New Delhi: After the Eknath Shinde government came to power in Maharashtra, the leaders of the anti-BJP parties have come under attack. One leader after another is coming across government agencies. Now it is the turn of actor Ritesh Deshmukh and his wife Genelia. The inquiry has been ordered following allegations that co-operative banks were involved in a ruckus in granting a loan of Rs 116 crore to Ritesh-Genelia's Latur-based agro-processing company.

Last month, the BJP leaders of Latur district alleged that the Maha Vikas Aghadi government had also messed up the allocation of a plot in Latur MIDC to Desh Agro Private Limited. The BJP leaders also alleged that the company was sanctioned loans of Rs 61 crore and Rs 55 crore from the Latur District Central Cooperative Bank without complying with the necessary norms on the part of the banks. Ritesh is the son of former Congress Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. His elder brother Amit Uddhav was a minister in the government while his younger brother Latur is an MLA from Grameen.

Rahul Effect, Uniform Civil Code also in MP

After Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, now one more BJP-ruled state of Madhya Pradesh has announced to introduce a Uniform Civil Code. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced that he wants Uniform Civil Code to be implemented across the country. A committee will also be formed for the same in Madhya Pradesh at the earliest. Chauhan made this announcement while addressing a gathering of tribals. Shivraj Singh asked why there are 2 laws in one country? All citizens should have an equal opportunity. A Uniform Civil Code is very essential for equality in the country.

Against Chauhan's announcement, the Congress has claimed that the BJP had to surrender the Uniform Civil Code following the overwhelming response to Rahul Gandhi's visit to Madhya Pradesh. Congress claims that BJP is interested in making people owl in the name of Uniform Civil Code. If BJP was serious, it would have implemented uniform civil code in the whole country long ago. There is no need to play the game of implementation in the states.

Anti-Brahmin-Vania slogans were written in JNU

The Jawaharlal Nehru National University campus has been in uproar as anti-Brahmin and anti-Vaniya slogans have been written on the campus walls. Written in red on the walls of JNU's School of International Studies, Brahmins leave the campus, Brahmins leave India, Brahmins-Vaniyas, we are coming for you, we will take revenge, go back. Threats of bloodshed have been written.

JNU women professors Vandana Mishra and Pravesh Kumar also have slogans written on their cabin doors saying 'Go back to the branch'. Mishra was detained by the Left in his own cabin for three days. Mishra and Kumar are also accused of being agents of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

BJP's student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and left-wing student organization All India Student Association have come face to face on this issue. The ABVP claims that the Left has written threats on Vandana Mishra's cabin door to intimidate him. The Left alleges that the ABVP itself is blaming us by writing slogans.

Two BJP-ruled states face off in the Supreme Court

The two BJP-ruled states of Karnataka and Maharashtra have come face to face in the Supreme Court over the border dispute. Eknath Shinde of Maharashtra has petitioned the Supreme Court that some villages in Karnataka with a majority of Marathi-speaking people should be merged into Maharashtra. Karnataka has vehemently opposed it. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bomai said that the application of Maharashtra is not valid. Our stand is constitutional and legal so we will fight. Karnataka has fielded top lawyers including Mukul Rohatgi.

The issue has become explosive in Karnataka and Maharashtra. On this issue, a student was beaten up by other students in Belagavi, Karnataka. A student was thrashed by his colleagues for hoisting the Karnataka flag at an inter-college programme. The incident took place in Gogate College, which is a border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra.

The situation is explosive as the Kannada organization demonstrated against the student protest and beat the pro-Maharashtra students. The Kannada organization alleged that the Maharashtra Integration Committee is creating tension in Bolgavi.

Phones of 20 leaders were stolen in Kejriwal's road show

Arvind Kejriwal's road show for municipal corporation elections in Delhi has created a sensation when mobile phones of 20 leaders were stolen. These phones were stolen when Kejriwal was campaigning in Malakaganj area. Many MLAs and leaders were present with Kejriwal.

A police FIR has been registered regarding this incident. Delhi North District Deputy Commissioner Sagar Singh Kalshi admitted that the case was registered after complaints were lodged by MLA Akhilesh Tripathi, AAP leader Guddi Devi and MLA Somnath Bharti's secretary.

AAP and BJP are fighting each other on this issue. The BJP leader is saying, look at what kind of people are with Kejriwal, think what they will do to the common people if they don't even give up the mobile phones of their leaders. The AAP leader is quipping that the BJP workers have come to know that there is going to be a crushing defeat in the municipal corporation elections, so they are going back to their original business.

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BJP planning 400 rallies in Delhi

BJP plans to hold 400 public rallies and 250 road shows across the capital on the last day of campaigning for the Delhi Municipal Corporation elections. However, it is unlikely that Home Minister Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will join it. 18 Union Ministers, some MPs and senior party leaders have participated in the campaign in Delhi.

Punjab will change name based on caste

Punjab School Education Minister Harjotsingh Bains has ordered to change the name of the government schools which have been named after caste and community and give a new name to the school. Since the name of a government school is based on a particular caste, the people of that society feel uncivilized in the present age. Also, division on the basis of caste is encouraged in the society, said Bains.

VHP presented a list of 400 love jihad cases

Right-wing group Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Thursday presented a list of 400 love jihad cases while demanding a central law to stop Muslim men from marrying non-Muslim girls for religious conversions only. Vishwa Hindu Parishad General Secretary Surendra Jain termed love jihad as the most heinous, cruel and inhuman of all jihads and said there is an urgent need for a strict central law to curb love jihad and illegal conversions. Such conversions create discontent in society while posing a threat to national security. The VHP's demand for the above list and central law has come in the wake of the murder of Maharashtra girl Shraddha Walkar by her live-in boyfriend Aftab Amin Poonawala in May.

Brahmins go to branch: Protest in JNU

Anti-Brahmin slogans were found on the walls of School of International Studies-II building of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Thursday. Threatening the Brahmin professors of the university, this slogan 'Go back to the branch' is written on the walls of the chambers of some Brahmin professors. The university authorities in a statement condemned the university as a shared property. The statement has ordered an investigation into the incident, implicating unknown elements who did the work.

Salary to imam means cheating with Hindus

An activist named Subhash Chandra Agarwal filed a Right to Information application against the Revenue Department of the Delhi government on February 16 this year. He cited a report presented by Zee News in 2019 in which the Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, was to increase the salaries of imams and assistants working in mosques owned by the Delhi Waqf Board. announced. Further, petitioner Agarwal sought answers to 12 questions through his petition. While hearing this RTI application, the Delhi Waqf Board announced that the salaries of imams and bangis (bangi) working in Delhi have been increased almost four times since 2014. Keeping this issue in mind, Central Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar recently said that the honorarium paid to imams and assistants working in mosques in Delhi is encouraging the tendency of pro-Islamic movements.

- Inder Sahni