Udupi city Municipality seizes 12 tonnes garlic for inspection
Complaints of Chinese garlic sale at Udupi APMC Market
Udupi: The Udupi City Municipality officials raided the APMC Market at Adi Udupi on Monday, after receiving complaints of the banned Chinese garlic being sold at the markets, and seized 12 tonnes of garlic whose quality was suspected by the officers.
The City Municipality team led by Commissioner Rayappa and including APMC officers conducted the raid to inspect the market for stocks of Chinese garlic, whose sale has been prohibited by the Indian government as it contains excessive pesticide. The officers also spoke to the vendors at the market before confiscating bags of garlic weighing about 12 tonnes, as the quality of the garlic was found to be suspicious.
The Municipality Commissioner said that the team has confiscated the entire stock of garlic supplied to the APMC Market in Udupi and has sent samples to the laboratory in Mangaluru to inspect if they are Chinese garlic. The next step in the matter will be taken after the Municipality receives the test reports, Rayappa added.
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He warned that vendors at the markets and the APMC within the administration limits of the Udupi Municipality are not permitted to sell vegetable and fruit, including garlic, containing chemicals. Staff have been appointed by the Municipality to keep a watch on the supply and sale of such products and officers would take strict legal action against violators, the senior officers has added.
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RJD surprise element in J’khand polls, party candidates leading in 5 of 6 assembly seats
Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.
RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.
In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.
In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.
RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.
In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.
Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.
Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.
RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.
Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.
Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.
