Mangaluru: MRPL celebrates Constitution Day
Mangaluru: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) marked Constitution Day on 26 November 2025 with a day-long programme organised by its Legal Department at the company’s Training Centre.
Hon’ble Justice N. K. Sudhindra Rao, retired Judge of the Karnataka High Court and Chairman of the Karnataka State Police Complaints Authority, Bengaluru, attended as Chief Guest. The event was presided over by Nandakumar V. Pillai, Director (Refinery). Senior officials, including Ganesh S. Bhat, IFS, CVO; several GGMs; officers; and employees, were present.
Welcoming the gathering, Krishna Hegde Miyar, GGM (HR), spoke about the core principles of the Constitution. The Preamble was read in Kannada, Hindi and English by Sathyanarayana H. C., GGM (TS); Deepak Prabhakar P., ED (Marketing & BD); and N. Anandha Kumar, ED (Refinery).
Al Rafeeq Moideen, CGM – Legal, traced the evolution of Constitution Day from its earlier observance as National Law Day in 1979 to its formal designation in 2015. In his remarks, Nandakumar V. Pillai described the Constitution as a living document shaped by global democratic practices and reiterated MRPL’s adherence to integrity, ethical conduct and public responsibility under its CSR framework.
Justice Sudhindra Rao, addressing the gathering, spoke on the Supreme Court’s role in safeguarding Fundamental Rights and noted that these rights gain relevance when citizens also uphold their Fundamental Duties. He said the social, secular and democratic character of the Constitution forms its basic structure, which cannot be amended. He discussed Articles 14, 19 and 21—often termed the Golden Triangle—and outlined the scope of constitutional writs, referring to landmark cases including A.K. Gopalan, Maneka Gandhi and ADM Jabalpur.
Two books compiled by the MRPL Legal team—An Overview of Arbitration Cases: Learnings from Past Experiences and Strategies for the Future and Gist of the Factories Act & Rules Regarding Safety Aspects and the Punishments Provided Thereunder—were released by Justice Rao.
Prizes were distributed to winners of quiz competitions held as part of the programme. The event concluded with a vote of thanks by Praful Mohan, GM – Legal. The proceedings were compered by Ms. Kavitha.
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EC only removed infiltrators from Bengal voters’ list, task is to throw them out of country: Shah
Kolkata (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that while the Election Commission has only removed infiltrators from the electoral rolls of West Bengal, the larger task would be to drive them out of the country’s borders.
Sharpening his anti-infiltration pitch during campaigns for the upcoming assembly elections in Bengal, Shah said once the BJP forms a government in the state, it will “seal the country’s eastern borders in such a manner that even birds won’t be able to flap their wings” around the fences.
"Didi (Mamata Banerjee) doesn’t want to give 600 acres of land to the BSF required to build the border fences. We have decided that once we have a BJP chief minister here, we will complete the task of fencing within 45 days on the required land," Shah told a gathering at Tufangunj in the Bangladesh-bordering Cooch Behar district of north Bengal.
“And it’s not just about stopping outsiders from coming in. It’s also about those who have already infiltrated. While the Election Commission (EC) has only removed infiltrators from the electoral rolls of West Bengal, the larger task would be to drive them out of the country’s borders,” he added.
Nearly 91 lakh names have been deleted by the EC from the state’s voters’ lists during the recently concluded SIR exercise, triggering a major political dust-up in the run-up to the polls, with the TMC accusing the commission of acting at the behest of the BJP.
The Union home minister has been staying put in Bengal over the past few days and has held multiple rallies across the state in the run-up to the April 23 polls, when voters in north Bengal districts would exercise their franchise, sharpening the infiltration issue as one of the most prominent poll planks of the BJP.
Accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of having a "step-motherly attitude" towards north Bengal, Shah said that her priorities lay elsewhere.
“Of the Rs 4 lakh crore total state budget, she gave Rs 5,700 crore to Muslims, but allotted only Rs 1,200 crore for the entire north Bengal region,” he said.
Shah announced the inclusion of the Rajbanshi language in the Constitution’s 8th schedule and the setting up of a Narayani battalion, in honour of the community’s erstwhile Narayani Sena militia, in the state reserve police force once the BJP forms a government in Bengal.
Earlier, while addressing a rally in Rajgunj in Jalpaiguri district, the Union home minister pledged that the BJP will recover every penny the TMC has "stolen from the people of Bengal through corruption", and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no taint of graft charge even after two decades in the ruler's seat.
He said that while Banerjee's exit from power was a "certainty", the task of initiating the process would begin from the state's northern regions.
"Modi ruled Gujarat for 12 years and is at the helm in the Centre for another 12; yet no corruption charge, involving even a penny, could be levelled against him. Vote the BJP to power in Bengal, and we will recover each and every cent that TMC leaders have stolen from people, along with interest, and return it to the poor people of the state," Shah said at the poll rally.
He said that once the BJP is in power, it will act against TMC leaders who "gobbled up Rs 300 crore by orchestrating the teachers' recruitment scam" and the Rs 100 crore that was "stolen" from the flood relief funds sanctioned by the Centre for north Bengal.
"North Bengal is known for three Ts -- Tea, Timber and Tourism. But Mamata Banerjee has added a fourth T -- tears of BJP workers who have suffered immeasurably in the hands of TMC goons," Shah said.
"Search and press the button next to lotus (BJP's poll symbol) on EVMs and the BJP will fulfil its task of searching for TMC goons and bringing them to justice," he added.
Speaking at a subsequent public meeting at Falakata in Alipurduars district, Shah referred to the attack on Deepak Barman, the sitting MLA and BJP’s candidate from the Falakata Assembly constituency, allegedly by a group of TMC workers on Tuesday, a day ahead of the Union home minister’s visit.
“I want to tell Mamata Banerjee that your goons cannot intimidate him (Barman), he is a BJP worker. I would want to assure him that after May 5 (a day after counting of votes), no one can lay fingers on you. I will warn TMC goons to stay at home on April 23, the day of polls, else after May 5 we will hang you upside down to make you straight,” Shah said.
Advocating for an infiltrator-free north Bengal, the Union home minister said the Modi government, “which ended Naxalism in India and gave befitting replies to perpetrators of terrorism on the country’s soil”, will now detect infiltrators in Bengal and elsewhere to throw them out.
“On this very day, a BJP chief minister has taken oath in Bihar. We already have our government in Odisha. Elect the BJP in Bengal and the lotus (BJP’s party symbol) will bloom across the haloed trinity of Aang-Bang-Kaling. We will stop infiltrators from sneaking inside the country once and for all, as we have done in Assam and Tripura,” he said.
While announcing a host of north Bengal-centric development schemes which the BJP has also promised in its poll manifesto, Shah said the party will issue land titles to tea garden workers, making them plot owners, after forming a government in the state.
“We will increase tea worker wages by Rs 500 within two years, reimburse their deducted Provident Fund money, set up modern model schools in tea estates and ensure that the one-time grant of Rs 3,000 for all tea employees sanctioned by the Modi government at Centre reaches their bank accounts,” he said.
Launching a scathing attack against TMC supremo, Shah said that while Modi considered all people his brothers, sisters and nephews, Banerjee cared only for one nephew, Abhishek Banerjee.
“All she wants is to make her nephew the future CM of Bengal. But I want to tell her that her time has come to an end. She will be on exit route once the elections in West Bengal ends,” he said.
