BENGAL’S CULTURE UNDER THREAT IN MAMATA’S GOVT, SAYS NADDA; TMC CHIEF HITS BACK
KOLKATA: Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda on Tuesday asserted that the rich culture of West Bengal is under threat in chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s rule, and said she should atone for the “misrule and misgovernance” of her regime.
Nadda, who flagged off the second and third phases of the Parivartan Yatra from Tarapith in Birbhum district and Lalgarh in Jhargram district, slammed the Trinamool Congress for dividing communities by branding people as “insiders and outsiders”. “The culture once nurtured by icons such as Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Shyama Prasad Mookerjee can be revived only after you (Banerjee) are ousted,” Nadda said at a rally at Lalgarh. BJP has launched three rath yatras since February 6.
The roadshows will cover the 294 assembly constituencies in the state, of which the BJP targets to win at least 200 in the polls due in April-May.
“The Trinamool Congress is pitting people against one another by branding them as insiders and outsiders,” he said.
While the TMC did not react to Nadda’s comment, Banerjee on Tuesday likened herself to a Royal Bengal Tiger, saying that she is not a weak person who can be intimidated by the BJP.
The CM said, “There is no reason to think I am weak, I am not a person to be afraid of anything. I am a strong person and will keep my head high as long as I live and till then I will live like a Royal Bengal Tiger.”
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NEW DELHI: InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, which operates budget carrier IndiGo, has paid ₹2.10 crore to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to settle IndiGo co-founder Rakesh Gangwal’s complaints of related-party transactions and violation of corporate governance norms.
In his July 2019 complaints, following a falling out with co-founder Rahul Bhatia, Gangwal also alleged that InterGlobe failed to inform the Indigo board of important information in a timely manner.
He also accused InterGlobe of making misrepresentations in IndiGo’s share sale documents of 16 October, 2015 and failing to make timely disclosure of information that could affect the market, according to a Sebi notification on its website on Tuesday.
After Gangwal’s complaints, Sebi sent a notice to IndiGo on November 10. “Pending adjudication proceedings, the Noticee (InterGlobe Aviation) proposed to settle the instant proceedings initiated against it, without admitting or denying the findings of fact and conclusions of law, through a settlement order and filed a settlement application dated December 23, 2020,” the Sebi order said.
Sebi, which had appointed an adjudicating officer in May 2020 to enquire into the matter, has disposed of the proceedings initiated against the airline. Gangwal complained of related-party
transactions between the airline and another promoter group, InterGlobe Enterprise Pvt. Ltd (IGE) Group, which is helmed by the Bhatia, among other things.
Sebi also said that InterGlobe Aviation failed to communicate the findings of a report by EY, engaged to review related-party transactions (RPTs) between the airline and IGE Group, to the board’s audit committee.
It added that the regulator had issued a show-cause notice to InterGlobe Aviation on November 10, 2020 over several allegations. “The findings of EY report was communicated to board members by the chairman in the board meeting dated March 4, 2019,” the Sebi order said.
“The EY Report inter alia contained important information regarding an independent analysis of the RPTs undertaken by the Noticee (IndiGo). Such information was necessary for the board of directors in order to fulfil their responsibilities,” the order noted.
A spokesperson of InterGlobe Aviation declined to comment.