Psychopath Andhra Governor
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In case people cannot get the link:
Times of India:
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh high court issued
an injunction on Friday, prohibiting a private TV channel from showing
One of the images shown on Andhra Jyothi's ABN channel
One of the images shown on Andhra Jyothi's ABN channel
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explicit clippings purportedly of the 85-year-old state governor, N D
Tiwari, in bed with three young women. ( Watch Video )
The court order came in response to a PIL, which was filed even as the
images hit the TV screens on Christmas morning, leaving the citizens
shell-shocked. By the time the court order reached the Telugu channel,
the images had been on air for about an hour.
The images showed an old man, purportedly Tiwari, wearing no trousers
and a shirt pulled up to the neck. All three women are naked, one at
his legs and the others on his upper half. One of the women is said to
be seven months pregnant, another just 18 years old.
Tiwari is a veteran Congress politician, who has been a Union minister
under several Prime Ministers and the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh
and Uttarakhand. He figured in a scandal in 2008, when Rohit, the
grandson of a former Union minister from Haryana, moved the Delhi high
court, alleging that Tiwari was his father. In his reply to the court
notice, Tiwari described Rohit’s mother, Ujjwala Sharma, as an
“unchaste woman” and accused Rohit of acting at her behest.
"She as an unchaste woman had defendant 1 (Tiwari) as her paramour
even during the subsistence of her marriage..." Tiwari’s reply had
said.
While the images, allegedly of Tiwari with three women in bed, shown
on the Telugu channel, appear to tell all, the allegations of Radhika,
a woman from Uttarakhand, are even more damning. Radhika claims to
have sent these young women to the Raj Bhavan on Tiwari's request
through a Raj Bhavan official. She says the octogeneranian's appetite
for women is insatiable: he would ask for women in the middle of the
night and also seek after-lunch sessions.
Women's rights activists, lawyers and politicians have reacted
strongly to the sordid episode. Calling the governor a sexual deviant
and a man who has brought shame to the office, women activists said
the first citizen of Andhra Pradesh should be brought to heel
immediately.
Radhika's role in the events remains hazy as she claims that Tiwari
had said he would provide jobs to these young women, but used them for
sexual favours instead. Radhika says that Tiwari, through an official,
had promised her a mining licence in Kadapa. When he did not, she
chose to expose him by leaking the video clips and photos.
Early on Friday morning, the governor's officer on special duty wrote
a letter to the high court Chief Justice Ramesh Dave, drawing his
attention in to a report in Friday's edition of the Telugu daily
Andhra Jyothi. The report was a teaser to Tiwari's "sexcapades" to be
shown on the newspaper's TV channel, ABN. Treating the letter as a
public interest litigation (writ petition SR No. 149805/2009), a
division bench comprising the chief justice and Justice Nagarjuna
Reddy was urgently constituted to hear the matter.
Counsel for the governor, Jandhyala Ravishankar, pleaded with the
bench to restrain the channel from showing the "highly objectionable"
images. Responding to the plea, the bench passed an injunction around
11am to the ABN management to stop showing the visuals, which were
"denigrating the gubernatorial office and causing immense damage to
the highest office". Once the Jubilee Hills police handed over the
court order to the channel, the airing of the visuals was immediately
stopped.
With the news spreading like wildfire, there were spontaneous protests
from women's activists who laid siege to the Raj Bhavan. Several
members of women's organizations staged demonstrations. An effigy of
Tiwari was burned in front of the Raj Bhavan. Later, police bundled
the protesting women into a van and took them away.
V Sandhya, leader of the Progressive Organization of Women, said
Tiwari should be dismissed immediately. "We have a woman President and
another managing the biggest party in the country and we will petition
them to take stern action against the man."
"These indecent acts inside the portals of the Raj Bhavan should be an
eye-opener for all politicians," she said. She urged women activists
to condemn the "sleazy acts" of the first citizen of the state and
undertake protests in towns and mandals of the state.
AIDWA leader Jyothi said the system was so flawed that if police
officers or government officials were found guilty of some charges,
they are suspended first and an inquiry was is ordered. "Why can't the
same rule be applied in the case of a constitutional head like the
governor who has besmirched the highest office with his cheap act?"
she said.
Reacting sharply, PRP leader Shobharani said it was shameful for a man
holding such a high position. "Even to react to the incident is
shocking for all of us as the girls shown in the visuals could be
younger than Tiwari's granddaughters," she said.
Meanwhile, women activists took to the streets in Chittoor, Nellore,
Khammam, Adilabad and other towns protesting against the governor's
"rasa leelas" inside the Raj Bhavan. An official of the newspaper
group said they would run the entire story in their Saturday's edition
without publishing the sleazy photographs. "We are requesting the
court to vacate the stay," he added.
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I agree.