Hindu Janajagruti Samiti calls for 'Hindu Nation'
Anti-constitutional banner put up in Mangaluru city
# Move creates furore in social media
# Organisations oppose it
Mangaluru, Jan 23: The flex and banners put up by the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti in the city as part of awareness programme on Hindu Nation to be held in Mangaluru and Shivamogga on January 27, evoked mixed response and debate in the social media.
It reads in the banners ‘All Hindus come together. Let us build Hindu Nation. Present in the convention and exhibit the unity’ and it has created controversy.
Earlier, the organizers claimed that they would conduct the convention at the Nehru Maidan. But now, the programme is shifted to Sharada Vidyalaya at Kodialbail for some reasons.
The Samiti has put up such banners in many places across the city. But more than banners, the event is being debated much in social media and getting more publicity.
Questions like ‘as to how the JDS-Congress coalition government which claims itself as secular, gave permission to put up such banners? Is there a provision to put up such banners as per the Constitution? What will happen if Hindus- Muslims and Christians put up their own banners appealing people to build their own country? Is it not anti-national?.. are being raised in the social media. Moreover, the netizens also urged the police department to act on this issue.
“No organization has sought permission from the department to conduct such a programme in any public places in Mangaluru. If any complaint is lodged against putting controversial banners in public places, the department would take action”.
- Hanumantharaya, DCP, Mangaluru City
“Mangaluru City Corporation will not give permission to put up any controversial banner. It will be verified on such banners put up in the city”.
- Gayathri Nayak, Deputy Commissioner, Mangaluru City Corporation
“This is against Constitution. It is anti-national. Police should not take this issue as small. The administrative machinery which book activists like Kanhaiya Kumar who fight for the nation under false allegations, should not spare such organizations. They should take legal action against the organization. The Indian culture itself is secular. Even the Muslim kings had ruled the country for centuries. They had never tried to make this country Muslim country. When this was the case, some people have been conspiring to convert the secular country into Hindu nation which is unfortunate”.
- PB Desa, vice president PUCL national committee
“The state government should consider such anti-constitutional and anti-national programmes during Republic Day programme seriously and must take action to cancel the programme. The Education department should investigate as to how an education institution has given permission to conduct such programme on its premises? This is the country of pluralism. In coming days, if other communities came forward to build the country on their religion, what will be the situation? As there is a chance of law and order problem, the police department should take precautionary measures. Not only on programme organizers, the police should also take action against the education institution too. Is it not the Urban Naxalism of rightists? Why the government, district administration and police department are silent?”
- PV Mohan, General Secretary, KPCC
“As an effort to counter the secular concept of the democratic India, the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti which has close association with the Sanatan Sanstha is going to conduct the convention in Shivamogga and Mangaluru and its posters were put up in the city.This is a dangerous development. The Indian Constitution has declared the country as a secular and democratic. Building the country in the name of any particular religion is anti-Constitutional and anti-national.The efforts of Hindu Nation are also like ISIS objective of making Islamic country. Both are dangerous. So, the police should not allow the organization to conduct the programme and it should register suo moto case against the organizers and take action”.
- Yasir Hasan, PFI State General Secretary
“It is a dangerous development. They have posed a challenge to the unity and integrity of the country. Case should be registered against the organizers and those who allowed this programme under Treason Section and investigate the issue to uncover the conspiracies behind this move”.
- Muneer Katipalla, President, DYFI Karnataka
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Karnataka says sandbar removal in Uttara Kannada rivers will begin after environmental clearance
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that the removal of sandbars from four major rivers in Uttara Kannada district will proceed only after mandatory environmental approvals are granted.
In an affidavit submitted before the NGT’s Chennai Bench, the Department of Mines and Geology said it has already applied to the Karnataka State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) for permission to clear sandbars in the Sharavathi, Gangavali, Kali and Aghanashini rivers. The tribunal had earlier issued a notice seeking the State’s response following complaints of illegal sand mining in the region, as reported Deccan Herald.
According to the department, eight proposals have been submitted for sandbar removal in the Sharavathi river, seven in the Kali, four in the Aghanashini and one in the Gangavali. It stated that no work would begin until SEIAA grants the requisite clearances.
Officials had earlier told the tribunal that excessive sand accumulation could obstruct river flow, increase erosion of riverbanks and raise the risk of flooding. They also said clearing the sandbars and using the material locally while following environmental safeguards.
