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Politics

‘Sui patak sannatta’: BJP questions opposition’s silence over Bengal assault video | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal over a video of a man brutally assaulting a couple in public and accused the opposition for its silence over this incident.Targeting Mamata Banerjee, BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said, "In North Dinajpur, there is a TMC leader named Tajmul aka JCB who does not have faith in the Constitution of India.At Mamata Banerjee's behest, he claims they will deliver swift justice in Taliban style.""Mamata Banerjee's faith is no longer in the Constitution; she has given free rein to her party's goons to impose Sharia law, resembling Taliban rule," he added.Bhatia also questioned the INDIA bloc and mocked its leaders for their silence over the issue."Do the opposition parties standing...
Culture

Governor troubles | The Centre’s proxy war

Former governor of Gujarat and Jammu & Kashmir B.K. Nehru once described the constitutional position as one reserved for a “burnt-out superannuated member of the ruling party for whom a governorship was a kind of luxurious retirement”. A former governor defined her role as a “super hostess”, while another claimed to have read 200 novels during his tenure. Tamil Nadu governor Ravindra Narayana Ravi may not be guilty of many of these but the former Intelligence Bureau officer is accused of sitting on bills passed by the state assembly for months on end (some of them for years). On November 20, when the Supreme Court censured him, it ignited a heated debate on not just his actions but also the governor’s role in India’s federal structure. Source link