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The International News Weekly india June 08, 2018 | Toronto 08 Children make mistakes: Rajnath on stone-pelters Indo-Asian News Service BJP-Sena pact for LS elections on course Indo-Asian News Service Srinagar: Home minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday sought to reach out to the public in the Kashmir valley, saying cases against first-time stone-pelters were withdrawn as “children make mistakes” even as he said being “right-minded” rather than “like-minded” would facilitate dialogue. “Talks can be held with everybody. For this exercise, being like-minded is not necessary but people should be right-minded,” Singh said, adding,“There is extreme love in the heart of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Jammu and Kashmir. It is our responsibility to provide a secure future to Continued on page 15 Leaders of the SAD and BJP's Punjab unit were present at the meeting which, party sources said, was held in a cordial atmosphere. Senior Akali leader Sikander Singh Maluka told the media earlier that while the outreach campaign of the BJP President to the NDA allies was a welcome step, it was started a "little late" in the day. The former Minister said that the BJP-led government at the Centre had "ignored the interests of Punjab". The meeting was held as part of Shah's initiative to connect with the Bharatiya Janata Party allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Shah had met NDA ally and Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackerey in Mumbai on Wednesday. the youth.” The minister’s formulation on a dialogue made it clear it was up to the Hurriyat to decide whether it wanted to be part of talks and and the Centre was not in a hurry to seek the separatist group’s presence. The view in the government seems to be that talks with the Hurriyat cannot come about without the group making clear it wanted to engage in dialogue and not The SAD-BJP alliance did not do too well in the Punjab Assembly elections early last year. They also did not fare well in the Lok Sabha polls in April-May 2014 despite a clear Modi wave in most other states in north India. Both parties, which have an alliance for over three decades in Punjab, were relegated to the third spot in the 2017 Assembly polls as new entrant Aam Aadmi Party got 20 seats in the 117-member Assembly and became the principal opposition party. obstruct peace. At a press conference, the minister sharply attacked the separatist alliance without naming it saying, “They give education to their own kids and put stones in the hands of other kids. I appeal to them to treat the kids of others just like they treat their own.” His comments made it clear he considers the Hurriyat an obstacle rather than a facilitator of peace. BJP chief meets Akali Dal leadership, discusses 2019 polls The Congress, which was out of power in Punjab for a decade (2007-2017), during which period the Akali Dal- BJP alliance ruled Punjab, got 77 seats in the Assembly (the Congress tally increased to 78 after win in Shahkot byelection last month, giving the party a two third majority in the house). Out of the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, the Akali Dal- BJP combine holds five (four Akali Dal; one of BJP), while the Congress has four seats and AAP another four. Mumbai: BJP and Shiv Sena agreed in principle to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections together at the meeting between their chiefs, Amit Shah and Uddhav Thackeray, on Wednesday, but the discussion at Matoshree remained inconclusive due to lack of consensus over sharing of seats for the Maharashtra assembly polls, also due next year after the parliamentary elections. If a senior BJP cabinet member is to be believed, both parties agreed to stick to the 2014 formula for the LS polls. BJP had then contested 26 of the total 48 seats, and Sena 22. However, after the discussion on sharing of seats for the assembly polls began, there seemed to be no consensus and the meeting had to be adjourned. In the 2014 state elections, BJP had contested 260 seats and won 122, while Sena had contested 282 and won 63. The cabinet member said the BJP leadership took the view that since BJP and Sena together had won 185 out of the total 288 assembly seats, the discussion on seat sharing should be restricted to the remaining 103 seats. Before 2014, when BJP and Sena had contested the state polls jointly, the Sena had contested 171 seats while BJP had contested 117. It had been agreed during the Bal Thackeray-Advani- Vajpayee era that the chief minister would be from the party that secured more seats. As Sena had got more seats in 1995, one of its leaders, Manohar Joshi, became the CM. The BJP member said that after the 2014 LS and assembly polls too, the BJP’s performance under the leadership of CM Devendra Fadnavis had been impressive, and it had won the largest number of seats in elections to municipal corporations, councils and zilla parishads. “The entire (changed) political situation was explained to the Sena leadership. BJP will not contest less than 122 assembly seats,” the cabinet minister said. The alliance had come apart before the 2014 assembly polls after the Sena called itself the ‘senior partner’ and insisted on contesting more seats, while BJP leaders took the view that BJP had much improved its performance, especially after Narendra Modi’s victory in the LS polls, so the old formula had no relevance. “We won more seats in the 2014 assembly elections than Sena after we contested separately,” the BJP member said. Further, the minister said the Sena leadership was told that if BJP and Sena did not contest together in 2019 and Congress and NCP joined hands, the alliance was sure to lose power in the state.
The International News Weekly india June 08, 2018 | Toronto 09 At RSS headquarters, Pranab preaches pluralism, tolerance and secularism Indo-Asian News Service Nagpur: : Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who drew flak from Congress for accepting an RSS invite to address its cadres, spoke of the need to respect pluralism rather than dogmas and religious identities even as he called for public engagement and dialogue to reconcile ideological differences. Mukherjee’s comments stressing inclusiveness and warning against intolerance diluting national identity were seen by Congress as “sagacious advice” to the RSS but his endorsement of Sangh founder K B Hedgewar as a “great son of Mother India” could not be so easily explained. The media and political commentary over Mukherjee agreeing to be the chief guest at the passing-out parade of Sangh trainees drew in a larger-than-normal crowd to hear him with people pouring in to the Reshimbagh grounds hours before the event started. Mukherjee did not utter a single word on RSS but made pointed references to Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of Indian nationalism, marking a clear difference with the Sangh’s less-than-laudatory view of India’s first PM. “We celebrate our diversity. Any attempt at defining our nationhood in terms of dogmas and identities of religion, region, hatred and intolerance will only lead to dilution of our national identity,” he said. But even as he delivered a class on inclusive values, his presence at the RSS HQ marked a rejection of Congress’s view that this goes against his political beliefs. Dera chief 'daughter' Honeypreet's bail plea dismissed Dalit woman assaulted for sitting on chair Ahmedabad: A 48-year-old Dalit woman anganwadi worker, tasked with issuing Aadhaar cards, was allegedly attacked by a member of the upper caste Darbar community for “sitting on a chair at the panchayat office” of Valthera village in Dholka, Ahmedabad. The woman, Pallavi Jadhav, is the aunt of Maulik Jadhav, who was assaulted last month in Dholka for adding suffix ‘Sinh’ to his name. According to the FIR at Koth police station on Thursday, Jayrajsinh Vegad, one of the 10 accused, asked Pallavi why she was sitting on a chair and kicked the chair, causing her to fall off it. Nine other men of the Darbars then came to the panchayat office and started abusing Dalits and attacked her with sticks and iron-pipes. “When her son and husband rushed to her rescue, they were attacked too,” the FIR said. Indo-Asian News Service Chandigarh : A Panchkula court on Thursday dismissed a plea for regular bail filed by Honeypreet in connection with violence that broke out after the conviction of Dera Sacha Sauda sect's head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in two rape cases. Honeypreet had sought the bail from the court in adjoining Panchkula in Haryana, claiming that no evidence was found against her by Haryana Police even as she was behind bars for 245 days. Her counsel told the court that others booked by the police on same charges as Honeypreet had been granted bail by different courts. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which investigated the violence in Panchkula in August 2017 following Gurmeet Ram Rahim's conviction, had slapped sedition charges against Honeypreet in September last year. Honeypreet, whose real name is Priyanka Taneja, has been lodged in the Central Jail, Ambala, 45 km from here, since October last year. The police had claimed that she was the closest aide of the sect chief and knew many things about the sect's activities and its role in the violence in Panchkula and other places after the August 25 conviction of Ram Rahim. Honeypreet remained on the run for 38 days after she was booked by the Haryana Police on charge of sedition. She was arrested on October 3, 2017 from the Zirakpur-Patiala Highway, about 15 km from Chandigarh. The woman claims to be Ram Rahim's "adopted daughter" though her former husband Vishwas Gupta has alleged illicit relations between her and the sect chief. Ram Rahim was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of over Rs 30 lakh, following which violence erupted in Panchkula and Sirsa in Haryana, leaving 41 people dead and over 260 injured. Isolated incidents of violence were also reported from Delhi and several places in Punjab.
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