Tragedy struck Andhra Pradesh early on Thursday as gas leaked from a chemical unit in the city, leaving one minor among 7 people dead, more than 70 left unconscious, with at least five sleeping hamlets affected unaware as most were still in bed.
People fainting on the roads
Initial casualties included an 8-year-old girl. One man is reported to have died when he jumped into a well while another person fell off the balcony of his house as the gas leak at the LG Polymers unit located at RR Venkatapuram near Gopalapatnam spread across the five sleepy villages around 2.30 a.m.
In scenes reminiscent of the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, the streets and hospitals of Visakhapatnam were filled with people in a panic, scared to breathe and unable to fathom the silent tragedy that struck them.
According to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation officials, the tragedy took place when the chemical unit, closed due to the lockdown, was being restarted on Thursday morning. The gas stored in tanks began leaking and spread in a radius of 3 km. Officials have zeroed in on two gases, styrene and pentine, as the likely causes for the accident.
Early morning sights included people lying unconscious on the streets and dead cattle by the roadside. People, with children strung over their shoulders, ran in panic towards hospitals. Ambulances rushed to the area and transported 70 unconscious people to the King George hospital.
A large number of those hospitalized are children.
Eyewitnesses said that the incident took place around 2.30 a.m. when people were fast asleep in their homes. All of a sudden people in surrounding areas woke up with a sense of breathlessness, terrible itching, and burning sensation in their eyes.
Panic-stricken they rushed out of their homes, only to collapse. Several cattle and livestock also succumbed to the poisonous gas pervading the air.
The impact of the tragedy was reduced to some extent as the plant operatives immediately alerted the authorities following which the district administration swung into action, an official said.
The surrounding areas within a radius of 3 km have been cleared of people and arrangements made for feeding around 7,500 people who have been asked to vacate their homes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are keeping abreast of all details. Modi has started a meeting with NDMA officials to monitor the situation.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy enquired about the gas leak incident in Visakhapatnam and directed the district officials to take every possible step to save lives and bring the situation under control.
The Chief Minister will proceed to Vizag to take stock of the situation and visit the hospital where the affected area being treated. Modi tweeted that he has spoken to officials in the ministry of home affairs. Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy is also monitoring the situation.
Officials said that the leak has been sealed and the gas dissipates fast and so the death toll may not increase substantially.
LG Polymers is among India’s leading manufacturers of polystyrene and expandable polystyrene. The plant located at Visakhapatnam belongs to the Mumbai-based LG Polymers India, which is part of the South Korean group LG Chemical.
Originally set up in 1961, as Hindustan Polymers for manufacturing polystyrene and its copolymers, the company was merged with McDowell & Co Ltd of UB Group in 1978. It ultimately became part of the South Korean group LG Chemical, in 1997.
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Visva Bharati University Professors support CAA...
VBU professors support CAA as Mamata Banerjee goes all out against citizenship law
Professor Dulal Chandra Ghosh said, "We, the Indians, totally follow this decision. Our brothers who resided in East and West Pakistan in that period were severely tortured, women are brutally tortured and killed, and they lost their properties as well as their souls. Those people, who came back after leaving all of their things, need their personal security as well as respect. We must remember it."
Manogya Loiwal
Kolkata
December 22, 2019
UPDATED: December 22, 2019 23:16 IST Protesters during a demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Kolkata, West Bengal. (Photo: PTI)
A few professors of Visva Bharati University in Birbhum, West Bengal have extended their support to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) amidst protests against the law across the state. A signature campaign by many across the country has been supported by these central university professors who are even vocal about it.
Professor Dulal Chandra Ghosh, Member of Executive Council of Visva Bharati, said, "I wholeheartedly support CAA. I support CAA because the national movement of freedom struggle is also entangled with this Act. Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanded a separate country for Muslims. His demand was ultimately fulfilled and India was divided into three parts."
"As a result of this, a large number of Hindus left their properties and came back with nothing but clothes. When those ill-treated people came to India, they needed a shelter to stay here. So, they need their citizenship. It was also decided from the Liaquat-Nehru pact that the minorities should be protected with honour and respect in their respective areas," he said.
Professor Dulal Chandra Ghosh said, "We, the Indians, totally follow this decision. Our brothers who resided in East and West Pakistan in that period were severely tortured, women are brutally tortured and killed, and they lost their properties as well as their souls. Those people, who came back after leaving all of their things, need their personal security as well as respect. We must remember it. They also fought for India's freedom struggle. If CAA provides for their right to live in India, we are going to support this Act wholeheartedly."
He concluded, "I think that majority of the teaching staffs and employees will support this Act because the CAA is for the outsiders and the refuges and has nothing to do with the Indian Muslims or Indian citizens."
(With inputs from Bhaskar Mukherjee in Birbhum)
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Finally PM Modi has deposited Rs 15 lakhs in each and every Indian’s account
Finally PM Modi has deposited Rs 15 lakhs in each and every Indian’s account
Indian currency worth more than 15 lakhs has been handed over to each and every individual. You may be surprised and shocked, but yes, the milestone has been finally achieved. But it should be noted that the amount is not directly deposited into your bank account. Let me explain how Modi has fulfilled his promise to 1.5 billion India• Soon after terrorist sympathiser Zakir Naik fled from India, crores of his properties were seized by the Indian government.
• When the stupidity of Pakistan crossed all limits, India launched a surgical strike and pushed it into a state of paralysis. Speciality of this attack was that not even a single Para Commando got injured.
After demonetisation, the backbone of corrupt vultures was broken completely. The stone pelters who were targeting Indian soldiers went jobless as their funding network was shattered.
• The gangster who had piled up crores of black money by extorting Indians started witnessing his bad days. Yes, it is none other than Dawood Ibrahim. More than Rs 15000 crores worth properties of Dawood was seized by UAE on the request of PM Modi. Weeks ago, Rs 45,000 crores of assets of Dawood was seized by United Kingdom.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted a series of raids and arrested several big shots who were funding the stone pelters in Jammu and Kashmir.
• All of a sudden, the grave of terrorists started to increase in Jammu and Kashmir after the Indian Army, CRPF and J&K police decided to hunt down the terrorists who were sent by Pakistan.
• The suppressed voice got prominence when Lt Colonel Purohit was released after 9 years. This boosted lakhs of defence personnel of India.
• Women empowerment was given wings when innocent Sadhvi Pragya was released. She was falsely fixed in a bomb blast which was carried out by Pakistani terrorists.
• NGOs that were using its funds to convert Hindus and create anti-India sentiments had to lose its license.
India was saved from future riots after the government decided to deport 40,000 Rohingyas who were illegally staying in India.
• Lakhs of Muslim women got justice when Modi government decided to end triple talaq and also decided to act tough on Nikah Halala.
• Indian culture got wings when the President, Prime Minister and Chief Ministers started to celebrate Navratri festival royally. Previously, other political leaders hesitated to celebrate this as they feared that this it would hurt vote bank politics.
• Any other government would have tumbled in front of the rogue nation China, but Modi government suppressed the Chinese and forced them to step back from Doklam area.
• From decades, looting tax payer’s money was a routine but since PM Modi took charge, not even a single scam has taken place. This itself is a biggest milestone in the history of India.
Now you will realise that PM Modi has already deposited Rs 15 lakh in each Indian’s account. Now some may say that this is nonsense but I will say that this is full of sense. If PM Modi hadn’t taken charge of India in 2014, several patriots would have ended up in jail like Lt Col Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh. If Modi wouldn’t have become the PM, free speech and freedom of expression would have been under threat.
People are questing why the government is not decreasing the fuel price even though the crude oil is all time low. But they aren’t saying why the government is distributing wheat, kerosene and sugar at subsidised rates.
What is hilarious is that the people who are targeting PM Modi on petty and foolish issues are the ones who send their kids to office/colleges in expensive bikes and cars. The same people are asking the Indians to accept Sonia Gandhi as their ‘Bahu’, Nehru as their ‘uncle’, Mayawati as their ‘sister’ and Mamata Banerjee as their ‘didi’. But these don’t want PM Modi to be treated as the ‘Son of India’.
Strange isn’t it?
PM Modi has delivered more than what was promised by him. It is now the duty of each and every citizens to take India to further heights and restore the glory that was before the invasion of Mughals and Britishers.
Jai Hind!!!
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Dec 19, 2017
Who helped Congress win additional 16 seats which could have gone to BJP
BJP would have easily won 115 seats!!! It’s not Congress, you’ll be shocked to know who defeated those 16 BJP candidates...
More than 10 renowned exit polls had said that PM Modi’s BJP will win by a thumping margin. But at the end of the day, BJP ended up securing just 99 seats in Gujarat. Although, BJP will be forming the government, one question that haunts everyone is why BJP’s seats decreased significantly? Is this because the Modi magic has lost its impact like it had during the Uttar Pradesh elections?
It was not Congressmen, but BJP was dumped by their own men!!!
Can you believe that 5 lakh people had opted the (None of the above)NOTA facility? These 5 lakhs voters were perhaps the voters of BJP and this made the biggest impact on the Gujarat elections.
In several places, BJP lost with few hundreds of margin. If the NOTA was reduced than the BJP candidates would have easily cruised ahead to victory.
16 seats were such that BJP clearly lost due to NOTA. The reason for an increase in NOTA is that the trader class, Patidars and Dalits didn’t vote for any party. The reason is clear; they were hurt by BJP. At some places, BJP had done mistakes and in some other constituencies, Congress was successful in misleading the people.
1. In Chota Udaipur, the NOTA is 5870 and the margin of defeat for BJP is less than 1000 votes.
2. In Dangs, NOTA is 2184 and the margin of defeat for the BJP candidate is not more than 800 votes.
3. In Dasada, the margin of defeat was less than 4000 votes but the NOTA was 3797. This could also have been an easy win for BJP.
4 In Deodar, the margin of defeat was less than 1000 votes but the NOTA was 2988.
5. In Dhanera constituency, BJP lost with just over 2000 votes whereas the NOTA was 2341 votes.
6. In Jamjodhpur, BJP lost for less than 3000 votes and the NOTA was 3214 votes.
7. In Kaprada, BJP lost by a minor margin. yes, Congress won with a lead of 170 votes but the NOTA was 3868 votes. BJP candidate Raut Madhubhai Bapubhai will never forget this defeat, so close but so far.
8. In Mansa, BJP lost with less than 600 votes but the NOTA was 3000 votes.
9. In Modasa, the margin of defeat was just below 200 votes and the NOTA filed was 3515 votes.
10. IN Morbi, the margin of loss and the NOTA was almost the same.
11. In Morva Hadaf, BJP lost by below 400 0 votes but the NOTA was nearly 5000 votes.
12. In Sojitra, BJP lost by just over 2000 votes but the NOTA was 3112.
13. In Talaja, BJP lost with just over 1000 votes the NOTA was closer to 3000 votes.
14. In Wankaner, BJP lost with just over 1000 votes whereas the NOTA was over 3000 votes.
15. In Lunawada, BJP lost with a margin of 4000 votes and even the NOTA margin was almost the same.
Nov 22, 2017
Nadia Murad reveals how she was kidnapped and forced into being a sex slave for Islamic State
Human rights activist Nadia Murad was taken from her family by Islamic State to be a sex slave when she was 21.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.
NADIA Murad grew up dreaming of owning a beauty salon.
The youngest of 11 children in a Yazidi family in northwest Iraq, she took photographs of all the brides in her tiny village, studying their make-up and hair. Her favourite was of a brunette woman with curls piled high atop her head.
But after Islamic State overtook her village in August 2014, that dream died. Ms Murad was captured, enslaved, sold, raped and tortured alongside thousands of her people in an effort to decimate their religion.
IS didn’t entirely succeed, however. Ms Murad, 24, managed a miraculous escape and is now a Nobel Peace Prize nominee fighting for freedom and justice for her people.
Her new book, “The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against theh Islamic State” (Hachette Australia), out now, tells the story of how she and her family were living peacefully in the farming community of Kocho, near the Syrian border, when IS first rose to power. Her clan came from a long line of sheep herders and wheat farmers, residing in a house made of mud-brick rooms “lined up like beads on a necklace and connected by doorways with no doors”.
In the summer her family, including Ms Murad’s mother, eight brothers and two sisters, stretched out on mattresses on the roof of their house, whispering to one another until they fell asleep under the moon.
But three years ago, on August 14, after a two-week siege, IS ordered the entire population of Kocho to a schoolyard, where they asked the local leader if the villagers would convert to Islam. Yazidism is one of the oldest faiths in Mesopotamia, dating back 6000 years, and has elements in common with many religions of the Middle East: Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism.
Adherents don’t believe in hell or Satan and pray to a fallen angel, whom they call Tawusi Melek, who came down to Earth and challenged God, only to be forgiven and returned to heaven. This belief has given the Yazidi people a reputation among radical Muslims as devil worshippers.
As a result, followers, who have no formal holy book of their own, have often been the target of genocidal impulses. (Before IS, outside powers, including the Ottomans and other radical Islamic sects, had tried to destroy them 73 times, Ms Murad writes in her book.)
The local leader told the IS commander that they would never convert, believing his people would then be evacuated to a nearby town. Instead, the men of the village were loaded on to trucks, ordered to dig a shallow grave and executed in one afternoon.
The women, still in the schoolyard, could hear the shots just a short distance away. The older women and children were separated from the younger women. Ms Murad was ripped away from her mother, whom she would never see again.
On the way out of town, Ms Murad, who was 21, screamed in an effort to stop one of the soldiers from grabbing her breast each time he walked by her on the bus. “Why did you scream?” a militant asked Ms Murad. “I was scared,” she told him. “This guy ... touched me.”
“What do you think you are here for?” asked the commander. “You are an infidel, a sabiyya [sex slave] and you belong to the Islamic State now, so get used to it.”
Then he spat in her face, took out a cigarette and extinguished it on her shoulder. He lit another one and put it out on her stomach. Then he slapped her twice across the face and warned: “Never make another sound again.”
In the dark, crowded room of a home where she and the other women were being held, Ms Murad asked what awaited her; another woman who had been there longer told her to look for the stains on the bathroom wall where others had tried to kill themselves rather than be sold as slaves.
“You can see the blood high on the walls where the cleaners don’t notice,” the woman told her. “The small reddish-brown stains high up on the tiles were all that was left of some Yazidi girls who had come before me,” wrote Ms Murad.
She had never heard of IS before they came to her village and had no idea that the group had been planning her fate for a long time. “Attacking Kocho and taking girls to use as sex slaves wasn’t a spontaneous decision,” she wrote.
“IS planned it all: how they would come into our homes, what made a girl more or less valuable, which militants deserved a sabiyya as incentive and which should pay.”
She paraphrases an Islamic State pamphlet which stated that “Sabiyya can be given as gifts and sold at the whim of the owner, for they are merely property.” Ms Murad wrote: “An owner can have sex with a prepubescent slave, it says, if she is ‘fit for intercourse.’ ”
Sitting in a house surrounded by men with guns, the young woman contemplated killing herself. Instead, she made a pact with her two older sisters, Dimal and Adke. “We would … take the first opportunity to escape,” she wrote.
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, right, and her client Nadia Murad attend a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters.
When an enormous man with calves “as thick as tree trunks” selected Ms Murad as his slave, she screamed and tried to pull away. “His eyes were sunk deep into the flesh of his wide face … He didn’t look like a man — he looked like a monster.”
When she spied a skinnier man’s calves from her place on the ground, she begged him to take her, hoping his slight size might save her. “She’s mine,” the skinny man told the larger man. And that was that.
Ms Murad was registered as a slave — complete with a photo ID that would be dispersed among the fighters if she were to run away — and taken to the home of her new owner, a high-ranking IS judge named Hajji Salman.
“You’re my fourth sabiyya,” he told her. “The other three are Muslim now. I did that for them. Yazidis are infidels — that’s why we are doing this. It’s to help you.”
Hajji Salman told her to shower, put on a dress that came only to her knee — an immodest change from her normal wardrobe — and use hair-removal cream all over her body.
“I stood in front of the bathroom mirror. I knew that if I didn’t wear any make-up, I would be punished, so I looked through the pile [left for me] ... Normally [my niece] and I would have been thrilled at the new make-up, which was a brand I recognised and could very rarely afford.
“We would have stood in front of the bedroom mirror, painting our eyelids different colours, surrounding our eyes with thick lines of kohl, and covering our freckles with foundation. At Hajji Salman’s, I could barely stand to look at myself in the mirror. I put on some pink lipstick and eye make-up — just enough, I hoped, to avoid being beaten.”
When he raped her, “He was loud enough for all the guards to hear — he shouted as if he wanted all of Mosul to know that he was finally raping his sabiyya — and no one interfered. His touch was exaggerated, forceful, meant to hurt me ... I was like a child, crying out for my mother,” Ms Murad wrote.
“He hit me when he was displeased with the way I cleaned the house, when he was angry about something from work, if I cried or kept my eyes closed while he raped me,” she wrote.
He humiliated her, spreading honey on his toes and making her lick it off. And he always warned her: “It you try [to escape], you will regret it, I promise you. The punishment won’t be good.”
She tried anyway. She put on an abaya, the robe-like covering that devout Muslim women wear, and crawled out a window. A guard saw her. Hajji Salman was summoned, and he whipped Ms Murad’s naked body and then let his sentry — six of them — gang-rape her until she was unconscious.
The last thing she saw before blacking out was one of the guards placing his glasses on a table before he climbed into her bed.
Over the next week, she was passed to six other men who raped and beat her, before being given to one who planned on taking her to Syria. But first he needed to buy her more clothing.
Left alone for the first time in two weeks, she impulsively tried the front door. It didn’t budge. But Ms Murad gave it one last shove and “nearly fell over when it swung open.” Her captor had, for reasons unknown, left it unlocked.
She started walking and didn’t stop. Dressed in the abaya, with her face covered like other Muslim women, she wasn’t an obvious target, although she was shaking and could barely breathe she was so terrified. She walked all evening and into the night. When she arrived at the outskirts of town, the poorer section, she felt slightly calmer.
“If any Sunni in Mosul was going to help me, it was most likely to be a poor Sunni, maybe a family who had stayed only because they didn’t have the money to leave,” Ms Murad reasoned.
She spied a house that looked vaguely like her own back in Kocho and knocked on the door.
“I beg you, help me,” she said, not knowing if she had been saved or was about to be destroyed.
One of the men grabbed her and pulled her into the house. “It’s safer in here,” he said. “You shouldn’t talk about those kinds of things outside.”
The clan, who despised IS, let her stay with them for a few days while they prepared a plan: One of the sons, Nasser, would drive her out of IS territory; if anyone asked, he would pretend to be her husband. The plan worked.
Using fake IDs and a cover story about visiting family in Kurdish-held Iraq, Ms Murad and Nasser made it past the many checkpoints until she was reunited with two of her brothers at a refugee camp.
Ms Murad’s struggle wasn’t over yet. As news filtered in with new arrivals to the camp, she eventually learned what had happened to her other loved ones. Her mother had been shot and buried in a shallow grave along with 85 other Yazidi women.
Five of her brothers had been executed. Her nephew had been kidnapped by IS and would be brainwashed into fighting for them. Her two sisters were still in captivity.
Luckily, another one of her brothers was found in a hospital nearby. Ms Murad refused to tell her three surviving brothers the details of her ordeal, knowing it would torment them to think of their wives, still in captivity, being raped. “I cried every day. When I dreamed, it was always about being returned to IS and having to escape again.”
At the refugee camp, Ms Murad told a few reporters her story. When Murad Ismael, the executive director of Yazda, a Yazidi advocacy group, was looking for a refugee to tell her story to the UN Security Council, he asked Ms Murad and she agreed.
More than a year later she was flown across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time and landed in New York, where she made a speech before the UN.
Poised and calm in front of a crowd of world leaders, she stated: “You are the ones to decide whether another girl, just like me, in a different part of the world, will be able to lead a simple life or will be forced to live in suffering and bondage.”
It was a turning point. “I believe Nadia’s speech raised awareness about the tyranny of ISIS, and they are retreating now, shrinking,” Ismael told The Post. “I attribute some of the world standing up to ISIS to Nadia and people like her, who spoke bravely.”
Humanitarian lawyer Amal Clooney now represents Ms Murad and other Yazidi survivors before the UN. In August, the Security Council passed a resolution to appoint independent investigators to collect evidence of Islamic State crimes, the first step toward holding the group accountable for its mass executions.
But, says Ismael, “I am not sure if it will happen. Unless there is giant effort, many will get away with their crimes.”
More than 3000 women and children are still enslaved and 300,000 Yazidis are displaced. Ms Murad is now living in a town near Stuttgart, Germany, through a program that took in 1100 Yazidi refugees in 2015.
In September 2016, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime appointed her a goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking. She was also nominated for a Nobel and named one of Time magazine’s most influential people in 2016.
(Her two sisters were also finally liberated from IS; Dimal, 33, lives with Ms Murad in Germany, while Adke, 30, is in a Kurdistan refugee camp.)
Now Ms Murad is hoping her book will reach an even wider audience than her speech before the UN. All proceeds from the book’s sales will go toward supporting survivors and bringing IS to justice.
“I think there was a reason God helped me escape ... and I don’t take my freedom for granted,” she wrote. “The terrorists didn’t think that Yazidi girls would have the courage to tell the world every detail of
Nov 16, 2017
Pakistan minister demands non-Muslim guards for his protection
Pakistan minister demands non-Muslim guards for his protection
Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has reportedly been facing threats since he said during an interview that there were only minor differences between Muslims and Ahmadis.
A minister in Pakistan has reportedly asked for non-Muslim security personnel after receiving threats from Islamists. According to local media reports, Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has rejigged his security cover - removing Muslims and asking for Christians, Hindu and Ahmadi guards instead.
Sanaullah made headlines last month when he said during a TV interview that there were only 'minor differences' between Muslims and Ahmadis. It sparked a massive outrage in the country - especially among staunch Islamists who called for his resignation. Islamist group Tehreek Labaik Ya Rasool Allah had organised protests against the minister for his comment.
A section, according to the minister, has also threatened to kill him.
As a result, Sanaullah has asked the police department to screen his security detail. He has also said that he will then personally check and appoint security officials. Till then, Sanaullah has employed Christian guards from a private security agency.
Sanaullah's reaction to the outrage against him is hardly far-fetched. In 2011, Punjab’s governor Salman Taseer was killed by his police guard for his views on blasphemy laws. In a country known for its largely conservative Muslim population, Sanaullah's initial comments had re-ignited the debate on social status of Ahmadi community - one that is officially declared as non-Muslim by Pakistan.
Nov 8, 2017
Guruvayur Parthasarathy Temple takeover sparks hartal call...
Guruvayur Parthasarathy Temple takeover sparks hartal call...
The Hindu Aikya Vedi has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district on Wednesday against the takeover of the Guruvayur Parthasarathy Temple by the Malabar Devaswom Board (MDB) under heavy police protection in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Citing favourable orders from Chavakkad Magistrate Court and a High Court, a team led by Malabar Devaswom Board executive officer T. C. Biju and manager P. Sreekumar, entered the temple along with a large posse of plainclothesmen at 4.30 a.m.
They later collected the keys of its bandarams along with cash and relevant documents kept in the officer from the manager who was in charge.
Three ACPs including Guruvayur's P. A. Sivadasan and seven circle inspectors and several officers stationed near the temple.
Considering protests from devotees and HAV members, they had brought in water cannons.
Even though the cops along with Devaswom officials had reached the temple on September 23 after the daybreak, they faced stiff resistance.
Chavakkad tehsildar Premchandran, deputy tehsildar T. K. Shaji and ADM C. V. Sajan also were present on Tuesday during the takeover.
The MDB had sought the legal permission for taking over the temple from the court citing the alleged corruption in its governing committee.
Two of its employees belonging to CITU had complained of corruption in the temple.
HAV state secretary P. Sudhakaran, associated with legal matters of the governing council, said the officials had not got any orders from the magistrate court or HC for its takeover, but they were interpreting them for their convenience.
He also said the HC was to hear the plea of the governing committee for an injunction and an appeal for police protection for the takeover of the temple on Wednesday.
BJP flays takeover
BJP State president Kummanam Rajasekharan protested against the takeover of the temple by the board.
In a statement issued in Thiruvananthapuram, he said the takeover amounted to violation of religious freedom and the Constitution. He said this would have serious ramifications.
Krishna Kulkarni's open letter to Rahul Gandhi in response to the Congress VP saying the RSS had killed Gandhi..
Mahatma Gandhi's great grandson Shri Krishna Kulkarni's open letter to Rahul Gandhi in response to the Congress VP saying the RSS had killed Gandhi..
Dear Mr. Rahul Gandhi,
Gandhiji was my great grandfather. He was assassinated by Mr. Nathuram Godse.
Many inquiry commissions have researched the case and none has implicated the RSS.
My grandfather Ramdas Gandhi wrote to the then Home Minister, Sardar Patel to spare Mr. Godse the capital punishment.
Our family had moved on even then... but...just for your information..when Ramdas Gandhi lay dying in Mumbai (1969), Mr. Gopal Godse, the younger brother of Mr. Nathuram Godse did pay him a visit.
So as it stands, this issue is squarely in the past and my family has moved on........
My humble suggestion -- your folks who own Congress (I) and your
goodself...should move on AND QUIT milking the name of Gandhi and this issue for YOUR SELFISH BENEFITS.
Have the magnanimity to accept the verdicts of the various commissions. To keep harping that the RSS killed Gandhi is akin to saying the Sikhs killed your GRANDMOTHER ... which would be such a petty falsehood isn't it?
A couple of guys don't make for a community.... So please stop this charade, stop this opportunistic usage of the Gandhi name.
YOU ARE NOT FROM THE GANDHI FAMILY. YOU HAVE FOOLED TOO MANY PEOPLE FOR TOO LONG USING GANDHI NAME IN INDIA. STOP IT NOW.
Feroze Gandhi was in reality Feroze Khan, son of a Gujarati Pathan Nawab Khan of Junagadh and his wife was a Parsi who had converted to Islam.
Your grandmother Indira was also a Muslim having converted to Islam to
marry Feroze.
You are a mixture of Muslim and Christian.
There is no Rahul or Gandhi in you.
YOU are nowhere close to being a HINDU but a combination of MUSLIM/CATHOLIC DNA - with due respect to all the communities.
I am putting this in the public domain as someone from the Gandhi family has to call your bluff. Stop fooling people, you're no Gandhi.
- Krishna Kulkarni
Nov 7, 2017
കേരളത്തിൽ നിർബന്ധിത മതപരിവർത്തനം നടക്കുന്നുണ്ട്: ദേശീയ വനിതാ കമ്മീഷൻ
അഖില വിഷയത്തിൽ മാനുഷ്യാവകാശ ലംഘനങ്ങൾ ഒന്നും നടന്നിട്ടില്ല, എന്നാൽ കേരളത്തിൽ നിർബന്ധിത മതപരിവർത്തനം നടക്കുന്നുണ്ട്: ദേശീയ വനിതാ കമ്മീഷൻ അദ്ധ്യക്ഷ
അഖില വീട്ടിൽ പൂർണ സുരക്ഷിതയെന്ന് ദേശീയ വനിതാ കമ്മിഷൻ ആക്ടിങ് അന്ധ്യക്ഷ ശ്രീമതി രേഖ ശർമ്മ. അഖിലയ്ക്കു വീട്ടിൽ യാതൊരു സുരക്ഷാ ഭീഷണിയുമില്ലെന്നു മാത്രമല്ല സന്തോഷവതിയുമായിരിക്കുന്നുവെന്നും രേഖ ശർമ്മ പറഞ്ഞു. അഖിലയെ വൈക്കത്തെ വീട്ടിൽ സന്ദർശിച്ച ശേഷം മാധ്യമങ്ങളോടു സംസാരിക്കുകയായിരുന്നു. സന്ദർശന വേളയിലെടുത്ത അഖിലയുടെ ചിത്രവും രേഖ ശർമ്മ മൊബൈൽ ഉയർത്തി മാധ്യമങ്ങളെ കാട്ടി.
ഏകദേശം ഒരു മണിക്കൂറോളം നീണ്ടുനിൽക്കുന്നതായിരുന്നു രേഖ ശർമ്മയുടെ സന്ദർശനം. മാധ്യമങ്ങൾ ആരോപിക്കും പോലെ അഖില വിഷയത്തിൽ മാനുഷ്യാവകാശ ലംഘനങ്ങൾ ഒന്നും നടന്നിട്ടില്ല. എന്നാൽ കേരളത്തിൽ നിർബന്ധിത മതപരിവർത്തനം നടക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്നും അധ്യക്ഷ ആരോപിച്ചു. അഖിലയുടെ നിലപാടു സംബന്ധിച്ച യാതൊന്നും ചർച്ചയായില്ലെന്നും 27നു കോടതിയിൽ ഹാജരാകുമ്പോൾ അവർ സ്വന്തം നിലപാടു വ്യക്തമാക്കുമെന്നും രേഖ ശർമ്മ അറിയിച്ചു.
ശ്രീമതി രേഖ ശർമ്മ മൂന്നു ദിവസം കേരളത്തിലുണ്ട്. സമാന സംഭവങ്ങളില് ഉൾപ്പെട്ട പെൺകുട്ടികളെയും രക്ഷിതാക്കളെയും ദേശീയ വനിതാ കമ്മിഷൻ അധ്യക്ഷ കാണുന്നുണ്ട്.
ഐഎസ് കെണിയിൽപെട്ടു സിറിയയിലേക്കു കടന്നു എന്നു കരുതുന്ന നിമിഷയുടെ അമ്മയെയും ദേശീയ വനിത കമ്മിഷൻ അധ്യക്ഷ കാണും.
ചൊവ്വാഴ്ച കോഴിക്കോട്ടും ബുധനാഴ്ച തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തും ദേശീയ വനിതാ കമ്മിഷൻ സിറ്റിങ് ഉണ്ട്. പരാതിയുള്ള ആർക്കും നേരിൽ കാണമെന്നു രേഖ ശർമ പറഞ്ഞു. സംസ്ഥാന പൊലീസ് മേധാവിയുമായും ദേശീയ വനിത കമ്മിഷൻ അധ്യക്ഷ കൂടിക്കാഴ്ച നടത്തും.
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