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Please stop fooling people in the name of Ram: Shiv Sena to BJP

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October 22, 2018

Pune, Oct 22: Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray has dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to come clean and confess before the public that building the Ram temple at Ayodhya is not possible for them.

“Since 1989, the party has been giving slogans for erecting a Ram temple at Ayodhya. Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had helped the BJP by evoking enthusiasm for the temple in Maharashtra. Yet, after all these years, why is the project still in limbo?” Mr. Thackeray said at a rally of Shiv Sainiks in the temple town of Shirdi in Ahmednagar district.

The rally marks Mr. Thackeray’s start of campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “Why keep deceiving people on the Ram temple issue? Like all false promises of the Modi government, it ought to acknowledge that the one on Ram temple construction, too, is false.”

The Sena chief, whose visit comes on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Shirdi tour last week, said the PM only sought the blessings of Sai Baba to stay in power for the next five years. “I have no craving for position. I have prayed for the welfare of the public. Before my visit, someone else [Mr. Modi] had come to seek Sai Baba’s blessings, but what has he done with that? There has been no improvement in the situation of the common man and the poor in this country,” he said.

Mr. Modi had offered worship at Sai Baba temple during the closing ceremony of the Sai Baba Samadhi centenary celebrations. He had also handed over keys to houses to nearly 40,000 beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY- G).

Mocking Mr. Modi’s conversations with PMAY beneficiaries, Mr. Thackeray said the PM’s attempt to win hearts and minds by interacting with villagers in the vernacular language is a sham as people in the State have not benefited by the schemes of the BJP government.

“In many cases, beneficiaries are being tutored by the BJP government. But has the situation improved from what it was during earlier governments? The State has also been hoodwinking people with its farm loan waiver scheme,” he said.

The Sena president defended the party’s actions in criticising the BJP despite being part of the ruling coalition in the State and at the Centre.

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January 7,2020

Mumbai, Jan 7: People protesting against the JNU violence were evicted from Gateway of India here on Tuesday morning as roads were getting blocked and tourists and common people were facing problems, a police official said.

Police had appealed to the protesters to shift but they didn't listen, so they were "relocated" to Azad Maidan, the official said.

Hundreds of people, including students, women and senior citizens - who assembled at the iconic Gateway of India since Sunday midnight - demanded action against the culprits and called for Union Home Minister Amit Shah's resignation.

Violence broke out in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi on Sunday night as masked men armed with sticks and rods attacked students and teachers and damaged property on the campus.

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May 25,2020

New Delhi, May 25: Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra on Monday said lockdown extensions are not just economically disastrous but also create another medical crisis.

While acknowledging that choices are not easy for policymakers, he said a lockdown extension will not help.

"Lockdown extensions aren't just economically disastrous, as I had tweeted earlier, but also create another medical crisis," Mahindra said in a tweet.

He was referring to an article that highlighted "the dangerous psychological effects of lockdowns & the huge risk of neglecting non-COVID patients".

Mahindra, who had earlier proposed a comprehensive lifting after 49 days of lockdown, further said, "The choices aren't easy for policy makers but a lockdown extension won't help".

He said, "The numbers (coronavirus cases) will continue to rise & the focus must be on rapid expansion of field hospital beds with oxygen lines".

He further said, "The army has enormous expertise in this".

On March 22, before the government announced nationwide lockdown, Mahindra had proposed such a move expressing concerns over reports that India was likely to have already reached stage 3 of coronavirus transmission.

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August 1,2020

New Delhi, July 1: In a terrific incident with chilling echoes of the 2015 Dadri mob lynching, a Muslim man, who was carrying meat, was savagely attacked by a mob belonging to a saffron outfit in the presence of in BJP ruled Haryana on the eve of Eid al-Adha. 

The incident occurred at around 9 a.m. on Friday, July 31 at Badshahpur village in Haryana’s Gurgaon, when Lukman was transporting meat in a pic-kup truck. 

The attack was captured on mobile phones by onlookers and the video clips of the incident are now spreading on social media. 

A group of saffronite cow vigilantes chased the truck for about 8 km managed waylay it. Lukman, who was driving the truck was pulled out and brutally assaulted on the suspicion that he was transporting cow meat.

Just like Dadri, the police were faster at sending the meat to a lab for testing than catching any one of the suspects. One of the assailants - Pradeep Yadav- has been arrested. 

After being beating to an inch of his life, Lukman was bundled into the pick-up truck and taken back to Gurgaon's Badshahpur village where the goons started thrashing him again.

This is when the police stepped in and stopped them - only to find the assailants fearless enough to even take on them.

Lukman was taken to a hospital and the police filed a case against "unidentified individuals" even though the video of the incident recorded by witnesses shows the faces of the assailants.

The owner of the vehicles said that the meat was buffalo and he has been in the business for 50 years.

The police have so far refused to give a statement on record on the incident and explain their inaction as seen on video.

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