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Business Visa is not meant for collecting Funds

Randa Chehab v. Union of India & Others

WP © 1250/2023

Before Delhi High Court

The Writ was dismissed on 18.12.2023 by Hon’ble Mr. Justice Subramonium Prasad J as petitioner failed to establish violation of her right.

The petitioner a US citizen has challenged her deportation (before Delhi High Court) by the Bureau of Immigration from Trivandrum, Kerala Airport on 28.11.2022 as being arbitrary, unreasonable, illegal and unconstitutional.

Notice was issued to the Union of India on 01.02.2023.

Status Report was filed by the Counsel of Union of India.

The Status Report discloses that the Petitioner was issued the following visas by the Consulate General of India, San Francisco, i.e., T-1 Visa No. VK 0275900 valid from 31.03.2017 to 30.03.2027; and B-1 Visa No. VK 3934693 valid from 20.06.2019 to 19.06.2024.

The Petitioner again applied for a tourist visa on 15.12.2022 which was rejected as her name was found in the adverse/banned list entry of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Status Report revealed that the name of the Petitioner has been blacklisted at the behest of Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO), Trivandrum as she was involved in public fund collection while visiting on a business visa which is not permitted.

It is stated that as of today there is an adverse entry report against the Petitioner.

General policy guideline to Indian Visa

When a person is granted a business visa, the purpose is to attend business meetings and technical meetings and funds cannot be collected for the said purpose.

Submission of the Counsel of the petitioner

The Petitioner has been involved in charitable activities and is collecting public funds for the purpose of a charity, and this cannot be said to be unlawful.

The Petitioner has rendered yeomen's services when cyclone Amphan in 2020 struck in eastern India and she has since been closely associated with various charitable activities.

In this backdrop, it is not wrong to collect funds.

Petitioner holds a valid tourist visa and as a tourist visa holder, she can be permitted to come to India.

Petitioner has come to India numerous times and the reason for blacklisting is completely arbitrary.

Submission of the Counsel of the State

Section 3 of the Foreigners Act gives the power to the Central Government to make provisions either generally or for all foreigners prohibiting, regulating or restricting the entry of foreigners into India or their departure from India.

Issue

Whether the violation of the conditions of the business visa can be a sufficient reason for deportation and blacklisting of the Petitioner?

Law

Collecting money ostensibly for charitable activity is not permitted when a foreigner comes to India on a business visa.

Since the Petitioner has admittedly acted contrary to what is permitted, the decision taken by the authorities to blacklist the Petitioner cannot be said to arbitrary and as such requiring any interference under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

Observation of the Court

It is well settled that a Writ Court can exercise its jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India only where there is a violation of a right.

In the absence of any right, a writ cannot be issued.

Since the Petitioner has not been able to establish violation of any rights granted to the Petitioner, this Court is not inclined to exercise its jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to interfere with the decision taken by the authorities.

Order

Writ Petition is dismissed.

Seema Bhatnagar

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Cyclone Mocha: IMD predicts an upcoming cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal

As a low-pressure area develops in the region, Cyclone Mocha, the year's first cyclone, is expected to form over the southeast Bay of Bengal this week. A cyclonic circulation is expected to form around May 6, according to the IMD. However, the cyclone's formation has yet to be confirmed. "On or around May 6, 2023, a cyclonic circulation is likely to form over the southeast Bay of Bengal." "A low-pressure area is likely to form over the same region during the next 48 hours (May 7 and 8) under its influence," the IMD stated on Tuesday. https://twitter.com/Indiametdept/status/1653319468192497664?s=20 The IMD issued its statement after the Global Forecast System, the US weather forecast model, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts predicted the formation of a cyclonic storm over the Bay of Bengal. The cyclonic storm, if it forms, will be named 'Cyclone Mocha' according to the WMO/ESCAP nomenclature system. Yemen suggested the name, which is based on the Red Sea port city. Most cyclones that formed in the region in recent years, including Amphan in 2020, Asani in 2021, and Yaas in 2022, made landfall in May. Though the IMD has made no predictions about Cyclone Mocha's path, its impact on the coasts of West Bengal and Odisha cannot be ruled out. The Odisha government has already begun preparations to mitigate any damage caused by the cyclone. According to Windy.com, the cyclonic storm is expected to pass over the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday next week. It will then gradually move northward, closer to the Indian coast. A low-pressure area forming over the southeast region of the Bay of Bengal will intensify into a cyclonic storm on May 9 near the Andaman Islands, according to the IMD-Global Forecast System (GFS). According to the IMD's forecast, the storm will move north-northeastward towards the east-central Bay of Bengal until May 11. On May 11, a low-pressure area will form in the south Andaman Sea and the southeast Bay of Bengal, followed by a cyclonic storm, according to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF).   Tags: cyclone mocha update, cyclone mocha 2023, mocha cyclone chennai, new Cyclone, Cyclone Mocha, Cyclone Bay of Bengal, Cyclone in May, Cyclone landfall, Cyclone Mocha Odisha, Odisha Cyclone Read the full article

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সাইক্লোন উমপুন: কলকাতার সব ফ্লাইওভার বন্ধের নির্দেশ, আর কোথায় কী ব্যবস্থা দেখুন… সাইক্লোন উমপুন: কলকাতার সব ফ্লাইওভার বন্ধের নির্দেশ, আর কোথায় কী ব্যবস্থা দেখুন...

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Explained: Aila, Amphan, Asani: What's in a cyclone's name?

Explained: Aila, Amphan, Asani: What’s in a cyclone’s name?

Explained: Aila, Amphan, Asani: What’s in a cyclone’s name? Bhubaneswar, May 8: Every year, as a cyclone looms over a region, its name becomes a cause of intrigue for many, who wonder why and how is the storm christened. With Cyclone Asani — a name given by Sri Lanka that Bhubaneswar, May 8: Every year, as a cyclone looms over a region, its name becomes a cause of intrigue for many, who wonder…

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Here we talk about how, who and why cyclones are named.

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Cyclone Amphan 2020 (India and Bangladesh) Relief Donations

On 20th May 2020, a super cyclonic storm, belonging to Category 5 Tropical Cyclone (the most devastating in the scale, for context, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the US  was also a Category 5 storm) ravaged the Eastern part of the Indian Subcontinent, with the states of West Bengal and Orissa in India, and some southern parts of Bangladesh bearing the brunt of the storm. In particular, the state of West Bengal has faced maximum destruction in the 36 hours the cyclone and its aftermath continued.

My city, Kolkata (in WB), was ravaged, with thousands of trees uprooted, electricity poles torn down, buildings and temporary shelters shattered to the ground. The most devastating losses however, were faced by the poorest people in my state, those living in and around the Sunderbans Belt of Bengal. District after district was flooded, people gathering in storm shelters after losing everything, their homes, livelihoods and properties. Everything was swept away by the cyclone, swallowed and spat out, unrecognizable, in shreds. Our state, being a riverine terrain, housing the largest delta in the world, was already a precarious zone due to being hit by massive floods every monsoon, and this cyclone was the by far the deadliest blow to the already fragile ecosystem.

The loss estimated by govt and other authorities is worth somewere around INR 1 lakh Crore (USD 1,321,658,000).

Still now after 6 days since the cyclone hit, massive parts of Bengal are plunged in darkness, people stranded in temporary shelters, with no drinking water or food. Covid-19 seems a lesser threat now as compared to what we have faced.

Both national and international media are practically silent about it, with the result that the relief operations and funding are nowhere near the amount or efforts required. Even as I write this, millions of people are stranded at remote locations without communication, housing or basic food and water supplies.

I urge you, wherever in the world you are, please please come forward and help us out 🙏 even a single dollar, however much you are able to spare, will help. Every single contribution is going to help towards rebuilding the lives of millions.

👇👇👇Below are the details to some of the ground level NGOs working to provide relief, their details and authenticity have been verified by me, and wherever possible, I've provided links to their official websites. For any queries or details, feel free to contact me, reply in the comments or send asks.

👉A full list of all major NGOs working for relief and their contact / donation details can be found here. 👈

Please help to save the Cyclone Amphan Victims 🙏

1. Quarantined Students Youth Network (volunteer students network who are doing relief work in major areas)

PAYPAL link 👇

2. West Bengal State Emergency Relief Fund (govt treasury) :

I will be updating the list as and when further names come up. 

Links to news articles regarding the Cyclone : 

The Print | Scroll  | TOI | NDTV | CNN | EdexLive | BBC | NY TIMES

PLEASE REBLOG AND SPREAD THE WORD. EVERY CONTRIBUTION WILL HELP. 🙏

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Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

Storms, floods, wildfires — and to a lesser degree, conflict — uprooted 40.5 million people around the world in 2020. It was the largest number in more than a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a nonprofit group based in Geneva that tracks displacement data annually.

It was all the more notable as it came during the worst global pandemic in a century.

Extreme weather events, mainly storms and floods, accounted for the vast majority of the displacement. While not all of those disasters could be linked to human-induced climate change, the Center’s report made clear that global temperature rise, fueled by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, “are increasing the intensity and frequency of weather-related hazards.”

Last May, Cyclone Amphan alone displaced five million people in Bangladesh and India, as it whipped across the Bay of Bengal, downed trees and power lines, and destroyed thousands of buildings. In Bangladesh, weeks later, torrential rains upstream swelled rivers, submerging a quarter of the country and taking away the assets of its people — their homes built of mud and tin, their chickens and livestock, their sacks of rice stored for the lean times.

In November, two ferocious hurricanes, Eta and Iota, pummeled Central America in quick succession, washing away bridges, uprooting trees and causing widespread flooding and deadly mudslides. The 2020 hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, with 30 named storms, 13 of them hurricanes.

In the United States, rising temperatures and sea level rise have made flooding more frequent, particularly along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, and the rate of that flooding is quickening, according to United States government researchers. At many locations, “floods are now at least five times more common than they were in the 1950s,” according to figures published recently by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Headlines

The market for face masks (Washington Post) Alexis Wong, a Hong Kong-based trader who’s been exporting medical masks since the early days of the covid-19 crisis, says the business brings out every species of crook. But she likes to joke that the market for the iconic N95 mask is in perfect balance. “You have buyers with no money and sellers with no product,” she says. The international market for desperately needed medical masks is riddled with fraud. Up and down the supply chain, from factories to hospitals, opportunists are benefiting from the chaotic market as prices have quintupled. Rampant price gouging and fraud has provoked dozens of lawsuits and hundreds of cease-and-desist orders, from major mask manufacturers as well as state attorneys general. While profiteers and crooks make their fortunes, medical workers across the United States are rationing masks, recycling them and treating infected patients without them. The federal government has taken steps to address the shortages, but emergency management experts say the efforts were distressingly inadequate.

Fast in, first out: Denmark leads lockdown exit (Reuters) Four weeks after Denmark began easing its lockdown, Danes on Monday returned to cafes and restaurants, confident that the coronavirus outbreak is under control. Denmark last month became the first country in Europe to reopen schools, day-care centres and smaller businesses. It did not see a subsequent rise in COVID-19 cases. “The quick shutdown and the fact that Danes actually listened to messages from authorities about good hygiene and social distancing are the main reasons we’ve come this far,” said Hans Jorn Kolmos, a professor in clinical microbiology at the University of Southern Denmark. Unlike the French and Italians, Danes are less likely to hug and kiss as a form of greeting, which has also been a factor in limiting the spread, Kolmos said.

French-German pact (Worldcrunch) The surprise announcement of a massive pact between France and Germany to lead Europe’s response to the COVID-19 crisis marks a historic agreement, writes Lucie Robequain of Paris-based daily Les Echos. Germany’s decision to accept the principle of a common debt for European countries, signals the birth of a new union of solidarity, which is essential to claim the title of superpower. By accepting the principle of a mutual debt within the European Union, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel have taken a decisive step in building a united Europe: A union based on solidarity, capable of transcending the particular interests of each individual member. A union capable of holding its own against the two superpowers, China and the United States.

Beaches, nightclubs? Europe mulls how to get tourists back (AP) The Mediterranean resort town of Ayia Napa (Cyprus) is known for its boisterous parties. Each summer, thousands of young foreign tourists pack the dance floors of its nightlife district after a day at the beach. But the pandemic silenced the exuberant Napa Strip district as the island nation of Cyprus went into a lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Now nightclub owners wonder when social distancing rules will be eased enough for the party to resume—and what those new parties will look like. Across southern Europe, in places where tourism drives much of the economy, officials are weighing how to entice travelers to come back, even while the pandemic remains a threat. Social distancing rules may work in restaurants, but that’s not likely to solve the quandary facing Ayia Napa’s nightclubs. Tourists in the near future will have to navigate a different set of expectations, routines and rules to counter the virus.

Global worries as infections spike in Russia, Brazil, India (AP) New coronavirus cases have been spiking from India to South Africa to Mexico in a clear indication that the pandemic is far from over, while Russia and Brazil now sit behind only the United States in the number of reported infections. The surges come even as much of Asia, Europe and scores of U.S. states have seen enough progress in their fight against the virus to focus on how best to reopen their economies. U.S. autoworkers, French teachers and Thai mall workers are among the hundreds of thousands of employees back on the job with new safety precautions. Russia registered 9,263 new cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to nearly 300,000 infections—about half of them in Moscow. Latin America has seen more than 483,400 confirmed coronavirus cases and 30,900 dead to date. The largest number of infections are in Brazil, which became the world’s third worst-hit county Monday evening with more than 250,000 infections. In India, coronavirus cases have surged past 100,000, and infections are rising in the home states of migrant workers who fled cities and towns during a nationwide lockdown when they lost their jobs.

India and Bangladesh prepare for monster cyclone as pandemic rages (Washington Post) India and Bangladesh are preparing to evacuate up to 3 million people in the path of a potentially devastating cyclone, a challenge made even more daunting by the rising number of coronavirus infections in both countries. Cyclone Amphan is expected to slam into the river delta at the top of the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday local time, bringing dangerous winds, heavy rain, surging tides and flooding. It is currently considered a “super cyclone,” only the second such storm in the area since 1999, although forecasters believe it will weaken slightly before making landfall. The pandemic is intensifying the difficulty of preparing for the storm. India has more than 100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases while Bangladesh has 25,000. Now those vulnerable to the storm are facing the unprecedented combination of a natural disaster together with a pandemic. Some evacuees say they’re frightened of catching the virus in emergency shelters, where they may face hours in enclosed spaces with little ability to maintain distance from other people.

U.S.-China Feud Over Coronavirus Erupts at World Health Assembly (NYT) A meeting of the World Health Organization that was supposed to chart a path for the world to combat the coronavirus pandemic instead on Monday turned into a showcase for the escalating tensions between China and the United States over the virus. President Xi Jinping of China announced at the start of the forum that Beijing would donate $2 billion toward fighting the coronavirus and dispatch doctors and medical supplies to Africa and other countries in the developing world. The contribution, to be spent over two years, amounts to more than twice what the United States had been giving the global health agency before President Trump cut off American funding last month, and it could catapult China to the forefront of international efforts to contain a disease that has claimed at least 315,000 lives. But it was also seen—particularly by American officials—as an attempt by China to forestall closer scrutiny of whether it hid information about the outbreak to the world. Other world leaders, in their remarks to the assembly, criticized the lack of unity in fighting the pandemic and, without naming any one country, urged nations to set aside their differences.

Parts of China’s northeast under lockdown (Bloomberg) Some 108 million people in China’s northeast region are being plunged back under lockdown conditions as a new and growing cluster of infections causes a backslide in the nation’s return to normal. In an abrupt reversal of the re-opening taking place across the nation, cities in Jilin province have cut off trains and buses, shut schools and quarantined tens of thousands of people. The strict measures have dismayed many residents who had thought the worst of the nation’s epidemic was over.

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Aila, Amphan, Asani: What's in a cyclone's name? All you need to know the christening process of a storm

Aila, Amphan, Asani: What’s in a cyclone’s name? All you need to know the christening process of a storm

Aila, Amphan, Asani: What’s in a cyclone’s name? All you need to know the christening process of a storm Short and easy-to-pronounce names are helpful in rapidly and effectively disseminating detailed storm information between hundreds of scattered stations, coastal bases and ships at sea. Short and easy-to-pronounce names are helpful in rapidly and effectively disseminating detailed storm…

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अम्फान चक्रवात का असर, ओडिशा और तमिलनाडु में सोशल डिस्टेंसिग बना चैलेंज

अम्फान चक्रवात का असर, ओडिशा और तमिलनाडु में सोशल डिस्टेंसिग बना चैलेंज

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Edited By Nilesh Mishra | नवभारतटाइम्स.कॉम | Updated: 18 May 2020, 06:29:00 PM IST

अगले दो-तीन दिन तक प्रभावित करेगा ‘अम्फान’ हाइलाइट्स

चक्रवात अम्फान के चलते कई राज्यों में हाई अलर्ट, तटीय राज्यों में मुश्किल हुई सोशल डिस्टेंसिंग

कोरोना के खतरे के चलते सोशल डिस्टेंसिंग बनाए रखना काफी जरूरी है, वरना फैल सकता है संक्रमण

तमिलनाडु, ओडिशा और बंगाल जैसे राज्यों में लोगों को तटीय इलाकों से…

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We are currently in the middle of the strongest tropical cyclone Bay of Bengal has ever seen in recorded history. It's been named Cyclone Amphan.

And it really feels like the apocalypse atm. The whole day has been pretty much pitch dark with heavy rainfall, and just about an hour ago the cyclone hit land and has been wrecking havoc. A couple of trees near my home have been uprooted. It's getting worse and worse. Hhhhh...... This is gonna be a memorable night 😔😔

Almost 600K people in the coastal regions of eastern India and Bangladesh have been evacuated to storm shelters. Let's hope the damage is minimised :(((

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Hurricane Amphan

Hurricane Amphan

Cyclone in the North Indian Ocean in 2020 Hurricane Amphan (/ ˈɑːmpʌn /) was a powerful tropical cyclone that posed a threat to eastern India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal. This is the first tropical cyclone of the 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone. Amphan was the first cyclone to hit the Bay of Bengal since the 1999 Odisha typhoon. The epicenter was reported below the Pacific Ocean floor, however; no tsunami alert was issued.

Weather history-- The epicenter was reported below the Pacific Ocean floor, however; no tsunami alert was issued. The low pressure area was located in a conducive environment for further development, including good landslides, warm ocean temperatures, and low latitude winds. Over the next two days, it gradually intensified, with deeper atmospheric convection bands expanding around the lower-level transmission centers of the process. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said on May 16 that the low pressure area had been turned into a ditch and was named BOB 01, about 1,100 km (685 mi) south of Paradip in Odisha, India.

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REMEMBERING AMPHAN OF LAST YEAR SUPER CYCLONE YASH HEADING FOR DESTRUCTION

REMEMBERING AMPHAN OF LAST YEAR SUPER CYCLONE YASH HEADING FOR DESTRUCTION

YASH MAY BE A SUPER CYCLONE SUPER CYCLONE YASH MAY BRING AMPHAN LIKE DESTRUCTION SUPER CYCLONE YASH AT SEA Cyclone Yash will effect heavy rainfall to South Bengal and landfall between May 23 and May 25.The Regional Meteorological has predicted it may possibly move towards Bangladesh. The met department has warned that the ferocity of the cyclonic Storm.This super cyclone is named by Oman. The…

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Even Amid a Pandemic, More Than 40 Million People Fled Their Homes Storms, floods, wildfires — and to a lesser degree, conflict — uprooted 40.5 million people around the world in 2020. It was the largest number in more than a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, a nonprofit group based in Geneva that tracks displacement data annually. It was all the more notable as it came during the worst global pandemic in a century. Extreme weather events, mainly storms and floods, accounted for the vast majority of the displacement. While not all of those disasters could be linked to human-induced climate change, the Center’s report made clear that global temperature rise, fueled by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, “are increasing the intensity and frequency of weather-related hazards.” Last May, Cyclone Amphan alone displaced five million people in Bangladesh and India, as it whipped across the Bay of Bengal, downed trees and power lines, and destroyed thousands of buildings. In Bangladesh, weeks later, torrential rains upstream swelled rivers, submerging a quarter of the country and taking away the assets of its people — their homes built of mud and tin, their chickens and livestock, their sacks of rice stored for the lean times. In November, two ferocious hurricanes, Eta and Iota, pummeled Central America in quick succession, washing away bridges, uprooting trees and causing widespread flooding and deadly mudslides. The 2020 hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, with 30 named storms, 13 of them hurricanes. In the United States, rising temperatures and sea level rise have made flooding more frequent, particularly along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, and the rate of that flooding is quickening, according to United States government researchers. At many locations, “floods are now at least five times more common than they were in the 1950s,” according to figures published recently by the Environmental Protection Agency. Last year’s displacement numbers come as this year’s Atlantic hurricane season approaches. Scientists have projected the season will see above-normal storm activity. Climate change has led to wetter storms because warmer air holds more moisture. And while the links between climate change and hurricanes are complex, recent research suggests that warming has made stalled Atlantic storms more common. That can be more destructive because they linger in one place for a longer period of time. The largest numbers of displaced people, mostly weather-related, were in Asia, with five million in China, roughly 4.4 million each in Bangladesh and the Philippines, and 3.9 million in India. The United States recorded 1.7 million displacements. Conflict-related displacement was highest in the Democratic Republic of Congo at 2.2 million and Syria at 1.8 million. Source link Orbem News #fled #homes #million #Pandemic #People

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Not traitor, come from land of patriots Medinipur: Adhikari

DANTAN: BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who recently jumped the ship from the TMC, said he is not a traitor as is being represented by his former party and hails from Medinipur, a land of patriots. Maintaining that he had given oxygen to the TMC in its hour of need, Adhikari alleged that time and again, he had been given a raw deal by the ruling party’s leadership after getting tough assignments done. “The TMC which had been erased in the 2003 panchayat elections and was reduced to only one MP in 2004, could make a comeback in Paschim Medinipur district only in 2009,” Adhikari, the backbone of the 2007 Nandigram movement said. The former state transport minister had joined the BJP along with nine MLAs, five of whom were from the TMC, and a party MP during Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s rally in Medinipur on December 19. “I have the right to join any political party as a general voter after having resigned from every post in the Mamata Banerjee dispensation,” he said. Adhikari said that the TMC government changes the names of the central schemes to claim that those have been introduced by the state administration. Addressing a massive rally after leading a roadshow in this mofussil town in Paschim Medinipur district, Adhikari alleged that the TMC concentrates its leadership in Kolkata only and denies representation from rural areas. Ten of the TMC’s 21 Lok Sabha MPs and most of the ministers hail from Kolkata, he said. “I am not a traitor. I come from Medinipur which is the land of patriots like Matangini Hazra, Khudiram Bose and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. I am a descendant of that legacy,” Adhikari said. The BJP leader, without naming anyone, said a person who joined the party in 2011 and went on to become the Diamond Harbour MP was making big claims. He said that the meeting addressed by BJP chief J P Nadda in Diamond Harbour on December 10 was only for party functionaries. Diamond Harbour MP and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee has claimed that Nadda’s rally in his constituency was poorly attended. “Even a mandal chief can organise a meeting of 10,000 people given the clout that the BJP has now,” he said. Adhikari said he will soon organise a rally in Diamond Harbour. Criticising the TMC for allegedly attacking turncoat Barddhaman Purba MP Sunil Mandal’s vehicle in front of a BJP office in Kolkata, Adhikari, who also went there, said, “They had questioned why we left the party? I want to ask why you quit the Congress in 1998?” The TMC supporters had also raised slogans against Adhikari as he was leaving the BJP office in Hastings area of Kolkata on Saturday. Adhikari said that the assembly election due in April-May next year will be free and fair as central forces and not the state police will provide security. He claimed that no industry will come to West Bengal due to the Mamata Banerjee government’s land policy. “Your land policy will not let any industry come to the state,” he said, talking about the proposed deep-sea port in Purba Medinipur’s Tajpur, for which the chief minister has announced that an expression of interest (EOI) will be advertised soon. Adhikari said he had no power as a minister and was only a “lamppost”. “Only one person holds all posts in this state,” he said. He claimed that the state government abolished permanent jobs in the administration and was filling those posts with contractual job holders. “It is because of them that the state has two crore unemployed people,” he said, while praising the erstwhile CPI (M)-led Left Front government for having given around 15,000 jobs each year through the state service commission. He accused the TMC of corruption in every sphere from MGNREGA to distribution of relief in the aftermath of super cyclone Amphan.

source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/2020/12/27/not-traitor-come-from-land-of-patriots-medinipur-adhikari/