BJP lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh, Surendra Singh who has an infamous track record of making offensive statements, is once again at it. This time, the lawmaker from Ballia, targeted Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, after a poster depicting the former as Lord Ram was spotted in Patna. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Mr Singh called the Congress president “Raavan” and his sister “Surpanakha“. 

Comparing the Congress party to a “broken ship”, which can never win the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Mr Singh said that Rahul Gandhi has “brought his sister into politics” because he won’t be able to fight Narendra Modi alone.

“We all know that before Ram and Raavan fought in Lanka, Raavan sent his sister Shurpanakha. It looks like (in upcoming Lok Sabha elections), Rahul will play the role of Raavan, while as Ram, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make India proud…People should think that Ram has won…Narendra Modi will become the Prime Minister again,” the BJP lawmaker said.

Mr Singh had came out in support of his party colleague Sadhana Singh, who raised a political storm for her offensive comments against Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, calling her “a blot on womankind” for “selling her dignity for power”, after the alliance with Samajwati Party. “The manner in which Mayawati has joined hands with the Samajwadi Party after the state guest house case of 1995 goes on to prove that she has no self-respect,” said Mr Singh.

Mr Singh had hit headlines after advising people to have five children in order to increase the population of Hindus in India. He had also once compared bureaucrats to prostitutes and asked his supporters to give officials a “ghoosa” (punch) if they ask for “ghoos” (bribe). “Prostitutes are better than government officials, they at least do their work,” he had said.

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Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who has been severely unwell for months, spoke in a feeble voice as he presented the budget in the assembly today with a tube in his nose.7

Mr Parrikar, who is also the state finance minister, wore a cap and had assistants by his side for support as he read out his speech. He paused for sips of water.

The sight of the 63-year-old chief minister, who has a pancreatic condition, presenting the budget, is likely to set off more criticism of the ruling BJP from rivals including the Congress.

A thinner than usual and frail-looking Mr Parrikar has been making public appearances since December, after months of hospital stay and recuperation from surgery.

He was first seen after a long time when he inspected bridge projects, with doctors alongside.

The Congress has been demanding that Mr Parrikar be replaced and has repeatedly accused the BJP of retaining him against his will and even parading him in his condition to avoid its government falling.

Yesterday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi called on Mr Parrikar on his visit to Goa, setting off speculation about whether the controversy over the Rafale jet deal came up for discussion. Rahul Gandhi later said Mr Parrikar, who was Defence Minister of India till 2017, had told him that he had nothing to do with the new jet deal. He did not elaborate whether this was said in yesterday’s meeting or earlier.

The Congress had alleged that Mr Parrikar’s illness and his absence from office has paralysed the coastal state’s administration. Even allies and some members of the ruling BJP had raised questions. A politician approached the court asking for an evaluation of Mr Parrikar’s condition.

Nasheman News : Actor-politician Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday announced that he will not attend the all-party meeting called by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu over the demand for special category status on Wednesday.

The Jana Sena chief in an open letter to Naidu expressed surprise over the government extending invitation on Tuesday evening for a meeting to be held on Wednesday.

Pawan said the meeting without giving sufficient time to the parties and without deciding the agenda would serve no purpose. “This gives rise to the suspicion that the meeting is being convened for political mileage,” he wrote.

The actor made it clear that Jana Sena remained committed for a joint struggle to achieve special category status and implementation of commitments made in Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. He said the party would join hands only if there was sincerity in the struggle.

Naidu on Tuesday decided to call an all-party meeting on Wednesday to discuss special category status and incomplete implementation of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.

The ruling Telugu Desam Party appears to be trying to bring the issue of special status to the centre-stage before the last Parliament session.

Stating that TDP is taking the Centre head-on over the issue of the state’s rights, Naidu told TDP leaders that all the parties should join hands with them in carrying forward this battle.

Nasheman News :  Veteran activist Kisan Baburao Hazare alias Anna Hazare on Wednesday launched a fresh hunger strike at his Ralegan-Siddhi village seeking Lokpal and Lokayuktas as promised by the government.

An aide said that carrying the tricolour, Hazare, 81, went around in a procession in the village with a large number of supporters and hoisted the national flag before starting the indefinite fast.

He also paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of Martyrs’ Day before launching the agitation.

Three days ago, Hazare had served an ultimatum to the Maharashtra government demanding the implementation of the Lokayukta in the state failing which he would launch his hunger strike.

Earlier, he addressed several letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to implement the Lokpal authority and said his communications were not acknowledged.

Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government has initiated the process to bring the office of Chief Minister under the jurisdiction of the Lokayukta but Hazare said he will be on protest till it becomes a reality.

Besides these main demands, Hazare has also taken up the farmers causes including implementation of the M.S. Swaminathan Commission Report and related issues.

Nasheman News : Interacting with students and their parents at the ‘Pariksha pe Charcha 2.0’ event here on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s snappy and witty answers left the audience in splits.

In an instance where a mother raised concerns about her son being too involved in online games, Modi asked her: “Ye PUBG wala hai kya?” 

The question led to thunderous applause among the audience.

Modi highlighted that technology comes with its good and bad aspects depending on what side of it the children explore.

The Prime Minister also emphasised that if parents try to make efforts, children would hopefully move back to the playground from the playstation.

Launched in December 2017, PlayersUnknown Battleground (PUBG) is an online, multi-player battle game that connects users from around the world in real-time and allows them to fight missions, and is known to indulge players into long hours of gaming. 

Nasheman News :A decision on the day and time for conducting the last rites for George Fenandes, the former Defence Minister who died here on Tuesday, will be taken soon, his wife Leila Kabir said.

In a statement, she said Fernandes died peacefully at his home in the early hours of Tuesday and his body was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for embalming.

“We plan to conduct his last rites soon after our son, Sean Fernandes, arrives in India. The body is kept at our house S-114 Panchsheel Park for friends and associates to pay their last respects,” Leila said.

As soon as Sean arrives from the US, the family will finalize the timing of the last rites, she said.

“I and my son are grateful to every one who has come/messaged us to share our grief,” Leila added.

Nasheman News : Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday re-enacted his ‘thrust and hug’ policy once again, this time in Goa, when he suddenly dropped in to pay a courtesy call to ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, just a day after he charged Parrikar with possessing “explosive files” related to the Rafale deal.

The move, which caught everyone including the media, the treasury benches as well as several Congress MLAs unawares, is similar to the drama which played out in Parliament in July, when after a rousing speech in which Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Democratic Alliance government, the Congress president hugged a surprised Modi in the Lok Sabha and followed it up with a not-too-discreet wink.

While the Gandhi’s dexterous choreography took the attention away from the Congress losing the trust vote in Parliament, Rahul’s surprise visit to the Goa legislative assembly, ostensibly to pay a courtesy call to the ailing Chief Minister on Tuesday, potentially pulls the attention away from the day’s biggest story: Parrikar’s dramatic return to the state legislative assembly in the midst of his battle against cancer.

There was speculation as to whether the visibly unwell Parrikar would attend the ongoing three-day budget session. When Parrikar walked into the assembly on Tuesday, with medical appendage strapped to him, the former Defence Minister had to be helped to his seat in the state assembly by marshals, who also helped him stand up to bid the Governor Mridula Sinha farewell after she delivered her formal address to legislators.

According to state Congress president Girish Chodankar, the meeting with Parrikar at the state assembly complex, was in keeping with Rahul Gandhi’s politics of dealing with all with love, compassion and no ill-will even to the political adversaries.

“It is not just a courtesy call but one of care and concern and mirrors our party’s ideology of believing in politics of compassionate behaviour with humanity and society at heart,” state Congress president Girish Chodankar said.

On Monday, a tweet by Gandhi, who is holidaying in Goa with his mother Sonia, in which he said that Parrikar had a hold over Modi, because he posses explosive document related to the Rafale deal had stoked controversy.

The state Congress president also alluded to Gandhi’s hug in Parliament.

“You may recall that our president had even hugged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament, passing on the message that Congress knows to spread love even to the arch political rivals. That is why despite being on a private visit, our national president managed to take time off to meet him,” Chodankar said.

Caught On Camera,Erring ASI of Kumarswamy layout police Station suspended for Manhandling Women in Bengaluru. 
* Cops thrashed women in police station. 
* High Drama in Police Station.

In a shocking incident, Assistant Sub-Inspector of Kumaraswamy layout Police station assaulted a woman complainant who had approached the police station to file a case regarding family dispute.
An Assistant Sub Inspector identified as Renukaiah attached to Kumaraswamy Layout police station was suspended for allegedly assaulting a woman who had come to the station with a complaint related to family feud.
The ASI who misbehaved with the women is identified as Renukaiah.
It is learnt that two women had approached the police to file a case regarding a family dispute.Instead of helping the women with regard to the case ASI Renukaiah manhandled and shoved the duo away.
The allegedly incident took place on January 19 when the woman, Saraswati, had gone to the police station in order to settle a family dispute that involved her daughter. Following an altercation, two police officers were seen assaulting the woman, one of whom (an assistant sub-inspector) was caught striking the woman across her face and forcibly pushing her out of the station.The police officers have been severely condemned for their actions by people after the video went viral across social media.

The complainant married against her family’s wish and she landed in the police station seeking help from the cops. A heated argument broke out between the cops and the complainant’s mother when they took the complainant’s side.The mother asked the policeman not to interfere in their family matter and even threatened the police officials claiming that she would set herself on fire and commit suicide in front of the police station.

Enraged by the woman’s comments, Renukaiah began to slap the woman and pushed her out of the police station. He also warned her not to create nuisance in the police station.
Senior police officer told media persons,that an ASI,Assistant sub-inspector attached to Kumaraswamy Layout police station identified as Renukaiah has been suspended for manhandling a women when she approached them to complaint we condemen this type of behavior by the cops to the public we will take an Exemplary action against the erring cops and the alleged incident took place on 19th January and the video has gone viral on various social media platform it is alleged that the ASI Renukaiah had asked one of the constables to record the incident.

The constable leaked the edited video on social media following a tiff with the ASI over assignment of duty,Taking the issue very seriously and strong exception,DCP south K.Annamalai after collecting information about the incident has suspended both the ASI and the constable,with immediate effect and ordered an ACP level officer to conduct a detailed inquiry into the incident has led that the 18-year-old girl from Chittoor,who was a victim of child marriage,had run away from home after alleged harassment by her in-laws and her mother.

The girl had landed in Bengaluru and started working in a hotel.She had been married off to her uncle when she was minor, and received no help from her mother despite facing harassment by her husband the mother of the girl,reached the hotel on Sunday and, along with her relatives,and tried to take the girl home. The owner of the hotel alerted the police, who rushed to the hotel and took the girl and her mother to the station for an inquiry.At the station,the girl narrated her ordeal and told the police that,as she had turned 18, she was free to take her own decisions and did not want to go back to her mother.Tarakeshwari allegedly created a ruckus and assaulted the daughter in the station.ASI Renukaiah,who was the station in-charge,allegedly manhandled her and pushed her and others out of the station.

Renukaiah had asked a constable on duty to record the proceedings.On Sunday, the constable uploaded an edited version of the video on social media, a senior police officer said.
We condemen the incident :DCP South,K.Annamalai,
Addressing the media DCP,South,K.Annamalai,told that the Video of an Assistant Sub-inspector beating up public has gone viral we are not defending the cops action.We condemn this and have taken necessary action against the erring cops and he has been suspended.On January 19th cops received a complaint from a woman.She was working at a private hotel and called cops to rescue her alleging that she was being kidnapped.When we questioned her we found out that she got married to his relative only at the age of 11 and that she hails from Andhra Pradesh complainants mother forcefully tried to take her back home.Family members of the complainant forcefully tried to take her back home.That’s when the cops had to intervene and stop them.Things went out of control and cops assaulted complainants mother.Cops lost their patience during enquiry they have indeed done a great job by rescuing her and informing their Andhra Pradesh counterparts.The cops have even spoken to complainants parents in the last minute cops became impatient and assaulted women we are enquiring into the case and a exemplary action will be taken against the erring officer he added.

Tharakeshwari,Complainant told media persons that,My friend and I were returning home after work.That’s when our family members tried to kidnap us they had covered their faces and tried to push us into a car and kidnap us.We screamed for help and a few auto rickshaw drivers tried to help us.They questioned my family members as to why they’re forcefully taking us.By then my hotel manager arrived and we called the cops she added.

Nagalakshmi Bai,President,state women’s commission who visited the police station to collect stock of the situation she said there are certain situations where the cops must take tough decisions but we condemn the way the cops handled the women.We have field a complaint over this incident in such situations women constables should have intervened it is inappropriate for the men to handle women in this manner she added.

The BJP in Karnataka took to Twitter to highlight the incident and accused the officers of resorting to hooliganism. The party, in a tweet, also referenced former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah following the incident in Mysuru in which he misbehaved with a woman party worker.