BJP’s defeat in elections due to your loose talk: Renukacharya targets Yatnal
Bengaluru: Former Minister M.P. Renukacharya launched a scathing attack on MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, blaming him for the BJP’s defeat in the recent by-elections.
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Renukacharya said, “The BJP lost the elections because of your loose and foul talk. State BJP President B.Y. Vijayendra has already demonstrated his organisational capabilities, but the party suffered losses due to your careless remarks. Are you bigger than Narendra Modi? The BJP’s efforts in the Waqf struggle were supported by Shobha Karandlaje and Pralhad Joshi, not you,” he criticised.
He went further, alleging, “Yatnal has been given a ‘contract’ by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi to destroy the BJP. He is behaving like a Congress agent. His electoral success was the result of adjustments.”
Renukacharya also dismissed allegations of parallel meetings within the party, clarifying, “We are not conducting alternative meetings. We are travelling as part of the party’s platform. For the upcoming Davangere rally, we will invite national leaders. Our travel is focused on party organisation and its welfare.”
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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.
