CM sitting here, says Fadnavis at Mahayuti presser, asks MVA to declare its leader
Mumbai, Oct 16: Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said the NCP(SP) leader Sharad Pawar should declare the chief ministerial candidate of the Opposition's Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance first.
Holding a joint press conference with the `Mahayuti' allies Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, he said the ruling parties were not bothered about the CM face ahead of the November 20 elections to the state assembly.
The BJP leader was responding to the question who was the CM candidate of the Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP alliance.
With Chief Minister Shinde sitting next to him along with deputy CM and NCP chief Ajit Pawar, Fadnavis said, "The chief minister is sitting here. Ask them (Opposition) who is your face. First declare your face. I urge (Sharad) Pawar saheb to declare their CM face."
Shinde said no one in the ruling alliance was desperate to get the top post.
"The work done by our government in the last more than two years is our face," he said.
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Kerala court sentences 20-year-old man in minor girl rape case
Kollam (Kerala) (PTI): A Kerala court has sentenced a 20-year-old man to 21 years of imprisonment for raping a minor girl after befriending her on a social media app.
Karunagappally Fast Track Special Court judge Rajeevan Vachal sentenced the convict to 21 years under the relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, special public prosecutor (SPP) N C Premchandran said.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1.1 lakh on the convict, the prosecutor said.
The incident occurred in 2024 when the accused befriended her on a social media app and then offered to take her to the Azheekal beach here.
However, instead of taking her to the beach, he took her to an isolated place behind the CHC hospital at Mynagappally here and raped her, the SPP said.
Following the incident, the girl attempted suicide, but was saved and then told the doctors what had happened, the prosecutor said.
The hospital authorities informed the police, who registered a case and launched an investigation.
The prosecutor said that seven witnesses were examined and 20 documents were submitted before the court to substantiate the guilt of the accused.
