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Remove 'secular' from Constitution as it puts
Hindus at disadvantage, demands Sanatan Sanstha amid call for banning the
outfit
Amid a debate over banning Sanatan Sanstha,radical
Hindutva outfit made a demand on Monday to exclude the word "secular"
from the Preamble.Through 42nd Amendment of the Constitution of India, added in
1976, the Preamble asserts that India is a secular nation. Elaborating on the
demand at a press conference, Sanatan Sanstha spokesperson Chetan Rajhans said
that the Constitution does not define which aspect of India is secular: the
country, government, or the people. He further added that because of the
addition of the term, Hindus are "at a disadvantage"."No other
country in the world puts its majority at a disadvantage," the outfit
said.Rajhans further claimed that "secular" was enacted at the time
of Emergency by former PM Indira Gandhi, under pressure from various entities. Although
the outfit is a non-government charitable trust and claims to be a spiritual
organisaton, it is currently facing massive criticism for being allegedly
linked to terror activities, and murder cases of rationalist Dabholkar and
journalist Gauri Lankesh.firstpost
Sanatan Prabhat’s 2013 plan to establish Hindu
Rashtra
Mumbai: Sanatan Prabhat, the mouthpiece of
right-wing outfit Sanatan Sanstha — which has once again come under anti-terror
agencies’ lens following the recent arms seizures and arrests — had in 2013
warned that the police would be “the first target” of a dharmakranti (religious
revolution) to establish a Hindu Rashtra by 2023.Its issue dated June 9, 2013 —
a copy of which is with Mirror — published a purported speech made by Dr
Charudatta Pingale, national guide of Sanatan Sanstha’s offshoot organisation
Hindu Janajagruti Samiti made at the second annual convention of Hindutva
outfits in Goa organised by Sanatan. According to the Sanatan Prabhat report,
Pingale told the sadhak (followers) in attendance that a religious war is
necessary to establish a Hindu Rashtra. Accusing the police of taking an
anti-Hindu stance and going soft on minorities, the report quoted Pingale
exhorting the people to “keep [the spirit] of revenge alive”. “Do not forget
the atrocities committed by the police on Hindus. Start preparing a list of
police personnel who have committed crimes against Hindus. The police will be
the first target when the revolution begins. We will not be able to establish a
Hindu Rashtra without defeating the police and the [Indian] Army.”Asserting the
“need” to create an army of 4 lakh “religious warriors”, Pingale claimed, as
per the report, that 1,000 religious soldiers who have learnt jaap (chanting of
religious mantras) would be more powerful than 10,000 trained soldiers who have
no knowledge of jaap. That’s because those who perform sadhana (worship and
meditation) would get God’s protection and blessings, he is reported to have
said.“There are 8 lakh police personnel in the country, 11 lakh Army personnel
and 11 lakh paramilitary personnel… 4 lakh religious warriors who have
performed sadhana and learnt self-defence would be more powerful than them,”
ran his purported speech.Calling minorities a massive hurdle in the establishment
of a Hindu Rashtra, Pingale is quoted as saying, “The only way to stop the
fanatics among minorities is to retaliate.”Sanatan Prabhat report also
allegedly lists a timetable from 1999-2023 on measures that would lead to
realisation of a Hindu Rashtra. The timetable mentions the start of “the main
war” from 2016-18. This war, dubbed as World War III by the report, will result
in the death of a large number of people, involve the occurrence of many
natural calamities, and spell an end to evil as well as antisocial elements,
Pingale was quoted as saying. By 2023, he reportedly said that the “real
kingdom of God” would be established.Chetan Rajhans, Sanatan Sanstha
spokesperson, refused to comment on the report. “It is better if Sanatan
Prabhat’s editor and the writer (Pingale) speak on it. Although Sanatan Prabhat
is a part of Sanatan Sanstha, the daily is run independently. They own the
intellectual rights to run the daily newspaper and a magazine,” he said.Nagesh
Gade, editor of Sanatan Prabhat, offered no comment either. He was sent a copy
of the article on August 24 as well as emails. Several calls were also made,
but there was no response till the time of going to press on Saturday.
According to an official from the Maharashtra ATS, Vaibhav Raut, Sharad
Kalaskar and Sudhanva Gondhalekar — who were arrested on August 10 following
the seizure of an arsenal of arms and ammunition at Raut’s bungalow in
Nallasopara — are “sympathisers” of Sanatan Sanstha. ATS suspects that they
were conspiring to launch terror attacks across the state and that they were
also involved in the killings of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, CPI leader
Govind Pansare, scholar MM Kalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh. Shrikant
Pangarkar, former Shiv Sena corporator from Jalna who was arrested on August 19
after Raut, Kalaskar and Gondhalekar pointed fingers at him, is suspected to
have been involved with Hindu Janajagruti Samiti. Avinash Pawar, too, who was
arrested on Friday in the arms haul case, is suspected to be linked with prominent
Hindutva groups.Mumbai Mirror
Dabholkar, Gauri killings linked: CBI
Pune:Murders of journalist Gauri Lankesh in
Bengaluru last year and rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune in 2013 were
linked, CBI said in court here on Sunday. Seeking extension of the custody of
Sachin Andure, one of the alleged shooters in the Dabholkar case, CBI told the
court that one of the accused in the Gauri killing had handed over a pistol and
three bullets with a magazine to Andure. CBI said it is investigating if the
pistol had been used to kill Dabholkar.Judicial Magistrate First Class H.R.
Jadhav extended Andure’s CBI custody till Aug 30. CBI also told the court that
the agency would seek the custody of Sharad Kalaskar, another alleged shooter
in the Dabholkar case. Kalaskar is among the 5 men arrested by Maharashtra ATS
in connection with seizure of crude bombs and firearms. A CBI officer later
said the agency was awaiting the ballistic report of the pistol, and that it
would be premature to say if it was used in the Dabholkar murder. Defence
counsel Prakash Salsingikar opposed the extension of Andure’s custody.PTI
5 yrs, 7 names in Dabholkar case: Arms
dealers, Sanatan activists, blast accused in changing list of prime suspects
Sanatan Sanstha terror plot: 5 fringe group
members held as ATS prepares fresh dossier for ban
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arrests by Maharashtra Police, point to intricate web of fringe Hindu radical
groups:Indian Express spl story
I am on the hit list of people linked to
Sanatan Sanstha: Shrimant Kokate
Shrimant Kokate, 45, author, historian and one
of the coordinators of the Maratha community’s fight for reservation, says his
life is under threat from Sanatan Sanstha, which “is seeking to rewrite the
history of the Shivaji era”. In an interview with Indian Express, Kokate says
the organisation wants to “polarise society” and was “defaming Hindu religion”
Ambedkar’s great-grandson demands ban on RSS
Kalaburagi: Holding RSS and its affiliated
outfits responsible for the murders of Gauri Lankesh, M.M. Kalburgi, Govind
Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar, Dalit activist Rajaratna Ambedkar, the
great-grandson of B.R. Ambedkar, demanded that the government impose a ban on
all right-wing Sangh Parivar outfits led by RSS.“All the accused so far
arrested in Gauri Lankesh and other rationalists’ murder cases belonged to
right-wing outfits such as Sanatan Sanstha. Banning those organisations that are
directly linked to these murders alone wouldn’t help. Since they are the wings
of RSS, a non-registered organisation, we demand the government to ban RSS
itself along with its affiliated organisations,” he told media here on
Saturday. He was here to participate in a public rally against the recent
burning of a copy of the Constitution near Jantar Mantar,New Delhi.“RSS never
accepted the Constitution drafted by Ambedkar. It has its own Manusmriti-based
Constitution. It has been opposing Ambedkar-Constitution which is committed to
safeguarding the interests of marginalised sections. BJP leaders have been
talking against the Constitution and Narendra Modi, who became the Prime
Minister thanks to the same Constitution, never utters a word. He did not open
his mouth even when a copy of the Constitution was burnt right outside
Parliament.”Referring to Union govt’s recent decision of rejecting UAE’s
financial aid for relief and rehabilitation in flood-hit Kerala, Rajaratna
criticised Modi for accepting foreign funds for his party. “Prime Minister
doesn’t have any problem when his party accepts huge funds from foreign
sources. He does have a problem when a country offers money for taking up
relief and rehabilitation work in flood-hit areas. It shows how least BJP is concerned
about the people of this country.”the hindu
RSS on Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Muslim Brotherhood’
remark: He is ignorant about India, so can’t understand Sangh
Days after Congress president Rahul Gandhi
compared RSS with the Muslim Brotherhood of Arab world, the organisation on
Monday said the one who has not understood India yet cannot understand the
RSS.Responding to a question on Rahul’s remark during a press conference, RSS
all India Prachar Pramukh Arun Kumar said if the former had the clear idea of
how the world was fed up with the Islamic State, the Muslim Brotherhood and
Muslim terrorism, he probably would have not made such a comparison.“Sometimes,
he himself says that he was trying to understand Bharat. One who has not
understood Bharat cannot understand RSS. Understanding at least Bharat is
necessary to understand the RSS,” Arun said.indianexpress
MEA refuses to share details on extradition
request of Zakir Naik to Malaysia
New Delhi:Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
has refused to share details of the request to Malaysia seeking extradition of
Zakir Naik citing RTI clauses that bars disclosure of information received in
confidence from the foreign government, among others. In response to an RTI
application filed by a PTI correspondent, ministry said there are 160
extradition requests from India pending with various foreign countries.
“Information cannot be provided pursuant to Section 8 (1) (a) (f) and (h) of
RTI Act, 2005,” it said.MEA was asked to provide the copy of letter or request
made to Malaysia seeking extradition of Naik and also the copy of any
communication response from that govt. Naik, who is in Malaysia, in a statement
published in Malaysian newspapers in July, had thanked Malaysia’s Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamad for examining his case from an “unbiased
perspective”.indianexpress
Article 35A: Supreme Court adjourns hearing of
fresh PIL; defers it to August 31
The Supreme Court on Monday adjourns the
hearing of the new PIL against Article 35A of the Constitution that gives
special status to the citizens of J&K.Petitioner Ashwani Upadhyay, who is
also a spokesperson for the BJP, reportedly urged the apex court to avoid the
hearing. The Supreme Court will now hear the case on August 31.Ashwini
Upadhyay's petition stated that Article 35A violates the rights of the women of
the state who married people from other states.
Earlier this month, the SC deferred its hearing to today on the validity
of Article 35-A that guarantees special privileges to J&K.DNA
Shutdown, clashes in Kashmir over rumours of
SC scrapping Article 35A
Srinagar:Authorities today imposed a shutdown
on Srinagar and some other parts of the Kashmir Valley following rumours that
the Supreme Court has scrapped Article 35A, police said. J&K police issued
a statement in Srinagar, saying: “Some sections of the media have circulated
news regarding scrapping of Article 35A.The news has been refuted as baseless.
People are requested to maintain calm and not to pay heed to these rumours.”As
a precaution, shops, public transport and other businesses were shut. Clashes
between stone pelting protesters and the security forces were also reported in
Anantnag district and other places.Petitions challenging Article 35A which
gives powers to the state legislature to define permanent residents of Jammu
and Kashmir and their privileges, has been listed for hearing by the Supreme
Court on Friday.Reports from Delhi said a fresh petition seeking scrapping of
the Article is being filed in the apex court on Monday which fuelled the
rumours.Authorities have decreased the speed of mobile internet across the
Valley. Separatists have called for a general shutdown on Friday and Saturday
to highlight the public support for the Article.IANS
3 years later, big projects in Prime
Minister’s J&K development plan are stuck
Srinagar :From an IIM in Jammu to an AIIMS in
Awantipora, from key arterial roads in the Jammu and Kashmir regions to the
Zojila tunnel in Ladakh.At least 28 big-ticket projects — each worth Rs 1,000
crore or more — in the Prime Minister’s Development Package (PMDP) for J&K
announced nearly three years ago remain stuck at various stages, official
records accessed by Indian Express show. Package was announced on November 7,
2015, nine months after the PDP-BJP government took charge in the state. That
government collapsed in June this year after BJP withdrew support, making way
for Governor’s rule. On August 21, the Centre named Satya Pal Malik as the new
Governor — the first politician to be appointed to the post since the beginning
of militancy. Most of the mega projects under the PDMP are struggling to make
progress due to various reasons, including preparation of detailed project
reports, land acquisition, forest clearances and even release of funds from the
Centre.indianexpress
Felicitated for Human Rights Violation, Major
Gogoi Indicted For “Fraternising With a Local”
Srinagar: After laurels for tying a young
Kashmiri to the front of a jeep, that had Major Leetul Gogoi being lauded by
his seniors and the political establishment, the Army officer is now facing a
court martial after a row at a Srinagar hotel involving a Kashmiri woman. Army
court of enquiry has held Major Gogoi guilty of "fraternising with a local
in spite of instructions to the contrary and being away from place of duty
while in operational area."Major Gogoi was detained in May after he had
checked into a hotel room that was booked online. He got into a fight with the
hotel staff when the woman came to meet him, but was stopped from going to his
room as she was a local resident. Of course the Army officer insisted that he
had come for a “source” meeting.This incident followed after Major Gogoi became
a hero in the right wing establishment for seeking to contain violence by using
a local Kashmiri youth as a “human shield” during by elections. Chilling photograph
that created a storm of protest as well had been backed by the Army, with
veterans and serving officer supporting the move that was taken as a severe
violation of human rights by rights groups. In an environment where
divisiveness is fast becoming the order of the day Gogoi was treated like a
hero. Sources said that this visit to hotel arose from the aura of
invincibility, where he crossed all rules, to check himself into a civilian
hotel in the state capital and arrange the assignment. Woman had come to the
hotel with a male escort but was stopped.thecitizen
Gorakhpur tragedy: Adityanath misleading
people, alleges Dr Kafeel after CM says there was no shortage of oxygen
New Delhi :Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath is doing politics and is misleading the people in the 2017 Gorakhpur
infant death case, Dr Kafeel Khan, the paediatrician at Baba Raghav Das Medical
College Hospital against whom a case has been filed, said on Monday.Hitting out
at the CM who denied there was a shortage of oxygen in the hospital, Khan told
ANI, “What the CM has said is incorrect. The oxygen supplier had written to the
hospital authorities, asking it to clear his dues to continue the supply.”Khan,
who recently walked out of jail after getting arrested last year, also
rubbished the CM’s claim’s that the casualties were due to Japanese
Encephalitis which usually breaks out at that time of the year. “Newborns don’t
get Encephalitis. Several of them had died in the incident,” he said. The
remarks from the former nodal officer at BRD hospital came a day after the CM
said that the issue was blown out of proportion and blamed the internal
politics at the hospital for the controversy. Speaking at an event in Lucknow
on Saturday evening, Adityanath had maintained his stand that there was no
shortage of oxygen at the hospital and reasoned that had it been so, then the
kids on the ventilator would have died first.“After the incident came to light,
I immediately asked the Director General Health, the Health Minister and the
Medical Education Minister to reach the spot and report to me. Next day, I went
there myself and came to know that there was no shortage of oxygen. Had it been
oxygen shortage then the kids on the ventilator would have died first,” he had
said. BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government, however, had denied that shortage of
oxygen led to the deaths.Pointing his finger at the internal politics of the
medical college behind the tragedy, Adityanath had said the situation was so
grim that the doctors had to be counselled to bring normalcy. indianexpress
“Internal Politics” Killed Children in BRD
Hospital, Says Adityanath Contradicting Own Govt. Position
Citing 'Safety Concerns', CIC Says Expenditure
on Amit Shah's Security Can't Be Disclosed
New Delhi: Expenses incurred on the security
cover of BJP chief Amit Shah cannot be disclosed, the Central Information
Commission (CIC) has held, citing RTI Act exemption clauses of “personal
information” and “safety”.The commission has denied the appeal of a petitioner
who had also sought to know the rules governing extension of security cover to
a private individual, and the authorities which foot the bill of such cover to
a private individual.The application was filed by Deepak Juneja on July 5,
2014, when Shah was not a member of the Rajya Sabha. He had also sought to know
the list of people who have been given security by the government.The
information was denied by the home ministry citing Section 8(1)(g) that exempts
from disclosure information that would endanger the life or physical safety of
any person.The ministry had also cited Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act, which
exempts information that is personal, would cause unwarranted invasion of
privacy and is not linked to any “public activity”.In its previous order in the
matter, the CIC had upheld denial of information as it was not disclosed before
parliament.PTI
Court defers verdict in Hyderabad twin blasts
case to Sept4
Hyderabad:An NIA special court today deferred
its judgment in the Hyderabad twin blasts, which claimed 42 lives and left over
50 injured in 2007, to Sept.4.Sessions judge T Srinivasa Rao, who sits in Nampally
criminal courts complex, was expected to deliver the verdict on Monday – given
that the arguments and counter-arguments in the case had been completed on
August 7. But the verdict was put off until next month after the judge
subjected five accused lodged at the Cherlapalli central jail to a final round
of questioning through video conferencing.NIA
had filed a total of three charge sheets, running into over 1,100 pages
against eight accused allegedly responsible for detonating bombs at Gokul Chat
Bhandar, a popular eatery in Koti area, and Lumbini Park, a recreation site in
front of the state secretariat, on Aug.25, 2007. The eight accused are Riyaz
Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal, Amir Riza Khan, Mohammad Tareeq Anjum, Aneeq Shafiq
Syed, Mohammed Sadiq, Akbar Ismail Choudhary and Ansar Ahmed Badhsah
Sheikh.While Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal and Amir Riza Khan are still at
large, the others are lodged at the Chelapalli central jail.HT
Godhra case: 2 held guilty, 3 acquitted
Ahmedabad: A Special SIT court today convicted
2 more people and acquitted 3 others in the 2002 Godhra train burning case in
which 58 people lost their lives. Special judge HC Vora convicted Farukh Bhana
and Imran alias Sheru Batik, and acquitted Hussain Suleman Mohan, Kasam Bhamedi
and Faruk Dhantiya. 5 accused, who were arrested by different investigation
agencies between 2015-2016, were put on trial at the special court, set up at Sabarmati
Central Jail here. Earlier, on March 1, 2011, the special SIT court had
convicted 31 people under the relevant sections of IPC. Out of 31 convicted, 11
people were sentenced to death while 20 were awarded life imprisonment. As many
as 63 people had also been acquitted in the case.ANI
Court sends 2 to life in prison for Godhra
train killings
Malegaon blasts: Col. Purohit seeks SIT probe
into his alleged torture
New Delhi: Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant
Purohit, one of the main accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, on Monday
moved the Supreme Court and sought a SIT probe into the matter pertaining to
his alleged abduction and torture by the ATS in 2008.Purohit was arrested for
allegedly masterminding the blasts in Malegaon in 2008.In April, the apex court
also allowed Purohit to challenge the charges framed against him. Purohit,
after spending nine years in jail, was granted a conditional bail by the top
court in August last year.ANI
Delhi court acquits two Sikh separatists who
hijacked Air India plane in 1981
New Delhi:A Delhi court acquitted two Sikh
separatists who are charged with treason for hijacking an Air India plane in
1981 and commandeering it to Lahore in Pakistan. Tajinder Pal Singh and Satnam
Singh were charged with waging war against India and sedition when they were
deported to India in 2000 after serving life terms in Pakistan. The plane
carrying 111 passengers and a crew of 6 was hijacked on Sept.29,1981 by 5
knife-wielding Khalistan supporters. In Lahore, Pakistani commandos captured
the separatists and freed 45 hostages remaining aboard unharmed the next day.
The hijackers had first released more than 60 of the passengers.HT
Internet services suspended in UP’s
Shahjahanpur after clashes between Sikh, Hindus
Internet services were suspended in
Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday after a clash broke out
between two communities outside a gurudwara on Saturday, officials said. At
least 80 identified and over 200 unidentified people have been booked by the
police for rioting and damaging public property. DM, Shahjahanpur, Amrit
Tripathi said, “There were reports of circulation of inflammatory content on
social media platforms after which internet services were suspended to check
any untoward incident.”“We have identified people from both the sides who were
found to be involved in violence. The administration will recommend action
against them under NSA ,” the DM said.Located about 30 km north of the district
HQRS, Banda has considerable Sikh population.According to police, tension
erupted when a Sikh ‘sewadar’ (volunteer) at Guru Nanak Dev Gurudwara in Banda
area allegedly hit a Hindu girl on Saturday afternoon.In his complaint to the
police, the girl’s father alleged that the volunteer attacked his daughter when
she resisted inappropriate advances of the accused. A clash took place between
Sikhs and Hindus and the situation escalated further when reports of clashes
between the 2 communities started pouring in from different parts of Banda
area.Over 30 people, including police personnel, were injured in clashes.
Half-a-dozen shops, public property and private vehicles were damaged in the
violence.HT
Shahjahanpur sees communal clashes, over 300
booked
Greater Noida: Muslim woman stabbed to death
in front of hubby, kids
Greater Noida: A 25-year-old woman was stabbed
in her sleep in front of her husband and 4 children allegedly by a neighbour
with whom she had an argument over picking rag. The accused, Vijay, has been
arrested along with an accomplice, Rajeev, on a complaint by the woman’s husband.
Police said the woman, Nazma, a resident of Bihar, lived in a makeshift house
in Jalpura village with her husband and 4 children. Nazma and her husband are
rag-pickers. Nazma’s husband Akbar Ali said that around 2.30am on Saturday,
when he was sleeping in the house along with his wife and children, 5 men
barged into their house and stabbed Nazma to death. “I woke up when I heard her
shouting. Among the 5, I recognised Vijay and Rajeev. They fled after the
attack,” said Ali.Vijay and Rajeev were arrested on a complaint by Akbar. Asked
what could be the reason for the murder, Akbar said he and his wife had an
unofficial agreement about rag collecting from the area. But Vijay, too, had
recently started rag picking in the area, which led to a tussle.TOI
12 booked, four arrested after clash in
communally sensitive Muzaffarnagar village
Muzaffarnagar:Communally sensitive Purbaliyan
village of Muzaffarnagar was on the edge on Saturday after a clash between
people of two different faiths, while police booked 14 people and arrested four
of them for their alleged involvement in the violence.Several contingents of
police force and PAC were also rushed to the village to maintain peace in the
area where initial clash had erupted on August 21 during a volleyball match.
Youth of two different communities got involved in an argument during match.Later,
a case was registered against 12 people of the minority community at Mansoopur
police station. But, no arrest was made as prominent people from both the
communities intervened and promised to settle the matter once for all.But on
Friday, people of the minority community alleged that a member of their group
was thrashed.TOI
Rajasthan: Curfew relaxed for 2 hours in
violence-hit Malpura town
Jaipur:Curfew was relaxed today for two hours
in violence-hit Malpura town of Rajasthan's Tonk district, where a clash had
erupted involving members of a minority community and Kanwar Yatra pilgrims,
police said.No fresh incidence of violence was reported in the areas under
curfew, and considering the law and order situation, the clampdown was relaxed
from 11 am to 1 pm. However, mobile internet services remain suspended,
Superintendent of Police, Tonk, Yogesh Dadich said.He said people were
permitted to buy essential commodities like water and milk.Over 20 people have
been arrested so far for disturbing peace, Dadich said, adding the situation
now is under control.PTI
Maharashtra Muslims to revive 5% quota demand
After the Maratha and Dhangar communities, the
Muslims in Maharashtra have decided to intensify their demand for 5%
reservation in government jobs and education by holding non-violent agitations.A
Muslim Reservation Joint Action Committee (MRJAC) was formed on Sunday, in a
meeting held at Anjuman-e-Islam School, to decide future strategies to get
their demand approved from BJP-led state government. Nearly 60 different groups
from the community have come together to raise the issue, ahead of 2019 polls.The
action committee has decided to organise rallies, conferences and signature
campaign to press for their demand.Currently, around 50 Muslim sub-castes get
reservation under OBC, Scheduled Tribe and Vimukt Jati categories in the state.
However, the community is asking for reservation for all in the quota.Former
Congress-NCP govt had approved 5% reservation to the community in government
jobs and education by promulgating an ordinance in 2014. Although the decision
was struck down by Bombay high court, the court in an interim order had allowed
reservation in education on grounds of community’s backwardness in this
arena.The current BJP government, however, did nothing on this front and the
ordinance lapsed. BJP has said it is against reservation on religious grounds.
Educationist PA Inamdar, who is heading MRJAC, however said the community is
demanding quota on the basis of social and educational backwardness. Hussain Dalwai,
Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP, who has taken the initiative to bring all the
community organisations on one platform, said they will hold conferences in all
five divisions of the state to raise awareness, followed by a signature
campaign.
Maharashtra Muslims form action committee on
job quota
2 Muslim youth held for sharing sarcastic
WhatsApp message against BJP MLA Sangeet Som
2 people, including a compounder, were
arrested on Monday for allegedly sharing a sarcastic message against BJP MLA
from Meerut’s Sardhana constituency Sangeet Som on WhatsApp, police said. The
post accused the MLA of being ignorant about an incident where a 14-year-old
girl was set ablaze by six people on August 17. She is struggling for her life
at a hospital in Delhi. The six accused were subsequently arrested.In-charge of
Sardhana police station Dilip Singh said on the complaint of BJP’s Sardhana
city unit president Vinod Jain, the police lodged a case under relevant
sections of the Information Technology Act and arrested Aijaz Khatri and Mohd
Anas for sharing the objectionable post.“Anas is a compounder at a clinic while
Aijaz is jobless. They forwarded an objectionable post in a WhatsApp group of
traders which also has a few BJP leaders as members,” he said.HT
Amartya Sen Calls on Non-Communal Forces To
Unite Against BJP As Democracy Is In Danger
Kolkata — Nobel laureate and eminent economist
Amartya Sen on Saturday said that all non-communal, non-BJP forces should come
together in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as “democracy is in danger.”“We must
express our opposition to autocracy, we must fight against their autocratic
trends, we must criticise the issues where we need to oppose the non-communal
right wing forces, but we must not take back our hands when it comes to
fighting communalism which is the biggest threat,” said Prof. Sen.Strongly
criticizing the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre, Sen said a party
having got “31 per cent votes and ill motives in politics” came to power in the
2014 Lok Sabha polls.caravandaily
Hindus are in minority in Indian society:
Amartya Sen
Being a Muslim in India today is disadvantage:UmarKhalid
New Delhi: The atmosphere in India is
communally divided and being a Muslim is an electoral disadvantage, student
activist Umar Khalid has said.He also asserted that his religious identity
isn’t the only one he possesses, accusing the Sangh Parivar and its affiliates
of attempting to straitjacket his politics to his Muslim identity.“Let me make
one thing very clear, yes I’m a Muslim, yes, I’m a leftist, (but) I’m also a
citizen of this country. I’m also a student of this country; so, there are
multiple identities I have,” Khalid said in an interview to ThePrint.While he
unequivocally speaks out on the atrocities against minorities, he says he also
highlights issues of unemployment, those regarding universities and those
concerning adivasis among others, adding that his detractors fail to
acknowledge this. “Sangh Parivar only wants to see me as a Muslim… And in their
lens, Muslims do not belong to India,” he added.JNU student, who was recently
attacked at the Constitution Club in the capital, also said that there is a “decentralisation
of violence” in society today, accusing those in power of systematically
sending out the message that there are some people – Muslims, Christians,
liberals, “pseudo-secularists” – who are not acceptable in society, and that it
is okay to physically eliminate them.theprint
Modi on Triple Talaq Bill: Will ensure that
Muslim women get justice
New Delhi: PM Modi on Sunday assured justice
to Muslim women through Triple Talaq Bill. While addressing the nation in the
47th edition of his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio programme, the PM said, “The Triple
Talaq bill was passed in Lok Sabha, but could not be passed in Rajya Sabha.
But, I would like to assure Muslim women that the entire nation is there with
them and we will ensure that they get justice.”freepressjournal
Why don’t you stand with wives of Akhlaq,
Pahlu khan, mother of Junaid: Owaisi to Modi
New Delhi: MIM supremo and Hyderabad MP
Asaduddin Owaisi strongly criticized PM Narendra Modi for his remarks on Triple
Talaq in Mann Ki Baat. Owaisi asked why PM is not stopping saffron outfits from
making Muslim women widows in the name of cow. He also said that the Talaq bill
proposed by Modi govt is against the Constitution and Fundamental Rights. In
his reaction on PM’s remarks, Owaisi tweeted: “Mr PM your bill is Against the
Constitution, Fundamental Rights & Women. You are not able to stop your
ideological organisations who are making Muslim Women lose their husbands, sons
in the name of COW.Will you stand with Akhlaq & Pahlu Khan’s wife, Junaid’s
Mother?PM, what about Deserted wives?”caravandaily
Have Issue With Criminalisation Aspect Of
Triple Talaq Bill: Rahul Gandhi
London: Congress president Rahul Gandhi has
said his party has not stonewalled the Triple Talaq Bill anywhere but they have
an issue with the aspect of criminalisation. "We have not stonewalled
anything. But we have an issue with the criminalisation aspect," Gandhi
said during his interaction with the Indian Journalists' Association.Triple
Talaq Bill was passed in Lok Sabha but is yet to be passed in the Rajya Sabha
where the government led by PM Narendra Modi lacks majority.IANS
Youngest son of Chhota Shakeel now ‘treads’spiritual
path
Mumbai: A year after absconding mafia don
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s son became a maulana, his close aide Chhota Shakeel’s
only son has also embraced the spiritual path in Karachi, Pakistan, where they
live, sources said.Chhota Shakeel’s 18-year-old son Mubashir Shaikh — his third
and youngest child — created a stir by recently becoming a “Hafiz-e-Quran” or
one who has memorised the entire Quran, comprising 6,236 verses — considered a
milestone for any Islam follower.But many in the Mumbai underworld are
crestfallen to hear the news of another don’s descendant taking the religious
path.Mubashir has now started teaching and preaching the Quran to people in Karachi
neighbourhood where he lives with his ageing father, Babumiya Shakeel Ahmed
Shaikh, whose nom de guerre is Chhota Shakeel, the prime mover of Dawood’s “D
Company”. TOI
WORLD
UN report calls for genocide charges against
Myanmar officials
Myanmar's senior military officials must be
prosecuted for genocide and war crimes against the Rohingya and other ethnic
minorities, a UN fact-finding mission has urged.The mission, which was
established by UN Human Rights Council in March 2017, found that Myanmar's
armed forces had taken actions that "undoubtedly amount to the gravest
crimes under international law".Speaking in Geneva, Marzuki Darusman, the
chairman of the investigative mission said that his researchers had amassed a
vast amount of primary information, based on 875 interviews with witnesses and
victims, satellite imagery, and verified photos and videos.Marzuki said victim
accounts were "amongst the most shocking human rights violations" he
had come across and that they would "leave a mark on all of us for the
rest of our lives".He described Myanmar's military as having shown a
"flagrant disregard for lives" and displayed "extreme levels of
brutality"."Rohingya are in a continuing situation of severe systemic
and institutionalised oppression from birth to death," Marzuki said.UN
report said that military generals, including Commander-in-Chief Min Aung
Hlaing, must face investigation and prosecution for genocide in north Rakhine
State, as well as crimes against humanity and other war crimes in Kachin, Shan
and Rakhine states.The report singles out Myanmar's military, which is known as
the Tatmadaw, but adds that other Myanmar security agencies were also involved
in the abuses."Military necessity would never justify killing
indiscriminately, gang-raping women, assaulting children, and burning entire
villages," the report said."Tatmadaw's tactics are consistently and
grossly disproportionate to actual security threats, especially in Rakhine
State, but also in northern Myanmar.aljazeera
Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan
killed:government
Kabul:The head of Islamic State in
Afghanistan, Abu Saad Erhabi, was killed in a strike on the group’s hideouts in
Nangarhar province on Saturday, authorities said on Sunday. Ten other members
of the militant group were also killed in a joint ground and air operation by
Afghan and foreign forces, the National Directorate of Security in Kabul said.A
large amount of heavy and light weapons and ammunition were destroyed during
raids on two Islamic State hideouts. The jihadist group’s Amaq’s news agency
carried no comment on the issue, and there was no immediate reaction from the
NATO-led Resolute Support mission that trains and advises Afghan forces.Reuters
Russia denies it was behind air raid in
Afghanistan
Russia has said it was not behind an air
attack in northern Afghanistan and its military aircraft has not been
conducting any operations near Afghanistan's border with Tajikistan, the RIA
news agency said citing the Russian Ministry of Defence. On Monday, two Afghan
government officials said a Tajik or Russian plane bombed the northeastern
Durqad district of Takhar province in Afghanistan, during a clash between
gunmen and Tajik border guards.Afghan local media, quoting the provincial
governor's spokesman Mohammad Jawed Hejri, said clashes broke out on Sunday
afternoon between drug smugglers in Afghanistan and Tajik border guards.
aljazeera
From road tax to courts, Taliban's attempts at
state-building:Aljazeera report
Kabul:Late in May, 26-year-old truck driver
Bilal Hakim was travelling along his regular route through Afghanistan's
northern province of Baghlan to Kunduz.He had taken the journey with the same
cargo - a 50-tonne tanker of oil - several times in his five-year career.Oil
tankers enter Afghanistan at Hairatan port in Balkh and carry fuel to Mazar,
Samangan, Baghlan, Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces. "Somewhere in
Baghlan-e-Markazi district, I was stopped along with a few other trucks at a
makeshift checkpost manned by gunmen," said Hakim*, who did not want to
use his real name for security reasons.Before he pulled over, Hakim had an idea
of what was happening.He had heard about temporary posts popping up close to
main motorways when the local Taliban felt emboldened."They asked me to
stop and then they demanded I pay them 25,000 Afghanis ($350) as 'malia',"
he told Al Jazeera, using the Dari word for tax."I didn't know what I was
supposed to do," he said.Hakim said his employers had received threats of
extortion from local Taliban groups before, but this was his first incident of
this nature with the armed group. "The tanker owners had refused to pay so
far, but when they held us captive, we had no choice," Hakim said, adding
that tax rate for smaller trucks was $70.Taliban's "Department of Tax and
Revenue" issued the drivers a receipt before releasing
them.Representatives of Baghlan Oil Tankers' Union and Kunduz Tankers' Unions
confirmed several instances of the Taliban taxing drivers on northern trade
routes.Afghan officials are aware of the "tax".In June, provincial
Baghlan governor Abdul Hai Nemati said Taliban was collecting "ransom at
gunpoint", adding he had ordered a security patrol to observe and secure all
motorways passing through the province. Taliban's "Ministry of
Finance" has expanded its activities in the region in an apparent effort
at state-building. Farmers in Baghlan-e-Markazi have reported the Taliban
demanding "zakat", or charity, that is often paid in kind - such as
portions of the harvest.However, the Taliban have little use for agricultural
produce and force farmers to buy back "donated" produce at market
rates, issuing them similar attested receipts for payments.Local Taliban commander
Maulawi Abdul Rahman said tax collection was legal and in accordance with
Islamic law.
Tehran will help rebuild Syria, says Iran
defence minister
Iran's top defence official has met Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad and the country's defence minister in Damascus,
pledging to contribute to the war-torn country's reconstruction. Tehran has
provided steady political, financial and military backing to Assad during the
civil war which is in its eighth year.On Sunday, Iranian Defence Minister Amir
Hatami met his Syrian counterpart Ali Abdullah Ayyoub as well as Assad and said
it was agreed with Syria that Iran would have "presence, participation and
assistance" in reconstruction "and no third party will be influential
in this issue".aljazeera
Ex-Vatican envoy urges Pope to resign over
abuse case
A senior Vatican official called on Pope
Francis to resign, accusing the pontiff of failing to act sooner on sexual
abuse allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.In an 11-page
statement, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said sanctions imposed on McCarrick by
Pope Benedict XVI over sexual misconduct were lifted under Francis, despite reports
about his "gravely immoral behaviour with seminarians and priests". Vigano
said he informed Francis in person in 2013 of the sanctions and how McCarrick,
ex-archbishop of Washington, DC, "corrupted generations of seminarians and
priests". Pope Francis "continued to cover" for McCarrick
despite the sanctions and even made him "his trusted counsellor",
Vigano alleged.aljazeera
Pakistan: 77th annivesary of Jamaat founding
celebrated
Karachi: 77th Youm-e-Tasees of the
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) was celebrated across Pakistan on Sunday.Gatherings,
sittings, seminars and other programmes were held in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas,
Sukkur, Larkana, Shikarpur, Thatta, Badin, Tando Adam and other cities and
towns of the province.The speakers shed light on the history, philosophy and
achievements of the JI.Addressing the Foundation Day function of the Jamaat-e-
Islami in Lahore, the JI chief, Senator Sirajul Haq, said that the Islamic
movements all over the world had gone ahead despite strong opposition by the
international establishment, said a press release issued by the party ‘s media
cell in Lahore.He said that the world colonialism was not allowing the Islamic
movements to come to power even though the democratic process and the toppling
of Dr Mursi’s elected government in Egypt and the West’s refusal to accept the
victory of Palestine’s Hamas in elections were the irrefutable proof of that.
JI deputy chief Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha, Ahmed Bilal Mehboob and Zikrullah
Mujahid also spoke on the occasion.The JI chief said that even during the
election campaign, the JI invited the people not towards any individual or
party, but towards the system given by Islam. He said that JI had lost the
elections but had not lost its faith.JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, while
addressing JI Foundation Day function at Islamabad, said that Syed Abul Ala
Maududi had founded the JI in 1941 with the objective of establishing the
supremacy of the Islamic ideology and the enforcement of the system of life
given by the Holy Quran and Sunnah.thenews
No amount of alcohol is good for your overall
health, global study says
If you're one of the third of all humankind
who drinks alcohol, take note: There's no amount of liquor, wine or beer that is
safe for your overall health, according to a new analysis of 2016 global
alcohol consumption and disease risk.Alcohol was the leading risk factor for
disease and premature death in men and women between the ages of 15 and 49
worldwide in 2016, accounting for nearly one in 10 deaths, according to the
study, published Thursday in the journal The Lancet.For all ages, alcohol was
associated with 2.8 million deaths that year.Those deaths include
alcohol-related cancer and cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases such as
tuberculosis, intentional injury such as violence and self-harm, and traffic
accidents and other unintentional injuries such as drowning and fires."The
most surprising finding was that even small amounts of alcohol use contribute
to health loss globally," said senior study author Emmanuela Gakidou, a
professor at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and
Evaluation. "We're used to hearing that a drink or two a day is fine. But
the evidence is the evidence."Not surprisingly due to their large
populations, China, India and Russia led the world in the total number of
alcohol-related deaths in men and women. US ranked fifth among men and seventh
among women on that list; the UK ranked 21st for men and ninth for women."This
study is a stark reminder of the real, and potentially lethal, dangers that too
much alcohol can have on our health and that even the lowest levels of alcohol
intake increase our risks," Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal
College of General Practitioners in the UK, said in a statement. She was not
involved in the study. CNN
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