Digvijaya Running Govt from Behind the Curtain, Claims Kamal

�� FREE PRESS �� OVERHEARD Shot to hide dishonour �� n Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) whose video Awith a woman went viral has reached an under- standing with her to hush up his ignominy. Immediate- ly after the incident, he was shifted from the important department he was heading then. The ACS, too, went on leave. For the ACS, the problem was that, the woman, �� whom he had been seen with, threatened to lodge an FIR against him. The ACS was trying to find out a way to get �� dent of Police Shailendra ture science research insti- handed over to the Gwalior rid of the dishonour. The ACS has reached a compro- �� Singh Chouhan said that tute". They attract the peo- police. Sharma's son Pra- mise with the woman following mediation by some peo- the accused identified as ple towards their website. full could not be arrested as ple. After that, the woman has decided to keep off from �� Manoj Sharma (52), wife The accused makes people he was not there at house taking action against him. Behind the lady, who was �� Varsha (48), daughter Sak- to invest money in Metal when police reached to ar- found with the ACS, there was another woman of ill re- shi (28) and son Prafull and Mineral companies by rest the accused. He is be- pute. She is associated with a political party for a long were booked for fraud with predicting a profit in their ing searched by the police. time and hatched a conspiracy to hem the ACS in. Some �� many people in Gwalior horoscope. She also made The Gwalior police have other people were also behind that scheme. �� and were on the run since people to invest lakhs of ru- been informed about the from 2011. pees in Sandalwood oil and arrest of the accused. The Proving loyalty Three members including Acting on a tip off police Kesar business. The ac- accused will be handed senior IAS officer is out to attest his loyalty to the two women of a family, who nabbed them from Dream cused collected money over to Gwalior police pos- Agovernment. To get an important position, he is were absconding in connec- City Colony on Sunday. from the people by suggest- sibly on Monday. working his socks off to please the higher-ups in the gov- tion with fraud of lakhs of They were staying here in ing them their own Police came to know that ernment. He wants to show that he has nothing to do rupees for last few years, the rented house for two scammed companies and the accused were staying in with the BJP leaders any more. Close as he has been to were arrested by the police months in order to evade made them deposit money the rented house without the RSS, he is making dossiers against the organisation. from their rented accom- arrest. in their bank account. informing police so the The Sahib has been given an important project. Never- modation in Lasudia area Police said that the ac- ASP Chouhan added that house owner will also be theless, while working on the project, he is making ways on Sunday. cused have developed a the main accused Manoj booked for not informing for action against the Sangh. As he is at home with law, Additional Superinten- website named "India fu- Sharma and others will be police about them. he may cause trouble to them. The way the officer has changed his tune with the change of government has startled many senior leaders of the RSS. The officer’s name has been proposed for posting to some important Rtd Rly staffer departments, but certain unknown reasons have driven Digvijaya running govt from behind the those positions further than his reach. The officer has killed by kin impressed a powerful minister who is trying to get him posted to a significant department. curtain, claims Kamal Nath minister over property Protest leave �� and former chief minister �� secretary-level IAS officer has gone on leave to vent �� Digvijaya Singh’s letter �� Ahis spleen at the government for his posting to a de- that he had written to all partment that is outside his choice. The department he In a statement which ministers had recently A 77-year-old man was al- has been posted to is considered important, but he does might not go down well gone viral on social media legedly killed by his rela- not want to work there. There are whispers in the corri- with the party organisa- platforms. Singh has writ- tives on Sunday after- dors of power that he was also pulling out all the stops tion, forest minister ten that he had earlier writ- noon over a property dis- to get out of the department. As his efforts fell through, Umang Singhar on Sun- ten letter to ministers for pute. Jahangirabad po- he took leave. There are speculations among officers in day said Digvijaya Singh transfers and some other lice said the deceased the department over the reasons for his going on leave. was running the govern- works. None of the minis- John James, a resident of The employees of the department have become unhappy ment from behind the cur- ters have responded to the Michal Ka Baada was a after the joining of another officer in place of the earli- tain and the fact is known including the Congress letter. He asked the minis- retired railway employ- er one. As this officer was previously posted to the de- to everybody including workers. Does he need to ters, through his letter, to ee. He had one of his legs partment, employees are acquainted with his style of Congress workers.The write letter to get his work inform him about status of amputated and lived functioning. This apart, the officer has the charge of an- minister has said on done,’ said Singhar re- his work done or not done. alone, Hos family lived other department, so it is likely that, he will soon be record what others of his sponding to media queries Digvijay Singh also in Katni. shifted from there. The department has hogged the lime- ilk hesitated to say till on letter that Digvijaya sought time from minis- SI RK Singh said on light, though for some wrong reasons. For this depart- now. had sent to ministers re- ters to know status of Sunday around 2 pm, the ment’s malfunctioning, the government, too, has faced ‘Digvijaya Singh is run- cently. Forest minister was works recommended by man had gone to under criticism. Ergo, the squabbling among officials may ning the government from visiting his constituency him. Forest minister Sing- construction house cause further harm to the department. behind the curtain and on Sunday. har had responded in the where the three accused everybody knows this fact Senior Congress leader same context. also reached. The ac- Fair weather friend cused, Peter, James and he links of an IAS officer with some powerful Con- Stanley, were his Tgress leaders have startled many a bureaucrat in the nephew. state. The officer was close to the former chief minister They were involved in before the change of government. When the new gov- All efforts to increase admissions various crimes in the ernment came to power, it was thought that the officer past. The between them would lose his importance. After the officer was shifted dispute broke out over from an important position, it was believed that, he in state colleges turn futile property and the trio would never return to the mainstream of administra- stabbed him and fled tion. Contrary to that, immediately after his shifting, the Now in open round of admissions, appli- from the spot leaving the officer was posted to an important department. Now, he �� cants can apply for admission from 3-12 elderly man in a pool of is heading a more important department than the one he �� September in any college private or gov- blood. On being alerted, was previously doing. Nobody has understood the rea- ernment. The colleges can now give ad- a team of police then son behind his posting to such an important depart- �� missions and verify the documents by rushed the man to hospi- ment. There are whispers that the officer has been close �� themselves. Applicants can choose col- tal where he was de- to a powerful Congress leader who is now backing him. lege of their choice and apply directly. clared brought dead. Ac- Besides that, the links, which he has developed with The higher education department that This year total admissions have reached cused have been booked powerful people during his tenure as head of different decided to increase seats in colleges and 4.40 lakh. Total number of admissions in and hunt is on to nab departments, have become useful for him. The officer universities by 10% owing to reservation Undergraduate courses is 3.53 lakh while them. has been shifted to an area from where comes a power- for economically weaker sections stu- in Postgraduate courses it was 82,298. ful Congress leader. For getting his posting there, the of- dents has been unable to fill its existing Last year higher education department PANCHANG 2.9.2019 ficer has wooed two factions of the Congress. But it may seats. had registered total 5.04 lakh admissions (DAKSHINAYAN) cause trouble to him in coming days. After conducting exercise for three including 4.11 lakh admissions in under- months and several rounds of online ad- graduate courses and 90,000 admissions �� Lure of lucre missions large number of seats still re- in postgraduate courses. Experts believe �� he story of lucre, made from illegal mining and main vacant in colleges and universities. that the choice of students has shifted �� Tshared between a collector and an SP, has gone to The higher education department has from traditional courses to vocational �� town. The SP would previously purloin the money and now opened the admissions and has ex- and technical courses, therefore the drop �� only give a morsel of it to the collector. When the collec- tended date to fill the remaining seats. in number of admissions. �� tor had begun to throw a spanner in the work of the SP �� both of them began to share the lucre with each other. � �

About the SP it is said that he makes Rs 5 crore every � � month from illegal mining. The collector also gets his � �� Work of artisans from 14 states on display at expo �� share. The SP recently got a four-km road repaired � through a town inspector for smooth movements of the Jamdanis, Jamawars �� vehicles carrying illegally mined sand in the rainy sea- and Sambalpuris. � �� son. Besides that, he keeps leaders of all political parties �� The Cotton and Silk �� in good humour. He has accommodated the leaders of handloom products �� the party that ruled the state earlier. Now, he has asked on display have a �� the sand mafia to gratify the powerful people every �� range between Rs.500 month. The SP knows how to shut one’s mouth. and Rs. 5 lakh at the �� upper end for exclu- �� 7 DAY 500/- Spooky room �� sive hand crafted sa- 15 DAY 1000/- ew officers can work from a room in the new build- rees. RUNNING CLASSIFIED 30 DAY 1500/- ing at Mantralaya. During the past eight months, Artisans from 14 handloom The exhibition cum 50/- SQ.CM. B/W. F 75/- SQ.CM. DISPLAY CLASSIFIED nameplates of at least six officers have been put on its weaving states have dis- which includes gorgeous sale is open from 28 August (MINIMUM SIZE 1X3) door. Within a few days of their shifting to the room, played more than 1,50,000 Uppadas, Banaras silks, to 2 September 2019 from FREE PRESS CALL- 9425082195 they had to go to other departments. Afterwards, those variety of their works in Gadwals, Dharmavaram, 11.00 am to 9:00 pm. who occupied the room were retired. An Additional an exhibition-cum-sale on Chief Secretary (ACS) shifted to the room was trans- theme, "Festival Collec- ferred and began to sit in another room. On finding it tion" at Ravishankar Com- vacant, when a secretary-level officer began to work munity Hall, Bittan Mar- from there, other officers were green with envy. He was ket in the city. then asked to vacate the room. The officer, who got the These states are - Assam, room allotted to his name after that, was seen with a Rajasthan, Andhra woman in a video that went viral. He, too, was trans- Pradesh, Karnataka, Bi- ferred. Now, the room has been allotted to another offi- har, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, cer. People in the corridors of power, however, think Gujarat, Jammu and Kash- that, this officer, too, may soon be shifted. The officer, mir, West Bengal among sitting in the room, also thinks that, he may be shifted others. Over 60 designers from the department he is working for. and weavers are part of �� this year’s exhibition Two minors rescued from ladoo making unit �� team also raided his anoth- ees saw FDA team, they �� er unit running in Mangal- downed the shutter and wara area. One quintal women workers were re- A day ahead Ganesh Utsav, Laddoos, which were pre- portedly told to go ahead a team of Food and Drugs pared in the factory with- and stall the team’s move- Administration (FDA) res- out license, were seized. In ment. FDA team had to cued two minor children Mangalwara, a shop–cum- take local police help to get engaged in making laddoos factory owned by a political into the factory. FDA team at a factory in the state cap- leader Satish Gupta was collected samples of sweets ital on Sunday. Women staff also sealed. Last year also and the edible colour used of the factories were samples were collected in them. pushed ahead to take on the from the same factory. Besides, the team also col- team during the raid. On During raid at laddo fac- lected samples of laddoos the eve of the festival, the tory at Shiv Nagar in from BHEL areas. SI OP Ya- FDA launched a major Karond, the team found dav, who was with the team crackdown on sweet manu- two minors working in the during raid at Mangal- facturing units all across unit. The factory was run wara,, said the food safety the city. A factory owned by without any license, be- officers raided sweet Ravi Jain was sealed in sides, domestic LPGs cylin- godown located at Sidhe- Karond and samples were ders were used at the unit. hathwali Gali and collected collected for testing. The When the factory employ- samples of ladoos. MP cop braves 11 transfers in 8 months, moves HC BHOPAL: Fed up with frequent transfers, a Madhya police station in Betul. In his plea, Lata has made the Pradesh policeman has moved the Jabalpur High Court Secretary (Home), the Director General of Police (DGP) and against repeated relocations. Sunil Lata has been the Betul Superintendent of Police (SP) party to the case 7 transferred 11 times in 8 months, creating a record of and said he has been facing a lot of difficulty due to NATIONTHE FREE PRESSJOURNAL sorts. Lata is currently posted as in-charge of the Sarni frequent transfers. —Agencies MUMBAI | MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 New Telangana Guv: A CONTINUED FROM PG1 NRC: People now want WHAT SLOWDOWN? Congressman's daughter Concerns of a downswing have racked up again as a severe slowdown in manufacturing activity has pulled GDP growth rate in first quarter (Q1) who rose in BJP down to 5 per cent, marking the fourth successive quarter of decline in growth on the trot. From 8 per cent during Q1 of 2018-19 to 5 per cent in DRAVIDA THAMBI / Chennai govt action on 'excluded' this quarter, the GDP has fallen by three per cent in barely a year. Tamil Nadu BJP president However, in all fairness, the Finance Minister tried to allay misgivings Tamilisai Soundararajan, who on about possible job losses following the recent mega merger of banks, saying it would not lead to any. ‘‘Absolutely, ill informed. I want to assure AGENCIES eigners' Tribunals, and subse- and tiring process. It is not 100 Sunday was appointed the every union in every one of these banks to please recall what I have said Guwahati quently the higher courts, to es- per cent correct, yet we have Governor of Telangana, is a rare last Friday. When we spoke about amalgamation of banks I have very tablish their Indian citizenship. come closer to a number. It is not example of a leader who made it clearly underlined the fact that there shall not be one employee removed. A day after publication of the Na- The final NRC has included a good to complain about such a to the top through hard work Not at all", she told reporters. tional Register of Citizens (NRC), total of 3,11,21,004 persons, who process," said noted intellectual without depending on the Asked what she would say to people who had lost their jobs or were people in Assam came out on have been found eligible on the Hiren Gohain. political stature of family members. Born to staunch likely to lose theirs, Sitharaman said, "I can only say we are responding to Sunday with different opinions basis of their documents. Gohain also appealed everyone nationalist and Congressman Kumari Ananthan, who the industry requirements. Across the board there is no one particular regarding the historical docu- "We are not happy over the fig- to consider the cases of excluded has served the national party since the days of answer that I can give, saying this is the magic wand. Sectorally, what ment, which the state has re- ure of illegal foreigners in As- people with humanity. Jawaharlal Nehru, Tamilisai charted her own course they want, we are responding," she said. Regarding the expected timeline alised 34 years after the signing of sam. There are more who have "There is no question of granti- in politics joining the BJP, whose ideology is poles for relief in the economy, the Finance Minister said the measures the Assam Accord. made it to the NRC. However, ng citizenship to these people apart from that of the Congress. A qualified doctor, announced in the July budget were showing results on ground. While some people wanted the Assam Cong chief Ripun Bora & now since we have the statistics who have failed to prove their cit- she had often said that the BJP's Hindutva ideology government at the state and the former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi through a legal process, the gov- izenship but we have sympathy had drawn her to the party, which to this day has Centre to complete the process addressing a press conference ernment must soon end the for- for them. The government must little base in the Dravidian state of Tamil Nadu. “For All set for Vighnaharta for identification of the illegal regarding final NRC list PIC/PTI malities to confirm their identity consider their case with sympa- the party, I had to leave my father but I did not give donated by devotees," a proud GSBSM Trustee R.G. Bhat told foreigners as soon as possible and take steps to deport them," thy and humanity and must find up on my principles,” Tamilisai told journalists on IANS. Millions of Konkan employees in cities like Mumbai, Thane, and arrange for their deporta- tal of 19,06,657 people from the said Rajen Baruah, a senior citi- out a solution for them," he said. Sunday soon after news of the gubernatorial Pune and other places have left in droves for their small villages tion, others called for humane document, yet these people zen. Educationist Udayaditya Bhar- assignment given to her. Joining the BJP as an dotting the coastal districts, resulting in massive snarls on the considering of the cases of ex- would neither be detained nor "The government is trying to do ali also welcomed the NRC and ordinary cadre, she wove her way up the ladder only route -- the Mumbai-Goa Highway. cluded persons. termed as foreigners. The exclud- politics over the NRC. However, said that there may have been working meticulously putting in long hours of hard More than a million big, medium and small idols of Lord Ganesha Although the final NRC pub- ed people have been given 120 the NRC is above party politics. some problems as it was a mas- work. Initially, she was given a post in the party's shall adorn private homes of commoners, celebrities, lished on August 31 excluded a to- days time to approach the For- We have got the NRC after a long sive exercise. state medical wing. industrialists, politicians, housing complexes, waadis/waadas, private and public companies, besides the gigantic ones at public marquees organized by the Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandals �� across the state. �� It is lamented that that there is a lack of sponsorships. Due to the �� Probe on for church �� current slowdown, growing unemployment, etc, there are few �� ads, banners or cash offerings from devotees, says BrihanMumbai �� Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Samanvay Samiti (BSGSS) President �� selling 'defence' land �� Naresh Dahibhavkar. �� Also, expenses have shot up with GST applicable from statue-to- �� for B’luru metro marquee stages; overall inflation has hit all associations hard and �� forced the big ones to dip into their Reserve Fund to make ends �� AGENCIES meet. Special prayers will be performed at various dedicated �� Bengaluru Ganesha temples, including the Siddhi Vinayak Temple, Ganesh �� Temples in Goregaon and Borivali and the 'Ashthavinayak �� Investigation is underway into the alleged sale Temples' in the state. �� of 'defence' land by the Church of South India There are nearly 12,000 big-ticket Ganeshotsav associations with �� (CSI) for the Bengaluru metro project and col- budgets of several crores of rupees -- or equivalent to that of �� lecting Rs 60 crore compensation," a police offi- small civic bodies, nearly 195,000 medium-scales with budgets

�� cial said on Sunday. ranging from Rs 500,000 to Rs 5 million and lakhs of individual �� "We are inquiring into the Defence Ministry's households and other private organisers with small budgets of a �� complaint that the CSI had illegally sold a por- few thousand rupees, said Dahibhavkar. tion of its land, leased to it over a century ago, The pillars of the festival comprising flowers, sweets, fruits, dry- �� for the metro project and collected Rs 60 crore fruits, lights and decorations have also become very expensive �� compensation from its operator (BMRCL)," and mandals are cutting corners to save and manage within Bengaluru Deputy Commissioner of Police limited budgets this year. (Central) Chetan Singh Rathore told IANS. Besides commoners, Ganeshotsav also attracts huge attention of The Cubbon Park police station on August 20 celebrities, like Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar, Shah Rukh registered an FIR against the CSI for allegedly Khan, Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Nana 'cheating' the defence ministry by selling 7,426 Patekar, the Rishi Kapoor clan, Shilpa Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, the square metres of its land located in the All Anil Kapoor clan, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Kahnna, Sanjay Dutt, Saints Church complex to the state-run Ben- Bappi Lahiri, Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia, Shreyas Talpade, etc. galuru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) All major politicians led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the without its knowledge and consent. families of Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, Narayan Rane, "We have asked both the parties to submit us Sharad Pawar clan, Ashok Chavan, Prithviraj Chavan, the Munde all documents pertaining to the prime land to clan, Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil clan, Sanjay Nirupam, ministers ascertain its rightful owner, as they (records) and elected representatives organise Ganeshotsav at their homes date back to 1860s when the city was under the which are thrown open for all during the 10-day festivities. British rule and the Mysuru Wodeyars were the Immersions of Ganesha idols will be taken up in phases, starting owners of public lands then," said Rathore. from September 3 and culminating in the grand finale on Though the BMRCL is building an under- September 12. ground station beneath the land claimed by the The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation has made two parties for its second phase of the metro special arrangements for domestic and foreign tourists with project on the north-south (Nagawara-Got- special bus ferries to important venues, walking trips, exclusive tigere) route, the operator plans to use it for viewing galleries during immersion ceremonies and other parking and other allied activities. activities for the next 10 days.

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But Bhujbal skipped this programme, which in turn ignited the buzz about his joining the H$m‘mMo ñdê$n Bgmam a³H$‘ {Z{dXm ’$m°‘© ’$s Shiv Sena. godm H$amgh JNU wants to vet Romila Thapar’s CV A§~aZmW ZJan[afXoMo nyd© {d^mJmVrb ñQ>oeZ OdiMo ñQ>oQ> ~±H$ g‘moarb é. 1,00,000/- é. 11,000/- critic of the Modi government and its policies; that should put in dmhZVi ¶oWo nmH$sªJ H$aÊ¶mV ¶oUmè¶m dmhZmnmoQ>r ewëH$ dgwbr H$m‘r perspective the university administration’s decision to ask her to R>oH$m XoÊ¶m~m~V. submit her CV for further consideration. Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Thapar was among the A§~aZmW ZJan[afXoMo npíM‘ {d^mJmVrb ñQ>oeZ OdiMo dmhZVi ¶oWo é. 1,00,000/- é. 11,000/- many eminent personalities who had appealed to the Indian voters nmH$sªJ H$aÊ¶mV ¶oUmè¶m dmhZmnmoQ>r ewëH$ dgwbr H$m‘r R>oH$m to cast their votes in favour of a diverse and equal India and help XoÊ¶m~m~V. "eliminate politics of hate". In an open letter published on the Indian Cultural Forum in April 2019, several writers, including the late Girish Karnad, Arundhati 1) H§$ÌmQ>XmamZo Bgmam a³H$‘ Am°Z bmB©Z [a{gßQ> {gñQ>r‘Ûmao ^aUm H$amdr. Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Nayantara Sahgal and Romila Thapar, had said hate politics was being used to divide the country, create fear and 2) {Z{dXm XñVEodO Am°Z bmB©Z gmXa H$amd¶mMm Agë¶mZo nmoñQ> qH$dm Hw$[a¶aÛmao {Z{dXm H$mJXnÌo {dnarV dm increasingly exclude more number of people from living as "full- ñdrH$maÊ¶mV ¶oUma ZmhrV. fledged citizens". 3)àmá {Z{dXoVrb EH$ AWdm gd© {Z{dXm H$moUVohr H$maU Z XoVm ‘§Oya AWdm Zm‘§Oya H$aÊ¶mMm h³H$ ZJan[afXoZo amIyZ R>odbm Amho. MSRTC Bus with devotees catches fire ghr/- Millions of Konkan residents of Mumbai, Thane, Pune and other places have left in droves for their small villages dotting the {R>H$mU: A§~aZmW ‘w»¶m{YH$mar, coastal districts, resulting in massive snarls on the only route. The {XZm§H$: 3/08/2019 A§~aZmW ZJan[afX, A§~aZmW incident added to their discomfort with many hoping against hope that they will reach their native place in time for Ganesh Chaturthi.