Today in Politics: Rahul Gandhi in Bihar with his Constitution pitch; RG Kar case verdict

IN CONTEXT: Rahul Gandhi and the Congress person been talking the connection of societal justness for immoderate clip present – from goals similar equitable practice for castes to a nationwide caste census.

AICC caput Chandan Yadav sees the party’s caste transportation arsenic a “necessary to-do” successful the authorities of the country. “If caste impacts people’s lives from commencement to decease successful our country, including who they tin marry, their concern and adjacent influences which portion of the colony they tin unrecorded in, it is indispensable for our ideology that some caste diverseness and caste favoritism are politically addressed,” helium told The Indian Express.

Gandhi, implicit the past year, has been consistently trying to bring caste disparity successful the state to the fore, talking astir “90% of nine being underrepresented portion 10% walking distant with each the benefits”. In September past year, helium said successful Parliament that of the 90 secretaries serving successful the Central government, lone 3 were OBCs. In August, helium said that SCs, STs and OBCs did not fig among apical media anchors and corporates, oregon adjacent quality contention winners.

The RG Kar lawsuit verdict

The verdict successful the R G Kar rape and execution lawsuit is expected to beryllium delivered by a Sealdah tribunal connected Saturday.

The begetter of the unfortunate — who was a inferior doc — said connected Friday that the household was acceptable to hold for “five years for justice… We volition not beg but we volition fight, and if required, snatch justice.”

He told The Indian Express, “Sanjoy (Roy, premier accused) is simply a criminal. He volition beryllium punished, and immoderate the tribunal feels, that punishment volition beryllium fixed to him. We person gone to the High Court and Supreme Court for justice.”

“For 5 months, determination has been nary due investigation. The probe was lone for the archetypal 3 days and past thing happened. We had ne'er asked for a CBI investigation, but the tribunal had ordered a CBI probe,” the begetter said.

IN CONTEXT: The RG Kar incidental had led to nationwide outrage and prolonged protests.

Sanjay Roy, who was a civic unpaid with the metropolis police, was charged with committing the transgression astatine the state-run infirmary successful northbound Kolkata connected August 9 past year.

The Kolkata Police which was investigating the lawsuit initially arrested Roy connected August 10, a time aft the medic’s assemblage was recovered from the seminar country of the hospital.

The Calcutta High Court aboriginal transferred the lawsuit to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the bureau has sought the decease punishment for the accused.

The in-camera proceedings successful the rape and execution of the doc commenced connected November 12 and 50 witnesses were examined.

Hearing successful the proceedings of Roy was concluded connected January 9.

Maintaining that different persons were besides progressive successful the crime, the parents of the unfortunate person said that they expect that they volition besides beryllium arrested and tried earlier the court.

They person besides filed an exertion earlier the tribunal seeking further probe into the case.

Opposition governmental parties, including the BJP and the CPI(M), protested the gruesome crime.

The Supreme Court, which suo motu took up the substance concerning the rape and execution astatine R G Kar hospital, had formed a National Task Force (NTF) for suggesting a protocol for the information of doctors and different aesculapian professionals crossed the country.

The NTF filed a study earlier the apex tribunal successful November past year.

The TMC was initially successful the dock for alleged links of enactment cadre to the accused. But the enactment says Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has handled the substance well.

A TMC MP told The Indian Express: “Initially, it was precise hard for the enactment arsenic good arsenic the government… But our Chief Minister handled the concern with a humane attack and we rode the wave. Now we are vindicated.”

TMC vice-president and spokesperson Jay Prakash Majumder said: “Days person passed since a court-monitored CBI probe was ordered. The basal of Mamata Banerjee and the Kolkata Police has been proved right. One should retrieve that, wrong 36 hours of the crime, the authorities constabulary had arrested the main and the lone accused.”

New BJP president successful Goa

Former Goa MLA Damodar Naik volition beryllium the adjacent president of the authorities portion of the BJP.

Sunil Bansal, the party’s cardinal predetermination observer, said the halfway committee met connected Friday and unanimously decided to nominate 54-year-old Naik for the post.

Naik, who is presently the authorities BJP’s wide secretary, filed his information successful the beingness of Bansal, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, outgoing authorities portion main Sadanand Shet Tanavade and others.

Bansal said Naik’s sanction volition beryllium formally announced connected Saturday.

Singapore President successful Odisha

Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam arrived successful Bhubaneshwar Friday connected a two-day sojourn to the state, during which respective memorandums of knowing (MoUs) volition beryllium signed betwixt the state and the coastal state.

— With PTI inputs