SC ENDS PROBE INTO CAUSE OF GOGOI CASE
Says not even a single TMC goon will be seen on the road on poll days
The Supreme Court on Thursday brought the curtains down on its suo motu proceedings to investigate the alleged larger conspiracy behind the allegation of sexual harassment against former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.
Without giving details, the Supreme Court added that the possibility of a larger conspiracy cannot be ruled out.
Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday declared that the BJP, after coming to power in West Bengal in the ensuing Assembly election, would investigate the corruption in the distribution of the Centre’s `3,500 crore relief aid for Cyclone Amphan to the Mamata Banerjee government and all other scams during the Trinamul Congress rule to put the offenders behind bars.
He told a BJP rally at Namkhana in South 24 Parganas, “When Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent relief for the affected by Cyclone Amphan, the TMC goons looted it. It was around `3,500 crore which he had disbursed. Still nothing happened here. As soon as the BJP forms its government here, we will carry out a high-level probe into the Amphan fund misappropriation and send those, who ate away your share in it, to jail.”
Training his guns on the Chief Minister and her MP nephew Abhishek Banerjee, Shah claimed, “Modiji also sent huge funds for the development of Bengal. But the amounts went to the syndicates of Didi. The Congress, when in power at the Centre, had released `1.32 lakh crores to the state over five years. But the Narendra Modi government sent here `3.59 lakh crores in five years. The amounts were looted by Bhaipo (nephew) and his goons. Once the BJP government comes to existence, all graft cases will be investigated and whoever ate the money for the poor people of Bengal will be sent to the custody of the law.”
Warning the goons of the TMC at the launch of the fifth and final Rath Yatra of the BJP, he said, “I ask the goons, patronised by Mamatadi, Go for hiding wherever you want to. You will be found out in Patal (if you hide even there) and will be put behind bars.”
The Union home
minister
further assured of a tight security arrangement for Assembly polls, adding, “I can guarantee that not even a single goon of the TMC will be seen on the road on the poll days. You can cast your vote without any fear.”
To woo the voters with sops, Shah then announced that BJP,
the
after forming it’s government, would implement the seventh pay commission in the salary scale of the state government employees, more than 33 per cent reservation for women in state government jobs, a fishermen welfare scheme in line of the PM Kishan Samman Nidhi.
The BJP in Kerala received a shot in the arm ahead of crucial Assembly polls with ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan announcing his decision to join the party.
The 88-year-old legendary engineer is set to join the BJP during the party’s Vijay Yatra which will be flagged off by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Kasargod on Sunday.
“I am joining the BJP with the belief that I will be able to do something for the state. I am not interested in becoming Governor. The LDF and UDF are not able to do anything for the development of the state. They are only going for confrontation with the Centre. Kerala lacks an investor-friendly environment,” he told media persons.
“I have a good name in Kerala. I enjoy the goodwill of people. If a person like me joins BJP more people will get attracted and join the party,” he said.
Notwithstanding the fact that leaders of his age in BJP are now mainly confined to the “marg darshak mandal”, the party is likely to make an exception for fielding him in the forthcoming Assembly polls.
The ‘Metro Man’ said the decision to join BJP was not taken hurriedly.
“For the past ten years I have been in Kerala. I viewed the state from close quarters. I find that most political parties are shying away from working for the state. Instead they are prompted by their party and organisational interests,” he said.
The architect of Konkan Railway and Delhi Metro which changed the face of public transport in the
country, played a major role in starting metro rail in Jaipur, Lucknow and Kochi subsequently. After retirement from Delhi metro in 2011, he has been confined to his native place Ponnani in Malappuram district.
Sreedharan says he has many plans for the development of the state. Though he worked closely with the LDF government on a couple of projects, the veteran feels that the left rule has not been up to the mark. He believes only the BJP can usher in the required development.
The metro man disclosed that he had discussed his ideas of development of Kerala with the state BJP leaders. Most of his ideas would be incorporated in the BJP manifesto for Kerala polls.
Though the BJP is not a major player in Kerala’s political landscape having just one MLA in the 140 member state Assembly, the party has been trying to break the highly polarised bipolar politics involving mainly the CPM-led LDF and Congress-led UDF. The BJP did manage to secure a vote share of 15 percent votes in the 2014 Assembly polls.
Earlier BJP Kerala state unit president K Surendran said Sreedharan’s entry into the party would give a boost to the organisation.