Shobha warns of protest if Hajj Bhavan is named after Tippu
Bengaluru, June 22: There are no instances of naming the Hajj Bhavans after any personalities in the state. It is against the Islam. So, if the state government named Hajj Bhavan after Tippu, the BJP would not accept it and protest against it, said Lok Sabha Member and BJP leader Shobha Karandlaje.
Speaking to reporters at the party office here on Friday, she said that she would strongly condemn the statement of Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan that the government is mulling to name the Hajj Bhavan after ‘fanatic’ Tippu Sultan.
The JDS-Congress coalition government is busy in doing its own work instead of responding to the people who have been suffering due to rains. For the last one month, there is no government in the state. Newly appointed ministers are not active. On the lines of previous government, this government is also conspiring to divert the attention of the people through disputes, she blasted.
Minister Zameer Ahmed is indulging in appeasement politics by giving controversial statement. The Kumaraswamy government is also marching the same path where Siddaramaiah tread by introducing the Tippu Sultan jayanti, she said.
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SC directs President's secretary to place before her Beant assassination convict's mercy plea
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday directed President Droupadi Murmu's secretary to place before her the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, for consideration.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai, P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan requested the President to consider the plea within two weeks.
"Inspite of the matter being specifically kept today none appeared for Union of India. The bench assembled only for this case," the bench said.
"On the last date the matter was adjourned to enable the Union to take instructions from the office of the President as to by when will mercy plea be decided. Taking into consideration that the petitioner is on a death row, we direct the secretary to the President of India to place the matter before the President with a request to consider the same within two weeks from today," the bench said.
The matter will now be heard on December 5.
On September 25, the top court had sought responses from the Centre, the Punjab government and the administration of the Union Territory of Chandigarh on Rajoana's plea.
The then Punjab chief minister and 16 others were killed in a blast at the entrance of the civil secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995.
A special court sentenced Rajoana to death in July 2007.
Rajoana has said that a mercy petition under Article 72 of the Constitution was moved by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on his behalf in March 2012.
On May 3 last year, the apex court had refused to commute his death sentence and said the competent authority could deal with his mercy plea.
