Ahmedabad, 18 October 2013

The Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh today rejected a petition by farmers to shift the venue of Narendra Modi’s rally in Kanpur tomorrow.

Some applicants had said in their petition to the Allahabad High Court that their agricultural land has been encroached for rally and this will destroy their crop. They said their consent had not been sought by the district administration before giving a clearance for the rally. The district administration has taken nearly three acres of land for the rally.

In another development, the Madras high court on Friday dismissed a writ petition filed by the Thamizhnadu Makkal Katchi seeking a stay on the Palkhivala memorial lecture scheduled to be delivered by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi at centenary hall of the Madras University on October 18. A vacation bench of the high court observed that there was no merit in the writ petition.

Tamizhvelan had submitted that the city police commissioner and the vice-chancellor of the university should be directed to cancel the permission for the event as it would hurt the secular ethos of the university in the light of the 2002 Gujarat carnage during Modi’s chief ministership.