MLA's Son wins cooperative bank vice-chairmanship despite facing charges of assaulting dalit leader
Rajkot: Jyotiradityasinh Jadeja, son of BJP MLA Geetaba Jadeja, was elected as the vice-chairman of Gondal Nagrik Sahakari Bank (GNSB) in Rajkot on Thursday. This election victory comes even as he remains embroiled in a legal case concerning the alleged assault and kidnapping of a Dalit leader.
The Gujarat High Court granted him bail in the case involving the assault of Sanjay Solanki, president of the Junagadh city unit of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), hours after his election. According to the FIR filed at “A” Division police station in Junagadh, Jyotiradityasinh Jadeja, along with 10 others, allegedly assaulted Solanki in May this year after the NSUI leader asked them to drive carefully in Junagadh’s Kalva Chowk area.
The FIR further alleges that Solanki was kidnapped, taken to Gondal, and threatened with a firearm before being dropped back in Junagadh. Ganesh and the other accused have been charged with attempt-to-murder, kidnapping, and under various provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Ganesh was arrested on June 5 and has been in judicial custody at Junagadh district jail since.
Despite being in jail, the 25-year-old contested the cooperative bank elections and was declared the winner on September 16. The newly elected board members met on Thursday to select the chairman, vice-chairman, and managing director of GNSB. Ganesh secured the vice-chairmanship uncontested, along with Ashok Pipaliya as chairman and Govind Parmar as managing director.
Ganesh’s bail conditions include a prohibition from entering the limits of Junagadh district for six months from the date of his release. His advocate, PB Khandheria, stated that the court order would be received on Friday, and they would then seek his release.
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Niqab incident: Nitish Kumar perhaps revealing his true colours, says J-K CM
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.
"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.
"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.
