A party for the party

Though months have passed since the Congress they came back to power, the party is still not over for some of its MLAs. Without giving the celebrations a break, one of the elected MLAs plans to host a lunch for his fellow party leaders. The first one to do so was Jangpura MLA Tarvinder Singh Marwah, who was followed by Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely. Hence, while the Assembly is in session and the Opposition is busy crying hoarse about water and power crisis, most of the ruling party benches remain empty and the Congress MLAs are seen walking late into the session, content.

Blame the messenger

Despite invoking a stringent and non-bailable section of the IPC against Gungun’s alleged kidnappers, the investigators do not seem to be looking at the episode with equal seriousness. A police officer, connected with the case, described it as a simple case and blamed the media for creating the hype. “The child was picked up by a couple and she is now united with her parents. It is better if both the couples are left alone.” When asked as to why they opted to invoke a stringent provision if it was a “simple case”, he said that the police had to do it because of the frenzy the media had created around the case.

Fuel to fire

A recent demolition drive by the Delhi Development Authority, during which an illegal tin structure and walls of a mosque at Andheria More in Mehrauli were pulled down, did not just kicked up a storm but also got other civic bodies entangled. Officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi reportedly visited the place and if rumours are to be believed, they even asked heritage conservationists to prepare a design to rebuild the mosque, this time perhaps in concrete! The mosque, however, is in the eye of a storm with conservationists objecting to its very existence as it stands in the premises of a listed heritage structure.

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