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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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As Mamata Banerjee Blames Victim, TMC MP Mahua Moitra Condemns Rape, Murder Of Bengal Teen

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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra condemned the alleged rape and murder of Bengal teen. She assured the family that the “full extent of the law will be implemented” to punish the culprits. Her serious remarks came after her party’s chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blamed the victim, and questioned questioned: “Was she raped? Was she pregnant or had a love affair?”

Moitra said, that parents of the girl are still in shock. “There is no word to describe the horrible incident. Parents are still in shock. I have assured the family that the full extent of the law would be implemented to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

She was at girl’s village and met her family in Nadia district.

She praising police said that they have done a great job. She also lauded them for “showing promptness to arrest the accused”.

On the issue she had a completely opposite stand from her party’s chief. Moitra said it does not matter if the girl was in a relationship with the accused. “The boy is an adult and if he has had a sexual relationship with a minor, then that is rape according to the law and he will be prosecuted accordingly,” she said. Incidentally, the accused is the son of a local TMC leader.

When she was questioned that the political connections of accused’s father in ruling party might become a blockage in driving justice, Moitra said the party will take every step to punish the accused. “There is no way he will be shielded,” she said.

A minor girl died after she was allegedly gang-raped at a birthday party in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Sunday. The girl’s family has alleged that the main accused is son of a TMC leader.

The victim’s family alleged that the body was cremated without an autopsy under pressure from a local TMC panchayat leader, whose son Braj Gopal Goala (21) is the prime accused in the case. A police complaint was lodged five days after the incident on April 10.

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