Sukma: A man has been arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district for allegedly making objectionable remarks against a community in a viral video, police said on Thursday.
He was arrested on Wednesday evening on the charges of hurting religious sentiments, Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma said.
The man allegedly posted videos on social media on Wednesday using objectionable language for Hindus and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the SP said.
After being alerted about his viral video post, police acted swiftly and arrested him with the help from fellow Muslims, Sharma said.
The accused was booked under sections 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion, etc), 294 (obscene acts and songs) and 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Chhattisgarh Agricultural Cattle Preservation Act, the official said.
Secretary of the Bastar Division Muslim Community Farukh Ali said the community did not support such “hooligans.”
“A so-called Muslim youth has made indecent remarks against Hindu brothers. We strongly condemn him and also appeal to the police to take strict action against him. Hindus and Muslims have always lived in peace and unity in Sukma and the entire Bastar division. We do not support such hooligans. We wanted to punish him but we cannot take law into our hands, therefore we handed him over to the police,” he added.
The first current or former president ever to be indicted, Trump was accompanied by U.S. Secret Service and traveled by motorcade from Trump Tower, where he stayed overnight Monday, down to lower Manhattan.
He will remain in the custody of the district attorney’s office until he is escorted by foot to a courtroom Tuesday afternoon to be arraigned. For Trump, the accommodations of the district attorney’s office, a drab government facility, are likely to be much less comfortable than his typical surroundings.
Across the street from the courthouse, thousands of reporters had set up camp. A line of about 100 reporters had remained there overnight in hopes of obtaining one of the limited number of seats in the courtroom where Trump will be arraigned.
They weren’t the only ones fighting to get a glimpse of the historic day. The judge overseeing the proceedings set aside a small number of seats for the general public, and one father and son pair from Long Island spent the night outside the courthouse trying to nab those spots.
“We drove in from Long Island at like one in the morning,” said the son, Ethan Reed, 19, of Great Neck. “It’s never happened before, I think it’s a pretty important moment in history so I’m just looking to be a part of it.”
His father, David Reed, 59, an elementary teacher, said he had been watching the news Monday night when it occurred to him that they could drive in for the event. He suggested it to his son, and a short while later they were standing in a line behind about 60 reporters. “It’s history in the making,” David Reed said.
Without blankets or chairs, they stood in line for about seven hours before court officers began handing out tickets to the general public. The Reeds gained access to the overflow room.
Despite calls from the former president to protest the indictment, turnout so far has been small. During a protest last week, supporters clamoring for the indictment of the former president far outnumbered Trump supporters.
Outside the courthouse Tuesday, a smattering of pro-Trump protesters had arrived by 9 a.m. Teenage girls draped in American flags, men waiving Trump flags, and moms in MAGA hats filled a small park across from the courthouse.
Paulina Farrell, who was also at the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, came from Long Island to protest the indictment. “I’m here for his support because we feel he is being unjustly attacked,” said Farrell, holding a Trump Flag. “I feel that he is standing up for American people and our freedoms and the people are persecuting him because they do not stand up for the American people.”
Farrell said she was thrilled that Marjorie Taylor Greene would be leading a rally by the courthouse later Tuesday morning, and did not anticipate violence on the scale of Jan. 6. “I hope it stays peaceful,” she said. “On our side, it will. There might be (unrest) if the other side antagonizes but not from us.”
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Mumbai: American supermodel Gigi Hadid put to rest the controversy surrounding Varun Dhawan lifting her in his arms onto the stage on Day 2 of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) opening on Saturday night.
Sharing the viral video of Varun’s action on her Instagram Stories, Gigi wrote: “@Varundvn making my Bollywood dreams come true”.
It looked spontaneous, but Varun said it was planned, and the video even shows RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani cheering Gigi after she’s brought back by Varun to the spot where the celebrity guests had gathered. Social media users, however, slammed Varun for mishandling a woman and alleged that Gigi looked affronted.
Gigi, incidentally, carried off effortlessly her white and gold Chikankari saree paired with a gold statement blouse, both by Mumbai’s best-known fashion designers, Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.
Responding to the outpouring of criticism, Varun said: “I guess today you woke up and decided to be woke. So lemme burst ur bubble and tell u it was planned for her to be on stage so find a new Twitter cause to vent about rather than going out and doing something about things.”
Now that Gigi seems to be lauding him, Varun’s critics can finally look for another “cause to vent about”!
Patna: In wake of the violence in Bihar’s Sasaram and Nalanda, Director General of Police Rajvinder Singh Bhatti on Sunday said the explosion in Sasaram’s Sherganj area occurred during the making of bombs.
He said that 6 persons were injured in the blast and were admitted to the BHU in Varanasi.
“There accused were manufacturing bombs when the explosion took place. Six persons were injured in this accident and it has nothing to do with the Ram Navami march. The forensic team has collected the samples of the explosive and analysis is currently underway,” Bhatti said.
The statement of the DGP came soon after Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during his rally in Nawada on Sunday, claimed that firing and bomb blasts took place in Sasaram.
The DGP said that the Bihar Police will arrest the accused after they are discharged from the hospital.
“We have arrested 109 persons who were involved in violence in Sasaram and Biharsharif. The process of recording video statements is on. We are taking the strongest possible action against the accused,” he said.
“The situations in both places are under control. There was a well-planned conspiracy to disturb law and order in these two places,” he added.
Chief Secretary Amir Subhani said that the Bihar government had held a high-level meeting in advance well before Ram Navami.
“We have directed all the SPs, DMs, DIGs, IGs and Divisional Commissioners of the respective zones. The law and order were intact in most places. We are taking the strongest possible action against the offenders,” Subhani said.
But because of an arcane tracing system and serial understaffing and underfunding, it takes an average of eight days to fulfill a routine trace request. Under the quickest scenarios, it can take about 48 hours, but only if the center surges resources, such as after a mass shooting, said Neil Troppman, program manager at the tracing center.
A look around the facilities explains why. Workers sometimes pull from stacked boxes of records that line the hallways, spreading the papers on the floor before taking a closer look. Other staff members spend their days converting any digital records the facility might have into non-searchable PDFs.
Congressional Republicans want it that way. They view the agency having far extended its defining purpose — turned by Democrats into a de facto arm for gun control.
“The ATF has a history of trying to target law-abiding gun owners and gun stores — rather than criminals — in pursuit of an anti-Second Amendment agenda. That’s not the purpose of the bureau, and that kind of agenda won’t keep our communities safe,” said a spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in a statement to POLITICO.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), whose legislative push to modernize ATF lacks a GOP cosponsor, called the current limitations “deliberate roadblocks to the ATF being able to do its job efficiently.”
“But let me put it this way: Nothing in this bill is a further limitation on peoples’ abilities to purchase guns,” Van Hollen said in an interview.
The debate of the role and upkeep of the tracing center provides a vivid illustration of how the obstacles gun violence advocates face aren’t simply legislative but bureaucratic.
While much of the national conversation has focused on President Joe Biden’s renewed calls for an assault weapons ban after a mass shooting in Nashville last week, other pleas from the White House have also gone unnoticed. In particular, Democrats have been rebuffed in their legislative efforts to modernize a tracing center handcuffed by a 1986 law that prohibits the government from keeping “any system of registration” of firearms, firearms owners or sales. Their calls to increase funding for the ATF, the agency the White House sees as playing a vital role in combating the onslaught of gun violence, have similarly been rejected.
“The tracing center is stuck in the past,” said Edgar Domenech, a retired ATF senior official and a former sheriff of New York City. He called it “amazing” that the ATF could conduct routine gun traces within eight days.
“Granted, it’s slower than what it was when I came on the job in 1985, when it was seven days, but you didn’t have an enormous number of records 30-plus years later,” Domenech said. “But the sad part is, the methodology is the same as it was when I came on the job in 1985.”
The ATF has been tracing firearms used in crimes since it was established in 1972. But under a new Biden administration rule issued last year, its responsibilities have grown. Licensed firearms dealers are now required to collect and maintain sales records indefinitely instead of the previous 20-year minimum. If a business shuts down or the license ends, dealers are required to send records to the national tracing center for storage.
These records sometimes arrive damaged, while other documents, because they’re handwritten, are difficult to read. ATF employees are tasked with organizing and preparing these documents, using high-powered scanners to create digital screenshots. Other gun shops have already transitioned to digital recordkeeping, but the tracing center must convert these files to PDFs that are non-searchable, because of the 1986 law. The end result, often, is that ATF employees must scroll through hundreds of pages of digital screenshots to track down information.
A revision of that law would certainly help matters for the agency. So, too, would more money, officials say. Biden’s 2024 proposed budget calls for $1.9 billion in ATF funding, a 7.4 percent bump from the current fiscal year. About $47 million is reserved for the National Tracing Center, in line with last year’s funding, according to a White House official.
“For decades, Republicans in Congress have worked to undercut and underfund ATF. At a time when we are experiencing a national epidemic of gun violence, ATF needs to be adequately resourced and empowered to do its job effectively,” the official said.
Requests for crime gun tracing have grown over the years, Troppman said. In 2022, the facility received 623,654 of them, up from 548,186 in 2021 and 490,844 in 2020. Some of the increase could be attributed to a rise in shootings and other crime, but it’s also because the ATF has encouraged law enforcement agencies to trace every weapon they find, Troppman said.
Law enforcement agencies make their firearm trace requests through an online system called eTrace, which runs on technology from the 1990s. Average processing time for a routine trace request has improved over the past few years from upwards of 14 days to the current eight days, which Troppman credits to an increase in funding and resources in 2022 and 2023. The center has 65 ATF employees and 400 contractors to maintain their current response time.
The greatest bottleneck is in record prep, where workers sort through the stacks of papers and prepare them for digitization, said Edward Courtney, deputy chief at the tracing center. The facility currently has 18 months worth of document-prep work just sitting in boxes.
And until recently, 40 cargo shipping containers sat outside of the building, each filled up to 2,000 boxes of documents. These boxes were moved to a building down the road, and the plan is to have employees begin processing the deluge of documents from gun shops that have gone out of business at the new location in the next year or so.
“The crush and the volume of what we receive in paper format requires manual labor,” Courtney said. “We just don’t have any more space back there to add really more than the 40 or so people that are doing it at any moment in time.”
A consistent parade of congressional staffers have made the trek to West Virginia to see the process for themselves in the last few months, and there are talks of a visit by a congressional delegation, Troppman said. But so far, legislative efforts to modernize the tracing center don’t appear to have a path forward.
Last year’s bill to allow the tracing center to keep a searchable database of gun records was opposed by many Republicans who argued the measure would make it easy for the government to seize Americans’ weapons or lead to lawsuits against specific gun shops, said Thomas Chittum, who worked at the agency for 23 years before retiring last year as ATF’s associate deputy director. Their argument is that a digital database could expose information about law-abiding gun buyers.
The partisan divisions go well beyond a national registry. GOP lawmakers have criticized the White House’s use of the ATF to toughen firearms enforcement. Republicans had planned to hold a mark-up last week for a resolution to repeal another Biden administration rule that required gun owners to register pistols with stabilizing braces, but the hearing was rescheduled after an elementary school shooting in Nashville.
Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde, a gun shop owner and a member of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees ATF funding, has already signaled he doesn’t foresee a funding increase “in any way” for the agency. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) took it a step further, saying his hope was that Congress will “reduce funding” or “eliminate” the agency, which he called “woke.”
That won’t happen, certainly not with a Democratic Senate or Biden in the White House. But a reduction in funding would mean slower response times to trace requests, and more bandaids to fix problems in a facility not operating in the 21st century. The eTrace system is just one example, Courtney said. In 2023, the tracing center was only granted 50 percent of the funding needed to purchase and hire IT professionals to complete the system upgrade.
“So now we gotta go back to the well in Fiscal Year 2024 and ask again. And who knows what we’ll get,” Courtney said. “We’re not trying to fleece anybody out of extra dollars.”
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SRINAGAR: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST-K) has announced that it will be supplying potato chips making machines to farmers in Gurez. Quoting an official,KNO reported that the move comes as part of SKUAST-K’s efforts to address the marketing challenges that have been faced by the region’s potato farmers. He explained that the machines will help to create a viable market for potato production in the area. The official also noted that the Kala Zeera variety of potato grown in Gurez is fully organic, which could open up opportunities for a new market for potato chips with a zeera flavor. To further assist farmers in the area, SKUAST-K is also developing marketing techniques and partnering with packaging firms to help farmers sell their stock online. The official said it will provide much-needed support to farmers in the region, who have faced difficulties in selling their produce due to limited marketing options. “In addition to supporting potato farmers, SKUAST-K is also working to promote an integrated farming system in the region,” the official said, adding that this system optimizes farm resources by reusing waste from one enterprise as input for another. He said that the approach is not only environment friendly, but it also provides a reliable source of income for farmers by allowing them to sell eggs, mushrooms, milk, honey, and silkworm cocoons. “Overall, SKUAST-K’s efforts are set to benefit the Gurez community by providing new self-employment opportunities, boosting the local economy, and promoting sustainable farming practices,” he claimed.
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday claimed that AAP leaders were “making baseless allegations out of frustration” as the Arvind Kejriwal government’s “scams” were being exposed one after another.
Earlier in the day, AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha accused the BJP of trying to topple the Kejriwal government by threatening them with ED and CBI raids if they don’t join the saffron party.
The BJP has mounted a sustained attack on the AAP and the Arvind Kejriwal government over a number of alleged “scams”, most prominently the one related to the Delhi Excise Policy for 2021-22.
Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said, “Every time Arvind Kejriwal’s scams are uncovered, rather than giving answers to questions he asks the AAP leaders to start crying that their government is facing threat and their MLAs are being poached.”
Kejriwal does this to “divert attention” from the investigations being conducted by different probe agencies, Bidhuri said.
He claimed that AAP leaders have levelled “baseless and fabricated” allegations against the BJP out of frustration.
“Two AAP ministers are in jail for corruption which was masterminded by Arvind Kejriwal. He made the ministers do all corruption and grabbed all the money, and later sacrificed them,” Bidhuri alleged.
Chadha alleged the BJP was planning ‘Operation Lotus 2.0’ in Delhi and the AAP MLAs were being “threatened with ED and CBI cases” if they don’t join the saffron party.
“The BJP wants to topple the AAP government in Delhi under the garb of a no-confidence motion and our legislators are being sent offers by the BJP high command,” he charged.
The AAP has 62 MLAs in the 70-member-strong Delhi Assembly and the BJP has eight. Yet, its leaders think they will be able to snatch power by buying out MLAs, Chadha said.
Bidhuri, however, claimed even after having 62 seats, Arvind Kejriwal is not confident about his MLAs.
“This is because Kejriwal has been the mastermind of all the scams in the Delhi government. The heat of the probes into corruption cases will reach Kejriwal soon and he will also go to jail because he has always been involved in all the corruption,” the BJP leader alleged.
He said the BJP was bringing a no-confidence motion in the assembly because the “people of Delhi have lost their confidence in the AAP government due to its scams”.
If President Joe Biden follows through with plans his administration is weighing to restart family detention for migrants, he risks becoming “the asylum denier in chief,” Sen. Bob Menendez said Sunday.
“The best part of the administration’s immigration policy over the first two years is that they ended family detention,” Menendez (D-N.J.) said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” calling the policy a “failure.”
“When the administration opened up a legal pathway to those fleeing, it dramatically saw a reduction in assistance — an example of what you can do in a way that is both good for the border and preserves our nation as a nation that preserves asylum,” Menendez said. “But if not, if the administration does go down this path, I am afraid the president will become the ‘asylum denier in chief.’”
The comments come after reports that the Biden administration is considering reinstating the policy, which would require families who attempt to cross the U.S. border illegally to be detained as their cases work their way through immigration court.
This would only exacerbate the situation at the southern border, which Menendez noted is already tense, particularly after four Americans were kidnapped — two of whom died — shortly after crossing the border into Mexico.
“The reality is along the border communities, it is the cartels that run the border communities, not the government of Mexico,” Menendez said, adding that he is concerned the U.S. is “headed in the wrong direction in Mexico.”
“We have to engage the Mexicans in a way that says, ‘You’ve got to do a lot more in your security.’ We can help them, you know. We have intelligence. We have other information we can share. But we need them to enforce in their own country,” Menendez said.
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Punching right against Republican ultras? No doubt: In media appearances, Sununu reliably distances himself from culture warriors, election deniers and anyone who would wink at political violence like last year’s attack on Paul Pelosi. Book the New Hampshire governor on a Beltway interview show or make him the subject of a lengthy profile in an elite publication and you’ll hear him deride Trumpism as an electoral “loser” or denounce the Republican “echo chamber.” But he’s also apt to make somewhat less familiar critiques — decrying the failures of the 2017-2018 GOP political trifecta, say, or taking a “Face the Nation” shot at Ron DeSantis, whose battle with Disney over the firm’s allegedly woke priorities he described as “the worst precedent in the world” (because it violates free-market principles).
Paeans to bipartisanship? Naturally — and, better yet, they come couched in reflections on the can-do culture demanded by being governor of a small state, working in the sort of cooperative political milieu permanent Washington’s media brass tends to fetishize. Sununu speaks in Lincolnesque terms about the workings of New Hampshire’s Executive Council, the bipartisan body that governors must consult about all but the smallest contracts and requires people to debate in close proximity. In one recent interview, he said the job of leaders right now is to “take down the heat” inflaming American politics.
Given this record, you might be thinking it’s just about time for Sununu to get himself invited to give remarks at one of those backslappy Washington galas that draw members of the elite media and their insider guests. In fact, Sununu, overachiever that he is, touched that station of the cross an entire year ago. Donning white tie and tails, he brought down the house at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club with a routine that included calling Trump “fucking crazy,” to the delight of an audience that included Anthony Fauci, Merrick Garland, Adam Schiff and a paltry two GOP legislators.
“I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution,” Sununu went on. “But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out.”
Do Sununu’s zingers make you snort? Does his willingness to point fingers at his own side make you swoon? If so, then there’s an above-average chance that you are a college-educated person who works within one or two degrees of separation from Washington’s political industry.
As the favorite Republican of institutional Washington, Sununu joins some august company: People like former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich once occupied the spot. But it was truly defined by the late Sen. John McCain, who melded purported straight talk, an accommodating team of media schedulers and a willingness to decry his own party’s wacko birds to turn himself into a Beltway crush for the ages.
One of the other things those men all had in common, of course, is that none of them became president — a pretty good indication that even in the good old days before anyone talked about swamps and mass-media implosions and million-follower social media accounts, the Beltway media club’s power to influence voters went only so far.
If anything, the path from green room ubiquity to White House residency is even harder today: Back when McCain’s love affair with the media was in full flower, fellow GOP candidates were jealous that he was hogging so much air time. Nowadays, in a party whose leading figures often limit themselves to conservative media, there’s a solid argument that Republican candidates who play nice with the enemies of the people are actively hurting their primary chances. (This same dynamic lowers the bar for Washington’s esteem: At a time when the smart GOP strategy seems to be staying away from old-fashioned bipartisan institutions, it’s even easier to win esteem by simply saying yes to an invite.)
But I’m not trying to handicap the presidential race here. I’m trying to understand something about what does and doesn’t work in a Washington ecosystem where, for all of the self-reflection brought on by the fury of the Trump years, Sununu helps show that the things that push the buttons of permanent Washington have remained pretty constant: bipartisanship, fiscal flintiness, cultural toleration, respect for institutions and above all the willingness to take sides against your own team.
In fact, Sununu has serious competition for the McCain slot in the current political lineup. There’s a possibility that Liz Cheney, subject of fulsome praise by those who admire telegenic political bravery, will do something. More likely, he’ll face two former GOP governors, Maryland’s Larry Hogan and Arkansas’ Asa Hutchinson, who have also leaned even more heavily into anti-Trump politics than Sununu, who for all his criticism says he’d vote for the former president again if he were the nominee. Both are also frequent TV guests who know how to pivot from politics questions to soliloquies about how governors are too busy solving problems to get involved in cable-TV political nastiness. That’s a not-especially-credible assertion given that America’s gubernatorial ranks also include culture warriors like Kristi Noem or (Hutchinson’s successor) Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but it’s the kind of thing that goes over brilliantly in media hits.
Still, while permanent Washington loves an apostate, it also rewards smart politics — and, in the current GOP, the two ex-governors’ complete break with Trump doesn’t seem like a winning move. Which leaves Sununu, who has enough of the partisan in him that, in a long, fun sit-down with my colleague Ryan Lizza, he repeatedly referenced the “Democrat party,” a back-bencher tic that suggests he’s more than the kumbaya candidate.
There are times when it can seem like Sununu was lab-designed to stroke the erogenous zones of Beltway careerists. Unlike Hogan (from blue Maryland) or Hutchinson (from red Arkansas), he comes from swing-state New Hampshire, a place that rewards flinty independence and doesn’t incentivize Republicans to take strong culture war positions that alienate elites. It also just happens to be the state where the McCain model of pundit-lionized Republican tends to thrive in the primaries, before coming back to Earth when the contests shift to more traditionally partisan states. (Sununu describes himself as a pro-choice Republican, though he says nice things about the Dobbs decision sending the issue back to the states.)
Sununu also profiles like a gregarious guy who genuinely enjoys mixing it up in the game of politics — a happy-warrior affect that enables him to not sound like a scold even when he’s quite clearly scolding Republicans for extremism, or Democrats for the same thing. No one likes a wet blanket. Signing off a “Meet the Press” interview last fall, he responded to Chuck Todd’s farewell by saying “thank you, brother,” and it felt like a popular jock taking a moment to high-five a lowly nerd. In a culture whose tastes are more often set by former nerds than former jocks, that kills.
As a chief executive who makes a show of his executiveness (which makes for a convenient way to slam Joe Biden, a career senator who never ran anything until he became president), Sununu also embraces the opportunity to take shots at Washington. The commentariat tends to admire decisions like Sununu’s choice not to enter last year’s Senate race, especially as that choice infuriated professional GOP operatives who knew he could have won the seat for the party. “This whole town gives me the chills sometimes,” he told CBS this winter, adding, “I can explain to folks in Washington what a balanced budget actually means.”
Perhaps this tone bothers some denizens of the capital, many of whom have a granular understanding of the federal budget and how it differs from that of the nation’s 42nd-largest state. But the barbs are just as likely to please the Beltway’s masochistic streak. There’s nothing quite as Washington as publicly hating Washington. And if anyone should know, it’s Sununu. He may bleed granite, but he’s the son of a former White House chief of staff and a graduate of Northern Virginia’s legendarily selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, perhaps the DMV’s most prestigious public school. (He says he was furious at his parents for making him move away from New Hampshire.) His father also went on to host Crossfire. The man knows his Beltway political television.
Should Sununu have to suffer politically just because he has the sort of style and biography that flatters a certain type of Washington media agenda-setter? Of course not. And if he’s an optimist, he might even note that another perennial GOP-primary archetype — the wacky outsider with no political experience who soars in early polls by throwing politically inflammatory TV brickbats, a la Herman Cain in 2012 — was also assumed until recently to be forever doomed. Then Trump came along.
The bigger risk, maybe, is that being the favorite of the opinion elite makes you a less iconoclastic politician. You get invited on shows precisely because they know you’ll commit apostasy. You’re obliged to speak too much about Very Important Issues, which are disappointingly rare in public forums precisely because they tend not to move voters. You have a harder time getting quoted when there’s some big, lowbrow controversy afoot since that’s the one time rivals will agree to speak out — and variety demands that the others get coverage. The things that made you seem unusual become familiar. Media esteem is fleeting.
Luckily for him, Sununu has an out that some of the previous Washington heartthrobs lacked: an actual job — the sort of thing that makes for a very earnest-sounding talking point when the political questions start. “I’ve got a state to run,” he told “This Week” recently, when talk turned to his potential candidacy. “Unlike Congress, I don’t get vacation. It’s a 24/7 job, 365. Unlike Congress, I have to balance a budget in the next couple of months. Unlike Congress, I just have a lot of demands on me and I love that. It’s a hard job but, man, it is so fulfilling when you get stuff done.”
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Nashik: Nashik Police have registered a case against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, an official said on Monday.
Shinde faction officer-bearer Yogesh Beldar lodged a complaint at Panchavati police station here late Sunday night, alleging that during an interaction with a TV channel, Raut used derogatory words against CM Shinde and maligned his image, he said.
Based on the complaint, a case has been registered against Raut under Indian Penal Code Section 500 (defamation), the official said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during his visit to Pune on Saturday, said those who chose to “lick the soles” of people with opposite ideologies have found which side truth was on after the Election Commission declared the faction headed by CM Eknath Shinde as the real Shiv Sena and gave it the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol.
When asked about Shah’s remark, Rajya Sabha member Raut on Sunday said, “What is the present chief minister licking? Maharashtra doesn’t give importance to what Shah says.”
Raut in a tweet on Sunday also claimed that a “deal of Rs 2000 crore” has taken place so far to “purchase” the Shiv Sena party name and its ‘bow and arrow’ symbol, a charge dismissed by the Shinde faction and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
