Will contest Lok Sabha polls if High Command permits: Ramanath Rai
Bantwal: I am ready to contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections if high command permits, says former minister B. Ramanath Rai.
Addressing a press conference at the party office on BC Road today, he said, "I am a loyalist to the party and committed to the High Command’s decision. The party is preparing for the parliamentary elections, will contest if it gives the ticket.
The Congress government led by Siddaramaiah had approved all the projects I had taken for Bantwal. Work would begin soon after completing the tender process," he said. Administrative sanction has already been given for the second stage underground drainage work with the estimated cost of Rs. 56 lakh. Now, only minor works are pending.
“Ramanatha Rai has never neglected works. I have worked for all people in the Bantwal assembly constituency. But a smear campaign against me has not ended yet,” he alleged.
Illegal sand mining is continuing from past 15 years at the Mullarapatna Bridge area. Now the bridge is collapsed. The illegal sand mining was in place during the BJP government. Everyone knows who is behind the illegal mining," Ramanath Rai asserted.
Party leaders BH Khader, Abbas Ali and others were present at the press conference.
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Gujarat man held for impersonating govt official, duping people with forged letters
Ahmedabad (PTI): The Ahmedabad police have arrested a 29-year-old man who allegedly posed as a senior revenue official and used fake letters claiming to be from various government departments to cheat people, an official said on Sunday.
Mehul Shah, an engineer who manages two schools at Vankaner in Gujarat’s Morbi district, is accused of making lakhs of rupees with bogus documents and false claims, said inspector (crime branch) JK Makwana.
Shah had forged an appointment letter from the Ahmedabad district education officer (DEO) to offer a computer operator’s job in a government office to a complainant’s son. He also introduced himself as a trustee of a school and did not pay a man Rs 7 lakh due to him over the painting of a school building, the official said.
“Despite holding no official position in the state or central government, he used fake work permits and NOCs to cheat people of lakhs of rupees,” the police official said.
One complainant alleged that Shah identified himself as a top revenue department official and produced a fake letter from the chairman of the “department of science and research development” to make him install a siren and curtain in a hired vehicle but did not pay for the job, he said.
Bogus letters claiming to be from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ahmedabad DEO were used by the accused to cheat the complainants, the police official said.
Police have recovered from his possession fake identity cards and letters with headings like “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of department of science and research development”, “health and family welfare department”, and “road and building department”.
“The FIR is based on complaints by three victims. We appeal to the people to come forward and submit their complaints if they have been cheated by Shah in any way,” Makwana said.
