Someone is trying to control me through CBI: DK Shivakumar
Bengaluru, June 1: “Some people have jealous on me. So, they wanted to control me through CBI. CBI officials have been torturing the local officials to name MP DK Suresh”, former minister DK Shivakumar alleged.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday, he said that “the CBI officials have been forcing the local officials to admit the role of MP DK Suresh in exchanging money after demonitisation. We have come from a village and I don’t know why these people are targeting us. I am a chess player and I know how to checkmate the opponent. More strong, more enemies and less strong, less enemies. Same thing happened to me. They love me more. So, they have targeted me”, he alleged.
“The CBI officials have interrogated our personal secretaries and relatives several times. Moreover, the CBI officials have been forcing our relatives and personal secretaries to accept that Rs 10 lakh is belonging to DK Suresh. But both of us have not done any mistake”, he said.
I am a common man
“Don’t ever compare me with Revanna. It is not true that both I and Revanna are fighting for Energy portfolio. They are the sons of a big family. I am a common man. If the fruit is on the tree even after ripening, people will throw stones at it. If you are good looking, everyone looks at you. I have not applied for anything. I am from Congress party. Don’t compare me with Revanna. I don’t need his relationship. Let Revanna keep all portfolios and become Chief Minister. His part is different and mine is different”, he said.
“Both Congress and JDS have come together to form the government. Both of us work together. If I am required, Congress would retain me. Time will tell everything”, he said.
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We need to recognise we have problem with Security Council: UN SG Guterres
United Nations (PTI): In a sharp critique, UN chief Antonio Guterres said there is a need to recognise “we have a problem with the Security Council”, which does not reflect the current world and is not allowed to stop conflicts because of the use of veto by its permanent members.
“I think we need to recognise that we have a problem with the Security Council. The Security Council today no longer represents the world as the world exists. It represents the world after 1945,” Guterres said at a press conference in Beirut on Saturday in response to a question.
He pointed out that three permanent members of the 15-nation Council are from Europe, one from Asia, and one is the United States, while there are no permanent members from Africa or Latin America.
Even from Asia, that “obviously is a continent with an enormous weight in global population and global wealth”, there is just one permanent member - China.
“And so, the Council has a problem of legitimacy and a problem of efficiency because of the vetoes. And what we have witnessed is that time and time again, when we have situations of conflict and when it's necessary to stop the conflict, there is a veto that emerges, and that does not allow the Security Council to act. That, unfortunately, is something that we are witnessing time and time again, and I am not hoping that in the short term, things will change,” he said.
The Council is made up of five veto-wielding permanent members, China, France, Russia, the UK and the US, while 10 non-permanent members are elected to serve two-year terms at the horseshoe table and do not have veto powers.
India has been at the forefront of decades-long efforts calling for reform of the Security Council, including expansion in both its permanent and non-permanent categories, saying the 15-nation Council, founded in 1945, is not fit for purpose in the 21st Century and does not reflect contemporary geopolitical realities.
India has underscored that it rightly deserves to sit as a permanent member in the Security Council.
India last sat at the UN high table as a non-permanent member in 2021-22. A polarised Security Council has failed to deal with current peace and security challenges, with Council members sharply divided on conflicts such as the Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the latest US-Israel war against Iran.
