Nation in the hands of criminals
Prosecution witness in Sohrabuddin encounter case Azam Khan’s statement before the CBI court had revealed the role of police department in Haren Pandya murder case. Khan had said former IPS officer Vanzara had allegedly ordered the killing of Pandya. And fearing more names tumbling out in this context, Sohrabuddin and his wife were murdered. Pandya may have been killed to avoid the truth of Gujarat govt’s role in Gujarat massacre coming out in the open or before the media. As if to concur with that, a few strong evidences have also been found.
One is the claim of advocate Satish Uke that justice Loya died of poisoning (isotope) and not of heart attack as claimed. Chief investigating officer Sandeep Tamgadge in an interview to Indian Express has said Amit Shah and three IPS officers are key conspirators of Tulsiram Prajapati’s murder, who was the close aide of Sohrabuddin. All these killings happened when Amit Shah was the home minister of Gujarat. Today he is the national president of the party and perhaps the only person close to Prime Minister Modi.
With this investigation, the nexus between the government, police department and criminals under Gujarat government is out in the open. A home minister had used the power of his office to control the police. And the police were using the criminals to fulfil the requirements of politicians and would receive suitable rewards as well. Later, those criminals would be done to death and the media would praise officers like Vanzara for their ‘encounter’ skills. While in reality, the likes of Vanzara didn’t do those encounters to save the nation or control the criminals or something as important as that.
Those encounters were done to cover up their own misdoings. If the criminals could open their mouth, the true colour of politicians would be out in the open. Police officers would lose their jobs. Even governments may fall. For all these reasons, Sohrabuddin, his wife and their aide had to be killed. There are possibilities of many such murders having happened. Sohrabuddin, Prajapati, Azam Khan and others may have been goondas and criminals, but they were protected and nurtured by people who occupy high offices. This fact becomes evident as one goes into the history. There was a time when Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Morarji Desai, Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were the face of the nation. Though there were a few accusations against him, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was liked by one and all. People of this nation loved him because at the international level, his name was impeccable.
His background, his participation in freedom fight, political statesmanship and wide reading had made him an endearing leader. Schools teach good qualities of political leaders so that students get inspired by them and turn into good citizens. But how can the schools teach about the personality of today’s leaders? The answer to why goondas, rowdies and murderers roam without fear in our country lies within us. When leaders without character and values rule us, the characterless will be in the forefront of affairs.
Those who assume power with the help of criminals, will naturally be indebted to them. Their duty is more towards criminals over the common people. They do not have any vision about the country’s development or economical prowess. They are all enthused to foment more communal clashes across the nation. Hence the whole nation needs to wake up when accusations of Haren Pandya, a prominent hindu leader, his killing is aided by Amit Shah. We are submitting the country into the hands some leaders and we need to understand the effect of this.
In the list of Nehru, Shastri and Indira; names like Amit Shah and Modi figuring is the biggest tragedy of the country. Hence, Amit Shah must voluntarily resign from BJP and allow the investigation to complete. PM Modi needs to bring pressure on Shah for this to secure the reputation and integrity of the nation and BJP. With all these gruesome accusations, if Shah continues to be in the office, the difference between police and criminals would naturally be lost and criminals will most certainly rule the country.
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SC to hear today NGO's plea for release of voter turnout data for LS polls within 48 hours
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to grant an urgent hearing on a plea by an NGO seeking a direction to the Election Commission to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website within 48 hours of conclusion of polling for each phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra asked the counsel appearing for the Election Commission (EC) to take instructions and said it will hear the matter at the end of the board.
The matter was mentioned by advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), seeking urgent listing of the petition.
Last week, the NGO filed an interim application in its 2019 PIL seeking directions to the poll panel that "scanned legible copies of Form 17C Part-I (Account of Votes Recorded)" of all polling stations be uploaded immediately after the polls.
"Direct the Election Commission to provide tabulated polling station-wise data in absolute figures of the number of votes polled as recorded in Form 17C Part- I after each phase of polling in the ongoing 2024 Lok Sabha elections and also a tabulation of constituency-wise figures of voter turnout in absolute numbers in the ongoing 2024 Lok Sabha elections," the NGO said.
It said the plea was filed to ensure that the democratic process is not subverted by electoral irregularities.
"The voter turnout data for the first two phases of the ongoing 2024 Lok Sabha elections published by ECI on April 30 has been published after 11 days of the first phase of polling... on April 19 and four days after second phase of polling... on April 26.
"The data, as published by the ECI in its press release dated April 30, 2024 shows a sharp increase (by about 5-6 per cent) as compared to the initial percentages announced by ECI as of 7 pm on the day of polling," the plea said.
The petition said the "inordinate" delay in the release of final voter turnout data, coupled with the unusually high revision of over 5 per cent in the poll panel's press note of April 30, 2024 has raised concerns and public suspicion regarding the correctness of the said data.
The non-release of the absolute number of votes polled coupled with the "unreasonable delay" in the release of votes polled data has led to apprehensions in the mind of the electorate about the sharp increase between initial data and data released on April 30, it said.
"These apprehensions must be addressed and put to rest. That in order to uphold the voter's confidence it is necessary that the ECI be directed to disclose on its website scanned legible copies of Form 17C Part- I (Account of Votes Recorded) of all polling stations which contains the authenticated figures for votes polled, within 48 hours of the close of polling," it said.
