Jharkhand’s Hussainabad to become district if BJP wins, to be named after Ram or Krishna: Himanta
Medininagar (Jharkhand), Oct 23: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that Hussainabad sub-division in Jharkhand’s Palamu district will be made a district if the BJP comes to power after the assembly elections, and it will be named after Lord Ram or Krishna.
Sarma, also the BJP’s Jharkhand election co-in-charge, said that driving out infiltrators from the state would be the priority of the party.
“Hussainabad will be made a district for sure after BJP comes to power in the state. It will be named after Lord Ram or Krishna,” he said.
Sarma said that Hussainabad will be designated as a separate district in the first cabinet meeting of the new government.
The Assam CM was addressing an election rally at Japla’s Karpoori ground seeking votes for Hussainabad assembly constituency candidate Kamlesh Singh.
Singh, who was Jharkhand’s sole Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator, joined the BJP on October 4.
Designating Hussainabad a separate district has been a demand of Singh for a long time. He withdrew his support from the Hemant Soren-led government on November 1 last year claiming that his demand was not fulfilled.
At the poll meeting, Sarma alleged that Jharkhand’s demography is changing due to Bangladeshi infiltrators but the ruling JMM is silent over the issue since they are its vote bank.
“Driving out infiltrators is BJP’s priority. We will implement the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to drive out Bangladesh infiltrators from Jharkhand,” he said.
He claimed that the Hindu population is declining in Jharkhand’s Santhal Pargana region, while the population of Bangladesh infiltrators is rising.
“They are entering Jharkhand through Santhal Pargana and spreading across the state. Gradually, Jharkhand will face the same situation what Assam is facing today,” Sarma said.
He claimed that the Muslim population in Assam was not even 20 per cent in 1951, which now increased to 45 per cent due to Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Polling to the 81-member Jharkhand assembly will be held in two phases on November 13 and 20, and votes will be counted on November 23.
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Several Indians inducted into Russian Army remain missing: Report
New Delhi: In a concerning development, several Indians who were illegally enlisted in the Russian Army and forcibly sent to the war zone on the Russia-Ukraine border are reportedly still missing.
According to a report published by The Hindu on Sunday, citing communication from the Ministry of External Affairs and statements from the families of two missing men, Mohammad Amin Sheikh, a 65-year-old resident of Kupwara in Tangdhar, Jammu and Kashmir, said that his 27-year-old son, Zahoor Sheikh, last contacted the family on December 31, 2023.
Amin Sheikh mentioned that his son said that he was going for training and would not be available for the next three months on phone. “But when we started getting news about the deaths of Indians in Russia in January, we got worried and called on his number. We could not reach him. We are yet to hear from him,” Sheikh, a retired Inspector from the Public Health Department in Jammu and Kashmir, was quoted as saying by the publication.
Last week, Mohammad Amin Sheikh and his two other sons travelled to New Delhi to seek answers from the Ministry of External Affairs and the Russian Embassy after the Indian Embassy in Moscow failed to give them information about Zahoor Sheikh.
“We submitted a petition at the Russian Embassy,” 31-year-old Aijaz Amin, Zahoor Sheikh’s elder brother, told The Hindu. “They said they are looking into the matter. The MEA officials said that at least 15 Indians are still missing and though the Russian government is cooperative, their commanders on the ground are not responsive,” he added.
Zahoor had travelled to Russia after he came across a YouTube video promising the job of a security helper in Russia. Instead, he was reportedly deceived into joining the Russian Army.
Similarly, 30-year-old Mandeep, from Jalandhar in Punjab, has been missing since March. His brother, Jagdeep Kumar, also arrived in Delhi, looking for answers from the government about his sibling's whereabouts.
“We last spoke on March 3. He initially went to Armenia and was supposed to go to Italy from there in search of work. Instead, he was tricked by an agent to go to Russia and was forced to join the Russian Army. He was sent to the war zone after a few days of training,” Kumar told The Hindu.
Kumar said he met officials from the External Affairs Ministry in the capital city, who told him that at least 25 Indians were reported missing in Russia.
