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Tamil Nadu police arrest Christian pastor after he keeps corpse of police constable in the house for days to ‘resurrect’ her

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The Commune
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Dindigul police have arrested two individuals, including a Christian pastor named Sudarsanam, on Thursday in connection to the death of a 38-year-old woman.

The woman, identified as Annai Indra, was a police constable at the All Women Police Station in Dindigul. Her huband Palraj lived in Pattiveeranpatti. She and her husband had separated two years ago, as her husband was opposed to her conversion to Christianity. As a result, she had deserted him and started living in a rented house in Nandavanapatti Treasury Colony with their two daughters, her sister Vasuki and Pastor Sudarsanam.

Indra had gone on a long leave since November 16. However, a couple of months ago, Indra had applied for voluntary retirement citing reasons of ill-health. When the cops went to serve her the order on Wednesday, they discovered a foul smell at her house. Further investigations under the directions of senior officers revealed that Indra had died on December 7. Her decaying body, covered with a cloth, was found in the house.

Indra’s sister and daughters claimed that Indra was ‘sleeping’ and that she would ‘wake up’ soon. Her family reportedly kept her corpse in the house under the belief that she would ‘resurrect’ from the dead.

The police has initiated an investigation into the case. A post-mortem examination was conducted on the spot due to the decayed nature of the corpse. The cops booked pastor Sudarsanam and the woman’s sister Vasuki under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 176 (Omission to give notice or information to public servant), 304A (causing death by negligence), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating). Pastor Sudarsanam who has been arrested is suspected to be the brain behind Indra’s conversion to Christianity.

The body has been sent to the Government Hospital for further examination.

Andhra Pradesh: More cases of temple vandalism come to light

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The Commune
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Following the appalling desecration of a murti of Shri Rama at a temple in Ramateertham, Andhra Pradesh, more such incidents of desecration have occurred and have come to light.

On Friday morning, priests of the Vigneshwara temple in Sriramnagar in Rajahmundry found the two arms of the vigraha of Lord Subrahmanya severed. The culprits remain unidentified. Rajahmundry is in the same East Godavari district as Antarvedi, where the decades old wooden chariot of Lakshminarasimha Swamy was burned down under mysterious circumstances in September. Here too, the culprits remain unidentified.

Another case of temple desecration has occurred at the Komalamma Temple near Vantlamamidi near Paderu, in Vishakhapatnam district. Miscreants damaged the feet of the deity Komalamma in a temple adjacent to the famous Modakondamma temple. Devotees who went there on Friday morning to have darshan of Komalamma’s padalu (feet) on the occasion of the New Year were shocked to find the feet damaged.

According to local tradition, devotees first offer prayers to Modakondamma and then seek blessings from her younger sister Komalamma. Modakondamma is one of the prominent deities of the Paderu region. Believed to be the shakti-peetham of the region, lakhs of Hindus participate in the festival held in honour of the deity every summer.

Efforts are on to identify people who vandalised the Komalamma temple, senior police officials said.

However, opposition parties are accusing the Reddy government of a disregard towards Hindu traditions and institutions which, they say, is encouraging such hateful crimes. “Attacks on temples has become a daily occurrence, because of the government’s indifference. Neither the public nor the gods inside the temple are safe in the state. Matters would not have come this far if stern action was taken in the first such case. The government has the responsibility to safeguard the sentiments of all communities,” former CM Chandrababu Naidu remarked while condemning the Rajahmundry incident on Friday.

Andhra Pradesh BJP chief Somu Veerraju warned that his party would intensify its agitation if the YSRCP government fails further in arresting the culprits and putting a stop to the temple vandalism.

There have been unabated acts of vandalism and desecration at several temples across the southern state of Andhra Pradesh since January last year. This has left the Hindu devotees and organisations distraught and enraged.

DMK MP threatens to put critics behind bars once party comes to power

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The Commune
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DMK MP from Dharmapuri Dr. Senthilkumar threatened to put popular YouTuber Maridhas and political commentator Kishore K Swamy behind bars once the party comes to power.

On January 2, the DMK MP took a jibe at Maridhas who following Rajinikanth’s announcement to quit politics, issued a statement saying that he was taking a sabbatical as he felt ‘tired’ and needed some rest and peace to sort out further scheme of things. In response to this, Senthilkumar said “You are already saying ‘you are tired’, ‘you need rest’. How fair is it? The game has not even begun. It is from now that ‘special’ legal incidents are about to start”.

Maridhas is a vocal critic of the DMK has been facing cases filed against him by the party. He is known for exposing the unholy nexus between prominent Tamil mainstream media journalists and the DK, DMK, Communist groups in Tamil Nadu. In August 2019, the DMK  filed cases under section 505 (2) of IPC [Whoever makes, publishes or circulates any statement, rumour or report] and Information Technology Act for his video “Should DMK be banned“, that was critical of the party.

Political commentator Kishore K Swamy in response to this threat put out a tweet that he would be even more ruthless than Maridhas in criticizing DMK and its chief M.K. Stalin and challenged the DMK MP to do whatever he can.

To this, the DMK MP responded saying “You have waited for these many days. Just a few more days left. You will be given the ‘first respects’ in the legal actions that will be taken. Do not have any doubt in that. You are number one in the list”.

Speaking to The Commune, Kishore K Swamy said that this response from the DMK MP does not surprise him and added that it is a party of the thugs, by the thugs and for the thugs. “This threat was not just for me. It is a warning to the people of Tamil Nadu that this is what they will do if anyone raises their voice against the party and their leader. We all saw what happened to the lady who questioned Stalin today. This is a party of rowdies.”, Kishore said.

In a related incident, DMK MP Senthilkumar while addressing party rally on December 16 said that, first priority will be given to party cadres in all schemes and loan waivers, if the party comes to power in 2021.

India, Pakistan exchange list of nuclear installations

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The Commune
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On Friday, India and Pakistan conducted the yearly practice of exchanging lists of their nuclear installations under a bilateral agreement that prohibits the two nations from attacking each other’s nuclear facilities.

According to a statement from the Foreign Office (FO) at Islamabad, the exchange of the lists was made in conformity with Article 2 of the Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between India and Pakistan, which was signed on December 31, 1988. Under this agreement, both countries inform each other of their nuclear facilities on January 1 of ever year. This has been done every year since January 1, 1992, according to the FO.

“The list of nuclear installations and facilities in Pakistan was officially handed over to a representative of the Indian High Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, at 1100 hrs (PST). The Indian Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi handed over the list of Indian Nuclear installations and facilities to a representative of the Pakistan High Commission at 1130 hrs (IST)”, said the statement.

Tensions have been rife between the two nations since the Pulwama terror attack on February 14, 2019 and the subsequent surgical strikes on terrorist camps within Pakistan by the Indian Air Force. Following the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and the state’s split into the two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on August 5, 2019, Pakistan downgraded diplomatic relations with India and expelled the Indian High Commissioner.

26/11 terror attack mastermind LeT terrorist Zakir-ur-Rehman Lakhvi arrested in Pakistan

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The Commune
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Zakir-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist group who was also the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks, has been arrested in Pakistan today (January 2).

Lakhvi, who was released on bail since 2015 was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province.

A statement issued by the department said that Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was arrested on charges of financing terrorism for which a case has been registered in a police station of CTD Lahore.

“Lakhvi is accused of running a dispensary, using funds collected for terrorism financing. He and others also collected funds from this dispensary and used these funds for further terrorism financing. He also used these funds for personal expenses,” the CTD said. However, it did not reveal the place of his arrest.

Lakhvi is also a UN designated individual.

 

Dear Prashant Bhushan, have you no shame? Your tweet ignores the religious persecution of Hindus and negates their demand for equal rights

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Shivaprasad P
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In the aftermath of the devastation wreaked upon the Krishna Dwara Temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan by a mob allegedly numbering in the hundreds, Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan has made an insensitive tweet on the incident. In his tweet, Prashant Bhushan compared the temple’s wanton destruction with an instance of the vandalism of a mosque in Madhya Pradesh, and tweeted “Secular India? Where have we come?”

However, the lawyer is guilty of making a false equivalence in his tweet. As media reports show, the police acted swiftly to prevent any damage to the mosque, and the Hindu crowds only managed to place a saffron flag on top of the structure. The police also arrested the miscreants responsible. Compare this to the temple destruction in Pakistan, and as reported in The Commune, the police didn’t show up for hours and no arrests were made at the time.

Prashant Bhushan’s tweet also completely — and willfully — ignores the painful and traumatic history of Hindus’ experiences with Islam over a period of more than a thousand years. Hindus have the brunt of Muslim oppression and intolerance for the better part of the last millennia. Not only were Hindu temples, monasteries and universities plundered of their wealth and wiped out by Muslim warlords and religious leaders in the subcontinent, there was economic exploitation of the Hindu masses too — be it the Sharia-mandated jizya tax exacted upon Hindus by several Muslim rulers, or any one of the forty taxes squeezed from Hindus in the Mughal Empire (there was the pilgrim’s tax, taxes to be paid on the birth of a male child, and also a tax to immerse the ashes of the departed in the river Ganga), or the “breast-tax” imposed by the Nizam of Hyderabad on his subjects.

An abundance of minority welfare schemes and Muslim population growth in India

Furthermore, the tweet also negates the lived experiences of Hindus not only in Pakistan and Bangladesh, but also in places like Kashmir. From 23% in 1947 to merely 3-4% of the population in 2016, the Pakistani government has waged a genocide against Hindus and other minorities. Hindus were roughly 35% in the erstwhile East Pakistan, and the number dropped to 20% after the liberation of Bangladesh. In 2016, Hindus were at a mere 7% of the total Bangladeshi population. Abul Barakat, a professor at Bangladesh’s Dhaka University, wrote in his 2016 book The Political Economy of Reforming Agriculture: Land Water Bodies in Bangladesh that an average of 632 Hindus leave Bangladesh every day due to religious persecution and that, at this rate, there will be no Hindus left in Bangladesh after 30 years. In fact, as reported by The Commune, this is the second time that the same Krishna Dwara Temple was demolished, the first time was in 1997.

Compare this to the skyrocketing growth of the Muslim population in India. According to the 2011 Census, Muslims are the only community in India who are growing in numbers, while the proportion of Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists in the population has shrunk. Muslims in India also have the highest proportion of the nation’s youth population, with 47% of Muslims aged below 20 years. In Kerala, Muslims form 36.74% of the population aged 0-6 years.

If this isn’t enough to the show that Prashant Bhushan’s tweet was fallacious, the Government of India has been running numerous and infamous minority appeasement schemes, many of which are still continuing under the Narendra Modi-led BJP government. As of 2019, the Modi government had spent a whopping 22,000 crore on minority-welfare. There are no welfare provisions on this scale that cater to the needs of Hindus in Pakistan or Bangladesh. Moreover, there are organisations like the Zakat Foundation, with their links to extremist and terrorist groups, that seek to make sure that “the PMO belongs to our boys and girls for the next 35 years”. It must also be pointed out here that Muslims and Christians are allowed to manage the administration their religious institutions, while Hindu temples are administered by the Indian State. Hindu temples in India are also regularly vandalised, as was the case during the anti-CAA riots in Delhi in 2020 or more recently when the murti in a Kodanda Rama Temple was desecrated in Andhra Pradesh.

More brickbats for the advocate

The tweet also earned brickbats from noted journalist Swati Goel Sharma.

The scribe pointed out that “India routinely sees construction of new mosques” and that 5 acres of land were allotted to the Muslim community “as compensation over a non-functional mosque”, referring to the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Ayodhya Ram-Janmabhoomi case. “Wikipedia says India has 3 lakh active mosques. Pakistan has reportedly 30 functional temples”, she added.

Prashant Bhushan’s tweet is utterly nonsensical. One look at reality would deny the narrative his tweet tries to propagate.

DMK hooligans harass woman who questioned MK Stalin in Gram Sabha meet

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The Commune
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DMK chief M.K. Stalin while participating in a Gram Sabha meet in Coimbatore on Saturday (January 2) abused a lady and asked her to be sent out of the venue for questioning him. Later, the DMK men harassed and attacked the woman as the police escorted her to a vehicle for safety.

Stalin who is on a campaign trail titled ‘We Reject ADMK’ had come to Devarayapuram in Coimbatore district to participate in a Gram Sabha meet. A woman identified as V. Poongodi (40) raised up to ask a question to the DMK chief to which he asked her where she was from. The woman replied that she was from Sugunapuram near Kuniyamuthur. Stalin asked if whether her area falls in Devarayapuram. The woman then asked how the DMK chief was holding the meeting without even knowing this information. As the women kept insisting that Stalin answer her questions, the DMK chief said alleged that alleged that AIADMK Minister S P Velumani had sent her to create nuisance. He asked his cadres to throw her out of the venue and be handed over to the police. Some of the men present in the venue charged at the woman to attack her as she raised slogans against DMK and M.K. Stalin.

This had caused a stir among the members assembled there.

https://twitter.com/TelanganaMaata/status/1345287759003484160

As she was being escorted by police to the vehicle, many DMK cadres hounded and harassed the woman, leading to a woman police officer getting hurt. Later it was found that she is the district deputy president of AIADMK women wing.

https://twitter.com/TelanganaMaata/status/1345289341594005504

 

Ex-husband of ‘writer-activist’ responds to NWMI’s statement, thanks body for clarifying that she is not a Dalit

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The Commune
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Following the statement issued by Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) on Friday (January 1, 2021) which condemned the “targeting and harassment of ‘writer-activist’ Meena Kandasamy”, her ex-husband has come out with yet another press statement thanking the body for clarifying the caste status of the ‘writer-activist’.

Responding to the statement issued by NWMI, Gunasekharan said that he was forced to respond to it to highlight the misplaced views with respect to the case pending against him.

He thanked the body for clarifying the caste status of the writer-activist who claims to be a Dalit and of mixed-caste origin, with her maternal grandparents being ‘lower-caste Shudras’ and her father being from a nomadic tribe.

“Firstly, I would like to thank NWMI for clarifying the caste status of Ms. Meena Kandasamy. She has claimed to be a Dalit and has allowed herself to be portrayed as a Dalit at several instances. However, your press release itself has clarified that “she is the product of an inter-caste union between a man from the Andi Pandaram community, classified as MBC in Tamil Nadu, and a woman from an OBC community”., Gunasekharan said in his press release.

Here is the text of the full press statement as given out by Gunasekharan Dharmaraja alias Charles Antony:

Dear Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI),

Greetings!

This statement is in response to your press release titled “Stop Online Abuse of Writer activist Meena Kandasamy” published in your website on 1 January 2021. As a person deeply conscious about the plight of women in our society and with great respect to the movements that have led to the empowerment of women, I am forced to respond to this press release to highlight the misplaced views that have been published in your website, with respect to the case pending against me.

Firstly, I would like to thank NWMI for clarifying the caste status of Ms. Meena Kandasamy. She has claimed to be a Dalit and has allowed herself to be portrayed as a Dalit at several instances. However, your press release itself has clarified that “she is the product of an inter-caste union between a man from the Andi Pandaram community, classified as MBC in Tamil Nadu, and a woman from an OBC community”.

In accordance with G.O.Ms.No.477 dated 27.06.1975 issued by the Social Welfare Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu, a child born of inter-caste marriage could be declared a Scheduled Caste only if

i) either of the parents belong to the Scheduled Caste; and
ii) by a declaration of the parents regarding the way of life in which the child is brought up.

Since neither of her parents belong to the Scheduled Castes, she can in no manner claim herself to be a Dalit nor can she allow herself to be misrepresented as a Dalit. With due respects to the anti-caste activists fighting against caste oppression, she, by portraying herself as a Dalit and allowing herself to be portrayed as a Dalit does not do justice either to feminism or anti-caste activism but does injustice to Dalits by having stolen their rightful place. I am at least happy that her true identity that has been cunningly hidden by her for quite a long time has finally seen the light. I certainly do not believe in evaluating or assessing a person on the basis of their caste. However, it is unacceptable if a non-Dalit masquerades as a Dalit and grabs attention through the same.

Secondly, with respect to the accusations against Ms. Meena Kandasamy concerning the case filed against me, I completely stand by the statement that was released in my name on 30 December 2020. She has never attended any of the Court proceedings in the last six years whenever she is required to give her witness for the trial to move forward, and has been constantly using various tactics to prolong the case both to extort money from me and also to punish me without any trial by delaying the case. There is no question of the details of the case being distorted. If the person who has instituted the case does not attend the court proceedings and cooperate with the trial, it signifies that either she does not have any respect for the Court or that she has instituted this case to harass me. My intention is not to character-assassinate her, as she has done to me through her book, articles and various social media platforms of her. My only intention is to make sure that she cooperates in the case and let justice prevail.

Finally, with due respects, your press release published has twisted the facts to suggest that since Ms. Kandasamy was a feminist, she could have not been in an abusive marriage. However, my accusation has been that, if she was a feminist, she wouldn’t have agreed to give dowry for her marriage. As supporters of women empowerment myself, my family, friends and I completely stand by my statement that I neither demanded nor accepted any dowry from her. I cannot accept that a person who accepted to have given dowry or who perjures by providing false information is a feminist. This would be a great betrayal to feminism. Thus Ms. Meena Kandasamy stands neither a feminist nor a progressive woman but a careerist and an opportunist .

I agree with the press release that ideas and arguments should be countered with ideas and arguments. Therefore, if possible, I also agree to having a conversation/debate with her concerning this case, mediated by the representatives of your network, before the public and media, provided that she withdraws the case. This is because, unlike her, I believe that the Courts are established to promote the welfare of the society and that it cannot be (mis)used to further someone’s own interest. If someone resorts to the law enforcement mechanism to seek justice, they must participate in the process and cannot file cases merely to threaten others or extort money as Ms. Meena Kandasamy has been doing. I also do not believe in resorting to blame-shaming as a tactic to misrepresent themselves as survivors of violence.

If this conversation/debate happens, just like her Dalit mask had fallen off, her feminist mask would also fall. Hope to hear from you soon.

In solidarity

Dr. Gunasekharan Dharmaraja @ Charles Antony

(This is a press release issued by Dr. Gunasekharan Dharmaraja alias Charles Antony)

Members of US-based Church planting organization caught violating Indian visa norms

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The Commune
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Members of ‘Shepherding the Nations’ a California based Christian missionary organization have been caught violating Indian visa rules by indulging in proselytization activities in the country.

The missionary organization with the mission statement “To glorify God by training and resourcing indigenous pastors to plant healthy churches in unreached areas” is run by one Ryder Kumar. According to his LinkedIn profile, Ryder Kumar was based out of Los Angeles County, California, United States and is said to have returned to India in December 2014. He has been a pastor throughout his life.

 

The website of the Christian missionary organization says that Ryder Kumar was one of the founding members who is serving in India as its International Director.

Shepherding the Nations is active in India and Nepal in South Asia and Bolivia, Honduras and South Mexico in Latin America. According to its website, 888 people ‘were trained’ in India & Nepal and 33 ‘Study Centers’ is said to have been in cities and villages of these two countries.

“From 2020-2023, 40 men will receive in-depth training in Expository Preaching through 8 conferences in partnership with Leadership Resources International (LRI)”, the missionary organization has declared.

The President of ‘Shepherding the Nations’ Paul Brown along with other members of the board Tammy Werth and one Randy Leinen have been visiting Indian and indulging in church planting activities for a long time.

Just last year, members of the Christian missionary organisation came to India for a Men’s and Women’s conference which happened only last year.

In November of 2007, a team of six members, the Browns, Leinens, and Kumars came to India for a 17-day missions trip to preach in many churches and host ‘conferences’ to ‘train workers to accurately preach and teach the Word of God’.

A complaint has been filed by Mission Kaali, a Christian missionary watch for violating the terms and conditions of the India visa.

It is to be noted that a tourist visa can only be used for non-business purposes, such as tourism or visiting family and friends. Even if one holds a missionary visa, the person cannot use it for proselytizing activities and can only join a missionary organization approved by the Government of India for which the organization must receive a certificate indicating it is compliant with the Foreign Contributions Regulatory Act.

Digital payments in country sees record transactions in December

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The Commune
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The expansion of digital payments in India has only grown more and in December the transactions on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) breached the ₹4-lakh crore mark in terms of value. 

According to data made available by the National Payments Corporation of India, the transactions on the UPI platform amounted to ₹4,16,176.21 crore in December with a total of 223.41 crore payments processed. 

In November, UPI had recorded 2.21 billion transactions worth Rs 3,90,999 crore.

Ever sicne UPI was launched in 2016, it crossed the one billion transactions benchmark for the first time in October 2019.

Indians were a little slow to avail the benifit of UPI which is why it took three years to reach a billion transactions in a month. However, once that target was breached, the next billion came in just a year.

Transactions on the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS)also rose to 35.56 crore amounting to ₹2.92-lakh crore in December.

As per data made avaialble by the Reserve Bank of India, IMPS recorded 355.69 million transactions in December, worth Rs 2.92 trillion, an all-time high, up 38.68 per cent in volume terms year-on-year and 38.58 per cent in value terms.

Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) recorded 26.22 million transactions in December, worth Rs 3,962.76 crore.

Not to be left behind, FASTag, an electronic toll collection system in India, operated by the National Highway Authority of India. registered record-high payments. The NHAI FASTag did transaction of ₹13.84 crore transactions worth ₹2,303.79 crore in December.

Transactions on NETC FASTag alsl had risin to 12.48 crore worth ₹2,102.02 crore in November.

A while back, Bill Gates, who is one of the worlds foremost philanthropists hailed India’s policies for innovation in financial inclusion. He perticulalry singled out ndia’s platforms like the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the Aadhaar, which he said have drastically reduced the cost of money distributed among the poor.

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