Migrants from UP, Bihar reason for Guj’s prosperity: Akhilesh
Lucknow: Apparently hitting out at Gujarat Finance Minister Nitin Patel for blaming migrants for rise in poverty in his state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said it was because of people from Bihar and UP that Gujarat was prospering. “Some persons were saying that people from UP and Bihar were spreading poverty, but in reality it is due to them that there is prosperity in Gujarat,” he said when asked to comment on Patel’s remark after a cabinet meeting here. If people from the two states return back from Mumbai then half of the city would get stalled. People from north India are running big units there, he said. Patel had recently said that poor people from other states who come to Gujarat were included in state’s BPL list, when queried about rising number of people in his state in below poverty line category. On the poverty figure, Yadav said first the figures were presented by the Planning Commission and now by BJP. “The poor people of the country will punish them in the time to come,” he said adding that its them who decide who will form the next government not any industrial body. The Chief Minister also said Gujarat and UP cannot be compared, saying his state was biggest in term of population. (PTI)
Azam says his buffaloes more famous than Queen Victoria
Lucknow: Irked at the media coverage on his stolen buffaloes and the subsequent suspension of three policemen, Uttar Pradesh Minister Mohd Azam Khan said his cattle had become more famous than Britain’s Queen Victoria. “At present my buffaloes are more famous than Queen Victoria…I wish I was as lucky as my buffaloes…,” Khan said at an event here on Tuesday. “You switch on any news channel and you will find me following buffaloes carrying dung over my head…,” he added. Khan has been under criticism from media over the massive search operation carried out to recover the seven buffaloes stolen from his farmhouse in Rampur on February 1. Dog squads, crime branch sleuths and police personnel of various police stations had raided slaughter houses and meat shops to collect clues about the stolen bovine. A sub-inspector and two constables were sent to police lines for dereliction of duty following the incident even though the buffaloes were recovered within two days. (PTI)
Girl bites man’s tongue when he tries to kiss her
Bhopal: An 18-year-old girl bit off the tongue of a man, who forcibly tried to kiss her, police said. In her complaint to police, the girl alleged that the man, identified as Kamlesh (30), had been stalking her for the last ten days and on Tuesday he forcibly tried to kiss her in public near Income Tax colony in Kotra Sultanabad area of the city, they said. The girl, in a fit of rage, then bit off his tongue. Later, the accused, who hails from Morena district in Madhya Pradesh, and the girl reached the Kamla Nagar police station where the man claimed that he knew the girl for the last four years and that she owed him money. Following the incident, Kamlesh was arrested and booked under section 354 (assault or use of force to outrage a woman’s modesty) of the IPC, police said. (PTI)