BJP MLAs, accused of protesting outside St. Gerosa School, granted bail by Bengaluru court
Mangaluru: BJP MLAs Vedavyas Kamath and Dr. Bharat Y Shetty were granted anticipatory bail by a special court in Bengaluru in the case booked against them for staging protest outside St. Gerosa High School recently.
The criminal case had been booked by the Pandeshwar Police in Mangaluru, based on a complaint filed by one Gerald Lobo against the legislators and several others for protesting outside the school in Mangaluru in the backdrop of the recent incident of a teacher making a controversial statement in class.
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The Bengaluru court, after hearing the case, has granted bail to Kamath, Shetty as well as Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Sharan Pumpwell and Corporators Sandeep and Bharath Kumar.
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
