Former BSP district coordinator kills self

A former BSP district coordinator of Jalaun district, Roop Ram Ahirwar allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his licensed revolver at his house in Tulsi Ram locality of Jalaun district on Sunday. No suicide note has been found.

Police said Ahirwar (40) was under depression over a family dispute and may have taken the extreme step over it. They have seized the weapon and sent the body for post mortem examination. Ahirwar was alone in the house when the incident took place, they said.

Noida farmers protest for compensation

Noida: A month after National Capital Region Planning Board cleared the Greater Noida Master Plan 2021, paving the way to restart construction work that had been on hold for a more than a year, farmers held fresh protests on Sunday morning.

Close to 200 farmers shouted slogans and prevented construction at Gaur Green City housing project, claiming many had not been paid the revised compensation amount ordered by the Allahabad High Court.

Police force was called in to disperse the protesters, who were from Bisrakh, Patwari and surrounding villages.

Protesters also forcibly locked the main gates of Gaur Green City project.

Course correction

At the function organised to launch the scheme of unemployment allowance, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said the SP government would honour all the promises it had made in the election manifesto within five years. Nothing unusual, except that Mulayam Singh also said that Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani would play the main role in the execution of these schemes. Was he trying to squash reports, which have been in the air for past some weeks, that Usmani is unhappy in Lucknow and wants to go back to the Centre?

Divine factor

While visiting the Congress office, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal enquired about the prospects of the Congress in the state. Local leaders painted a rosy picture. One of them remarked, "Sir, now the future of the Congress is bright; it is in the hands of Ram and Krishna." As a perplexed Sibal looked at him, the leader explained, "See, our newly appointed state president Nirmal Khatri is from Faizabad-Ayodhya, which is the land of Ram, while the legislature party leader Pradeep Mathur is from Mathura, which is the land of Krishna." It is not known if Sibal was reassured, but it would be sobering to take a look at the BJP, which has been waiting for the divine blessings of Lord Ram for decades.

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