Ahmedabad, July 15: Stung by the denial of the two-hour open debate they had been demanding on the recent hooch tragedy in Ahmedabad, opposition party in the assembly, Congress has been organising mock assembly. For almost a week Congress organised a mock assembly to criticise the state government on its alleged failure to prevent the hooch tragedy.
Several Congress MLAs and leaders played the role of chief minister Narendra Modi, minister of state for home, Amit Shah, revenue minister Anandiben Patel and speaker Ashok Bhatt in the mock assembly. While Shaktisinh acts as the leader of opposition, other Cong MLAs like Sidharath Patel and Arjun Modhwadia and others acted as opposition members.
Gohil and others made many satirical statements on the BJP leaders — Modi, Shah, Patel and Bhatt. Congress presented Bhatt and Shah as Modi’s ‘yes men’ while projecting Modi as Hitler, the great dictator. Gohil made a jibe at Modi stating that since he was so fond of being the numero uno in all sectors, he also orchestrated “the No-1 hooch tragedy” in the city too!
Continuing the barrage he further said that while Modi garnered votes for himself with the slogan, “vote for one day and sleep for five years”, the chief minister is now making people sleep for ever.
Indulging in rampant Modi bashing, Sidharath Patel said that Modi used communal poison to kill people in 2002 and now he is killing them by supplying poisoned hooch. Modhvadiya alleged that in the event of any terrorist attack in the country, Modi would rush there to get TV footage, but he didn’t dare go to his own assembly constituency to offer a little condolence to the victims.
Modi and Bhatt seem highly perturbed by Congress’s mock assembly act, while Amit Shah moved a proposal to take action against the opposition members under the Special Privilege rule.
Almost immediately agreeing to the proposal, Bhatt ordered an inquiry against the Congress MLAs to the Special Privilege Committee.
–Agencies
New York, July 15: Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is still active and there is a “real risk” that the terror group may target India again to increase tensions between the two neighbours, a top UN official said today.
“Lashkar-e-Taiba tactics is quite obvious. It is trying to increase tensions between India and Pakistan at a time when they and their associates are particularly under pressure in western Pakistan,” said Richard Barrett, Coordinator of the UN Security Council’s al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Committee.
LeT, which is responsible for holding a series of terrorist attacks in India including the Mumbai terror strikes, has been declared as a terrorist organisation by the United Nations Security Council.
“They may do that again,” Barrett said, adding that “this is the real risk”.
Barrett along with Chairman of the Security Council’s al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee, Thomas Mayr-Harting, the Austrian Ambassador, addressed a joint press conference at the UN headquarters here.
Barrett said several LeT attacks have taken place in Lahore, which is hardly in the tribal areas, and even Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir had been attacked. “I think, these groups are real concern to Pakistan,” he said, adding LeT is also having operational links with the Taliban.
–Agencies