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AYODHYA verdict
VHP to Nirmohis: Don’t act at behest of others
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Parties cash in on split Muslim opinion
Shias offer donation to build Ram temple
Judgment can revive BJP in UP
Bihar Elections
Illegal immigration from B’desh
Book on parents will be personal account: PM’s daughter
AI flight makes emergency landing
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AYODHYA verdict Say it’s ‘unwise’ to make politically motivated statements at this time Tribune News Service
Lucknow, October 2 “The atmosphere at the national level has been positive with religious leaders of both the communities, political leadership as well as the media exercising restraint. It would not be wise if politically motivated statements which could vitiate communal harmony are issued now,” said Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangimahli, the Niab Imam of Idgah and member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. He said that it was heartening that “no one has so far shown immaturity... not even the Sangh Parivar and there should be restraint from now on to ensure that nothing is done which could give strength to fundamentalist forces.” He said though there is disappointment among the community over the verdict, it is in the larger interest of the country and communal harmony that restraint should be exercised. Echoing Firangimahli's views, Maulana Mohammad Umer of Islami research institute Darul Musinnfeen termed Yadav's statement “ill-timed”. “Though he is expressing the views held by the community, the timing is not correct,” Maulana Umer said. The SP chief had yesterday said he was disappointed by the Ayodhya title suits verdict as he felt faith was given “priority” over legal procedures. Maulana Mohammad Mirza Athar of Shia Personal Law Board said that it was unbecoming of a senior leader like Mulayam Singh Yadav to issue such a statement at a time when everyone is trying their best to ensure peace and harmony. “In a court case, there is bound to be one side on the losing side and after this verdict by the High Court, the option of approaching the Supreme Court or making an effort to resolve the issue through mutual understanding is still open and in this backdrop such statements are unnecessary,” he said. Noted Shia leader and member of the AIMPLB, Hamidul Hasan refused to comment on Yadav's statement, but appeal to everyone to desist from issuing statements which could hurt unity and peace of the country. Maulana Mohammad Mushtaq of the All India Sunni Board asserted that none of the Muslim leaders have said anything adverse on the verdict. “It is the time to ensure peace and communal harmony and an appeal in this regard was also made after the Friday prayers to not politicise the issue,” Mohammad Mushtaq added.
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VHP to Nirmohis: Don’t act at behest of others
The fight for Ram Lalla got murkier on Saturday, with the state unit of Vishwa Hindu Parishad warning the Nirmohi Akhara against dividing the Hindus at the instance of outsiders (read the Congress). The latter rushed to deny any such coordination and reiterated their legal right over the management of Ram Lalla -- something they will seek in the Supreme Court. They said they had been staking a claim since 1959. “We appreciate the claim of Nirmohi Akhara but want to warn them against acting at the behest of others. They are good people but someone is instigating them. Today is the time to fight together for Ram Lalla. Earlier too, the foreigners divided and ruled us. That should not happen now. Nirmohis have never claimed the ownership of Ram Janmabhoomi. As for us, we only want the construction of Ram Mandir. Afterwards the Hindu saints can decide who will manage it,” Sharad Sharma, VHP media in charge for Uttar Pradesh told The Tribune. The VHP today also decided to convene its central committee meeting in New Delhi on October 19 to discuss the judgment of the Allahabad High Court and its implications threadbare before the points of appeal can be pondered over. In the meantime, Nirmohi Akhara found itself isolated as the heads of the remaining two Hindu Akharas (Digambar and Nirvani, which manage the famous Hanumangarhi temple in Ayodhya) said the Nirmohis claim to the disputed site was limited to the conduct of prayers at Ram Chabootra and Sita Rasoi, which they have got. Chief of Digambar Akhara, Mahant Suresh Das said the saints would try to convince the Nirmohis to give up divisive claims in the interest of Ram Lalla. “We will talk to them but they should realise that in the family fight the outsiders will gain. If we remain disunited, the government will have a good reason to assume the control of Ram temple when it comes up. That’s what the government did with Kedarnath, Bala Tirupati, Vaishno Devi and Ujjain Mahakal. Is that what Nirmohis want?” Suresh Das asked, saying the temple should first come up and then the saints of Ramanand community (who reside in Ayodhya) must decide who its managing Mahant and the priest will be. The Nirmohi Akhara, meanwhile, was unfazed and said it would move the apex court in two weeks for a right to manage Ram Lalla’s affairs and the right to Ram Janmabhoomi site, claiming their suit was not time-barred, as ruled by the HC. “Everyone —including the Hindu groups — can come to the SC. Let the best claim win,” Akhara advocate Ranjeet Verma said. At another level, a consensus today emerged among local Hindu leaders led by saints Nityagopal Das, president, Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas and Mahant Gyan Das, head of All-India Akhara Parishad (both close to the VHP) that if the High Court had set aside the title suits of Sunni Waqf Board and Nirmohi Akhara and conceded the disputed site to be Ram Janmabhoomi, why did the losing parties get land share.
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Parties cash in on split Muslim opinion New Delhi, October 2 While the Muslim leaders seemed visibly upset with the September 30 verdict on the 60-year-old Ram Janmabhoomi/Babri Masjid dispute, they also seem to have learnt a lesson or two from the past bitterness and are therefore reiterating only one thing, “We will go to the Supreme Court.” The legal cell of All-India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPB) will meet on September 9 to discuss and deliberate the issue, said Sunni Waqf Board counsel and a member of the AIMPLB Zafaryab Jilani. But he will be attending only the board working committee meeting on September 16. Soon there after, the Jamiatul Ulema Hind (JUH), the leading organisation of Muslim clerics, dominated by the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary will hold its working committee meeting here on September 23 to discuss the fallout of this judgment. Senior JUH leader Maulana Arshad Madani said , “It is the job of the government to maintain law and order. The judges are to give a fair judgment based on sound legal basis.” Similar sentiments were expressed by Syed Shahabuddin on behalf of All-India Muslim Majlise Mushawrat saying, “The Muslim community is dissatisfied and shocked by the judgment.” In the meantime, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has spoken out against the judgment, giving a sense of relief and satisfaction to many Muslims. The Congress seemed unnerved with this and immediately pressed into service a couple of its Muslim MPs like North Malda MP Mausam Noor, Murshidabad MP Abdul Mannan Hussain, Barpeta MP Ismail Husain, Lakhimpur Kheri MP Zafar Ali Naqvi and Rashid Alvi to send across the message that “While anyone dissatisfied with the judgment was free to go to the Supreme Court, this should not derail the growth story of India.”
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Parties cash in on split Muslim opinion
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Verdict due to Gandhiji’s blessings: Modi
Porbandar, October 2 Modi who offered prayers at Kirti Mandir, the birth place of Gandhiji on his birth anniversary, wrote in the visitors book that the ruling is like blessings from Mahatma Gandhi and the verdict is a good sign to realise Gandhiji's ideology of creating 'Ram Rajya'. The Allahabad High Court ruled that the 2.77 acre disputed land in Ayodhya be divided into three parts among Hindus and
Muslims and held that the place where the makeshift temple of Lord Rama currently exists belongs to Hindus. "It is good that the verdict has come just two days ahead of Gandhi Jayanti and the issue which was pending for long has sorted out by the courts."
— PTI
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PC draws flak for comment on Babri demolition
New Delhi, October 2 "He (Chidambaram) should not judge as to what happened in 1992. The matter is before a court and he should not jump to conclusions. Let the court decide," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said here. Chidambaram had yesterday said, "The judgment in no way justifies the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In my view, it remains a criminal act." Javadekar also targeted Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan for their remarks after the judgment that was pronounced by the Allahabad High Court on the vexed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suits. Terming their statements as “unfortunate”, the BJP leader said "at a time when the society has shown restraint, these comments are provocative without any reason”.
— PTI
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Shias offer donation to build Ram temple
Lucknow, October 2 “We will make a formal request to the Sunni Central Waqf Board not to go into appeal against the high court verdict and to bring an end to the long pending dispute once for all," Shia Hussaini Tigers chief Shamil Shamsi said today. He also proposes to take a delegation to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board with the same appeal. Shamsi is a close kin of widely revered Shia cleric and scholar Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, who was also the senior vice president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board. And Kalbe Sadiq’s cousin Maulana Kalbe Jawaad, who also commands a large following of Shia Muslims across the country, is the chief patron of Hussaini Tigers. Maulana Kalbe Sadiq was not available for comment as he was stated to be ill. Shamsi termed as "extremely unfortunate" the verdict’s criticism by Maulana Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, as well as by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who said the Muslims in the country were unhappy at the verdict. Shamsi sought to remind various Muslim leaders that they must stick to their word of abiding by the court verdict. “I feel the board should take an initiative to end the dispute for good,” he asserted. Hussaini Tigers that represents the Shia youth in the country feels “the court order has given India an opportunity to prove to the world that this nation can set an example of unique communal harmony by getting Muslims to assist in the construction of the temple and Hindus to facilitate construction of the mosque”. — IANS
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Judgment can revive BJP in UP
New Delhi, October 2 “People used to taunt us, ‘you used to cry mandir, mandir all the time, now where is the mandir?” said a party insider expressing satisfaction at judgment adding, “Once the temple is built, we would stand vindicated.” “At some stage, you have to deliver and whenever the temple is constructed, history will record our struggle, our movement for this cause,” commented another party leader. The BJP rose to its glorious strength from 1989 to 1996, finally assuming power in 1998 on the strength of its slogan, “Kasam Ram ki khate hain, Mandir wahin banayenge.” But people, particularly those in UP, started losing faith in the party when it put it on the back burner after assuming power in 1998. Since then its political graph started going down and the party became politically irrelevant in the state. Some of the leaders like former president Rajnath Singh continued to press upon the BJP not to abandon the issue.
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Bihar Elections
New Delhi, October 2 Among the candidates announced so far, BJP has 62%, LJP 53%, JD(U) 33%, RJD 31% and Congress 24% candidates with pending criminal cases, with many of them facing serious charges like murder, kidnapping and dacoity, thereby once again proving that money and muscle power are among the key deciding factors when it comes to politics. ADR and NEW, which has been monitoring candidates declared by political parties for the forthcoming Assembly elections in Bihar, says that in the 2005 Assembly election 358 candidates with pending criminal cases contested elections from major parties, including LJP, RJD, JD(U), BJP, BSP, INC, CPI(M) and CPI. Out of these, as many as 117 sitting MLAs, around 50%, had pending criminal cases against them, according to declarations during the last elections. “In spite of leaders from all parties making statements that criminalisation should be rooted out of politics, we found that lists of declared candidates for Lok Sabha included candidates who had pending criminal cases,” says former CEC Gopalaswami, a NEW member. For the coming Assembly elections in Bihar, out of the list of 87 candidates declared by the BJP, NEW was able to find affidavits for 66 candidates filed in previous elections and it discovered that 41 candidates (62 per cent) have criminal backgrounds. In the Congress, out of the list of 77 declared candidates, NEW was able to find records of 21 candidates and it found that five (24 per cent) among them have criminal backgrounds. Similarly, LJP has eight out of 15 (53 per cent), JD(U) 17 out of 52 (33 per cent) and RJD has nine out of 29 (31 per cent) candidates with pending criminal cases. Gopalaswami says the effort to rid the election arena of criminal elements has to begin with political parties first and they can do this by denying ticket to aspirants with criminal record. “If they fail to do that, they are merely shirking responsibility and betraying the nation,” he adds.
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Illegal immigration from B’desh
Guwahati, October 2 The court has aired the apprehension that the illegal Bangladeshi migrants who have already become ‘kingmakers’ in Assam will soon become ‘kings’ unless effective steps are not taken on a war footing by those in the helm of affairs to stop the unabated infiltration from the neighbouring nation. Dismissing a writ petition (No.45 of 2009) and ordering the deportation of the petitioner, Md Attaur Rahman, a Bangladeshi national, and the deletion of his name from the electoral roll, Justice BK Sharma asked the Centre and the Government of Assam to “seriously attend not on paper but with practical effort” to the grave problem of illegal migration from Bangladesh. The petitioner had been earlier “deported” to Bangladesh only to come back to knock at the door of the High Court. The court dismissed the plea of the state and the Union governments that fencing along a particular stretch of India-Bangladesh border in Karimganj district of Assam had not been sanctioned because the area was intersected by rivers. “Such excuses are not all tenable. Does it mean that the said stretches will always remain open for the illegal Bangladeshi migrants to enter into Assam with eventual entry of their names in voters’ list to enrich the political prospects of people’s representatives?… it is also not acceptable in these modern days of technology that the stretch intersected by rivers is not possible to be fenced,” the court observed. The court castigated both the state and Union governments for their inadequate handling of the problem of illegal migration and commented that nobody seemed bothered about the fallouts of large-scale influx and the failure of the governments to ensure the infiltrators’ deportation. “The Union and the state governments must also take special drives for the detection and deportation of illegal Bangladeshi migrants whose large presence in Assam is an established fact, the fallouts of which have been emphasised by the Supreme Court in Sarbananda Sonowal case unless the matter is seriously taken into consideration by those at the helm of affairs,” the judgment read.
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Book on parents will be personal account: PM’s daughter
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 2 Singh, here to present her new work 'Sacred Grove' at the Kovalam Literary Festival, which began today, says she has not yet chosen a title for the new book. "I think I can't be critical of them in the book. I will try to present the different aspects of their life. Though politics may figure in the book, it is not about politics, but a personal account," she said in an informal chat with reporters on the sidelines of the festival. Answering a question, Singh said she believed her father along with several others could pull India out of economic crisis and put the country on a path of economic growth. More investments were coming in health and education sectors, she said. "Though I don't feel qualified to evaluate the policies, I find the results as encouraging. I have a lot of faith in my father. He feels for the common man personally," she said. On how the Prime Minister took the strain of the highest job at his age, she said he was actively doing his work now. "The moment he feels he is not fit, he will step down." Asked about the chances of her joining politics, Singh quipped, "I am not interested in politics. I am bad at economics and politics. I am happy as a writer." Singh said Indian writing in English was definitely exciting at the moment.
— PTI
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AI flight makes emergency landing
Kochi, October 2 The smoke was noticed about 30 minutes after the flight left for Riyadh from Kozhikode airport at 6.35 am, they said, adding the pilot immediately diverted the aircraft to Kochi and landed safely in full emergency at 8.20 am. All passengers have been shifted to a nearby hotel, they said.
— PTI
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A day after Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh said the Muslim community felt cheated by the Ayodhya title suit verdict, the community’s leaders said that it was “unwise” to make politically motivated statements at this time.
Lucknow, October 2
