Udupi DC seen attending wedding event without mask, people demand suspension as photo goes viral
Udupi: A photo showing Udupi Deputy Commissioner N Jagadish, attending a Mehendi event of Udupi’s Additional SP’s daughter without wearing a mask has gone viral across social media platforms with people outraging over the negligence of the officer and for violating the COVID-19 guidelines.
According to the reports the wedding ceremony was scheduled to be held on April 25 while the Mehendi event was organized on April 23 evening. The District Commissioner had reportedly attended the event along with his family. The DC and the District’s Additional SP were seen in a photo standing next to the would-be bride on the stage, without maintaining appropriate social distance and without a mask.
People on social networking slammed the DC for attending the event and not following COVID protocols. They also added that there was no reference to the ‘Mehendi ceremony’ in the guidelines issued by the state government while for the wedding event only 50 people were allowed to attend and the Mehendi event as such was not permitted to be held. Despite that, instead of stopping the Mehendi event that is not cited in the guideline, the DC has erred by participating in the event, people opined.
Apart from that a video of the event has surfaced on social media and has gone viral showing hundreds of people participating in the event, while a team of dancers was seen escorting the bride in a procession.
In a recent incident, the DC had earned the ire of the netizens for forcing female students who were standing and traveling back home in a bus at Santhekatte, and now he has embraced another controversy.
There is a growing call to suspend the DC on various social media sites in this regard. Hashtag Campaigns against the DC have been reportedly organized on Twitter.
Demands to Suspend DC
“Without maintaining any social distancing or even wearing any mask, look at him standing with a smile at the Mehendi event of police official’s daughter. Law, punishment, reproach, beating is all only for the common people, isn’t it Mr. District Commissioner? Usurp DC Jagadish, shame on you. By the way, in the pass list of wedding guests who provided Aadhar card, was the District Commissioner’s name present? DC Saheb must definitely provide an answer”, progressive thinker Shashidhar Hemmadi posted on Facebook.
“The District Commissioner has committed severe omission of duty by violating guidelines and participating in the Mehendi function. He, violating the rules that were devised by him is disgraceful. The government must review this seriously. A proper inquiry must be conducted. If the issue proves to be true, District Commissioner Jagadish must be immediately suspended”, demanded DYFI Leader Muneer Kaatipalla demanded in a Facebook post.
DC issues clarification:
Jagadish later clarified that the event was a private and family event organized at the house of Additional SP and not at a public place. He clarified that people are bound to wear masks only in public places and not in private spaces. He added that the Mehendi event was a private event and only people of four families had attended the event.
He also added that he attended the event for less than 10 minutes and at the request of the bride he took off the mask for photography on the stage. He clarified that he checked in into the event at 8:40 on Friday and checked out before the weekend curfew was imposed.
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
