Lok Sabha passes Citizenship Bill amidst Opposition outcry
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I can validate your intellect too, provided you give sufficient evidence for it....
The face of protest, Barkha dutts new sensation made to apologize to the crowd in Malappuram district.... For what? She criticized Kerala CM..... So azaadi is only for breaking public property and criticizing Modi govt.....
Hypocrites at the highest order!!!!!
Hypocrites at the highest order!!!!!
ആസാദിയൊക്കെ കൊള്ളാം ; പിണറായിക്കെതിരെ മിണ്ടരുത് ; ജമ അത്തെ ഇസ്ലാമിയുടെ പരിപാടി ഇങ്ങോട്ട് വേണ്ടെന്ന് സി പി എമ്മുകാർ ; അയിഷ റെന്നെയെക്കൊണ്ട് മാപ്പ് പറയിച്ചു
Ignore vernacular....check video in link
Katju, Arundhati, Irfan Habib, Arfa, Ladeeda, the more unhinged you are, disconnected from real world, lost in your own delusions, more you are revered by followers, more intellectual you are, rest everyone have no right to even speak.Justice Katju enough said
And yeah Yogi waving from plane is actually more catastrophic for enlightened than Rahul celebrating birthday in plane while India imports wheat and thousands dies per day hungry.
That's liberalism in nutshell for you, right here. Whatever master did was right, hope master come back to power again and our payments start.
UP police accused of stripping cleric
Maulana’s 100-odd students detained and assaulted
A bedridden Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini, 66, both arms and both legs bandaged, “sobs in his sleep” and refuses to “show his face” to visiting relatives because, his family says, he cannot get over his humiliation by the police who stripped and tortured him in custody.
The police also detained and assaulted almost all the maulana’s 100-odd students from the Saadat hostel-cum-orphanage in Muzaffarnagar town, many of them minors and most of them orphans, local people said.
“The boys were denied access to the toilet at times, and some of them suffered rectal bleeding from the torture,” said Salman Saeed, local Congress politician and son of former MP Saiduzzaman Saeed, who lives nearby.
Maulana Asad, teacher at the Saadat Madarsa and caretaker of the orphanage, was beaten with a baton and dragged out of the hostel on December 20 afternoon after violence at an anti-citizenship act protest nearby.
He has told his family he was kept for over 24 hours in a dark room at the Civil Lines barracks, where he was stripped in the biting cold and beaten.
In an adjoining room, the students — aged 14 to 21 — were abused, thrashed with sticks through the night and forced to kneel against the wall, neighbours who spoke to the boys after their release said.
Some of the students were forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”, Saeed said.
Maulana Asad, widely respected in western Uttar Pradesh, was released on December 21, Saturday, under pressure from community leaders.
“On Saturday night, a cop called us to say the maulana would be released soon and asked us to bring his clothes. We were shocked and could not understand why he needed clothes,” a relative said, asking not to be named because he feared reprisal from the police.
“We carried a set of kurta-pyjamas to the Civil Lines barracks and handed it over to the cops. Half an hour later we saw him limping out of the police station, his arms around the shoulders of two cops. He could not lift his head and was in severe pain. We virtually carried him to the car and brought him home.”
Maulana Asad has injuries across his body, including all four of his legs and arms, the relative said.
“He was subjected to unimaginable cruelty and humiliation. He was not produced before a magistrate even after 24 hours in custody. Family members cried with him throughout Saturday night as he narrated his ordeal,” the relative said, his eyes welling up.
“He is mentally scarred. He told us the police made him wish he were dead. He was humiliated so much that he is refusing to show his face to relatives coming to see him. He sobs even in his sleep.”
When this correspondent reached Maulana Asad’s home near Meenakshi Chowk in Muzaffarnagar town, his family had initially refused to talk.
“We are terrified. The police have told us not to speak to anyone,” a family member said.
She said the entire Muslim community in the area was living in fear. “One does not know when they will raid our homes at night and vandalise them,” she said.
“You will write about us and return to Delhi but we have to live here with our children. We are living in a time when we cannot open our mouths and narrate our plight.”
Asked whether the family had met senior district officials to complain against the police, she shot back: “When the police and the government have become oppressors, who do we go to?”
The Telegraph tried to get in touch with senior police officials of the district but the calls were not answered. The newspaper spoke to a senior official who declined to comment on the allegations against the police.
Congress politician Saeed, who alleges the police vandalised his farmhouse and torched his cars after the December 20 protest, described the plight of the detained madarsa students.
“They were abused, deprived of sleep, starved of food and water at times, shackled and barred from using the toilet. The authorities did not allow lawyers to see them,” he said.
“Some of them were asked to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. The police have now released around 90 of the students, including all the minors, after three days of detention. They have arrested 10 students on charges of rioting. They are now in judicial custody.”
Saeed said the madarsa was now deserted as almost all the students had fled to homes of relatives and acquaintances in various parts of Uttar Pradesh.
Mohammed Sattar, an eyewitness from the locality, said the protesters had begun gathering at Meenakshi Chowk from 2pm on December 20, after namaz, at a spot less than 500 metres from the madarsa.
“It was a peaceful protest and the organisers were in constant touch with the police. As the protesters began dispersing around 3.45pm-4pm, stones suddenly began raining,” he said.
“Nobody knows who started it. People ran helter-skelter. There was arson when the police started a baton charge. We don’t know who set the police vehicles on fire.”
Sattar said the police then went on the rampage and started thrashing people and vandalising shops in the Muslim neighbourhood.
“Some of the protesters ran and hid inside the madarsa. A group of policemen then barged in, beat the students mercilessly and rounded up almost all of them,” Sattar said.
“They entered Maulana Asad’s room where he was resting after the prayers. Neither he nor the students had participated in the demonstration.”
Sattar said the police dragged the maulana out, beat him and the students, bundled them into a van and whisked them away.
After their release on December 23, many of the students were shaking all over, he said. “I have never seen anyone so frightened in my life.”
Saeed, the Congress politician, said the situation had been normal on December 27 after the Friday prayers.
He said the police were pressuring the family of Noor Mohammad, 26, a hawker, who died of a bullet injury during the December 20 protest at Meenakshi Chowk.
Noor died in police firing, alleged his elder brother Umar. He said the police had refused to accept a complaint from him and Noor’s wife Shanno, 19.
“When we went to the police station, the cops said the complaint would not be accepted. They told us that Noor had died of bullets fired by the protesters — which is completely false,” Umar, who said he was at the protest spot with his brother, asserted.
The day labourer accused BJP and RSS supporters of inciting and executing the violence.
He said: “The police have not given us the post-mortem report. They did not allow his body to be buried here, saying it would lead to a communal flare-up. The body was buried near Meerut. We are illiterate people and fear that the cops might frame me in a criminal case.”
Maulana’s 100-odd students detained and assaulted
A bedridden Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini, 66, both arms and both legs bandaged, “sobs in his sleep” and refuses to “show his face” to visiting relatives because, his family says, he cannot get over his humiliation by the police who stripped and tortured him in custody.
The police also detained and assaulted almost all the maulana’s 100-odd students from the Saadat hostel-cum-orphanage in Muzaffarnagar town, many of them minors and most of them orphans, local people said.
“The boys were denied access to the toilet at times, and some of them suffered rectal bleeding from the torture,” said Salman Saeed, local Congress politician and son of former MP Saiduzzaman Saeed, who lives nearby.
Maulana Asad, teacher at the Saadat Madarsa and caretaker of the orphanage, was beaten with a baton and dragged out of the hostel on December 20 afternoon after violence at an anti-citizenship act protest nearby.
He has told his family he was kept for over 24 hours in a dark room at the Civil Lines barracks, where he was stripped in the biting cold and beaten.
In an adjoining room, the students — aged 14 to 21 — were abused, thrashed with sticks through the night and forced to kneel against the wall, neighbours who spoke to the boys after their release said.
Some of the students were forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”, Saeed said.
Maulana Asad, widely respected in western Uttar Pradesh, was released on December 21, Saturday, under pressure from community leaders.
“On Saturday night, a cop called us to say the maulana would be released soon and asked us to bring his clothes. We were shocked and could not understand why he needed clothes,” a relative said, asking not to be named because he feared reprisal from the police.
“We carried a set of kurta-pyjamas to the Civil Lines barracks and handed it over to the cops. Half an hour later we saw him limping out of the police station, his arms around the shoulders of two cops. He could not lift his head and was in severe pain. We virtually carried him to the car and brought him home.”
Maulana Asad has injuries across his body, including all four of his legs and arms, the relative said.
“He was subjected to unimaginable cruelty and humiliation. He was not produced before a magistrate even after 24 hours in custody. Family members cried with him throughout Saturday night as he narrated his ordeal,” the relative said, his eyes welling up.
“He is mentally scarred. He told us the police made him wish he were dead. He was humiliated so much that he is refusing to show his face to relatives coming to see him. He sobs even in his sleep.”
When this correspondent reached Maulana Asad’s home near Meenakshi Chowk in Muzaffarnagar town, his family had initially refused to talk.
“We are terrified. The police have told us not to speak to anyone,” a family member said.
She said the entire Muslim community in the area was living in fear. “One does not know when they will raid our homes at night and vandalise them,” she said.
“You will write about us and return to Delhi but we have to live here with our children. We are living in a time when we cannot open our mouths and narrate our plight.”
Asked whether the family had met senior district officials to complain against the police, she shot back: “When the police and the government have become oppressors, who do we go to?”
The Telegraph tried to get in touch with senior police officials of the district but the calls were not answered. The newspaper spoke to a senior official who declined to comment on the allegations against the police.
Congress politician Saeed, who alleges the police vandalised his farmhouse and torched his cars after the December 20 protest, described the plight of the detained madarsa students.
“They were abused, deprived of sleep, starved of food and water at times, shackled and barred from using the toilet. The authorities did not allow lawyers to see them,” he said.
“Some of them were asked to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. The police have now released around 90 of the students, including all the minors, after three days of detention. They have arrested 10 students on charges of rioting. They are now in judicial custody.”
Saeed said the madarsa was now deserted as almost all the students had fled to homes of relatives and acquaintances in various parts of Uttar Pradesh.
Mohammed Sattar, an eyewitness from the locality, said the protesters had begun gathering at Meenakshi Chowk from 2pm on December 20, after namaz, at a spot less than 500 metres from the madarsa.
“It was a peaceful protest and the organisers were in constant touch with the police. As the protesters began dispersing around 3.45pm-4pm, stones suddenly began raining,” he said.
“Nobody knows who started it. People ran helter-skelter. There was arson when the police started a baton charge. We don’t know who set the police vehicles on fire.”
Sattar said the police then went on the rampage and started thrashing people and vandalising shops in the Muslim neighbourhood.
“Some of the protesters ran and hid inside the madarsa. A group of policemen then barged in, beat the students mercilessly and rounded up almost all of them,” Sattar said.
“They entered Maulana Asad’s room where he was resting after the prayers. Neither he nor the students had participated in the demonstration.”
Sattar said the police dragged the maulana out, beat him and the students, bundled them into a van and whisked them away.
After their release on December 23, many of the students were shaking all over, he said. “I have never seen anyone so frightened in my life.”
Saeed, the Congress politician, said the situation had been normal on December 27 after the Friday prayers.
He said the police were pressuring the family of Noor Mohammad, 26, a hawker, who died of a bullet injury during the December 20 protest at Meenakshi Chowk.
Noor died in police firing, alleged his elder brother Umar. He said the police had refused to accept a complaint from him and Noor’s wife Shanno, 19.
“When we went to the police station, the cops said the complaint would not be accepted. They told us that Noor had died of bullets fired by the protesters — which is completely false,” Umar, who said he was at the protest spot with his brother, asserted.
The day labourer accused BJP and RSS supporters of inciting and executing the violence.
He said: “The police have not given us the post-mortem report. They did not allow his body to be buried here, saying it would lead to a communal flare-up. The body was buried near Meerut. We are illiterate people and fear that the cops might frame me in a criminal case.”
We Are Witnessing a Rediscovery of India’s Republic
Indians protesting against a discriminatory citizenship law are using the Constitution as a rallying cry.
By Rohit De and Surabhi Ranganathan
Mr. De teaches history at Yale. Ms. Ranganathan teaches international law at University of Cambridge.
NEW DELHI — As India’s new citizenship law seeks to create a stratified citizenship based on religion, a large number of Indians opposing it are emerging as a people of one book, the country’s Constitution, which came into force on Jan. 26, 1950.
In the past two weeks, diverse crowds across the country have responded to the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act, referred to as the C.A.A., passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government by chanting the preamble to the Constitution of India, with its promises of social, political and economic justice, freedom of thought, expression and belief, equality and fraternity.
Student protesters being herded into police vans, opposition leaders standing outside the Indian Parliament and ebullient crowds of tens of thousands in Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai have read aloud the preamble and held aloft copies of the Constitution and portraits of B.R. Ambedkar, its chief draftsman.
The C.A.A. offers an accelerated pathway to citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Buddhist and Christian migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan but excludes Muslims. It effectively creates a hierarchical system of citizenship determined by an individual’s religion, reminiscent of Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law, which privileged citizenship for “indigenous races,” excluded the Rohingya and paved the ground for the genocidal violence against them.
The Indian government’s justification that the C.A.A. offers protection to people facing religious persecution in neighboring countries is specious. The new citizenship law does not require proof of religious persecution, and it is applied arbitrarily to non-Muslim minorities from three Muslim-majority neighbors.
The law ignores the claims of Muslim minorities facing religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and excludes persecuted minorities of all faiths from Sri Lanka, China and Myanmar, which have non-Muslim governments.
The new citizenship law must be seen in conjunction with the drive to create a National Register of Citizens, ostensibly aimed at identifying and removing illegal immigrants. As seen in the state of Assam where the N.R.C. has already been implemented, its requirement of documents to prove citizenship will effectively disqualify millions from that very status.
Amit Shah, the home minister of India, has repeatedly said that the C.A.A. will help everyone except Muslims to reclaim their citizenship if they fail the N.R.C. test.
The citizenship act breaks from the conscious decision of India’s founders not to link citizenship to religion, language or ethnicity. Sardar Patel, India’s first home minister, asserted that a citizenship predicated solely on connection to territory was “enlightened, modern and civilized,” and the mark of all progressive nations.
Following the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, India resisted a total exchange of populations with Pakistan and encouraged Muslims to remain. Millions did. India also enabled those who had left for Pakistan in 1947 to return home.
What is taking place in India is a clash between two different political visions. The Indian state is enacting an authoritarian vision in which political rights are conditioned on the privileges of religion and class and on being obedient subjects.
Mr. Modi’s government makes this clear in choosing to celebrate the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Constitution of India by focusing on “fundamental duties” of Indian citizens, which include protecting private property, abjuring from violence and striving toward excellence.
An idea borrowed from the Soviet Union, fundamental duties were inserted into the Constitution of India in 1976 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who suspended constitutional rights, jailed opposition leaders and silenced the press between June 1975 and March 1977 — a period known in India as the Emergency.
Indians have responded with a robust declaration of Constitutional rights and values. The numbers on the streets are swelling with the recognition that the government is repurposing colonial-era tactics to repress protests.
An archaic law prohibiting the public assembly of more than four people has been used in several places and the internet has been shut down in five states. The police have killed 25 people, used tear gas and water cannons, caused injuries leading to amputation and blinding, detained minors and attacked hospitals and libraries. Universities have been ordered to monitor the social media activity of students.
Adopted in 1950, the Constitution of India was regarded by some as an elite document drafted in an alien language. Yet in its first decade, ordinary Indians transformed it into a talisman and a resource to advance claims to liberty and livelihood. Distinct groups turned to the Constitution to protect their specific interests. Today’s mobilization is a broad coalition, which raises a common demand for full political citizenship and all that this implies by way of duties upon the state.
The articulation of constitutional rights and values has also invigorated the federal spirit. While India is constitutionally a federation, its states have enjoyed greater rights during eras of coalition union governments.
The electoral dominance of Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party since 2014 emboldened his government to erode the autonomy of Indian states, including limitation of fiscal powers, interventionism by federally appointed governors of the states and the revocation of the autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir and its abrupt dissolution as a state.
In the aftermath of the protests against the C.A.A., the chief ministers of nine Indian states have refused to implement the new citizenship law and the citizens register. Leaders of six political parties, including those allied with the B.J.P., have voiced concerns about its disenfranchising effects.
In various states, Mr. Modi’s government had started building detention centers for people unable to prove themselves as citizens under the new registry. The recently elected chief minister of the state of Maharashtra stopped the construction of the detention centers commissioned by his B.J.P. predecessor. Opposition has been growing as the B.J.P. has been losing elections for state legislatures.
The Indian judiciary’s response to the protests against the C.A.A. and the N.R.C. has been mixed. The Guwahati High Court in Assam responded favorably to litigation seeking to restore internet connectivity in the state. The Delhi High Court postponed the hearings relating to the violence against student protesters by six weeks and was met by cries of “shame!” in the courtroom.
And there have been novel invocations of the Constitution to challenge nationalism and build alliances between disparate groups and regions. From rap to Urdu poetry, TikTok videos to artwork, using the Constitution as a tool for public politics has become the zeitgeist.
In 1951, Justice Vivian Bose, a judge of the Supreme Court of India, wrote that the Constitution was “not just dull, lifeless words … but living flames intended to give life to a great nation … tongues of dynamic fire, potent to mold the future.”
We are witnessing now a rediscovery of the republic — and of our Constitution as its blazing torch.
Indians protesting against a discriminatory citizenship law are using the Constitution as a rallying cry.
By Rohit De and Surabhi Ranganathan
Mr. De teaches history at Yale. Ms. Ranganathan teaches international law at University of Cambridge.
NEW DELHI — As India’s new citizenship law seeks to create a stratified citizenship based on religion, a large number of Indians opposing it are emerging as a people of one book, the country’s Constitution, which came into force on Jan. 26, 1950.
In the past two weeks, diverse crowds across the country have responded to the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act, referred to as the C.A.A., passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government by chanting the preamble to the Constitution of India, with its promises of social, political and economic justice, freedom of thought, expression and belief, equality and fraternity.
Student protesters being herded into police vans, opposition leaders standing outside the Indian Parliament and ebullient crowds of tens of thousands in Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai have read aloud the preamble and held aloft copies of the Constitution and portraits of B.R. Ambedkar, its chief draftsman.
The C.A.A. offers an accelerated pathway to citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Buddhist and Christian migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan but excludes Muslims. It effectively creates a hierarchical system of citizenship determined by an individual’s religion, reminiscent of Myanmar’s 1982 Citizenship Law, which privileged citizenship for “indigenous races,” excluded the Rohingya and paved the ground for the genocidal violence against them.
The Indian government’s justification that the C.A.A. offers protection to people facing religious persecution in neighboring countries is specious. The new citizenship law does not require proof of religious persecution, and it is applied arbitrarily to non-Muslim minorities from three Muslim-majority neighbors.
The law ignores the claims of Muslim minorities facing religious persecution in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and excludes persecuted minorities of all faiths from Sri Lanka, China and Myanmar, which have non-Muslim governments.
The new citizenship law must be seen in conjunction with the drive to create a National Register of Citizens, ostensibly aimed at identifying and removing illegal immigrants. As seen in the state of Assam where the N.R.C. has already been implemented, its requirement of documents to prove citizenship will effectively disqualify millions from that very status.
Amit Shah, the home minister of India, has repeatedly said that the C.A.A. will help everyone except Muslims to reclaim their citizenship if they fail the N.R.C. test.
The citizenship act breaks from the conscious decision of India’s founders not to link citizenship to religion, language or ethnicity. Sardar Patel, India’s first home minister, asserted that a citizenship predicated solely on connection to territory was “enlightened, modern and civilized,” and the mark of all progressive nations.
Following the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, India resisted a total exchange of populations with Pakistan and encouraged Muslims to remain. Millions did. India also enabled those who had left for Pakistan in 1947 to return home.
What is taking place in India is a clash between two different political visions. The Indian state is enacting an authoritarian vision in which political rights are conditioned on the privileges of religion and class and on being obedient subjects.
Mr. Modi’s government makes this clear in choosing to celebrate the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Constitution of India by focusing on “fundamental duties” of Indian citizens, which include protecting private property, abjuring from violence and striving toward excellence.
An idea borrowed from the Soviet Union, fundamental duties were inserted into the Constitution of India in 1976 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who suspended constitutional rights, jailed opposition leaders and silenced the press between June 1975 and March 1977 — a period known in India as the Emergency.
Indians have responded with a robust declaration of Constitutional rights and values. The numbers on the streets are swelling with the recognition that the government is repurposing colonial-era tactics to repress protests.
An archaic law prohibiting the public assembly of more than four people has been used in several places and the internet has been shut down in five states. The police have killed 25 people, used tear gas and water cannons, caused injuries leading to amputation and blinding, detained minors and attacked hospitals and libraries. Universities have been ordered to monitor the social media activity of students.
Adopted in 1950, the Constitution of India was regarded by some as an elite document drafted in an alien language. Yet in its first decade, ordinary Indians transformed it into a talisman and a resource to advance claims to liberty and livelihood. Distinct groups turned to the Constitution to protect their specific interests. Today’s mobilization is a broad coalition, which raises a common demand for full political citizenship and all that this implies by way of duties upon the state.
The articulation of constitutional rights and values has also invigorated the federal spirit. While India is constitutionally a federation, its states have enjoyed greater rights during eras of coalition union governments.
The electoral dominance of Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party since 2014 emboldened his government to erode the autonomy of Indian states, including limitation of fiscal powers, interventionism by federally appointed governors of the states and the revocation of the autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir and its abrupt dissolution as a state.
In the aftermath of the protests against the C.A.A., the chief ministers of nine Indian states have refused to implement the new citizenship law and the citizens register. Leaders of six political parties, including those allied with the B.J.P., have voiced concerns about its disenfranchising effects.
In various states, Mr. Modi’s government had started building detention centers for people unable to prove themselves as citizens under the new registry. The recently elected chief minister of the state of Maharashtra stopped the construction of the detention centers commissioned by his B.J.P. predecessor. Opposition has been growing as the B.J.P. has been losing elections for state legislatures.
The Indian judiciary’s response to the protests against the C.A.A. and the N.R.C. has been mixed. The Guwahati High Court in Assam responded favorably to litigation seeking to restore internet connectivity in the state. The Delhi High Court postponed the hearings relating to the violence against student protesters by six weeks and was met by cries of “shame!” in the courtroom.
And there have been novel invocations of the Constitution to challenge nationalism and build alliances between disparate groups and regions. From rap to Urdu poetry, TikTok videos to artwork, using the Constitution as a tool for public politics has become the zeitgeist.
In 1951, Justice Vivian Bose, a judge of the Supreme Court of India, wrote that the Constitution was “not just dull, lifeless words … but living flames intended to give life to a great nation … tongues of dynamic fire, potent to mold the future.”
We are witnessing now a rediscovery of the republic — and of our Constitution as its blazing torch.
Same constitutional system elected the PM with one of the highest ever mandate and highest number of votes in human history yet he is called fascist , dictator blah blah
First do riots and then make sob stories of dead...oh he was headmasters son, sheros blah blah blah. No legal arguments, no basis to challenge the act so resort to riots and do politics over dead bodies. That's when a side resort to violence when it has no logical traction.
These communists are rewriting Quran in China, holier than thou USA kicked out Ground zero Mosque from vicinity of WTC, Arabs don't give citizenship either but hey, India is there to bully, burn public properties and call Modi a Hitler.
And i saw this video of Tarek Fateh today. Holy s**t. Is place Ghaziabad named after Ghazis who beheaded Hindus during invasion? wow.
These communists are rewriting Quran in China, holier than thou USA kicked out Ground zero Mosque from vicinity of WTC, Arabs don't give citizenship either but hey, India is there to bully, burn public properties and call Modi a Hitler.
And i saw this video of Tarek Fateh today. Holy s**t. Is place Ghaziabad named after Ghazis who beheaded Hindus during invasion? wow.
OooOoooOoH darra hua chusalman.UP police accused of stripping cleric
Maulana’s 100-odd students detained and assaulted
A bedridden Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini, 66, both arms and both legs bandaged, “sobs in his sleep” and refuses to “show his face” to visiting relatives because, his family says, he cannot get over his humiliation by the police who stripped and tortured him in custody.
The police also detained and assaulted almost all the maulana’s 100-odd students from the Saadat hostel-cum-orphanage in Muzaffarnagar town, many of them minors and most of them orphans, local people said.
“The boys were denied access to the toilet at times, and some of them suffered rectal bleeding from the torture,” said Salman Saeed, local Congress politician and son of former MP Saiduzzaman Saeed, who lives nearby.
Maulana Asad, teacher at the Saadat Madarsa and caretaker of the orphanage, was beaten with a baton and dragged out of the hostel on December 20 afternoon after violence at an anti-citizenship act protest nearby.
He has told his family he was kept for over 24 hours in a dark room at the Civil Lines barracks, where he was stripped in the biting cold and beaten.
In an adjoining room, the students — aged 14 to 21 — were abused, thrashed with sticks through the night and forced to kneel against the wall, neighbours who spoke to the boys after their release said.
Some of the students were forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”, Saeed said.
Maulana Asad, widely respected in western Uttar Pradesh, was released on December 21, Saturday, under pressure from community leaders.
“On Saturday night, a cop called us to say the maulana would be released soon and asked us to bring his clothes. We were shocked and could not understand why he needed clothes,” a relative said, asking not to be named because he feared reprisal from the police.
“We carried a set of kurta-pyjamas to the Civil Lines barracks and handed it over to the cops. Half an hour later we saw him limping out of the police station, his arms around the shoulders of two cops. He could not lift his head and was in severe pain. We virtually carried him to the car and brought him home.”
Maulana Asad has injuries across his body, including all four of his legs and arms, the relative said.
“He was subjected to unimaginable cruelty and humiliation. He was not produced before a magistrate even after 24 hours in custody. Family members cried with him throughout Saturday night as he narrated his ordeal,” the relative said, his eyes welling up.
“He is mentally scarred. He told us the police made him wish he were dead. He was humiliated so much that he is refusing to show his face to relatives coming to see him. He sobs even in his sleep.”
When this correspondent reached Maulana Asad’s home near Meenakshi Chowk in Muzaffarnagar town, his family had initially refused to talk.
“We are terrified. The police have told us not to speak to anyone,” a family member said.
She said the entire Muslim community in the area was living in fear. “One does not know when they will raid our homes at night and vandalise them,” she said.
“You will write about us and return to Delhi but we have to live here with our children. We are living in a time when we cannot open our mouths and narrate our plight.”
Asked whether the family had met senior district officials to complain against the police, she shot back: “When the police and the government have become oppressors, who do we go to?”
The Telegraph tried to get in touch with senior police officials of the district but the calls were not answered. The newspaper spoke to a senior official who declined to comment on the allegations against the police.
Congress politician Saeed, who alleges the police vandalised his farmhouse and torched his cars after the December 20 protest, described the plight of the detained madarsa students.
“They were abused, deprived of sleep, starved of food and water at times, shackled and barred from using the toilet. The authorities did not allow lawyers to see them,” he said.
“Some of them were asked to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. The police have now released around 90 of the students, including all the minors, after three days of detention. They have arrested 10 students on charges of rioting. They are now in judicial custody.”
Saeed said the madarsa was now deserted as almost all the students had fled to homes of relatives and acquaintances in various parts of Uttar Pradesh.
Mohammed Sattar, an eyewitness from the locality, said the protesters had begun gathering at Meenakshi Chowk from 2pm on December 20, after namaz, at a spot less than 500 metres from the madarsa.
“It was a peaceful protest and the organisers were in constant touch with the police. As the protesters began dispersing around 3.45pm-4pm, stones suddenly began raining,” he said.
“Nobody knows who started it. People ran helter-skelter. There was arson when the police started a baton charge. We don’t know who set the police vehicles on fire.”
Sattar said the police then went on the rampage and started thrashing people and vandalising shops in the Muslim neighbourhood.
“Some of the protesters ran and hid inside the madarsa. A group of policemen then barged in, beat the students mercilessly and rounded up almost all of them,” Sattar said.
“They entered Maulana Asad’s room where he was resting after the prayers. Neither he nor the students had participated in the demonstration.”
Sattar said the police dragged the maulana out, beat him and the students, bundled them into a van and whisked them away.
After their release on December 23, many of the students were shaking all over, he said. “I have never seen anyone so frightened in my life.”
Saeed, the Congress politician, said the situation had been normal on December 27 after the Friday prayers.
He said the police were pressuring the family of Noor Mohammad, 26, a hawker, who died of a bullet injury during the December 20 protest at Meenakshi Chowk.
Noor died in police firing, alleged his elder brother Umar. He said the police had refused to accept a complaint from him and Noor’s wife Shanno, 19.
“When we went to the police station, the cops said the complaint would not be accepted. They told us that Noor had died of bullets fired by the protesters — which is completely false,” Umar, who said he was at the protest spot with his brother, asserted.
The day labourer accused BJP and RSS supporters of inciting and executing the violence.
He said: “The police have not given us the post-mortem report. They did not allow his body to be buried here, saying it would lead to a communal flare-up. The body was buried near Meerut. We are illiterate people and fear that the cops might frame me in a criminal case.”
Likely more of their victim Taqqiya. Even if did happen, I wish happens all over till they realise what's the price of trying to do a Direct Action Day again. Either they accept we won't let India become another Islamic state, or they *censored* off to the two states their ancestors created.
GJ, police.
When Indira Gandhi imposed emergency in 1975, she did so using the cover of constitutional provisons and commanded brute majority in the parliament( 352 seats). Your argument that a popularly elected leader cannot turn authoritarian flies against the face of contemporary history...
Pardon my ignorance but wasn't it us Hindus and our khujli to give refugee to Prophets family that started all this? Isn't Pakistan and all other Muslims of subcontinent remember Mohammed bin Qasim fondly and no one remembers Raja Dahir? Who told us to grab that "Udta teer"?
Yep, pretty much. We also gave refuge to Syriac Christians iirc.Pardon my ignorance but wasn't it us Hindus and our khujli to give refugee to Prophets family that started all this? Isn't Pakistan and all other Muslims of subcontinent remember Mohammed bin Qasim fondly and no one remembers Raja Dahir? Who told us to grab that "Udta teer"?
It has always been my thought that contemporary Hindu kings thought of these religions from a polytheistic lens and not as a religion designed specifically to cannibalise polytheistic religions. While they thought these religions would eventually merge onto Hinduism or at least the larger ethos, they didn't realise they're meant to do exactly opposite. By design.
Isse kehte hai khal khodke magarmaach lana.
No, it means this leader got elected with these same promises in their manifesto. The people who voted for him voted for these things six months ago, and they're standing behind it six months later. Only difference is opposition didn't really think they'd follow through.
This leader and that leader, both were popular and had won election with thumping majority. That leader used her brute majority to go down the unconstitutional path and this leader is threatening go down the path and the people are resisting. As far i know the current protest are not a anti-govt protest and the Modi govt would be better off to keep it that way.
On Meerut cop’s ‘Go to Pakistan’ comment, Naqvi demands immediate action
In a viral video, a police officer was seen abusing and asking Muslims to go to Pakistan during an anti-CAA protest in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
Union Minister for Minorities, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on Saturday demanded “immediate action” against a UP cop who purportedly asked Muslims to “go to Pakistan” during a protest.
“It is condemnable if it is true. Immediate action should be taken against the police officer,” Naqvi told media here in response to a question on the incident.
In a viral video, a police officer was seen abusing and asking Muslims to go to Pakistan during an anti-CAA protest in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
Meerut ADG Prashant Kumar, however, defended the cop saying that he was trying to control the violent situation as the protesters were raising slogans hailing the neighbouring country.
“It is clear from the video that stones were being pelted, anti-India slogans and slogans hailing the neighbouring country were raised by the protestors at the spot. The officer only asked them to stop pelting stones and they can go there (Pakistan) if they wanted to,” Kumar told ANI.
On another question, Naqvi termed the alleged police excesses on people during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in UP as “unacceptable”.
“Violence, whether it is being perpetrated by a mob or by the police, cannot be part of a democratic system and is unacceptable. Police and administration should also keep in mind that innocents should be not subjected to violence and brutality,” he said.
The minister further said, “UP government will take action if police or administration has committed any kind of atrocities on the people.”
Several leaders including Congress’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, journalists and other noted citizens have condemned the Meerut cop’s behaviour and police excesses against the protestors.
Opposition leaders including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi have alleged that police ransacked people’s houses, destroyed private properties and used unjustified force against people of the minority community in UP. (ANI)
In a viral video, a police officer was seen abusing and asking Muslims to go to Pakistan during an anti-CAA protest in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
Union Minister for Minorities, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on Saturday demanded “immediate action” against a UP cop who purportedly asked Muslims to “go to Pakistan” during a protest.
“It is condemnable if it is true. Immediate action should be taken against the police officer,” Naqvi told media here in response to a question on the incident.
In a viral video, a police officer was seen abusing and asking Muslims to go to Pakistan during an anti-CAA protest in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
Meerut ADG Prashant Kumar, however, defended the cop saying that he was trying to control the violent situation as the protesters were raising slogans hailing the neighbouring country.
“It is clear from the video that stones were being pelted, anti-India slogans and slogans hailing the neighbouring country were raised by the protestors at the spot. The officer only asked them to stop pelting stones and they can go there (Pakistan) if they wanted to,” Kumar told ANI.
On another question, Naqvi termed the alleged police excesses on people during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in UP as “unacceptable”.
“Violence, whether it is being perpetrated by a mob or by the police, cannot be part of a democratic system and is unacceptable. Police and administration should also keep in mind that innocents should be not subjected to violence and brutality,” he said.
The minister further said, “UP government will take action if police or administration has committed any kind of atrocities on the people.”
Several leaders including Congress’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, journalists and other noted citizens have condemned the Meerut cop’s behaviour and police excesses against the protestors.
Opposition leaders including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi have alleged that police ransacked people’s houses, destroyed private properties and used unjustified force against people of the minority community in UP. (ANI)
The Emergency wasn't a manifesto declared thing. NRC, CAA is. Their intention has been well known for long from their previous tabling of the bill. Heck, NRC isn't even new or BJP thing.
Like I said, people gave votes wanting these to be implemented. I would crucify the govt if they *don't* implement these.
And no. I'm a student and I can tell you just hollow these protests are. I'm from a communist family who took part in party politics, I can also tell you at least from communist end how hollow protests and movements generally are.
Only a very exclusive or exclusive subset of people are resisting. And that's going to drive even more polarisation. While the opposition is busy in secular dick measuring and eating into each other, BJP is actually consolidating. Most people have decided who to vote for when the first video of Muslims charging at trains was online. You can think I'm being naive, but it'll all be clear eventually in the elections.
THE SKIN DOCTOR (@theskindoctor13) Tweeted:
"Dekhiye Uttar Pades police mujhe report karti hai, na ki tathakathit buddhijiviyon ko. Jab mujhe hi fark nahi padta ki Barkha, Rajdeep, Anurag, Swara jaise lafandar mere prashashan ke baare me kya kehte hain to meri Police ko kaha se padega. Yaha kanoon toda to tode hi jaoge." THE SKIN DOCTOR on Twitter ( )
So when Modi actually becomes dictator your argument stands true untill all allegations are BS
I'm not from a communist family( whatever that means) and BJP and its supporters should not be afraid of genuine protests, if they are not anything wrong. The way the BJP and its allies are reacting to protests, like arresting women who protested by drawing Kolam( a traditional Hindu custom followed in south) all indicates the protests have them worried. I'm not a psephologist and so cannot predict BJP's political fortune, however BJP in the last 6 years has alienated a significant sections of Indians, including people like me who once voted for Vajpayee and did the same in 2014. Many of us expected BJP would emerge as a center-right party and would eschew extremism, however now we know that leopard never changes its spot. BJP's election manifesto is piece of paper which has no legal relevance. If Indira Gandhi had imposing Emergency as an election promises and was still voted to power, would still not have justified imposition of emergency.
India is a diverse and multi-ethnic, multi-religious society and any attempt to single out any particular community for step motherly treatment, will not go unchallenged. I have said this before and ill repeat it again. Muslims are not the only minorities in this country. There are linguistic minorities, there are ethnic minorities and there are economic minorities, BJP-RSS experiment to achieve uniformity will not end with religious minorities. Once they achieve their religious agenda, they will attack non Hindi linguistic minorities, they will then target non Hindi cultural minorities in this country. Any Indian who cares about the unity and well being of this country cannot let this happen.
