Lucknow Feb 23 PTI Farmers organisation Rashtriya Kisan Manch on Wednesday announced its support to the Samajwadi Party SP in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections In a letter written to the SP President Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday Shekhar Dixit the national president of the Manch said his organisation has decided to extend full support to the SP Dixit in the letter said it was unfortunate that the ruling BJP is not doing anything for the welfare of farmers and is talking about creating disharmony BJP is trying to regain power by creating religious frenzy among the people he said alleging that the ruling party was behaving like the East India Company and was following the policy of divide and rule He said the support to the SP was extended after deliberations on the present situation of the state in an emergency meeting of the National Kisan Manch He said the support was aimed at realising the vision of prosperity of farmers and youths Dixit in the letter noted SPs poll promises including that of making irrigation free for farmers providing free electricity up to 300 units In the past too this party has done many fruitful works for the benefit of the farmers and it is expected that in the coming time it will take these works further if the government is formed he said PTI SLM SAB VN VN

Pune Jan 31 PTI The Koregaon-Bhima Inquiry Commission probing the January 2018 violence near a memorial in Maharashtras Pune district on Monday resumed the day-to-day hearing over two-and-a-half months after it had suspended the proceedings in view of the rising COVID-19 graph The last hearing was conducted on November 15 2021 The hearing was supposed to resume in early January this year but it was suspended due to the rise in coronavirus cases and postponed till January 31 said commissions lawyer Ashish Satpute He said Sambhaji Shivale a witness deposed before the commission on Monday Other witnesses including the then Pune police commissioner Rashmi Shukla is expected to depose later this week he said Shukla currently posted as Additional Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force CRPF in Hyderabad had filed her affidavit in the case Shukla was the Pune police commissioner when the violence had broken out at Koregaon Bhima in the Pune district Tejswi Satpute the then additional SP of Pune rural police is also expected to appear before the commission this week Satpute is currently serving as Solapur rural SP The two-member probe commission is headed by the retired chief justice of the Calcutta High Court J N Patel and also comprises former Maharashtra chief secretary Sumit Mullick As per the Pune police violence erupted between caste groups near the war memorial during the bicentennial anniversary of the 1818 battle of Koregaon Bhima on January 1 2018 Dalit organisations commemorate the victory of the East India Company over the Peshwa of Pune in the battle because British forces included soldiers from the oppressed Mahar community But some right-wing organisations had opposed the celebration leading to the violence in 2018 One person had died and several others including 10 police personnel were injured in the incident PTI COR NSK NSK

Mumbai Jan 29 PTI Pune city police handled the situation tactfully during the 2018 Koregaon-Bhima clashes preventing a major untoward incident in the city senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla has told an inquiry commissionShukla then Pune police commissioner has submitted a detailed affidavit before the two-member commission headed by Justice retd J N Patel which is conducting probe into the violenceClashes broke out near the war memorial at Perne in Pune district on January 1 2018 during the bi-centennial celebration of the Bhima Koregaon battleShukla said the Pune city police had anticipated that a large number of visitors would arrive from all over the state on that day and had taken adequate precautions and preventive measuresdue to said effective deployment of man power police force there was negligible incidence of stone pelting within my jurisdiction or violence in the limits of Pune city she said There was neither any loss of human life nor any major outbreak of violence in the city Also there was no untoward incident in Pune district after the evening of January 3 2018 Shukla added Earlier the commissions lawyer Ashish Satpute had filed an application seeking that Shukla -- now deputed to the CRPF -- be directed to file an affidavit Dalit organizations commemorate the victory of the East India Company over the Peshwa of Pune in the 1818 battle of Bhima Koregaon as the British forces included soldiers from the oppressed Mahar community Some right-wing organisations had opposed the celebration leading to violence on January 1 2018 One person died and several others including 10 police personnel were injured Pune Police later arrested several Left-leaning activists and writers for alleged Maoist connections claiming that the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31 2017 had been backed Maoists and the inflammatory speeches made there triggered the next days violence near the Perne memorial PTI AVI KRK KRK

New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday remembered Rani Velu Nachiyar on her birth anniversary and said that her "indomitable courage" will keep motivating future generations.

Patna (Bihar) [India], August 24 (ANI): We will fight against an attempt of turning our democratic India into an East India Company conglomerate, said RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday.