EXPELLED BJP MLA SENGAR CONVICTED FOR HOMICIDE

New Delhi: A court in Delhi on Wednesday convicted expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the death of the Unnao rape victim’s father. District judge Dharmesh Sharma said Sengar had no plan of killing him.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the Centre of creating a hype on novel coronavirus outbreak to divert the attention from the Delhi riots.

Asking the BJP to reveal the identities of the riot victims whose bodies are yet to be found, she took an U-turn on her comments about the Bangladeshi refugees’ Indian nationality a day before and threatened to take legal steps for distortion.

“Many people are thinking too much about corona. Definitely it is a disease. The whole world is worried about it. Do not get panicked about it however. To divert attention they (Centre) are doing ‘corona, corona’ so much so that people forget the Delhi incident. They should talk about it when it happens,” the Trinamul Congress supremo alleged at a party rally in Buniadpur of South Dinajpur.

Banerjee, who is also the state health minister, claimed, “We also want its medicine be discovered. We deal with disease in its way. We do not want a single person to fall ill to this disease though it has created a fear across the world.” Referring to the Delhi riots, Mamata argued, “But those who died there had not suffered from corona. Those who were killed did not suffer from dengue or swine flu or encephalitis.”

The Trinamul Congress supremo reasoned, “Had someone died of coronavirus, it would have been suitable to offer sympathy to heal the mind as it is a new disease which has neither any medicine nor any treatment. So many people were burnt to death. Still they (BJP) are yet to apologise. Nearly 700 people have gone missing while thousands of people have become homeless during the violence. Many victims’ bodies are yet to be found.”