By elections in Karnataka: Who’s responsible?
Election commission has declared elections in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, along with three Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka. Mandya, Ballari and Shivamogga districts will have to face an unexpected election before they go to polls again in the next five months owing to this decision. The elected representative will last for a term of only a few months before the new one is chosen. Isn’t this a little expensive to use resources just so that the whole process has to be repeated again? As per the EC, three Lok Sabha seats have been lying vacant since the last few months so conducting the election is inevitable. But the question that arises right now is the usefulness of a candidate who’d be elected for a matter of few months.
Many political parties and politicians have voiced their opinions regarding this. How committed would this few months’ MP be, in his/her service to his voters? No sooner does he/she begin the work, there would be a poll code for 2019 elections. At best, this election would be a preparation ground for the forthcoming one. And officers would rule the roost for all that while in these constituencies. Two visits to Delhi and the MP would be home again ending his/her term. Isn’t this an insult to the democracy? Voters and the entire ecosystem would be taken for granted with this. Who are those people who made the elections inevitable at this moment? Instead of blaming something as hazy as a ‘system’, we need to identify persons who used the system to their convenience and pushed people into this inevitable phase.
When elected representatives meet with a sudden death, an election is understandable. But in this case, the elections have been imposed on people owing to vested political gains. Those who wanted to continue in state politics, why did they contest for Lok Sabha seats at all? Why did they assure their voters things that they could never fulfil? When they resign after such long drawn process, isn’t that much like cheating on his/her own people? Whoever wins these effectively temporary seats may contest again in the 2019 elections for sure. This irresponsibility has to end with immediate effect.
One candidate should not be allowed to contest from two seats of different or same houses so as to avoid investment of men and machinery later, to uphold democracy. If a candidate makes a decision of vacating one seat owing to his fancy, the EC has to make him pay up the expenses of conducting elections unless there’s a tangible reason to his vacating the seat. Because when people contest the elections that they made inevitable, and contest for the same seat in the same phase from two parties, he/she is mocking the democracy and nothing less. This has to be controlled and stopped to ensure candidates don’t get away with their powerful whims. Else, such operations will cost a lot of resources for the state and the agencies in repeated instances in the near future.
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Delhi court extends gangster Anmol Bishnoi's NIA custody by 7 days
New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court on Friday extended the NIA custody of deported gangster Anmol Bishnoi by seven more days.
Special Judge Prashant Sharma ordered the extension during a hearing conducted at the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) headquarters here amid high security.
The hearing was not conducted at the designated court in the Patiala House courts as the NIA cited a high security risk to Bishnoi because of threats given by Pakistani gangster Shahzad Bhatti.
Sources said the agency sought the extension of Anmol's custody by seven more days on the ground of conducting further probe, which the judge allowed.
Wanted in connection with the killing of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Baba Siddique, firing at actor Salman Khan's residence in April 2024, the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, among other crimes, Anmol was "removed" from the United States on November 18.
He was detained in the US in November last year.
After being produced before a special judge in the Patiala House courts on November 18, he was sent to the NIA's custody for 11 days.
On November 29, Anmol, the brother and a close aide of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, was sent for further custodial interrogation till December 5.
Absconding since 2022, US-based Anmol is the 19th accused to be arrested for involvement in the terror-gangster syndicate led by his jailed brother.
