Complaint filed against Tejasvi Surya for flaring communal tension, violating code of conduct
Bengaluru: The Congress party has formally lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya on Tuesday, alleging that he made inflammatory remarks regarding a recent loudspeaker controversy in Nagarathpete, Bengaluru, thereby exacerbating communal tensions during the Lok Sabha elections.
Surya Mukundaraj, the General Secretary of Congress's legal wing, filed the complaint, accusing BJP leaders of adding a communal angle to an incident involving an attack on a shopkeeper in Nagarathpete.
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The complaint highlighted how Tejasvi Surya, along with Basavanagudi MLA Ravi Subramanya, purportedly gathered a crowd before the shop on March 18. Allegedly, they raised religious slogans and urged the gathered crowd to chant the Hanuman Chalisa at 12 PM on March 19. The complaint asserted that such actions contravene the directives of the Supreme Court and the Election Commission, which deem it an offense to incite communal or religious sentiments during electoral campaigns.
The complaint urged the Election Commission to take strict action against Tejasvi Surya for purportedly violating the model code of conduct by instigating protests with communal undertones.
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Govt clears procurement of ammunition for Pinaka rocket systems
New Delhi (PTI): The government is learnt to have cleared a proposal to procure ammunition for Pinaka multi-launch rocket systems at a cost of Rs 10,200 crore, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi on January 13 said that two Pinaka contracts -- one for high explosive pre-fragmented ammunition and another for area denial munitions -- are set to be inked before end of the current fiscal.
The people cited above said the procurement has been given the required go ahead.
The two types of ammunition are being procured for around six Pinaka regiments that the Army plans to deploy to bolster its combat prowess along the northern frontier with China.
The Army already has four regiments of Pinaka rocket systems.
While the Pinaka MK-I rocket system has a range of around 40 km, the Pinaka II variant can hit targets at a distance of 60 km.
The Army is enhancing the combat prowess of its artillery units along the frontier with China by procuring an array of weapons systems including an additional batch of 100 K9 Vajra howitzers, swarm drones, loitering munitions and surveillance systems.
