HC directs Karnataka govt to clarify stand on RSS route march in Chittapur by November 13
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has directed the state government to state its position by 2:30 pm on November 13 regarding the permission sought by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to conduct a route march in Chittapur, Kalaburagi district.
The direction came during the hearing of a petition filed by Ashok Patil, the RSS district convener of Kalaburagi, seeking the court’s intervention to instruct the district administration to consider their application for permission to hold the route march. The case was heard by Justice M.G.S. Kamal of the Kalaburagi bench on Friday.
Senior advocate M. Arun Shyam, appearing for the petitioner, informed the court that, following the court’s earlier advice, RSS representatives had attended a peace meeting at the Advocate General’s office in Bengaluru on November 5 and had presented their proposal. He said the government has yet to communicate its decision.
Advocate General K. Shashikiran Shetty, representing the state, told the court that permission would be granted to all organizations that had applied within a week, and written communication regarding the specific dates would be issued. He sought one week’s time for this process.
Responding to this, Arun Shyam requested that permission be granted for November 13 or 16, stating that the RSS had already reserved a Kalyana Mantapa (convention hall) for those two dates and would not be able to use it later.
After hearing both sides, Justice Kamal noted that the peace meeting held on November 5 with various organizations had been constructive. Since the petitioner sought permission for either November 13 or 16, and the Advocate General assured that permission would be given to all eligible organizations, the court adjourned the matter to November 13 at 2:30 pm.
The government has been directed to convey its decision on the permission sought by the RSS on that day.
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Sangh Parivar still afraid of Mahatma Gandhi: Kerala CM
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 78th death anniversary and claimed that the Sangh Parivar was still afraid of him and his memory and that is why his name was removed from the rural employment guarantee scheme.
Vijayan, in a Facebook post, said that Gandhi was killed because of his uncompromising stance on secularism and his vision of a pluralistic India that embraces diversity and disagreement.
He claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of the memory of the Father of the Nation and hence his name was removed from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
"Why are they still afraid of Gandhiji? The answer is simple. Gandhiji's life and vision are the exact opposite of the politics of hatred and alienation envisioned by the Sangh Parivar," the CM contended.
He further claimed that the Sangh Parivar was trying to remove Gandhi from the lives of the ordinary people.
Vijayan said that unity in diversity was "the foundation stone of the Indian Republic" and everyone should be committed to protecting it from the "totalitarian tendencies that suppress dissent".
He claimed that there were certain forces which were trying to "rewrite history and elevate communal murderers as heroes" in order to lead the country towards totalitarianism.
The Marxist veteran said that Gandhi was "not assassinated by a man named Godse, but by an embodiment of the politics of hatred promoted by the Sangh Parivar" which is still trying to attack and destroy the Constitution and the democratic values of the country.
He said that Gandhi's martyrdom was a constant call for the anti-communal struggle.
Leader of Opposition in the state assembly V D Satheesan too claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of Gandhi.
In his message on Facebook paying tribute to the Father of the Nation, Satheesan said that Sangh Parivar was even afraid of the memories of Gandhi and that is why they were "erasing books and writings" to hide things from people.
He too said that the assassin of Gandhi was not just a man, but an ideology.
Satheesan said that even though the Sangh Parivar shot him down, Gandhi still lives on after his death.
Gandhi, the most prominent face of India's freedom movement, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on this day in 1948.
