Bengaluru stampede: Siddaramaiah slams BJP for staging protest seeking his resignation
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday slammed the opposition BJP for staging a protest seeking his resignation for the stampede near Chinnaswamy Stadium on June 4, where 11 people died.
The chief minister asked the BJP leaders to seek the resignation of those responsible for the Ahmedabad plane crash, collapse of a pedestrian suspension bridge in Morbi in Gujarat and stampede during the Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh.
The BJP staged a protest at the Freedom Park here demanding the immediate resignation of Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and Home Minister G Parameshwara in connection with the stampede near Chinnaswamy Stadium that claimed the lives and injured over 50 people.
Reacting to the BJP's protest, Siddaramaiah sought to know who was responsible for the stampede during the Kumbh Mela at Prayag Raj in Uttar Pradesh and the Boeing plane crash in Ahmedabad and who resigned for it.
"Who was responsible for the Godhra incident and the bridge collapse that killed 140 people?" the CM asked.
He was referring to the Godhra train carnage that resulted in communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 and the pedestrian suspension bridge collapse in October 2022 at Morbi in Gujarat that killed about 140 people.
"I am not trying to use it as a defence or an excuse. But my point is what moral rights they (BJP) have to demand my resignation," the CM said.
He said the BJP in Karnataka should seek Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's resignation for the stampede during the Kumbh Mela.
Siddaramaiah accused the BJP of staging the protest for political reasons.
BJP state chief B Y Vijayendra, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R Ashoka, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council Chaluvadi Narayanaswamy were among those who led the agitation.
Later, the party leaders courted arrest when they were heading to lay siege to the CM's house.
Taking to 'X', Vijayendra held the state government responsible for the lives lost in the stampede that occurred on June 4.
"While #RCB celebrations were taking place across the state and the country on June 4, there was competition between the state's Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister in Bengaluru. The Deputy Chief Minister, who was obsessed with getting publicity by using the RCB victory celebration to increase the popularity of their government, rushed to the airport to welcome the cricketers and held the cup high in the stadium and portrayed himself as winner," Vijayendra alleged.
He charged that even though the police officials reported that they could not provide security for the event, the state government indulged in the "propaganda" and organised the event at Vidhana Soudha and Chinnaswamy Stadium, resulting in the loss of 11 innocent lives.
"At least now, ....the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister should stop being arrogant and resign, taking moral responsibility," he stated.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
