Calling Gandhi "Father of Nation", an insult to Bharat Mata: Mahesh Vikram Hegde
Bengaluru: Controversial Journalist and founder of fake news factory ‘postcard news’ Mahesh Vikram Hegde on Thursday posted a controversial tweet on his twitter handle adding that terming Mahatma Gandhi as the father of the nation would be an insult to the nation given the thousands of years of heritage of the country.
Hegde instead suggested that the Ganhiji should be called as the “Son of Bharat Mata” instead of “Father of Nation”.
“Nationa that has thousands of years of heritage is called BHARAT MATA We’ve given the place MOTHER. So Won’t it be an insult to our mother if we call Gandhiji as “Father of Nation”? (SIC) he questioned in the tweet.
He further ‘reminded’ readers that India’s neighboring country Pakistan was due to Mahatma Gandhi. “It is better call him “son of Bharat Mata” Let me remind that Pakistan was born due to him” (SIC).
Mahesh Hegde has been in past on multiple occasions been detained and arrested by police for posting, sharing and spreading fake news post on his website. Earlier in April this year he was also arrested by the state police after Karnataka Home Minister had filed a complaint as a fake letter was circulated ahead of the Lok Sabha Election in the state which was allegedly written to Sonia Gandhi by Patil regarding Lingayat issue in the state.
Nation that has thousands of years of heritage is called BHARAT MATA
— Mahesh Vikram Hegde (@mvmeet) June 13, 2019
We've given the place of MOTHER
So won’t it be an insult to our mother
If we call Gandhiji as
“Father of Nation”?
It is better to call him "Son of Bharat Mata"
Let me remind that Pakistan was born due to him
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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.
