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8 September 2018 ASIA www.theasianindependent.co.uk Where is Baba Ramdev Ji? I know well in Mishra who emphasized, advance that the followers Hinduvta ideolo- of Baba Ramdev gy is anti-modern, would not like this piece of writing. I also know that there would be a strong criticism and disapproval authoritarian, far right and sometimes farleft,anti-globalist and anti-Enlightenment by the Baba`s trend haunting the loyalists. People will world two centuries. blame me as if I am writing Every flagship like a party man. I am scheme of Modi gov- a political man. Rather I ernment such as am a common man who is struggling to save the remaining years of life and future of the children. My heart bleeds for my country; for the unemployed youths; for the defenseless innocent Startup India, Standup India, Mudra, Skill India failed but Baba Ramdev is completely silent. Demonetization and GST have made the SMEs suffocated, Baba Ramdev is silent. girls and women who are Baba According to ET, ‘the raped every day; for the Ramdev `s silence leather industry in wealth of the nation that is being reality is that on all the issues raised in of December 2016. Bengal has collapsed, closure of 12 usurped by the nexus of abominable Patanjali this article reflects that Baba Income Tax lakh power looms in Maharashtra politicians and fake Babas`. imports its Ramdev was/ is not a friend of department discovered undis- homes in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and had led to workers returning to their Through this article, I want the equipment’s the poor, marginalized. The people people of India should ponder and from the of this country should not get trapped closed income Telangana’. Thanks to the social seek an answer from Baba Ramdev West. It is by Baba Ramdev and his associates of Rs 17, 526 activists and genuine lover of India to the questions such as: Where is also getting who are bracing up for 2019 elections Crores between who protested against the black money? Where is 15 food manufacturing and with renewed fake promises to get November 2016 ‘Saffronisation of academic bodies, Lakh? Are the criminal politicians Modi re-elected. Baba Ramdev & end –May research councils, and textbooks. behind bars? Is Ganga cleaned? Are packaging will again come to your 2017. On this The goons of RSS and other Hindu all the villages of India electrified? technology doorstep for asking the votes former RBI outfits left no stone unturned to The election funding? How many from Italy and for Modi. Be careful! G o v e r n o r impose Hindutva ideology on every socially and economically marginalized people are uplifted out of shows that Patanjali August 11, 2014, stated: Modi could not diagnose all the Switzerland. Data Raghuram Rajan on citizen of India. poverty by the Modi government? imports cosmetics body “The crooked politicians socio-economic ills of the country All these promises were made by cleaner from the UK, Cow Ghee need the businessman to provide the since he is more interested in foreign Modi government before 2014 elections and Baba Ramdev is a party to Handwash from the USA. Is this needs the crooked politicians to get could not diagnose all the socio-eco- from New Caledonia, Lotion and funds… The crooked businessman countries than his own country. Modi these fake promises. “Make in India” by Baba Ramdev? public resources and contracts nomic ills since he and his party leaders are busy in killing the Muslims Baba Ramdev, a maverick Yoga The NDA government under the cheaply”. Guru, a great supporter and admirer malignant, narcissistic Prime The socio-economic and caste and Dalits. Not a single promise of an elected despot Narendra Modi, Minister Modi is close to finishing 5 census revealed that 56% rural made by Modi and Baba Ramdev is Prime Minister of India got unparalleled social popularity among the Ramdev is silent on all the questions primarily on manual Labour to surtinues, unaccounted wealth flour- years term in office but Baba household own no land, and depend fulfilled in four years. Terrorism con- illiterate masses and political leaders raised. Baba Ramdev is silent over vive. A survey in 2014 across 42, ished, India is the most corrupt country (Transparency International that his a small pharmacy, Patanjali, when Muslims and Dalits are killed 000 households across India by the established in 2007 grown over 10 in the daylight by the shameless, National Council of Applied Report), Chinese and Indian soldiers times to $ 5,000 in 2015-16. envious, haughty and ignorant goons Economic Research and the stared eyeball to eyeball in Doklam. Patanjali, no doubt, shook the walls of RSS/Ram Sena/ VHP and other University of Maryland found that Modi displays no foreign policy of corporate Moguls such as Emami, Hindu militant outfits. Statistics one in four Indians except pleasing the world leaders and Dabur, and Marico. Baba Ramdev revealed that in the last past 100 Rahul Bali hugging them to show that he has with the help of the corrupt and despicable politicians and vile bureau- India while cleaning sewers. the Asian Independent, UK and RSS leaders are busy in foisting days, 39 people had died across Senior Correspondent, elevated the image of India. Modi crats of India succeeded in striking a Shameful Beef lynching by the sedition charges on the dissenters. nail in the business of Nestle India goons of Ram Sena and other Hindu admitted to practicing Dr. Ambedkar told the causing a whopping financial loss to outfits brought a bad name to the some form of untouchability. Baba Ramdev never spoke a religion may be a road to the salva- Constituent Assembly: “Bhakti in the company to the tune of Rs.450 country. Such shameful people are crore as it destroyed more than eroding democratic norms, principles & institutions. Their shameful untouchability. Bhakti or hero-worship, is a sure word against the practices of tion of the soul. But in politics 30,000 tonnes of Maggi. As economics tells us that a business cannot flourish for a long time if it is the country on the international plat- schools, Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh dictatorship”. Similarly, an eminent acts every day brings a bad name to Hindu Jagran Manch warned road to degradation and to eventual motivated merely by the dirty politics. In his statement on dirty politics BJP ruled states, eat beef openly. Priest and seminarians are regularly that the cult of Narendra Modi must form. People of GOA, Nagaland, the (UP) against celebrating Christmas. historian Ramachandra Guha argued of Baba Ramdev, Kejriwal Amit Baba Ramdev is silent over the Beef thrashed by Bajrang Dal activists in be challenged (and checked) before Dhanuka, CEO of Kejriwal Bee eating issue. Madhya Pradesh. In his home state it goes much further. Care India said, “It is a gimmick”. Baba Ramdev is silent over when UP, dues of sugarcane farmers Readers must be surprised why I Baba Ramdev, no doubt, knows it the rupee depreciated past 70 against soared to Rs 12,000 Crores. The 24 have used the word ‘Silent’ repeatedly in this article. Some might very well how illiterate masses can the dollar. Baba Ramdev is silent cooperatives mills too owe Rs be befooled. First, he practiced his when hundreds of thousands of 1107.09 crore. Cooking gas was argue Baba Ramdev is not a Prime market strategy by crying foul Indian soldiers are killed across the increased from Rs 93 to Rs 742 per Minister; Baba Ramdev is not a against the foreign companies from border. Baba Ramdev is silent when cylinder. Food prices escalated Chief Minister; Baba Ramdev is not the rooftop that these foreign companies are looting the wealth of the the BJP in the valley of Kashmir Girls and women from the weak- is a party to the false promises made Mehbooba Mufti`s PDP was left by beyond the reach of a common man. an administrator. But Baba Ramdev country. Patanjali is Swadeshi (of leaving behind thousands of Hindus er sections of the society are raped in during 2014 elections; Baba manufactured goods) made in India unprotected and unsafe. Baba 19 states ruled by the BJP/RSS. Ramdev is a party to hoodwink the from materials that have also been Ramdev is silent when Vijay Mallya, According to a perception poll conducted by Thomson Reuters Dear countrymen and country- innocent people of India. produced in India. The irony is that a wilful defaulter, proclaimed illiterate masses of India misunderstood Swadeshi word and somehow run away from the country with dangerous country for women to live wisdom at this time, you will repent offender and a fugitive from justice Foundation, ‘India is now the most women, if you do not exercise your by mistake appropriated this word to more than Rs 9000 crore. The in’. Baba Ramdev is silent. Mosques for another 5 years; your children ‘Swadeshi Movement’ Gangotri of black money is as flowing as it was in the era of UPA II. jected to various legal and adminis- and sons will roam without mar- and Madrassas across India are sub- will roam jobless; your daughters (Independence Movement), an independence movement once launched Today, over 17% of all bank loans trative hassles designed by Hindu riage; your elderly parents will suffer without medical care. I leave all by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are estimated to be non-performing. militants and RSS protagonists. to boycott the British goods. The Gross NPAs stood at $6.06 trillion as Alfons Lopez Toma quoted Pankaj this to 'your thoughtful wisdom'. Continuous Page 5 Hindus, Sikhs and BJP in nexus to repeal British Caste Legislation It further adds that ‘ Our thanks also go to Hon Bob Blackman MP, Chair of the APPG for British Hindus and the Hindu Parliamentarians and community leaders, who stepped forward to teach the community about Parliamentary processes and who guided and supported our forays into the arcane waters of statutory legislation. Finally on behalf of the Hindu Temples of the UK, we are grateful to PM Rt Hon Theresa May, her Government and Secretary of State Rt Hon Sajid Javid for arriving at an entirely just conclusion.’ Statement from Prakash Shah, Anti Caste Legislation Committee: The government’s decision came after it consulted whether the legislation’s duty should be enacted or whether only the intervening case law, through which the courts had already read ‘caste’ into the Act’s ‘ethnic group’ provision, should be retained. In so doing, it misleadingly presented the choice as being between the two options. The source of this choice probably lies in the suggestion by prominent Hindu lawyers that the coming online of recent case should allow the legislative duty to slide. Among these are Manoj Ladwa, informally Prime Minister Modi’s attaché for British affairs who campaigned for the London Mayor’s electoral contest, and Jayesh Jotangia, who leads the secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group for British Hindus. The signal was given at high levels that well positioned Hindus would be satisfied with the ending of the legislative duty, while the case law could be retained without attracting opposition. The Government latched on to the plan, buying time enough for the case law to be finalised. It is clear from Shah’s above quote that the British pronouncement to reach the repeal decision was connected to PM Narendra Modi. Statement from Equality and Human Rights Commission : Victims of caste discrimination will continue to have limited legal protection by the government ruling out a change in the law and restricting the scope of protection to what can be interpreted through case law. The government has missed a crucial opportunity to improve legal clarity and has taken a step back by looking to repeal the duty to include caste as an aspect of race in the Equality Act 2010. This is inconsistent with the UK’s international obligations to provide for separate and distinct protection for caste in our legislation. While we welcome the government’s commitment to produce guidance for employers, service providers and landlords on the sort of conduct that would be unlawful under the Equality Act, it does not replace the need for separate and distinct protection against caste discrimination in the law. I issued a further statement : The present Tory government not only lost its moral authority but holds parliament in contempt that you can see the way it manages Brexit. British parliament passed the caste law to protect victims of caste discrimination and empowered minister of the crown to implement that decision not to repeal that decision. The government sat on that legislation for 5 years and now rides roughshod over parliaments decision. The Tory governments in the past had expressed to abolish human rights and with it the EHRC . It lies in their natural instinct to stem the flow towards equality and human rights in general. The EHRC announcement did the honourable thing to uphold the principle of human rights and in particular Equality by declaring support for caste discrimination protection. Our campaign to outlaw caste discrimination remains unfinished business. Thank you for your time.
www.theasianindependent.co.uk ASIA September 2018 9 Rohingya refugees demand justice on Myanmar crackdown anniversary Dhaka : Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees held protests here on Saturday, demanding justice on the first anniversary of Myanmar's crackdown that forced them to flee to camps in neighbouring Bangladesh. Protesters in the world's largest Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh rallied for justice and brandished a banner proclaiming: "Never Again". More than 700,000 of the minority community fled to Bangladesh after a crackdown by the Myanmar military in August 2017 that the UN has likened to "ethnic cleansing with signs of genocide through killings, rapes and the razing of houses that year". But the Myanmar government said it was fighting militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and was not targeting civilians. "The Myanmar military raped and killed our women, destroyed our properties," Rakib Hossain told BBC Bengali. "They have to be punished. We want justice." Ashiya Begum, whose husband was killed during the violence in Rakhine, called camp life "miserable". "We can't continue like this. Let us go home," she said. There were also religious services, with an imam reportedly asking God in his sermon to return Rohingyas to their homeland "to see our parents' graves". Meanwhile, the UN renewed its appeal for aid for Rohingyas and called for support for the stateless refugees. "Kutupalong settlement in Cox's Bazar today shelters more than 600,000 refugees, making it the largest and most densely populated refugee settlement in the world," said Hopeful PAKISTAN will win Jadhav case : Foreign Minister Islamabad : Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said he is hopeful that the country will win the case against alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). "We have solid evidence against Jadhav and are hopeful we will win the case in the ICJ," Qureshi told the media in Multan city. "We will try our best to present our stance in an effective manner before the ICJ. Qureshi's comments came a day after the ICJ announced that it will hear Jadhav's case for a week in February 2019. "We will try to move forward under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The nation should be ready as we will have to take some bitter decisions," he said. Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court for espionage in April 2017 following which India moved the ICJ. A 10-member ICJ bench restrained Pakistan from executing Jadhav till the case was adjudicated on. He was apprehended on March 3, 2016 after illegally crossing into Pakistan from Iran, according to Pakistani officials. Indian officials deny he was a spy and allege he was seized and taken forcibly to Pakistan. Sri Lankan man charged with terror document in Sydney Sydney : A Sri Lankan man was refused bail by a Sydney court on Friday, after being charged with a terrorism related offence. Authorities swooped on the 25-year-old at the University of New South Wales on Thursday after a fellow worker discovered a notebook that allegedly contained "potential targets", reports Xinhua news agency. The man was charged with collecting or making a document which is connected with preparation for the engagement of a person in or assistance in a terrorist act, Xinhua news agency reported. "They are symbolic locations within Sydney," acting Detective Superintendent Mick Sheehy explained. "We have both psychologists and investigators looking at that document to try to interpret the intent and capability, but that is in essence the offence that is before the court." Authorities seized a number of electric items on Friday morning when police raided a Sydney apartment. Currently in Australia on a student visa, counter-terrorism investigators believed the man is also affiliated with the Islamic State group but at this stage he has not been charged with being a member. the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. "Over the past year, UNHCR teams have been working to support Bangladeshi authorities in areas including psycho-social counselling, prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, identification of and assistance to separated and unaccompanied children and other vulnerable refugees," the agency said. It also said the joint response plan launched in March 2018, appealing for $951 million for the period from March to December 2018, was only one-third funded. The World Health Organization said that the biggest challenge was "the need to further scale up services to meet the health needs of this highly vulnerable population". In a statement on the anniversary, ARSA affirmed its intention to continue with the fight to allow the Rohingyas to return to Rakhine, and accused the Myanmar authorities of looking to destroy their people. In a Rakhine village, the situation was calm on Saturday but there was a strong presence of border police and soldiers, a Muslim Rohingya man told Efe news. The man said he has no freedom of movement and was closely monitored along with the rest of the community. The Myanmar government has agreed a deal with Bangladesh to repatriate refugees but few have returned, with Rohingya leaders saying they would not go back unless they could guarantee their safety. Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has faced international outrage for not condemning the Army's actions in Rakhine state. A predominantly Buddhist country, Myanmar denies Rohingyas citizenship. The government even excluded them from the 2014 census and refused to recognize them as a people. Modi meets Sri Lankan President New Delhi/Kathmandu : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held talks with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on the sidelines of the fourth BIMSTEC Summit here. “Good and positive exchange of views on strengthening development cooperation and other areas of bilateral relationship (between India and Sri Lanka),” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted. Modi is also scheduled to meet other heads of state and government taking part in the summit. Addison Aaron A First Class Full Service International Law Firm Committed To Winning Matters. Tel : 0121 213 4812 law@addisonaaron.com w w w . a d d i s o n a a r o n . c o m
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