Report

Scindia Concerned over Rising Crime in MP

BHOPAL: The Congress MP from Guna, Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia has expressed serious concern over the alarming rise in the crime graph in Madhya Pradesh on February 19 and pulled up the Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party Government for failure on its part to tackle the law and order situation.

Shri Scindia said that the law and order situation in the Gwalior-Chambal region was worse than the scenario prevailing in other parts of the State. "What was preventing the police from nabbing the Rambabu-Gadaria gang even four months after it had killed 13 villagers at Bhanwarpura village in Gwalior district's Mohna Police Station area," he said when asked to comment on the surrender by the Arvind Gujjar gang in Bhind district recently.

It is not only that people have now started attacking policemen and such incidents were on the rise in the State but the bigger problem is that even the police have started shooting innocent people, he said recalling how on October 3 last year, three innocent people were killed by the police in Ambah-Porsa village in Morena district.

Shri Scindia said that it was through his initiative that the Task Force on Chanderi, headed by the State Chief Minister, met recently after a long gap. This Task Force was set up to promote the craft of Chanderi and protect the master weavers from exploitation.

Shri Scindia also took a dig at the State Government's Budget presented in the Assembly on February 18. He said that the Government does not deserve a pat if it claims that there was no overdraft for even a single day during the financial year 2004-05 because it is better to go for overdraft and utilize the extra fund for building capital assets instead of ending up doing very little in terms of infrastructure development due to paucity of funds.

Shri Scindia met the leader of opposition in the Assembly, Smt. Jamuna Devi, Deputy Speaker, Shri Hazarilal Raghuvanshi and a large number of local Congress leaders and party workers.

Youth Introspection Camp

CHITRAKOOT: A two-day Youth Introspection Camp was held here from 17 January to strengthen the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh by giving impetus and direction to the youth of the State. UPCC president, Shri Salman Khurshid unfurled the party flag at the Ramayan Mela ground to inaugurate the camp in which around 250 trainees participated/ converged. AICC general secretary, incharge of UP affairs, Shri Satyawrat Chaturvedi and Shri Rahul Gandhi, MP, were among the prominent members present at the camp. The trainees were divided in ten batches and each headed respectively by Shri Jai Kishan, Dr. Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Dr. Sanjay Singh, Shri Rajiv Shukla, Shri Sandip Dikshit, Shri Jatin Prasad, Shri Vivek Bansal, Smt. Anita Singh, Shri Fazale Masood and Shri Vinod Behari Verma.

Every group leader had a detailed discussion with trainees of his group and Shri Rahul Gandhi took keen interest in this programme and had discussion with the members of each group and also enquired about their problems.

UPCC president, Shri Salman Khushid in his address said that the politics has been freed from the influence of religion but it is still inflicted by caste factor. Shri Khurshid said that the Congress party has a dynamic and young leader in Shri Rahul Gandhi and under his leadership the youth will have no problem in achieving their goal.

Shri Rahul Gandhi, while addressing the youth, asked them to be dedicated towards the party and the organization and to make direct contact with their problems and partake in their welfare. Shri Rahul Gandhi said that the youth have to themselves come forward and work and all assistance would be provided to them.

Present in the camp were AICC secretaries, Shri Vibhakar Shastri and Shri Jairam Ramesh, former UPCC president, Shri Jagdambika Pal, Smt. Luis Khurshid, MLA, Shri Rajeshpati Tripathi, Shri Abid Hussain, Shri Prakash Narain, Shri Satish Ajmani and Shri Ravindra Singh.

The programme was organized by Shri Ashok Vajpayee and Pradesh organization incharge and former minister, Shri Satyadev Tripathi gave vote of thanks to the participants and those present.