A government school teacher in Bihar’s Supaul district was arrested and sent to judicial custody after allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans during a Republic Day event. The incident sparked local protests, leading to a police FIR and a departmental inquiry by the Education Department.
Current opposition to Vande Mataram reflects long-standing communal objections that once shaped Congress decisions, revealing how religious sensitivities still determine cultural boundaries and revive ideological tensions that historically empowered separatist politics and weakened India’s civilisational cohesion.
Ironically, Rehmat Ali Khan, who so vehemently vouched for a separate Muslim nation which was supposed to be the dreamland of the Muslims of British India, could not get a piece of land in that Muslim dreamland even for his grave.
The Baloch Republican Army fighters entered Gwadar in Balochistan posing as tourists and planted a bomb beneath the statue of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, as per reports.