“Government Will Follow Refugee Policy,” VK Singh On Rohingya Issue

Union minister of India VK Singh has said that the Modi government will follow its policy for refugees to tackle the Rohingya issue.
“The government will go according to the policy to deal with refugees . When the situation is good enough for them to return to their country,” he told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram. Nobody wants to stay as a refugee, the minister of state for external affairs said.

Around 40,000 Rohingya Muslims have settled in India, and nearly 16,000 of them have received refugee documentation, according to the United Nations.

No toilet? Face wrath of the government. Power to UP village cut off

Electricity connections of hundreds of households have been snapped in Sarojini Nagar and Mohanlalganj blocks of Lucknow for allegedly failing to build toilets in their houses.

Villagers said they had asked their Block Development Officers for some more time to build toilets, but to no avail and their power connections were snapped. Sarojini Nagar BDO Ajay Pratap said power supply would be resumed once people started cooperating.

Earlier, in Hamirpur district of Bundelkhand, the administration had undertaken wall writing at panchayat bhawans warning villagers of withdrawal of their pension, gas connections, suspension of electricity supply, ration cards and MNREGA job cards if they continued to defecate in the open after September 15.

Swachch Bharat Mission Director Vijay Anand initially denied any such punitive move to make UP Open Defecation Free. When confronted with photographs of wall writings, he assured to get it probed.

Such warnings have been issued on behalf of the gram panchayat in Mihuna and Sheikhupura villages of Hamirpur. The mission director also assured to get the Lucknow disconnections probed.

Principal Secretary, Panchayati Raj, Chanchal Kumar Tiwari denied any such orders having been passed from Lucknow.

CBI interrogates Trinamool leader Madan Mitra

The CBI  interrogated Trinamool Congress leader and former West Bengal minister Madan Mitra in connection with the Narada tapes scam.

Mitra, who was earlier named in the Saradha ponzi scam and spent several months in judicial custody, was probed to ascertain his involvement in the Narada tapes scam.

Besides Mitra, names of several other Trinamool Congress leaders had figured in the Narada tapes scam.

The Narada tapes scam purportedly showed the Narada News CEO Matthew Samuels posing as a businessman and allegedly offering money to several TMC leaders.

CBI had earlier arrested Mitra in the Saradha ponzi scam where he was among the list of beneficiaries. He later got bail from the court.

Mitra had served the first Trinamool Congress government of Mamata Banerjee in the capacity of Sports and Transport ministers.

Both the CBI and the ED are concurrently probing the Narada tapes scam.