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  • Minor girl ‘raped’ by five in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district, two detained

    By PTI

    DEOGHAR: A minor girl was allegedly gang raped by five people in front of her mother in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district, a police officer said on Monday.

    Two persons have been detained in this connection thus far, and a special investigation team (SIT) has been set up by the Deoghar Police to look into the matter, the officer said.

    The girl and her mother, residents of Dumka district, were returning home from a function in Deoghar on Sunday when they came under attack in Madhupur area, said Sub-divisional Police Officer B Rout, quoting the FIR filed in the case.

    Her mother filed the police complaint on Monday, following which the two were detained.

    According to the complaint, five people on two motorcycles waylaid the two of them, and then took her daughter aside by force.

    When the mother tried to stop them, she was beaten up and the girl was then raped in front of her, the complaint stated.

    Deoghar Superintendent of Police (SP) Subhash Chandra Jat said the girl underwent a medical test, reports of which were awaited.

    The police identified the accused and were on the lookout for the other three, he added.

    DEOGHAR: A minor girl was allegedly gang raped by five people in front of her mother in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district, a police officer said on Monday.

    Two persons have been detained in this connection thus far, and a special investigation team (SIT) has been set up by the Deoghar Police to look into the matter, the officer said.

    The girl and her mother, residents of Dumka district, were returning home from a function in Deoghar on Sunday when they came under attack in Madhupur area, said Sub-divisional Police Officer B Rout, quoting the FIR filed in the case.

    Her mother filed the police complaint on Monday, following which the two were detained.

    According to the complaint, five people on two motorcycles waylaid the two of them, and then took her daughter aside by force.

    When the mother tried to stop them, she was beaten up and the girl was then raped in front of her, the complaint stated.

    Deoghar Superintendent of Police (SP) Subhash Chandra Jat said the girl underwent a medical test, reports of which were awaited.

    The police identified the accused and were on the lookout for the other three, he added.

  • Rajya Sabha polls: Rajasthan BSP whip asks its 6 MLAs, who have merged with Congress, to vote for Subhash Chandra

    By PTI

    JAIPUR: The Rajasthan BSP Saturday issued a whip asking six MLAs who had won as BSP candidates but later merged with the Congress to vote for only Independent candidate Subhash Chandra who is in the fray for the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections.

    Issuing the whip, BSP state president Bhagwan Singh Baba said the six MLAs had won their seats in the 2018 state polls on BSP symbol and “are bound to work as per the party whip”.

    “The BSP does not agree with the policies of the Congress and the BJP, and therefore opposes their candidates. The party has issued a whip directing the MLAs to vote for the Independent candidate,” he said, adding appropriate action will be taken if the whip is violated.

    The six MLAs are: Rajendra Gudha, Lakhan Meena, Deepchand Kheria, Sandeep Yadav, Joginder Awana and Wajib Ali.

    They had who the 2018 assembly elections as BSP candidates, but merged the BSP legislature party with the ruling Congress in September 2019.

    The election on four seats of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan will take place on June 10.

    The Congress has shifted many of its MLAs and Independents to a hotel in Udaipur to protect them from horse trading.

    Of the six BSP turned Congress MLAs, only one — Joginder Awana — is in the camp in Udaipur.

    Rajendra Gudha, who is a minister of state, expressed his resentment Thursday, saying the MLAs do not get due respect in the Congress.

    The Congress has fielded Mukul Wasnik, Randeep Surjewala and Pramod Tiwari, while the BJP has nominated former minister Ghanshyam Tiwari and supported media baron Subhash Chandra who has filed nomination as an independent.

  • Arrival of media barons to the fray might queer the pitch for Congress in two RS seats

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Nominations filed by two media barons — Subhash Chandra of Zee from Rajasthan and Kartikeya Sharma of NewsX from Haryana  — for the Rajya Sabha elections as independent candidates could spell trouble for the Congress in seats in Rajasthan and Haryana.  

    The independents filed their candidature on Tuesday, the last day for filing nominations.

    Sources said that things could tilt in favour of the duo keeping in mind the disquiet in the Rajasthan state unit over the nomination of candidates from outside, and in Haryana, where an upset party MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi has been meeting BJP leaders.

    The Congress was expecting to win 10 seats in all but now it could end up losing a seat in Haryana if cross-voting happens and another in Rajasthan if the independents decide to vote for Subhash Chandra with the support of BJP MLAs.

    The seat in Rajasthan is where Congress has fielded Pramod Tiwari and it will now see a contest with Chandra’s entry. Tiwari’s candidature was backed by general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

    In all, the elections are on for four seats in Rajasthan. The state assembly has 200 seats and a winning candidate will require 41 votes.

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    The Congress claims that it will manage 123 votes (needed to win three seats) while the BJP, having 71 MLAs, can win only one seat. The BJP needs 11 more votes to win a second seat which it is now angling for with Chandra’s arrival to the fray.

    The Congress has the support of 108 MLAs, including six BSP MLAs who merged with the Congress, 13 independents (many Gehlot supporters), two MLAs of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and one from the Rashtriya Lok Dal.

    There are two MLAs from the Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP) and three MLAs from Hanuman Beniwal’s Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP). Both are unlikely to vote for the BJP.

    “With independents in the fray, things can sway to any side. It is a calculated move by the BJP keeping in mind trouble in the state unit. After winning one seat (41 MLAs), another 30 BJP MLAs will be spared and Chandra would need 11 more to win the seat. He may get the support of independents and BTP and RLP’s support to make things difficult for the Congress’ plans to win a third seat,” said party sources.