Name your leaders who fought for India's independence: Mevani Challenges RSS
Bantwal : Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani has challenged the RSS to reveal the number of its leaders who have given their lives for the independence of India. Mevani described those who are speaking about changing the constitution are anti-nationals.
Mevani was speaking at the 'Swabhimani Samavesha' organised as part of ' Save Constitution Campaign' at Sparsha Kalamandir at BC Road on Saturday.
Mevani stressed that we don not want the rule of Hindutva Corporates here. He urged all to come together and fight to form a secular government.
" Prime Minister Modi is reluctant to come to Karnataka. He only speaks of false development. Let him to come to Karnataka. He is also Gujarati and i am also Gujarati. Let us sit together in Karnataka and discuss about development" Mevani challenged Modi.
Actor, activist Prakash Rai who spoke on the occasion said BJP will never form the government in Karnataka. ' Wife of Mangaluru South BJP Candidate Vedavyas Kamath is seeking votes in the name of saving Hindutva. No one should use religion to seek votes. BJP is supporting rapists. First, it should stop that ' Rai urged.
K L Ashok, state committee member of ' Samvidhana Ulisi' campaign said that we don't vote for those who killed Gandhi and Gauri. Those who oppose Ambedkar and constitution have no right to rule our country. This is an election between hate and love and not between religions, said Ashok.
Student leader Richa Singh said party like BJP has only one agenda.They want to finish Loktantra ( Democracy) and implement Sangh Tantra ( Sangh rule). She called upon the 15 lakh youth voters who are voting for the first time to ensure that BJP does not come to power.
Senior activist Suresh Bhat Bakrabail presided over the event. D M Kulal, Haji Mustafa Kempi, Nirmal Kumar, Alwyn Colaco, Pushparaj Shetty, Vani Periyodi were present.
Event was inaugurated by releasing the book Red Alert. Umar UH welcomed the gathering. Ismath Pajeer compered the program.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
