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Manmohan Singh protests to PMO as Modi govt decides to reduce his staff size from 14 to 5

Former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh has written an angry letter to the Prime Minister’s Office and Home Minister Amit Shah after the centre followed the existing rules to turn down a request from former PM to retain his full 14-member staff.

According to the reports, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to allow him to retain his 14-member staff. As per the rules, former PMs receive rent-free accommodation for the rest of their life, medical facilities, 14 secretarial staff, six domestic executive-class air tickets, unlimited train travel, five years of office expenses along with SPG cover for one year and free electricity and water for life.

However, after five years, the Centre can reconsider whether it wants to give further re-extension to such allowances. Following the existing provisions, the NDA government had decided to reduce the size of personal staff support to 5 from 14. The five staffers include two personal assistants, one lower division clerk and two peons.

In a letter dated May 26, the PMO had informed Singh about the government’s decision to reduce the size of his staff.

Earlier, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh enjoyed full service of 14 staffs, which included officers of the level of director, under-secretary and deputy secretary, besides personal assistants and peons. It should be noted that the former PMs are entitled to full staff strength only for the first five years.

Interestingly, the Vajpayee government had permitted PV Narasimha Rao and Indra Kumar Gujral to expand their staff as per their need. The UPA government had returned the courtesy by allowing Atal Bihari Vajpayee to retain full staff which was later reduced to 12 after the late BJP leader expressed his willingness to cut down the staff size.

The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019 passed in Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha today passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment Bill), 2019. Union Home Minister Amit Shah today morning moved the J&K Reservation (Amendment Bill) in the Lok Sabha and had said that this bill is not to please anyone but for those living near the International Border.

The new bill seeks to replace the existing Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019.

The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019 amends the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004, which provides for reservation in appointment and admission in professional institutions for persons belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and socially and educationally backward classes.

The original Act provided for reservation in appointment to state government posts to persons belonging to socially and educationally backward classes. The Act defined socially and educationally backward classes to include persons living in areas adjoining the Actual Line of Control. The amendment will bring changes to the Act to include those persons living in areas adjoining International Border, within the ambit of this reservation making them par with people living near LoC.

Further, the Act states that any person who has been appointed on the basis of residence in an area adjoining the Line of Control must serve in such areas for at least seven years. The new bill extends this condition to persons living in areas adjoining the International Border as well.

The bill is also aimed at replacing the ordinance to provide 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections in Jammu and Kashmir. The passing of the bill in parliament will pave the way for reserving state government jobs to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir who are from economically weaker sections belonging to any religion or caste.

The 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections was introduced in rest of the country through the 103rd Constitution Amendment in January 2019.

In the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, BJP President Amit Shah had asserted that the BJP government would scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which allows Jammu and Kashmir to have its own constitution, flag as well as the right to implement its own laws, except on issues that pertain to national security.

Apart from that, the BJP had also emphasised in its manifesto that it will also scrap Article 35 which allows the Jammu and Kashmir legislature to define permanent residents of the state and permits the J-K government to exclude outsiders from owning property and availing the benefits from the government.

ED summons Congress minister in Halal investment group scam, attaches IMA property worth over Rs 200 crores

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress MLA and sitting minister in Karnataka BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan in the IMA Ponzi scam case. He has been alleged to have received the funds from accused Mansoor Khan, who has fled the country fearing death from the hands of influential and well-connected people in India.


As per the reports, there are other sitting MLAs named in the investigation who can be summoned by the ED as well. The Congress government in Karnataka had given this whole IMA Ponzi Scam a clean chit in January this year, despite alarms indicating that a scam was brewing. The preliminary investigation points towards the involvement of HDK cabinet ministers in the IMA Ponzi Scam.

Many ministers of Karnataka government are alleged to have been beneficiaries of this Rs 5000 crore scam in which over 50,000 investors were duped. Earlier this month, 7 of the IMA Jewels were arrested by the Karnataka police.

Enforcement Directorate has also initiated action against IMA Group and its Managing Director, Mohammed Mansoor Khan and has attached 20 immovable properties and bank accounts amounting to Rs 209 Crore under Prevention of Money Laundering Act(PMLA).


The founder and managing director of IMA jewels, Mohammad Mansoor Khan had suddenly gone missing on June 11, after an audio clip where he claimed he is ending his life due to financial distress went viral. Following this, many investors went to Khan’s office only to find it shut.

Moreover, in the audio clip released then, Khan accused senior Congress MLA Roshan Baig of arm twisting and refusing to return the Rs 400 crore which he had allegedly taken after he failed to get a Lok Sabha ticket for the recently concluded elections. Khan has also contended that he is being constantly hounded by many politicians and government officers who had taken money from him.

In his video-recorded message to Bengaluru commissioner Alok Kumar, Mansoor Khan asserted that he was ready to return to India and expose those responsible for the downfall of his business venture. Khan stated that because the actual culprits behind the scam are “big names at the state and central levels”, there was every possibility of him being killed as soon as he sets foot in India.

Recently, there were reports that the RBI had in a 2018 letter revealed the inaction of the JD(S)-Congress led Karnataka government against IMA jewels. The RBI had reportedly written a letter in November 2018 directing the Karnataka state government to launch an investigation into IMA jewels, a ‘halal’ investment group. However, the Karnataka Congress-JDS government ignored RBI warning and did not act against the ‘halal’ investment group.

The IMA group promised its investor that it is investing in businesses that are sanctioned as ‘halal’ under Sharia law. For instance, the ‘Sharia’ reportedly does not permit investments in companies that deal with banking and insurance, pork, gambling or entertainment.

No, The Dalai Lama is not a ‘Racist’ or ‘Islamophobe’ for defying the Multicultural Doctrine

In a recent interview with the BBC, the Dalai Lama has reiterated that Europe should belong to Europeans and that the larger strategic objective should be to return the Muslim and African refugees to their own lands after providing them with adequate training so that they can improve affairs in their own countries.


“A limited number is OK, but the whole of Europe eventually become a Muslim country? Impossible. Or an African country? Also impossible,” the 83-year-old Spiritual leader told the BBC in the interview published on Thursday. He stated, ‘European countries should take these refugees and give them education and training, and the aim is – return to their own land with certain skills.’

As expected, the Dalai Lama has been branded ‘racist’, ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘Xenophobic’ by people from expected quarters.


While the Left is pretending as if the sky has come crashing down, the opinions voiced by the Dalai Lama would have been considered perfectly normal by people throughout the history of the human civilization barring the past 10 or 15 years. He wasn’t saying anything outrageous or out of the ordinary.

The central theme of his opinions around the issue of migration revolves around the inability of Multiculturalism to be a viable alternative. Events of the past decade and a few years before that has demonstrated comprehensively that Multiculturalism just does not work. It leads to chaos, anarchy and a breakdown of law and order in the country.

That Western intellectuals and liberals are labelling the Dalai Lama racist over these comments only shows how far towards the Left western society has moved in a very short period of time. The Refugee Crisis in Europe has only aggravated the fault lines within European society that already existed prior to that. It has led to prominence political leaders who promise to deal with Islam with an iron hand. And as a direct consequence, the threat of terrorism has never been greater.

There’s also the fact that a significant percentage of these migrants have dual loyalties. A lot of them are not grateful to the European countries for taking them in and merely looking to take advantage of the benefits Europeans are offering them. A lot of them also travelled all the way to Europe with the explicit intent of conquering the lands in the name of Allah.

Consequently, crime rates have increased immensely and the administration and law enforcement authorities appear unwilling to enforce appropriate measures because they are too afraid to be called racists. All over the West, little girls are being sexually exploited by people who are predominantly Muslims and authorities have often been involved in a cover-up.

The migration of Muslims in Europe in large numbers has subsequently given rise to numerous vigilante groups, some of which do have Neo-Nazi inclinations. Groups such as Soldiers of Odin and Pegida appear non-racist on the face of it but others such as the Nordic Resistance Movement clearly have fascist inclinations.

More than that, the Christchurch Church attacks in New Zealand was clearly motivated by the Refugee Crisis. The White Terrorist himself was driven over the edge after the death of Ebba Akerlund, a partially deaf girl who was killed in a terror attack, on her way to meet her mother after school. Thus, it’s quite evident that Multiculturalism has triggered a two-way radicalization process.

The influx of people from very regressive cultures with extremely problematic worldviews, some of whom are terrorists or support terrorist organizations, has led to a situation where a significant section of the resident majority community is being radicalized at a furious pace. Some of them are even willing to commit physical acts of violence. Thus, it’s a communal tinderbox in Europe right now and the situation could deteriorate even further in a very short span of time.

In the United States of America as well, the rise of Donald Trump was fueled by entirely anti-illegal immigrant sentiments. Since then, there have been racist attacks committed both ways. Whites and Blacks, people from both sections of the community have been victims of hate crimes.

Therefore, clearly, the multicultural experiment has failed in catastrophic fashion and over the years, it has left the West much less safe than it was, perhaps, a couple of decades back. Dalai Lama is only speaking conventional wisdom here, he is being very compassionate when he says Europe should educate and train these people before sending them back.

If they are not, and it doesn’t seem they will be, Civil Wars in the near future and increased acts of terrorism appears extremely likely. People from different cultures don’t mix very well, it’s one of the fundamental basics of humanity. Individuals from diverse cultures can interact with each other without resorting to violence, however, when large groups of people from extremely different cultures are put in close proximity with the power dynamics thrown into the equation, as is inevitable in Democracies, conflict is destined to occur.

The Leftist solution to the problem of their own making is, of course, calling everyone who disagrees a ‘racist’ and a ‘Xenophobe’. According to them, the only reason why refugees cannot live in peace is their new homes is because there are racists within the majority community. Their analysis of circumstances are always uni-dimensional, therefore, they are unable to appreciate the complexities of human nature.

There are other important reasons why Europe has been forced to take in migrants. The falling birth-rates combined with the monstrous welfare states certainly contributed to the governments’ decision to import migrants from areas of high fertility. The crisis that Europe currently finds itself in is an inevitable consequence of the corrosion of religiosity caused by the invasion of the sacred by the culture of the Left.

It’s pretty obvious that no European government in the near future would follow the advice of the Dalai Lama. It appears pretty obvious that they are in no position to implement such measures. Europe is currently on a highway to hell and there doesn’t appear to be any way for them to opt out of the ride at this late hour.

Tulsi Gabbard might find the United State’s stance on religious freedom a joke

A new report—“Religious Persecution in the United States”–has burned Uncle Sam at the stake of religious discrimination on its land over the centuries. (The report has emerged in response to US acting chaste in condemning India in its Religious Freedom Report).

Hindus would be particularly distressed that Tulsi Gabbard, a Vaishnava Hindu and a devotee of Sri Krishna, seeking democratic nomination as a Presidential candidate in 2020, has been relentlessly attacked over her faith and ridiculed as one from the “Krishna cult.”

The report observes that it’s typical in the United States to demonize persons of Hindu origin as practising a “cult”, as has been the case over the decades with Hindu gurus who racked up millions of devotees in a short time and were thus seen a threat to the Protestant ethos of the land.

This year itself, Swaminarayan Temple in Kentucky was vandalized and black paint was sprayed on the deity as were the words on the wall: “Jesus is the only God.” In April 2015, a Hindu temple in north Texas met the same fate but the images sprayed were far nastier. The same year, two months earlier, Hindu temples in Kent and Seattle Metropolitan area was defaced and trashed.

The report notes with concern that anti-Hindu sentiments aren’t restricted to base and vile attacks from faceless bigots alone in the United States. Media mogul Pat Robertson calls Hinduism as “demonic”; Evangelical leader Albert Mohler insults the followers of Hindu faith as demonstrating “Satanic power.” Hindu prayers in the US Senate are disrupted by terming them as “abomination.”

The report also reminds the US State Department about “dot-busters”—a hate group in New Jersey alluding to “Bindis” on Hindu foreheads. Dotbusters had vowed to take all necessary step to drive Indians out of Jersey City.

The report terms the latest US censure against India as “unfounded” and wonders if it has anything to do with the “foreign funding” to NGOs being scrutinized and impounded by the Modi government, and “missionary” activities of its preachers being impeded.

The report also speculates if US rebuke against India has been nudged by the pro-Khalistan lobby in the United States and Canada who seek an independent country carved out of India and interestingly has no such demand on Pakistan which has under its control most of Punjab!!! It’s no secret that pro-Khalistani lobby “gifts” more than just goodwill to important political parties and members in the US Senate.

Lest it be taken as the work of a pro-Hindu lobby, the report cites the persecution of Japanese in the United States and it was much before the two came face to face during the Second World War. Laws were passed that openly discriminated against the Japanese. They were not allowed basic rights such as holding lands etc. Japanese were ridiculed as “yellow peril.” The New York Tribune found them “uncivilized, unclean and filthy beyond imagination.”

The report reminds the United States of its persecution even of its own brethren: In this case Catholic Christians. Since the time when the British Protestants took over the American colonies, Catholic Christians have faced persecution in the United States. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. has characterized the prejudice against the Catholics as “the deepest bias in the history of the American people.” Mob violence, burning of Catholic property, the killing of Catholics are too many to be recounted here. President John F. Kennedy, a catholic, knew of this prejudice and kept away from Catholic churches. He declared in 1960: “I am not a Catholic candidate for President. I am a Democrat candidate for President…I don’t speak for my Church…my Church don’t speak for me.”

The report concludes with a reprimand to the United States and advises it not to believe in its own propaganda of being a “melting pot” where everyone is free to practice his/her own religion. It advises the US to mind its own business as India would surely do its own.

I conclude this piece with the advisory that the Report condemning “Religious Persecution in the United States” has been prepared and published by my own good self. I take full responsibility for the facts mentioned above as do I accept with humility all the praise which is bound to come my way.

Congress leader Vikas Chaudhary had a criminal past, could have been killed due to personal enmity: Haryana CM ML Khattar

Reacting to Haryana Congress spokesperson Vikas Chaudhary’s murder yesterday, Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar said that he had a criminal past and anything could have been possible with him.


He said that Chaudhary had 13 FIRs registered against him. However, motive behind the murder could also be personal, he added. Khattar informed that police teams have been formed and assured that culprits won’t be spared.

Chaudhary was reportedly getting out of his gym in Faridabad last morning when he was shot dead by unknown assailants.

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim mob attacks Dalits inside a temple for playing bhajans on loudspeaker, six arrested

On Thursday night, a Muslim mob reportedly entered a temple in Ghasauli village, Meerut, and beat up a group of Dalit men who had put up loudspeakers in the temple for playing devotional songs. The Muslim community had objected to the loudspeaker on temple premises, which is near a mosque after the men from Dalit community put them up.

Later, the mob attacked the temple and beat up the Dalit men with lathis and sticks. They also reportedly attacked them with a sharp object and even started pelting stones. Over half a dozen people inside the temple were injured and the communal tensions escalated.

Police officials from nearby thana arrived on spot and controlled the situation before matters escalate. The injured were moved to a hospital and six people, Akram, his brothers Karim and Saddam, Zulfikar s/o Sayeed, Abdul Rahim Pudhh Nawabuddin and Arif s/o Riyazuddin were arrested.

As per reports, the initial police investigation has revealed that people from Muslim communities had attempted to spoil the atmosphere in the village by attacking Hindus on the pretext of loudspeakers.

A similar incident had taken place in Pilbhit, Uttar Pradesh when a mob had ransacked a temple to oppose loudspeakers. The mob broke the loudspeaker and took away the idols of the temple along with them. Five men – Mehboob, Monis, Israel, Azaad and Alanoor were arrested and a case has been registered for trying to create enmity between religious groups.

Similarly, in November last year, a 68-year-old priest of the Sai Baba temple Devulla Satyanarayana Sharma was attacked and killed by an Imam named Sayeed Sadhiq Hussain for playing devotional songs on loudspeakers at a local Shiva Sai temple in Pochamma Maidan, Warangal. Imam Sayeed Sadhiq Hussain threatened the Hindu priest to switch off the loudspeaker and thrashed the age-old Satyanarayana mercilessly when he had refused.

Kerala Catholic body issues diktat: No chanting of prayers, no idol worship, no embracing Hinduism while practising Yoga

Almost a week after the International Yoga Day, the Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) had issued a 27-page guideline to be followed by Christians while practising Yoga. The guidelines written in Malayalam was posted on its website.

The guidelines prepared by the Theology Commission of KCBC said, “though it may be claimed that it is secular, Christians must be vigilant against the fact that they should not be embracing another religion (Hinduism in this case) while practising meditation”. However, they have also suggested that Yoga could be practised for a peaceful mind.

The KCBC had warned Christians to beware that they might get attracted to Hinduism. The guidelines say that chanting prayers of other faiths and idol worship goes against the basic tenets of Christianity.

The guideline also read, “In Christianity, prayer is communication with God, rather than with the inner self. In yoga, however, one communicates with oneself and understands the depths of one’s mind. As per Christian faith, humble and unselfish acceptance of God’s will is the paramount facet of prayer. Christians practising yoga must never misunderstand that God can be brought to one’s bidding through meditation”.

Sr Infant Tresa, a Catholic nun, who runs a yoga centre at Muvattupuzha finds the guidelines to be unnecessary. She claimed that Yoga can be practised in a Christian way also. She started doing Yoga after having faced several health problems. She says that Yoga is a way to inner peace and she isn’t hesitant to chant the ‘Om’ mantra.

Last year the Syro-Malabar Church had been reported having demeaned the practice of yoga. Previously Rahul Gandhi had mocked insulted the dog unit of Indian army while trying to mock PM Narendra Modi on his Yoga Day initiative. Subsequently, an activist had filed a complaint against him for insulting the army.

The fifth International Yoga Day was celebrated on June 21, here are some visuals that have been captured. Yoga is a deep-rooted Hindu practice which several individuals have attempted to dissociate from.

44 accused in the Bulandshahr violence case to be charged with sedition

The Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh has given its permission to slap sedition charges on 44 persons accused of inciting violence in Chingravati area of Bulandshahr which claimed lives of two people, including that of one police personnel. A bloodthirsty mob had run riot in the region after locals had discovered carcasses of cows in the area.

According to the officials investigating the case, they had successfully secured the approval from the administration for slapping sedition charges under section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code against the 44 accused in the Syana violence. “On February 19th this year, we had officially sent a request asking for approval for placing sedition charges against the accused. Today, we have got the letter of approval and we have submitted it in the court,” officer involved in the investigation said.

On December 3rd last year, violence broke out in Bulandshahr after carcasses of cows were found in a field in Mahav village near Chingravati, Bulandshahr. Protesters had gathered outside a police station claiming that they had discovered carcasses of cows in their locality. Angered with police inaction even after repeated complaints, they clashed with the police. The protest turned violent where the police inspector Subodh Singh accidentally shot Sumit, a 17-year-old boy. Inspector Singh too died after he was shot at by the mob.

Amit Shah seeks report after BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya was seen thrashing a Municipal Corporation official with cricket bat

Union Home Minister, Amit Shah has sought a report after Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya was arrested for thrashing a municipal official in Indore with a cricket bat.

Sources said that the BJP chief wanted to know the exact sequence of events that transpired on June 26 leading to the arrest of the son of senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya, adding the party will take a call on what to do with the first-time MLA after “studying all the facts of the case”. The incident is hurting the party’s image, they said.

The Indore police had arrested senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya’s son Akash Vijayvargiya for attacking a Municipal Corporation official with a cricket bat in the city on Wednesday.

A First Information Report (FIR) had been registered against Akash and 10 others at MG Road police station in Indore under IPC 353, 294, 506, 147, 148, for assaulting and obstructing a public servant from performing his duties. Police have also recorded the statements of two civic body officials.

The BJP MLA was recorded thrashing a civic body official using a cricket bat who was in the Ganji Compound area to carry out an anti-encroachment drive. Akash along with his supporters chased the official. The incident took place in full public view including the presence of policemen and television crews.

Akash Vijayvargiya has been sent to jail till July 7 after his bail plea was denied. The arrest of the BJP MLA has let to national outrage. Posters supporting Akash Vijayvargiya appeared in parts of Indore which read, “Salute Akash ji”.


The posters were, however, later taken down by the Indore Municipal Corporation.

Moreover, BJP is also planning to hold a demonstration rally on Friday against the arrest of Akash Vijayvargiya in Indore.

After the incident, Akash had clarified, “I told them (the officials) to leave in 10 minutes and said we couldn’t tolerate it any longer. I am an elected representative. It is my responsibility to sort out the issues between the residents and the authorities. I was making every effort. But the civic body officials were indulging in dadagiri and weren’t listening to the people.”

He further added that civic body officers who went to the residential building during the anti-encroachment drive were not accompanied by any female officers. Alleging that officers dragged the women residents and verbally abused one of them, the BJP MLA added, “I was very angry. I don’t remember what all I did. Let’s see what happens.”

He had also alleged that Congress leader Sajjan Singh Verma had sent some anti-social elements to capture the building and the Municipal Corporation workers were helping the Congress leader in grabbing the building.