The Association for Democratic Reforms report analysed the election affidavits of 443 MLAs and MPs who switched parties and recontested polls in the past five years. Out of the 405 MLAs across the States who quit and switched parties, 42% were from the Congress, the report found, while the BJP came in a distant second with 4.4%. On the other hand, the BJP was the party of choice for 44.9% of the recontesting MLAs, followed by the Congress with 9.4%.
Myanmar Police Fleeing to India Say They Couldn t Shoot Their Own People
A woman constable said she fled after she was instructed to try to catch female protesters â an order she refused.
Tha Peng, a Myanmar national who said he was a police officer and recently fled to India shows his photograph in his phone wearing a police uniform following his interview with Reuters at Champhai town in Mizoram, March 9, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Devjyot Ghoshal
Champhai (Mizoram): When Tha Peng was ordered to shoot at protesters with his submachine gun to disperse them in the Myanmar town of Khampat on February 27, 2021, the police lance corporal said he refused. “The next day, an officer called to ask me if I will shoot,” he said. The 27-year-old refused again and then resigned from the force.
Police stormed a compound in Yangon housing railway staff and surrounded hundreds of protesters in North Okkalapa district, in another part of the city, on Wednesday
In Sanchaung district, police firing guns and using stun grenades announced on Monday they would check houses for anyone from outside the district and would punish anyone caught hiding them.