All India Mahila Congress President Alka Lamba criticises rising crime in BJP-ruled states
Bengaluru: Alka Lamba, President of the All India Mahila Congress, has expressed strong discontent over the increasing crime rates in states governed by the BJP. She criticised the law and order situation, particularly highlighting Uttar Pradesh, where Home Minister Amit Shah had once claimed that women could walk safely even at midnight wearing jewellery. However, according to Lamba, today the state is witnessing daylight encounters, murders, and rapes.
Speaking at a press conference at the KPCC office on Queens Road in Bengaluru, Lamba remarked that criminals no longer fear the law, and their influence is growing. She cited the recent murder of former MLA Baba Siddique, who had Y-category security in Mumbai. She also claimed that a criminal based in a Gujarat prison is operating an entire gang, issuing threats and orchestrating murders from within the jail.
Lamba pointed out that discussions about this criminal are even taking place in diplomatic circles abroad. She further accused the BJP governments in Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh of failing to maintain law and order. According to Lamba, BJP leaders are siding with criminals, while legal actions are being manipulated to support harassment and injustice.
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Nitish Kumar's son Nishant among 32 to take oath as Bihar ministers
Patna (PTI): In a major expansion of the Cabinet of Bihar's first BJP-led government, JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar's son Nishant Kumar and 31 others took oath as ministers on Thursday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Altogether 32 leaders, drawn from all constituents of the five-party NDA in the state, were administered the oath of office by Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain at a grand ceremony that was also attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Health Minister J P Nadda and BJP president Nitin Nabin.
Prominent inductees included Nishant Kumar, the son of JD(U) president Nitish Kumar, who stepped down as chief minister last month to enter the Rajya Sabha.
The BJP, which is the single largest party in the 243-member assembly with 89 MLAs, has 15 ministers, who took oath on Thursday.
Most of the inductees were those who were part of the Nitish Kumar cabinet formed in November last year after the NDA stormed back to power in the assembly polls.
The JD(U) is represented by a total of 15 ministers, 13 of whom took the oath at the Gandhi Maidan on Thursday. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav had taken oath in April along with Samrat Choudhary and were designated as deputy chief ministers.
Sanjay Kumar Singh and Sanjay Kumar Paswan, both from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) headed by Union minister Chirag Paswan, are back as ministers, and so are Santosh Kumar Suman and Deepak Prakash, sons of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi of the Hindustani Awam Morcha and Upendra Kushwaha of the Rashtriya Lok Morcha, respectively.
