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Pune NCP workers, functionaries break down, urge Pawar to withdraw resignation

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Pune: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) workers and functionaries in Pune on Tuesday evening urged party president Sharad Pawar to immediately withdraw his resignation from the top post as they broke down on coming to know about his sudden announcement.
They said they will resign en masse if Pawar (82), whose hometown Baramati is located in Pune district in western Maharashtra, does not take back his resignation which was announced in Mumbai in the afternoon.
Pradeep Deshmukh, Pune NCP spokesperson, said after the news of Pawar’s resignation trickled in, hundreds of workers gathered at the party office in the city and could not stop their tears.

He said the NCP is like a family, where Pawar is a father figure and such leaders do not retire.
“If Pawar saheb does not reverse his decision, party workers and office-bearers will remain firm on their resignation,” Deshmukh said.
Meanwhile, Vitthal Maniyar, an aide of Pawar, said the former Union minister’s move to step down as president of the party he founded in 1999 was not abrupt or sudden.
“Pawar saheb might have thought deeply before coming to this decision. He must be thinking of handing over the responsibility to the next team and making them ready while he is still active,” he said.
“Though Pawar saheb has sought time (to rethink his resignation), I am sure it was a well though out decision and he will convince party leaders to accept it,” Maniyar stated.

“Saheb has not given up politics or social work. Whether he is party chief or not, he will continue to work with the same gusto with which he was working till now,” he said.
Asked about Pawar’s possible successor if he stays firm on his decision to quit the top party post, Maniyar said the veteran politician believes in democratic functioning of the party and any decision on the issue will be taken unanimously.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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May 3, 2023
Hate speeches: 8 BJP functionaries issued notices by Chhattisgarh police

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Raipur: Eight Bharatiya Janata Party functionaries were issued notices by Chhattisgarh police on Friday for allegedly posting content on social media that spreads hate, an official said.
They have been asked to appear before police and present factual statements related to such posts, Raipur Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal said.
The eight comprise BJP spokesperson Sanjay Shrivastava, IT cell in charge of BJP Chhattisgarh’s Twitter handle Sunil Pillai, treasurer Nandan Jain, BJP trade cell president Kedarnath Gupta, BJP Yuva Morcha Mandal president Yogi Sahu, divisional Yuva Morcha coordinator Kamal Sharma, DD Nagar BJP Yuva Morcha member Shubhankar and party worker Bittu Panigrahi.

The Congress had, on April 12, filed a complaint with Raipur police claiming such posts were spreading hate.
As per the police notice, these posts by BJP members allegedly used derogatory terms for Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in connection with the communal violence in Biranpur in the state’s Bemetara district.
The notice was based on a Supreme Court order dated October 21 last year directing action against hate speeches, police said.
After a fight among schoolchildren, violence rocked Biranpur village, some 100 kilometres from state capital Raipur on April 8, leading to the death of 22-year-old Bhuneshwar Sahu and injuries to three policemen.
Two houses were burnt during the statewide ‘bandh’ (shutdown) called by right-wing organisations on April 10, while the bodies of villagers Rahim Mohammad and his son Idul Mohammad were found with multiple injuries at a murum mine on April 11.

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April 14, 2023
Chhattisgarh ashram functionaries arrested for thrashing girl

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Mahasamund: A 13-year-old girl was seriously injured after she was thrashed and a burning piece of wood was thrust into her mouth in an ashram in Mahasamund district in Chhattisgarh, a police official said on Friday.
Three persons were arrested on Thursday for alleged involvement in the crime, which took place on February 24 in Jai Gurudev Manas Ashram in Paterapali village under Bagbahra police station limits, said Ajay Shankar Tripathi, Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP).
“The complaint was lodged on February 28 by the victim’s brother. Those arrested include the ashram’s operator-cum-head guru. As per initial probe, the child, from Abhanpur area in Raipur district, was brought to the ashram for treatment of some mental ailment though ‘jhaad-phoonk’ (exorcism),” the SDOP said.
“After her brother left her at the ashram and returned home, three ‘sevadars’ (volunteers) thrashed the girl after an argument broke out over offering ‘bhog’. The three inserted a piece of burning wood inside her mouth, causing serious burn injuries. They threatened her kin to not report the matter to anyone,” he added.
The brother of the victim told reporters the three men accused the teen girl of mixing poison in the ‘bhog’.
The three have been charged under Indian Penal Code sections 307 (attempt to murder), 294 (obscene acts), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC, with section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) also slapped against the operator-cum-head guru, the official informed.
“The girl was first admitted in a hospital in Bagbahra and then shifted to a medical facility in Arang in Raipur. We have found a lot of people visit the ashram for ‘jhaad-phoonk’ and such methods of treatment,” Tripathi said.
The Mahasamund superintendent of police (SP) has ordered inspection of ashrams where such kinds of treatment was being provided, while the state revenue department has asked for details about the ashram in question, its land and other operational details, the SDOP said.

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March 3, 2023
KCR appoints BRS gen secy; other functionaries in UP, Maharashtra

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Hyderabad, March 1 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday appointed farmers’ leader Himanshu Tiwari as the general secretary of the party.
The 31-year-old hails from Uttar Pradesh. As BRS national general secretary, he will actively participate in the organisational work of BRS.
Tiwari was part of United Kisan Morcha in 2020-2021, and a member of National Executive of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) that vociferously opposed three controversial farm laws.
Tiwari belongs to a freedom fighter’s family at Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. He obtained Masters in Computers from Varanasi. Since 2015, he has been actively involved in farmers’ agitation at the national level. He was running a nation-wide agitation against the Land Acquisition Ordinance and played a role in national coordination of the farmers movements.
Himanshu launched the 21 days Padaytra from Champaran in Bihar to Banaras, Uttar Pradesh and mobilised thousands of people in Jan Jagran Padayatra.
Meanwhile, KCR has also appointed six divisional coordinators of BRS for Maharashtra. Dasrath Sawanth has been appointed as the coordinator of Nashik division. Balasaheb Jairam Deshmukh will be the coordinator for Pune division.
For the Mumbai division, KCR appointed Vijay Tanaji Mohite as the coordinator. The other coordinators are Somnath Thorat (Aurangabad division), Dyanesh Wakudkar (Nagpur division) and Nikhil Deshmukh (Amaravathi division).
KCR had addressed a public meeting at Nanded in Maharashtra on February 5. This was the first public meeting of BRS outside Telangana.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) changed its name to BRS late last year to expand its activities across the country. BRS was formally launched by KCR in December with the slogan of aab ki baar kisan sarkar’.
The inaugural public meeting of BRS was held on January 17 at Khammam, which was addressed by KCR, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Maan, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh andA Samajwadi Party’sA president Akhilesh Yadav and Communist Party of India (CPI) Secretary D. Raja.
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March 1, 2023