6 Aadhaar cards recovered from roadside in Salt Lake amid SIR row
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Kolkata (PTI): Six Aadhaar cards were found lying on the side of a road in Salt Lake satellite township on Sunday, prompting police to initiate an investigation, a senior officer said.
The cards had addresses of residents of different states such as Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, the officer said, adding that the cards were seized after local residents spotted those lying in a heap near a bin and informed police.
They were seized after local residents spotted them lying in a heap near a garbage bin and alerted police, an official of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate said.
"We are investigating into the incident and contacting those whose addresses are given in the cards with help of their respective state police," the officer said.
The discovery of the cards created a flutter at a time when the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is underway in West Bengal, amid opposition allegations that a section of the ruling party has facilitated the procurement of Aadhaar cards by infiltrators using fake identities.
West Bengal will go to polls in 2026.
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Accept Congress decision appointing V D Satheesan as Kerala CM: K C Venugopal
Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi (PTI): Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal on Thursday accepted the party decision to select V D Satheesan as the chief minister of Kerala and congratulated him.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Venugopal, who was one of the three persons being considered for the post, said he will provide all support to the CM and the UDF government in Kerala.
The decision comes more than 10 days after the results of the April Assembly polls in Kerala were declared.
The Congress-led UDF secured a more than two-thirds majority in the Kerala Assembly elections, but the party has been unable to decide its chief ministerial face due to lobbying by different camps and protests by workers at the ground level.
Besides, Satheesan and Venugopal, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala was also in the race for the CM post.
