Pramod Mutalik urges Centre to ban All India Muslim Personal Law Board; asks members to go to Pak
Bijapur: Accusing All India Muslim Personal Law Board of instigating Hindu by stating that it would go ahead with the construction of Babri Masjid where the Ram Temple is going to be built, Pramod Mutalik, Sri Ram Sene Chief has not only demanded the Board be banned but has asked the Board members to go to Pakistan if they don’t believe in the Constitution of India or law of the land.
“Recently, the Board has issued a statement saying that it will go ahead and build Babari Masjid where the Ram temple is proposed. By giving such a statement, the Board is only provoking Hindu sentiments when the decades-long dispute has been resolved by the Supreme Court. The Board’s statement amounts to contempt of Court which has already given verdict about ten months ago in favor of the Temple”, Mutalik said at a press conference on Saturday.
Demanding the Union Government to ban the Board, he also accused the BJP government of going soft on the Board. “I really don’t understand why the BJP government is having a soft corner for the Board. Why no action has been taken against the Board so far. When the matter has been resolved amicably and Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has already performed ‘Bhumi Puja’ for the construction of Temple on August 5, then why the Board has been raising the issue of Masjid after ten months of the verdict, what is the intention behind it”, he said while showing a copy of tweet reportedly issued by the Board from its official Twitter account.
He also demanded the banning of SDPI for reportedly stating that the Babri masjid would be rebuilt at the same site.
Alleging the BJP government of neglecting, Pravin Togadia, one of the pioneers of temple movement, Mutalik wondered why such a person was not invited for the ‘Bhumi Puja’ program.
Referring to the COVID situation in the country, he echoed the sentiments of Congress which has accused the BJP government of involving in large scale corruption in buying equipment for containing the virus.
“I am openly saying that while the State government is involved in corruption, the Union Government has succumbed to pressure of Allopathic medicine manufacturing companies by not allowing Ayurvedic medicines to be used for treating COVID infection”, he said.
Mutalik claimed a noted Ayurvedic doctor Giridhar Kaje had treated some 10 COVID patients in just nine days with his medicines. “Yet the government is not ready to accept his medicine for treatment though they cost only Rs. 300.
“Instead, the government wants the people to shell out lakhs of rupees in getting Allopathic medicines”, he said.
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Trump administration says its war in Iran has been 'terminated' before 60-day deadline
Washington (AP): The Trump administration is arguing that the war in Iran has already ended because of the ceasefire that began in early April, an interpretation that would allow the White House to avoid the need to seek congressional approval.
The statement furthers an argument laid out by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during testimony in the Senate earlier Thursday, when he said the ceasefire effectively paused the war. Under that rationale, the administration has not yet met the requirement mandated by a 1973 law to seek formal approval from Congress for military action that extends beyond 60 days.
A senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the administration's position, said for purposes of that law, “the hostilities that began on Saturday, Feb 28 have terminated.” The official said the US military and Iran have not exchanged fire since the two-week ceasefire that began April 7.
While the ceasefire has since been extended, Iran maintains its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, and the US Navy is maintaining a blockade to prevent Iran's oil tankers from getting out to sea.
Under the War Powers Resolution, the law that sought to constrain a president's military powers, President Donald Trump had until Friday to seek congressional authorisation or cease fighting. The law also allows an administration to extend that deadline by 30 days.
Democrats have pushed the administration for formal approval of the Iran war, and the 60-day mark would likely have been a turning point for a swath of Republican lawmakers who backed temporary action against Tehran but insisted on congressional input for something longer.
“That deadline is not a suggestion; it is a requirement,” said Sen Susan Collins, R-Maine, who voted Thursday in favour of a measure that would end military action in Iran since Congress hadn't given its approval. She added that “further military action against Iran must have a clear mission, achievable goals, and a defined strategy for bringing the conflict to a close."
Richard Goldberg, who served as director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction for the National Security Council during Trump's first term, said he has recommended to administration officials to simply transition to a new operation, which he suggested could be called “Epic Passage,” a sequel to Operation Epic Fury.
That new mission, he said, “would inherently be a mission of self-defence focused on reopening the strait while reserving the right to offensive action in support of restoring freedom of navigation.”
“That to me solves it all,” added Goldberg, who is now a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish Washington think tank.
During testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Hegseth said it was the administration's “understanding” that the 60-day clock was on pause while the two countries were in a ceasefire.
Katherine Yon Ebright, counsel at the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program and an expert on war powers, said that interpretation would be a “sizeable extension of previous legal gamesmanship” related to the 1973 law.
“To be very, very clear and unambiguous, nothing in the text or design of the War Powers Resolution suggests that the 60-day clock can be paused or terminated,” she said.
Other presidents have argued that the military action they've taken was not intense enough or was too intermittent to qualify under the War Powers Resolution. But Trump's war in Iran would certainly not be such a case, Ebright said, adding that lawmakers need to push back against the administration on that kind of argument.
