Pramod Mutalik urges Centre to ban All India Muslim Personal Law Board; asks members to go to Pak
Bijapur: Accusing All India Muslim Personal Law Board of instigating Hindu by stating that it would go ahead with the construction of Babri Masjid where the Ram Temple is going to be built, Pramod Mutalik, Sri Ram Sene Chief has not only demanded the Board be banned but has asked the Board members to go to Pakistan if they don’t believe in the Constitution of India or law of the land.
“Recently, the Board has issued a statement saying that it will go ahead and build Babari Masjid where the Ram temple is proposed. By giving such a statement, the Board is only provoking Hindu sentiments when the decades-long dispute has been resolved by the Supreme Court. The Board’s statement amounts to contempt of Court which has already given verdict about ten months ago in favor of the Temple”, Mutalik said at a press conference on Saturday.
Demanding the Union Government to ban the Board, he also accused the BJP government of going soft on the Board. “I really don’t understand why the BJP government is having a soft corner for the Board. Why no action has been taken against the Board so far. When the matter has been resolved amicably and Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has already performed ‘Bhumi Puja’ for the construction of Temple on August 5, then why the Board has been raising the issue of Masjid after ten months of the verdict, what is the intention behind it”, he said while showing a copy of tweet reportedly issued by the Board from its official Twitter account.
He also demanded the banning of SDPI for reportedly stating that the Babri masjid would be rebuilt at the same site.
Alleging the BJP government of neglecting, Pravin Togadia, one of the pioneers of temple movement, Mutalik wondered why such a person was not invited for the ‘Bhumi Puja’ program.
Referring to the COVID situation in the country, he echoed the sentiments of Congress which has accused the BJP government of involving in large scale corruption in buying equipment for containing the virus.
“I am openly saying that while the State government is involved in corruption, the Union Government has succumbed to pressure of Allopathic medicine manufacturing companies by not allowing Ayurvedic medicines to be used for treating COVID infection”, he said.
Mutalik claimed a noted Ayurvedic doctor Giridhar Kaje had treated some 10 COVID patients in just nine days with his medicines. “Yet the government is not ready to accept his medicine for treatment though they cost only Rs. 300.
“Instead, the government wants the people to shell out lakhs of rupees in getting Allopathic medicines”, he said.
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'Go back to your own country': Indian-origin taxi driver attacked in Dublin
London, Aug 5 (PTI): An Indian-origin taxi driver based in Ireland for over 23 years has become the latest to be targeted in an unprovoked attack in the capital Dublin, with local police (Gardai) launching an investigation into the violent assault.
Lakhvir Singh, in his 40s, told local media that he picked up two young men in their 20s on Friday night and dropped them at Poppintree, in the Ballymun suburb of Dublin.
Upon arriving at the destination, the men are said to have opened the vehicle door and struck him twice on the head with a bottle. As the suspects fled, they reportedly shouted: "Go back to your own country".
"In 10 years I've never seen anything like this happen," Singh told ‘Dublin Live’.
"I'm really scared now and I'm off the road at the moment. It will be very hard to go back. My children are really scared," he said.
A Dublin police spokesperson said Singh was taken to the city's Beaumont Hospital with injuries determined as not life-threatening.
"Gardaí are investigating an assault reported to have occurred in Poppintree, Ballymun, Dublin 11 at approximately 11:45 pm on Friday, 1st August 2025. A man, aged in his 40s, was brought to Beaumont Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injury. Investigations are ongoing," the spokesperson said.
The incident followed an Indian Embassy advisory, also issued on Friday, expressing safety concerns following recent attacks in and around the capital Dublin and urging Indian citizens to take safety precautions.
"There has been an increase in the instances of physical attacks reported against Indian citizens in Ireland recently,” states the advisory.
“The embassy is in touch with the authorities concerned in Ireland in this regard. At the same time, all Indian citizens in Ireland are advised to take reasonable precautions for their personal security and avoid deserted areas, especially at odd hours," the statement reads, adding emergency embassy contact details as 0899423734 and cons.dublin@mea.gov.in.
It came in the wake of a brutal attack on a 40-year-old Indian man at Parkhill Road in the Tallaght suburb of Dublin on July 19, described as “mindless, racist violence” by locals.
The Gardai had opened an investigation into the case and Indian Ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra was among those who took to social media to express shock over the attack.
“Regarding the recent incident of physical attack on an Indian national that happened in Tallaght, Dublin, the embassy is in touch with the victim and his family. All the requisite assistance is being offered. The embassy is also in touch with the relevant Irish authorities in this regard,” the embassy said in a social media post days after the incident.
A Stand Against Racism protest was also held by the local community in condemnation of what was described as a "vicious racist attack" and to express solidarity with migrants.
Last week, Dr Santosh Yadav took to LinkedIn to post details of a “brutal, unprovoked racist attack”.
The entrepreneur and AI expert stressed that it was not an isolated incident and called for “concrete measures” from the governments of Ireland and India to ensure Indians feel safe to walk the streets of Dublin.
His post revealed that a group of six teenagers attacked him from behind as he walked to his apartment in Dublin.
“This is not an isolated incident. Racist attacks on Indian men and other minorities are surging across Dublin — on buses, in housing estates, and on public streets. Yet, the government is silent. There is no action being taken against these perpetrators. They run free and are emboldened to attack again,” reads Yadav's post.
Fine Gael party Councillor for Tallaght South, Baby Pereppadan, was among those who expressed concern following last month’s attack.
“People need to understand that many Indian people moving to Ireland are here on work permits, to study and work in the healthcare sector or in IT and so on, providing critical skills,” he said.
Another violent anti-Indian attack in Ireland
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Taxi driver Lakhvir Singh was attacked with glass bottles while doing his job pic.twitter.com/mtkwhLWISx
