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Bodoland Territorial Council polls: BPF's Kamal Shing Narzary booked for calling BJP MLA Angoorlata Deka ‘sex worker’
A case was registered against Bodoland People's Front (BPF) legislator Kamal Shing Narzary on Sunday for allegedly making derogatory remarks against its ally BJP's MLA Angoorlata Deka, police said.
The case was registered with the Bijni police station after receiving a complaint in the matter, Chirang Superintendent of Police Sudhakar Singh said.
"The FIR was lodged under Sections 294 (obscene acts and songs), 500 (punishment for defamation) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of Indian Penal Code. We will inquire into the matter as per the law," Singh told PTI.
Narzary had allegedly called actor-turned-politician Deka a "sex worker" on Saturday while speaking to reporters between election campaigning for the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) elections, the first phase of which is on Monday.
The local BJP leaders on Sunday morning filed the police complaint and slammed the BPF leader's comment.
Voting for 11 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats commences, results to be declared on 3 December
Biennial election for 11 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council will take place on Tuesday and the results declared on 3 December, officials said on Monday.
Voting will take place from 8 am to 5 pm.
Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi on Monday told PTI that instructions have been issued to all the district magistrates and superintendents of police to ensure peaceful polls.
A total of 199 candidates are in the fray for the 11 seats going to biennial polls. Of these poll-bound seats, there are five graduates' constituencies and six teachers' constituencies.
Meerut Graduate constituency has the maximum 30 candidates in the fray, while the minimum is 11 candidates are contesting in Lucknow Teachers' constituency.
The BJP, Samajwadi Party, Congress and teachers' associations are contesting the polls. The term of office of the 11 MLCs from these constituencies expired on 6 May.
Kashmir's DDC winners see election results as mandate for development, restoration of Article 370
Last month, twenty-four-year-old Rozia Banoo took a plunge into electoral politics with one pledge: she will mend broken roads, provide regular electricity and water to the Central Kashmir area of Sukhnag in Badgam.
After being elected a member of the Jammu and Kashmir District Development Commission (DDC) from the Sukhnag constituency earlier this week, Banoo a candidate of the People's Democratic Front (PDF) said, she will deliver on her promises.
Like Banoo, other winners of the local body polls, see the results as an opportunity to work towards the development of their constituencies.
While People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of several Kashmiri parties, raised the pitch for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's special status in the polls, on the ground, several of the candidates from smaller parties and independents won on the promise that they were the right candidates to resolve the developmental issues.
