West Bengal won't accept BJP's politics: TMC's Sagarika Ghose
New Delhi (PTI): Trinamool Congress MP Sagarika Ghose on Saturday claimed West Bengal would never accept BJP's politics, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his party would win the next assembly polls in the state.
She also said Bengal has such a leader in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is 24x7 on the ground with the people and not a 'hawaii jahaz' (airplane) leader.
Talking to PTI Videos, Ghose said, "I would like to give a few reality checks to Mr. Narendra Modi. He spoke about the conquest of Bengal, that he wants to conquer Bengal, as if Bengal is a piece of land to be added to Mr. Modi's CV."
"First of all, Bengal will never accept the kind of politics that Mr. Modi and BJP do... You'll give money, you'll divide and rule, you'll use muscle power, violence. This politics Bengal will never accept," she said.
"Secondly, in Bengal, we have such a leader, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is 24x7 on the ground with the people. She's not a 'hawaii jahaz' (airplane) leader who's travelling in the hawaii jahaz and just coming for votes. She's 24x7 with the people," she said.
Ghose claimed the West Bengal government's schemes like Kanyashree show its commitment towards women empowerment.
"Scheme like Kanyashree is something that is a life commitment for the Bengal government... It's not a pre-election bribe to women to win votes," she said.
Ghose also accused the Centre of denying West Bengal its "legitimate dues" under schemes like MGNREGS.
"The manner in which the Bengal government has been denied dues, the central government has denied Bengal its legitimate dues, NREGA dues, Awas Yojana dues... Bengal will never bow down to a BJP and a central government which is flouting the federal structure, flouting constitutional norms, and denying a state its legitimate and just dues," she said.
She said people from West Bengal have been targeted in different parts of the country for speaking Bangla, and accused the Centre of being against West Bengal.
"The manner in which citizens of India who happen to be poor, who happen to be helpless, who are journeying to different paths as wage labourers, as labourers in different states, they are being called ghuspetia, they are being called infiltrators because they are Bangla speakers," Ghose alleged.
"They are citizens of India searching for a living, they're trying to earn a living , and you're using them for this dirty politics of divide and rule... Bengal will never accept this".
"There are BJP people who have called the Bangla language Bangladeshi language. Our language is extremely important to us. Our cultural sensitivities have been repeatedly targeted and abused by the BJP," she said.
"Bengal will not tolerate this. We are the children of Vivekananda, of Netaji Subhash Bose, of Rabindranath Tagore, and we will fight the BJP and we will win," Ghose added.
Narendra Modi on Friday termed the NDA win in Bihar as a vote for pro-people governance and vowed to throw out 'jungle raj' from West Bengal, saying the BJP's victory march will follow the flow of river Ganga from Bihar to Bengal.
Addressing a thanksgiving function at the BJP headquarters here, he said the victory in Bihar has paved the way for the BJP's triumph in Bengal.
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Two arrested in K'taka for assaulting minors, uploading CSAM content
Bengaluru (PTI): Two men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor girls, recording the acts on mobile phones and uploading the videos online as child sexual abuse material, police said on Thursday.
The accused have been identified as Kiran Kumar (29), hailing from Chitradurga district, and Aditya M K (20), hailing from Shivamogga district, they said.
A probe was initiated after information was received from the NCRP portal regarding a suspected instance of creation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for online dissemination, police said.
Accordingly, a case was registered at Kaggalipura Police Station under relevant sections of the IT Act on May 10, they added.
Investigation revealed that two minor girl victims were exploited and videos were created and uploaded to the internet. The child victims have subsequently recorded their statements as per procedure and further necessary legal steps have been taken, Pronab Mohanty Director General of Police, Cyber Command, said in a statement.
Based on the statements of the victims, the accused persons, who allegedly assaulted the minors, recorded the acts on mobile phones and uploaded the videos online, were arrested, he said.
Following the probe, sections 65(2) (rape) and 70 (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant sections of the POCSO Act, have been added to the FIR, police said.
Officials collected relevant information and on May 12, arrested the accused persons and seized three mobile phones belonging to them, in which the videos had allegedly been recorded, he said.
The accused were later produced before the court and taken into police custody for further investigation, he added.
According to him, in CSAM cases, police usually apprehend offenders who have downloaded such content or have kept them in their possession after obtaining them from elsewhere, usually the internet.
"The present case is one of the very few instances where content creators and uploaders have been apprehended," Mohanty added.
