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CAB protests: Curfew lifted for 5 hours in Dibrugarh, AASU calls for hunger strike in Guwahati

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CAB protests: Curfew lifted for 5 hours in Dibrugarh, AASU calls for hunger strike in Guwahati

The indefinite curfew which was in force in Assam’s Dibrugarh municipal area following the violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill has been relaxed for five hours on Friday.

According to the reports, the curfew in Dibrugarh has been lifted from 8 am to 1 pm on Friday. However, many other towns and cities are still under indefinite curfew, including Guwahati, besides Tezpur and Dhekiajuli. Night curfew has also been imposed in Jorhat, Golaghat, Tinsukia and Charaideo districts.

Following the violent protests in the state, the Army and the security forces are conducting flag marches in Guwahati town which was the epicentre of the protests, besides Dibrugarh and Tezpur.

Meanwhile, the Army and the security forces will also be conducting flag marches in Guwahati town which was the epicentre of the protests, besides Dibrugarh and Tezpur. The Union Home Ministry on Thursday has kept around 20 additional companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) on standby to move to Assam if necessary.

Reportedly, All Assam Students Union (AASU), the prominent students’ body in Assam which is leading the protests against the Citizenship Bill, has called for hunger strike today in Chandmari area of Guwahati.

A large number of people, including artists, singers and filmstars will be observing a 10-hour fast called by the influential students’ organisation against the Citizenship Act from 6 am.

AASU chief advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya said that the protests will continue. “Our protest will be non-violent and disciplined. We will not accept the Citizenship Amendment Bill at any cost. The government might say they will give us Clause 6 – but that will not work for us. We are also appealing to people not to resort to violence,” he added.

Internet services in 10 districts have also been suspended for another 48 hours beginning 12 pm on Thursday to prevent misuse of social media to disturb the peace and to maintain law and order.

In a big relief to the Modi government, the Joint Movement against Citizenship Amendment Bill has called off their strike in Tripura on Thursday. It is an umbrella organization of all groups in Tripura who are against the CAB.

The decision to call off strikes comes after a delegation of the organisation including their convenor Anthony Debbarma and BK Hrangkhawl had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and discussed their concerns. Home Minister Shah assured them that all their concerns would be addressed.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and by Lok Sabha on Monday. On Thursday, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 also became an act of law after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the historic legislation.

Following the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill and subsequent protests in the North-Eastern region, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday tried to assure the Northeastern states that the Citizenship Act will not hamper the spirit and interests of the region. In a series of tweets written in Assamese and English, Prime Minister Modi sent out a message of reassurance to the people of Assam.


He said that the central government is “totally committed to constitutionally safeguard the political, linguistic, cultural and land rights of the Assamese people as per the spirit of Clause 6. I want to assure my brothers and sisters of Assam that they have nothing to worry after the passing of CAB, PM Modi said.

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.

Sikh community in Kashmir agrees for demolition of 72-year-old Gurudwara to make way for National Highway

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Sikh community in Kashmir agrees for demolition of 72-year-old Gurudwara to make way for National Highway

In an extraordinary gesture, the Sikh community in Kashmir on Thursday allowed the officials to pull down a 72-year-old Gurudwara to make way for the construction of a national highway connecting Srinagar with Baramulla.

According to the reports, the existing building of Gurdwara Damdama Sahib, which was established in 1947, is located along the Srinagar-Baramulla road. It will now be demolished and shifted to another place in the city following an understanding between the Gurdwara management and the Development Commissioner, Srinagar.


Gurdwara Damdama Sahib is known for its service towards migrant families who arrived from Pakistan. The Gurudwara organises langars and also undertakes many social service initiatives. It had also sheltered flood and earthquake victims.

As per a report in News 18, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, District Magistrate and Development Commissioner of Srinagar had attempted to resolve the deadlock and intervened in the discussion process. He had reached out to the Sikh community to discuss an amicable solution to the issue.

Reportedly, Choudhary had held a series of meetings over the past week to resolve the deadlock and also examine a range of options to find a solution.


“Finally, today in the presence of the deputy commissioner and the Gurudwara management, the demolition of Gurudwara Damdama Saheb was started. The Gurudwara will function from a makeshift space until a new one is constructed at the agreed location. The state public works department (PWD) has been entrusted with the construction of the gurudwara as per the design provided by the Sikh community,” the official said.

The Government of India started construction of the national highway from Srinagar to Baramulla in 2006. Later, the project was funded under the Prime Minister’s Development Plan, an official added.

The Srinagar-Baramulla stretch is executed by the Border Roads Organisation while the Anantnag-Srinagar part is done by the NHAI.

The road was completed in 2013. However, there were few litigations in the High Court concerning the road project. The landowner whose land was suggested for the relocation of Gurdwara had objected to the proposal and obtained a stay in 2014.

The Gurudwara was one of four bottlenecks in the road project, most parts of which were completed in 2013. Apart from the Gurudwara, the three other bottlenecks were a power line, a petrol pump, and water supply lines.

The official said the work on the demolition of the petrol pump and shifting of power lines and water supply lines has also started. The work is likely to be completed in the next 10 days, he said.

UK elections: Labour Party that supported Pakistani narrative over 370 abrogation loses big, its chief Jeremy Corbyn resigns

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UK elections: Labour Party that supported Pakistani narrative over 370 abrogation loses big, its chief Jeremy Corbyn resigns

The UK has just had the results of the general elections announced and the Conservatives, with current Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the PM candidate, have secured a massive victory. The Labour Party, which had ‘secular-liberal’ favourite Jeremy Corbyn as its PM candidate, has suffered a humiliating defeat after a long time.

PM Modi had congratulated PM Boris Johnson for the thumping victory.


The exit polls earlier had predicted that Boris Johnson’s conservative party is expected to win 368 seats in the House of Commons and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is predicted to win only 191 seats. The exit polls results were announced late last night after the voting process was over.

Labour Party’s Jeremy Corbyn has stepped down after the disastrous predictions of his party’s performance.

It is notable here that most of the British-Indian communities had openly announced support for Boris Johnson’s party after Jeremy Corbyn’s party repeatedly sided with Pakistani groups and peddled their agenda over India’s abrogation of Article 370.

Corbyn’s Labour Party had also passed a ‘resolution’ on Kashmir brought in by its Pakistani-origin members. The resolution had called for international meddling in the Kashmir issue and had criticised India’s decision to abrogate Article 370, mirroring Pakistan’s lines.

Not just that, a number of Labour Party members and even MPs were found participating in anti-India marches organised by Pakistani-sponsored British groups. On two occasions, such marches had also attacked the Indian High Commission building in London, drawing sharp criticism from the Indian government.

Read: Fear of losing British-Indian votes and money? UK Labour Party backtracks on its Kashmir stand, says issue bilateral

After the controversial ‘Kashmir resolution’, the Indian High Commission had severely criticised the open support of anti-India elements and had cancelled its scheduled programs with the Labour Party. The Indian community in the UK too had expressed displeasure and had announced suport for the conservatives.

The open support for terrorist organisations was exposed when Banned outfit JKLF had announced its support for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party. The Labour Party, sensing losing Indian votes, had later backtracked on its stand over Kashmir and had expressed regret over the ‘resolution’.

Citizenship Amendment Act comes into force after President Kovind gives assent to the bill

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Citizenship Amendment Act comes into force after President Kovind gives assent to the bill

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 has now become an act of law after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the historic legislation on Thursday.

According to an official notification, the act comes into effect with its publication in the official gazette on Thursday.

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 Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and by Lok Sabha on Monday.

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.

Focus on protecting your own minorities rather than compulsively issue statements: MEA schools Imran Khan on CAB

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Focus on protecting your own minorities rather than compulsively issue statements: MEA schools Imran Khan on CAB

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has developed a peculiar habit of poking his nose in India’s internal matters. Admonishing Pakistani PM Imran Khan for his fixation to meddle in India’s personal matters, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar in a stern statement told a weekly news briefing on Thursday that Imran Khan had made a habit out of commenting on issues relating to India’s internal affairs.

Delhi, in clear-cut words, asked Imran Khan to take steps to protect the rights of its religious minorities rather than “compulsively issue statements”.

Also pointing to Pakistan’s “draconian blasphemy laws”, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar asked Imran Khan to pay more attention to this issue.


Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a deranged rant, had gone on to oppose the passage of CAB in Lok Sabha, invoking the ‘bilateral agreements’.

The abrogation of Article 370 has had a detrimental effect on the mental faculties of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan. After losing his mind and dignity over the invalidation of the special status of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan PM Imran Khan went on to a bizarre rant to condemn the Citizenship Amendment Bill that was passed in the lower house of the Indian parliament on December 9 and in the Upper House on December 11.

Condemning the citizenship legislation, Pakistan PM Imran Khan had posted a tweet on December 10, asserting that the enactment “violates all norms of international human rights law and bilateral agreements with Pakistan”. He further insinuated that the bill was a part of the “RSS Hindu Rashtra design of expansionism propagated by the fascist Modi government”.

One was left to wonder which bilateral agreements with Pakistan was he speaking of since, in the aftermath of the abrogation of Article 370, a fuming Khan had severed ties with India, suspended bilateral trade and close airspace for Indian flights. He also declared that he will call its high commissioner back and expel India’s envoy to Pakistan.

The Citizenship Amendment Bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, in order to grant Indian nationality to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, who come to India because of religious persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan even if they do not possess proper documents.

The historic Bill has managed to clear both the Upper and the Lower house of the Indian Parliament and awaits the President assent before becoming a law.

From Hindu Rashtra to Nazi Germany: ‘Liberals’ continue their epic meltdown against Citizenship Amendment Bill

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From Hindu Rashtra to Nazi Germany: ‘Liberals’ continue their epic meltdown against Citizenship Amendment Bill

The Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed in the Upper House of the Parliament on Wednesday. With that ensued another round of the Great Liberal Meltdown. For the first time in the history of India, perhaps, a party was being criticized for fulfilling a promise it made in its election manifesto. It appears that liberals want their agenda to rule the roost regardless of electoral results. But as a wise man once said, elections have consequences.

Contributor at Shekhar Gupta’s The Print, Zaina Sikander, was particularly distressed by the fact that the BJP had fulfilled its manifesto promises within seven months of returning to power. She is now wondering what is the bigger plan here. Well, it’s impossible to predict what the Modi-Shah duo has planned but whatever it is, one can safely assume that it won’t make Zainab too happy.


Others are lashing out at the movie industry for not speaking out against the CAB. They are citing the example of Hollywood which is a known bastion of sexual perversion. Hollywood has come under severe criticism from ordinary Americans who are sick and tired of the hypocrisy of the American Movie Industry.


Malini Parthasarathy of The Hindu is still stuck over the fact that the CAB does not provide for citizenship to Muslims from the three Islamic states of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Despite numerous clarifications from the Home Minister, she cannot reconcile herself with the fact that the CAB is designed to help persecuted minorities from the Islamic States in the neighbourhood and Muslims, by definition, cannot feature in it.


Rana Ayyub, who was recently instrumental in a propaganda report that seeks to demonize Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and the BJP, was ruing the death of the Idea of India. That mythical idea that seeks to keep India caged under the weight of minority appeasement,  regional and linguistic sub-nationalism, and caste politics suffered a crushing defeat during the General Elections of 2019.


Then, there were the usual comparisons with Nazi Germany.


Certain others have already declared that the Indian Constitution is dead and India is a Hindu Rashtra now.


The strange thing here is the fact that India is being compared to Nazi Germany merely because it seeks to provide citizenship to persecuted minorities from the neighbouring Islamic States and even Christians are included in the CAB. The people who have not once compared the Islamic States to Nazi Germany are comparing India to the genocidal regime and because of what? Only for providing citizenship to persecuted minorities.

The dedicated agenda that liberals are spreading against the CAB only shows that facts and reason do not matter to them. It does not matter to them that the provisions enshrined within the CAB have been supported even by the CPI(M) and the Congress in the past. When the agenda has been decided, circumstances will be force-fitted to suit the narrative.

Assam CAB protests: Angry mob sets BJP MLA Binod Hazarika’s house on fire, other property of BJP leaders vandalised

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Assam CAB protests: Angry mob sets BJP MLA Binod Hazarika’s house on fire, other property of BJP leaders vandalised

Protests rage on in Assam for the fourth consecutive day against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 which sailed through both the Upper and Lower house and awaits the President’s assent before becoming a law.

As the protests swell, an angry mob in Assam’s Chabua district has set BJP MLA Binod Hazarika’s house on fire and went on the rampage torching vehicles and the circle office.

Moreover, the residence of Angoorlata Deka, who is BJP MLA from Assam’s Batadroba constituency, was vandalised by protesters and an incident of firing occurred outside the residence of Tapan Gogoi, BJP MP from Jorhat in Assam.

Santanu Bharali’s residence was also vandalised by protesters. He is the legal adviser to the Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal. The BJP office in Jorhat was also gheraoed by protesters, sources said.

The enraged protestors also attacked Assam Police chief Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta’s convoy on Thursday when he was touring the city. Stones were pelted as the cavalcade was on the Guwahati-Shillong Road near Christian Basti.

The convoy had to stop several times as the entire stretch was blocked by protesters who put up wooden structures and iron barricades. When the vehicles stopped in the Christian Basti area and security personnel were clearing the road, some protesters threw stones. No one was hurt and no damage occurred.

While mobile and internet services remain suspended in 10 districts of Assam, Guwahati, the epicentre of the protests, is under indefinite curfew. Army has been deployed in Assam and Tripura, and railway and air traffic are severely hit. Around 300 protestors have been detained.

According to reports, a contingent of Rashtriya Rifles has also reached the state to help the Central Armed Police Force. It is being reported that until now 5 columns of the military have been deployed in Assam whereas 3 columns have been deployed in Tripura.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to provide Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, who entered the country from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan by December 31, 2014.

Amidst various rumour-mongering, the people of the Northeast fears that giving citizenship to refugees will dilute the local language and culture. While most Northeastern states are exempt from the Citizenship Amendment Bill due to the Inner Line Permit System and/or the sixth Schedule of the Constitution, Assam, and parts of Tripura, are protected by neither.

Assam, which has a porous border with Bangladesh, has long fought against the influx of Bangladeshi migrants.

As the protest in Assam continued to mount, PM Narendra Modi appealed to the people of Northeast, saying his government would safeguard their language, culture and identity “under all circumstances”.

Addressing an election rally in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad, Modi said, “I want to assure my brothers and sisters of Assam that they have nothing to worry after the passing of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. I want to assure them – no one can take away your rights, unique identity and beautiful culture. It will continue to flourish and grow.”

PM Modi also accused the Congress of misleading people of the Northeast.

Tarun Tejpal case: Bombay HC orders Mapusa court not to let defence lawyers pose irrelevant questions to the victim

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Tarun Tejpal case: Bombay HC orders Mapusa court not to let defence lawyers pose irrelevant questions to the victim

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Mapusa trial court to not allow the lawyers representing the rape-accused Tarun Tejpal to ask ‘irrelevant’ and ‘humiliating’ questions to the survivor.

According to the reports, the victim had filed a petition in the Bombay High Court accusing the counsel of rape-accused Tarun Tejpal of asking her ‘irrelevant’ and ‘humiliating’ questions during the cross-examination.

Following the victim’s complaint, the Bombay HC had reportedly passed an interim order to the Mapusa court to ensure that no irrelevant questions are posed to the victim.


The hearing of the case is currently adjourned till 20th December. The cross-examination will restart from next week and likely to continue for the next four days. The cross-examination of the victim had begun on 21 October in an in-camera trial.

The trial, which began in September 2017, was delayed after Tejpal appealed to the Supreme Court pleading the quashing of the charges framed against him. However, the Supreme Court dismissed Tejpal’s plea which sought to quash charges against him. The bench comprising Justice Arun Mishra and Justice MR Shah said that the case against the Tehelka founder-editor would continue.

Tejpal is charged under several sections of the IPC for sexually assaulting his junior colleague inside a lift of a resort hotel in Goa during the magazine’s event. A journalist colleague of Tejpal had accused him of raping her inside an elevator in a Hotel Grand Hyatt, Goa, during Tehelka magazine’s THiNK 2013 festival in Goa on November 7, 2013.

Read: Delay no more! Court orders framing of charges against Tarun Tejpal

The case came to light when a number of media houses published a leaked trail of emails exchanged between the woman, Tejpal and the managing editor of Tehelka, Shoma Chaudhary. This further led Tejpal to step down from his post of editor-in-chief of the media house in November 2013, for six months to ‘recuse’ himself.

Tarun Tejpal, the one-time hero of ‘Liberal-secular’ media industry, has been booked under Sections 376 (rape), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement) 354A (sexual harassment) and 354B (criminal assault) of the Indian Penal Code.

Congress allies with IUML and Shiv Sena: Lust for power dictates coalition politics now, not respect for constituent and ideology

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Congress allies with IUML and Shiv Sena: Lust for power dictates coalition politics now, not respect for constituent and ideology

The fall of one-party dominant system or what famous political scientist Rajni Kothari termed as ‘Congress System’ in the 1970s led to an era of coalition politics. From the ‘Janta Government’ to ‘National Front’ government, the era of coalition government witnessed parties cutting across different ideologies coming together to form a government.

Even in states, stretching from Uttar Pradesh to Bihar to Maharashtra, all of it witnessed the formation of coalition governments. But, in most of these cases, the coalition governments failed to complete its full terms as it became evident that most of the parties that came to form the coalition government, came together to share the “spoils of power” rather than with an aim of providing a ‘stable government’.

Also, it was seen that the ‘senior partners’ in these coalition often took the parties with lesser numbers of legislators for granted and showed complete disregard for ‘coalition dharma’.

In this context it would not be an exaggeration to say that the only party that was able to honor its ‘coalition dharma’ was the party that could for the first time complete its term in a coalition government.

And that party was Bharatiya Janta Party under Atal Bihari Vajpayee as prime minister.

In 2011, when the nation was witnessing problems like rising prices and massive corruption and Congress-led UPA that was in power and was not able to take decisive steps to check these problems, they blamed ‘coalition politics’ for it.

Read: Hindu massacres and a demand for Sharia: The story of Rahul Gandhi’s ally IUML, an offshoot of Jinnah’s Muslim league

In February 2011 when asked at a press conference about the reappointment of A Raja as telecom minister in 2009 despite the allegations of corruption, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that he had to accept the DMK supremo M Karunanidhi’s choice since “compromises have to be made in the interests of coalition politics”.

It was the same Congress which in March 1991 had withdrawn support from Chandra Shekharover the allegation of ‘snooping’. Congress had alleged that on the orders of Chandra Shekharpolice was snooping on Rajiv Gandhi.

And, as chronicled in the political history of India, Congress time and again, because of petty reasons and personal ambitions showed complete disregard for its coalition partners.

After many twists and turns Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeraywas sworn in as Chief Minister of Maharashtra last month. Shiv Sena could form the government with the help of Sonia Gandhi-led Congress and Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party.

Following his oath, it was the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was among the first to congratulate Uddhav Thackeray. “Congratulations to Uddhav Thackeray Ji on taking oath as the CM of Maharashtra. I am confident he will work diligently for the bright future of Maharashtra”, PM Modi tweeted.

While PM Modi’s message was a reflection of mature democracy where ideological differences never stop a person to honor a constitutional office, it is upon Uddhav Thackeray and Shiv Sena to understand that definition of ‘coalition dharma’ is very different for Bharatiya Janata Party and for Congress.

History is testimony to the fact that Congress has never cared about its coalition partners when it came to perusing its own self-interest. And, in this context the comment made by Union Home Minister during the debate on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill earlierthis week is of great importance.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah while rubbishing the Congress party’s claim that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is communal in nature made a ‘spot on’ remark that the Congress is such a secular party that it has Muslim League as a coalition partner in Kerala and the Shiv Sena as an ally in Maharashtra.

The fact that Congress partners with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra and ties up with the Muslim League in Kerala is testimony to the fact that it has least regard for any ideology when it comes to forming a government or else how is it possible to support two parties placed at two farthest ends of the spectrum at one point in time.

It goes on to show that for Congress coalition has always been an instrument of power-sharing whereas for Bharatiya Janata Party it has always been a need for providing stable government.

Read: Shiv Sena agrees to uphold ‘secular values’, work for ‘minorities’ in Maharashtra: Read details of Common Minimum Program

Bharatiya Janata Party has always honored its coalition partners and never seen them as an instrument to reach ‘magic number’ to form a government. It is evident from the fact in spite of getting a majority on its own in 2014 Lok Sabha elections Bharatiya Janata Party honored its ‘coalition dharma’ and gave all its coalition partners their due place in the government.

Similarly, in 2019 even after getting the massive mandate; that shocked all political pundits, Bharatiya Janata Party included its ‘smaller partners’ like Shiromani Akali Dal and Shiv Sena in the Union Cabinet.

The true litmus of ‘coalition dharma’ is honoring the constituents of the coalition even when their presence is insignificant for the purpose of the stability of the government.

The most honest yardstick of ‘coalition dharma’ is to keep ‘national interest’ at the front and let any coalition crumble if it tends to compromise with it.

Touchstone of ‘coalition dharma’ is honoring constituents, providing stable government and keeping national interest at front and not just being guided by the lust of power.

And Bharatiya Janata Party has always done this and Shiv Sena shall learn this sooner or later.

Uttar Pradesh woman raped last year in Delhi threatened with fate ‘worse than Unnao’ if she appears in court

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Uttar Pradesh woman raped last year in Delhi threatened with fate ‘worse than Unnao’ if she appears in court

In the third such incident reported in the last few days, a rape survivor in western Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, 53 km from Delhi, was allegedly threatened by the man she accused of rape of facing consequences “worse than that of the Unnao case”, referring to the victim who died after she was set on fire by the accused perpetrators last week.

A pamphlet had been pasted outside the house of a rape victim in Bijrol village of Baraut with the threat reading, “If you appear in the court on the given date to give your statement then you will face consequences worse than that of the Unnao victim.”

Pamphlet pasted outside the house of a rape victim in Bijrol village of Baraut.

The woman was allegedly raped in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar last year, following which she filed a police complaint in July 2018. The rape-accused who was arrested by Delhi Police after the complaint was lodged had been released on bail on Wednesday. Reportedly, the pamphlet surfaced around the same time.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Baghpat, Pratap Gopender Yadav told ANI that the accused Soran Singh, who belonged to the same village as the victim has been again taken into custody following the woman’s complaint which said that Soran Singh had put up that poster outside her house. He also confirmed that adequate security has been provided to the victim.


The SP furthered that the rape survivor in the FIR lodged said that “the incident took place about a year ago when she was taken to a friend’s place by Sohran Singh where she was given drugs in a beverage and then raped. The accused made a video of the incident and used it to blackmail and rape the victim again.”

“The woman’s father works as a driver in Delhi. Yesterday, when they returned to their house in the village, they found the note pasted on the wall of their house,” Mr Yadav said.

The man accused of raping her, however, said that some of his rivals in the village had put up the posters to implicate him.

This is the third such incidents reported in the last few days where the rape accused has used the Unnao incident to threaten the victim. Yesterday, a minor girl, a victim of gang rape in Ghazipur area of Fatehpur district, has filed a complaint with the police claiming that the family members of the accused have threatened her with “Unnao-like” fate if she did not withdraw her complaint against the accused.

Prior to this, another minor girl from Kanpur was allegedly molested by some men, who even threatened her with the ‘Unnao rape victim-like fate’ if she approached the police for the same.

On the early hours of Thursday, December 5, the 23-year-old Unnao rape survivor was set on fire by pouring kerosene on her by five men, including the duo who are accused of raping her a year ago. The incident occurred at Sindupur village under the Bihar police station area on the wee hours of Thursday when the rape accused and his friends allegedly dragged the woman outside of her village, took her into the fields and doused her in kerosene before setting her on fire.

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