houses.

Nathwani intended to learn about the target fixed by the government for generating power through solar panels on rooftops of houses alongside the funds allocated to achieve the given target and quantum of power generated through RTS.

MoS said that out of the total 261.97 MW installation in Gujarat, 183.51 MW were subsidised installations while 78.45 MW were non-subsidised.

No formal study has been conducted to ascertain the quantum of power generated through solar panels installed on rooftops of the houses. However, on average, it is estimated that 1.5 million units per MW per year are generated from solar rooftop plants, Singh asserted.

DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal posts old child rape video from Hyderabad on Twitter, asks Delhi police to file report

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DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal posts old child rape video from Hyderabad on Twitter, asks Delhi police to file report

Former Aam Aadmi Party leader and Chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women Swati Maliwal broke women safety laws today when she posted a child rape video on her Twitter account.

Today afternoon Swati posted a video captured with a phone camera showing an elderly person attempting to rape a minor girl. In the video, an aged man is seen with a small girl in a room where he was about to rape her. When he was in the middle of the crime, some people enter the scene and rescue the child.

Although there is no indication of the location where the crime happened, she assumed that it happened in Delhi and tagged the Delhi police asking them to file FIR immediately and arrest the man.

Even though the face of the girl was blurred in the video, it is still a very disturbing video, and laws make it clear that such rape videos can’t be shared online. When one comes across such videos, they are supposed to contact the police, not share it on social media. Being in the position of heading the Women Commission in Delhi, Swati Maliwal could have easily directly contacted senior officials of Delhi police. But she chose to share the video on social media, in clear violation of law.


She also assumed it is from Delhi and didn’t try to verify it. Because, it has turned out that the video is from March this year, and it is from Moghalpura in Hyderabad. More importantly, the man seen has already been arrested by police and is in jail now. In the video below, we can clearly see the same man in police custody.

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The 71-year-old Mohammad Jabbar had attempted to rape a two- and half-year old girl in an under-construction building on 6th March this year. Although he was caught by locals, he had managed to escape. But police managed to nab him two days later.

Swati Maliwal could have found out these details about the video easily, but in an attempt to create a sensation, she posted the video online.


When several people including journalists asked her to do delete the video, pointing out that this is illegal and the case is old and the man has been arrested, she deleted it. But she ignored several people informing her that the man has been arrested, saying she has sought a report from police. When the perpetrator has already been arrested by police in a different state that does not come under her jurisdiction, one wonders why she is seeking a report from Delhi Police on the case.

Karnataka Congress-JDS coalition government collapses after it fails to get trust vote passed in Assembly

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Karnataka Congress-JDS coalition government collapses after it fails to get trust vote passed in Assembly

The coalition government of Janta Dal (Secular) and Congress was facing a second trust vote in little over one year after elections were held on May 2018. Various MLAs from the ruling coalition had rebelled and that’s why the trust vote was needed. After days of drama, CM Kumaraswamy finally moved the trust vote today that failed to pass in the Assembly. As a result, the Karnataka government has officially collapsed.

During the Trust Vote, the total Members present and voting were 204 and the Majority Mark was 103. The votes in favour of the Congress-JDS government were 99 and the votes against Congress-JDS government were 105.

Ordinarily, if the vote had resulted in a tie, speaker KR Ramesh Kumar would have had a casting vote if there is a ‘tie’ in the Confidence Motion.

However, the government has collapsed with a vote way over the majority mark of 103.

As a result of the Karnataka Congress-JDS government collapsing, HD Kumaraswamy will in all likeliness resign at the earliest.

Aurangabad: Sheikh Aamer faked ‘forced to chant Jai Shri Ram’ story to get applauded in the community

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Aurangabad: Sheikh Aamer faked ‘forced to chant Jai Shri Ram’ story to get applauded in the community

In just 3 days, another fake incident of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan being forced has come to fore in the city of Aurangabad. In the latest case, the alleged victim Aamer reportedly contrived a story that the 4 youths he had an altercation with had forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan and filed his complaint on this basis at the police station to seek grandstanding from members of his community.

(Source: Lokmat Samachar)

However, barely a day after filing a complaint that some persons had forcibly asked him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, the alleged victim Aamer went back on his statement. Aamer conceded that he fabricated the story of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan being enforced upon him to raise his stature among his community members and teach those who dare to challenge people from his community a lesson.

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Aamer said to the police that the minor scuffle he had with the car driver at Bajrang Chowk instantly reminded him of the Hudco corner incident and he was determined to teach the car driver a lesson and getting him punished and thus elevate his standing among his community members. He, therefore, filed a false report in the police station alleging that the car driver and his friends forced him into chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and threatened him with violence for not abiding by their demands.

According to the reports, Sheikh Aamer, working with food ordering app Zomato, and his friend Shaikh Nasir were travelling on a bike to collect a takeaway from a restaurant when four to five men in a car had a trifling brawl with the duo while their bike brush past the car at a turn. After Aamer gave a communal flair to the incident falsely accusing the youths of browbeating them into chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, the police had arrested 4 of them.

The four arrested are engineering students. Their car has been seized by the police. They have been charged under sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race and doing acts prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and 506 (criminal intimidation). All the four arrested acknowledged that they had a petty quarrel on the turning but vehemently denied of asking the Zomato duo to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans.

A couple of days back, a similar false report alleging intimidation by miscreants to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ was filed by Imran Ismail Patel. Patel, a hotel employee, said in his complaint that a gang of around ten goons stopped him near Hudco Corner in Begumpura area when he was returning home on a motorbike in the early hours and forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. However, a couple who came to his rescue claimed that Patel wasn’t intimidated for raising religious slogans but the altercation occurred due to some old personal feud.

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