B'luru rain fury: Guns, records damaged after rainwater gushes into City Armed Reserve control room
Bengaluru: Water logged into the control room of the West Division of City Armed Reserve Forces in Ullala Upanagara, causing damage to the valuables in the division, after heavy rains lashed parts of the city on Wednesday.
The control room was completely inundated following sudden inflow of rainwater, causing damage to hundreds of firearms, documents belonging to the Police security personnel. The havoc came to light in the Morning when the control room staff arrived for duty, upon discovering things disordered the staff swiftly rushed and collected the guns and files, conducted an inspection of the room.
In the meantime, several residents of the city complained of rainwater entering into their homes. At the same time, some also expressed their displeasure with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) stating that despite several complaints, the civic body is not acting against controlling artificial flooding in the city.
Similarly, in Sahakar Nagar, houses were still submerged under water, prompting locals to protest against the civic body by blocking the road.
“Every flood causes colossal damage, and BBMP officials are not responding to our situation. The situation would have been not like this if the BBMP had cleared encroachment on Rajakaluve,” said an agitated resident.
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PM Modi, RSS strengthening wall in path of SCs, STs, OBCs: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.
