Uttar Pradesh has returned to pre historic era
Looks like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his close confidante and CM of UP Adityanath have been partially successful in taking the country back to the bygone glory. The incident of a police officer being lynched to death by unruly mob has proved this beyond any doubt to the whole world. So far, the mobs would only target the commoners and the police department would watch such incidents rather callously. Now these barbarians from stone age have started with the top officers in police department. Now if the police officers are not safe from them, how would they provide any security to commoners?
The question of where should the commoners take their complaints, had begun to set in like rigor mortis on a sudden death. The police department would silently have some sort of a nexus with the alleged protectors of culture when they killed people in Gujarat, Rajasthan or Uttar Pradesh. Cases would be hardly registered because these 'protectors of culture’ enjoyed the confidence and protection of politicians.
Even if a case was indeed registered, the department would ensure the case was weak so that it does not get too far. With the murder of Subodh Singh, the goondas of Sangh Parivar have sent a very strong message to the police department. If any officer takes any interest in investigating the charges of mob lynching or any other crime committed by the Sangh Parivar, leading to any legal action, even the police officers will not be spared.
The fact that murder was led and supported by VHP, Bajarang Dal and even BJP to some extent has now come to light. Killing a police officer means challenging the constitution and threatening a state government in very definite terms. Unfortunately, neither the CM of UP nor the PM of the nation. Have opened their mouth about this gruesome murder. Instead, a BJP MLA has tried to cover up the act by issuing statement to protect the perpetrators station the dead officer was killed by police shooting. Now people are forced to wonder if this was a state sponsored murder. The murder of Subodh Singh and assault on police officers is bringing back the violence that happened around the time when Akhlaq or Meerut was murdered.
A mob lynched Akhlaq to death on mere baseless suspicion of him storing beef in his fridge at home. Subodh Singh was the investigating officer of Akhlaq murder case. He was facing a lot of political pressure in this regard and he was issued veiled and direct threats too. He had tried hard to arrest the accused in the Akhlaq lynching case and had warned those who were trying to give different colours politics involving cow. He faced many threats when he had to arrest the Sangh Parivar activists. Now, the very people who killed Akhlaq have killed the officer who was investigating the case too.
Before killing Subodh Singh, rumours were left afloat about 25 days prior that cow carcasses were found somewhere. Then they took to streets demanding action against illegal abattoirs that they claimed were open in the state. But where was the cow carcass found? would there be a carcass if anyone had indeed killed the cow for beef or meat? Abattoirs use bones and skin for other industries. That being the case, even if a carcass was indeed found, it must be that of a cow which could have starved to death in some Gau Shala and not killed for gains. Or this rumour could have been sent afloat to create an ecosystem to kill the officer. Why did people lay siege to police station over this rumour?
Why was Subodh Singh killed by the mobs? Was he running an illegal abbattoir that he had hurt someone's sentiments? The Sangh Parivar goondas have exhibited more cruelty than those butchers who kill cows and sell its parts for gains or business. Those who can kill a police officer, can also strew streets with cow carcasses in public places to achieve their objective. This incident in Uttar Pradesh has very evidently indicated the setting in of 'jungle raj’. When a state is ruled by a criminal with many cases against him, this is most important expected to happen.
Uttar Pradesh government must be dismissed and governor rule must be imposed on the state. Unfortunately, the President who has to take this decision has turned into a puppet at the hands of Sangh activists. PM Modi has to open his mouth atleast for the sake that this officer who was killed was a Hindu. The president must break his silence to rescue Uttar Pradesh from the hands of a criminal in Yogi's attire. President has to choose between the nation or Sangh Parivar.
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NDA sweeps bypolls to four assembly segments in Bihar
Patna (PTI): The ruling NDA in Bihar on Saturday swept the bypolls to four assembly segments, retaining Imamganj and wresting from the INDIA bloc Tarari, Ramgarh and Belaganj, receiving a boost ahead of the assembly elections due next year.
Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated recently by former political strategist Prashant Kishor with much fanfare, lost deposits in all but one seat, in a clear indication that the fledgling party, despite claims of taking the political landscape in the state by storm, needs to cover much ground.
The biggest setback for the INDIA bloc, helmed by the RJD, came in Belaganj, a seat the party had been winning since its inception in the 1990s, but this time lost to the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the arch-rival of its founding president Lalu Prasad.
The JD(U) candidate Manorama Devi, a former MLC, defeated by a margin of more than 21,000 votes RJD’s Vishwanath Kumar Singh who made his debut from a seat that fell vacant upon election to Lok Sabha of his father Surendra Prasad Yadav, a multiple term MLA.
The margin of victory was greater than the 17,285 votes polled by Mohd Amjad of Jan Suraaj, whom the RJD may have liked to blame for its defeat by causing a split in Muslim votes.
JD(U) national spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said, "The people of Bihar deserve kudos for rejecting the negativity of the opposition and reposing their trust in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Under his leadership, the NDA will win more than 200 seats of the 243-strong assembly in 2025."
The RJD also suffered an embarrassing defeat in Ramgarh, where Prashant Kishor’s prediction of the party “finishing third or fourth” came true. The forecast had caused Sudhakar Singh, son of state RJD president Jagadanand Singh, the MP from Buxar who had won the assembly seat in 2020, to threaten that Jan Suraaj cadres in the constituency will be “beaten up with sticks”.
Singh’s younger brother Ajit finished a distant third after BJP winner Ashok Kumar Singh, a former MLA, and Satish Kumar Singh Yadav who fought on a ticket of the BSP, which has little foothold in Bihar.
Jan Suraaj, though, was hardly a factor in Ramgarh, where its candidate Sushil Kumar Singh polled less than four per cent votes.
The BJP also pulled off a stunning victory in Tarari, which falls under the Arrah Lok Sabha seat, currently represented by CPI(ML)’s Sudama Prasad, who had won the assembly segment for two consecutive terms.
CPI(ML) candidate Raju Yadav lost, by a margin of a little over 10,000 votes, to BJP debutant Vishal Prashant, better known as the son of local strongman Sunil Pandey, who was formerly with the JD(U) and had joined the saffron party a few months ago.
Jan Suraaj had initially announced that it was fielding a former Vice Chief of the Army in Tarari but later disclosed that he could not contest because of technical reasons. Its candidate Kiran Singh got less than four per cent votes.
The most respectable performance from Jan Suraaj came in the reserved Imamganj seat where its candidate Jitendra Paswan stood third, polling well over 20 per cent votes.
The seat, however, went to Deepa Kumari, daughter-in-law of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who defeated RJD’s Raushan Kumar by a slender margin of less than 6,000 votes.
Manjhi, who heads the Hindustani Awam Morcha, vacated Imamganj earlier this year upon getting elected to Lok Sabha from Gaya.
With the exception of Ashok Singh in Ramgarh, the winners in all the seats shall be making their debut in the state assembly.
