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BJP to discuss Hegde report today UP CMOs’ murders UP cop dies, 11 fall
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Adarsh society accounts to remain frozen
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BJP to discuss Hegde report today New Delhi, July 27 Soon as the news came that the report was officially out, BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and Venkaiah Naidu went into a huddle at parliamentary party chairman LK Advani’s home. It is said that Advani is worried about the fallout of Yedyurappa issue on the BJP’s anti-corruption campaign against the UPA government. Yesterday he summoned NDA leaders to discuss the issue. With Yedyurappa expected to come to Delhi late tonight, the BJP will deliberate on the Hegde report tomorrow, said party sources. On his part, Yeddyurappa insisted that he will complete the remaining two years in office. However, BJP leaders seemed divided over letting Yeddyurappa continue as the CM. While Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu and Ananth Kumar favour sacking Yedyurappa, BJP president Nitin Gadkari is not too keen on replacing Yeddyurappa with any other leader at this crucial stage. He feels that replacing Yeddyurappa with a consensual leader may not be easy because the anti-CM factions may resist Yeddyurappa’s possible choice Shobha Karandlaje. While Yeddyurppa neither trusts his state party president KS Easwarappa nor his Cabinet colleague Jagdish Shettar. The BJP also knows that along with Yeddyurappa, it may have to sack the powerful Reddy brothers in the CM’s cabinet. The mining magnates hold a considenrable clout. Prominent among those agreeing with this (Gadakari’s) line of thought is Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley. This faction in the party feels that Yeddyurappa can be persuaded to go for dissolution of state Assembly and mid-term polls. Meanwhile, AICC general secretary BK Hari Prasad said: “If the BJP is really the party with a difference, it should sack the CM and his indicted ministers right away.” split wide open
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UP CMOs’ murders
Lucknow, July 27 Hearing a PIL filed by a local journalist seeking a CBI probe into the state’s NRHM scam, the Division Bench comprising Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice RR Awasthi directed the CBI to begin the probe forthwith. The order stated, “The state shall provide all assistance and logistic support to the CBI. The investigation shall be completed expeditiously, say, within a maximum period of three months. The Director, CBI, is directed to take charge of the investigation immediately. Consequent to our aforesaid order, no action shall be taken by the magistrate concerned in pursuance of the chargesheets submitted in the aforesaid cases.” The sequence of events in the case is exactly as was witnessed in the mysterious death of Deputy CMO YS Sachan, who, according to the state police, was allegedly the prime accused in the NRHM scam and the murder of the two CMOs. Sachan was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Lucknow jail on June 22. Later, contrary to the state government’s claim, a CJM probe found it to be a case of murder. On July 13, a day before the high court was to take up a PIL seeking a CBI probe into Sachan’s death, the state government recommended a CBI probe. Hearing the PIL, the high court had gone ahead with an order directing the CBI to complete the probe within three months. The court today agreed with the argument by the state government that the murders of the two CMOs and Sachan were linked and that hiding the large-scale bungling in the NRHM implementation was the motive behind the murders.
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UP cop
dies, 11 fall ill during promotion test Lucknow, July 27 Reports of around 20 policemen similarly fainting during physical endurance tests in police lines at other centres at Kanpur and Luckow have put a question mark at the process of promotion adopted by the UP Police Promotion and Recruitment Board. For promotion to the SI level policemen were appearing for a physical test involving a 10-km-long run which had to be completed in 75 minutes. According to IG (Law & Order) AP Maheshwari, on July 20 another constable Agrez Singh (38) had died in Meerut and seven others had fallen ill, 14 fainted in Kanpur and three in Sitapur. Describing the death of Zaman as “unfortunate”, Azamgarh SP BS Srivastava said the constable was posted at the Ramnagar police station in Varanasi. “He along with another 11 policemen fainted during today’s test. He was admitted to the district hospital where he later had a respiratory arrest. The UP Police Promotion and Recruitment Board chairman, DG VC Goel, said the policemen attending the physical test had already been told that they should appear in the event only if they were fit.
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Rift widens: Big B, Amar quit each other’s firms
New Delhi, July 27 “I have resigned as executive chairman of the EDCL due to time constraint.... Since I have resigned from the post of my own company, I thought it was not prudent to continue as vice-chairman of AB Corporation, therefore I have stepped down from that post as well,” Amar Singh said. He said Bachchan too has resigned from the board of EDCL. “He has attended two or three meetings of the EDCL in the past 10 years,” Amar Singh said. The Rajya Sabha MP, however, hastened to add that “no significance should be attached” to the developments. Bachchan’s wife Jaya had refused to leave the Samajwadi Party after Amar Singh was expelled. She was recently appointed as member of the party’s national executive. When asked about the statement of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav defending him in the cash-for-vote scam, Amar Singh said he had not heard about it. When asked about Yadav’s observations, Singh said, “I don’t want to read about it. I don’t want to hear about it.” All promoters, including Singh and his wife Pankaja Kumari Singh, together hold 56.36 per cent stake in the EDCL, which is currently valued at about Rs 100 crore. In the past, Bachchan has been a shareholder - initially as promoter shareholder and later as public shareholder - in the company with 10 lakh shares. As per the shareholding pattern disclosed by the company, Bachchan’s 10 lakh shares was equivalent to a 3.64 per cent stake at the end of June 2009.
— PTI
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Adarsh society accounts to remain frozen
Mumbai, July 27 They also contended that the funds were required to pay the lawyers fighting the society’s case in courts. However, the counsel for the CBI, which had frozen the two accounts earlier this year as part of the ongoing investigations against the Adarsh Society, contested the plea on the grounds that the CBI was still probing whether the funds in the account were part of the ill-gotten wealth of members.
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