Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (NR)
- Policemen to get sites from recovered land
- The Naxal supporter list done before Janata Dal (Secular) came to power: CM
Bangalore, Jun 28: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy addressed senior police officials’ at the Annual Convention organized by the police department on Wednesday June 27.
In his address the chief minister promised sites of 30 ft by 40 ft dimension to lower rung police employees in the state. A decision to this effect would be taken in the next 10 days he averred.
He said residential layouts could be formed for policemen on the land that had been recovered from encroachers in the city. He asked top police officials to submit a proposal on the number of acres required for the said purpose.
Speaking on the sidelines at the Convention, the chief minister emphatically stated that he had not come under pressure from any quarters to prepare and release the list of Naxal supporters. He in fact dismissed reports that the list was released under pressure from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the coalition partner in the Government.
He asserted that the Naxal supporters' list was prepared by top police officials after a study much before the Janata Dal (Secular)-BJP coalition had even come to power.
According to him, his government was quite capable of handling any kind of eventualities in the State and that they were willing to cooperate with progressive thinkers and activists in resolving any crisis and expect the same from them. At the same time he warned his government will not tolerate encouragement of violence in the name of progressiveness.
On Home Secretary Vatsala Vatsa’s statement that the department required at least 4,800 more personnel to enforce the ban on arrack, the CM directed the officials to strictly enforce ban on sale of arrack from July 1.
The chief minister also promised that his government would take up regular recruitment of policemen. And that he would consider deploying retired military personnel in the department, if the law permitted.