{"id":223913,"date":"2023-09-09T01:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=223913"},"modified":"2023-09-09T02:06:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T20:36:22","slug":"tn-triggers-nda-india-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/09\/09\/tn-triggers-nda-india-row\/","title":{"rendered":"TN triggers nda-India row"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanatan Dharma<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Insaf<\/strong><\/p>\n

DMK\u2019s minister and Chief Minister Stalin\u2019s son Udhayanidhi has raised a big political storm. By declaring that Sanatan Dharma is against equality and social justice, and it \u2018must be eradicated, like dengue, mosquitoes, malaria and corona\u2019, he has given the BJP not just a handle to hit at the southern party, but INDIA bloc as well. Expectedly, Prime Minister Modi seized the opportunity and asked his Council of Ministers to get proactive to expose and refute such statements. The BJP\u2019s IT cell tweeted \u2018observations (Udhayanidhi\u2019s)were akin to calling for genocide of 80% of nation\u2019s population\u2019. It didn\u2019t stop DMK\u2019s leader A Rajato up the ante and he equatedSanatan Dharmawith more dreaded diseases like \u2018leprosy and HIV\u2019.More pot shots flew with MK Stalin clarifying his son\u2019s comments were against \u2018inhuman principles\u2019being preached andaccused BJP of being \u2018desperate\u2019 to create division in INDIA bloc.
\nNot wrong, as the statement would put the bloc on the back foot. For starters, Congress reacted: \u2018neither the Constitution allows this, nor the party believes in any of thesecomments.\u2019 But asserted every single member of INDIA alliance has immense respect for all faiths, communities and beliefs. Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray group has disapproved the remarks by Udhayanidhi saying \u201cit is not right to attract the anger of the entire country and that no one agrees with his statement.\u201d AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal said: \u201cI am from Sanatan Dharma. Many of you also belong to Sanatan Dharma. I feel we should respect each other\u2019s religion and not speak wrong against it. It is not right. Everyone should respect each other\u2019s religion.\u201d The row is promising to get hotter on the political front, but Tamil Nadu needs to deal with it legally. A petition is filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction for registration of an FIR against Udhayanidhi and Raja and a contempt notice against Delhi and Chennai police, accusing them of not implementing its directions on hate speech. Worth a watch.<\/p>\n

Ladakh Polls
\nFarooq Abdullah\u2019s National Conference has good reason to be on a high and the Ladakh administration on a low. On Wednesday last, the Supreme Court set aside the latter\u2019s August 5 notification for elections to the 30-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Kargil, imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on it and ordered issuance of a fresh poll schedule within a week. This after the apex court dismissed the UT administration\u2019s plea against a single bench order allowing NC candidates to contest on the party symbol \u2018plough\u2019 saying NC is entitled to it. A stubborn administration had also refused to abide by J&K and Ladakh High Court upholding the single bench order, which had directed NC to approach the poll department to notify the \u2018plough\u2019 already allotted to it. The administration claimed the erstwhile state of J&K had been bifurcated into two UTs and NC was thus not a State party. However, SC disagreed saying: While the \u2018general principle\u2019, is Constitutional courts don\u2019t intervene once an election process is set in motion, they may be \u2018duty-bound\u2019 to do so \u2018where issues crop up, indicating unjust executive action or an attempt to disturb a level-playing field between candidates and\/or political parties with no justifiable or intelligible basis\u2026 elections to any office\/body are required to be free, fair and transparent. Elections lie at the core of democracy. The authority entrusted by law to hold\/conduct such elections is to be completely independent of any extraneous influence\/consideration\u201d. The Ladakh administration must do what is asked and stop playing ducks and drakes.<\/p>\n

Bengal Day
\nWest Bengal will have its own State Day, whether the Centre and its Governor likes it or not. On Thursday last, the Assembly passed a resolution to observe Polia Baisakh, Bengali New Year Day, as \u2018Bangla Diwas\u2019, with 167 members voting in favour (73%) and 62 BJP MLAs against. A determined Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said: \u201cI support the proposal of making Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s\u00a0Banglar Mati Banglar Jol\u00a0(Bengal\u2019s soil, Bengal\u2019s water) the official song of Bengal. People of Bengal don\u2019t support June 20which is synonymous with violence and bloodshed which marked partition as the state foundation day.\u201d (That day in 1947, is centre\u2019s choice as MLAs from western part of Bengal voted for partition of the province).Noting there\u2019s never been any precedence of observing June 20 as foundation day, she insisted it must be opposed and therefore the resolution. Clearly, the BJP, Congress and CPM boycotting the all-party meeting called last month to discuss the issue didn\u2019t count. To BJPLoP\u2019s reaction that Governor Bose won\u2019t give assent to the resolution, Mamata said it doesn\u2019t require his nod, as only a bill passed by Assembly does. We will just send a copy of the resolution to Raj Bhavan (for information) and we will observe this day!\u2019 The battle continues.<\/p>\n

Maha Quota Stir
\nMaharashtra is yet again bitten by the reservation bug. Giving the Opposition a new opportunity to hit out at Ekanth Shinde government over handling of the protests. The government\u2019s appeal to protestors led by Manoj Jarange Patil, local leader from Jalna, demanding reservation for Marathas, is falling on deaf ears so far. On Thursday last, Patil affirmed his hunger strike (since August 29) will continue till government relaxes the condition seeking \u2018genealogical records\u2019 for a Kunbi caste certificate from Nizam-era in the General Resolution (GR)issued a day earlier to get them on board. He demanded the document be issued to all Marathas without discrimination.Reasoning: \u201cNone of us have any such documents. If we did, there was no need for this GR. Corrections need to be made and we shall call off the strike.\u201dRecall, Marathwada was part of erstwhile Nizam-ruled Hyderabad kingdom before it became part of Maharashtra.The government is clearly under pressure as other than finding ways and means tofulfil Shinde\u2019s assurance to Maratha community that he will work towards getting them reservation in government jobs and education, it has to deal with Maratha outfits and Opposition parties demand for Dy Chief Minister Fadnavis\u2019s resignation over the brutal police lathi charge on protestors last week. With that a clear no-go, Patil and team have been urged to come to Mumbai for further talks and that with legal experts the matter shall be discussed \u2018thoroughly.\u2019 Fingers are obviously going to be kept crossed.<\/p>\n

Manipur Facts Or Fiction
\nEssential supplies of food and medicine has got Manipur embroiled in an unsavoury controversy. On one hand, BJP-led government claims in Supreme Court the State faces no dearth of these, whereas counsel for its 3-member committee to oversee relief and rehabilitation of victims of ethnic violence says people were suffering due to economic blockade, following \u2018All Tribal Students Union\u2019s call to block 3 major highways. It\u2019s untrue and \u2018unfortunate\u2019 the Court\u2019s platform is being \u2018misutilised\u2019 said chief Secretary adding claims of counsel and other applicants\/petitioners were \u2018without any factual basis.\u2019 This as \u2018essential supplies were being air-dropped, daily reviews conducted with district administration, additional security personnel deployed along NH-37 to ensure unhindered movement of convoys, instructions given to sell essential items as subsidised prices,\u2019 et al. Upset over the \u2018direct attack\u2019 on her, the counsel sought to recuse herself from appearing for the committee, as her statements \u2018were only on committee\u2019s instructions.\u2019 But the court was firm \u2018counsel appearing before court do so as its officers and are responsible to this court.\u2019 That settled, the Biren Singh government better get its act together as protest and firing between security forces and armed men continue to be reported. Tension is far from eased. \u2014 INFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanatan Dharma By Insaf DMK\u2019s minister and Chief Minister Stalin\u2019s son Udhayanidhi has raised a big political storm. By declaring that Sanatan Dharma is against equality and social justice, and it \u2018must be eradicated, like dengue, mosquitoes, malaria and corona\u2019, he has given the BJP not just a handle to hit at the southern party, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-223913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-features"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}