The 2019 Bharat Niti Summit will be held on 15th December in Bengaluru under the theme of ‘The Digital Hindu’. The event is scheduled to be held at RV Teachers College at Bengaluru.
Delhi-based thinktank Bharat Niti which has organised the event said that the national summit titled “The Digital Hindu” intends to pave the way to unite various agents and organisations working towards achieving the eradication of the misconceptions about Hindu religion in masses.
The event will allow the exchange of ideas relating to strengthening Hindu dharma and culture through modern technological means, building dialogues for conflict resolution through modern communication, facing challenges of information and misinformation campaigns.
“Realising that the growth of digital communication channels has opened up many new opportunities to showcase and learn the rich cultural heritage of Hinduism and our civilisation at large. These new communication channels and mediums of volunteerism can be very helpful in eradicating the misconceptions about Hindu religion in masses,” the organisers stated.
The event will be attended by prominent spiritual leaders like Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Swami Sukhabodhananda and Dr Santosh Guruji along with many thinkers and intellectuals of the country including Retd Major General GD Bakshi, filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, Professor-Scientist Anand Ranganathan, Indian-American Author Rajiv Malhotra.
Rahul Roushan, the CEO of OpIndia, Author Sandeep Balakrishna will be sharing their ideas on the issue of synergising the Hindu narrative on digital space. Prasanna Vishwanathan of the Swarajya, IISc Professor Abhishek Banerjee will also be discussing the topic of ‘Defending the Hindu on social media’.
Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya will also be delivering a keynote address on the issue of being a Hindu in the age of social media at the Bharat Niti Digital Hindu Summit. Karnataka Deputy CM Ashwatnarayan will also grace the occasion along with other political leaders Muralidhara Rao – the National General Secretary of BJP, senior BJP leader Arvind Limbavli, Delhi BJP leaders Kapil Mishra and Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga.
Various debates and discussion on the issues such as digital media, ways to preserve and promote Hindu values and traditions in social media have been organised during the day-long Bharat Niti summit in Bengaluru.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked the former Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi and Padma Shree awardee, Leela Samson for alleged “unfruitful expenditure” in Rs 7.02-crore renovation project of Koothambalam auditorium of Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, officials said Saturday. It was alleged that the Foundation under her watch, spent Rs 62.20 lakh more than the estimated amount of Rs 7.02 crore project.
Leela Samson, who was previously a dance teacher to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has been booked along with the then officers of the Foundation: Chief Accounts Officer TS Murthi, Accounts Officer S Ramachandran, Engineering officer V Srinivasan and proprietor of CARD and Chennai Engineers.
Samson was the Director of the Foundation between May 06, 2005, and April 30, 2012. It was felt in 2006 that the auditorium built by the Foundation in 1985 needed renovation, they said. The project aimed to upgrade the sound system of the Koothambalam auditorium, built-in 1985, followed by civil engineering works, electrical works, air conditioning and architectural features, the CBI FIR said.
The enquiry was launched in 2017 by the CBI following a complaint by the then Chief Vigilance Officer of the Culture Ministry, Mahesh Sharma.
Sharma, in his complaint, had alleged that the officials of the Foundation awarded the contract for the renovation work to consultant architect CARD in violation of General Finance Rules.
After conducting an inquiry in 2016, the Culture Ministry alleged that the officials of the 84-year old Foundation awarded the contract for the renovation work to consultant architect CARD in violation of General Finance Rules and that the Foundation spent Rs 62.20 lakh more than the estimated amount of Rs 7.02 crore project.
The ministry also alleged in the complaint that the open tender process was not followed in awarding the contracts and that Samson failed to apprise the non-official members of the Works Committee about the GFR norms and inform the Works Committee about the CAG Inspection Report received in August 2011.
Leela Samson, who is considered as one of the most influential persons of the Lutyens club, was appointed as the director of Kalakshetra by the Congress-led UPA in April 2005. She was subsequently also appointed as the chairperson of the Sangeet Natak Akademi in August 2010 and as the chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (an autonomous body that censors and certifies films in India) in April 2011.
But most importantly, she was a very close aide of the Gandhi family. She is said to have taught Bharatanatyam for some years to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. In fact, many media houses have alleged that her close proximity with the Gandhi family acted as the catalyst in her appointment as the chairperson of the censor board by UPA govt in 2011.
She received the Padma Shri (1990), the Sanskriti, Nritya Choodamani, Kalaimamani (2005) given by Government of Tamil Nadu, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1999–2000) for contributions to Bharatanatyam.
But in the year 2012, Samson, a rabid anti-Hindu, resigned from her position as director of Kalakshetra. She also resigned from her position as chairperson of the censor board after the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal overturned her attempt to ban the movie MSG: The Messenger of God featuring Dera Sacha Sauda founder Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a lead role and gave it clearance.
The detention of NCP leader Farooq Abdullah has been extended by 3 months. He has been under house arrest since the abrogation of Article 370 that removed the special status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir. The Modi government had also bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir into three union territories – Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Farooq Abdullah has been put under house arrest under PSA (Public Security Act).
National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah’s detention under Public Safety Act, extended for three more months. (File pic) pic.twitter.com/UhtSZQgWo1
Recently, Home Minister Amit Shah had said in the parliament that leaders like Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah will remain under detention till the local administration deems fit and that there will be no interference from the central government in this decision.
Kashmir has been largely peaceful with sporadic incidents of stone-pelting. The Left, in their tirade, had asserted that young children had been detained in the valley and thrown in jails, trying to paint the central government as a fascist regime.
However, the Supreme Court which went through the fresh report submitted by the Juvenile Justice Committee (JJC) from the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, over the alleged detention of children in Jammu and Kashmir post the abrogation of Article 370 in the Valley, has today reiterated that there seems to be misinformation being spread on this issue and concluded that no minor has been detained.
The SC’s observation came after the JJC, comprising of HC judges Ali Mohammad Magrey, Dhiraj Singh Thakur, Sanjeev Kumar and Rashid Ali Dar, in its fresh report submitted, stuck to its earlier findings which had found no basis on the claims made by many Leftist media portals claiming that 144 minor boys were ‘arrested’ in Jammu and Kashmir since August 5.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Friday arrested two members of the banned organisation, Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who had been absconding for a long time.
Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested two members of SIMI (a banned organisation) who were absconding since a long time. One of them was arrested from Burhanpur and the other from Delhi’s Okhla.
One of the two arrested terrorists, Illyas Akram Shaikh, is a relative of Indian Mujahideen leader Abdul Subhan Qureshi, who was arrested by Special Cell in 2018. The other one arrested is identified as Ejaz Akram Shaikh. Both the brothers were residents of Kurla in Mumbai. They allegedly fled from Mumbai after the 2006 serial train blast in the city.
The ATS Maharashtra had booked the accused duo for anti-national terror activities in 2006 after a crackdown on members of the banned terror outfit SIMI and its offshoot Indian Mujahideen (IM) was initiated by security agencies. An FIR was registered on July 29, 2006. During the raids conducted then, the ATS had claimed to have recovered a large number of explosives and objectionable material from the house of one, Ehtesham Siddiqui in Mira Road in Mumbai, Maharastra, after which he was subsequently arrested.
Siddiqui was the main accused in the July 11, 2006, serial train bomb blasts in the city which killed 188 people and left several persons injured. He was sentenced to death in 2015 by the MCOCA court.
Reportedly, Siddiqui’s interrogation led to Illiyas’s arrest from Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area late on Friday night. His brother was nabbed from Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh. Both were brought on transit remand to Mumbai where they were produced in court and remanded to three-day police custody.
The two terror suspects were arrested with the help of MP ATS and Delhi police on the basis of a tip-off.
The duo was a part of the module run by former General Secretary of Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) Safdar Nagori, along with terror convict Ehtesham Siddiqui and Abdul Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer who is also known as Osama Bin Laden of India.
Ehtesham Siddiqui has been convicted in two cases related to terror activities, while Tauqeer, who was arrested from Delhi last year and is awaiting trial in cases of serial blasts in Uttar Pradesh, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Delhi between 2007 and 2008.
The ATS Maharashtra believes the arrests to be a major breakthrough as it will bring to light details about the sleeper cells of terror outfits like Indian Mujahideen and SIMI and other associates working with them.
After witnessing inordinate delays and multiple deferrals, the Congress party today finally organised the Bharat Bachao rally, touted as a demonstration to protest against the Modi government’s handling of the Indian economy and “India’s deteriorating condition”.
Speaking at the Bharat Bachao rally, the former Congress President Rahul Gandhi blustered that he is Rahul Gandhi and not Rahul Savarkar to apologise for his recent remarks on rapes in India. A couple of days ago, Rahul Gandhi’s appropriation of the government initiative’s name-‘Make in India’ to comment “Rape in India” stirred a furore amongst the BJP ranks who condemned the Gandhi scion for his insensitive remarks against the rape incidents and asked him to apologise for the same.
#WATCH: Rahul Gandhi,at ‘Bharat Bachao’ rally: I was told in Parliament by BJP y’day ‘Rahul ji, you gave a speech. Apologise for that.’ I was told to apologise for speaking something correct. My name is not Rahul Savarkar. My name is Rahul Gandhi. I will never apologise for truth pic.twitter.com/DhgFyZNX1a
However, Gandhi brazened out his remarks, claiming that he did not speak anything untruthful about the rape incidents. Mocking the RSS ideologue VD Savarkar, Rahul Gandhi said, “My name is Rahul Gandhi. I am not Rahul Savarkar and I will not apologise for saying the truth,” Gandhi exclaimed.
It is noteworthy to mention that Rahul Gandhi tendered an unconditional apology to the Supreme Court of India for wrongly attributing his election-time rhetoric-“Chowkidar Chor Hai” to the apex court.
In addition, Rahul Gandhi also attacked the government on the shrinking economy saying that the real GDP of the country lies somewhere around 2.5 per cent and not 4 per cent. He also launched an attack on the government for legislating the Citizenship Amendment Bill which seeks to grant a dignified way of life and citizenship of India to the religiously persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries.
Rahul Gandhi was not the only one to whip up paranoia with his pompous statements. Sonia Gandhi, the interim president of the Congress party, too joined her son in making wild assertions and hyperbolic claims against the BJP government.
Sonia Gandhi, Congress Interim President at ‘Bharat Bachao’: Kisi bhi vyakti, samaj aur desh ki zindagi mein kabhi kabhi aisa waqt aata hai ki ussey iss paar ya uss paar ka faisla lena padta hai. Aaj wahi waqt aa gaya hai, desh ko bachana hai to hamein kathor sangharsh karna hoga pic.twitter.com/0OobonxcSH
In what sounded like a melodramatic appeal straight out of a Bollywood film, Sonia, in her stilted Hindi asked people to prime themselves for a hard struggle against the current dispensation. “There comes a time in life when an individual, society has to shun ambivalence and take a resolute decision. This is the time to enlist oneself for a hard struggle to salvage our country,” Sonia thundered.
Sonia Gandhi, Congress Interim President at the party’s ‘Bharat Bachao’ rally, in Delhi: Modi-Shah are not bothered at all that #CitizenshipAmendmentAct will shred the soul of India, just like it is happening in Assam and other states of the northeast. pic.twitter.com/PTzay0Gur0
In yet another exaggerated assertion, Sonia Gandhi claimed that the Citizenship Amendment Bill, that aims to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities, will shred the soul of India and that Modi and Shah are indifferent to it.
Following the historic passing of Citizenship Amendment Act, which gives citizenship to persecuted minorities of three neighbouring countries, the Jaisalmer district administration has organised a camp on Friday to help refugees from Pakistan to avail the citizenship of India, reports ANI.
According to the reports, the Jaisalmer district administration led by Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Om Prakash Bishnoi had organised the camp in which 15 refugees from Pakistan completed the procedures and formalities necessary to obtain the Indian citizenship rights.
SDM Bishnoi stated that such camps are frequently organised to bring all concerned departments under one platform. He said that the reporting and clearance process is controlled online by the Centre.
On Thursday, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 became an act of law after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the historic legislation.
Prior to this, both the houses of Parliament had passed the bill after the much-heated debate. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and by Lok Sabha on Monday.
The Citizenship Amendment act seeks to give Indian citizenship to the members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from three neighbouring Islamic countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh after facing religious persecution.
The Act states the refugees of the six communities will be given Indian citizenship after residing in India for five years, instead of earlier requirement of 11 years. The Act also proposes to give immunity to such refugees facing legal cases after being found as illegal migrants. The cut-off date for granting citizenship will be December 31, 2014.
The law will not be applicable to the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Tripura as included in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. Further, the law will not cover the areas covered under the Inner Line Permit (ILP), notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873. The ILP regime is applicable in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, and Mizoram.
We are all familiar with some version of this question. Hindus are nearly 80% in India. What do we have to worry about? Are Hindus a majority with a minority complex?
On the face of it, that seems like a good question, coming from the man who has sometimes been called India’s “Numero Uno historian,” along with a whole bunch of other careers that he is believed to be capable of. That question is right up there with other questions like “Why can’t the government just print money so that we can all be billionaires?” Or something like “Why doesn’t the earth fall?”
And just like those questions, this one shows a complete lack of sophistication or understanding of how things really work. Something that would be cute if a three-year-old were asking, but an adult could never get away with.
How did Hindus come to dominate ‘everything’ in India? Well, that’s because Hindus were chased out of every other corner of their historic homeland. Once upon a time, Hindus used to live in Lahore as much as they live in Delhi. Not any more. Those of us who are not pretend-historians might remember the mention of Rajtarangini from school. The book was written in Sanskrit by Kalhana in the 12th century and is an extensive account of the Hindu kings of Kashmir.
In case you haven’t noticed, Hindus don’t “dominate” Kashmir any more.
India’s National anthem, written by Rabindranath Thakur, mentions one province called Sind. Where is it? I can’t find it anywhere on the map of India. I suppose Hindus also “dominated” the place at some point. Then, they were chased out.
Don’t worry, intellectuals and pretend historians will soon argue that Sind was not a real place at all. Members of the Sindhi community in India will be described as claiming descent from something ‘mythical.’ You know, like the river Saraswati.
Then, there is “West Bengal,” a state whose name suggests that there might be an “East Bengal” somewhere. Where did it go? Did Hindus live there too? I appreciate the insistence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that the state should be renamed as “Banga” instead of the current “Paschim Banga.” Perhaps it is time to stop believing in the myth of East Bengal?
And yet, we Hindus are asked: you dominate everything in India. What are you worried about?
Look at this photo.
It is a picture of the Seawise Giant, the longest and heaviest ship ever built. If stood up straight, it would be 50 feet taller than the Empire State Building in New York.
Now you could say: the crew have the ship under their command, they have the control of the engine room, the rudders, everything. What could the captain possibly have to worry about?
To understand this, you have to zoom out of the ship and see what surrounds it. That is when you realize that the ship is not even a speck of dust when compared to the vastness of the ocean that surrounds it.
You don’t understand what’s happening until you see the ship in the context of the ocean. Then, you know why the captain would be worried if the water is entering the ship through a hole.
Now think about India. This is India. Big country. And yes, it is dominated by Hindus.
But you don’t understand what’s really happening unless you see it in the context of this map.
Suddenly The Republic of India doesn’t seem so big any more. And you realize that Hindus have nowhere else to go!
And the boundaries of India have been closing in. The world’s largest Hindu temple is in Cambodia, not in India. The cities of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa, the cradle of Indus Valley Civilization, are no more in India. Taxila, the ancient seat of learning, is no more in India. Hindus have been purged from Kashmir. Hardly any Hindus live in lower Assam any more. Hindus in many villages of Western Uttar Pradesh are looking to leave their homes and move to ‘safety.’
The India that we see is only the current iteration of Bharat. Each iteration leaves us with a smaller, more diminished, India.
Liberals want us to see that we control the ship. They don’t want us to see the ocean that surrounds the ship. How foolish (and dangerous) is that? Imagine being on a ship, but being unaware of the ocean that is all around it. If this ship sinks, where do we go?
We have liberals on this ship who tell us to close our eyes and pretend that the ocean isn’t there. They tell us not to worry about the ocean because we have keys to the engine room on board! They say don’t be paranoid.
Mamata Banerjee led West Bengal is facing a huge law and order issue as Muslim mobs have gone on a rampage to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which grants citizenship to persecuted minorities of three neighbouring Islamic countries. As West Bengal descended into chaos after Muslim mob began to unleash riots in the state protesting against CAB, one of the residents of the state – Sankhadeep Shome who went through the horrific experience of these riots near Howrah has written a detailed post on how Muslim mobs unleashed barbarity in the name of protests.
Sharing his ordeal in a Facebook post, Sankhadeep Shome said that yesterday was a day which is unlikely to be ever erased from his memory as for the first time he found himself in the middle of a full-fledged riot and experienced fear. Blood-curdling fear, he added.
Facebook post of Sankhadeep Shome
Shome narrated that he was on board UP Howrah-Chennai Central Coromandel Express which rolled into Uluberia station on the Howrah-Kharagpur section at around 3:20 pm on Friday. He stated that a large crowd of around 500-700 miscreants emerged from the “Jummah Namaz” at a mosque adjoining the station, who blocked the entire railway line at a level crossing outside the station.
It is important to note that Muslim mobs had gone on a rampage in West Bengal’s Howrah district. They resorted to extreme violence by blocking tracks at the Uluberia railway station. The Muslim mobs had vandalised the complex and some trains by resorting to stone pelting, injuring a driver, officials said. The violence affected train services in Sealdah division of the Eastern Railway.
According to Shome, a few of them were carrying ‘Oppose CAB and NRC’ posters. Then, he said, a massive crowd of rioters then descended on the station, including young boys barely in their 20s and some as young as 7 and 8 dressed in kurta pyjamas and skullcaps armed with rods and stones.
“First, they shattered all the window panes of an empty rake of Humsafar Express. Then they got to our train and started to pelt it with stones. The elderly were traumatized, the children crying. A stone shattered the glass window of the adjacent coupe. My heart pounded as I heard them screaming,” said Shome.
He added, “I saw them laughing sadistically as they poked the rods through the broken window panes to terrify the passengers. I ducked and stayed dead still. One stray stone, one swing of the rod is all it would take.”
Shome said that the state police were nowhere present at the spot at a time when Muslim mob was going on a rampage. A huge contingent of the RPF arrived from Howrah after half an hour of the incident, who pushed back the Muslim mob with relentless lathi charging and tear gas, he added.
“After a few broken legs and cracked skulls, the rioters again melted away into the slums by the railway line. When I finally emerged from the compartment after 4 hours of confinement, the station resembled a war zone. The locomotive was severely damaged and the loco pilot injured,” noted Shome while sharing his experience of an attack by Muslim mobs.
“You read about mob violence. You watch it on TV. You even romanticise it. Till the day it happens to you. It is then you realise that every single day is a gift,” cried Shome on his Facebook post.
In the state of West Bengal, many members belonging to various Muslim organisations have resorted to violent protests following the passing of the historic Citizenship Amendment Act (CAB).
Protests against the CAB were planned soon after Friday prayers across mosques in the State and other various parts of the country which has resulted in extreme violence in parts of West Bengal.
The Muslim mobs have pelted stones at public properties and policemen along with burning of railway infrastructure in the state. Mobs pelted stones on ambulances and torched several vehicles, A cop was injured in the violent protests against Citizenship Amendment Act.
A Twitter user today shared a viral video from TikTok on the microblogging site, wherein a Muslim man holding protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) Bill is seen using harsh, abusive and provocative language against PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath.
The man who is protesting against the passing of CAB and NRC is heard saying that “….tum CAB aur NRC lakar hume desh se bahar nahi kar sakte. Uss samay Savarkar nahi aaye the ladne ko, humare ul Mae gramo ne is din ke liye nahi phasi ke phande ko chuma tha” roughly translated as [you cannot throw us out of the country by implementing CAB and NRC. That time Savarkar did not fight for India’s freedom it was our ‘Ulamas’ (scholars) who had laid their lives for India’s freedom]
He goes on to audaciously abuse the Prime Minister, Home Minister and Uttar Pradesh’s CM by saying: “Yeh Amit Shah or Modi ke baap ka Mulk nahi hain (this country is not Modi or Shah’s personal property), jo NRC ke jariye hume kehen rahen hain ki videshi hain, ghuspethia hain… (through the NRC bill they want to prove that either we are foreigners or intruders in our country).
Though the massacres and atrocities perpetrated by Muslims rulers in India are unparalleled in history, the protestor brazenly hails the era by saying that “we ruled the country for more than 800 years but the success never got into our head. This Modi and Shah, who have been in power for only five years have lost their mind..”
At this point, the man in the video crosses all levels of decency and goes on to call Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath “chilam khor” (drug addict) whereas insults Narendra Modi and Amit Shah by calling them “daru baaz” (alcoholic). He furthers that: “Amit Shah desh ka sabse bada goonda hain (calls the Home Minister, India biggest goon) jo che mahine tak tadipar raha hain (who has been a fugitive for six months). Koi bill lakar usko desh se bahar karna chaiye…” (A bill should be brought to first throw him out of the country), the man is heard saying the video.
In the protests against CAB, the protestor becomes even more brazen. He says: “what can be expected from a Prime Minister who has massacred more than 3000 people”, audaciously referring to the Godhra ‘hate crime’, which the Liberals and Muslims have still been using to malign the PM, despite the lie woven around the incident being busted time and again.
The man in the video is also heard giving a veiled threat saying: “if we (referring to his Muslim community) start showing our true colours than you will have no place to escape”.
Notably, while the Hindu refugees across the nation have been hailing and thanking PM Modi and Amit Shah for ending their atrocities by bringing in the Citizenship Amendment Bill, radicals like these have been spreading misinformation and hate across the nation. Most of the protests happening against the Bill are being hijacked by the Muslim groups who are unleashing extreme violence across the country.
A former Pakistani MP who fled religious persecution in Pakistan and migrated to India after being pressurised to convert to Islam was delighted to learn that the Indian parliament has legislated the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 (CAB) that seeks to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries like himself.
In a report by Jagran, Divyaram, who was once an MP in Pakistan during the reign of Benazir Bhutto, and is currently earning his living in the Fatehpur district of Haryana by selling peanuts and kulfis has expressed hope and joy over the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill by the central government.
He said that the legislation of the CAB has given him and his family an opportunity to become legitimate citizens of India. After the passage of the bill, Divyaram is hopeful that his family would be able to secure a ration card and avail the subsidies and benefits provided by the government to its citizens.
Talking about his brief stint as the member of parliament in Pakistan, Divyaram revealed that during the Bhutto regime, he had given an approbatory speech welcoming Benazir Bhutto in his constituency. Impressed by his speech, Benazir made him a Member of Parliament through the reserve seats meant for minorities.
However, Divyaram laments that soon after he became an MP, disgruntled Muslims kidnapped a girl belonging to his family and threatened him to step down.
He further mentions that when the matter reached the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the SC judge asked him to either strike a compromise or convert his religion to put an end to the case. Following this, he tendered his resignation as MP and decided to migrate to India.
Divyaram, originally from Lahiya district of Punjab province of Pakistan, came to India with his family in January 2000 on a one-month visa. Initially, he lived in Kalanaur and Rohtak city of Rohtak district. When his visa expired, he appeared before the then Rohtak DC and pleaded that he and his family do not want to go to Pakistan under any circumstances.
At that time, members of Bajrang Dal and other Hindu organizations helped him in his rehabilitation. The Deputy Commissioner also allowed him to stay there. Later, in 2006, he moved from Rohtak to village Ratangarh near Ratia town of Fatehabad and is living there since last 13 years.
The 74-year-old Divyaram lives with his 12-member family. He also disclosed that he had to abandon his family-owned 25 bighas of land in Pakistan due to the harassment at the hands of the Muslim community and clerics. They would pressurize him into adopting Islam by asking him to consume beef. When he refused to embrace Islam, they started exploiting him.
Ever since Divyaram took refuge in India, he hoped that there would come a leader who would take cognisance of their pitiful situation and strive for their betterment. He is thankful to PM Modi that he brought the legislation for providing citizenship to thousands of persecuted minorities who fled their original country and are leading a difficult and uncertain life in India.
