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Since there is no law that prescribes the death penalty for men who marry their wives on false pretences, the UP chief minister’s reference to funerals sounds like a call to vigilante violence.
Stan Swamy has all his life supported the struggles of the poor and the marginalized resisting the plunder of their natural resources, and the crushing of their human dignity and constitutional rights.
Yogi Adityanath is the perfect man to achieve the Sangh’s goals.
Among signatories are journalist P. Sainath, actor Ratna Pathak Shah, authors Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy, and renowned scholars Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Romila Thapar and Sheldon Pollock.
Protests were organised by farmers across the country in at least 5,000 places on September 25 against the three farm Bills. Farmers organisations have now given a call for Delhi Gherao on Nov. 26-27. Meanwhile, state governments of Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan and Maharashtra have decided not to implement these farm bills in their states.
UP police to probe each Hindu-Muslim marriage for ‘love-jehad’; UP primarily using NSA against those accused of cow slaughter; UP setting up a new special force that can search and arrest without a warrant; when the release of an innocent detainee after months in jail is cause for elation, then democracy is staring at its nadir.
Attempts at criminal law reforms are part of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term and sustained agenda of bringing about a paradigm shift in the popular perspective on nationhood. It wants the criminal law system to be moulded on the lines of the Hindutva treatises of governance.
Noted personalities across India have slammed the arrest of former JNU student leader under anti-terror law UAPA in the Delhi violence case; Nine former IPS officers call the investigation “partisan and politically motivated”; Umar Khalid’s statement before his arrest.
The Centre denying states their promised dues, not only violates an Act of Parliament but also defies economic logic. Kerala is taking the lead in mobilising states to oppose the Centre’s proposal, which is going to severely impact the finances of states.
Protest has been contained simply because the state has become a large jail. Locking up everyone can be a strategy to fight crime, but with everyone in, on whose behalf are you fighting crime, anyway?
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