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Arunachal Pradesh remained backward due to Congress ‘misrule’: Kiren Rijiju

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New Delhi | Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday hit out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi alleging that Arunachal Pradesh had remained the most backward state in the country due to his party’s 40-year long “misrule”.

The BJP leader, who hails from Arunachal Pradesh, also said due to the focussed attention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the entire Northeast is poised to become a key economic hub of India.

“Rahul Gandhi has said that only the Congress party can develop Arunachal Pradesh. I want to ask Rahul Gandhi that in the last 40 years of Congress rule in Arunachal Pradesh, why the state has remained the most backward in India with regards to roads, communication, telecommunication, airports, railways, health and other social parameters,” Rijiju said.

His remarks came after Gandhi, at a rally in Itanagar, said the Congress will restore restore the special category status to all states of the northeast if voted to power at the Centre. Rijiju said people had suffered long due to the Congress “misrule”.

The development process in Arunachal Pradesh picked up only after the NDA came to power in 2014, the Union minister of state for home affairs said. “The Congress has left behind unresolved issues in the state like the boundary issues, refugee issues and security problems. Today, we have to face the problems which were created and left behind by the Congress,” he said.

He said due to Modi’s ‘Act East Policy’ and other important infrastructure projects, the northeast region is poised to become an important economic hub of the country.

Polling for the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh Assembly and the two Lok Sabha seats in the state — East and West — will be held simultaneously on April 11. Rijiju represents Arunachal-West in Lok Sabha and will contest the elections from the seat again this year.

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Bhanwari Devi case trial stuck as American DNA expert failed to appear before court: Defence counsel

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Jodhpur | The trial in the Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case has been stuck for about two years as American DNA expert Amber B Carr has failed to appear in court, a defence counsel argued here while demanding the removal of her name from the list of prosecution witnesses.

The expert who works with the FBI has not appeared in the court despite being issued five summons. She was first issued summons in May 2017.

The CBI has been pleading for her to be examined through video-conferencing but the defence has been protesting against it. “We want her to be examined in person but the insistence of the CBI on video-conferencing, despite the court’s refusal, is nothing but a tactic to delay the trial,” defence counsel Jagmal Singh Choudhary claimed.

Choudhary on Tuesday moved an application in court for removing Carr from the list of witnesses and to proceed with the trial in order to complete it as soon as possible. “We have asked the trial court to remove Carr from the list of witnesses. In spite of repeated prayers, the court has not been granting our plea which is not justified,” he said. He alleged that instead of producing the witness, the prosecution has been just seeking time over and over again to delay the trail.

The prosecution told the court that they have moved an application in the high court against the rejection of their appeal to grant them permission to carry out Carr’s examination through video conferencing. “Since we have moved an application in the high court, we prayed the trail court to adjourn the hearing,” a CBI counsel said.

Granting the CBI’s plea, the court adjourned the matter till March 25 after conducting the hearing for two successive days on Monday and Tuesday. Carr had tested bones purportedly of Devi which were recovered by the CBI from a canal near Jaloda village.

Since the bones were charred, they could not be tested for DNA in India and were sent to the US at FBI’s forensic laboratory, where Carr had carried out the DNA examination.

Devi, an auxiliary nurse midwife at a sub-centre in Jaliwada village, around 120 km from Jodhpur, had gone missing on September 1, 2011. She disappeared after a CD allegedly showing then Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna in a compromising position with the 36-year-old nurse was aired by some television news channels. The CBI had said Devi was allegedly abducted from Jodhpur’s Bilara area and killed.

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