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Mahila Satta pleads for police reforms

A Mahila Satta delegation today requested Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy to undertake police reforms as part of a plan to prevent crimes against women and children.

The delegation comprising Mahaila Satta President N. Saroja Devi, General Secretary K. Geetha Murthy and GHMC unit President T. Padmaja Rani wanted the Home Minister to implement the Justice Malimath Committee recommendations on improving criminal justice.

The Mahila Satta specifically suggested that abduction of women and children be treated as a crime warranting capital punishment. Crime perpetrators as also their instigators should be punished within 90 days. Criminal investigation should be shielded from political interference and forensic labs established in each district.

The delegation called on the Home Minister against the backdrop of the kidnap and brutal murder of a child, Naga Vaishnavi of Vijayawada.

Friday, February 5, 2010 - 18:14

Non-party civic polls worth Considering: Lok Satta

The Lok Satta Party today described Chief Minister K. Rosaiah’s proposal to hold municipal and corporation elections on a non-party basis as worth considering.

Talking to media personnel who called on him, Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan said that political parties, which are supposed to fight on ideological lines and earn people’s good will and support, have thrown ideologies to the winds and are waging politics of hatred based on region and religion, caste and language. Against such a backdrop, one need have no objection to holding urban civic body elections on a non-party basis and more so considering that the focus in such elections is on local problems and not on ideologies.

Dr. JP suggested that the Government should also consider direct election to posts of municipal chairperson, mayor and their deputies, formation of people-elected ward committees and devolution of a per capita grant of Rs.1000 on each ward committee for addressing problems in wards.

Asked whether the Chief Minister mooted non-party elections to suit the ruling party, Dr. JP said he might have. The Lok Satta would, however, welcome any proposal that benefits people.

Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 17:07

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