Suvendhu Adhikary Govt brings a new legislation to arrest and detain anyone for 12 months without any trial. Surprisingly the term “anti-social activities” which is not defined and anyone arrested cannot even hire his own lawyer.
Will this act stand Judicial Scrutiny ?
In Kolkata, met prominent journalist Mr. R. Rajagopal, who has been subjected to a terrible ordeal due to the blatantly unconstitutional SIR process - which has led to a denial of his passport renewal.
Mr. Rajagopal’s name has been in the electoral rolls of Kolkata since 2010, but since 2002 was taken as the base year and an inconsequential error in his 10th marksheet, his name was excluded in this SIR.
While the appeal to his exclusion is pending, the passport authorities have rejected his passport renewal - despite him holding a passport since 2005, renewing it in 2015.
The police called him to the police station and demanded seeing his voter ID card, and then withheld his passport renewal without conducting any home visit.
On the one hand, BJP-supported candidates like Mr. Parimal Nathwani get away with glaring errors in their election affidavits, but ordinary citizens like Mr. Rajagopal are punished for minor errors in their 10th marksheets.
This is pure vendetta politics, and he is being targeted because he is a true journalist who writes without fear. They are setting a dangerous precedent - where first they exclude you from the electoral rolls using SIR, and then snatch away your citizenship by denying you important documents one by one.
The poor PDS beneficiaries are also being meted out with similar injustice - where deletion from electoral rolls is leading to denial of ration benefits by the WB State Government.
Mr. Rajapopal is an honest Indian citizen, and denying him his passport renewal is against the Constitution of India.
How scary is it that the cabbie who kidnapped, then raped and killed a 10 year old child sleeping next to her parents had a criminal record and was ferrying unsuspecting passengers! Don’t these aggregators do background checks?
But then 46% of our elected MPs have criminal cases against them and are called netas!
The government making Bollywood stars say how much they, their dog, grandkids admire Modi Jee and light agarbattis in front of his photu is proof how popular our dear leader is.
The ministry of external affairs says that a passport is a document travel not the proof of citizen ship . Really ??? . So are they providing this travel document to some people with out being totally convinced that this person is an Indian citizen ?? . It is absurd .
Super story by @mazoomdaar at @IndianExpress that only confirms another of the worst kept secrets of Indian politics. Across India, those in power are making windfall profits in private real estate deals by simply getting a change effected in land use. Only difference: no punitive action if it’s a ‘DOUBLE ENGINE’ state! 🙏
@abhijeet_dipke@narendramodi 1 crore? Bro MP's r being bought for 50 cr, that too for doing nothing. Characterless people can be traded as slaves with money, people with hope and aspirations need respect and encouragement.