Bihar CM 'snooping' by installing camera near my residence: Tejashwi Yadav
Patna, Nov 15: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav Thursday accused Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of "snooping" by installing a powerful CCTV camera atop a boundary wall of the CM residence near his bungalow.
Leader of opposition in the state assembly, Yadav's 5, Desh Ratna Marg bungalow is just behind Kumar's 7, Circular road, house in Patna.
The official residence of the chief minister is 1, Anney Marg.
Posting a photograph of the CCTV camera on his Twitter handle, Yadav asked, "Why the chief minister felt the need for the camera only on the wall bordering his political adversary."
The chief minister's residence has main roads on three sides and Yadav's bungalow is across the fourth boundary wall.
"Bihar chief minister's residence is surrounded by main roads from three sides and leader of opposition's residence from the fourth side.
"But, the chief minister felt the need for CCTV only on the wall bordering his political adversary's residence. Someone should tell him that these petty tricks will prove futile," Yadav, the younger son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, tweeted.
In his tweets, he accused Kumar of "snooping and interfering with the privacy of a neighbour and having an obsession with luxury and grandeur besides using invectives like autocratic and insecure".
The ruling JD(U) in Bihar hit back at Yadav, saying he "seems to be worked up over the possibility of his hobnobbing with criminals getting exposed".
Yadav, was allotted the 5, Desh Ratna Marg, residence when he was deputy chief minister in the Grand Alliance government in Bihar.
But, he continues to occupy it despite notices to vacate it in favour of incumbent Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi. The Patna High Court has also dismissed Yadav's petition challenging the evacuation notices.
Kumar after stepping down for a brief period after the drubbing in the last general election had been allotted the 7,
Circular Road, house, which is adjacent to the Chief Minister's' official residence 1, Anney Marg.
After returning as chief minister, the JD (U) chief, retained the bungalow on Circular Road.
Reacting to the outbursts of the RJD leader, JD(U) spokesman Sanjay Singh said, "Tejashwi Yadav seems to be worked up over the possibility of his hobnobbing with criminals getting exposed."
"There is no other reason why he should get so agitated over a CCTV camera being installed on a boundary wall. It has not been installed in his bedroom.
"Moreover, he should try to acquire some knowledge so that he could at least come out with his own tweets. He has not even completed high school and we are certain that someone is ghost-writing on his behalf," he said.
There has been no official word on why and upon whose instructions the CCTV camera was installed.
Poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor, who recently joined the JD(U) and had a meteoric rise with elevation to the post of national vice-president within a month of being inducted to the party, also operates from this bungalow.
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Rupee falls 9 paise to record low of 90.87 against US dollar in early trade
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee plunged 9 paise to a record low of 90.87 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday, weighed down by sustained FII outflows and no breakthrough in the India-US trade deal.
However, a weaker greenback and a decline in global crude oil prices capped further losses in the domestic unit, according to forex traders.
At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at its all-time low of 90.87 against the US dollar, down 9 paise from its previous close, and traded in a narrow range of 90.77- 90.87 in early trade.
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The rupee on Monday settled at a new all-time low of 90.78 against the US dollar, registering a loss of 29 paise over its previous close, weighed down by uncertainty over an India-US trade deal and persistent foreign fund outflows.
"The US-India trade deal still seems to be off by a distance with the Commerce Secretary saying the first phase will be signed before the end of the year and news that we are closest to the deal being signed. The uncertainty has clouded the recovery on the USD/INR pair as the rupee opened lower with dollar buying happening every day," Anil Kumar Bhansali, Head of Treasury and Executive Director, Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP, said.
Even a reduction in trade deficit on Monday could not bring about a recovery in the rupee with Foreign Institutional Investors (FII) outflows continuing, he added
According to the latest government data released on Monday, India's trade deficit narrowed to a five-month low of USD 24.53 billion in November, as exports rebounded by 19.37 per cent to a six-month high of USD 38.13 billion after contracting in October, driven by higher shipments of engineering and electronics goods.
At the same time, the country's imports dipped by 1.88 per cent to USD 62.66 billion due to a fall in the inbound shipments of gold, crude oil, coal, and coke.
FIIs sold equities worth Rs 1,468.32 crore on Monday, according to exchange data.
Also, wholesale price inflation stayed in the negative for the second consecutive month in November at (-) 0.32 per cent, even though there was an uptick in prices of food articles like pulses and vegetables on a month-on-month basis, government data showed on Monday.
Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation was at (-) 1.21 per cent in October and 2.16 per cent in November last year.
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.03 per cent lower at 98.27.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was trading 0.61 per cent lower at USD 60.19 per barrel in futures trade.
On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share benchmark index, Sensex, declined 363.92 points to 84,849.44 in early trade while the Nifty was down 106.65 points to 25,920.65.
