Your Daily Wrap: Activist Teesta Setalvad arrested, Section 144 imposed in Mumbai amid political turmoil; even more
A day after the Supreme Court upheld the clean chit given to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested activist Teesta Setalvad in Mumbai while in Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested the retired. DGP RB Sreekumar. Hours after the action, Union Home Minister Amit Shah in an interview accused Setalvad of giving baseless information to the police about the 2002 Gujarat riots.
As the political turmoil in Maharashtra refuses to subside, Mumbai Police on Saturday invoked Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code to ban unlawful assembly in the city. Earlier in the day, the National Executive of Shiv Sena, headed by CM Uddhav Thackeray, passed a resolution stating that no one will be allowed to use the name of the party or Balasaheb Thackeray to form a new group. . It came after Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, who is leading the rebellion against Uddhav, decided to name his faction ‘Shiv Sena Balasaheb’.
Shinde’s rebellion is reminiscent of a similar rebellion in Maharashtra in 1978, the first of its kind in the state’s political history. The rebel group was led by none other than Sharad Pawar, who succeeded in toppling the Vasantdada Patil government – after two separate Congress groups joined hands – and became the youngest chief minister at the age of 38.
Amid the turmoil, a remarkable analogy has been drawn between Uddhav’s Shinde and party founder Bal Thackeray’s strained relationship with Shinde’s mentor Anand Dighe. Just as Uddhav and his son Aaditya Thackeray marginalized Shinde in the Shiv Sena and government affairs despite his unofficial No. 2 position in the party, Bal Thackeray also sidelined Dighe, a strongman of the Thane Sena, to be wary of his rising popularity. sought to.
In Punjab, Karthik Popli, son of corruption-accused IAS officer Sanjay Popli, allegedly committed suicide at his home in Chandigarh. The incident took place in the presence of a team of Punjab Vigilance Bureau, which brought his father to his house during searches on Saturday. Police said that Kartik killed himself on the first floor of his house. However, his family members allege that the state vigilance officers shot Karthik.
In the big international story of the day, US President Joe Biden signed the most comprehensive gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan agreement that seemed unimaginable until a series of recent mass shootings that killed 19 students and two teachers in Texas. Massacre was involved. Primary school. “Lives will be saved,” he said at the White House. The US president quoted the families of the shooting victims as saying, “His message was for us to do something. Well today, we did.”
political pulse
In recent months, there has been an uneasy peace between the BJP and its ally Janata Dal (United). Relations between the two parties have been strained over several issues such as the caste census, anti-Agneepath protests and the “rewriting of history”. In the past three days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has probably made two political gestures to signal that all is well between the allies. But as the BJP’s central leadership reached out to its ally, state BJP president Dr Sanjay Jaiswal and JD(U) parliamentary board chairman Upendra Kushwaha got into a scuffle on Friday. The rivalry between the two leaders is going on against each other for a long time. Read Santosh Singh’s report.
After 10 years, the Gorkhaland Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) elections will be held on Sunday. Where it once led the movement for a separate Gorkhaland state, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) is currently a much smaller political force. GJM general secretary and Gurung’s close aide Roshan Giri spoke to The Indian Express about the people’s hope in the party, the Gorkha interests, GJM’s future strategies, clashes with BJP and alliance with TMC and the party’s changing political dynamics. can stand for. Darjeeling Hills. Read the edited excerpt here.
express explained
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The United States Supreme Court, with a 6-3 majority, overturned Roe v. Wade, the court’s landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion a constitutional right. This decision will change the lives of women in America. What is Roe vs. Wade, why is it important, and what will happen in America now? Read here.
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