Hit the ground, special team is watching: K'taka Congress chief DK Shivakumar to ticket aspirants
Bengaluru, Sep 16: Stressing the need to hit the ground, Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar on Friday made it clear to his partymen including the sitting legislators and aspirants that it was the most important criteria for the candidacy to 2023 Assembly polls in the State.
He was addressing a meeting of KPCC office-bearers and Bharat Jodo Yatra coordinators, as the march would enter the State through Chamarajanagar district on September 30.
"...I have told all MLAs there is no bargain...AICC has officially appointed a separate team under Sunil (political strategist Sunil Kanugolu) to do a political analysis. Rahul Gandhi had called us leaders and said a team has been constituted. There are 600 people across all constituencies, two or three in every constituency," Shivakumar said.
Stating that they would not identify with anyone and are watching everyone, he said they already have mapped every constituency, and are calculating the fate of the sitting, the defeated, and those aspiring to be MLAs.
"Every seat is important for us, some might be thinking no one can do anything to them in their constituency, including sitting MLAs. I'm telling them that it's an illusion," he said pointing out that in Kerala almost 13 sitting MLAs were removed from the list and youngsters given a chance.
Noting that for the Bharat Jodo Yatra, every MLA is tasked with mobilising 5,000 people, Shivakumar took a dig at some party colleagues for their lack of keenness, and specifically named senior MLA and former KPCC chief R V Deshpande.
"Deshpande said he can't (get people), because his constituency is too far. I said nothing doing...Can't we just do this for one day for the sake of Rahul Gandhi?" he asked.
The KPCC chief said leaders and party workers who cannot work on the ground would be rested.
He listed out the work done and events organised by KPCC aimed at strengthening the party under his presidency.
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UP man gets life term for electrocuting mentally challenged wife to death in Bareilly
Bareilly (UP) (PTI): A local court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his mentally challenged wife by repeatedly electrocuting her while she was tied to a cot, lawyers said on Thursday.
Additional district government counsel Harendra Singh Rathore said Additional Sessions Judge Avinash Kumar Singh on Wednesday convicted Vinod Kumar (45) for killing his wife, Satyavati, in Chaina village of Bareilly district and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on him.
According to the prosecution, he was allegedly frustrated with his wife Satyavati's mental illness and often assaulted her.
Rathore said the prosecution examined nine witnesses to establish the charges against him.
As per court records, on the night of May 1-2, 2022, when Satyavati was asleep, Vinod tied her hands and legs to a cot using ropes and then connected an aluminium cable to an electric board to repeatedly administer electric shocks to her.
"She writhed in pain, but the accused continued to electrocute her until she died," the prosecution said.
The court observed that the murder was carried out in an inhuman manner.
After committing the crime, the accused threw the rope and cable on the roof and left for work at a brick kiln around 2 am to create a false alibi.
He later tried to mislead the police and the victim's family by claiming that Satyavati, whose mental condition was unstable, had accidentally died by suicide after grabbing a live electric wire.
However, the victim's brother, Sanjeev, a resident of Shahjahanpur district, suspected foul play and lodged an FIR under sections 498A (husband subjecting wife to cruelty) and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code at Nawabganj police station.
During the trial, the prosecution relied on the post-mortem report prepared by Dr Faraz Anwar, who stated that multiple electrocution marks found on different parts of the victim's body could not have been self-inflicted.
The police also recovered the rope and electric wire used in the crime on the accused's identification, officials said.
