On Thursday, the 16th additional chief metropolitan magistrate court of Hyderabad ordered the Saidabad police to register a case against controversial All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, the younger brother of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi for repeating his “15-minute” hate speech against Hindus.
According to the reports, K Karunasagar, a Hyderabad based advocate had filed a petition before the said court, alleging Chandrayangutta MLA, Akbaruddin Owaisi of making hate speech on July 23, during a public meeting ‘Jalsa-e-Yaad-e-Fakhr-e-Millat (A.R)’ in Karimnagar, and requested it to take action.
During the public meeting in Karimnagar in Telangana, Owaisi had said the RSS had not yet recovered from the “15-minute blow” he had delivered in his 2012 speech. Addressing a crowd Akbaruddin Owaisi had resorted to fear-mongering and attempted to incite violence against Hindus by raking up the issues of alleged lynchings against minorities.
“No person from RSS or Bajrang Dal can even touch our hair and remember, remember, the world tries to scare the person who gets scared. And world fears the person who knows how to instil fear why do they hate Akbaruddin Owaisi? Why? A single blow of a blacksmith is equal to a hundred blows of a goldsmith. They (RSS) haven’t yet recovered from the ’15 minute’ blow,'” the junior Owaisi had said in the speech on July 23, repeating this ’15 minutes’ threat.
In the inflammatory speech he delivered in 2013, Akbaruddin Owaisi had said that if police are removed for 15 minutes, “we (Muslims) will finish 100 crore Hindus”.
Earlier, Karunasagar had alleged that he lodged a complaint with the Saidabad police on July 26, but the police failed to register a case for investigation. He also alleged that Akbaruddin Owaisi deliberately made a speech to promote enmity between religions.
After examining the petition, the court directed the Saidabad police to register a case against Akbaruddin Owaisi and also submit a report to the court by December 23. The court directed the Saidabad police to register a case under Section 153,153 A, 153B and 506 of IPC.
On Thursday, the JNU explained its rationale behind the fee hike saying that the university is facing a deficit of Rs 45 crore and fee hike is necessary because of the huge electricity, water charges and the salary of contractual staff.
In a statement, the Jawaharlal Nehru University said it has a deficit of more than Rs 45 crore and there is a “misinformation” campaign being run in the name of hostel fee hike.
“There is a misinformation campaign which says that there is a massive hostel fee hike. In reality, service charges are being levied, which have been zero so far. For sustainability of budget which has run into a huge deficit, it’s necessary to levy service charges in the hostel,” JNU administration clarified in a tweet.
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU): The university is having a deficit of more than Rs 45 crores . It is largely because of the huge electricity and water charges and the salary of contractual staff.
Reportedly, the UGC rules do not allow the university to pay the salaries of contractual employees of hostels from the salary head of the budget. The number of such employees is over 450. Thus, there is no alternative for the university than to collect service charges from the students, the university said.
The updated hostel charges for each general student is approximately Rs 4,500 per month. Out of this, Rs 2,300 is charged every month for food charges. Of the remaining amount of Rs 2,200, BPL category students have to pay only 50 per cent. A BPL category student has to pay approximately Rs 3,400 per month, the university said.
Refuting the media reports, the JNU administration stated that there is also propaganda that a large number of poor students will be adversely affected by the revised hostel charges.
“It may be noted that out of around 6,000 students who are residing in the hostels, 5,371 students receive financial assistance in the form of fellowships and scholarships,” the statement said.
The university also dismissed reports that the revised hostel charges in JNU are more than similar charges in other Central Universities. The varsity added, “It needs to be underlined that JNU does not charge developmental fees, unlike other universities. Moreover, the admission fee in JNU has been minimal for decades and no revision has taken place for more than four decades”.
Defending the fee hike, the JNU administration said the Central University of Hyderabad charges an admission fee of Rs 10,000 per annum whereas JNU charges around Rs 300 per annum.
Meanwhile, the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration has also released a list of pending mess dues from hostel residents, which alone amounts to nearly Rs 2.79 crore.
The details of pending dues from hostel residents were released on November 20 by the assistant registrar of Inter-Hall Administration. According to the details issued, mess dues from July to October from 17 hostels stand at Rs 2,79,33,874.
Over 44 lakh is pending from the month of July, while dues of August is at Rs 55 lakh. The mess dues pending from September and October amount to Rs 73,71,808 and Rs 1,13,95,634 respectively.
113 JNU professors have written a note that was released in a press conference on Thursday, 21st November 2019, disassociating themselves from the JNU Teachers Association (JNUTA) over their complicity and silence when teachers are attacked by miscreants and JNU goons.
One Professor Aswini Mohapatra took to Twitter to say that the 113 teachers believe that JNUTA is the root cause of the current deadlock. Controlled by the Left-wing coterie, it has turned JNU into a hotbed of Azadi brigade.
We, total of 113, concerned teachers of JNU decided today to dissociate ourselves from the JNU Teachers’ Association. We believe that JNUTA is the root cause of current deadlock. Controlled by left-wing coterie, it has turned JNU into a hotbed of Azadi brigade. #SaveJNU
The press note released by the 113 teachers says that they disassociate themselves from JNUTA and all press releases and statements made by the association.
Note by 113 JNU teachers
The letter says that while JNUTA is by the teachers and for the teachers, controlled by its current bearers and coterie, it has refused to condemn the attack, confinement and intimidation of the teachers and their families since October 28th 2019 in the most brazen manner. The letter says that Wardens have been attacked, their homes attacked and even their children lifted momentarily as a coercive measure.
The letter says that the Associate Dean was confined, abused and attacked for 30 hours and the Dean attacked. In fact, the ambulance in which the Dean was being taken for medical care was also stopped even though the Dean’s health was deteriorating alarmingly.
The letter goes on to make a serious charge. It says that when the Associate Dean was violently confined in SIS-II building, JNUTA said that they will speak to the students and ensure the professor is freed. However, the JNUTA instigated the students further and even told them that they would support the students at the very scene of her confinement.
“The indifference of the office bearers of JNUTA to a series of such dastardly attacks on teachers is shocking and deplorable. Even more deplorable is their sly justification of these incidents on flimsy grounds. Evidently, they are hand in glove with the miscreants in attacking, abusing, confining and intimidating their own colleagues”, the letter read.
Apart from this letter, Professor Hiraman Tiwari who OpIndia spoke to, has also written a private letter to JNUTA disassociating himself with the organisation.
“I am writing you with great pain to inform you this evening that I no longer have any faith in your leadership, indeed in your ways of conducting the teachers’ body in JNU of which I have been a member for the past two decades. I have watched over the years how you and your predecessors have reduced this body to an extension counter of students trade union activities”, the letter of Professor Tiwari said.
He then expresses shock over JNUTA’s conduct in the incident where a female professor was confined by students. He further writes, “I hope you have seen the visuals of how she was pushed and shoved around the room, roughed up and assaulted with filthy slurs by the agitating students. Alas, one heard not a single syllable of condemnation from you, from the JNUTA. On the other hand, one read in one of your recent statements that you fully support the agitation and struggle by the students going on these days. I can find no other words to describe this attitude of yours but “hypocrisy” and heartlessness. There are many instances one can recount from the past, but I shall not bore you any further here and say only this that I hereby tender my resignation as a member of JNUTA. I shall dutifully inform the Salary Branch to stop my JNUTA monthly membership fee from this month”.
The “students” of JNU have been protesting against the marginal hostel fee hike in JNU. Even after the partial rollback, the students were not satisfied and called the roll-back only ‘cosmetic‘. The students have clashed with the police and even heckled reporters in their ongoing protests. The JNU campus was mercilessly defaced by these goons.
The self-styled ‘Swami’ Nityananda, accused of kidnapping and wrongful confinement of children to make them collect donations from followers to run his ashram in Ahmedabad, who has been missing since long, has fled the country confirmed the Gujarat police today.
Recently, an FIR was lodged against Swami Nityananda after police recorded statements of the four children who were rescued from a flat and the ashram, ‘Yogini Sarvagyapeetham’ situated on the premises of Delhi Public School in Ahmedabad, a police officer said.
Meanwhile, two of his disciples, Sadhvi Pranpriyananda and Priyatatva Riddhi Kiran, arrested on Tuesday on kidnapping, illegal confinement and assault, among other charges, were sent to five days police remand by a rural court here on Wednesday evening and are being questioned by the police, Deputy SP (Ahmedabad rural), KT Kamariya said. They have been booked under section 14 of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986.
The Gujarat police working to gather concrete evidence against him after taking two of his disciples in remand has confirmed that the controversial guru has fled abroad, and if required, the Gujarat police will seek his custody through proper channel, said Ahmedabad (Rural) Superintendent of Police R V Asari.
A couple, Janardana Sharma and his wife, had petitioned the Gujarat High Court on Monday for help to get back two daughters who they alleged had been illegally confined at Swami Nityananda’s ashram.
The couple told the court on Monday that they had admitted their four daughters, to an educational institution run by Swami Nithyananda in Bengaluru in 2013. When they learnt that their daughters were this year shifted to another branch of Nithyananda Dhyanpeetham, named Yogini Sarvagyapeetham, they tried to meet them. However, officials of the institute refused to let them meet their daughters, the petitioners alleged.
With help from the police, the Sharmas visited the institute and managed to bring back their two minor daughters, but their elder daughters, Lopamudra Janardhana Sharma (21) and Nandhta (18), in a video message refused to come back, according to the petition.
“Janardana Sharma also sought direction to authorities to produce his two elder daughters before the court,” the DSP said. Sharma alleged that Sarvagyapeetham authorities were not letting him meet his two elder daughters.
Nithyananda, who is over 40 years old, is a native of Tamil Nadu and his real name is Rajashekharan. He set up his ashram at Bidadi on Bengaluru-Mysore highway almost 20 years ago. Nithyananda, who first hit the national headlines for his alleged video in a compromising position with an actress in early 2010, has been a highly controversial figure. In June last year, a Karnataka court had framed charges against Nithyananda in a rape case. Since then the self-styled godman has been untraceable.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal, in a press conference today, has refuted the allegations made by the opposition parties regarding electoral bonds. The Congress party had earlier protested in the Parliament over the bonds and claimed that it was an elaborate scheme to enable money laundering and destroyed transparency in the funding of political parties.
Goyal said, “This is the same lobby that had made dubious and wrong charges on the Rafale deal and has been rejected by the people of India. The Supreme Court, too, quashed their false claims.” He asserted that “whatever money is used in election proceedings must come from the bank, through the KYC procedures, and can be issued by selected SBI branches so that the SBI can keep its track.” “Any person can donate money after buying bonds from the bank via his clean, hard-earned money. These people are agitated because they won’t get this money via corruption and the money will now be clean,” he added.
Goyal further stated, “People revolting against electoral bonds have grown used to black money and believe in its usage during elections. This is the alliance of the defeated and dejected corrupt politicians who do not want clean, tax-paid transparent money to fund elections.”
Highlighting the steps taken by the NDA government to check corruption in political funding, the Union Minister said, “Earlier, donations worth Rs 20,000 was allowed in cash. We changed that to Rs 2,000 so that only poor people could help political parties with cash. Honest and clean money has started to come in Indian politics since then.”
Comparison between New and Old system
Minister Piyush Goyal stated, “Earlier, there was no record of where the money came from and where it went. The new system will now allow tax-payer’s money with KYC tags to buy bonds. These electoral bonds will remove the fear of banks in the minds of donors, who can now rightfully donate.”
“People can now donate money via tax-paid cheques. That clean and hard-earned money can now be used by any political party,” Piyush Goyal said before adding, “The electoral bonds can be en-cashed by qualified registered political parties in just one designated bank account so that the bonds cannot be used in any other way. It has a duration of only 15 days to ensure there’s no chance of misuse of the bond”.
Comparison between New and Old system
He also mentioned the consultations between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Electoral Bonds. Minister Piyush Goyal said that between the passing of the Finance Bill on 31st March 2017 and the notification of the Electoral Bonds Scheme on 2nd January 2018, there were multiple interactions between the RBI and the government. In order to ensure there is no misuse of Electoral Bonds, only qualified registered parties can encash the bonds and within 15 days.
In the Parliament today, senior leaders of the Congress party had labelled electoral bonds as a ‘scam’. Shashi Tharoor said, “When electoral bonds were introduced, many of us had raised serious objections about how it could easily become a way for rich corporations and individuals to influence improperly political parties, particularly the ruling party.” Ghulam Nabi Azad claimed that the electoral bonds had resulted in money laundering, and its trail “leads straight to the PM’s office”. “The BJP govt is running 90 per cent of the business in this country with a few industrialists,” he said.
Randeep Surjewala had claimed, “The electoral bond scheme of the Narendra Modi government is a modus operandi to receive thousands of crores from big business houses through secret donations.” He stated, “The intrigue and the conspiracy have now indicted the prime minister himself. RTI documents now establish the role and indict none less than the prime minister himself.” “Their promise was to bring black money back from offshore accounts, but reverse if that is happening,” Surjewala added.
In a press conference in the Parliament premises, Manish Tiwari had labelled it a “threat to democracy”. He said, “Parliament is the appropriate forum to discuss the damage which these bonds are doing to our democracy.” “We are asking for a full-fledged discussion on electoral financing… political financing with electoral bonds being an integral part of that. We are specifically asking for a joint committee to look into the entire scheme of bearer electoral bonds,” he added. “Electoral bonds and their completely opaque nature is a fundamental threat to democracy. Democracy is a function of public trust,” stated Tiwari.
The Congress’ efforts to paint the Prime Minister as corrupt suffered a colossal defeat when the Supreme Court dismissed review petitions into its earlier verdict where it had declined to order a probe into the Rafale Deal. The Court said that the petitions filed by the Arun Shourie and Prashant Bhushan lacked merit. In the absence of any clear plan to corner the BJP government, the Congress party appears to have decided that electoral bonds will be the next big thing on the table. Meanwhile, its support for the hooligans of JNU continues unabated and the far-left ideology of the university has come to dominate the party.
Vishal Dadlani, a Bollywood entertainer, who often plays the role of the judge in a TV music contest named ‘Indian Idol’ and also unsurprisingly a former Aam Aadmi Party supporter, in a shocking tweet, attempted to target the former CJI Ranjan Gogoi’s legacy by terming it ‘disgraceful’ and ‘cowardly’.
Dadlani on Monday wrote on Twitter, “Goodbye, ex-CJI Gogoi, and I hope you can stomach the disgraceful and cowardly legacy you have left this august Office. This article by @gautambhatia88 sums it up.”.
Goodbye, ex-CJI Gogoi, and I hope you can stomach the disgraceful and cowardly legacy you have left this august Office.
Sharing an article, Vishal Dadlani had made disparaging comments on the legacy of former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi following his historic judgement on Ram Mandir. The slanderous article targetting the former CJI is written by a lawyer named Gautam Bhatia.
Following the vile behaviour of the Bollywood entertainer-turned-political activist, social media verbally thrashed Vishal Dadlani for foul-mouthing him. The social media users even trended #SackDadlaniFromIndianIdol on Twitter asking the makers of the singing competition to drop him from the show.
Some netizens expressed their opinion on the issue, stating that it was an ‘absolute misuse of freedom of free speech’.
Sir very disrepctful tweet by you as I dont think you are fully aware about the principles and procedures on which a court works. Any thing which lowers public belief on judicial system is contempt of court. Hence you might well be liable for contempt @VishalDadlani
Some others felt that the TV show judge should be dealt with strictly for showing expressing his contempt against the honourable retired Supreme Court judge.
This is not the first time that Dadlani has made such crass comment on respected individuals of the country. In August 2016, Dadlani had tweeted his displeasure at the ‘colossal idiocy’ of ‘some naked monk’ addressing the Haryana assembly. His tweets did not go down well with the Jain community and to damage control, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain had to tweet apologies on behalf of Dadlani.
Following public outcry by a number of netizens, Dadlani had to eventually apologize for his tweets. He had to issue a public statement of apology and also met the Jain monk personally to seek his forgiveness.
There has been continuous opposition from the students of the Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan Faculty of Kashi Hindu University over the appointment of Dr Feroz Khan in the faculty. A large section of the media has conspired to divert the attention from the actual issue by making it a question of ‘Sanskrit language’ and ‘opposition to Muslim teacher’. This issue has created a lot of confusion among people. However, Opindia has attempted to present an accurate version of the students’ arguments on the whole matter.
This report documents the statement of the current professors of the faculty on various subjects, and that of the former head of department, the head of the Vishwanath Mandir Trust, as well as the Acharyas of Kashi on the matter of BHU protests.
What SVDV professors say
SVDV is in complete disarray at the moment due to controversy created by Feroz Khan’s appointment. Despite working at the institution, some of the professors are openly supporting the students on the matter. We also had a conversation with some professors who are not willing to come forward as it might affect their jobs, but students have their moral support.
Rajneesh Pandey, Assistant Professor of the Department of Literature of the SVDV, says that he was with the students. Technically, even though the law may not be in their favour, their demand is in accordance with the objectives of establishing this faculty by Madan Mohan Malviya. Since no one from a different religion has been appointed in SVDV Faculty so far, there has been no need for such a dispute earlier. This is the first time in more than a hundred years. Therefore, students are forced to protest, even with exams looming around the corner.
Professor of literature department Rajneesh Pandey remarks, “Yesterday, I was reading the statement of Feroze Khan and his father in ‘Dainik Jagran’, the bottom line of which was that all this is happening to them because of their Muslim identity. According to them, they have faced no discrimination till date for being Muslim, but all this is happening now because of their Muslim identity. According to him, he has read Sanskrit since childhood and has a photo of Krishna in his house, etc., and many things have been said to prove his love for Sanskrit.”
Assistant Professor continues, “I just want to know from them whether Muslims are not teaching Sanskrit anywhere in this country and if yes, why did they not have this discrimination? This is the same country in which thousands of temples were looted, destroyed, and numerous atrocities were committed in the name of Islam. People who believe heaven should also be abandoned for Janani-Janmabhoomi, people who love this motherland of ours more than their own mothers, in front of them the country was partitioned in the name of Islam. In Rama’s country, we had to travel for years in courts to prove the existence of Rama. In which Christian country is a case ongoing to prove the existence of Jesus Christ, in which Islamic country is a case ongoing to prove the existence of prophet Muhammad? But still, this country treats Muslims as equals do you know why? Because even though Sanskrit may not be a common language anymore, but even today as a sacrament, it still lives on the in veins of every Hindu.”
Rajneesh Pandey adds, “You rightly said that you studied Sanskrit from childhood but you accepted it only as a language and could not assimilate into the culture of Sanskrit or else this discriminatory vision would never have arisen only because of peaceful protest. If you read history, then you will understand that despite enduring so much persecution, the Hindus have never considered Muslims different from themselves, this is the miracle of Sanskrit’s culture. You cannot inherit it from reading only, which you are claiming.”
After all of this, Rajneesh Pandey talks about the protest of the students in SVDV and says, “Now let’s get to the reasons for the protest. Kashi Hindu University, in whose name Mahamana (Madan Mohan Malviya) has associated the word ‘Hindu’, an effort was launched by Nehru’s education minister MC Chagla (Muhammad Ali Karim Chagla) in the 1960s to remove it. The bill was introduced and when the people opposed it, it was withdrawn and from then, it was due to Chagla that JNU was established. When Mahamana remained adamant on the word ‘Hindu’ in the name of the university despite Gandhi’s opposition, he showed his firmness and reverence towards Hinduism and Sanatan values.”
He goes on to say that Mahamana was not a beggar or addict who added the word Hindu to the name of the university and set up the Sanskrit department at the university as well as the Vedic school which was later renamed the Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan. Malviya ji was a farsighted self-sacrificing ascetic who knew very well what this word meant. Those who established the temple of Kashi Vishwanath in the midst of BHU, this is proof of the attachment they felt towards the Hindu worship system and Sanatan values. And due to this attachment, he established the ‘Dharm Vigyan’ faculty to study and preserve the culture of Hinduism and its identity and not to propagate Sanskrit for which the Sanskrit department exists is in the Faculty of Arts and its door is open to all.
Rajneesh ji says that the question now was, who will teach Hindu theology? Will a person of the religion, which has a satirical view of the idol worship and the temples, will teach the ways of Hindu worship? The person who belongs to a religion that considers the moon as the basis of every calculation, will he teach the Surya Siddhanta? One who does not believe in Dharma Saakar Swarup, will he explain the relationship between Saakar and Niraakar? Where literature means only Sanskrit dance and music, will it teach scriptures from Hindu religious thought such as ‘individualism’ and ‘Rasgangadhar’? A religion which allows a woman to be thrown out of the house by saying Talaq thrice, will a person of that faith explain the marriage rites of Saptapadi and a bond for Janma Janmaantar? He who does not believe in any virtue will give a trinitarian interpretation of the creation, the religion in which the proof of being a Muslim is from the circumcision of the genitals will teach the Upanayana rites and Brahmacharya? There are not one but thousands of such questions that are the cause of opposition, which you have weighed in your petty Hindu-Muslim vision, he said.
Rajneesh ji clearly states that the reason for his frustration is only financial, mental and personal and opposition has nothing to do with a personal financial interest, “It is clearly said here in our religion. You may be a very good person, but there is also a truth that ‘once bitten twice shy’. You have read and taught Sanskrit, in my view, you deserve the utmost respect and affection. But Feroz Khan, religion and bedroom have their own dignity and privacy. The Indian Constitution also allows this. No matter how much I read Urdu and Quran, I will not become a cleric, nor I would like to do so for some economic reason.’
“To say that ‘it would have been better to have a chicken shop opened instead of teaching Sanskrit’ and then, claiming to be a Sanskrit lover is such an outrageous contradiction. Mirabai, the beloved daughter-in-law of Firoz’s Rajasthan, drank venom for love of Krishna and your Sanskrit love reached the chicken shop just because of opposition from some students! What form of love is this, I could not understand. This university is different from universities like JNU, where anti-country slogans are raised. Hindu culture was and will remain, at the core of the establishment of this university. Anyone who has objections in it can object, but objection does not change the historical truth.”
Why two Sanskrit departments in the same university?
Professor Girijashankar Shastri, from the Department of Astrology of the Faculty of Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan, in his statement also emphasized that Dharmaprana Bharat Ratna Mahamana Pt. Madanmohan Malaviya ji had a special purpose when he established the Kashi Hindu University in the city of religion, enlightenment and salvation in Varanasi. Dharma is a very broad word, its speed is also very subtle, Dharma and the element of Dharma are also located in the intellectual cavities of great men and great sages, the whole Dharma is only Parmatma, which has always been tried to be known through the Sanatan tradition, Sanatana Dharma is eternal, it has not been run by one great person or ideology.
Professor Shastri stresses, “Except Sanatan Dharma, every other religion has been promoted by a person. This is the reason that these religions have been called Sampradayas. God has also been descending from time to time to protect the Sanatana Dharma. The protector of Sanatan culture is Vedas and Vedang, to protect it, the visionary Mahamana Malaviya first established the Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan Faculty. Later, another Sanskrit department was also established in BHU’s Faculty of Arts to spread Sanskrit language and Sanskrit knowledge. Both Sanskrit departments have different objectives.”
Prof. Girijashankar adds that the teachers of the SVDV faculty carry out Krishnajanashtami, Gita Prabandha, Rishipujan, Shravanikram, Saraswati Puja in the Malaviya Bhavan, perform Pujas in the Vishwanath temple at the university according to the time and date, even as they teach Veda and Vedang to protect Sanatana Dharma. Whereas the relation of Sanskrit department is limited to reading, research work and other Sanskrit related activities. Therefore, Malaviya ji had the same objective of establishing two departments. Therefore, the Mahamana, while instructing the rules in the Shilapatta, would not give permission to the SVDV for any religion other than ‘Hindu’.
Former Head of Department of Literature Department of SVDV, Shyamanand Mishra says that behind the establishment of the Faculty of Sanskrit Science in Kashi Hindu University, the concept of Mahamana Malaviya ji was to protect and propagate the high values acquired in Sanatan Dharma and Culture. If the general study of Sanskrit had been the objective, why was the department of Sanskrit department established by Malaviya ji in the same Faculty of Arts apart from the Faculty of Religion in the same university? The former head of the department also appealed to the people that those who do not have the actual knowledge of the SVDV should not dare to make unnecessary comments in this subject. He reiterated this and said – for special knowledge read the Shilapatta in the Faculty-building.
The rule at the ‘shila-lekh’ at BHU which states only those who follow Sanatan Dharm can partake studies at the SVDV in BHU
In connection with the appointment of Feroz Khan, Prof. Dixit of Ved Department of SVDV also drew attention to the book that the entire purpose of Vedic college is written in the same book which was released by the Honorable Vice-Chancellor. We have already mentioned what he said in his report which can be read here.
Apart from the professors of SVDV, the President of Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust, Acharya Ashok Dwivedi also supported the students’ movement, saying that when Mahamana founded BHU, he set up the faculty along with a stone that was also installed on which it is written for the future that only a Hindu who believes in Sanatan Dharma will study and teach here. As an example, he said that just as a non-Sanatani cannot go to Vishwanath temple for worship, similarly, the SVDV of BHU should also be a teacher of Sanatan Dharma. This is how religious purity will be maintained.
Apart from this, along with many other professors of the university, the Pandits and Acharyas of Kashi also say that Sanatana Dharma is taught in that faculty and there is no other religion that any teacher of any religion can come and teach. The demands of all those students were supported.
At this time, a large part of the media, without understanding the whole issue, is engaged in revealing its frustration in many other forms in the name of opposing Brahminism only by considering it as a language issue due to which this issue has taken political and religious form. The way the university administration is justifying its appointment, then the demand of students also seems right if we look at the context of Hindu religion and its values. In this whole context, the need is also to make people aware of the right issue.
The real issue here is neither language nor opposition to the entry of Muslim teachers in BHU because, since the inception of BHU, teachers of almost all religions are teaching there freely. The question is only that of a specific faculty of Sanskrit Theology and Dharma. Where there were hitherto unannounced rules of appointment which have been followed for the past hundred years and for the first time when someone tried to move away from it, the university is facing opposition from the students for whom Sanskrit is not only a language but also a medium to protect and promote Sanatana Dharma and its values. The students of SVDV are keeping in mind not only the present day but also the future, they do not want that someone they will not be able to accept from their heart their guru to teach them.
In order to put a curb on the rampant cases of forcible religious conversions the Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission Chief, Justice Aditya Nath Mittal on Thursday submitted a report to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, suggesting a new law to check forcible religious conversions. Forced conversion can attract a jail term of upto 7 years, according to the new recommendation.
Under the proposal, if one is found to have forcefully converted someone, the person can be jailed for a minimum of one year to a maximum of five years. However, if the person converted is a minor, woman or from the SC/ST community, the jail term extends from two to seven years.
“The report was submitted along with draft legislation, Uttar Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2019,” law commission secretary Sapna Tripathi has told PTI. According to Times of India, ‘reconversion’, or as it is popularly called, ‘Gharvapasi’ might not be a crime at all. The bill also says that in case of marriage, if either party is forced to convert, the conversion as well the marriage would be declared null and void.
The chief opined that the Indian Constitution has given freedom to exercise religion, but some agencies are misusing this freedom and luring people into converting religion in the pretext of marriage, better jobs and lifestyle. To curb this menace there aren’t any existing provisions, Justice Aditya Nath Mittal was quoted as saying.
Justice Aditya Nath Mittal, UP State Law Commission Chief: We don’t have any existing provisions to stop such conversions. That’s why we have recommended new legislation to stop religious conversions, submitted the report to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. (2/2) https://t.co/no4XsYdVHz
“The commission is of the view that existing legal provisions are not enough to check religious conversion and on this serious matter, a new law is needed like in 10 other states,” the report said.
Aiming to curb the incidences of religious conversions by means of force, bribes or incentives and duping in check the Uttrakhand cabinet had last year approved the draft bill called ‘Dharm Swatantrata Adhiniyam‘ under which forced and illegal conversions will be a non-bailable offence.
In order to put a check on this growing menace which is also associated with many foreign-funded NGOs, the Modi government has come down hard against the shady NGOs who have been receiving illicit foreign funding to carry out their nefarious designs in India.
Addressing a key issue of religious evangelism carried out by many foreign-funded NGOs, the Home Ministry has modified rules for foreign funding for key officials and members of the NGOs receiving overseas funds in September this year. The government has asked the NGO members and office bearers to attest that they were not prosecuted or convicted for religious conversions.
With these new amendments, the Modi government aims to restrain the menace of pervasive religious evangelism that is often the core objective of many foreign-funded NGOs under the guise of charity and philanthropy.
Indian filmmaker and author, Vivek Agnihotri is scheduled to visit Rutgers University, one of most premier universities of the United States of America to deliver a lecture on the subject of the genocide of Kashmir Pandits in the valley. The Islamists and Left-wing activists have ganged up to threaten and disrupt Agnihotri’s event.
Filmmaker Agnihotri, who is known for his bestseller book ‘Urban Naxals’ is expected to speak on a topic – ‘The Untold Story of India’ at Rutgers University on Thursday, in which he will be presenting facts regarding the Hindu’s Genocide unleashed by Islamic terrorists in Kashmir during the 1990s.
I’ll be speaking on ‘The Untold Story’ of India at one of the America’s most liberal universities – Rutgers University.
Som fundamentalists have been opposing me to speak on Kashmiri Hindu’s Genocide and their Human Rights.
However, it seems that the pro-Pakistan propaganda machinery is troubled and upset after Rutgers University invited filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri to deliver a talk to dispel pro-Pakistan propaganda on Kashmir issue. The pro-Pakistan Islamists and Leftists seem to have joined hands together to showcase their intolerance against filmmaker Agnihotri, who are now demanding the cancellation of the event.
Sylvia Chan-Malik, who claims to be an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Rutgers University was the first to express her intolerance against the event. Claiming that she was a strong proponent of free speech, Malik said that she was also a strong proponent of bringing speakers to university who models intellectual rigour and integrity.
She went on to play jury against Agnihotri stating that the speaker had neither rigour nor integrity. I wish someone had advised against it, she tweeted.
I am strong proponent of free speech. I am also a strong proponent of bringing speakers @RutgersU who model intellectual rigor & integrity, which our students deserve. This speaker has neither, as his record clearly shows. I wish someone had advised against it. https://t.co/Ilj99KkQA1
Another troll account – StandwithKashmir, which resorts in anti-Indian propaganda, alleged to be part of Pakistan propaganda machinery went on to make false claims against Vivek Agnihotri stating that he was an Islamophobe and a sexual predator.
The pro-Pakistani handle went on question Rutgers University for inviting Vivek Agnihotri to deliver a speech. It also urged Rutgers University and all other campuses to rescind their invitation given to Agnihotri for delivering a speech.
“Agnihotri, a filmmaker, is in the US for his #Kashmirunreportedtour, which is meant to provide propaganda for the Indian state, currently being run by a Hindu Supremacist regime which has placed 8mil Kashmiris under siege and overseen a surge in violence against minorities,” the Islamic troll claimed.
Agnihotri is also in the US to make a film on the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits. It is unfortunate that such an Islamophobic, abusive and sexist filmmaker has been tasked to do this–it does not bode well for the film and the imp. topic to have @vivekagnihotri cover it. pic.twitter.com/dSl5cvWLWE
Another troll account demanded the arrest of Vivek Agnihotri and also dreamt about the filmmaker being prosecuted in US federal court for ‘promoting violence against minorities’ in India. The pro-Pakistan account said Agnihotri was a member of India’s Nazi paramilitary group of RSS.
He should be arrested and prosecuted in US federal courts for promoting violence against minorities in India. He is the member of India’s Nazi Paramilitary group of RSS. It’s right wing militia based out of Nagpur India.
Usa ?? must stand with religious minorities in India!
Despite all the hatred and intolerance against filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, who intends to present the facts on Kashmir, there exists a silver lining. The Hindu students from Rutgers University have stood firm regarding their invite to Agnihotri and have not bowed down to the left-wing and Islamists nexus that is trying hard to disrupt the event.
According to a Facebook Post by columnist Shefali Vaidya, the Hindu Students Council have been facing a lot of hatred from other students, professors as well as Kashmiri Muslim organisations for organising the event. The students expressed fear as they have been at the receiving end of hatred.
The Rutgers students, however, seems to have not yielded to the Islamists and the left-wing propaganda, but instead have decided to fight this nexus. In doing so, they have urged the Indian community members to stand in solidarity with them and invited them to participate in the event.
The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JuH), a key Muslim litigant in the Ayodhya title suit which has been indulging in constant rabblerousing since Supreme Court’ historic verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi case, has today taken a U-turn and said that it will not file a review petition against the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict.
“Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has passed a resolution that it will not file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict on Babri Masjid & mosques managed by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and Waqf properties,” reported ANI.
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has issued a clarification that “Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind has passed a resolution that it will not file review petition against the Supreme Court verdict on Babri Masjid & mosques managed by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and Waqf properties.” https://t.co/NZz6vR8Sc4
According to Times Now, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JuH), the key Muslim litigant in the Ayodhya title suit has two factions. One which is led by Arshad Madani and the other led by Mahmood Madani. Reportedly, the faction led by Arshad Madani will be going ahead with filing of a review petition against the SC verdict, while the Mahmood Madani faction, which had organised a meeting yesterday with other Muslim organisations, have decided to step back.
#Breaking | Top Muslim litigant makes a U-turn & decides not to challenge the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind split into two groups after the death of the former president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Asad Madani because of the dispute between his brother Arshad Madani and son Mahmood Madani over the leadership of India’s largest Muslim organisation.
Earlier on Sunday, both AIMPLB and Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani had announced that that they will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict as it was not based on the ‘evidence and logic’. While announcing the decision, Madani had said that though they are sure the review petition would be thrown out by the Supreme Court, one still should be filed. The Sunni Waqf Board had, however, distanced itself from the decision.
The Supreme Court on 9th November delivered a historic verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi case. Giving the entire 67 acres to Hindis, the Supreme Court held that an alternate 5-acre land will be given to the Muslims to build their Mosque.
While the Hindus have celebrated this verdict, the Muslim parties, especially the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, AIMPLB and Owaisi led AIMIM, have been spewing venom and making fallacious arguments against the SC decision.
The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind president had earlier said that once a Mosque has been built it will always remain a mosque. He had also rejected the 5-acre land given to the Muslims by the Supreme Court. While earlier, the Muslim litigants want 5 acres within the 67 acres Ram Janmabhoomi, now their demands seem to have shifted to giving Hindus an alternate 5-acre land.
