The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
Gen (retd) V K Singh garlanding the portrait of V P Singh at Mor Bhavan on Saturday. |
“Government cannot protect the interest of farmers. It cannot give justice to farmers. Price of fertilisers keeps increasing each year. There is a farmer’s suicide every hour,” said V K Singh
By Dheeraj Fartode
Accusing government of anti-farmers policy ex-chief of Army staff General V K Singh, on Saturday, exhorted farmers to unite and change the system.
Addressing a farmers’ gathering under the banner of Kisan Manch at Morbhavan, Singh said, “Government is giving a step-motherly treatment to farmers. Farmers should be aware of such political leaders and not vote for them in the upcoming elections.”
National President of Kisan Manch Vinod Singh, Pratap Goswami, Central General Secretary of Nag Vidarbha Andolan Samiti, Ahmed Kadar and others were present on the dais. Singh blamed wrong government policies for last 65 years for rising debts on farmers. “Government cannot protect the interest of farmers. It cannot give justice to farmers. Price of fertilisers keeps increasing each year. There is a farmer’s suicide every hour,” said Singh.
The former Army chief accused the government of being pro-industrialists and anti-farmer. “This subsidy on fertilisers is not for farmers, it is to benefit industries. If industries are deciding rates of their products then why farmers have no right to decide minimum support price (MSP) of farm products,” Singh asked.
Training his guns on Maharashtra Government Singh said that the government was using water from Vidarbha’s irrigation projects for sugarcane farming and power projects instead of region’s farmers. Singh also targetted land acquisition policies and said that these policies should be reviewed and restructured for farmers, not for industries.
He appealed to the farmers to unite and fight for their future. “Don’t fall prey to political leaders’ ‘Divide and Rule’ policy. It is just to grab votes,” Singh urged. Singh also cautioned farmers against opting for BT cotton. “Farmers have forgotten their ‘Desi’ breed of cotton and adopting BT cotton model. It has created water scarcity in the region,” he claimed.
Singh charged Rahul Gandhi with using the name of Kalawati for political mileage. “Kalawati remained empty handed even after hitting headlines of national newspapers,” he said. He added that all MLAs from Vidarbha were involved in corruption which has rendered the Vidarbha package as useless.
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