New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain petitions seeking action against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his alleged remarks targeting Muslims and a now-deleted controversial video purportedly showing him targeting members of a particular community. Asking the petitioners to approach the Gauhati High Court, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant observed that the issues raised could be “effectively adjudicated” by the jurisd…
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Amaravati, Feb 15 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh minister for education and information technology Nara Lokesh has come out in support of a Muslim vendor who faced harassment by some YouTubers during the recent Medaram Jatara in Telangana.Lokesh reacted to the media reports about the harassment of Shaik Shaiksha Vali, the vendor from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.Shaik Shaiksha Vali was selling ‘Khoya bun’, a famous food from his region, during the tribal fair in Telangana’s Mulugu district.A group of Yo…
Hyderabad, Feb 9 (IANS) Union Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar said on Monday that the saffron wave is inevitable in the municipal elections in Telangana.Hitting back at Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, the BJP leader posted on social media that the saffron wave is inevitable and that the Chief Minister knows it.“His frustrated media interaction said it all. It increasingly appears that the CM’s script is being drafted in Darussalam. The language and political narr…
Dibrugarh, Feb 9 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said he was prepared to face arrest after AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi reportedly filed a case against him over a now-deleted video, asserting that he stood firmly by his position against what he described as Bangladeshi infiltration.Responding to media queries in Dibrugarh, the Chief Minister said he had no objection if legal action was taken against him.“I am ready to go to jail. What can I do? I do not know anything …
Hyderabad, Feb 9 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday appealed to voters to reject hate politics in the February 11 municipal elections in the state.Addressing a press conference, he launched a scathing attack on the BJP, accusing it of practising divisive politics and stoking communal hatred.The Chief Minister alleged that the BJP was using leaders of some parties, like AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, as a ‘political scarecrow’ to get votes.He remarked that the BJP i…
Hyderabad, Feb 9 (IANS) AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday lodged a complaint with Hyderabad police demanding immediate criminal action against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Sarma for his “violent video” showing him “shooting Muslims”. Lodging a complaint with Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar against Sarma for his “deliberate and malicious acts of outraging the religious feelings of Muslims”, the Hyderabad MP accused the Assam Chief Minister of promoting enmity between two religious comm…
Moradabad, Feb 9 (IANS) AIMIM’s Uttar Pradesh president Shaukat Ali stirred controversy with a remark suggesting a new slogan on having children: ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do Darjan (We two, our two dozen)’. Shaukat Ali, the state chief of Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM, made the statement while addressing a public meeting in Moradabad on Sunday evening. His comments on population growth and community strength have triggered sharp reactions.During the gathering, Ali claimed that he has eight children, while…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The split was inevitable following the West Bengal Pradesh Congress leadership’s loud silence over the Communist Party of India (Marxist) state chief’s repeated overtures at another unity before the upcoming Assembly polls.It also underscores again the attempt of an Opposition alliance as unfeasible, grandly proclaimed less than three years ago as the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc.West Bengal will thus witness a multi-cornered contest, …
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) state unit’s topmost leader’s early Thursday outreach towards West Bengal’s controversial Babri Masjid replica builder stands out against Communists presenting themselves as secular and anti‑communal politicians. Left leaders have largely presented themselves as secular and anti‑communal, while Janata Unnayan Party Chief Humayun Kabir is associated with the Babri‑style mosque initiative in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.Ka…
Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) Suspended Trinamool Congress legislator and the founder of the newly floated political outfit, Janata Unnayan Party, Humayun Kabir, on Tuesday, ruled out any alliance with Congress for the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal.Instead, he said he will be keen for an understanding with Asaduddin Owaisi-founded All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and CPI(M)-led Left Front.Kabir, the legislator from Bharatpur Assembly constituency in minority-dominated Murs…