Second case of BJP MP heckled in Bengaluru in 2 days; video of voter questioning PC Mohan goes viral
Bengaluru: BJP candidate from Bangalore Central constituency for the Lok Sabha elections, PC Mohan, visited the Halasur Lake area on Monday morning to request the voters taking a walk there, but had to leave the place in haste, unable to answer a woman voter's questions on issues concerning the people.
This is the second case of heckling of MPs reported in the city in the last two days, with videos of both scenes being shared a lot on social platforms. On Sunday, Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya was incessantly questioned by investors demanding relief for the money they had lost in a scam of the Guru Raghavendra Sahakara Bank Limited during a campaign program organized in Basavanagudi and was forced to leave the event midway.
Less than 24 hours later, on Monday morning, a woman who found three-time MP from Bangalore Central PC Mohan in the Halasur Lake area, quizzed him about not visiting the constituency during extremely important situations. He had kept himself out of the people's contact during the COVID outbreak, she pointed out, alleging that Mohan was using issues that he had failed to handle as MP to campaign this year.
The MP, who struggled and reportedly also stuttered while attempting to reply, realized that the scene was being recorded and immediately left the place.
The video clip of the conversation between the lady voter and Mohan is going viral on social media. Netizens are taking a jibe at the MP, commenting that voters should not ask a candidate what he had done for his constituency, but instead ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as all credit for any work goes to the PM.
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2 LPG tankers sail through Strait of Hormuz, 16 still stranded
New Delhi (PTI): Two more Indian-flagged LPG tankers have safely crossed the war-hit Strait of Hormuz and are headed for Indian ports even as 16 other vessels remain stranded in the Persian Gulf, officials said Monday.
LPG vessel Green Sanvi carrying 46,650 tonnes of LPG is scheduled to reach Indian port on April 7 while Green Asha with 15,500 tonnes of cargo is scheduled to touch Indian coast on April 9, said Mukesh Mangal, Additional Secretary in Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways at a news briefing.
"Indian maritime operations remain safe and uninterrupted amid West Asia crisis. 16 Indian-flagged vessels with 433 seafarers are in the region; two LPG carriers, Green Sanvi and Green Asha, safely crossed Strait of Hormuz," he said.
With this, eight Indian-flagged LPG tankers have safely transited through the strategic waterway, which has remained effectively shut since the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28 and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
Of the vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf, one is of a loaded liquefied natural gas (LNG), two are LPG tankers (one loaded and one empty), six are crude carriers (five loaded, one empty), three are container ships, one is a dredger, one is carrying chemical cargo and two are bulk carriers, he said.
Asked about reports of Iran charging a fee for letting ships cross the strait, Mangal said, "we have no information of such payments."
For a country that relies on imports from Gulf nations to meet as much as 60 per cent of its cooking gas needs, the arrivals will help ease the worst LPG shortage it is battling in decades. India consumed 33.15 million tonne of LPG last year, with imports accounting for about 60 per cent of demand. As much as 90 per cent of those imports came from West Asia.
The US-Israel attacks on Iran, and Tehran's sweeping retaliation have all but halted shipping through the strait - the narrow shipping lane that is the conduit for oil and gas exports from Gulf countries to the world. Iran has, however, stated that "non-hostile vessels" may transit the waterway after coordinating with Iranian authorities.
Last week, two LPG carriers, BW TYR and BW ELM, carrying combined LPG cargo of about 94,000 tonnes safely transited the region. While BW TYR reached Mumbai on March 31, BW ELM docked at New Mangalore on April 1.
Prior to that, four Indian-flagged LPG tankers had safely sailed through the strait. Pine Gas and Jag Vasant, carrying 92,612 tonnes of LPG, reached Indian ports between March 26 and March 28. MT Shivalik and MT Nanda Devi, carrying about 92,712 tonnes of LPG, had reached Mundra port in Gujarat on March 16 and Kandla port in the state on March 17.
Originally, there were 28 Indian-flagged vessels in the Strait of Hormuz when the war in West Asia broke. Of these, 24 were on the West side of the strait and four on the East side. Eight vessels from the west side and two from east have managed to sail to safety.
Besides the eight LPG tankers, the Indian-flagged oil tanker Jag Laadki, with 80,886 tonnes of crude oil from the UAE, reached Mundra on March 18.
Another tanker, Jag Prakash, carrying gasoline from Oman to Africa, had previously safely crossed the strait and is en route to Tanzania.
