District Administration ready to provide adequate supply of food items during lockdown: DK DC
Essential shops to remain open between 6 am - 12 noon
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh on Wednesday assured people of the District that the administration had taken measures to ensure supply of essential goods including rice, vegetable and fruits across the District during the lockdown and asserted that there was no need for the people to panic buy goods.
She was speaking at the Deputy Commissioner’s office after chairing a meeting of top officials regarding the supply of essential goods during the 21-day lockdown.
Sindhu Rupesh also directed the police officials to not to obstruct or interfere in the transportation of food items and added that the District Administration was prepared to provide adequate supply of all the goods in the District.
She further informed the police personnel that vegetables are supplied to the District from Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, Shivmogga Districts while rice is supplied from Udupi District and added that movement of these vehicles not be stopped or interfered.
Rupesh then confirmed that essential shops will be open between morning 6 am to 12 noon for the convenience of people adding that there was no need for panic buying for the people. She also urged people to not rush at stores and to maintain discipline to ensure social distancing.
Additional DC Roopa, MCC Commissioner Shanadi Ajith Kumar, DCP Arunangsh Giri and other top officials were present during the meeting at the DC office.
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Women BJP MLAs protest against opposition in UP assembly premises
Lucknow (PTI): Women BJP MLAs held a protest in the Vidhan Bhawan complex before the one-day special session of Uttar Pradesh assembly, slamming the opposition for defeating the passage of a bill, which would have led to implementation of the Women's Reservation Law, in the Lok Sabha.
This followed another demonstration by Samajwadi Party MLAs, who alleged that the BJP was misleading public in the name of women's reservation.
The women BJP legislators assembled in front of Chaudhary Charan Singh's statue in the assembly premises, holding banners inscribed with the slogan "Insult to Matrushakti (women's power), India will not tolerate it". The protesting members entered the main hall of Vidhan Bhawan carrying the banners.
Participating in the protest, the state Minister for Women Welfare and Child Development, Baby Rani Maurya, told reporters that all opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, had opposed the women's reservation, a stance for which they would have to pay a heavy political price.
"On this issue, all of us women stand united. We will ensure that we secure our reservation," she said.
BJP MLA Ketki Singh remarked that their protest represents the collective outrage of millions of women across the state.
Singh asserted that the opposition has betrayed women by creating hurdles in the path of women's reservation. The current demonstration is merely the beginning, and very soon, women from every street, intersection and household will join the protest movement, she said.
Minister Vijaylakshmi Gautam said, "We strongly condemn the despicable act committed by the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in an attempt to hold back 'half the population' (women). Their action was directed against the very bill that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced to empower and strengthen Nari Shakti (women's power), and which he strived to pass expeditiously."
Uttar Pradesh assembly is holding a one-day special session on Thursday. During the session, the government is set to move a censure motion against the opposition parties over their failure to pass the Constitution Amendment Bill, which would have led to implementation of the Women's Reservation Act, in the Lok Sabha.
