India News: BHOPAL/INDORE: Madhya Pradesh police have registered cases against Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh for allegedly sharing a controversial post on form.
The police in Indore have registered a case against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh after he shared a controversial post on MS Golwalkar, the former Chief of the RSS, on social media. Singh has been accused of hurting the religious sentiments of Hindu community workers by sharing the post on Facebook. The police received the complaint from a local lawyer and RSS worker Rajesh Joshi, which resulted in the registration of the FIR on Saturday night.
Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh T S Singh Deo on Wednesday alleged that efforts are being made through Uniform Civil Code to create polarization in the name of the Muslim community as well as create a division of votes on the "pretext of Hindu and Muslim"."Efforts are being made to create polarization in the name of the Muslim community through this means (UCC) so that votes get divided. They (apparently referring to BJP) talk only about Hindu-Muslim so that they can win the elections," the Deputy CM stated in Raipur on Tuesday. Singh Deo was responding to Uttar Pradesh Minorities Commission Chairperson Ashfaq Saifi's remarks, that those who were opposing the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code, were opposing the development, education & equality of Muslims."After the result of Karnataka elections, conscious voters will cast their votes by keeping several things in mind and they will not get into these emotional things," Deo added. "Lord Hanuman, The Kerala story, ...
Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Monday claimed that the Uniform Civil Code is against the religious freedom guaranteed under the the Constitution but said it will not take to the streets to protest against it and instead would oppose it by taking all possible steps within the ambit of law.
The idea of 'new democracy' is built on reviving elements of monarchy with trappings of a Hindu Rashtra and inspired by Hindutva leaders like Hedgewar, Golwalkar and Savarkar.
The Sangh parivar's response to the Karnataka BJP accepting the Justice Das Committee's recommendations to increase reservation for SCs and STs betrays the contradictions between the saffron party's ideology and politics, due to electoral compulsions.
'New India' has placed plastic nationalism at the service of crony capitalism, forgetting Jayaprakash Narayan's reminder that 'patriotism does not consist only in the worship of a piece of cloth, but in certain virtues, certain values of life, certain standards of public conduct and government'.
In India, toxic propaganda and polarisation have so impacted the Hindu psyche that bigotry will not come down if India is declared a Hindu nation, as Hasan Suroor has suggested. The plight of Muslims may even worsen.