Legal Rights Protection Forum urged President of India Ramnath Kovind to call a meeting with the Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana regarding Justice Surya Kant’s comments on Nupur Sharma. The Forum has said that the comments by the Supreme Court judge have shaken the conscience of the entire nation and eroded people’s faith in the judiciary.
The Forum tweeted, “Legal Rights Protection Forum urged the Hon’ble President of India to call for a meeting with Hon’ble CJI in regard to comments made by Js Surya Kant which have shaken the conscience of entire Nation & eroded its faith in the fairness of the highest office of the Indian judiciary.”
Legal Rights Protection Forum urged the Hon’ble @rashtrapatibhvn to call for a meeting with Hon’ble CJI in regard to comments made by Js Surya Kant which have shaken the conscience of entire Nation & eroded its faith in fairness of the highest office of the Indian judiciary(1/2) pic.twitter.com/Yig3cjyydr
— Legal Rights Protection Forum (@lawinforce) July 3, 2022
They further added, “Urged to impress upon the CJI to get unwarranted remarks expunged & reiterate His valuable suggestion made earlier that, it is also incumbent upon judges to exercise the utmost discretion in what they say in courtrooms.”
Urged to impress up on the CJI to get unwarranted remarks expunged & reiterate His valuable suggestion made earlier that, “it is also incumbent upon judges to exercise utmost discretion in what they say in courtrooms”.(2/2)
— Legal Rights Protection Forum (@lawinforce) July 3, 2022
On 1st July 2022, the Supreme Court of India Judge, Justice Surya Kant, blamed former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s comments for the brutal Udaipur murder. He stated that Sharma’s ‘loose tongue’ has set the entire country on fire and she should apologize to the whole country. Nupur Sharma had moved the SC seeking the transfer of all the FIRs registered against her, across several states, to Delhi for further investigation. Sharma, in her application, stated that she is facing constant life threats.
In a shocking incident that took place in the Pilokhadi area of Meerut on 26th June 2022, a group of gay Muslim friends killed a 22-year-old Hindu youth Yash Rastogi and then chopped his dead body into pieces and threw it into a drain. The Meerut police have arrested all the four accused and further investigations are going on. The deceased youth Yash Rastogi was a law student.
According to a report by Dainik Bhaskar, LLB student Yash Rastogi, a resident of the Jagriti Vihar Sector 6 of the Medical police station area, was killed by his gay Muslim friends after which the killers chopped and threw his dead body into a drain near Pilokhadi in the Lisadi Gate area of Meerut. The Meerut police recovered the dead body parts from the drain on Saturday, July 2 late at night. The arrested accused have told during the police investigation that they had sodomised the deceased youth before killing him.
According to Meerut city SP Vinit Bhatnagar, this was a group of gay friends. Yash Rastogi was killed by his gay friends in the same group. A post-mortem of the recovered dead body was conducted on Sunday and then last rites were performed at the Surajkund crematorium. A heavy police force was deployed at the deceased youth’s home, medical college, and Surajkund considering the sensitivity of the situation. The students studying with Yash Rastogi have demanded that the accused should be charged with the National Security Act. The locals have also demanded the administration that the houses of the accused be bulldozed.
As it happened
On June 26, Yash Rastogi left his home in the evening on his scooter saying that he will return in a while. His family members lodged a complaint in the Medical police station as he did not return. The police traced the last location recorded by his mobile phone. It turned out to be Pilokhadi near the Lisadi Gate area. On the basis of the call detail records of his phone, the Meerut police arrested four suspected accused Imran, Shavej, Ali and Salman. All of them were Yash Rastogi’s friends.
The arrested accused first tried to dodge the questions from the police. A stricter investigation revealed that Shavej met Yash at Lisadi Gate. Yash Rastogi refused to show his mobile phone to these friends. Other three friends suspected that Yash must be hiding their video which he might have made. After a brief exchange of abusive words between Yash Rastogi and his friends, the accused friends strangled Yash Rastogi to death. After his death, Yash was also stabbed in hands and legs with a knife. The police said that the reason for death will be known after the post-mortem report is received.
According to the police, Shavej and Ali alias Alijaan told during the interrogation that they and Yash had a homosexual relationship. He was murdered on June 26. Before killing Yash, the accused made homosexual relationships with him. Later they cut off his neck with a knife. Then they cut his body into several pieces and packed it in a sack to throw into the drain.
As indicated by the accused, the police recovered the dead body from the drain. Hapud Adda, Lisadi Gate and Shastri Nagar are very sensitive areas in Meerut. The dead body was recovered late in the night to avoid any kind of ruckus by the crowd that would gather on the spot to support the accused. The police staff from three police stations and three commanding officers were present in the night while recovering the dead body.
On July 3, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi inaugurated the Ambalappadi-Valamppuram-Kottanpara road built at Karulai Town, Malappuram, that falls under his parliamentary constituency, Wayanad in Kerala. From the official Twitter handle, Congress wrote, “Adding one more milestone in the journey towards the development of Kerala, Shri Rahul Gandhi inaugurated the Ambalappadi-Valamppuram-Kottanpara road built under PMGSY at Karulai Town, Karulai Grama Panchayat, Nilambur LAC, Malappuram today.”
Tweet by Congress. Source: Twitter
The scheme under which the road was built is Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), a central government initiative to strengthen the road network in rural areas and increase the connectivity between rural and urban areas. It is noteworthy that PMGSY is 100% funded by the central government. The scheme was launched in December 2000 during former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tenure. Rahul Gandhi inaugurated a 3.2 KM long road that was built under the scheme at the cost of approx 2.75 crores.
It came as a shock and amusement to netizens as they witnessed Congress praising and crediting Modi government-led scheme for development work in Rahul Gandhi’s constituency.
Union Minister of State for Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, Electronics & Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, “Even in mostly absent #Kerala MP Rahul Gandhi’s constituency Wayanad, development is only because of Narendra Modi govt schemes and funds.”
Highlighting the origin of the scheme, Twitter user Pawan Khajuria said, “Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) was started by Atal Ji in the year 2000 because Congress never bothered about pathetic road conditions in rural India.”
Another Twitter user Shiv Seeker said, “Wayanad Congress MP takes credit for Kerala’s development by “inaugurating” a road, built under PM Shri Narendra Modi Ji’s Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, launched by erstwhile PM Swargiya Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji, under a Centrally Sponsored Scheme in the year 2000.”
Wayanad Congress MP takes credit of Kerala’s development, by “inaugurating” a road, built under PM Shri Narendra Modi ji’s Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, launched by erstwhile PM Swargiya Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji, under a Centrally Sponsored Scheme in the year 2000. https://t.co/8LiA9DlbLQ
— Jambudweep Moolnivasi #SaveSoil #ಮಣ್ಣುಉಳಿಸಿ (@ShivSeeker) July 3, 2022
Twitter user Mee2Wee_ said, “PMGSY – Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Thank you, Narendra Modi Ji, for adding another milestone in the journey towards the development of Kerala. Happy to see Congress acknowledging it and also appreciating Modi Ji for sending Rahul Gandhi to inaugurate it!”
PMGSY – Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Thank you @narendramodi ji for adding another milestone in the journey towards the development of Kerala ?
Happy to see congress acknowledging it and also appreciating Modi ji for sending Rahul Gandhi to inaugurate it! ? https://t.co/hymR0nGHLT
Twitter user A Ram said, “Why do we need Rahul Gandhi of Congress to inaugurate a road funded and built by Narendra Modi project. LOL Rahul Gandi can’t find anything else to inaugurate?”
It is noteworthy that Congress has a habit of mocking the central government schemes to satisfy their political agenda. Let it be the Agnipath Scheme, CAA, NRC, or any other scheme by the BJP-led NDA government at the centre, Congress has actively opposed most of them irrespective of their merits and benefits for the public.
The spread of Islamic radicalism has resulted in the migration of native communities from their motherland on multiple occasions in the past. The departure of Parsis, or Zoroastrians, from Persia to other areas of the world as a result of the expansion of Islam in the 7th century AD is one such instance. We shall cover the entire history of the Religion with reference to the infamous events of religious persecution as we delve deeper into the exodus of Zoroastrians as a result of Islamic invasions and their migration to India.
The Parsis are an ethnoreligious minority currently residing in the Indian subcontinent. Following the invasion of Sassanid Iran by Arab Muslims under the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century AD, their ancestors moved to India. Parsis adhere to Zoroastrianism, also known as Mazdayasna in its original form, one of the world’s oldest religions. Until the middle of the seventh century, Persia (modern-day Iran) was a politically independent state with a Zoroastrian majority. For about 1000 years, until the Sassanian Empire, Zoroastrianism was the recognised official religion of the state.
History of Zoroastrianism
According to scholars, the origin of Zoroastrianism dates to the Bronze Age, when the Prophet Zarathushtra first revealed and preached “the Good Religion.” Around 1750 BC, Zarathushtra spread his ethical monotheistic doctrine across ancient Persia and Central Asia, converting a limited number of faithful men and women. Legend has it that Zarathushtra was invited to impart his teachings to King Vishtasp, who became one of the first of many Central Asian kings to adopt this new and revolutionary faith.
Zoroastrianism ultimately acquired widespread recognition, eventually becoming the religion of Cyrus the Great’s Achaemenian Empire (550-330 BC). Alexander the Great vanquished the Achaemenians in 330 BC, and the city of Persepolis, together with its collection of holy manuscripts, was destroyed by fire. After almost a century of Greek domination under the Seleucids, the Parthians (256 BCE-226 AD) ascended to power and dominated Iran for a number of years. The Sassanian Empire (226–652 AD) succeeded the Parthian Empire, and during the next 400 years, its monarchs made Zoroastrianism Iran’s official religion. With up to 30 million followers, this was the heyday of Zoroastrianism.
Persecution of the Zoroastrians
The Sassanian Empire was overthrown by Arab Muslims in 652 AD. A major portion of Zoroastrians converted to Islam; some practised their faith privately and were frequently persecuted. Forced conversions and intermittent violence were used as forms of discrimination and harassment against Zoroastrians both during and after the Arab Muslim conquest of Persia.
Throughout the history of Zoroastrianism, there is abundant documentation of Zoroastrians being persecuted. It is known that Muslims who came to the region during the Rashidun Caliphate invasion destroyed Zoroastrian temples. Many Zoroastrian temples were demolished, and mosques were built instead, with many Persian libraries set ablaze. Many Iranian fire temples were converted to mosques by the Muslim rulers. In territories that had been taken over by Muslims, Zoroastrians even had to pay a tax called Jizya.
In order to escape persecution and the negative effects of being treated like a second-class citizens during the Islamic caliphates, many Zoroastrians converted to Islam. Their children were sent to an Islamic school to learn Arabic and memorise the Quran, among other religious lessons, when a Zoroastrian subject converted. In an effort to persuade Zoroastrians to convert to Islam, the number of laws governing their behaviour rapidly increased, reducing their ability to participate in society and making life difficult for them. Zoroastrianism’s supremacy over religion in Persia was eventually toppled by the Arab invasion, which also made Islam the state’s official religion.
Migration of Zoroastrians to India
As Muslims began to Islamize Persia, many Zoroastrians fled to India, where they were granted sanctuary. According to legend, the Zoroastrians fled to northern Iran first, then to the island of Hormuz, and finally to India to save themselves and their faith. According to the Qissa-i Sanjan, the only documented chronicle of Zoroastrian emigrants in India, a small handful made their way to Gujarat, where they were given the name “Parsi”—literally, those from Paras or Fars, which is the traditional word for Persia.
Modern-day Parsis narrate a legend about Zoroastrian ships arriving in Sanjan and being received by Jadi Rana, a native ruler in Gujarat. Rana offered the immigrants a full glass of milk to indicate that there was no place for them. The Zoroastrians responded by adding a spoon of sugar to the milk, demonstrating their intention to blend in and subtly sweeten the figurative glass of milk without filling it to the brim. It is believed that following this incident, Jadi Rana granted the immigrants permission to stay on the condition that they learn Gujarati and wear the local attire Saree. The immigrants agreed to the requests and founded the town of Sanjan in Gujarat, named after their hometown in Iran. They began to live there as agriculturalists for a long time after their arrival.
Parsis gaining affluence
Many Parsis who had previously resided in rural villages around Gujarat moved to the English-run towns as soon as British commercial posts were established in Surat and throughout India in the early 17th century to take advantage of the new employment opportunities. Due to their increased openness to European influence and aptitude for trade and business, the condition of Parsis changed drastically.
After the East India Company seized power in Bombay in 1668, Parsis from Gujarat started to emigrate there. Their work and skill as merchants were largely responsible for the city’s expansion in the 18th century. By the nineteenth century, they were a distinctly wealthy society, and starting around 1850, they had great success in heavy industries, particularly those connected to railways and shipbuilding. The Parsis gained notoriety in India’s social, industrial, and educational domains over the ensuing decades. They were at the vanguard of progress, earned enormous wealth, and donated generously to the underprivileged.
Present status of Parsis in India
The Parsi community in India is one of the most prosperous minority and migrant communities in the world. Despite accounting up only 0.0005% of India’s population, they have had a significant impact on the country’s economy. According to the 2011 Indian Census, there are 57,264 Parsis in the country. The entire Parsi population in 2001 was 69,601. The population of the Parsi community was 91,266 in 1971 and 71,630 in 1981. The drop has eased in successive years, but the 2011 census revealed that their numbers are once again declining.
Maharashtra has the largest Parsi population of 44,854, followed by Gujarat with 9,727. There are just 221 Parsis in Delhi. In Andhra Pradesh, there are 609 Parsis, whereas in Karnataka, there are 443. Some of the Prominent Parsis from India are Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata – founder of the Tata group, Homi Jehangir Bhabha – renowned Indian physicist, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw – former Chief of the Army Staff, Ardeshir Godrej – Founder of the Godrej Group of companies, Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla – founder of the Serum Institute of India.
Rajkumar Sharma, one of the witnesses of the Kanhaiya Lal beheading incident, is currently living in anonymity due to fear. Rajkumar Sharma’s family members, while talking to the media, have asked for help from the government. Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu tailor in Udaipur, was beheaded by two Islamists on 28th June 2022 for a social media post supporting the former spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party Nupur Sharma.
In an interaction with The New Indian, Rajkumar Sharma’s wife told, “We thought that it is our duty to ensure that this thing never happens with anyone else again. This is why we are cooperating with the government. All I wish is that my husband gets to do a job in a safer place. Government should help us for financial and security purposes. I request you to convey our request to the government. I cannot tell the government and the chief minister directly. Otherwise, I would go there and urge them to help us. Therefore, I am asking them for help. We have cooperated with the government and we expect help from the government in return. So, please take our voice to the government or please tell me the address and contact details of the chief minister so that I can tell him the same.”
Heart Wrenching: #Udaipur witness Rajkumar living in anonymity, can’t step out of home due to fear.
Will they always live like this after Jun 28 barbarsim?@Anand_Journ & @SumitKumar9900 reach their home Babelo Ki Shehri
Rajkumar Sharma used to work in Kanhaiya Lal’s shop. He was present in the shop when the murderers attacked. Rajkumar Sharma provided the details of the brutal attack as he spoke to the media. Rajkumar Sharma and Ishwar Gaud are the two eyewitnesses to the incident. Right now, he is forced to live in anonymity as he fears that he will be attacked by some Islamists in a similar manner. Rajkumar Sharma is not stepping out of his home due to fear. Another eyewitness Ishwar Gaud is injured as he tried to save the deceased Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal.
On the 1st of July, ex-spokesperson for BJP Nupur Sharma approached the Supreme Court to save her life. All she wanted was for multiple FIRs filed against her to be clubbed, so she does not have to travel from city to city in order to cooperate with the investigation against her. Her argument? She has been getting death and rape threats constantly and owing to security concerns, it would be dangerous for her to travel.
She did not refuse to cooperate with the investigation. She did not tell the Supreme Court to quash the FIRs against her. She merely wanted her life not be endangered in the process of the investigation.
The Judges of the Supreme Court made shocking observations while refusing to grant her request. She was mocked for being under threat when the Judges asked her if she was under threat or had she become a threat, she was the recipient of sarcasm when the Judges remarked “they must be red carpeting you” to her lawyer saying she was cooperating with the investigation and worst of all, the Judges held her “loose tongue” responsible for the beheading of Kanhaiya Lal by Islamists. Why was Kanhaiya Lal beheaded? Because he supported Nupur Sharma.
The observations by the Judges while dispensing the case did not make it to the written order making these remarks their personal opinions and not the opinions of the Supreme Court – the institution.
OpIndia, on its part, criticised the observations by the Judges, as it should have. As the Editor-in-Chief, I wrote an article where I questioned the Judges, asking them if they would blame the “loose tongues” of their fellow Judges for the threats they receive by Islamists after pronouncing the judgements in certain cases – The Ram Janmabhoomi case, the Hijab verdict, the Gyanvapi case, to cite a few examples.
It should be kept in mind that one of the Judges who made these remarks had earlier pulled up security agencies for not doing enough when Judges are at the receiving end of threats – this is the same Judge who dismissed the threats that Nupur Sharma was receiving.
In another report, we wrote that the Judges had emboldened Islamists. Our earlier headline had said that the Supreme Court had spoken the language of Islamists but once the observations did not make it to the written order, we had to change it and criticise the Judges specifically and not the Supreme Court.
TMC leader Saket Gokhale, who has taken donation money from unsuspecting Muslims to fund his own lifestyle, took offence. Today, he wrote a letter to the Attorney General of India, demanding that criminal contempt charges be brought against OpIndia and me, as the editor-in-chief of the platform and author of the article, because we lowered the majesty of the Supreme Court.
These are the tweets in question by OpIndia which had articles by their editor Nupur J Sharma using extremely vile remarks for the Hon’ble Supreme Court & making shocking insinuations that the court encourages beheadings and twisting the oral observations in the Nupur Sharma case pic.twitter.com/nPlA15aIt1
Saket Gokhale claims that we insulted the Supreme Court and “twisted” its observations in the Nupur Sharma case. He is, of course, just saying this. He wants to go after OpIndia and prove a point – when the Judges decide in our favour, they absolutely cannot be criticised.
While we should be terribly worried about the contempt proceedings and what happens if the AG accepts the demands of Saket Gokhale, I write this article today to say, with utmost conviction – We did no wrong and this is a hill I am gladly willing to die on.
First and foremost, the Judges, in this case, extended their brief when they made these observations. They proclaimed Nupur Sharma as guilty in a case where they had no jurisdiction to go into the merits of the case at all. They had to decide if there is sufficient threat against her for the FIRs to be clubbed – as they have done before in the case of Kamlesh Tiwari. Legally, the comments were unnecessary and against their brief. Retired Judge, SN Dhingra, has himself slammed the Judges for their “political comments”.
Retired high court judge SN Dhingra said, “Supreme Court has apparently said that Nupur Sharma was high on the power she had as a member of the ruling party and she carelessly went on to make those comments. As per my conscience, the same things also apply to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court itself cannot hold anyone guilty without any investigation. The case was put in front of the Supreme Court only for transferring the FIRs and not for proving any charges against her. I don’t understand how the Supreme Court can make such oral observations? If the Supreme Court had guts, it would have given those comments as a part of the written order. The Supreme Court has only written in the order that the petition is dismissed as withdrawn. Why? Why did the court not include its comments in the written order so that the Supreme Court could be held answerable to the questions like – how is it righteous of you to consider her guilty without any trial of the case, to become a prosecutor yourself, to charge the accused on your own, and declare her guilty only to deliver your judgment orally?”
This absolute shock was not only expressed by SN Dhingra but the public at large. Average citizens who have reposed their faith in the legal system time and again felt dejected and infuriated by these “political comments” by “judges drunk on power” (SN Dhingra’s words, not mine).
Here are some samples:
Appalling observation by the SC. In a democracy I can question Lord Ram as much as I can question the Prophet. Argue, debate Nupur Sharma’s comments in a civilized manner, but by no means can you justify the frigging beheading of a man! This sadly will enable more fanatics. https://t.co/tWh3u1BeTP
What Justice Kant uttered today is no less than ‘Sar Tan Se juda’ slogan. If anything happens to @NupurSharmaBJP SC will be the sole responsible institution for such unmindful observation
She should never apologize for speaking the truth about #Muhammad. She is not responsible for Udaipur. Radical intolerant jihadi Muslims are responsible and nobody else.
And these are just samples. One can cite millions of such tweets expressing absolute shock and dismay at the conduct of the Judges. The support that accrued for these observations, unironically, came from the Taliban.
Taliban Spokesperson supporting Judge’s comments on Nupur Sharma
Is it the contention that I have to agree with arguments that the Taliban agrees with simply because they came from two Judges? As a journalist and a woman who has watched another woman be thrown to the wolves by all and sundry, I refuse to submit and I refuse to “behave”.
The upside of this petition by Saket Gokhale is that at least, fundamentalist allies like him have essentially admitted that Islamism is a bad thing. If they believe us saying that the Judges spoke the language of Islamists and that, according to him, is liable for contempt, then he also admits that Islamism should be condemned. I will take that small victory that he and his supporters unwittingly delivered to us.
The other upside to this is we will finally find out if the Courts are willing to treat a Nupur Sharma and a Prashant Bhushan equally. I am but a dispensable cog in the system and an average citizen who picked up her pen because others had sold theirs. I am no Prashant Bhushan who can get the courts to open their doors at 12 AM for a convicted terrorist. The lower court has in the past treated Hindus and Muslims differently, I would hope and pray that the Supreme Court treats Prashant Bhushan and a dispensable journalist the same as well. We will find out, at least. That is a small victory I am also willing to accept as a consequence of Saket Gokhale’s letter to the AG.
Let me state my position as clearly as I possibly can without going into the merits of Nupur Sharma’s case because that is not the purpose of this article. A woman is being told that she will soon be beheaded. She is being told that Islamists will find her and gang-rape her. She is being told that she will be chopped into pieces and thrown in the gutter. The ones issuing these threats have proved that they will act upon it – they beheaded Kanhaiya Lal for supporting Nupur Sharma, they beheaded Umesh Kohli for supporting her and have rioted on the streets demanding “Sar Tan Se Juda”. The Judges, in this case, provided sanctity to the offence that allows them to murder by saying Nupur Sharma was responsible for Kanhaiya Lal’s murder, thereby almost exonerating the Islamists and their religious hate that led to the murder. I, as a journalist and a woman, will not stand quietly. I, as a journalist and a woman, stand by every word I have written against the observations of the Supreme Court. If contempt charges are brought against me – I will fight them. If Bharat, this ancient civilisation, can bring itself to have a discussion around the restraint that Judges should exercise in making unnecessary comments because of my “loose tongue”, so be it. Bring it on.
Son of former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, and a former minister in the Maharashtra cabinet, Aaditya Thackeray has questioned the security provided to the Shiv Sena MLAs from the current Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s camp. All the MLAs from the Shinde camp were brought to the Maharashtra Assembly under tight protection ahead of the election for the post of assembly speaker.
“What are you scared of? That some of your MLAs may run away? Why so much fear?” Aaditya Thackeray said ahead of the election which was won by NJP’s Rahul Narvekar to become the new speaker of the Maharashtra assembly.
Thackeray said that even Ajmal Kasab, the perpetrator of the deadly 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai wasn’t provided so much security in Mumbai after his arrest.
The newly formed Shiv Sena-BJP government is now set to face the floor test on the 4th of July to prove its majority.
Threats to MLAs from Eknath Shinde camp
Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP and Usshav Thackeray loyalist Sanjay Raut had issued a series of implicit threats against the ‘rebel’ Shiv Sena MLAs after they had left for Guwahati.
Speaking to ANI a few days ago, Raut had said, “The (Eknath Shinde) faction that’s challenging us must realise that Shiv Sena workers are yet to come on the roads. Such battles are fought either through law or on the roads. If need be then our workers would come on the roads.”
In another statement to NDTV, Sanjay Raut had directly threatened the rebel MLAs with street violence. When he was questioned about the future of Uddhav Thackeray as chief minister, he stated, “Let all the MLAs come to the floor of the House. We will see then. These MLAs who have left… will ultimately have to come back to Maharashtra. They will find it difficult to return and move around in Maharashtra.”
On July 2, Kerala police arrested former Poonjar MLA and senior Kerala leader PC George after an accused in a solar panel scam accused him of sexual harassment in a complaint. Earlier, PC George was arrested for giving a statement where he claimed Hindus are given neuter drugs in Muslim hotels. However, later he was released on bail.
Kerala | Case registered against ex-MLA PC George on charges of sexual harassment & outraging modesty. The complainant is also accused in a scam case. Case registered under IPC sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty)& 354 A
George was arrested by the Cantonment Police from a guest house in Thiruvananthapuram. He was being questioned by the Crime Branch of Kerala Police in connection to the defamation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the Gold Smuggling Case by the primary accused, Swapna Suresh.
He then approached court for bail, and he was granted bail by a Magisterial court in the city. The court approved the bail on the condition that he will cooperate with the investigation.
George was booked under Sections 354 and 354A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The complaint was lodged by a person named KT Jalil. In his complaint, Jalil alleged that Suresh and George wanted to tarnish the image of CM Vijayan and levelled false allegations against him.
OnManorama said in a report that the investigating officers questioned PC George after Sarita S Nair said in a statement that he had forced her to make the revelations.
It has been alleged that George had called the woman to a guest house in Thycaud on February 10, 2022, and sexually assaulted her. The woman, in her complaint, alleged that George provided her wrong information. He was then called by the Police for questioning at Thycaud’s guest house for alleged conspiracy against the government.
On the day Swapna Suresh made the allegations against CM, an audio clip of a conversation between George and the complainant also surfaced. As per the complainant, the incident and that conversation took place on the same day.
Swapna Suresh, who is facing charges in a gold smuggling case, had accused CM Vijayan of giving her a bag full of currency notes in Dubai in 2016. She had alleged that CM had forgotten to take a bag, and it was sent to the CM via a diplomat in the consulate. When the bag was brought to the embassy, it was full of currency notes.
‘Hindus are given impotancy-inducing medicine at Muslim hotels’
In May 2022, PC George was arrested by the Police for alleging that Hindus are given neuter drugs at Muslim-owned restaurants and hotels. He also appealed to boycott Muslims. A case was registered under Section 295A of the IPC against him on April 30, 2022, following which he was arrested from his house.
George has said that the people from the Muslim community start businesses in non-Muslim areas and earn money from them. George had appealed to people to boycott Muslim businesses. He said, “Muslims spit thrice in food. Their Maulana says that spit is perfume. Why should we eat their food?”
He further asked people to avoid eating at Muslim restaurants as they use “impotence-inducing drops” in foot items that would make Hindu men impotent and Hindu women infertile. He claimed that the Muslims were trying to take over the country. He also urged Hindus and Christians to have at least four children.
Ever since the abhorrent calls for beheading by Islamists over their perceived ‘blasphemy’ in ‘gustakhi of their Nabi’ are being normalised, now even by the highest institute of judiciary in India, albeit indirectly, this false equivalence is being brought up by some radicals.
Earlier, the same bunch of zombies have tried to paint Jai Shri Ram as a ‘war cry’ and ‘hate speech’, most likely because of the way how ‘Allahu Akbar’ could send chills down anyone’s spine, especially in crowded malls, planes because we know someone nearby is likely to blow himself/herself off. I agree, terrorism has no religion. It is just that some misguided children decide to blow self, public property and airplanes in name of religion which almost always has been single source in recent times.
Since in recent cases of beheading, killing of Hindu men for merely extending support to ex-BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, cannot be spinned as ‘killed after forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram”, the usual suspects have tried to compare the 2nd most terrifying chant after ‘Allahu Akbar’, ‘Sar tan se juda’ to ‘goli maaro saalo ko’.
Now, let me explain the ‘goli maaro saalo ko’ slogan that has been riling up the ‘liberals’ since 2019 anti-CAA violence where those nationalists who put India first demanded the traitors be shot dead. Demanding capital punishment for traitors, who sell their country for peanuts, sometimes in violation of FCRA and other laws of the land by taking money from countries like Pakistan which may not have the best interest for India in mind, is not wrong. As long as none of those chanting and demanding punishment picks up gun and shoots one of them.
This makes total sense because that is exactly how the ‘liberal’ jamaat has been justifying Islamist propaganda outlet Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair’s dogwhistling against ex-BJP spokie Nupur Sharma.
Zubair isn’t responsible
‘Goli maaro saalo ko’ is a rhetorical statement. It means how the judiciary must take strict action against the traitors and execute them. While now they are hanged till death, at one point in human history, convicts were also put before firing squad. Since in India it is not there, it is clearly a rhetorical slogan.
Much like ‘Tilak, taraju aur talwar, unko maaro joote chaar’ – the political slogan raised by respected Dalit leader Mayawati asking people to beat up Brahmins, Banias and Kshatriyas (upper caste, so to say) people.
So just as Mayawati did not literally mean Brahmins be beaten up, ‘goli maaro saalo ko’ does not literally mean public execution of traitors. It is just judicial process be undertaken and they be given strict punishment.
So, if Zubair isn’t responsible for zombies baying for Nupur Sharma’s blood calling for her beheading *AND* killing even those who support her, those who call for strict punishment for traitors shouldn’t be responsible when terrorists are hanged.
However, ‘sar tan se juda’ slogan (full chant – Gustakh-e-Nabi ki ek hi saza, sar tan se juda, sar tan se juda) does call for literal beheading of the one who has ‘blasphemed’. If you have said anything that could hurt the religious feelings of ‘believers’, beheading is permitted by the Islamic law.
Further, if you ask any Islamist, they would quite likely say how Quran is above the constitution for them. Safdar Nagori, 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blast convict had quite infamously said the constitution holds no value for him and Quran is above all. A resident of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, 54-years-old Nagori was associated with the banned Islamic terrorist organization Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). He was the main conspirator of the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts.
After SIMI was banned, some members started other outfits like PFI and SIO and others and they have been at the forefront of raising hateful slogans against Hindus including demanding their beheading.
And, to make things abundantly clearer that the two slogans are not same, one can see how after ‘goli maaro saalo ko’, no one has really picked up guns and killed anyone, but after ‘sar tan se juda’ slogans were raised in recent controversy, at least three Hindus have been killed by Islamists for supporting a woman who had the audacity to do ‘gustakh-e-Nabi’.
So you see, you and I are not same. You believe Sharia above all. While I have full faith in judiciary and even though I may not agree with it many times, I will still abide by the law of the land, even if judiciary of secular India is more likely to hear urgent hearing of a terrorist than an average Hindu.
I will not go about wielding swords, knives and beheading people or blowing myself up in the name of Allah.
On July 3, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rahul Narwekar was elected as the speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly. Narwekar got 164 out of the total 288 votes. The voting was done by a headcount instead of ballot voting. During the process, every member of the Legislative assembly spoke up his/her name and number in support of the candidate.
Interestingly, Samajwadi Party and All India Majlis e Ittihadul Muslimin (AIMIM) abstained from voting during this process. Samajwadi Party has two MLAs in the assembly, while AIMIM has one MLA.
BJP has 106 MLAs in the house. It is supported by 7 other independent MLAs. Eknath Shinde camp has 49 MLAs in the house, out of which 39 are ‘rebel’ Shiv Sena MLAs. Hitendra Thakur, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi MLA from Vasai, and MNS MLA Raju Patil also voted for Rahul Narwekar. Maha Vikas Aghadi candidate Rajan Salvi secured 107 votes.
Out of 288 MLAs in the Maharashtra state assembly, Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh of the Nationalist Congress Party are currently in jail so they didn’t appear for voting while one Shiv Sena MLA passed away recently. This reduced the assembly to 285 members. Out of the MLAs present in the house, 164 voted for Rahul Narwekar, 107 voted for Rajan Salvi while 3 of them abstained.
Rahul Narvekar is Bharatiya Janata Party’s MLA from the Colaba constituency in Mumbai. Before joining BJP, he was part of Shiv Sena for 15 years and NCP for around five years. In 2019, he joined BJP just before the state elections.
45-years-old Narvekar comes from a political family. His father, Suresh Narvekar, was a municipal councilor from Colaba, and his brother Makarand Narvekar is currently serving as a municipal councilor from the same seat. His father-in-law Ramraje Naik-Nimbalkar is an NCP leader. He is currently serving as chairman and speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. In the 2019 state elections, he won the assembly seat with a margin of over 15,000 votes and defeated Ashok Jagtap of Congress.
