Elaborate security arrangement Gandhinagar, no permission for rally to Congress, only meeting allowed

Gandhinagar: Main opposition Congress, which has announced to gherao or lay siege of the Gujarat legislative assembly tomorrow on the first day of the budget session with arrival of its Beti Bachao rally from Naliya, has not been given police permission to hold any rally in the capital city though it has been allowed to organize a public meeting.

Gandhinagar S P Virendra Singh Yadav today said that elaborate security arrangement has been made to prevent any untoward incident. ‘Around 2000 police personnel including 10 DySP, 40 PI and 60 PSI and 6 companies of SRP will be deployed in and around the assembly, secretariat and other important places,’ he said.

In the wake of the assembly session no permission to take out any rally in the capital has been granted.

Meanwhile, minister of state for home and Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs, Pradeepsinh Jadeja today said that Congress should raise any of the issue on the floor of the house during the assembly session beginning tomorrow to which the government was ready to take up and reply. ‘Rather than taking out rallies to defame Kutch and Gujarat, Congress should raise issues inside the house,’ he said.

The Naliya to Gandhinagar Beti Bachao rally of Congress started yesterday to protest the Naliya rape case involving some local BJP leaders (all of whom have been ousted by the BJP) amid opposition form locals in Kutch is likely to reach Gandhinagar tomorrow. The Party has announced to boycott the traditional address by governor on the first day of budget session tomorrow and demanded to constitute the inquiry of the rape case by a sitting judge of the high court.

Meanwhile, a four member team of the CID crime has been empowered to supervise the case being probed by a 5 member SIT led by a DySP rank official.

Police has so far nabbed 8 of the total 10 accused in the case including 4 local BJP leaders who were ousted by the party after surfacing of their name in FIR.

A 25 year old woman had lodged a case of gang-rape in Naliya police station on January 25 with 10 accused. She had alleged that she was working at Shantilal Solanki’s LPG agency and was taken to his home on the promise advance salary payment and was later raped at various place by Solanki and others.

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