EasternChroniWINDOW TO THE EAST cle WEATHERWATCH CHINA TO CONTINUE providing RBI RESTRICTION: T20 WORLD CUP: INDIA & Max 34°c vaccine aid to Bangladesh: Mastercard’s loss may well be Pakistan in same group Min 28°c Wang Yi P 6 Visas’ gain P 9 P 10 Humidity 71% VOL II, ISSUE 233 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SILCHAR GUWAHATI KOLKATA PAGES: 10 epaper at: www.easternchronicle.net PRICE `5 SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021 SPOTLIGHT Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui dies Mukul’s disqualification: Bengal ruled at whims of in Afghanistan NEW DELHI: Pulitzer Prize-win- an individual, claims BJP ning Reuters Chief Photogra- pher Danish Siddiqui has AGENCIES been killed in clashes that BJP may move court ADDRESSING A PRESS CONFERENCE HERE FRIDAY, ensued in Kandahar's Spin NEW DELHI: The BJP Friday BJP SPOKESPERSON GAURAV BHATIA LAUNCHED A Boldak district, TOLO News AGENCIES to move court. ing committees resigned. On cited an NHRC report on › reported on Friday, quot- “No law of the land is fol- Friday, the Speaker selected alleged post-poll violence in SCATHING ATTACK ON THE TMC AND BANERJEE, SAYING ing sources. The 40-year-old KOLKATA: Assembly Speaker lowed in Bengal. There the TMC MLAs for these posts. West Bengal to attack Chief THE NHRC RECEIVED 1,979 COMPLAINTS OF POST- journalist was based in | Biman Banerjee on Friday audio and video evidence, On June 18, Adhikari sub- Minister Mamata Banerjee Mumbai. Page 6 held the first hearing on the Twitter posts as well as state- mitted a petition to the Speaker, and her Trinamool Congress, POLL VIOLENCE. HE CLAIMED 15,000 PEOPLE WERE Bharatiya Janata Party’s ments made by people which saying Roy, the legislator from alleging the state is ruled not TORTURED IN SUCH INCIDENTS AND AS MANY AS 8,000 Kamrup Metro (BJP’s) demand for disquali- prove that anti-defection law is Kishnanagar North constitu- as per the Constitution but at PEOPLE COMMITTED VIOLENCE AND MISCONDUCT, BUT fication of Mukul Roy as leg- applicable against Roy. Despite ency in Nadia district, should the whims of an individual. NO ACTION WAS TAKEN. makes hand-stamp islator under anti-defection that, he was made chairman of be disqualified under anti-de- In its report submitted to the law. the public accounts committee fection law. Calcutta High Court on July mandatory BJP leader (PAC). The Speaker is not fol- Only the Speaker can take 13, the National Human Rights spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia "The way violence took place SuvenduAdhikari, who is the lowing established laws. We are the decision on disqualifying Commission said the situation launched a scathing attack on in West Bengal after May 2 (the GUWAHATI: Despite all efforts Leader of the Opposition in planning to move court,” said a member. The Constitution prevailing in West Bengal is the TMC and Banerjee, saying result day) and innocent civil- from the Kamrup metro ad- the Assembly, deposed for the Adhikari. does not specify any time frame a manifestation of "law of the the NHRC received 1,979 com- ians were killed and women ministration, the COVID sit- hearing which lasted for around Roy, who joined the BJP Mukul Roy. for the process which involves ruler" and not "rule of law", in plaints of post-poll violence. molested, it seems that West uation in the district hasn’t five minutes. The next hearing in 2017 and became the par- Roy is still a BJP legislator. inquiry, hearings and setting a damning indictment of the He claimed 15,000 people Bengal today is not ruled as been normalized yet. is set for July 30. ty’s national vice-president, He was made chairman of the up of a committee. Banerjee government, and rec- were tortured in such inci- per the Constitution but at Thus, in order to break the Meanwhile, after talking to returned to the Trinamool PAC of the Bengal Assembly on The Speaker did not speak ommended CBI investigation dents and as many as 8,000 the whims of an individual. chain of infection, the district the Speaker and submitting a Congress (TMC) along with his July 9 before the budget session to the media on this issue. in cases of rape and murder. people committed violence and Banerjee closed her eyes and administration has come up 68-page document to back his son Subhranshu on June 11 this came to an end. In protest, six Parliamentary affairs minister Addressing a press con- misconduct, but no action was gave free hand to TMC goons,” with some special measures demand, Adhikari told the year but did not officially resign BJP MLAs who were made Partha Chatterjee also refused ference here Friday, BJP taken. Bhatia alleged. Pg 5 for the next 10 days. media that the BJP is planning from the BJP. chairpersons of other stand- to comment on the hearing. The Kamrup Metro admin- istration has decided that Killer elephant handed Youth held with from now onwards, all people RELIGIOUS BODIES SAY ORDER UNACCEPTABLE TMC for women's reservation undergoing RT-PCR tests will over to Kaziranga country-made pistol be stamped... Pg 5 J&K govt bans slaughter National Park bill in Monsoon session in Dhubri Remote Arunachal GOLAGHAT: A female elephant AGENCIES "Trinamool Congress demands GUWAHATI: The Central Reserve was handed over to the au- that the Bill be brought in the Police Force (CRPF) troops people impose thorities of Kaziranga Na- NEW DELHI: Trinamool Con- Monsoon Session. There are 19 have nabbed a 45-year-old self-lockdown of bovine animals on Eid tional Park on Thursday after gress on Friday demanded sittings during this session and youth with two country-made the animal allegedly killed a that the Narendra Modi gov- we don't want a delay," he told pistols in Western Assam’s ITANAGAR: The people of a re- AGENCIES J&K Animal, Sheep 14-year-old boy in Bokakhat of ernment should bring the reporters. Dhubri district. mote administrative circle Husbandry and Fisheries Assam‘s Golaghat district, the Women's Reservation Bill in Even without any quota, The man has been identified in Arunachal Pradesh have SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kash- Department issued an order police said. the upcoming Monsoon Ses- he said, Trinamool Congress as Mubarak Hussain, a resident decided to impose 'self-lock- mir government’s move to calling for a ban on slaughter Police registered a case under sion of Parliament and get it has 41% among the Lok Sabha of the Khudimari part II village down' in the area for a week ban slaughter of cows, calves of cows, calves and camels on Section 304A of the IPC (causing passed. MPs are women while the corre- under Gauripurpolice station in in view of the spurt in COV- and camels on the occasion the occasion of forthcoming Eid- death by negligence) and gave Rajya Sabha floor leader sponding figure in Rajya Sabha Dhubri district. ID-19 cases, an official said of forthcoming Eid-ul-Adha ul-Adha. the jumbo along with her eight- Derek O'Brien said that the BJP is 36%. Besides the two country-made on Friday. is likely to snowball into ma- The Director Planning, J&K month-old calf to the KNP for safe in its 2014 and 2019 manifesto had In the upcoming session, pistols, some sharp weapons The administration did jor controversy as Muslim Animal, Sheep Husbandry custody, they said. promised to bring the Bill if it he said, his party would raise were also found on him. not issue any order but the religious organizations have G L Sharma through a letter Representational image. The female elephant, comes to power. mismanagement of Covid-19 Acting on specific informa- people of Yomcha circle in started opposing the order say- addressed to divisional commis- regions, IGPs of both the regions ‘Dulumoni’, allegedly trampled However, he said, the BJP has handling, faltering economy, tion, the Quick Action Team of West Siang district them- ing it is not acceptable to them. sioners of Jammu and Kashmir to stop illegal killing... Pg 5 Bitu Gaud to death... Pg 5 not moved an inch on these bills. inflation and fuel price. Pg 5 CRPF along... Pg 5 selves decided to observe lockdown from Friday to July 22, the District Information HC to hear Bangaon Dakshin and Public Relation Officer Shatrughan Sinha likely NHRC terming TMC leaders (DIPRO), Gijum Tali, said. The decision was made dur- TMC candidate's plea ing a meeting on Thursday in to join Trinamool which local people and govern- as 'goons' in report stirs row AGENCIES petition, this Court is of the view ment officers... Pg 5 AGENCIES that the instant election petition AGENCIES In the annexure ‘K' attached Banerjee has already ques- KOLKATA: The Calcutta High ought to be heard at the outset KOLKATA: After Yashwant with the original report sub- tioned the integrity and honesty Court said on Friday that it on the issue of maintainability. Interview for upper Sinha another heavyweight KOLKATA: In its report on post- mitted before the HC, the of the commission, alleging that will hear an election petition Therefore, the following pre- national leader, Shatrughan poll violence in the state sub- NHRC has placed 102 persons the report has been deliberately by the BangaonDakshinTri- liminary issue is framed: Is the primary schools Sinha, seems likely to cross mitted to the Calcutta High across 16 broad regions of West leaked to the media to embarrass namool Congress candidate, instant election petition main- over to the Trinamool Con- Court on Wednesday, the Na- Bengal, including state minis- the Trinamool Congress. challenging the victory of BJP tainable in law?'' the court said.