''Did they walk the talk?'' asks Vijay, targets DMK regime over unfulfilled assurances
Namakkal (PTI): Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief, actor-politician Vijay, on Saturday listed a number of assurances made by Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK ahead of the 2021 Assembly election and demanded to know if such promises have been fulfilled and asserted that his party never gives "false promises" like the party that now governs the state.
"Did they do?" he asked, reminding campaigns by late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa who used to pose questions to the people and the chief of the fledgling party said the DMK assured implementation of Old Pension Scheme, grain warehouses in every panchayat union, steps to directly procure coconut oil and distribute it through ration shops and measures to distribute palm sugar and jaggery through ration shops.
"They promised all these, did they implement?" he asked.
During his ongoing campaign, people have repeatedly sought only basic necessities like drinking water facilities and proper road infrastructure, he said. Also, ensuring safety for women forms part of the basic demands made by the public and they do not seek anything big.
He reiterated that as regards his party, there would be no compromise on the basic focus areas such as education, ensuring proper supplies through ration shops, providing healthcare, drinking water, power supply and transportation facilities, making sure safety for women and upholding law and order.
Also, he referred to criticism that he has not offered anything new to the people and that he had also been repeating what other parties had been saying vis-à-vis essential amenities and services to the people.
In this respect, he said a promise to ensure proper availability of basic amenities, including drinking water, education, and healthcare, is correct and appropriate.
He said, "That is why we promise only what is practically possible. We never give false promises like the DMK does. Some tell me to assure something new, but I do not understand this. May I promise that I will set up an IT company on planet Mars...shall we make empty claims the way our chief minister does?"
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19-yr-old woman found hanging from tree in UP village; juvenile held
Lucknow/Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Police have apprehended a 16-year-old boy for his alleged involvement in the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in a village here, officials said on Monday.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, said that the body of a 19-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree in an orchard in the Manikpur police station area on Sunday morning. A post-mortem examination subsequently confirmed that she had been raped.
Police registered a case against unidentified persons under sections 103(1) (punishment for murder) and 70(1) (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and initiated an investigation.
During the course of the investigation, the police found that the deceased was in contact with a juvenile who was also her relative.
Acting on this information, during a joint checking operation, sub-inspector Amit Kumar Singh of Manikpur police station and SOG In-charge Amit Kumar Chaurasia, along with their team, apprehended the 16-year-old near the Lehdari Ganga River bridge.
The search for other accused persons is ongoing, police said.
According to the police, the woman had gone to sleep after dinner on Saturday night but was found hanging in an orchard nearly 400 metres away from her home the following morning.
Additional Superintendent of Police (West), Brijnandan Rai, had earlier said that the circumstances suggest foul play.
"The victim's slippers and undergarments were recovered 50 metres away from the spot where the body was found. There are visible injury marks on her body," Rai said.
While locals have alleged that the woman was murdered after being raped, the ASP said that it is "prima facie a case of murder."
"Based on the complaint filed by the victim's brother, a case of murder has been registered against unidentified persons," the officer added.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, in a post on X in Hindi on Monday, said, "The news of the heinous murder of a Dalit daughter in Pratapgarh is deeply tragic and condemnable."
"The question remains: why does the spate of murders of 'PDA daughters' continue unabated in Uttar Pradesh? Are the BJP government's claims regarding women's safety merely hollow rhetoric, or is there, in fact, discrimination even in the provision of security for women?" he said.
"Whenever the 'wandering Honourable (ghumantu maananiye)' finds a moment of respite from election campaigning, he should cast a glance at the plight of the daughters of his own Uttar Pradesh. In any case, apart from injustice and oppression, no sister, daughter, or mother of this state holds any hope from you," Yadav added.
