BJP Yuva Morcha leader threatens to disclose sex scandal of party MLA
Facebook status triggers debate in BJP, creates embarrassment to leaders
Shivamogga, August 13: A Facebook status of a BJP state Yuva Morcha vice president threatening to disclose a sex scandal of a party MLA has created ripples and caused a debate in the party circle. Moreover, this Facebook post has also created lot of confusions among party leaders.
Party Yuva Morcha state vice president Bhavani Mohre is said to have posted a status in the Facebook account. As soon as he posted the status, far and against debates and comments were poured in. Some of them even asked Mohre to delete the post immediately. When his post received strong opposition inside the party, Mohre is said to have deleted the post.
Allegation
In a facebook account named Bhavani Mohre, a status saying ‘Sex scandal of BJP MLA to be disclosed, in front of the house of KSE’. was posted on Monday. Soon after posting the status, the Facebook account started receiving comments.
A user asked ‘Who is that leader?’ For that comment, Mohre posted a strong comment ‘that fellow asked to pander to get ticket’. Later, many people asked about ‘that’ leader. Some others asked him to delete the status as it is not fair to discuss such issues openly. The status has gone viral within a few hours. It has circulated even in WhatsApp and other social media. The issue has reached even the party senior leaders. Some leaders have contacted Mohre and forced him to delete the status. It is said that Mohre has deleted the status yielding to the pressure of the party workers.
Mohre is an aspirant for the city corporation elections. It is said that Mohre and the MLA were not in good terms. But whatever the issue, in the run-up to 2019 Lok Sabha elections, this issue could prove costly for the BJP in the state.
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May initiate contempt action if states, UTs non compliant against misleading ads: SC
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned states and union territories of contempt action if they failed to act against misleading advertisements.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan perused a note submitted by senior advocate Shadan Farasat, who is assisting the apex court as an amicus curiae in the matter, and observed a number of states were non-compliant as indicated in the note.
"We make it clear that if we find non-compliance by any of the states and union territories, we may have to initiate proceedings under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, against the states concerned," the bench said.
The issue pertaining to misleading advertisements had cropped up before the top court while hearing a plea filed by the Indian Medical Association in 2022 alleging a smear campaign by Patanjali Ayurved Ltd against the Covid vaccination drive and modern systems of medicine.
The top court had highlighted the aspect of misleading advertisements being published or displayed in media contrary to the provisions of the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 and the rules, the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
During the hearing on Wednesday, the amicus said as per the affidavits filed by the states and union territories so far, virtually no prosecution under the 1954 Act was taking place.
While Section 3 of the Act deals with prohibition of advertisement of certain drugs for treatment of certain diseases and disorders, Section 4 relates to prohibition of misleading advertisements of drugs.
The bench referred to affidavits filed by some of the states and questioned why they hadn't acted on the basis of complaints received.
Some states, it noted, found it difficult to identify the violaters.
"We will take contempt action now," the bench said, "and we will threadbare examine the compliance made by each states."
The bench said it would consider the compliance made by Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir on February 10.
And if these states wanted to file further affidavits reporting compliance, they were free to do so by February 3, it added.
The bench said compliance by states including Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab would be considered on February 24.
It said compliance regarding other states and union territories would be considered on March 17.
While hearing the matter in July last year, the apex court said the Ministry of Ayush should set up a dashboard to make available to the consumers the details about the complaints filed on misleading advertisements and the progress made on them.
In April last year, the top court asked the Centre and state licensing authorities to "activate" themselves to deal with misleading advertisements.
