Four days after a revised order by the Punjab DGP on jail drugs recovery scandal, the Ferozepur police today booked former Deputy Inspectors General of Police (Prisons) Lakhminder Singh Jakhar and Sukhdev Singh Saggu.
Centre spars with Mamata in bid to turn Bengal babus into stool pigeons
Published : Dec 23, 2020, 7:02 am IST
Updated : Dec 23, 2020, 7:02 am IST
Apparently, there is little the Centre can do against civil service officers who are posted under the state government
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The battle for the West Bengal Assembly elections looms ahead but skirmishes have already started. After the attack on BJP president J.P. Nadda’s convoy in the state, the Centre retaliated against the Trinamul government by recalling three IPS officers from the state on Central deputation. Further, to perhaps underline the “message”, the ministry of home affairs summoned state chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay and director general of police Virendra to Delhi to explain the law and order situation in Bengal.
Stool pigeons in a skirmish
The battle for the West Bengal assembly elections looms ahead but skirmishes have already started. After the attack on BJP president JP Nadda’s convoy in the state, the Centre retaliated against the TMC government by recalling three IPS officers from the state on Central deputation. Further, to perhaps underline the “message”, the Ministry of Home Affairs summoned state Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay and Director General of Police Virendra to Delhi to explain the law and order situation in Bengal.
A defiant Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee refused to comply with the summons. Also, she declined the Centre’s demand to send the three IPS officers – Bholanath Pandey, Rajeev Mishra and Praveen Kumar Tripathi – on deputation saying there was a dearth of good officers in the state, and the state could not spare the three officers.
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Ex-Soldiers Support Farmers- Who Is a Nationalist, They Ask Jawans to return medals
The ongoing agitation by the farmers against the controversial farm legislations enacted by the Parliament is having a cascading impact on various sections of the society. After the sportspersons, writers, poets and cultural artists, it is the ex-servicemen who have come out declaring their intent to return various awards and medals that they earned during their careers in the military services.
It is a case of Jawan joining the Kisan for a common cause. The veterans initiative directly counters those who have been trying to belittle the farmers movement, and attacking civil society individuals as the ‘award wapsi’ gang for returning state honours to express support for the protesting farmers.