At CFI event, Jignesh Mevani announces setting up of SSS to counter RSS

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February 14, 2017

Mangaluru, Feb 14: Jignesh Mevani, a prominent social activist from Gujarat, on Tuesday announced the setting up of Samvidhan Suraksha Samiti (SSS)?to counter the influence of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha (RSS)?in the country.

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Mevani, an advocate by profession, was addressing the cadres of the Campus Front of India (CFI) during its students vigil conference organised at Town Hall in the city.

The conference titled ‘Mothers Cry for Justice’ aimed at ensuring justice for Radhika Vemula, mother of Rohit Vemula, and Nafeesath, mother of Najeeb Ahmed. Vemula, a research scholar at the Central University of Hyderabad (CUH) committed suicide allegedly due to some issues with the university authorities, a year ago. Najeeb Ahmed, a student of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),?New?Delhi, went missing mysteriously from the campus on October last.

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The activist also announced that it was for the first time that he was disclosing before the media about the Samiti that will have its branches in every state and district in the country. Wherever the RSS?has a branch, the SSS will set up a branch, said?Mevani, with the sole intention of checking the recurrence of Rohit Vemula and Najeeb Ahmed-like incidents henceforth.?

Mevani launched a tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and dared the latter to bring back Najeeb and also Vemula, as he often called himself as a man with ‘Chappan Inch Ka Seena’ (man with 56-inch chest).

Mincing no words, Mevani who called the RSS and other right wing organisations as emerging threats to the internal security of the country, especially after Modi became the prime minister, reminded the gathering that ‘Note Bandhi’ (demonetisation of notes), ‘Manuvad’ (proposition of religion) and the Gujarat model are three dangerous developments in the country.

Mevani termed the Gujarat model as nothing but a combination of fascism and communalism that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent Muslims in the Godhra pogrom.

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Prof P?Koya, national general secretary of the National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) from Kerala, appealed to the gathering to remove the wet blanket of fear that has enveloped the country.

Koya said, such is the fret among the people that they have accepted demonetisation of currency notes without any protest. The judiciary and media have turned mute without mustering courage to raise the voice fearing loss of benefits in the future.

He complimented the judiciary in the United States of America (US)?where a judge was pugnacious in opposing the ban on immigrants from seven Islamic nations imposed by new US?President?Donald Trump.

National president of CFI?Shuhaid P?V?gave a clarion call to weed out fascism that is the enemy of not just the society but all individuals.

Shuhaid, who claimed that CFI?was the first to call the suicide of Vemula as ‘institutional murder’, wanted the gathering to consider the issue of demonetisation, national education policy and also attempts to scuttle students movement as the issue of every Indian.

Former chairman of Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission C S Dwarakanath, national general secretary of CFI T?Abdul Nasar, Rohit Vemula’s friend Sunganna Velpula, writer Yogesh Master and general secretary of national women’s front Lubna Minaaz were also present.

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Naren kotian
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Friday, 17 Feb 2017

hahaha sam , ninna thamma nannu neenu nodkoppa ... 3-4 wives maintain maadbeku andre thammma nige chennagi maalish maadi chennagi nodko ... cehnnagi dry fruits tinnu :)
RSS discipline makla neevu talakambalaka hodedru follow madlikke saadya illa ... sumne maklu hottisi number game inda prapancha control maadthini anno brame bidi ... quality mukhya maams , quantity alla

sam
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Thursday, 16 Feb 2017

Naren thamma RSS hegella jana serisuthidru , matthu hege janaranna manga madthidru antha sogasagi heliddane...olleya experience untu thammanige...

Naren kotian
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Thursday, 16 Feb 2017

waste of money ... these rallies are needed for them to raise funds in gulf for their jihad ....bidi kattorna and fish sellers na sersi ondu rally madi bidodu ... 99% of them are from their own community .My friend told me one lady said biryani kodthivi banni andu chitranna and mosranna kotru , duddu 500 kodthivi antha heli 100 rs kotru ...antha higga mugga baithidlanthe :) haha ... adakke PFI navanu helidnanthe , en maadakke agathe ammi , modi demonetization and NGO black money mele kannu haaki bitidaane ... so funds sigtha illa , hawala kashta agtha ide ... dana kaddiro duddinalli hego arrange madidivi please bamma olagade andu hodnanthe :) hahahaha... ishte hanebaraha ... RSS is cadre based party , this gang has no discipline , just by nos u cannot build powerful organisation .

Hamid
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Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

Students voice ..good coverage by CD

Hindustan Hamara
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Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

No RSS member will join this group. This is just to break Muslim unity. No Muslim should join any group lead by non Muslim until and unless governments ban RSS and rss offshoot groups completely. We have been suffering from same tactics since last 70 years.

shaji
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Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

Dear Viren, now all indians know who are the Indian agent of ISI. Dont try to be saint as your real face is exposed. You people swear collaborating with British Govt at the time of hundreds of thousands of indians were fighting against British and sacrificing their lives You were hiding in the toilet of British rulers giving their enjoyment. You bull shits have no right to stay in india. |Go either to Pakistan and join your masters or go to England to do chaprasi of Goras. You can not hide your dirty jackal face.

S.M. Nawaz kuk…
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Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

Very nice to see Campus Front Student organization united and loud their vigil stand against injustice happening in College campus for Parents of Students who lost their children be it Rohit Vemula or Najeeb.

Political forces utilizing Communal propaganda through ABVP in college campus and making problem in religious matter. We need to throw out ABVP \Manu Smriti\" and make strong foundation in B R Ambedkar's constitution through CFI"

S.M. Nawaz kuk…
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Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

Very nice to see Campus Front Student organization united and loud their vigil stand against injustice happening in College campus for Parents of Students who lost their children be it Rohit Vemula or Najeeb.

Political forces utilizing Communal propaganda through ABVP in college campus and making problem in religious matter. We need to throw out ABVP \Manu Smriti\" and make strong foundation in B R Ambedkar's constitution through CFI"

Dodanna
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Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

By the grace of GOD, now a days most of our youngsters are with good education and well capable to decide about their future. They are well aware which is right and which is wrong.
To kick out any sort of criminal and anti national communal group from our HOLY LAND INDIA students and youngsters are the main part and the Feb/14th gathering at TOWN HALL is a good sign and challenge to such anti INDIA Criminal group. Hope very soon they will vanish all sort of anti INDIA criminal group from our HOLY LAND INDIA.

Jai Hind !

Viren Kotian
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Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

U set up SSS or join hands with ISI, we never care you. a day will come when RSS will reach each and every household in India. all religions will accept RSS.

Suhaib
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Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

Great......Viren Burnol e gathi..................ABVP tuss agali.........either you jump to CFI or hide somewhere....................now your dirty mind will be behind CFI........but you can not do it as its not person based.....its ideology based.,..............

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August 2,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 2: Within a year of returning to power for the fourth time as Chief Minister in Karnataka, septuagenarian B.S. Yediyurappa has consolidated his position in the ruling BJP to stay the course till the next Assembly elections in mid-2023.

"A combination of factors helped Yediyurappa to consolidate and stay the course for the remaining term of his office to ensure the saffron party retains power in the state though he is unlikely to stake claim for the chief minister's post again as he would be 80 years old by 2023," a party source told news agency here.

Since the 77-year-old seasoned politician assumed office on July 26, 2019, the first year has been tumultuous for him, as he had go through a "trial by fire" what with the party's mighty high command and detractors testing his patience in the face of natural calamities like drought, floods and the Covid pandemic.

The first 7-8 months of the term were spent in tackling drought and floods, winning 12 of the 15 by-elections in December to secure a majority for the ruling party in the lower house and expanding the cabinet in February.

Even as Yediyurappa was settling down to seriously govern after presenting the state budget for fiscal 2020-21 in early March, the coronavirus outbreak overwhelmed him, as the pandemic spread and wreaked havoc, disrupting life, livelihood, economic growth and development.

"While the emphatic victory in the by-elections ensured the government's stability till the assembly term up to mid-2023, the second cabinet expansion on February 6 posed a challenge to Yediyurappa, as he could induct only 10 of the 12 MLAs who defected from the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and won the by-elections, triggering a revolt in the party by the loyalists left out of the ministry," the source recalled.

Though Yeddiyurappa has been leading the battle against the virus from day 1 and initially succeeded in controlling it from spreading during the extended lockdown till May 31, reopening the state under Unlock since June has undone the gains, as positive cases shot up to 1,29,287 so far, including 73,219 in Bengaluru after 53,648 recovered from across the state till date, while 2,412 succumbed to the deadly disease since March 9.

"For a state of 7 crore population, the data reveals that the pandemic has been fought on war-footing to contain it from spreading in all the 30 districts, although there are no signs of it going away till a vaccine is found. The chief minister has been trying to balance unlocking the state and containing the infection," a member of the health task force told IANS.

With six cabinet posts in the 34-member ministry being vacant, filling them will be a daunting task for Yediyurappa, as at least 20 legislators, including 5-6 newly elected turncoats and party's veterans are lobbying to become ministers at any cost.

By appointing 20 party legislators as heads of state-run board and corporations, nominating 5 as members of the state legislative council, including JD-S defector A.H. Vishwanath in July and getting 2 Congress defectors R. Shankar and M.T.B. Nagaraj elected as MLCs in June with 2 others, Yediyurappa ensured that these lawmakers would not be in the reckoning for the 6 cabinet posts, as dozen MLAs are already pitching for them.

Nagaraj and Vishwanath lost in the December 5 by-elections, while Shankar was not given a ticket to contest in the by-poll but was assured of making him an MLC with another disgruntled member C.P. Yogeshwar, who lost in the 2018 May assembly polls to JD-S leader and former chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy of the 14-month-old JD-S and Congress coalition government from May 23, 2018 to July 23, 2019.

Resignations of 17 rebels, including 14 from the Congress and 3 from the JD-S led to the fall of the coalition government, as Kumaraswamy lost the majority in the 225-member assembly on July 23, 2019 in their absence.

Though Yediyurappa led the party to win 105 seats in the 2018 assembly elections and formed a government on May 17, 2018, he resigned 3 days later on May 19, 2018, as he fell 8-9 seats short of the halfway mark (113) for a simple majority in the lower house.

In a post-poll alliance, the JD-S and the Congress formed the coalition government to keep the BJP out of power in May 2018, after the assembly elections gave split verdict and the Congress lost power then.

"The record victory of the ruling party in the May 2019 general elections, when 25 of its 27 contestants won out of 28 Lok Sabha seats from the state, reinforced the popular belief that Yediyurappa is the party's mascot in winning elections and an unquestionable leader of the politically dominant Lingayats in the state," the source pointed out.

When Yediyurappa left the BJP and floated a regional outfit (Karnataka Janata Party) in January 2013, he delivered a body blow to the BJP in the May 2013 state assembly polls, as the votes got split and was defeated by then Congress.

"Besides the party's high command, everyone in the party's state unit, including leaders and cadres are aware of Yediyurappa's popularity across the state, as has the wherewithal to connect with masses and win elections," the source added.

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The district has already initiated relaxations and mandatory guidelines have to be implemented, he further said.

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