Nothing wrong if copy of ‘discriminating’ Bhagavad Gita is burnt: Prof K.S. Bhagawan
Arrest of writers condemned
Mysuru, August 30: Thinker Prof KS Bhagawan condemned the arrest of progressive thinkers, writers, social and human activists who were raising voice in favour of dalits and backward classes.
Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Bhagavan said that it was not fair to arrest the progressive thinkers related to Bhima Koregaon violence in Maharashtra by the Puna police. If they were in an illusion that they could suppress the objectives and intentions of the activists by arresting them and it would not be possible, he said.
It was not fair to brand the social and human rights activists as ‘Urban Naxals’ as the term has no meaning. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been diverting the attention of the people to cover up his failures. The allegation that the progressive activists have planned to kill Modi was baseless and meaningless, he said.
The Prime Minister would come under the maximum security cover. There was a secret agency to protect him. It was unfortunate that the centre has planned such an action ahead of Lok Sabha election. It was not fair to suppress those who analyse and question the authoritarian rule in the democracy. The centre should not pave way for anti-Constitutional activities. Let Prime Minister Modi shun all such acts and work for the people, he said.
Nothing wrong
“There is nothing wrong in burning a copy of Bhagavad Gita as it is full of discrimination. I don’t find anything wrong in burning the copy. But it is not fair to burn a copy of the Constitution which is the real epic of the country. The government should take action against them. Both the centre and the state government should confiscate the assets of those who insult the Constitution and punish them. Some miscreants have desecrated the sculpture of former deputy prime minister Babu Jagjivan Ram at Hulimavu village in Nanjangud taluk and those miscreants should be punished”, he demanded.
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SC criticizes UP govt services commission for questions with ambiguous set of answers
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has slammed the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) for having set certain questions with ambiguous choices as answers for the Revenue Lekhpal examination for 2021-2022 and has directed the Commission to re-evaluate the answer sheets.
The bench consisting of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran has also said that the ambiguity in the answers has affected the outcome for over 8,000 candidates who had competed for 8,085 vacancies, reports LiveLaw.
The judges further resolved the ambiguities in three major questions from Booklet Series B.
The question on the location from where Mahatma Gandhi started the Salt Satyagraha gave options of Dandi, Surat, Sabarmati and Pawnar. The bench pointed out that the site of violation of the salt law was Dandi from a purely technical point of view. The official position in considering it the right answer was correct. The judges added that the Satyagraha commenced from Sabarmati, and therefore could also be considered as correct although not technically so. They said that the candidates who opt for either of the above answers should be given full marks.
The bench also gave directions related to the longest national highway in Uttar Pradesh, stating that, as the numbers had changed with time, two answers could be considered correct. Thirdly, it referred to the eligibility of farmers to get subsidy under the solar photovoltaic irrigation pump scheme and clarified that two answers were correct due to the changes in the policy implemented by the government.
The judges chastised the UPSSSC for the ambiguous and unclear questions it had set and stressed that the lapses proved to be highly disadvantageous for the candidates. They also directed the Commission to award appropriate marks to the affected candidates while protecting those who had been selected, to avoid disruption in the recruitment process.
