K’taka just an ATM for Cong: Yogi Ban on unauthorised loudspeakers in UP
PARIVARTAN YATRA UP CM accuses Congress of being disconnected from development, scuttling efforts to introduce anticow slaughter bill
BENGALURU: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday accused the Congress of using Karnataka as an ATM to fund its activities while stalling development in the state.
Asking people to vote for BJP in Karnataka, Adityanath said to get the benefit of central schemes, “we need the same party in the state and the Centre”.
Accusing the Congress of being disconnected from development, he said: “This state is nothing more than an ATM for the Congress and it will use the state in this way.”
The UP CM was speaking in the Bengaluru leg of Parivartana Yatra rally. Planned by state BJP president and former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa, the rally aims to reach out to people in all the 224 constituencies of the state ahead of the assembly elections in May. According to Adityanath, Karnataka, which was a model for development, has been held back by the Congress over the past five years.
“Under the leadership of [Prime Minister] Narendra Modi, the BJP has decided to develop the country. And, for schemes of development to reach the youth, farmers, and a city like Benga- luru, it is necessary to have a BJP government here.
“In the whole country, people are voting the Congress out, like in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. If BJP has formed a government for the sixth time in Gujarat, its development is becoming a benchmark for India,” Adityanath said. Targeting Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s recent assertions of his Hindu identity and attacks against BJP for trying to claim Hinduism, Adityanath said, “[Siddaramaiah] has seen your strength and remembered Hindutva, like [Congress president] Rahul Gandhi remembered temples in Gujarat.”
The head of the Gorakhnath Math also held forth on the characteristics of Hindutva, calling it the way of life of India. “Hindutva is not specific to any caste or religion. It means living life in sync with India,” he said. “However, it does not promote the consumption of beef. I want to ask [Siddaramaiah], if you too are Hindu, then how correct is it for you to promote consumption of beef?”
He accused the Congress of scuttling the previous BJP government’s efforts to introduce an anti-cow slaughter bill. The UP chief minister said when Lord Ram was searching for Sita after she was kidnapped, it was Karnataka’s Hanuman who showed him the way. LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered the removal of unauthorised loudspeakers from religious and public places in the state.
The order also asked all district magistrates and police chiefs to ensure that the loudspeakers authorised for use follow the norms as per the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Act, 2000.
In the order dated January 4, 2018, principal secretary (home) Arvind Kumar asked officials to submit compliance reports by January 22 so that the government could file its affidavit in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court.
The government has directed officials to identify the places with unauthorised loudspeakers by January 10 and issue notices to defaulters. As per the order, January 15 is the last date for getting authorisation after which all illegal loudspeakers should be removed by January 20.
Hearing a PIL by one Moti Lal Yadav, the high court had asked the government on December 20 last year to inform within six
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its weeks about the action it had political protégé BJP were blindtaken to curb noise pollution. sided by the events that led to the
The government has asked discaste violence in Maharastra’s trict authorities concerned to Bhima-koregaon, and steps must conduct a survey of permanently be taken to check its recurrence. installed loudspeakers, show This was the conclusion after a cause notices to those without series of meetings, where decipermission, format of applying sion makers in the Sangh Parivar and issuing permission and confabulated on combating the action taken against those who growing unrest among Dalits. had neither applied for permisPeople aware of the developsion nor complied with the terms ments said the RSS, which and conditions of permission. blames “communists” and those
The officials have been asked who sympathise with the “ultrato form a team and conduct surLeft” for stoking caste clashes, veys at religious places and marhas decided to redouble its efforts kets where loudspeakers are to reach out to Dalits and stop the installed. In the order, the DMS caste fault lines from widening. have been asked to categorise On the agenda are protracted areas into industrial, commerinteractions with Dalit communicial, residential and silence ties, distributing speeches of zones, as each area has separate former Sangh chiefs with specific limit for permissible sound level.
Kumar said similar orders had also been issued for baraats, political or religious processions, social or promotional events or any other programme where loudspeakers are used. He said loudspeakers installed at public places could not have the sound level of more than 10 decibel above the ambient noise level and five decibel above ambient noise level at the periphery of private place. AGARTALA: BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday said a regime change in Tripura was inevitable, and accused the ruling Left Front of not acknowledging indigenous and Bengali icons.
“The Marxist state has gifted only unemployment, increasing rate of crime against women, lack of power, infrastructure, and poor wages,” Shah said at the BJP’S Vijay Sankalp rally in the poll-bound state’s Gomati district. “Such a government needs to be removed. Vote for the BJP to welcome parivartan (change).”
Shah is on a two-day visit to Tripura, where assembly polls are expected in February. The term of the current House ends in March. He accused the Left Front government led by chief minister Manik Sarkar of the CPI(M) of ignoring the birth anniversaries of Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, but “never missing out” on observing Marxist icon Joseph Stalin’s anniversary.
Shah also accused the state