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Take up civic issues for discussion: AIADMK to Puducherry speaker

Opposition AIADMK today urged the Puducherry assembly speaker to ensure that public issues are taken up during the budget session commencing tomorrow.

AIADMK legislature wing leader A Anbalagan told reporters at the end of a meeting of the party MLAs that he had handed over a letter to the speaker V Vaithilingam seeking adjournment of all the scheduled businesses of the House.

The letter said, the speaker should instead discuss various public issues and remove the hurdles in the territorial administration because of the face-off between Lt Governor Kiran Bedi and Chief Minister V Narayanasamy.

The AIADMK leader alleged that free rice was not regularly available to card holders through ration shops because of difference of opinion between Bedi and Narayanasamy over the modalities of operating the scheme.

The party has four legislators, including Anbalagan, in the opposition. The three others are A Baskar, K A U Asana and Vayyapuri Manikandan.

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Government can’t provide security to everyone: Goa BJP women’s wing chief on 20-yr-old’s ‘gang-rape’

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Days after a 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped on a South Goa beach, state BJP women’s wing president Sulakshana Sawant has said the government cannot provide security to every individual.

The opposition Congress has criticised Sawant for her “disgusting” statement and said she should resign from her post on moral grounds.

“The government cannot provide security to every individual. We need to change the mentality of the people. An individual can act as a protector of the other,” Sawant told a press conference here yesterday, while responding to a question on the alleged gang-rape of the woman on a South Goa beach on May 25.

The 20-year-old victim was allegedly sexually assaulted by three men from Indore in front of her boyfriend, the police had said.

Sawant said there was an increase in the number of rape cases being reported to the police because more women were coming forward to report such crimes these days.

“The women believe that something may change if they take a step forward (and report such cases),” she added.

Sawant said the BJP women’s wing would request the state tourism department to install CCTV cameras on the crime-prone beaches of Goa, which attract lakhs of travellers every year.

Meanwhile, the Goa Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee (GPMCC) said it was the responsibility of the government to provide security to every individual.

“It is disgusting that Sawant is making such a statement. She should immediately resign on moral grounds,” GPMCC chief Pratima Coutinho said, adding that it was the government’s responsibility to provide security to every individual, especially women.

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