Ashok Gehlot accuses BJP-RSS of distorting history, criticises Centre's handling of farmer protest
Jaipur (PTI): Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday alleged that members of the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have launched a campaign to distort the historical facts of the country's freedom struggle.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had remarked that those who distort history will never be able to make history, Gehlot noted.
"The people of the BJP-RSS have launched a campaign to tamper with the freedom struggle and its historical facts," Gehlot said on X.
He added that there are numerous examples, both in history and the present, where organisations with similar ideologies that came to power attempted to rewrite history with false facts but were ridiculed by historians.
The Congress leader also said that leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Sardar Patel, Bhagat Singh and Maulana Azad made special contributions to the freedom struggle, which have been written in golden letters in history and will remain indelible.
"No matter how much they try to distort it, they will never change the truth," Gehlot said.
He also drew a parallel with Pakistan and Bangladesh saying, "When Zia-ul-Haq came to power in Pakistan, he started rewriting the history of the country and wrote in the books that Pakistan was victorious over India in the 1971 war. The same is being done in Bangladesh now where efforts are being made to remove the name of Sheikh Mujiburahman from the freedom struggle of Bangladesh. Such efforts are destroying the credibility of these countries in the world."
Gehlot also accused the Centre and the Punjab government of being indifferent to the health of farmer leader Jagdeep Singh Dallewal.
"It has been 51 days now since farmer leader Shri Jagjit Singh Dallewal has been on a hunger strike. His health is continuously deteriorating. During this period, the Central and Punjab governments have shown complete insensitivity," he said.
Gehlot added that this was the reason why 111 other farmers had also been forced to go on a hunger strike to bring attention to their demands.
He said that the government listened to them after about 700 farmers lost their lives in protest against the three black farmer laws.
"It is beyond understanding why such a situation arises again and again and why the government does not want to find a solution by talking to the farmers' delegation," he said.
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UP man gets life term for electrocuting mentally challenged wife to death in Bareilly
Bareilly (UP) (PTI): A local court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his mentally challenged wife by repeatedly electrocuting her while she was tied to a cot, lawyers said on Thursday.
Additional district government counsel Harendra Singh Rathore said Additional Sessions Judge Avinash Kumar Singh on Wednesday convicted Vinod Kumar (45) for killing his wife, Satyavati, in Chaina village of Bareilly district and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on him.
According to the prosecution, he was allegedly frustrated with his wife Satyavati's mental illness and often assaulted her.
Rathore said the prosecution examined nine witnesses to establish the charges against him.
As per court records, on the night of May 1-2, 2022, when Satyavati was asleep, Vinod tied her hands and legs to a cot using ropes and then connected an aluminium cable to an electric board to repeatedly administer electric shocks to her.
"She writhed in pain, but the accused continued to electrocute her until she died," the prosecution said.
The court observed that the murder was carried out in an inhuman manner.
After committing the crime, the accused threw the rope and cable on the roof and left for work at a brick kiln around 2 am to create a false alibi.
He later tried to mislead the police and the victim's family by claiming that Satyavati, whose mental condition was unstable, had accidentally died by suicide after grabbing a live electric wire.
However, the victim's brother, Sanjeev, a resident of Shahjahanpur district, suspected foul play and lodged an FIR under sections 498A (husband subjecting wife to cruelty) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code at Nawabganj police station.
During the trial, the prosecution relied on the post-mortem report prepared by Dr Faraz Anwar, who stated that multiple electrocution marks found on different parts of the victim's body could not have been self-inflicted.
The police also recovered the rope and electric wire used in the crime on the accused's identification, officials said.
