Former NAC member Harsh Mander says he will register himself as a Muslim to protest against CAB
New Delhi: A former member of Sonia Gandhi run thinktank National Advisory Council (NAC) and social actvisit Harsh Mander has said that he will officially register as a Muslim in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill.
If CAB is passed, this is my civil disobedience:
— Harsh Mander (@harsh_mander) December 10, 2019
I will officially register Muslim. I will then refuse to submit any documents to NRC. I will finally demand the same punishment as any undocumented Muslim- detention centre & withdrawn citizenship.
Join this civil disobedience
The Lok Sabha, in a late night sitting on Monday (9 December), passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill amidst a vote of 311 in its favour and 80 against it out of 391 members who were present and voting.
Mander previously worked in the Indian Administrative Service, serving in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh for almost two decades. He was the Additional Collector of Indore during 1984 anti-Sikh riots after Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Indore, along with Jabalpur and Bilaspu,r were worst affected cities in Madhya Pradesh during the riots as Congress workers went on a rampage targetting Sikh community.
After 22 years in service, Mander officially quit the IAS claiming that he was troubled by the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat
Mander was handpicked as a member of National Advisory Council by the council President Sonia Gandhi in June 2010.
Mander currently serves as the director at the Centre for Equity Studies, a ‘think tank’ founded by him that claims to focuses on public policy for the poor.
Mander courted huge controversy for funding the ‘thinktank’ through a grant by a Church backed organisation DanChurch Aid ,an entity directly connected to Danish National Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mander's other funder, Partnership Foundation, runs homes in India called "Missionary Sisters Servants of Holy Spirit"
Mander is also an advisory board member of Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros. It operates as the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.
Earlier this year, Supreme Court had dismissed an application filed by Mander seeking the recusal of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi from the case related to the treatment of inmates in Assam’s detention centres.
Mander had moved Supreme Court citing what he claimed was the deplorable conditions of Assam’s Detention Camps.
Assam runs detention camps to house people who have been declared foreigners by Foreigners’ Tribunals pending deportation or bail. Presently there are six detention camps operating out of makeshift facilities in local prisons in Dhibrugarh, Jorhat, Goalpara, Silchar, Tezpur and Kokrajhar.
Mander sought the recusal of Justice Gogoi claiming that comments and observations made by CJI during the proceedings of the case raised serious apprehensions in the mind of the applicant that there is a possibility of bias affecting the outcome of the petition. Justice Gogoi hails from Assam.
Courtesy: swarajyamag.com
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DC Mullai Muhilan permits free movement of e-auto rikshaws
Mangaluru: DC Mullai Muhilan issued orders permitting electric auto rikshaws and autos running on ethanol and methanol to ply across the district freely. Despite being issued on July 26, the orders were released to the public on Tuesday.
The orders retract the earlier notifications issued on November 24, 2022 and January 1, 2023.
In zone-1, E-auto rikshaws and rikshaws running on methanol and ethanol were ordered to be painted yellow on the front side till the middle and black on the rear till the middle. They were also directed to bear square shaped stickers of blue colour with identification numbers issue by the police department.
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Similar rikshaws in zone-2 were also directed to be painted in the same way. However the orders about having police issued yellow coloured circular identification stickers has been cancelled. DC has directed the RTO officers to take strict measures for the implementation of these rules.
Mangalore city SP and DSP have been permitted to put up necessary notice boards regarding these rules.
DC has also authorized the commissioner of Municipality and the officials of the local bodies to fix parking zones and vehicle stops in their areas.
