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Jignesh Mevani calls Gujarat executive ‘pointless’ on his go back from Assam

Via PTI

AHMEDABAD: Dalit chief and MLA Jignesh Mevani on Tuesday arrived in Gujarat, just about two weeks after being arrested by way of the Assam police, and hit out on the state’s BJP executive calling it “nikamma” (pointless) for doing not anything when a legislator from the state used to be “abducted” and brought away.

Addressing a meeting quickly after touchdown in Ahmedabad, Mevani additionally threatened to offer a decision for ‘Gujarat bandh’ on June 1 if instances towards Dalits in Una tehsil (filed over protests put up attack on some Dalits in July 2016) and different agitators within the state don’t seem to be withdrawn and calls for of grade pay for policemen and different protesting teams no longer met by way of the federal government.

“I want to inform the Gujarat executive that you’re so ‘nikamma’ (pointless), that it is advisable do not anything when the Assam police got here to Gujarat to trample upon its satisfaction. You will have to be embarrassed about it.

“The Assam police kidnapping an MLA from Gujarat and taking him to Assam is an insult to six.5 crore other folks of Gujarat,” the unbiased MLA stated on the accumulating the place state Congress president Jagdish Thakor, and senior birthday celebration leaders like Arjun Modhwadia and Amit Chavda had been additionally provide.

He made the folk assembled for the programme take an oath to by no means vote for the BJP or attend an RSS shakha.

Mevani additionally focused the Assam executive for no longer announcing “sorry” over a decrease court docket’s essential commentary relating to an FIR filed towards him within the north-eastern state.

“As a substitute of feeling ashamed over the commentary made by way of the court docket, wondering its moral sense and reviewing its persona, it (Assam executive) got here out with a keep order (from Gauhati Prime Courtroom) in order to not submit that evaluate order (of decrease court docket). However it’s not but able to ask for forgiveness,” he stated.

Amongst different issues, the HC had stated that the decrease court docket’s commentary concerning the case towards Mevani showing to be “manufactured to stay him in custody for longer” used to be past its jurisdiction in a bail topic.

Mevani arrived in Ahmedabad within the night to a powerful welcome by way of his supporters on the airport.

The MLA from Vadgam in Banaskantha district thanked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and different nationwide and Congress leaders from Gujarat and Assam for his or her make stronger all through his arrest.

Two weeks in the past, Mevani used to be picked up by way of the Assam police from Palanpur in Gujarat over his purported tweet towards High Minister Narendra Modi.

Quickly after being launched on bail within the tweet case a couple of days in the past, he used to be rearrested for allegedly assaulting a policewoman who used to be a part of the police birthday celebration which accompanied him to Kokrajhar in Assam.

The Gujarat MLA used to be granted bail in the second one case additionally and on Saturday closing he finished pending bail formalities at a court docket in Kokrajhar.

He used to be granted permission by way of the court docket to depart the Assam the city as certainly one of his bail prerequisites used to be to stick throughout the limits of the court docket’s jurisdiction.