'File FIR against Modi'

AICC Secretary Shantaram Naik has demanded for filing a FIR against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for passing derogatory remark on Defence Minister A K Antony by calling him a Pakistan agent.

Addressing mediapersons in the city on Thursday, Naik said that calling the defence minister as Pakistan agent amounts to sedition under Indian Penal Code. Therefore a FIR has to be filed and the case has to be probed.

Modi who is commenting on the defence minister, neglected the security of coastal areas in his home state Gujarath, which is quite close to Pakistan border.

Intensifying his allegation against Modi, the AICC Secretary said that the Central government had given 30 boats with night vision cameras to Gujarath, but they were not used when there was a need of coastal vigil. The fund sanctioned for setting up coastal police stations, was used for police stations in Banaskantha and Ahmedabad which are not relevant to coastal security, Shantaram Naik stated.

He said that Modi's talk of having a Congress free India is unpatriotic and is an insult to freedom movement of India and the sacrifices made by freedom fighters.

Leaders politically killed

“BJP as a political party has been wiped out and leaders like Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Murali Manohar Joshi, Jaswant Singh, Lalji Tandon have been politically killed, so that there should be no competitor to Modi to contend for the post of prime minister, which will in any case remain as a dream.”

When Modi was recently asked about the criticism levelled against him that he is a one man party,  he has said as to how the affairs of such a big country can be run by one man without realising that Hitler, Mussolini and Idi Ami did it, Naik mocked.

Speaking about various provisions made by the Central government for the welfare of people, Shantaram Naik said that provision has been made to implement Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013 in the interests of effective consumer protection, uniformity and standardisation of business practices and transactions in the real estate sector.

The proposed Bill provides for the establishment of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (the Authority) for regulation and promotion of real estate sector and to ensure sale of plot, apartment or building, as the case may be, in an efficient and transparent manner which is going to secure hard earned money of salaried and other middle class people.Kodagu District Congress Committee President B T Pradeep, MLC T John were present.