Hindus are in trouble as Modi has become PM: Kanhaiya Kumar
Freedom of expression convention
Bengaluru, September 5: “RSS and BJP have been playing with the basic objectives of our culture, history of the country and the intention of the Constitution. You might be the great sportsmen. You should not forget that the people of the county have been watching your games seriously like umpires”, said JNU Students Union former president Kanhaiya Kumar.
Speaking at the valedictory of the ‘Dissent India’ at the Freedom of Expression convention here on Wednesday, he said that the copies of the Constitution were being burnt near Jantar Mantar in Delhi and shouting slogans against Dr BR Ambedkar. For the last four and half years, the Constitution has been facing threat inside the country. “One year was passed after the murder of Gauri Lankesh. A few days ago, my friend Umar Khalid was attacked. We believed in science. How much they try to suppress us, we will bounce back in the same pace”, he added.
“Even if you attack on us, put us in jails, brand us as urban naxals and traitors and anti-Hindus, we will not go back from our objective. If we speak on unemployment, farmers, labourers, dalits, tribals and minorities, those who claim that they have brought Hindu administration, would say that Hindus are in trouble. You are telling the half truth to the people. Hindus are in trouble because, Narendra Modi has become the Prime Minister of the country”, he said.
In the name of naxalism, the common people were being kept away from their real problems. Though they have clarified that they would not support any act which is anti-Constitutional, the government has put the writers behind bars branding them as urban naxals. The central government has no answers to their questions. Ever since Narendra Modi has become the Prime Minister, 12,000 farmers have committed suicide. But the insurance companies have made Rs 10,000 crore profit in the name of crop insurance schemes, he said.
Saffron colour is a symbol of courage. The colour of the clothes of Basavanna, Sambhaji Maharaj, Sahu Maharaj, Buddha, Swami Agnivesh was saffron. But you people wear saffron colour clothes and kill innocent Muslims. It was not a courageous work. It was coward work, he said.
Gujarat MLA and dalit leader Jignesh Mevani said that there was undeclared emergency in the country. Narendra Modi-led BJP government has been putting the writers and activists behind bars branding them as urban naxals. So he would fight for defeating the BJP. When the Assembly election was held in the state, there were not even a single code violation cases against the leaders of Congress, JDS and BJP. But the government had booked three cases against him and thus tried to curb the fight, he said.
“Five years have gone after killing Dabholkar in Maharashtra. Soon after the SIT traced the foot-prints of Sanatan Sanstha members in the Gauri Lankesh murder, the Maharashtra police arrested the Sanatan Sanstha members in a hurry. If the Karnataka police arrested them and brought to Karnataka, Modi and Amit Shah could not do anything here”.
-Kanhaiya Kumar, JNU students leader
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HC to decide if gram panchayat members can continue in Manipur post tenure: SC
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Thursday said the high court would decide whether the elected gram panchayat members, whose five-year tenure was over in Manipur, were entitled to continue in their posts in the event of the appointment of an administrative committee or an administrator.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said it would like to have the benefit of the view of the high court in the matter and set a three-month time frame to adjudicate the legal question.
"The question that falls for consideration in this case is that whether the elected member of the Gram Panchayat whose five-year tenure is over was entitled to continue as members of the gram panchayat in the event of appointment of administrative committee or administrator, as contemplated under Section 22 of the Manipur Panchayati Raj Act of 1994," the bench noted.
The Manipur government’s counsel said the state could not hold panchayat elections due to the unprecedented violence.
"Since, we would like to have the advantage of the opinion of the high court, we dispose of the special leave petition without expressing any opinion on merits, with the request to the chief justice of Manipur High Court to post the main case before a division bench at the earliest. We further request the division bench, before whom the matter is listed, to provide expeditious hearing with an endeavour to resolve the controversy within three months," the bench said.
The bench noted that provision of Manipur Panchayati Raj Act was amended to substitute the word "cease" with the word "continue" with respect to the tenure of the elected members of the gram panchayat.
The petitioners have challenged a high court order and submitted that since elections in gram panchayat could not be held in Manipur for various reasons, the previously elected members of the panchayat were entitled to continue as per the amended Section 22 (3) of 1994 Act.
Section 22 deals with the power of deputy commissioner to appoint an administrative committee or an administrator for a period of six months, which will then oversee the election.
Section 22 (3) of the law says once the administrative committee or an administrator is appointed by the deputy commissioner, the elected members of earlier gram panchayat shall cease to exist.
The top court said what has been challenged before it was an interlocutory order of the high court and the main petition in which the question of law that had been raised was still pending.
The original petitioners before the high court were elected representatives at the fifth general elections for gram panchayats and the zilla parishads who sought a direction to continue in the office beyond the period of five years as stipulated by law as elections were last held in 2017.
They sought to continue as panchayat members till the time the state election commission notified the election for the sixth general elections for gram panchayats and zilla parishads.
On February 29, last year, the high court in its interim order gave liberty to Manipur government to appoint an administrative committee for each gram panchayat and zilla parishad in accordance with law and the provision of the Act.
