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  • Spurt in violence in India a part of bigger BJP conspiracy, alleges Yechury

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The basic secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sitaram Yechury on Thursday alleged that communal ways are being employed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to divert individuals’s consideration from the failure of the Central authorities in a number of spheres together with combating rising costs and unemployment.

    Referring to the spate of communal incidents throughout states, he mentioned that these incidents are half of a bigger conspiracy hatched by the Government to destroy the social material and constitutional association in India.

    “The ruling party is inciting this violence and hatred. There is a great conspiracy behind this; conspiracy against humanity and the constitution. Attempts are being made to destroy the constitution. We haven’t seen such barbarism in the last 75 years since independence and beyond. Eid and Ramnavmi were celebrated together but this kind of violence, hatred and bloodshed never existed before. It is being executed in a planned manner, which has the backing of the ruling party and the Government,” mentioned Yechury.

    EDITORIAL | Selective demolitions convey no glory to the nation

    He was talking at a protest collectively organised by the Left events — CPI (M), CPI, CPI (Marxist–Leninist), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) — at Jantar Mantar towards the ‘focused’ demolition drive in Jahangirpuri by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (North DMC) after communal clashes in the course of the Hanuman Jyanti procession.

    The Left events alleged that the demolition drive was half and parcel of the nefarious design to create communal stress within the space. Hundreds of individuals participated within the protest.

    Communist Party of India (Marxist) chief Brinda Karat and CPI-ML’s politburo member Kavita Krishnan had been additionally current in the course of the protest.

    Yechury mentioned that this (protest) is the start. Left events would maintain demonstrations throughout the nation towards divisive fascist politics.

    The CPI (M) chief additional said that the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regardless of the violation of legal guidelines is shocking.

    “PM doesn’t say a word. The character of the country is being altered. Condemning the violence is one thing but it has to be stopped; prevention is necessary,” mentioned Yechury.

    He additionally criticized the Government for the continual rise in petrol and diesel costs. Yechury mentioned that as a substitute of asking the governments of non-BJP ruled states, the Central authorities ought to scrap central excise duties on petroleum merchandise to regulate their costs.  

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    “The BJP and RSS are creating an environment of hate in the name of removing encroachments in Delhi. We have seen this happening in Jahangirpuri and now they are planning to conduct such activities at other locations in Delhi. We are demanding the government to end such practices,” mentioned the secretary of CPI (ML) Delhi Ravi Rai.

  • ‘I’ll elevate troublesome points’: UK PM Boris Johnson on Jahangirpuri controversy

    By PTI

    LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday indicated that he can be elevating “difficult issues” when he meets his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday.

    The troublesome points being referred to is prone to embody the controversial demolition of some properties as a part of an “anti-encroachment” drive by the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) within the Jahangirpuri space of north-west Delhi, days after communal clashes within the locality.

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    Johnson was responding to questions from the UK media throughout a go to to a brand new bulldozer manufacturing unit in Gujarat’s Halol industrial space close to Vadodara arrange by British multinational JCB. “We always raise the difficult issues, of course we do, but the fact is that India is a country of 1.35 billion people and it is democratic, it’s the world’s largest democracy,” Johnson was quoted within the ‘Guardian’ newspaper as saying in response to questions.

    The manufacturing unit go to got here beneath hearth on social media over JCB tools being concerned within the “anti-encroachment” demolitions in Delhi, which activists have claimed focused one explicit non secular neighborhood – a problem being thought of by the Supreme Court.

    However, Johnson sought to spotlight the brand new Halol plant as a “living, breathing incarnation of the umbilicus between the UK and India”. “This is a world-leading factory – 600,000 diggers a year coming from India, exported from India to 110 countries with British technology,” he mentioned.

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    The UK media additionally raised the difficulty of JCB chairman Anthony Bamford being a donor to Johnson’s Conservative Party and whether or not the go to was motivated by that connection. “No, he chose to go to the JCB factory because it is a very good illustration of UK business, working with India and the Indian government to benefit both the UK and India,” Johnson’s official spokesperson advised the ‘Guardian’.

  • Jahangirpuri demolition: Amnesty India slams UK PM Boris Johnson for inaugurating manufacturing unit in Gujarat

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Hitting out at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for inaugurating a JCB manufacturing unit in Gujarat a day after municipal company in Delhi razed houses in Jahangirpuri utilizing bulldozers, Amnesty India known as the transfer “ignorant”, whereas additionally saying his “silence” on the incident was deafening.

    Earlier within the day, Johnson, who’s on a two-day go to to India, inaugurated a manufacturing unit of UK-headquartered heavy tools maker JCB at Halol in Panchmahals district of Gujarat.

    As Indian authorities clamp down on human rights day by day, the UK authorities should not stay a mute bystander. It should carry human rights to the dialogue desk. India can’t wait one other day for justice.
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    — Amnesty India (@AIIndia) April 21, 2022

    This comes a day after bulldozers tore down a number of concrete and non permanent buildings near a mosque in Jahangirpuri as a part of an anti-encroachment drive by BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporatin, days after the northwest Delhi neighbourhood was rocked by communal violence.

    The Supreme Court needed to intervene twice to cease the drive after it took cognizance of a petition filed by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind towards the demolition.

    Reacting sharply, Amnesty India tweeted, “In the backdrop of Municipal Corporation of Delhi using JCB bulldozers to raze down shops of Muslims in Northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri yesterday, UK Prime Minister’s inauguration of a JCB factory in Gujarat is not only ignorant but his silence on the incident is deafening.”

    It additional mentioned the UK authorities should not stay a mute bystander.

    “It must bring human rights to the discussion table. India cannot wait another day for justice… The demolition continued despite and in defiance of an order by the Supreme Court of India asking the authorities to stay the demolition exercise. The residents of Jahangirpuri were not even given an opportunity to salvage their possessions,” Amnesty India mentioned in one other tweet.

    The rights group additionally known as these “brazen attacks” on the correct to livelihood and ample housing of spiritual minorities in India as an assault on their hopes for a safe future.

  • Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind: After Ayodhya, now Jahangirpuri… Know every part about Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, who reached the court docket towards bulldozer

    Noida / New Delhi: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind group (Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind) is as soon as once more in dialogue after the violence in Jahangirpuri of the capital Delhi. A petition was filed within the Supreme Court on behalf of this group towards the usage of bulldozers. Jamiat Ulema Hind has been making headlines after the court docket’s resolution 3 years in the past, whether or not it’s the matter of approaching the court docket towards the inspiration stone of Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya or authorized help to the accused of homicide of Hinduist chief Kamlesh Tiwari in Lucknow.

    Two functions have been filed within the Supreme Court on behalf of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind. A petition has been filed in lots of states of the nation stating that bulldozers are a violation of human rights and primary rights. At the identical time, the second petition has been filed in Jahangirpuri after the order to run the bulldozer was issued. While submitting the petition, Gulzar Ahmed Azmi, Secretary of Imdadi Committee, has cited the authorized course of. A letter has additionally been written on behalf of the group to Home Minister Amit Shah. Maulana Arshad Madani is presently the President of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind.
    The matter of bulldozer motion reached the Supreme Court, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind demanded an early listening to
    Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind was based in 1919 by Sheikh Al Hind Maulana Mahmood Al Hasan, Mufti Mohammad Naeem, Professor Noor Ul Hasan Khan Ghazali, Maulana Abdul Bari Firangi Mehli, Maulana Abdul Haq Madani, Syed Gul Badshah amongst others. Mufti Kifayatullah was elected the primary president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, one of many nation’s main Islamic organizations.

    The basis of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind was truly laid by the Islamic thinkers of Deobandi department. Jamiat had participated within the Khilafat motion together with the Congress. It additionally opposed the partition of India. The group believed that Hindus and Muslims ought to stay collectively in the identical nation. The factions opposing this concept parted methods to type Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, which supported the motion for a separate Pakistan.

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    The phrase Jamiat in Islam means meeting, league or group. This phrase is derived from Arabic. The first assembly of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind was held in Amritsar on 28 December 1919. There has additionally been a distinction of opinion about who fashioned the group. This group boycotted British items and actively participated within the freedom battle.

    The twenty ninth General Body Meeting of Jamiat Ulema Hind was held in Hyderabad in November 2008. About 6 thousand thinkers took half in it. Swami Agnivesh and Ravi Shankar additionally participated in it. Anti-terrorism was mentioned on this assembly. During this, a fatwa was issued saying that issues like pointless violence, bloodshed, disturbance of peace, terrorism have been rejected in Islam.

  • Supreme Court orders established order on demolition drive in Jahangirpuri, matter to be heard on April 21

    By Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a status-quo on the demolition drive in Jahangirpuri, Delhi.

    The matter was talked about by Senior advocate Dushyant Dave earlier than the bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana.

    “…The drive is unconstitutional, unauthorized demolition is taking place in Jahangirpuri where riots took place. No notice was served so that reply is served in 10 days,” he stated.

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    Senior advocate Kapil Sibal additionally mentions the plea by Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind looking for instructions that residential lodging or any business property can’t be demolished as a punitive measure. The petitioners have stated within the plea that the administration in a number of states is using bulldozers to raze down the homes of individuals suspected to be concerned in felony incidents corresponding to riots.

    The petitioners have additionally prayed that police personnel to be offered specialised coaching in dealing with communal riots and conditions the place populations turn into restive.

    The court docket will hear each issues tomorrow.