Delhi Police has registered an FIR against AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan for calling for the beheading of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati. The FIR was filed under sections 153-A/506 of the Indian Penal Code.
दिल्ली पुलिस ने आम आदमी पार्टी के विधायक अमानतउल्ला खान के ख़िलाफ़ भड़काऊ और जान से मारने की धमकी देने वाले ट्वीट पर 153-A/506 IPC में मामला दर्ज किया।
In a now-removed-tweet, Khan had asked for Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati’s beheading. The provocative tweet against Twitter Rules, remained online for hours despite countless requests to remove it.
Amanatullah Khan had said, “This insult to our prophet is not tolerable to us at all. The tongue and head of this hateful insect should be cut off as punishment. However, Indian laws do not permit this.”
BJP leader Kapil Mishra has filed a complaint against Amanatullah Khan in Uttar Pradesh as well. He said, “His words can be a part of real and growing threat to the survival of the nation which can lead to the alarming situation of clashes and riots In India.”
Mishra added that Khan’s intent was to create disharmony between communities. “He is carrying malafide intention against Hindus and our Hindu Sadhus, which is transparent by his post. In his post, he is absolutely in his personal capacity abetting the murder of our Hindu Sadhu Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati by a particular community,” he added.
A case of grooming jihad has come to light in Haryana. On April 2, youths from a particular community tried to abduct a minor girl in Tauru, Haryana. When the youth failed, they started molesting her in public. The girl protested, after which they beat her up. They also threatened to kill her. The people in the area came to her rescue and nabbed three of the youth. They were handed over to the police.
कल #तावडू_प्रवास में लव जिहाद की धटना से पीड़ित परिवार से मिलकर ढाँढस बँधाया व हरसंभव मदद का आश्वासन दिया । इस बारे में उच्च अधिकारियों से बात करके मामले में किसी भी प्रकार की कोताही न बरतने की बात सुनिश्चित की,पुलिस भी दोषियों पर सख़्त कार्रवाई कर रही है @BJP4Haryana@OPDhankarpic.twitter.com/d3gRnhKND4
As per the complaint filed with the police, the girl said she was going for tuition near Vijay Chowk at 6:30 PM on April 2. When she was crossing Vijay Chowk, two youth from a particular community chased her and started molesting her. When the girl protested, they started beating her. According to the girl, one of the youth threatened if she does not change her religion and marry him, he will repeat what happened to Nikita Tomar. After that, he tried to pull her on his bike forcefully.
When they failed as the girl was protesting, he called up six-seven of his friends and pulled her on the bike. She started screaming and called for help. People in the area rushed to her rescue, after which some of the youth escaped, but people were able to nab three of them identified as Hamja, Parvez and Shahid. They were handed over to the police. When people of the city learned about the incident, they gathered at the police station and demanded strict action against the accused. The family of the victim has alleged that Hamja’s family has indulged in illegal activities.
Hamja, Parvez and Shahid were presented in court on Saturday
Additional SHO Gaurav Singh said in a statement that they had arrested three accused in the case identified as Hamja, Parvez and Shahid. All three were presented at the court on Saturday.
21-year-old student Nikita Tomar was shot dead in full public view by two men outside the Aggarwal college in Ballabgarh, Faridabad in Haryana. Her family had said that she was being forced to convert to Islam. Tauseef and his friend Rehan were ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in March.
On Sunday (April 4), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stirred a new controversy by promoting regionalism and sectarianism ahead of the third phase of polling in the State.
In a blatant display of hatred against Gujaratis, she alleged, “Gujaratis are trying to capture Bengal by bringing goons from UP and Bihar.” Mamata Banerjee also vowed to not let her State turn into Gujarat. The West Bengal CM emphasised, “We will not allow Bengal to become like Gujarat.” She made the remarks during an election rally in the Howrah district.
Gujaratis are trying to capture Bengal by bringing goons from UP and Bihar. We will not allow Bengal to become like Gujarat. BJP tries to create communal disturbance: West Bengal CM & TMC chief Mamata Banerjee in Howrah pic.twitter.com/nd8TfiYaS3
Ahead of the State Legislative elections in Assam, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi also targeted the Gujarati community in the hope to turn around his party’s political fortunes. On February 14 this year, he announced that he would take money from Gujarat tea traders and hand it over to the tea garden workers in Assam.
Letting his hate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, both Gujaratis, spill on to the people of Gujarat, Rahul Gandhi claimed that Assam tea workers get paid Rs 167 per day wage while ‘traders in Gujarat’ get tea gardens. He did not give any proof to back his claims. He ‘promised’ that should Congress come to power in Assam, the workers will get Rs 365 per day wage. “Where will the money come from? It will come from Gujarat’s traders”, he claimed.
Textile Minister Smriti Irani dared Rahul Gandhi to take money from the small tea traders in Gujarat. Smriti Irani further emphasised, “I want to challenge Rahul Gandhi to try Gujarat if he has guts. I also challenge him to contest polls from Gujarat. That will clear all his misconceptions.” She called out Rahul Gandhi’s hatred for Gujaratis as he and his party had earlier opposed the construction of the Statue of Unity.
How did Bengal lose to Gujarat in 2008?
While Mamata Banerjee has vowed to not let West Bengal turn into Gujarat, the former had lost to the latter in the infamous Tata Nano Singur controversy in 2008. Following widespread protest, the Tata Nano plant was moved out of Singur to Gujarat’s Sanand.
In 2006-07, there was massive protest against land acquisition for the Tata Manufacturing plant, which escalated into violence and bloodshed when police forces under the Left Front government opened fire at the protesters. Mamata Banerjee, as the primary opposition then, led the charge against the same.
Years later, however, locals who took part in the protests, expressed regret regarding the same. One of them said, “We got nothing out of the agitation. We were used and later dumped to fend for ourselves by the political parties to serve their own purposes. No industries came up in the region, nor the land which was returned to us in 2016 is cultivable. We are living in extreme poverty.”
The widespread sentiment is that if they were given a chance to ‘atone’ for their mistake, they definitely would.
Former President of the United States of America Donald Trump had a fun Easter wish for people on the 4th of April. In a statement, he said, “Happy Easter to ALL, including the Radical Left CRAZIES who rigged our presidential election, and want to destroy out country!”
Donald Trump wishes ‘Radical Left crazies’ a Happy Easter
In an earlier statement, Donald Trump had called for a boycott to combat ‘Woke Cancel Culture’ by Big Business in the wake of a new law passed by Georgia to secure election integrity.
“For years the Radical Left Democrats have played dirty by boycotting products when anything from that company is done or stated in any way that offends them. Now they are going big time with WOKE CANCEL CULTURE and our sacred elections,” he said in a statement.
“It is finally time for Republicans and Conservatives to fight back—we have more people than they do—by far! Boycott Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck. Don’t go back to their products until they relent,” he added.
“We can play the game better than them,” said Donald Trump.
Trump has been deplatformed by social media platforms in the aftermath of the storming of Capitol Hill.
On Sunday (April 4), a woman caught Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan off guard with his catchphrase ‘Ghabrana nahi hai‘ over the issue of rising inflation in the country. The incident took place during Khan’s live phone call session with the public today.
At about 10 minutes into the live session, a woman by the name of Amreen Khayum from Islamabad dialled up the Pakistani Prime Minister to convey her grievances. “I am a housewife by occupation. My husband works in a private company. I want to talk about the rising prices of commodities. Our sustenance is at risk. We now have to decide whether we should pay the school fees of children or pay for the essential services,” she lamented.
The woman emphasised, “The month of Ramzan is just around the corner. But, the price of basic commodities is not going down. Please fulfil your election promises and bring inflation under control.” She then added, “Agar ya nahi ho sakta toh aap jo Day 1 se keh reh hai ki aapko ghabrana nahi hai. Toh aap humein ghabrana ki ijjazat de de (If you can’t do this, then, you must remember your catchphrase since Day 1, wherein you asked people not to be fearful. Please give us permission to be in a state of fear over this drastic price hike).”
(Video Courtesy: Youtube/Geo News)
‘Ghabrana nahi hai‘ is not effective anymore
When the woman hurled his iconic catchphrase back at him, the Pakistani Prime Minister was stumped for a moment. Fumbling throughout his answer, he said that his administration has been focusing a lot of controlling inflation.
Imran Khan had been using ‘Ghabrana nahi hai’ as an excuse to get away from criticism over his administrative failure. With this catchphrase and his stature as a World Cup-winning captain, he has been successful in silencing popular dissent and keep his critics at bay.
However, the overuse of the catchphrase has resulted it in being reduced to a object of ridicule. With viral jokes, memes, and even music videos featuring ‘Ghabrana nahi hai‘, his once-successful rhetoric seems to have lost its charm. It became further evident when a housewife in Pakistan’s conservative society rang up the Prime Minister and used the opportunity to take potshots at him for his failed policies. Although Imran Khan tried to circumvent his own failure by blaming it on US dollars and the ‘middlemen’, the damage was already done.
Inflation reaches 9.1% in March while Imran Khan remains clueless
The grim state of Pakistan’s dwindling economy is evident from the fact that inflation rose to 9.1% in March from 8.7% in February. Inflation rose by 0.36% on a month-on-month basis due to a hike in sugar, cooking oil, pulses, wheat, electricity and petroleum product prices. Moreover, non-food inflation has also been on the rise due to high energy prices. While Khan has only his catchphrase to offer, life is getting harder and harder for poor and middle-class Pakistanis.
A video has gone viral online where participants are seen practicing what is called ‘Beer Yoga’. The video has sparked much outrage online from people who claim that the ancient Hindu practice has been diluted and distorted by the practitioners.
People on the internet are definitely not happy about the whole affair.
#Yoga is for feeling good without any such chemical substances.
During Asanas- body release certain fluids- putting #Beer etc- starts a battle in body & harms it.@MoHFW_INDIA must take action on this- they are damaging people's health & also the great practice of Yoga. https://t.co/nuKa1t3qzx
Failed attempt at cultural appropriation by west. They are reluctant to practice true yoga with shlokas and mantras as they fear attraction of Goras towards Sanatan Dharma.
The video in question is not recent. It was shared by Curly Tales on its YouTube channel in July 2017. The video has captions that say ‘Om Chug Chug’ and ‘Yo-ga to try this!’
It isn’t precisely clear where and how, or why for that matter, the Beer Yoga was developed. But it is believed that it was popularised by Germany based BierYoga which has been conducting sessions of the same since 2016.
Their official website says, “BeerYoga is the marriage of two great loves – beer and yoga. Both are centuries-old therapies for body, mind and soul. The joy of drinking beer and the mindfulness of yoga compliment each other, and make for an energizing experience.”
“BeerYoga is fun but it’s no joke – we take the philosophies of yoga and pair it with the pleasure of beer-drinking to reach your highest level of consciousness,” it adds. BierYoga claims that Beer Yoga is for “Yogis who like beer”.
Some ‘Indologists’ appear to endorse the practice. Dr James Mallinson, a senior lecturer in Sanskrit and Classical Indian Civilisation at SOAS University of London, said that a precedence for ‘absolutely anything’ can be found in the Yoga tradition.
“The foundational texts of yoga, the yoga sutras, only mention seated postures for meditation. And even texts that list lots of postures find the one that works best are ones you must hold for hours on end so you can still your mind. It’s not really about the body but about the mind,” he said.
“It’s such a big multifarious tradition you can find precedence for almost anything,” he added. But he did say that he is skeptical of ‘modern updates’ to the Yoga tradition.
While we are not sure precisely who brought the Beer Yoga to India, MYOLO and HobbMobb organised a session of the same on the 22nd of July, 2017. It was conducted at the Rabbit Hole, Hauz Khas, Delhi.
The description of the event said, “This is an event for everyone obsessed with fitness and would love to try challenging asanas like balancing your body on one leg or in a tree position with a bottle of beer on your head. You could go with a friend or alone, the event begins at 4 in the evening, yes, yoga doesn’t mean getting up at 6 in the morning only. You don’t have to be a yoga addict or a pro at it, just go and grab your favourite bear and move a bit of your belly to feel refreshed.”
About the practice itself, it said, “Beer yoga gained worldwide popularity this year encouraging people to choose yoga to relish their favourite pint of beer without any guilt. The trick of the yoga experts is to keep the practitioners motivated, focused and make the workout session full of challenging yoga positions and exercises.”
The trend appears to be far more widespread than the Indians outraging on social media appear to believe. Numerous articles with headlines such as “Beer Yoga is popping up all over the world, combining asanas and alcohol” are available on the internet.
However, not everyone in the West appears excited about the prospect. A blog on the official website of the Indiana University is extremely critical of the practice and offers reasoning that would resonate with the masses in India.
The blog said, “The perception that beer and yoga complement each other arises from the misconception that yoga is designed to please the personality. Spiritual practices, including yoga, are designed to help you experience what exists when you’re not the personality. The moment you alter a spiritual practice to please the personality, that practice becomes corrupt.”
“Trying to make yoga more fun or exciting is a sign that you’ve lost sight of yoga’s true purpose. Adding beer to your yoga routine is the ego’s way of saying, “stay asleep just a little while longer”,” it added.
It went further to assert, “Yoga is an avenue to experience life beyond distraction, to make distraction irrelevant. Maya – the principle of illusion – is constantly singing her lullaby in various forms – one form being “Beer Yoga.” If you want to avoid illusion, stick with traditional, unmodified yoga.”
Apart from such reasons, the blog also flags other health reasons such as the fact that it might end up being a way for alcoholics to justify their alcoholism and that a stomach full of liquid makes Yoga more difficult. Fitness experts appear to be of the same opinion.
“After hot yoga and aerial yoga, its beer yoga that has come up. It’s just another method to get new customers into yoga. The only thing it does is that it offers you a break from your routine workout. There is no health benefit to it. Imagine doing a Surya Namaskar and sipping beer ! Sounds ridiculous! This practice is for people who love beer and are not into fitness. No doubt you will enjoy this practice, but you will also pile on the pounds and get that beer belly you want to avoid,” said Ashish Gupta.
Amaresh Ojha, another fitness expert, stated, “It’s another marketing gimmick to make yoga popular and get people into it. It’s contradictory. Yoga is supposed to increase your consciousness, whereas, drinking beer lowers it. Alcohol makes you sleepy. And you are suppose to do yoga on an empty stomach.”
Thus, while Beer Yoga is being marketed as a fancy gimmick, it might not in people’s best interests to try it out.
The other day, I heard that some 900 students at Ashoka University attended a lecture by Pratap Bhanu Mehta where they discussed Karl Marx and his book Das Kapital. What did they learn, exactly?
I do not know. I wasn’t there. But I know that all the lessons they need about Marx exist already in the world outside of the classroom. If they want to learn, they need to look outside, not inside. Yesterday, 22 jawans laid down their lives fighting Communism in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh. Most of them would have been from families who would not be able to pay what it takes to attend a luxury university and listen to an intellectual discuss Marxism.
Why am I mixing up civil society issues with security issues? Because, in this case, the close relation between the two shapes public attitudes towards and hence the reaction from the state.
Now, if the past is anything to go by, this incident will be forgotten soon enough. We forgot Dantewada 2010 and the 76 CRPF jawans who died there. Every year, we manage to forget literally hundreds of Communist terror attacks. We already forgot the attack in Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh, in which five jawans were killed. And that was only last week. In fact, we have managed to all but forget that Communists have occupied large portions of Indian territory in the states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
But why? We never give such leeway to Islamic terrorists or to Pakistan. We all remember the infamous terrorist attacks: Pulwama, Uri, Pathankot, Mumbai 26/11 and so many more. Every Indian is acutely aware of how Pakistan occupied Kashmir. If Pakistani troops violated the border tomorrow and tried to seize say the city of Jaisalmer, they would have hell to pay. For most of last year, Indians closely followed what happened between Finger 4 and Finger 8 of Pangong Tso in Ladakh, determined not to cede another inch of territory to the Chinese. But, consider this.
One of these is the flag of the Communist Party of China. The other is the flag of the banned CPI(Maoist). Can you tell which is which? And more importantly, does it matter? Why do we take one threat so seriously and all but ignore the other?
The Chinese Communist Party does not need the PLA to seize Indian territory. That would mean facing the entire might of the Indian Army, which would prove very risky and very costly. Instead, they can just change one color in their flag and go on rampage across India, grabbing territory and killing our civilians and jawans. We wouldn’t even notice, let alone resist.
Because our minds have been trained by the larger society to see the Communist cause as fundamentally just. And this hold is so strong that we don’t learn from history. We do not even learn from the clear and present danger in our daily lives. And we do not learn from weekly news stories detailing the atrocities committed by Communists.
We all know the facts about the history of Communism, or at least we should. The Communist empire of the Soviets starved millions of people to death, most of them deliberately. Many of the nationalities of Eastern Europe, such as Polish and Ukrainians, were tackled with straight up “death quotas,” with hundreds of thousands picked up from their homes and shot en masse. The Communists fought on the side of Hitler for the first two years of the Second World War, until the Nazis dumped them. The Communists starved some 30 million people to death in China. Who were Pol Pot, Fidel Castro and Kim Jong Il? All Communists. No other ideology in the world has such an impressive record of turning out dictators and mass murderers.
And yet, we are somehow conditioned to believe that there must be something good about the Communists. That your average Communist is some kind of lovable nerd with an odd sense of fashion, a soul for poetry and an eye for human suffering. You are thinking about the soft exterior shell of Communism. Dig deeper and you will discover that the final solution on offer is always a death camp.
In life, you learn nothing unless you ask the right questions. A number of Indians will rationalize the violence in Chhattisgarh and the value system of the Naxalites. You must have come across at least a couple of these people yourself. They see it as a struggle by tribal people to protect their land.
Really? First of all, do you know of any other group of people that is fighting against building of schools, hospitals, roads, railways and factories? Why would you assume that tribal communities think about life so differently? Is that not kind of insulting? Second, if the violence had nothing to do with Communism, why would Naxalites raise the Communist flag at all? Because you and I are outsiders, but Karl Marx is indigenous to the land?
Just like this bogey of tribal rights, the Communists have prepared a number of smokescreens to hide their real agenda. One of these is that you can never pin down who actually represents the Communists. They have set up dozens of closely related isms such as Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, Marxism-Leninism and the like. Each one differs from the other in unintelligible ways. The idea is that when you put the spotlight on the crimes of one, the other factions distance themselves quickly.
And yet, the Chinese Communist Party and all factions of the Communist Party in India (both legal and illegal) use nearly the same flag and have an identical set of heroes. For people who claim to be totally different, they spend an awful lot of time copying each other.
Do you know the other reason the Communists are divided into so many splinter groups? Because Communists are fundamentally intolerant. Any two people in an organization will always disagree on something or the other. But for Communists, every difference of opinion is worth killing over. You will see the same pattern with Islamic terrorists. Every jihadi faction is convinced that only they have the truth and all other factions are working for the devil.
These days, we talk a lot about dangers to our democracy. The good news is that we want to be vigilant. The bad news is that we are mostly ignoring Communism, which is the biggest danger of all. In many tribal regions such as Bastar, polling has to be completed by 3 pm so that the polling officers can leave before evening sets in. Voters in these areas are often too scared to get their fingers inked after voting. If the Communists see someone with ink on their finger, they might chop off the finger … or even the neck.
Is that a big enough danger to democracy for us to take notice? Or do we spend all our time discussing the plight of those who can make more money by resigning a job (in dramatic style) instead of doing that job? If you have failed to teach young minds about the danger of Communism, you should be fired anyway. You don’t get to resign and become a hero.
We need to stop making nonsensical excuses for Naxalism and go liberate our people living under Communist occupation in the hinterland.
Oh, and I am still not telling which flag belongs to the Communist Party of China and which one belongs to the CPI(Maoist). Mostly because it does not matter.
Three Sikh youths who planted flags of Khalistan at the administrative complex Moga district on the 14th of August, 2020 after Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannu called for the same are now languishing in jail, Sukhi Chahal, Editor-in-Chief of The Khalsa Today said.
was slapped on them. Met family of one of the accused Inderjeet Gill at village Rauli, District Moga, Punjab. Hard to describe their miseries as they were cursing #Pannu for using #Punjab youth as his fodder. Not a single penny is received from #SFJ#Pannu though he lured
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— Sukhi Chahal סוכי צ'חל (@realSukhiChahal) April 4, 2021
The families of the youth were cursing Gurpatwant Singh Pannu for leading the Sikh youth astray, Chahal revealed. He lured them with the promise of $2500 but did not pay any money after the deed was done.
and spoil their lives. This case should leave no one in doubt that by falling prey to such lucrative misconceived offers, they are only putting themselves in the firing line. Stay away from anti-India forces is the lesson to learn.
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— Sukhi Chahal סוכי צ'חל (@realSukhiChahal) April 4, 2021
Chahal said that criminals sitting abroad were ruining the lives of those in India by radicalising the Punjab youth. He said, “This case should leave no one in doubt that by falling prey to such lucrative misconceived offers, they are only putting themselves in the firing line. Stay away from anti-India forces is the lesson to learn.”
The Moga Police had registered a case under sections 124A (sedition) and 121 (waging war against the government) of the Indian Penal Code, and other sections of the Prevention of Insult to National Honours Act.
SSP Harmanbir Singh Gill had said that the youths had “probably fallen in the trap of banned outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) head Gurpatwant Singh Pannu’s announcement”.
“The two youths reached the DC office complex terrace and hanged a ‘kesari’ (saffron) flag with Khanda (symbol of Sikh faith) printed on it. The flag also had ‘Khalistan’ written on it with paint. The flags with ‘Khanda’ are normally available in market. The banned Sikhs for Justice head Gurpatwant Singh Pannu has made several announcements offering $2,500 or $25,000 to those who would do this cowardly act.and it is most probably an act by those youths who wanted to make some easy money,” he said.
“As per the CCTV clips, they came around 8.15 am when sweepers had opened all rooms and offices for cleaning. They reached the terrace and raised this Khalistan flag and while returning, they took down the Indian national flag which was placed on the flag post. They first cut the string of the tricolour, brought it down and took it along with them. It was a cowardly and anti-national act,” the SSP added.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannuhad said in videos, promising $2500, “Haryana, which was one a part of Punjab, will be a part of Khalistan”.
Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, had commented, “The poison being spread by Pannu and Jathedar Sahib has shown its affect in Moga where two persons removed the tricolour.and hoisted the Khalistani flag above DC office. The law should arrest these anti-national elements and put a mark of ‘traitors’ on their forehead. Now it is time to clearly differentiate between those who love this country and those who want to destroy it.”
The Sikhs for Justice leader had also attempted to use the ‘farmer protests’ to radicalise the youths of Punjab. He had also incited Sikh soldiers in the Indian Army to “Leave Ladakh border and join Singhu border”. He had also urged West Bengal and Maharashtra Chief Ministers to declare independence from India earlier in the year.
The death toll in the Bijapur Naxal encounter rose to 22 by today. Reports suggest that 21 security personnel are still missing. Large scale search operations are underway to rescue the missing personnel. The encounter broke out on April 3, in which several Jawans were injured. They were taken to the hospital for treatment. Yesterday, 5 bodies were recovered, while today 17 more bodies of security forces were recovered from the ambush site.
On Saturday, separate joint teams of security forces, with over 2,000 personnel, had launched a major operation against the Naxal terrorists from Bijapur and Sukma districts in the South Bastar forests, considered a Maoist stronghold. At around 12 noon, the Maoists trapped and ambushed one of the teams of the security forces. The ambush led to an encounter that lasted for three hours. At least two Maoist terrorists have been confirmed to be dead in the gunfight.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to Bhupesh Baghel, CM, Chhattisgarh, over the phone and discussed the incident in detail.
22 security personnel have lost their lives in the Naxal attack at Sukma-Bijapur in Chhattisgarh, says SP Bijapur, Kamalochan Kashyap
Baghel, while informing the home minister about the ground reality of the encounter, said, “The damage caused to the security forces in the encounter is very tragic. But the morale of the security forces is still strong, and only we will win this fight against Naxal violence.”
The Home Minister assured the CM to provide all necessary help and said the centre would work with the state to win the battle against the Maoists. He also informed the CM that instructions had been issued to the Director-General of CRPF to visit the incident’s site.
छत्तीसगढ़ में नक्सलियों के साथ मुठभेड़ में शहीद हुए जवानों को श्रद्धांजलि देता हूं। मैं उनके परिवार व देश को विश्वास दिलाता हूं कि जवानों ने देश के लिए जो अपना बलिदान दिया है वो व्यर्थ नहीं जाएगा। नक्सलियों के खिलाफ हमारी लड़ाई और मजबूत होगी व हम इसे परिणाम तक ले जाएंगे। pic.twitter.com/15rAFAS5uU
CM Baghel, in a statement to the media, said that the villagers had lost faith in the Maoists as they are continuously disrupting the development work in the area. He added that the villagers are now joining the mainstream of development. The improvement in health, education and other facilities in the Naxal-hit regions encourages people to alienate the Maoist ideology. As per CM Baghel, the Maoists are carrying out such attacks as a retaliation to the development work in the region.
Baghel kept on rallying in Assam hours after the attack
Even after several hours since the news of the attack on security personnel broke, Chhattisgarh CM Baghel decided to stay in Assam, campaigning for Congress for the ongoing Assembly elections. Baghel was criticised on social media for not cutting short his appearance in rallies in Assam.
On Friday (April 2) night, a 26-year-old anti-farm law protestor was murdered by a fellow farmer protestor near Kasar village on the outskirts of Bahadurgarh at the Tikri border in Delhi.
As per reports, the victim has been identified as Gurpreet Singh. He was a resident of Barnala in the State of Punjab. The accused, Ranbir Singh alias Satta Singh, hails from the same village. Both of them had been camping at the Tikri border to protest against the farm laws enacted by the Modi government. On Friday, a fight ensued between the two over a monetary dispute in their tent.
An agitated Ranbir thrashed Gurpreet with a lathi and injured him badly. After committing the crime, he fled the scene. Gurpreet was rescued by other anti-farm law protestors, who then admitted the victim to the civil hospital in Bahadurgarh. He later succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. The police have registered a case against the absconding Ranbir Singh on the basis of a complaint by the victim’s uncle Nahar Singh.
While speaking about the matter, SHO (Bahadurgarh Sector 6) Jai Bhagwan informed, “They had an argument over money exchange and Ranbir beat up Gurpreet with a lathi. Other protesters camping at the site rushed to Gurpreet’s rescue and got him admitted to the civil hospital in Bahadurgarh, where he died.”
The accused Ranbir Singh has been booked under Indian Penal Code Section (IPC) 302 (murder). Although he was absconding after committing the crime, he was later arrested by the police. On Saturday he was remanded to judicial custody. “Since it was an identified accused. We rushed our police parties and arrested him. He has confessed to have murdered him,” Jhajjar SP Rajesh Duggal said.
Elderly farmer protestor found murdered at Tikri border a week ago
This is not the first time that such an incident has come to light. On March 25, a 60-year-old farmer named Hakam Singh was found dead with a slit throat. According to the police, Singh was murdered using a ‘sharp-edged weapon.’ His dead body was discovered by other anti-farm law protestors in a field behind the new bus stand at the Tikri border.
A member of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur), he had been participating in the farmer protests but went home for about 1-1.5 months. After returning to the protest site on March 25 morning, his sister-in-law Karamjeet received information that his dead body has been found in the evening. The police had registered a case of murder against unidentified people under IPC Section 302 (murder).
While speaking about the matter, Inspector Vijay Singh (SHO City Bahadurgarh) informed, “The FIR has been registered just this (March 27) afternoon. The post-mortem is being completed today and the body handed over to the deceased’s family. We are yet to identify the accused, the matter is under investigation.”
