Mamata Should Be Face of United Opposition, Says Hardik Patel
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millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 4, ISSUE 40 | Saturday, 10 February 2018 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 10,454.95 (-121.90) qSENSEX 34,005.76 (-407.40) nDOW JONES 23,860.46 (0.00) qNASDAQ 6,777.16 (-274.83) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.40 (-0.14) pRUPEE/EURO 78.91 (+0.08) pGOLD/10GM 31,170 (+220.00) pSILVER/K 39,230 (+330.00) FINANCE DEPT TO KERALA TOPS INDIA CAN PLAY A ROLE ‘HURT BY RUMOURS, HOLD MEET TO TAKE NITI’S HEALTH IN MIDDLE EAST PEACE NOTHING OFFENSIVE STOCK OF BALANCE INDEX, UP WORST PROCESS: PALESTINE IN MANIKARNIKA’ FUNDS PG3 PERFORMER PG6 PREZ ABBAS PG11 PG16 PATIDAR LEADER MEETS CHIEF MINISTER Teacher held for sexually Mamata should be face of united assaulting Class II girl OUR CORRESPONDENT dent and no special secu- rity was arranged for the KOLKATA: Police have students. “Why should Opposition, says Hardik Patel arrested a teacher of South there be a male teacher in Kolkata’s Carmel Primary a school for girls,” a parent OUR CORRESPONDENT School on Friday for alleg- questioned. edly sexually abusing a “We have repeatedly KOLKATA: Patidar community Class II student. urged the school authori- leader Hardik Patel met Chief The accused dance ties to have female atten- Minister Mamata Banerjee on Fri- teacher, Soumen Rana, dants and CCTVs to be day at Nabanna, the state Secretar- was arrested by Tolly- placed at strategic loca- iat and after the hour-long meeting gunge police station tions. But they have said in the 2019 Lok Sabha elec- and was suspended by turned a deaf ear,” Mitali tion there is a need of a united the school authorities. The incident Roy, a guardian added. opposition force. brought back memories of sexual When the police tried to bring out “The biggest opposition force assault of a four-year-old girl at GD the accused from inside the school and in the country is Congress and Birla School in Ranikuthi in Decem- take him to the police station, the agi- Trinamool Congress. Mamata ber 2017. tating guardians were embroiled in a Banerjee, with her track record of State Education minister Partha scuffle with the cops as some of them struggle and political experience, Chatterjee condemned the incident tried to stop the accused from being should be the face of the united and said it is not proper to have male taken out of the school campus. The opposition,” Patel told media teachers in girls’ schools. “Our depart- Officer-in-Charge and the additional persons. ment has issued a series of guidelines to Officer-in-Charge of Tollygunge police Calling her ‘Lady Gandhi,’ he private schools and if we find that these station also sustained injuries during said he would be coming to Ben- are violated, we will have to interfere,” the scuffle. The police were allegedly gal in 2019 ahead of the Lok Sabha he clarified. hit with helmets. polls. “Kurmis in Bengal have the According to the allegations of the The sleuths are also not ruling out similar same class status that Patels victim’s parents, the dance teacher has the presence of outsiders who had have in Gujarat. Mamata had writ- been indulging in this act for more than incited the agitating parents. “We are ten to the Centre for giving the a month, but the incident came to light scanning the CCTV footage outside the Kurmis a Scheduled Tribe status PIC/MPOST on Thursday evening when the minor school to find out who was responsible as against the latest OBC status,” narrated the matter to her mother. for the attack on the cops when the lat- he said. should lead from the front to usher discuss politics. She gave me the ticular section is busy spreading all odds. According to reports, the accused ter was trying to provide a safe passage Banerjee has assured all sup- in “Achhe Bharat” for the people of proposal to join her party when- rumours to defame the state. “But I Banerjee said after the meeting: teacher had also threatened the girl for the students stuck inside the school port to Patel in his fight and urged this country.” ever I feel like stepping into poli- have found nothing like that when “He is like my younger brother. He with dire consequences if she informed because of the agitation,” a senior police him to join politics after address- Patel further added: “I am not tics. She added that the door of her I visited the place. The people here is very politically sensitive. He is anyone else about it, even saying that he officer said. The principal of the school ing him as her “younger brother”. a political person… I organise party will always remain open for are very humble.” fighting for the people of Gujarat. I would bury her in the school grounds refused to comment and was escorted Patel further added: “If anyone movements for the rights of peo- me and I can also take it to Guja- Lauding the development of wish him all the best for future and if she opened her mouth. out of the school premises by the cops. asks my personal opinion, then ple. Mamata Didi has also under- rat. In reply, I said I will take her the state carried out under the have requested him to join politics Guardians started agitating in front The sleuths have slapped Section 10 I should say that she has strug- taken several movements and has suggestions when I decide to join leadership of the Chief Minis- as only political persons can take of the school since Friday morning of the Protection of Children from Sex- gled and fought all her life for the given tough fights. I have come politics.” ter, Patel invited her to Gujarat policy decisions. It will be a right alleging that the authorities did not ual Offences Act (POCSO Act) against rights of common people. So she to take her blessings and not to He further stated that a par- to inspire women to fight against choice if he joins politics.” take any lesson from the GD Birla inci- the accused. RAHUL QUESTIONS JAITLEY STONE-PELTING IN J&K BJP not an election- DeMo depositors, all winning machine Govt continues to face companies should NHRC takes note of complaint SACHIN PILOT file ITRs by Mar 31: I-T by Army officers’ children Cong heat on Rafale NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department on Friday urged those who deposited “large In today’s MPOST BUREAU amounts of cash” post demonetisation and MPOST BUREAU all companies to file their returns by March paper NEW DELHI: Stepping up its offen- 31, failing which they may face penalty and NEW DELHI: The NHRC sive on the Rafale deal, the Congress prosecution. has taken cognisance of a ... on Friday posed a set of questions to It also cautioned eligible trusts, political complaint filed by three CITY the government, asking it to disclose parties and associations to file their income children of Army offi- CM INFURIATED OVER DELAYED FLIGHT 3 the “purchase price” of each fighter tax returns by this final deadline and “come cers alleging a violation of aircraft and details of how the agree- c l e a n”. human rights of the force’s NATION ment was reached. The department, in public advertise- personnel in recent inci- Congress communications in- ments issued in leading dailies, said it was dents of stone-pelting in OPPOSITION MPs DEMAND SIT PROBE 5 charge Randeep Surjewala also the final call for the filing of belated or Jammu and Kashmir. accused the government of “dou- revised ITRs for assessment years 2016-17 In a statement on Fri- EDIT blespeak” and “sacrificing” national and 2017 -18. It underlined that there was day, the National Human INDIA’S INSULAR DILEMMA 8 interests. claim that the erstwhile Congress-led still time for these categories of taxpayers Rights Commission tual report from the Min- mission to the “innumer- He cited instances during the UPA dispensation had not revealed and that they should avoid last minute rush (NHRC) said the com- istry of Defence, through able and frequent instances INTERNATIONAL previous UPA government when the price of defence purchases. and file the ITRs well before the deadline. plainants have also sought its secretary, to know the of violation of human details of every defence deal were As the government continues to “If you have deposited large amounts of its “intervention for an present status of the situa- rights of the Army person- HUMAN EGGS GROWN IN LAB 11 made public and placed before hedge demands to disclose details cash in your bank account/made high-value appropriate enquiry into tion and steps taken by the nel, particularly in Jammu BUSINESS Parliament. of the Rafale deal, Rahul summed transactions, please consider the same while the incident of stone- Union government on the and Kashmir”, the state- “As the Modi government stum- up the entire business by using the filling your ITRs. pelting and assault by an points raised by the com- ment said. 53K CYBER SECURITY INCIDENTS 12 bles and fumbles, hides and conceals, hashtag “daal me Kuch kaala hai “Non-filing or incorrect filing of return unruly and disruptive plainants regarding alleged Quoting news reports, indulges in doublespeak, sacrifices (there is something fishy going on).” of income may result in penalty and pros- mob on Army person- humiliation and viola- the complaint said that SPORT national interest and refuses to “Dear Mr Jaitlie, you said the ecution,” the public advisory said.