MP Pratap Simha gheraoed for entering booth despite not being voter
Mysuru, Sept 01: Expressing their ire against the Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha, who entered a polling station during the Mysuru Municipal Corporation polls despite not being a voter, the locals gheraoed him on Friday.
The incident took place at a polling booth at Srikanteswara School in KN Pura ward number 31 in Mysuru. MP Pratap Simha entered the booth with BJP candidate Padmanabha. But they were not voters there.
Local residents objected their entry into the booth and gheraoed Pratap Simha. Besides, they created ruckus saying that the non-voters should not enter the polling booths. When the MP tried to pacify them saying "I am a public representative and came here to check voting process," protesting people were not convinced.
Immediately the police arrived at the spot and ousted the non-voters. The incident took place when Pratap Simha visited Kyatamaranahalli ward and was heading towards another ward.
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Assam to lift all cases against Koch Rajbongshis in Foreigners' Tribunals: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Guwahati, Apr 4 (PTI): The Assam cabinet has decided to lift all cases pending against people from the Koch Rajbongshi community in the Foreigners' Tribunals, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday.
They will also no longer carry the tag of 'D' or doubtful voters, he said.
''There are 28,000 cases pending in different Foreigners' Tribunals in the state against people of the community. The cabinet has taken a historic decision of lifting the cases with immediate effect,'' Sarma said at a press conference here after the cabinet meeting.
The government believes that the Koch Rajbongshis are an indigenous community of the state and they are an inextricable part of ''our social and cultural fabric'', he asserted.
The people of this community are poor and have suffered a lot over the years, he said.
''They will no longer carry the tag of foreigners or ‘D’ voters,'' the CM said.
Foreigners Tribunals are quasi-judicial bodies, particularly in Assam, established to determine if a person residing in India is a "foreigner" as defined by the Foreigners Act of 1946, based on the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order of 1964.
These tribunals are designed to address matters related to citizenship and the presence of “foreigners” in India, specifically focusing on cases where someone is suspected of being an illegal immigrant.
There are 100 Foreigners’ Tribunals across Assam.
The Koch Rajbongshis have a sizeable presence in Assam, West Bengal, Meghalaya, and parts of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan, and they demand Scheduled Tribe status.
