Sri Rama Sena trains cadres to use firearms, camps organised, 186 cadres trained in state: Report
Bagalkot: The Sri Rama Sena has allegedly rendered firearm and martial arts training to its cadres for six days in a Todalbagi village in Jamkhandi taluk.
According to reports, the organisation is giving gun training under the tag of various physical defence training for personality development and self-defence. The reports also claim that the training was given on the model of a military style training.
Sources claim that during the camp at Gudda, Todalbagi village, training included penalty trials, air gun shooting, karate, navigating through thorn pits, escape techniques in difficult situations, firearm usage, and target practice.
Reports indicate that Sri Rama Sena has trained 186 of its cadres in this manner across the state. The nature of the training has raised concerns among the public, with calls for the government to investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, MD Maddy, Commissioner of Police Jamkhandi, stating that an investigation will be conducted to determine the specifics of the training, including when and where it took place. Action will be taken as per the law if any irregularities are found during the investigation.
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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."
