Uncertain Route

SHARPENING KNIVES

HAVING targeted the SP government in UP over communal riots in Muzaffarnagar,the Congress is now planning to hit the streets alleging that the Akhilesh Yadav government is denying the poor food by not implementing the food security Act. The party has,in the mean time,asked the Law Ministry to expedite the proposal to set up a Bench of the Allahabad HC in Meerut,a longstanding demand of the people of Western UP. It came up for discussions at a meeting between Rahul Gandhi and some UP Congress leaders this week. With internal reports suggesting that its tally of 22 could come down to a single digit in 2014 elections,the party is obviously bracing up for the next electoral battle.

TUG-OF-WAR

A TUSSLE is on between the CRPF and Bihar Police over the detention of a CRPF officer who was allegedly passing on information to Naxals in Bihar. The CRPF has refused to hand him over to the Bihar Police despite the latter registering a case against him. Bihar DGP Abhyanand had called up DG,CRPF,Dilip Trivedi to inform him about his officer’s role in helping the Naxals in the state. It is learnt that the conversation between the two was not very pleasant and this has got reflected in the CRPF refusing to hand over the officer to the police. For the second day,the officer has been put under house arrest by the CRPF. Earlier,the Bihar Police had been pulled up by the Home Ministry for not taking action against Maoists in the state and for going slow in anti-Naxal operations.