Pejawar seer’s proposed Iftar party cancelled
Udupi, June 10: The proposed Iftar party of Vishvesha Theertha Swamiji of Pejawar Mutt scheduled to be held at Ajjarakadu Govinda Kalyana Mandir in the city on June 13 is cancelled.
During the Swamiji’s Paryaya period, the swamiji had conducted the Iftar party at Sri Krishna Mutt and allowed the Muslims to have their prayer last year. Later, the swamiji’s decision stirred a controversy and Sri Rama Sene had conducted a protest against this issue.
This time, the swamiji has decided to conduct the Iftar party at Govinda Kalyana Mandir and this has created a lot of debates. Now, it is said that the swamiji has cancelled the Iftar party following the outrage from the people.
Sources in the mutt said that as the swamiji has lot of engagements and on tour, he has cancelled the Iftar party. When Arief Doddanagudde and Ansar Ahmed of swamiji’s Blood Donating team met the swamiji in Bengaluru, the swamiji informed them that the proposed Iftar party was cancelled, it is said.
Ansar Ahmed told Varthabharati that “the swamiji himself has organized the Iftar party. We have made all preparations for the party. But as some organizations have opposed the swamiji’s decision and put pressure on the swamiji, the iftar party is cancelled”, he said.
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BJP using women's quota bill as front to pass Delimitation Bill that will break India: Mamata
Cooch Behar (WB) (PTI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was using the proposed amendment to the women's quota law in Parliament as a front for the Delimitation Bill that would "break the country into pieces".
The TMC will fight this Central government's move at every step, she asserted at her party's poll rally here.
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law, along with the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, to implement the proposed amended women's quota law, in the Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir, were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
According to the Constitution amendment bill, Lok Sabha seats will be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
Seats will also be increased in state and Union territory assemblies to accommodate 33 per cent reservation for women.
Opposing the Centre's move, Banerjee alleged that "the BJP brought the Delimitation Bill while keeping the women's reservation bill at the front".
"The BJP is trying to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha to nearly 850 through the Delimitation Bill. It will break the country into pieces," the TMC supremo said.
She also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not speaking the truth about the development of north Bengal at a BJP rally last week.
"The prime minister said nothing was done for the development of north Bengal. But we spent Rs 1.72 lakh crore on the development of the region," Banerjee said and asked Modi to cross-check data before making such remarks.
