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ECI Changes Maharashtra DGP After Opposition Alleges Bias

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Two weeks before the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the poll panel has ordered the transfer of Maharashtra DGP Rashmi Shukla, according to reports.

The Opposition MVA had alleged that the senior IPS officer was biased towards the ruling Mahayuti alliance and that fair polls wouldnโ€™t be possible if she was the state police chief.

The ECI has directed Chief Secretary Sujata Saunik to hand over Ms Shuklaโ€™s charge to the seniormost IPS officer with immediate effect and send a panel of three names by tomorrow for selection of the next DGP.

The opposition had claimed Shukla illegally tapped the phones of opposition leaders on the directions of Devendra Fadnavis.

Mumbaiโ€™s current commissioner, Vivek Phansalkar, is most likely to take charge as the stateโ€™s interim DGP.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole has appreciated the ECIโ€™s decision to change the DGP and appealed the ECI to ensure that Shukla is not appointed to any other position.

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โ€œRSS Doesnโ€™t Have Remote Control Over Modi Government,โ€ States Mohan Bhagwat

Ashmita Chhabria

New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat states that the RSS has no control over the Modi-led BJP Central Government. He also stated that said that while the main people are working in the government, they would continue to remain a part of the Sangh.

While addressing an event of ex-servicemen in Dharamshala Bhagwat was quoted saying, โ€œThey have different executives, different policies, different working methods. Thoughts and culture are of the Sangh and that is effective. The main people are working there (in the government), they belong to the Sangh and will remain so. There is only such relation and nothing like the media says โ€˜Direct Remote Controlโ€™, no such control,โ€ by news agency ANI.

About one thousand ex-servicemen attended the event in Dharamshala on Saturday evening and the RSS chief urged them to know more about Sangh.

โ€œGovernments were against us. There has always been opposition. The Sangh has been running for 96 years by overcoming all obstacles and since so many volunteers are getting ready so they will not keep quiet or sit idle. Wherever there is a need to work in society, they are always available. The work done by the swayamsevaks prove they do not just run Parliament, they take the people of society along, they are independent and autonomous.โ€

In another context, Bhagwat said the DNA of all Indians is the same. โ€œThe DNA of all the people of India from 40,000 years ago is the same as that of the people of today. The ancestors of all of us are one, because of those ancestors our country flourished, our culture continued,โ€ he said.

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