Day: January 13, 2022

New Delhi, January 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):A day after India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received a massive blow with the resignation of Swami Prasad Maurya, a minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet in Uttar Pradesh, along with four other MLAs, Dara Singh Chauhan, minister of environment and forests, call it quits.

Like SP Maurya, Chauhan too comes from an OBC background. With these resignations the group’s support to the BJP is expected to significantly dwindle ahead of the upcoming elections in the state. Chauhan had joined the BJP in 2015 after defecting from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as a Member of Parliament from 2009 to 2014. In the BJP, he was made head of the OBC unit and given a ministerial position in the cabinet in 2017.

“I worked with dedication but I am resigning as I am hurt by this government’s oppressive attitude towards the backward, deprived sections, Dalits, farmers and unemployed youth and the neglect of quota for the backward and Dalits,” Chauhan wrote in his resignation letter.

After the announcement of his resignation, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya took to Twitter urging Chauhan to review his decision. The politicians leaving the BJP are expected to join the Samajwadi Party, which is open to new entrants. The party is jubilant over the exodus from the ruling BJP.

“It cannot be that I say something on one day and then resign the next day. I hoped my voice would be heard sooner or later. But when things came to the point that no one was willing to listen to me, I had to resign,” Chauhan was quoted by Indian media after he announced the exit decision.

On January 11, five members, including minster Swami Prasad Maurya and four MLAs Roshan Lal Verma, Brijesh Prajapati, Bhagwati Sagar and Vinay Shakya, shocked everyone as they went public with their decision to leave BJP which is using all muscle, men and machinery to get second term in the state.

Reports said that the OBC leaders in the party have been feeling disgruntled for more than a year and had even attempted a rebellion against Yogi a year back but their concerns were not addressed which eventually came to a situation where they were leaving the party.

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Hyderabad, January 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):Registering his strong protest against the Narendra Modi led central government’s decision to increase the price of fertilisers, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has called upon the people across India to root out BJP government for another deep-rooted conspiracy to make the lives of farmers miserable.

He said the increase in the prices of fertilisers will put the agriculture sector into a crisis and break the backbone of farming in the country. KCR, as the chief minister is popularly known, said he will write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi registering his protest against the increase of fertiliser prices.

He alleged that the BJP government is weakening the rural economy, hereditary trades and playing havoc with the farm sector only to hand over the sector to the corporates. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief expressed anguish that the BJP government at the Centre removed subsidies on fertilisers, which were in vogue for several decades, and the situation came to such a pass that the farmers had no option but to take up their ploughs and revolt against the central government.

The CM expressed his anger that the central government which made tall promises that it would double ‘the farmers’ income by 2022, has now increased the prices of fertilisers at an all-time high to break the farming community’s back.

“It is highly reprehensible that the central government which promised to double the income of farmers took a U-turn and increased the agriculture expenses. This shows that the BJP government is totally against the farmers and it is proved right beyond any doubt,” he said. KCR said there was a deep rooted conspiracy behind the central government’s policies and actions to make the lives of farmers miserable.

Decisions like installing metres to motors to collect the power charges, not linking NREGP with the farm sector, increasing the fertilisers prices to all time high, not purchasing the paddy cultivated by the farmers, all these draconian decisions of the BJP government at the centre have made farmers’ life miserable. He said everyone should oppose the actions that would make a farmer a labourer in his own land.

The CM urged the people to confront the BJP on the matter at every opportunity. He made it clear that if the central government fails to withdraw the increased prices of fertilisers, there will be state-wide and countrywide agitations against the Modi government. He also urged the farming community in the state to expose the BJP’s conspiracy and join the struggle to make the centre withdraw the fertiliser price hike.

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Srinagar, January 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that shielded by draconian laws, Indian occupation forces have taken full control of civil administration and judicial institutions in the territory whereby people are arrested, tortured and killed with impunity.

The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar denounced the inhuman behaviour meted out to the Kashmiri political prisoners detained on account of raising a legitimate demand for right to self- determination, recognised by the United Nations Security council resolutions and supported by the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Terming the ongoing resistance movement against the Indian illegal occupation as purely a political and indigenous movement, the spokesman said that the Indian imperialistic system of governance is dealing with the common masses with iron fists and trample their fundamental rights through regular army and paramilitary forces.

Referring to the plight of illegally detained leaders and activists of All Parties Hurriyat Conference at the hands of fascist jail authorities of India, the spokesman said that the detainees have been lodged in death cells without basic amenities.

Unavailability of proper medical facilities and unhygienic dietary requirements and suffocating congestion have made the lives of the prisoners vulnerable to multiple illnesses, especially when the Covid 19 and now omicron pandemic has engulfed the whole world, the prisoners have been left at the mercy of the jail authorities.

Paying rich tributes to the martyrs killed in custody by physical violence, judicial partisanship, political vendetta or medical negligence, including Muhammad Maqbool Butt, Muhammad Afzal Guru, Syed Ali Gilani, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Ali Muhammad Ahanger, Mushtaq Ahmad Butt and Abdur Rasheed, the spokesman criticized India for its criminal attitude towards the ailing Hurriyat leaders, languishing in notorious jails of India and the occupied territory. He warned that if anything untoward happened to the resistance leaders and activists, the sole responsibility would lie on India.

The spokesman saluted the steadfastness of the incarcerated leaders, including Masarrat Aalam Butt, , Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Dr. Shafi Shariety, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Aasiya Andrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi, Naheeda Nasreen, Dr G M Butt, Ameer Hamza, Muhammad Yousaf Mir, Muhammad Yousaf Falahi, Altaf Fantosh,Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Nayeem Ahamad Khan, Shahid Ul Islam, Farooq Ahamad DAR, Zahoor Ahamad Watali,Maqsood Ahamad Bhat, Shahid Yousuf, Shakeel Yousaf, Mujahid Sehraie, Raashid Sehraie, Assadullah Parray,Shokat Hakim, Merajuddin Nanda,Rafiq Ahamad Ganaie, Peer Hilal Ahmed, Ab Rashid Lone, Shakeel Butt, Ghazanfar Iqbal Aabid Zargar, Shokat Ahamad Khan, Nazir Ahamad Sheikh, Zahoor Ahamad Butt, Mehmood Topiwala, Muhammad Ayoub Mir, Muhammad Ayoub Dar, Gh. Qadir Butt, Aaqib Najar, Aarif Wani, Imtiyaz Ahamad, Sheik Farooq, Nazir Pathan and others.

The APHC spokesman urged the United Nations Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and International Committee of Red Cross to pressure India to allow them to visit the jails and take on spot account of the miserable life of the inmates.

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Islamabad, January 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):Attacks on Dalits have sharply risen in India under Modi. They are systematically attacked and harassed by upper caste Hindus in the country. According to a report released by Kashmir Media Service, HR abuses against Dalits by upper caste Hindus is a norm in India. Those involved in hate crimes against Dalits are mostly associated with BJP-RSS, and often go unaccounted for being patronized by the ruling BJP.

Being born in a Dalit family is a curse in India, the report quoting many Dalit members as saying and added that the Dalits have been victims of Hindu caste system for centuries. Caste-based oppression and violence are still an everyday reality in India, a Dalit intellectual said and deplored that even after 75 years of independence, and Dalits are living a life of slaves in India.

He added that Dalits are considered impure and outcastes in India are not even allowed to enter temples in upper caste neighbourhoods. The Dalit scholar pointed out that Modi’s India has to offer nothing expect rape and hunger to Dalit women.

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New Delhi, January 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):A day after Swami Prasad Maurya, the cabinet minister in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh resigned from Bharatiya Janata Party government, warrant has been issued to arrest him in Sultanpur. The Sultanpur MP-MLA court has issued an arrest warrant against former BJP minister Swami Prasad Maurya, allegedly for speaking against Hindu gods in 2014.

He resigned from the UP cabinet, citing grave oppression of Dalits, OBCs, and farmers, unemployed and small businessmen in the BJP government, on Tuesday. Maurya is alleged to have made a speech against Hindu gods and stoking communal feelings when he was a part of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), seven years ago.

In his speech in 2014, Maurya reportedly said, “Goddess Gauri or Lord Ganesha should not be worshipped during weddings. It is a conspiracy by upper caste-dominated system to mislead and enslave Dalits and backward castes.” Maurya, who joined Samajwadi Party soon after resigning from Yogi Government, has been asked to appear in court on January 24.

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Warangal, January 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister of Indian state of Assam has said that the names of Nizam and Owaisi will be wiped out soon. He was addressing a gathering in Telangana’s Warangal. “We have to build a new India, where there will be no place for any Owaisi, Aurangzeb, and Babar and where no one will read the history of Nizam and if anyone will read the history s/he will read the history of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,” he added.

He also hailed the construction of Ram Temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya and abrogation of the special administrative status of Jammu and Kashmir. He further attacked the TRS government in Telangana and expressed confidence that the BJP will come to power in the state.

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Srinagar, January 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism, martyred one Kashmiri youth and injured many civilians in Kulgam district.

The killing and injuries took place when Indian Army soldiers along with personnel of paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force and Special Operation Group launched a cordon and search operation in Pariwan area of the district, late night. Meanwhile, an Indian Special Operation Group personnel was killed and three Indian troops were injured during the operation.

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Islamabad, January 13, 2022 (PPI-OT):Demand for immediate release of Kashmiri political prisoners has once again been raised amid fast rise in Covid-19 cases in jails of India and illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement issued in Islamabad on Thursday, APHC-AJK leader Altaf Hussain Wani while expressing serious concern over the new spike said that New Delhi was fast becoming a breeding ground for covid-19.

Citing media reports he said that Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh among 400 parliamentarians and 300 Delhi Police personnel have been tested positive for the virus. “The rising tide of coronavirus poses a grave threat to the lives of Kashmiri political prisoners who continue to languish in Tihar and other jails for the past several years”, Wani said adding that the Kashmiri prisoners were at high risk as dozens of inmates at Tihar prison have been tested positive for Covid-19. He urged the UN and other international human rights organizations to play their role in the release of Kashmir detainees.

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