News in brief from across Gujarat

Ahmedabad, 24 November 2014

–Police seized 700 kg cow beef from Mirzapur tran-khuniya garden in Ahmedabad today. Bovine slaughter is banned in Gujarat with approval of the Supreme Court. A loading rickshaw driver deserted his rickshaw and escaped in this incident.

–BJP MLA of Morbi Kantibhai Amrutiya was seen beating a person with stick on roadside in Morbi in a video clip circulating today. Amrutiya clarified that there was a drunk person with sword in his hand speaking bad language in public in presence of women. Amrutiya said he had to use force because drunk person had sword in his hand. He said the sequence went on just for couple of minutes before he was unarmed and police took his hold. Amrutiya said police has filed case against that drunk person for violation of prohibition and keeping sword in his possession.

–Councillors of Congress party today staged protest during general board meeting of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) over the issue of spread of jaundice in city’s Saraspur area. Congress Councillors protested with big banners in their hand. They shouted slogans. There was a brief scuffle between BJP and Congress Councillors when BJP Councillors tried to snatch away banners.

–State executive meeting of Gujarat Congress took place in Surat today in which party high command Gurudas Kamat couldn’t remain present due to death of Congress leader Murli Deora in Mumbai.

–Forest Minister Mangubhai Patel today said that he had asked District Forest Officer to probe into a video clip in which a shepherd pulls tail of sick lioness in Dhari belt of Amreli district. Minister said he had asked DFO to submit report in three days. Meanwhile a clip has been deleted from Youtube by a person who uploaded it.

–Ministers Mangubhai Patel, Ramanlal Vora and Shankar Chaudhary today chaired a high-level meeting in Gandhinagar to discuss clearance of backlog of SC/ST in government jobs.

–Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan will come to Gandhinagar for shooting of his upcoming film Piku. Shri Bachchan had recently announced his tour plan to Delhi and Gujarat on twitter, but without any further details.

–Procedure to merge Sasan to newly created Gir Somnath district has been started by the government. Sasan is presently part of Junagadh district. Sasan is heart of Gir lion sanctuary which is world’s only sanctuary having Asiatic lions.

–Talod in Sabrakantha district has got a new City Civil court building, inauguration of which took place today.

–Rajkot West MLA, former Rajya Sabha MP and Gujarat BJP General Secretary Vijay Rupani today took charge of his office in Swarnim Sankul – 1 in Gandhinagar as cabinet minister.

–Santosh Mehra, Inspector General of BSF today paied courtesy visit to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel in Gandhinagar. Air Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa was another dignitary visiting the Chief Minister today.

–Tata Chemicals will launch the book ‘Salt of the earth – the story of Tata chemicals journey over 75 years’ on 26 November at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar. Chief Minister, Tata Chemicals Ltd Chairman Cyrus Mistry, Ministers Saurabh Patel and Babubhai Bokhiria will grace the occasion.

–Narmada district police today arrested two carrying truck full of 8400 kg beef worth Rs 5.5lakhs from Godhra to Mumbai near Devalia.