Last respects paid to Senior IPS officer Madhukar Shetty
Final rites to be performed at his hometown on Sunday
Bengaluru, Dec 29: Last respects were paid to IPS officer Madhukar Shetty, who died after suffering from severe lung infection in Hyderabad.
His dead body was brought from Hyderabad by a special flight at 1:15 pm at Devanahalli International Airport and later it was kept for paying last respects at Armed Police Training Center at Yelahanka on Saturday.
Home Minister MB Patil, DGP Neelamani Raju, senior police officers Kishore Chandra, MN Reddy, AM Prasad, City Police Commissioner T Sunil Kumar, ADGP Kamal Pant, Retired DGPs RK Datta, Shankar Bidari, other senior officials, relatives and civilians paid the final respects.
According to sources from Yelahanka, the body will be taken by road to the airport at around 8:15 pm and from there it will be airlifted to Mangaluru.
Colleague sings favorite song
A colleague of the IPS officer Madhukar Shetty paid his lasts respects by singing the late officer's favorite song.
Madhukar's colleague Pavan Kumar, with teary eyes, sang the late officer's favorite Hindi song while paying last respects in Hyderabad.
His service is unprecedented
I was shocked by the death of Madhukar Shetty
I wish his family immense strength and peace in life. It is not possible to get an efficient officer this way. The service he delivered in Chikkamagaluru was unprecedented.
-Annamalai, DCP, South Division of the City
I am shaken by the death of IPS officer Madhukar Shetty. Madhukar Shetty was known for his outspoken nature. Let the Lord grant peace to His soul and give his family strength to endure
-Neelamani Raju, Director General of Police
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
