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Indira Gandhi’s assassins honored by SGPC inside Sri Darbar Sahib complex 2 days after PM Modi’s security breach

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The Congress party which is in power in the Indian state of Punjab has suffered embarrassment after the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) in Amritsar celebrated and commemorated Indira Gandhi’s assassins on January 6, 2021.

Former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassins Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh were hanged on 6th January in 1989 and the SGPC commemorated this for their role in the brutal killing of India’s first and only female PM.

The top Sikh body that controls all the Gurudwara paid homage to them in Amritsar Gurdwara Jhanda Bunga inside the Sri Darbar Sahib complex and offered ardas i.e. prayers while remembering the killers as ‘martyrs’ and they also honored their family members.

SGPC members honored Waryam Singh, who is the brother of Satwant Singh along with others. They were given the robe of honor by Gyani Gurminder Singh and SGPC members Manjit Singh Bhurakohna and Advocate Bhagwant Singh Sialka as Gyani Gurminder Singh recited the holy Hukumnama.

The SGPC Amritsar also sent out a tweet in which it said, “Historical Event. Martyrs Bhai Satwant Singh and Bhai Kehar Singh were hanged till death in Delhi Jail. The bodies of these two martyrs were cremated inside the Jail and meanwhile, the Curfew was imposed in Punjab. (6-1-1989)”

This celebration of the assassins of Indira Gandhi came just two days after the security breach of Prime Minister Narendra Modi cavalcade.  

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Former IPS officers write to President of India to take immediate action PM Modi’s security lapse

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After the security breach incident that endangered the life of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Punjab, a group of former IPS officers urged President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday (January 6) to take immediate action as they alleged ‘intentional and planned security lapse’ by the state government in collusion with protesters.

In a letter to Kovind, 27 former Indian Police Service (IPS) officers said it was ‘one of the gravest security lapses in the history of this country committed through conspiracy and collusion.

Protesters blocking the prime minister’s route “was not only a sheer lapse of security but a shameful open display of collusion of the state machinery with the so-called protestors to embarrass and harm” him, they added.

Former Punjab director general of police (DGP) P C Dogra and former Maharashtra DGP Praveen Dixit are among the 27 signatories to the letter.

“The stoppage of the carcade of the prime minister for 15 to 20 minutes in a planned manner on a flyover demonstrates poor law and order in Punjab and threatens the democracy in our country,’ they said, noting that the Punjab police was primarily responsible for Modi’s travel and security within the state and had to provide a secure passage on all the routes, in accordance with the established protocol.

‘We are approaching yourself for the reason that it has never happened that the state agencies are making one or the other excuse and there are contradictory statements even at the level of chief minister regarding the prime minister’s route,” they said.

“We, the former police officers, request your honour to take immediate action on this matter having serious bearing on national security and state responsibility to maintain law and order in a border state going for election in a few months,” they wrote in the letter to the president.

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Captain Amarinder Singh calls for President’s rule in Punjab

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Former Punjab Chief Minister and retired army Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday called for President’s rule in the state. He called for the imposition of the President’s rule after a serious breach was reported in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security when he had gone to an area in Punjab which is very close to the international border with Pakistan.

Amarinder said the Channi government had utterly failed in ensuring law and order in the state. In a tweet the former CM of Punjab who had called Navjot Singh Sidhu unstable and close friend of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, “Complete failure of law and order in Punjab, CM and HM Punjab, in particular. When you cannot provide smooth passage to the Prime Minister of the country and that too just 10km from the Pakistan border, you have no right to stay in office and should quit!,”

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PM Modi on Wednesday (January 5) had to return without addressing a rally in the poll-bound state after his convoy got stuck in a road blockade near Hussainiwala.

Amrinder Singh who after leaving the Congress party and forming the Punjab Lok Congress said, “If we have to keep our state safe and keep law and order system here, then I think President’s rule should be imposed,”.

Meanwhile the Union Home Ministry, in a statement, has described this incident as a “major lapse” in the Prime Minister’s travel in Punjab.

The MHA statement read, “The Prime Minister’s schedule and travel plan was communicated well in advance to the Punjab Government. As per procedure, they have to make necessary arrangements for logistics, security as well as keep a contingency plan ready. Also in view of the contingency plan the Punjab Government has to deploy additional security to secure any movement by road, which were clearly not deployed,”.

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DMK functionaries interfere in sugarcane procurement for Pongal, farmers unhappy

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The Commune
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A report by India Ahead News Tamil has revealed that DMK office bearers at the district level are interfering in the sugarcane procurement from farmers and siphoning off the profit from them leaving the farmers disgruntled.

The DMK government began the distribution of Pongal gift to 2.15 crore ration card holders, which includes 21 grocery items along with a full sugarcane. For this, the MK Stalin-led DMK government had said that it would procure sugarcane from the farmers at a price of ₹33 per cane with the cane not being shorter than six feet. This procurement rate is 10% more than last year’s rate. Approximately ₹88 crore has been set aside by the government just for this sugarcane purchase.

However, instead of the regular intermediaries, DMK office bearers at the district level are procuring the canes from the farmers at a rate of ₹14-15. The farmers instead of getting the promised ₹33 per cane are left with a meagre amount while the remaining ₹18-19 is siphoned off by the DMK men. This, the farmers say leave them with money that not even compensates the input cost of growing sugarcane.

This problem has risen this year because, instead of the cooperative societies themselves, the sugarcanes are being procured by cooperative society unions. A sugarcane farmer, Muthuvel, from Vanathirajapuram said in a video, “Yesterday the government purchased sugarcane from us at ₹14-15 through intermediaries. When this news came out, Minister or Food and Civil Supplies Sakkarapani said that an order has been passed that only the Associate Registrar of the Cooperative societies can procure sugarcane from the farmers, and intermediaries cannot interfere. However, we have sold all our sugarcanes, not to intermediaries, but to those the respective authorities and representatives from DMK.”

Another farmer from Mayiladuthurai, Ramalingam said, “No representatives from Cooperative societies or cooperative society unions came to procure sugarcane. At least not in Mayiladuthurai. Here, only DMK cadres come for procurement and the rates are very low. The maximum they procure sugarcane for is ₹17. Almost ₹13-14 is pocketed by these functionaries, as it will not cost much to transport the products. We never had direct purchase from Cooperative society representatives.”

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DMK Fin Min PTR resigned from party posting?

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Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, who was appointed as the secretary of the DMK’s IT wing is said to have resigned from the post, Junior Vikatan has reported.

PTR (as he is popularly called) who indulges in cyber-bullying and slandering people with whom he doesn’t agree with, was instrumental in setting up the troll army of the party to unleash propaganda.

However, post becoming the Finance Minister of the state, there is dissatisfaction within the party leadership as PTR is not able to focus on the IT wing. In this context, PTR is reported to have resigned from his party post.

Some of the second tier leaders of the DMK were quoted saying in the report, “The party leadership is unhappy as DMK’s performance on social  media has reduced. The IT team does not give appropriate answers to the allegations and charges places by the Opposition parties on social media. For example, the AIADMK has been saying for 6 months now that DMK has not given the Pongal gift and ₹1000 aid to families, as promised in our manifesto. The DMK IT wing should have appropriately retaliated for this. But, no response was given with such vigour. The speed and energy that was there last year is missing now. Officials have been appointed in every government department to investigate and report to the government on the allegations coming up on social media. They have to send their report to the Chief Minister’s office every week. The Chief Minister’s office is monitoring social media meticulously. In such a situation, the party leaders are not happy that the IT wing has not acted diligently in responding to the opposition’s campaign and allegations.”

A few days ago, the party leadership has spoken to IT wing Secretary PTR about this issue. “The workload as a Finance Minister is ample. The AIADMK has ruined the financial positions of Tamil Nadu. That needs to fixed. Two months ago itself I have informed that I am not able to focus party work. If there is a qualified person, please hire him to work in my place,” PTR reportedly said. He has also reportedly written a letter of resignation to his party leadership and left. No decision has been taken upon that letter till date.

Although PTR has said that his reason for resignation is inability to focus party work, people close to him say that he also had some personal reasons. Junior Vikatan, quoting executives from the DMK IT wing said that PTR has been saddened by the appointment of writer Manushyaputhiran as an advisor to the IT wing. PTR apparently felt it as an insult as no other team other than the IT wing had an advisor appointed to it. He had collected all the statistics required for the 2021 Assembly elections. However, the DMK brought in Prashant Kishore as an advisor. PTR is said to be upset about that too.

Around the time PTR took over as Finance Minister, Mahendran left Makkal Needhi Maiam and joined DMK.  He was appointed as the Joint Secretary of the Information Technology team. The party leadership gave Mahendran the responsibility of social media and PTR the responsibility of statistics. PTR couldn’t digest being relegated to such a position in the party. That is when he decided to resign from the party posting. It is in this context that the party that called him in the first week of January and complained that the DMK’s activity has reduced on social media. PTR, who decided that it was not good for him to continue with the party posting even after that, resigned from his post.

“If social media was not functioning properly, then the leadership should have questioned Mahendran who was made responsible. There is still no clarity on why PTR was questioned. A faction within the party is making it difficult for PTR, in order to make Mahendran the head of the IT wing.”, sources were quoted saying.

Apparently, there is already a tiff in relationships between PTR and someone from the Chief Minister’s family. It is because of that individual’s pressure that PTR is facing heat. According to sources, DMK leader and CM Stalin has still not come to a decision with regard to the resignation letter.

“The legislature will meet until next Friday, after which a decision will be made on the letter which will likely be followed by an announcement. Perhaps, if the CM calls PTR and makes peace, the resignation issue is likely to come to an end as well,” sources from Arivalayam were quoted saying.

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Orchids Int’l School gives clean chit to teacher who allegedly forced Hindu students to pray to Allah, child asserts incident in new video

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The Commune
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Following the viral video of a little girl from Bengaluru who had said that her teacher had forced her and other Hindu students to pray to Allah for not being able to solve a math equation, an internal audit of this incident conducted by the school has given a clean chit to the teacher while implying that the child is lying. 

Earlier, Chiru Bhat, a journalist from Karnataka had shared a video in which a small girl narrates how her teacher named Sarika Rana forced them to pray to Allah with hands shaped like a bowl and wipe their face for them to understand the math problem. The teacher was apparently teaching a lesson on ‘Money’.

In an elaborate statement, Orchids The International School located at BTM Layout denied that such an incident ever occurred.

The statement released by the school categorically denied the incident ever happened and added that the action mentioned by the girl in the video was an “eye palming exercise”.

The management of the School was categorical and stated that the school’s policy was always to promote secularism. The school also said that the teacher does not practice the religion alleged to have been promoted adding that the children in the classroom confirmed that the teacher has been wrongly accused.

It has also threatened to take strong action against the alleged ‘defamatory video’ so as to ‘safeguard the reputation of the school’. 

However, in a new video, the little girl affirms that the incident happened and stands by what she told in the earlier video. She also distinguishes between the said “eye palming exercise” and the Islamic prayer gesture. This video has been shared by the girl’s father Vikram Simha on his Twitter.

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The father had also stated that he had spoken with the school management and their legal team during which they recorded the conversation. He mentioned that they refused to let his daughter statements be recorded. The school management had also allegedly called the father to meet with them in their office. 

This is not the first time the said school is in news for the wrong reasons. In October 2014 a case of sexual assault on a 4-year-old kid was reported. 

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Novak Djokovic’s visa cancelled after uproar over entitlement

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The Commune
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World number and nine-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic visa has been canceled by the Australian government because the defending champion is still not vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus.

Health Minister Greg Hunt said Thursday (January 6), “The advice that I have literally just received before joining you is that the visa for Novak Djokovic has been canceled,” he said at a news conference.

It’s a matter for him whether he wishes to appeal that, but if a visa is canceled, somebody will have to leave the country.”

Earlier, Djokovic was allowed to participate in the tournament and was given a deferment for not being vaccinated. However, this caused a huge controversy when 17-year-old Indian tennis player Aman Dahiya was denied entry to the Junior Australian Open because he was not vaccinated.

In the case of Dahiya the decision not to get vaccinated was not a choice but he was underage. The Indian government as of January 3. 2022, started vaccinating children aged between 17 and 18. 

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“I threw away Vibuthi and also placed a fire cracker below a Ganesha idol”: DMK MP A Raja says

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The Commune
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A video of former Union Minister and Nilgiris DMK MP Andimuthu Raja has stirred a controversy where he says, “I threw away all holy ashes (Vibuthi) and I also placed a elephant cracker below Ganesha’s statue, and it exploded,”.

DMK’s Hindu hatred is not new. They never greet for Hindu festivals, they preach and spread messages against Hindus from one stage to another, they respect and honour anybody who speaks against Hinduism, and they consider smearing Vibuthi and Kumkum on the forehead as a disgusting practice.

Aanimuthu, belonging to the Periyar Organisation, passed away recently. Speaking at his film opening ceremony, DMK’s A Raja said, “Geographically, I and Aanaimuthu belong to the same district, I studied in the Periyar Kudil conducted by Aanaimuthu in 1973 when I was doing my 6th grade. At that point, when I used to step out, my mother would ask me to smear Muruga’s Vibuthi and I would smear it. Then I listened to Periyar’s final speech and continued reading all of his books. After that, I threw away the Vibuthi. Not only that, I also placed a elephant cracker below your Ganesha idol and it exploded. That was a time in my life. The reason behind this change in me is Periyar’s final speech.”

This is not the first time DMK MP A Raja who is also the Deputy General Secretary of the party has made comments disrespecting Hindu identities and the Hindu faith. There have been multiple instances where he has abused Hindus and Hindu Gods.

(With inputs from Kathir news)

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Uniforms for staff and priests in temples under the control of HR&CE

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The Commune
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The DMK govt has started a scheme that provides uniforms to all workers and priests in temples that come under the Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments department. This was initiated by TN CM M K Stalin, yesterday. All those who work in temple that come under the HR&CE, have to compulsorily wear uniforms. It is to be noted that this initiative has been taken to differentiate the staff and the priests from the devotees.

According to the notice released by the Tamil Nadu government in relation to this scheme, all the recognised workers of the temples that come under the HR&CE, including Priests, Battacharyas, Oduvars and Archakas will be provided brand new attires, while staff with be provided with two sets of uniforms. This announcement was also made in the Legislative Assembly.

In order to differentiate the temple staff and priests from devotees, priests are given Cotton Dhotis with peacock blue coloured borders, women staff are given maroon sarees with yellow borders, and other staff are given cloth material for brown coloured pants and sandal coloured shirts. Through this scheme, 52,803 workers from 36,684 temples are to benefit.

(With inputs from Kathir News)

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Don Bosco Chennai Province calls for Past Pupils Association re-election

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Former students of the famed Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Egmore who took to social media to denounce election fraud in their Past Pupils Association, can finally heave a sign of relief as the Superior of the Chennai Province has approved a recommendation to hold fresh elections.

The Commune, which broke the story first, spoke with Fr. K.M. Jose, the Provincial of Chennai Province, who acknowledged the news over phone. “A priest incharge of the whole past pupils unit from the Salesian family is following up on the matter.” he further stated.

Fr. K.M. Jose, in response to a particular query about when the re-election would take place, said his office was now engaged with work relating to the upcoming provincial chapters and that he would look into the issue after January 16th, 2022.

Earlier in June 2021, former Students of the Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Egmore took to social media and expressed unrestrained anger against election fraud and gross mismanagement in their Past Pupils Association.

Several former students took to social media and called out all the irregularities in the association.

They have even formed an online group in Facebook to specifically address this issue.

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