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Partition imposed on minorities of Pakistan, temples, churches, gurdwaras vandalised: Here is what Modi said

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Partition imposed on minorities of Pakistan, temples, churches, gurdwaras vandalised: Here is what Modi said

Launching a blistering attack on the Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the party failed to act on the issue of persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries. He also blamed the party for misleading these minorities by making false promises to them in the past.

Speaking at an election rally in Dhanbad, Prime Minister Modi said that Congress governments in the past treated these refugees in a manner similar to the present condition in which they currently live in Pakistan.

He asked the public not to be misled by the Congress, which he said had promised relief to persecuted minority refugees but had never done anything for them.

“Congress leaders had promised citizenship to displaced people of Pakistan and Bangladesh. India was divided in 1947 and in 1971, Bangladesh was created. Those most affected were minority people living in those countries. The partition was imposed on the minorities to Hindu, Sikhs, Parsis, Jain, Christians living there for generations,” he added.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill debate: Opposition speaking the same language as Pakistan, says PM Modi

Targetting the Congress party for the partition of the country, PM Modi said that the minorities in these countries faced inhuman behaviour, especially the women, who subjected to different forms of exploitation after they were forced to accept partition and settle in these countries following the partition of India.

“The temples, churches, gurdwaras were vandalised. The minorities were living in different parts of the country for decades. Congress made hollow promises to them. It was the BJP which fulfilled the promise,” he added.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also accused opposition parties, especially Congress of spreading “lies” regarding the CAB, which grants citizenship to persecuted minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

He also accused the Congress and the Opposition of trying “to set fire” to the Northeast, which has seen protests since the bill was passed in the Parliament.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill: Amit Shah lashes out at Congress, accuses it of singing the same tune as Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also said the Congress had always avoided taking decisions on matters of national interest. “The Congress had deliberately kept the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute hanging for decades. Matters of national interest are secondary for them,” he said.

“They had also kept the issue of Jharkhand’s creation pending for five decades. It was the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government that created Jharkhand,” he said.

Further, PM Modi also said the BJP scrapped Article 370 and implemented Indian laws and the Constitution in Jammu and Kashmir. He also said that his government framed laws for Triple Talaq, which helps not only Muslim women but also the men.

Cancellation of the Bangladesh FM’s visit and the passage of the CAB should not be linked: Read MEA response

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Cancellation of the Bangladesh FM’s visit and the passage of the CAB should not be linked: Read MEA response

Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has cancelled his visit to India citing “increasing demand at home”. Momen was scheduled to visit India from December 12-14. The Bangladeshi minister was to arrive in India on Thursday evening on a three-day visit for the Indian Ocean meet and Delhi Dialogue.

There were reports that the cancellation of his official trip was in response to the comments made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah during the passage of Citizenship Amendment Bill in parliament against religious persecution of minorities in Bangladesh.

Reacting to Amit Shah’s statement over religious persecution of minorities in their country, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen had said, “There are a very few countries where communal harmony is as good as in Bangladesh. If he (Home Minister Amit Shah) stayed in Bangladesh for a few months, he would see exemplary communal harmony in our country”

However, the officials of the Ministry of External Affairs has refuted such claims made by sections of media and clarified that cancellation of Bangladesh Foreign Minister’s official trip to India is not connected to the ongoing events in India, especially Citizenship Amendment Bill.

Speaking to the media, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kunar said that the Bangladeshi Foreign Minister has given his explanation on cancelling his visit. He said the issue of the cancellation of the FM’s visit and the passage of the CAB should not be linked.

“Our relationship is strong. As leaders of both the countries have said, this is the golden age of our relations,” said Raveesh Kumar.


“I had to cancel my trip to New Delhi as I have to participate in the ‘Buddijibi Debosh’ and ‘Bijoy Debosh’ and more so as our State Minister is out of the country in Madrid and our Foreign Secretary is in The Hague,” the Bangladeshi minister had said while cancelling his visit.

Read: When 200 Hindu women were raped by Muslims: Read why HM Amit Shah mentioned the Bhola violence in Bangladesh

Reacting to earlier statements made by Bangladesh Foreign Minister on Amit Shah, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that there seems to be some confusion regarding the issue.

“We have explained that religious persecution is not happening under the present government. Migrants who have sought refuge in India from Bangladesh have faced persecution and abuse on religious grounds during the military rule and also during the previous government in Bangladesh.

“We have also acknowledged & we are aware that the present govt in Bangladesh has taken several steps to address the concerns of minorities living there as per their Constitutional provisions,” he added.

After a long and heated debate, both the houses of Parliament has passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill. On Monday, the bill was passed in the Lok Sabha. The Rajya Sabha has passed the CAB with 125 votes in favour and 105 against. The Bill will now be law once the President signs on it.

The historic Citizenship Amendment Bill aims to grant Indian citizenship to thousands of non-Muslim refugees who have been staying in india before 2015.

5 instances in the latest Twitter rant by Imran Khan where he picked the ideas from the Congress party

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5 instances in the latest Twitter rant by Imran Khan where he picked the ideas from the Congress party

Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan continued with his nonsensical rants on Twitter on Thursday inspired by Congress. Ever since the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, Imran Khan has attempted to engage in ‘Twitter Diplomacy’ to corner India but hasn’t had much success. After the Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed by both the houses of the Upper Parliament, it was only to be expected that he will have something to say that makes little sense.

In a tweet thread, Imran Khan deemed the abrogation of Article 370 to be illegal and called it ‘annexation’ of J&K. Then, he claimed that two million Indian Muslims were stripped of citizenship in Assa, a claim that is patently false. Around 19 lakh people in Assam did not find their names in the NRC, of which around 5 lakhs were Hindus. This means that the remaining Muslims are not Indian citizens but entered India illegally from Bangladesh.


Moving forward, Imran Khan, who happens to be the symbolic head of an Islamic State, labelled India ‘Hindu Supremacist’ despite the fact that India is a secular country. He compared India to Nazi Germany and raked the familiar trope of ‘mob lynchings’.


Only yesterday, Home Minister Amit Shah accused the Congress party of speaking the same language as Pakistan and Imran Khan. Given the latest tweet thread by Imran Khan, it can’t be denied that the argument is indeed valid. It is a good time, perhaps, to compare the stance taken by Imran Khan and that by the Congress party on the issues mentioned.

Article 370 and Kashmir

Imran Khan has always maintained that the abrogation of Article 370 was illegal and has vehemently opposed the move. He has also appealed to the international bodies to meddle in Indian internal affairs. The Congress party has the same stand on the matter. In a resolution adopted by the Congress Working Committee on the 6th of August, the party claimed that ‘every principle of Constitutional law, States’ rights, Parliamentary procedure and democratic governance was violated’ during the abrogation of Article 370. The Congress party and Imran Khan basically have the same stand on the issue, that Article 370 was abrogated in an illegal manner.

Following the abrogation of Article 370, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had kicked up a storm by questioning the government whether Article 370 and the state of Jammu and Kashmir is an internal matter. He questioned how can matters related to Jammu and Kashmir be ‘internal’ if it is being monitored by the UN since 1948. Shashi Tharoor, recently, had cheered for foreign interference on the matter by the USA.

The NRC

Imran Khan claims that two million ‘Indian Muslims’ have been stripped on citizenship. The Congress party, too, has opposed the NRC tooth and nail. The Congress party had expressed its opposition by claiming that 40 lakh exclusions in the final draft of the NRC were too high and surprising. It was alleged that the BJP had a political motive behind the NRC. Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge too had termed the exclusion to be wrong. The number came down to two million later.

More recently, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, leader of the Congress party in the Rajya Sabha, attempted to undermine the NRC by labelling Narendra Modi and Amit Shah as illegal immigrants. He, too, made it an explicitly religious issue.

Mob Lynching

The Prime Minister of Pakistan has constantly made an issue out of the ‘mob lynching’ narrative. While the crimes do need to be addressed, this is entirely an internal matter of India. Furthermore, the ‘mob lynchings’ are reflective of a law and order problem, rather than a communal one. But the Congress party and Imran Khan are united in their belief that the crimes must be used to target Prime Minister Modi and damage India’s reputation.

The Congress party promised a new law in its 2019 election manifesto to curb ‘mob lynching’, which distinctly reminded one of their Communal Violence Bill initiative that automatically deemed Hindus as aggressors and Muslims as victims in every instance of communal violence.

Praveen Chakraborty, who heads the Congress party’s data analytics department, is the founding trustee of IndiaSpend which came up with the dubious ‘hate-tracker’ that manipulated, misrepresented and tortured data to paint Hindus as aggressors and Muslims as victims all the time. Thus, it won’t be farfetched to say that Imran Khan is merely borrowing a leaf out of the Congress’ playbook to attack Narendra Modi.

Citizenship Amendment Bill

The subject matter of Imran Khan’s latest rants is the CAB, which the Congress party opposed tooth and nail in the Parliament. In the process of doing so, Anand Sharma of the Congress party absolved the Islamic fundamentalists of all sins for the creation of Pakistan and placed the blame entirely on the feet of Hindu Nationalists. Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal claimed that the Bill was of Jinnah and Savarkar’s dreams.

The Congress party also called the Bill unconstitutional and in violation of the Articles of the Constitution, a claim that has been disputed by Harish Salve, one of the leading legal luminaries in the country. Thus, even on the CAB, the Congress party and Imran Khan’s opinions are perfectly in alignment with each other.

The Hitler Comparison

Imran Khan has been comparing India to Nazi Germany ever since the abrogation of Article 370 and Narendra Modi to Hitler. The Congress party has been indulging in such comparisons even earlier. In April, Congress IT Cell head shared a morphed image of Adolf Hitler to compare him to Narendra Modi. Sam Pitroda, the ideological mentor of Rahul Gandhi, had indulged in such comparisons in March. Thus, it’s another instance where Imran Khan picked up a narrative initiated by the Congress party.

Win for Hindus as the Supreme Court dismisses all 18 petitions seeking review of the historic Ayodhya verdict

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Win for Hindus as the Supreme Court dismisses all 18 petitions seeking review of the historic Ayodhya verdict

The five-judge SC bench headed bu CJI SA Bobde has dismissed all petitions seeking review of Ayodhya verdict of November 9, which in a landmark decision handed over the entire disputed land to Ram Lalla, the deity, for a Ram temple to be built at the site.


The Supreme Court which today conducted an in-chamber hearing of a bunch of review petitions filed against the Ayodhya ruling rejected them after finding no merits.

A 5-judge bench, headed by the then CJI Gogoi, had in a unanimous verdict on November 9 decreed the entire 2.77 acres disputed land in favour of deity ‘Ram Lalla’ and also directed the Centre to allot a five-acre plot to Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque in Ayodhya.

Read: Allah’s law above all: Jamia Millia students group plans event calling Ayodhya verdict a farce, Ramrajya ‘oppressive’

Eighteen review petitions have so far been filed in the apex court against the November 9 decision, of which eight were filed by those who were parties in the Ayodhya land title dispute and rest by third parties who were not directly involved in the decade-old legal battle.

The review petitions have been filed by Mufti Hasbullah, Moulana Mahfoozur Rehman, Mohammad Umar, Haji Mehboob, Misbahuddin, Haji Asad Ahmed, Shia Central Board of Waqfs and Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha who were litigants in the title suit. Moreover, a group of 40 academicians and activists, including Irfan Habib, Jayati Ghosh, Nandini Sundar and Prabhat Patnaik, had also filed a petition to review the SC’ November 9 decision.

The petition, settled by senior advocates Rajeev Dhavan and Zafryab Jilani, said he did not wish to “disturb the peace of this great Nation”, but “any peace must be conducive to justice”.

Read: Dharma, Deva, Desha: Three phases of Ram Janmabhoomi movement, who decided Babri Masjid had to go and day of reckoning

The plea said, “Muslims have always maintained the peace but Muslims and their properties have been a victim of violence and unfairness treatment. This review is part of a quest for justice. The judgment under review erred in privileging peace over justice while not appreciating that there could be no peace without justice.”

On December 2, the first plea seeking review of Ayodhya verdict was filed in the apex court by Maulana Syed Ashhad Rashidi, the Uttar Pradesh president of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind.

On December 6, six more petitions were filed in the Supreme Court seeking review of its November 9 judgement, which included one by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) which had chosen December 6 as the date to file the review petition as it was the anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, sources said.

Then two more review petitions were filed on December 9, one by the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha and the other one by a group of intellectuals.

While the  Hindu Mahasabha had decided to file a review petition against the judgement wherein the apex court also granted 5 acres of land at an alternate site at a prominent location in Ayodhya to the Sunni Waqf Board to rebuild the Masjid which was demolished in 1992, the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JuH), a key Muslim litigant in the Ayodhya title suit had made several flip-flops before filing the review petition.

The petitioners, known for their consistent Left-leaning stance on diverse issues, agreed that there is no doubt about Ayodhya being the birth-place of Lord Rama, but said that there is no conclusive evidence of the existence of a temple at the site where Babri mosque was built.

He holds me captive, tortures, threatens to kill: SP leader Aafaq Khan booked for sexually assaulting woman for 5 years

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He holds me captive, tortures, threatens to kill: SP leader Aafaq Khan booked for sexually assaulting woman for 5 years

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Aafaq Khan has been booked for sexually exploiting a woman and blackmailing her. The SP leader representing Kannauj district in Uttar Pradesh who is married with eight children has been sexually exploiting the victim for the last 5 years and threatening to malign her reputation, in case she brought it out in the open. According to the victim, Khan always carries a weapon and threatens her of dire consequences if she tries to resist him.

“Aafaq Khan is married with eight children but since 2014, he has been sexually exploiting me and threatens to malign my reputation. He holds me captive and mentally tortures me. He has also been threatening to defame me on social media,” said the 36-year-old victim in the FIR, furthering: “I am now seriously ill and want to be freed from his clutches. Aafaq Khan carries a firearm and threatens to kill me if I offer any resistance.”

Read: Bhopal: Woman given triple talaq by husband, raped by ‘healer’ Anwar Khan on pretext of Halala

The victim allegedly came in contact with Aafaq Khan, leader of the Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha who has now been booked, when she was looking for a job after the death of her father.

According to sources in Kannauj police station, the FIR against the SP leader was registered on December 4, 2019, and investigations into the case have been initiated.

The FIR has been lodged at the Chhibramau police station of Kannauj district under sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 376 (rape), 500 (punishment for defamation), and 508 (whoever voluntarily causes or attempts to cause any person to do anything which that person is not legally bound to do) of IPC.

Read: Unnao rape case: Accused claims he was in hospital when the December rape was committed, medical officer says documents are fake

Notably, Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh until 2019 has been Samajwadi Party’s bastion. Wife of Samajwadi Party supremo and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav, won Kannauj in a by-election in 2012 and then in 2014. Prior to her, Akhilesh Yadav had won the seat thrice in 2000, 2004 and 2009. The SP lost the seat to BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Sanjiv Bhatt lied, told an imaginary ‘story’ about meeting the then Gujarat CM Modi, says Nanavati-Mehta Commission report

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Sanjiv Bhatt lied, told an imaginary ‘story’ about meeting the then Gujarat CM Modi, says Nanavati-Mehta Commission report

After giving a clean chit to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the post-Godhra Train Burning riots, the Nanavati-Mehta commission report also busted the tainted, jailed ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s big lie against Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then Gujarat’s Chief Minister).

The report, as mentioned by Times Of India, concluded that the former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt who is currently serving life imprisonment in a custodial death case had lied and made up stories of him attending a meeting at the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s residence on February 27, 2002.

Bhatt, who became a big face of the anti-Modi lobby, alleged in 2011 that during the 2002 post-Godhra riots, the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi had called a meeting at his residence on 27 February 2002 to “let Hindus vent out their anger against Muslims so that repeat of Godhra-like incident never happens in the state”.

Bhatt, in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, had claimed that this meeting took place following the Sabarmati Express burning incident in which 59 Ayodhya Kar Sevaks had died.

At the time of the alleged meeting, Bhatt was the deputy commissioner in the state intelligence bureau. He further stated in the affidavit that the meeting was attended by eight top police officers. Bhatt also alleged that the SIT constituted to probe the riots was trying to protect the Gujarat government.

The Nanavati-Mehta commission report has, however, rubbished Bhatt’s allegations saying that he used a false document, a fax message, to support his presence at the meeting. “On consideration of the evidence, it clearly appears that Bhatt is not telling the truth with regards to what happened in the meeting held on February 27, 2002, at the CM’s residence. Claims made by him of being present in the meeting appear to false”, stated the second part of the report of the ‘Commission of Inquiry’ by Justice G T Nanavati and Justice Akshay Mehta.

The report adds that Bhatt’s claims about chief minister Modi’s statements were a story made up by him and “deserve to be discarded as false”.

The commission stated that the copy of the fax message, which Bhatt had used to claim he was present in the February 27, 2002 meeting with the then Gujarat CM Modi, was, in fact, sent on March 2, 2002, by one PP Upadhyay, about an incident in Pandarva, Panchmahal.

Read: Read how Abdul Sattar and Shabana Bano framed Shashikant during 2002 riots over a personal dispute and ruined lives of a family

Bhatt had claimed that he had reached to the meeting accompanying K Chakravarthy, the then Gujarat DGP in his car. However, Chakravarty had refuted Bhatt’s claim.

This was the second part of the Nanavati-Mehta Commission report that was tabled. The first part was submitted in 2008 and covered the Godhra train burning incident. It had concluded that the said incident was part of a “planned conspiracy”. The first part, too, had given a clean chit to Narendra Modi.

Sanjiv Bhatt was a part of the brigade which has spread numerous canards over the years regarding the state government’s alleged involvement in the riots. While Bhatt has in these years enjoyed much media attention over his sensational allegations, his lie was finally caught by the Nanavati-Mehta report tabled at the Gujarat assembly yesterday.

Notably, former cop Sajiv Bhatt was arrested by the Gujarat CID over a 1998 case of planting drugs. The Palanpur Drug planting case pertains to an incident in 1998 when Sanjiv Bhatt was serving as the DCP of Banaskantha. He was then accused of trying to frame lawyer Sumersingh Rajpurohit in a fake narcotics case under Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act by planting 1.25 kg opium in a hotel room in Palanpur in Banaskantha district in 1996.

Bhatt who had gained media attention and sympathy of the anti-Modi brigade for his propaganda agaisnt the PM, had been caught several times spreading fake news to help his agenda.

JDU to act against Prashant Kishor and Pavan Verma over their statements against Citizenship Amendment Bill: Reports

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JDU to act against Prashant Kishor and Pavan Verma over their statements against Citizenship Amendment Bill: Reports

Unhappy over the comments made by the senior leaders of the party – Prashant Kishor and Pavan Verma over the issue of party’s support to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, the JDU has reportedly sent notices to both leaders for opposing party’s decision to support the bill.

According to India Today, the JDU will likely to take action against its national vice president Prashant Kishor and senior leader Pavan Verma for deviating from the party’s stand to support the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Parliament.

The notice comes days after two of the party’s senior leaders Prashant Kishor who is the national vice president of the party and national spokesperson Pavan K Verma had come out in the open against their party’s stand on the Citizenship Amendment Bill, stating that the bill was unconstitutional.


The two JD (U) leaders had urged Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to reconsider the decision to support the Citizenship Amendment Bill, keeping in mind the public sentiments.

Taking to Twitter, Prashant Kishor had said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill discriminates against the right of citizenship on the basis of religion. Prashant Kishor had further attacked Nitish Kumar for maintaining that his party’s move to support the Citizenship Amendment Bill was not in sync with the Constitution of JD(U).


“It’s incongruous with the party’s Constitution that carries the word secular thrice on the very first page and the leadership that is supposedly guided by Gandhian ideals”, Prashant Kishor had tweeted.

Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths and lies propagated against it, and the facts

Echoing similar sentiments, Pavan Varma, a former diplomat and a senior JDU leader on Tuesday, had tweeted, “The (Citizenship Amendment) Bill is unconstitutional, discriminatory, and against the unity and harmony of the country, apart from being against the secular principles of the JDU. Gandhiji would have strongly disapproved it”.


Following the rift within the party’s leadership, JDU state president and Rajya Sabha MP Bashistha Narain Singh had advised leaders to exercise restraint while airing their views.

“Our is a democratic setup. I will ask all leaders to keep their views on party forum and not toe a line which is different from the party’s official stand,” Singh had said on Wednesday.

Read: ‘Liberals’ who have suddenly discovered their love for Ahmadiyyas were silent when Asaduddin Owaisi was oppressing them

Initially, the JDU was hesitant to support the NDA over the Citizenship Amendment Bill but had supported the bill just a day before it was tabled in the Parliament on Monday by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

After a long and heated debate, both the houses of Parliament has passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill. On Monday, the bill was passed in the Lok Sabha. The Rajya Sabha has passed the CAB with 125 votes in favour and 105 against. The Bill will now be law once the President signs on it.

The historic Citizenship Amendment Bill, after being passed by Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha both, paves the way for hundreds and thousands of persecuted minorities from the three neighbouring countries who have been residing in India for the past many years.

‘Liberals’ who have suddenly discovered their love for Ahmadiyyas were silent when Asaduddin Owaisi was oppressing them

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‘Liberals’ who have suddenly discovered their love for Ahmadiyyas were silent when Asaduddin Owaisi was oppressing them

The Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed by the Upper House of the Parliament on Wednesday amidst much opposition. One of the many arguments raised against the Bill was that it doesn’t accommodate the persecuted Ahmadiyyas from the three neighbouring Islamic States. The plight of Ahmadiyyas was mostly highlighted by ‘Secular’ people as the Muslim bodies in even India do not consider them Muslims. Even Asaduddin Owaisi was mighty displeased with the fact that Ahmadiyyas are mentioned as an Islamic sect in the census of India.

The Majlis Tahaffuze Khatme Nabuwat (MTNK), a prominent body of religious scholars, slammed the Central Government for treating the Ahmadiyyas as part of the Muslim community in the 2011 census. According to MTNK, the Ahmadiyyas cannot be considered an Islamic sect and they follow a different religion.

In 2012, activists associated with the MTNK disrupted prayers in an Ahmadiyya Mosque in Hyderabad. The Ahmadiyyas were celebrating their formation day when 200 MTNK activists led by their city leader Mohammed Ali Ansar Khatim went to Masjid–ul-Hamd Ahmadiyya mosque in Saidabad and hurled abuses at the people present and demanded that they stop the prayers.  They told the Ahmadiyyas that they were not Muslims and staged a ‘rasta roko’.

In January this year, Ahmadiyya writer Basharat Ahmed’s talk was cancelled in Pune after protests from Muslim groups. Zahed Bhai, who led the protests, said, “Basharat Ahmed speaks against Islamic faith and his speech would have hurt the sentiments of the community. We had informed the police much earlier and had given a complaint about it. The organisers should not have invited a controversial person like Ahmed for the literary conference. However, they have been co-operative and told us that his talk has been cancelled.” There was no evidence that Basharat Ahmed was offending Muslims in any manner at all.

In June of 2008, prominent Muslims had called upon the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR Reddy to demand that Ahmadiyyas be denied the permission to hold a public meeting in Hyderabad. The person leading the delegation was none other than Asaduddin Owaisi. Consequently, the Chief Minister ordered the Police to not allow the Ahmadiyyas to hold their conference.

There were genuine security concerns after Muslims groups decided that they won’t allow the Ahmadiyya conference to go through ‘come what may’. This was decided after a meeting at the headquarters of Owaisi’s party. The Muslim groups led by AIMIM had also threatened to lay siege to the venue to prevent the Ahmadiyyas from holding their conference. Ultimately, the Conference was not organized.

In India, the Ahmadiyyas were officially recognized as an Islamic sect in the 2011 census. They are not permitted to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca. In September 2011 in Delhi, a Quran exhibition held by Ahmadiyyas were called off after shrill protests from Jama Masjid Imam Ahmed Bukhari and an All-India Muslim Personal Law Board member. The Ahmadiyyas are not even represented on the AIMPLB.

G Farhan Mubash, an Ahmadi, recalling particular incident persecution faced by the community in Bhagalpur, Bihar, told Youth Ki Awaaz, “They (other Muslims) organised a jalsa (gathering) on Khatme Nubuwwat (anti-Ahmadiyya organisation). On the last day (of the congregation), they announced a social boycott of the Ahmadis. We were not allowed to take water from public water taps, we were not allowed to buy vegetables and groceries from the shops that were around. After this fatwa was announced, even our cousins stopped talking to us.”

Thus, quite clearly, the Muslims in India have great problems with the Ahmadiyyas. The ‘secularists’, who are now crying over the fact that Ahmadiyyas have been excluded from the CAB, were silent on the persecution faced by the community all these years. They have even made heroes out of people like Asaduddin Owaisi who have been at the forefront of the ostracisation of Ahmadiyyas. But now that the CAB seeks to address a particular issue, they have suddenly rediscovered their lost love for the Ahmadiyya community.

There’s a good reason why India should not be overeager to accept Ahmadiyyas from Pakistan. The Muslims in India have shown enough inclinations that their opinions of the Ahmadiyya community are not at all different from their counterparts in Pakistan. Therefore, we cannot and should not risk a situation where we are importing Islamic sectarian strife into the country.

Furthermore, if only Ahmadiyyas were to be included, it could put the Ahmadiyyas in India at risk from fellows Muslims who, no doubt, would be angered by the fact. It is not the responsibility of the Indian government to provide a solution to the sectarian strife within Islam. Ahmadiyyas are Muslims and they must be treated that way because they demand to be treated that way. Not doing so would be infringing upon their dignity which is already compromised all the time by Pakistani Muslims and Muslims in India such as Asaduddin Owaisi and his ilk.

Bhopal: Woman given triple talaq by husband, raped by ‘healer’ Anwar Khan on pretext of Halala

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Bhopal: Woman given triple talaq by husband, raped by ‘healer’ Anwar Khan on pretext of Halala

A 22-year-old Muslim woman resident of Bismillah Colony in Aishbagh area, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh was allegedly given triple talaq by the husband and then sent to a ‘healer’, who allegedly raped her on the pretext of halala. Both the husband and the healer named Anwar Khan, who was hired by the woman’s family as the ‘Nikai Abba’ during their marriage, have been arrested, said police.

As per some Muslim practices, at the time of marriage, someone from the bride’s side becomes ‘Nikai Abba’. Both are married only after the Nikai Abba’s signature. The Nikai Abba is a witness. Also, if there is a dispute between the husband and wife, he comes for a settlement.

CSP Aleem Khan said, “Both the accused were arrested and produced before a court, they have been sent to jail.”

In what transpired on November 23, a man allegedly gave triple talaq to his wife after a dispute broke out between them. Later when the man attempted to resolve the issue, the man Anwar Khan who was the ‘Nikai Abba’ during their marriage told the husband that the woman needs to perform halala before getting back with him, for which the man agreed.

Anwar Khan then took the woman to a flat and raped her in the name of ‘halala’, the police official said. Even after all this, when the husband refused to take her back, the woman approached the city police and filed a complaint against the duo.

According to police, the 22-year-old woman resident of Ashoka Garden is a homemaker. She was married on April 29, 2019. Anwar Khan (51) used to visit the woman’s marital house regularly. The woman had alleged that Anwar Khan’s behaviour was objectionable towards her but her husband’s family had a deep reverence for Khan.

Khan used to visit the house during odd hours especially in the absence of her husband and in-laws. The woman had tried to complain to her husband about the healer’s ill intentions several times in the past, but the man allegedly never believed his wife.

SP Khan said that a case had been registered and action has been taken against her husband under the Muslim Women Protection Act. A case has also been registered against the healer,” said Khan.

Though triple talaq is now a punishable offence carrying a three-year jail term, rampant cases of domestic violence and physical assaults related to the evil practice of triple talaq are reported regularly.

Recently, it was reported that a woman from Rajasthan was allegedly raped by her father-in-law and his brother after she refused to accept the triple talaq given to her by her husband. The victim had also alleged that she was beaten up her husband’s brother.

‘Like a bird who has been freed from a cage’ says Hindu refugee from Majnu Ka Tila on CAB: OpIndia Exclusive

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‘Like a bird who has been freed from a cage’ says Hindu refugee from Majnu Ka Tila on CAB: OpIndia Exclusive

Following the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill by both the Houses of Parliament which grants citizenship to persecuted religious minorities of three neighbouring countries,  Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, there is a sense of jubilation and newfound freedom among minorities especially Pakistani Hindus who are currently residing in the country.

It was evident as the passing of the legislation was welcomed with bursting fireworks, loud cheers in these refugee camps and was celebrated with a festive mood across the country as these persecuted minorities found their new home in India.

On Thursday, speaking to OpIndia team, Pakistani Hindus living in north Delhi’s Majnu ka Tila expressed joy following the passing of Citizenship Amendment Bill in both houses of Parliament.

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Speaking to OpIndia team, several families, who had come to India years ago after fleeing Pakistan said that they had left the country on the pretext of visiting India on a religious trip. Sharing their horrific experiences in Pakistan, the persecuted Hindus said they were subjected to forcefully abductions and religious conversions which were overlooked by the authorities in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

“Our temples were attacked, we were not allowed to celebrate the Hindu festivals. Our children are forced to study Islamic texts and prayers at schools. The Hindu women were harassed and we were not allowed to come out of our homes,” said a lady.

These families stated that the Pakistan government did not even intervene to stop these human rights violations on Hindus. “The police officials in Pakitan neither take cognizance of our complaints nor act against those perpetrators”, said another refugee.

“Soon after independence, Pakistan chose to become an Islamic country. Only Muslims enjoy all benefits in Pakistan unlike India where Hindus, Muslims, Sikh, Christians all can co-exist together,” he added.

The refugees said that they have come to India nearly a decade back with a valid visa issued by the Indian government. The refugees added that they had to leave their families in Pakistan, who according to them are in lakhs, facing persecution in Pakistan.

“Currently, the Indian government has stopped issuing a visa to Pakistani Hindus, which has led these minorities to stay back in Pakistan. The visa cost is also high. Our families cannot come to India with these rules. More than 400 families are still facing threats in Pakistan,” the family added.

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Tarachand, another Pakistani refugee said the Hindus are facing severe atrocities in Pakistan for religious reasons. “We are not allowed to enter hotels. We are treated as untouchables. They do not serve us food or water,” said Tarachand.

“Quran is forced on us. We are here in India for religious reasons. We have received a lot of love in India for the past five years. A lot of our relatives are still staying in Pakistan. The forced abductions of Hindu girls are rampant in Pakistan. Despite all these persecutions in Pakistan, we did not give up practising Hinduism” said another lady who has fled from Sindh province of Pakistan.

Ever since they came to India, a refugee said they have been treated well in the country and has never faced any difficulties here. Expressing happiness over being eligible for citizenship, the lady added that she feels like a bird who has been let out of a cage. It feels like we are independent now, she added.

Baldevi, a mother of two, who had arrived in India with her husband and sister, said that India is a secular country but in Pakistan, Hindus are treated with the utmost contempt. “The hatred for Hindus is extreme in Pakistan and they do not allow us to even drink water from their wells or serve food to us in restaurants. We are subjected to economic boycott,” said Baldevi.

“We are happy that we are citizens of this country. We do not want anything other than Indian citizenship. I am grateful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for granting citizenship. Modi has come to help us, Hindus,” added Baldevi.

The refugees also hoped that since the Modi government has given citizenship to them now, they will also be provided with basic amenities in these colonies and infrastructure such as schools, sanitation and basic healthcare.

“The place we are staying is a burial ground. We have converted this place into heaven,” said Baldevi.

Another family residing in the resettlement colony has named their newborn daughter ‘Nagrikta’ (citizenship) in the honour of the bill that will now ensure they are the legal citizens of India.

“I have named my son Bharat and daughter as Bharati. Now, as my granddaughter was born in India, we have decided to call her Nagrikta,” said the grandmother with a big smile on her face.

In addition to these families, the makeshift tents and unplastered walls with metal roofs in north Delhi’s Majnu ka Tila area are home to about over 750 Pakistani Hindus who fled the neighbouring country to seek refuge in India. Apart from these refugees, many others also live in resettlement colonies in Rohini Sector 9 and 11, Adarsh Nagar and near the Signature Bridge.

With both the houses of Parliament passing the historic Citizenship Amendment Bill, people belonging to six minority communities of three Islamic countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, will now be granted citizenship in India provided they had arrived here on or before 31 December 2014.

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