BJP doesn't have interest to solve Ayodhya issue: CM Ibrahim
Hubballi, November 2: Senior Congress leader and MLC CM Ibrahim said that the ruling BJP has no will power to solve Ayodhya issue.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday, he said that the BJP leaders have been asking votes in the name of Ram Mandir. Just constructing temples and masjids was not a religion, he said.
"We don't have any objections to construct Ram Mandir. Cows are being worshipped in Uttar Pradesh where BJP is ruling. What about in Goa where BJP is ruling? The present political situation is stopped to the low level. After Narendra Modi led government came to power, the export of beef was increased considerably. Many BJP leaders owned slaughter companies", he alleged.
The people in the country would give befitting reply to the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Congress-JDS coalition candidates would win in the by-election to the three Lok Sabha and two Assembly constituencies in the state, he exuded confidence.
In Karnataka, the coalition would win all the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the next election. There was no BJP in Ramanagara constituency. Instead of Ram Mandir, Narendra Modi has been thinking more about the wives of Muslims, he ridiculed.
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'Someone must be held accountable': HC converts civil suit on Goa nightclub tragedy into PIL
Panaji (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Monday converted a civil suit against Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub into a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) saying "someone has to be held accountable" for the tragedy in which 25 people were killed.In a stern observation, Goa bench of the High Court of Justices Sarang Kotwal and Ashish Chavan said the local panchayat had "failed to take suo motu cognisance" of the club and had taken "no action despite complaints."
The division bench directed the Goa government to file a detailed reply on the permissions granted to the nightclub.
The High Court, while fixing January 8 as the next date of hearing, pointed out that commercial operations were continuing in the structure despite it having been served a demolition order.
The original petition was filed after the December 6 tragedy by Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar and Sunil Divkar, the owners of the land on which the nightclub was operating.
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Advocate Rohit Bras de Sa, the lawyer representing the petitioner, was made amicus curiae in the matter and has been asked to file a detailed affidavit in the matter.
In their petition, Amonkar and Divkar highlighted "the alarming pattern of statutory violations that have remained inadequately addressed despite multiple complaints, inspections, show-cause notices, and even a demolition order".
They contended that these violations posed "immediate threats to public safety, ecological integrity, and the rule of law in the state of Goa."
Investigations by multiple agencies into the nightclub fire have revealed various irregularities, including lack of permissions to operate the nightclub.
The Goa police arrested five managers and staff members of the club, while co-owners Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra have been detained in Thailand after they fled the country.
