Reservation Bill is BJP’s election gimmick: Siddaramaiah
Mysuru, Jan 9: “It’s not possible to discuss the issue of appointment to boards and corporations on streets. It will be discussed in the Coordination Committee meeting and solve it”, said former chief minister Siddaramaiah.
He told reporters here on Wednesday when he was asked about Minister HD Revanna’s displeasure over appointment to boards and corporation, that he would not speak about the issue on streets. He would convene a meeting of the Coordination Committee shortly and discuss the issue in detail, he added.
Seat sharing in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election would also be discussed in the Coordination Committee meeting, Siddaramaiah said.
Election gimmick
Blasting at the BJP leaders, Siddaramaiah said that presenting a Bill on giving 10 per cent reservation to upper general castes was just an election gimmick. He would welcome the move of giving reservation to the poor in the upper castes.
It was the BJP which has been opposing the reservation. But now, they have presented the Bill on reservation which is an election gimmick, he said.
Except the BJP backed organizations, all other labour organisations have participated in the Bharat Bandh called by the labour organizations. Their protest was justifiable. It was not Congress-sponsored. The central government should solve the problems of the labour sector, he said.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
