Assembly elections will held in bengal soon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Hooghly on Monday evening as part of his visit. While addressing a public meeting here, he said that your enthusiasm is sending a message from Kolkata to Delhi. Now West Bengal has made up its mind for change.
Accusing the Trinamool government of the state, the Prime Minister said that the state governments till now have left this historic area on their feet. The infrastructure here, the heritage here was allowed to be disturbed. He said that Vande Mataram Bhavan, where Bankim Chandra Chatterjee lived for five years, is in a very bad condition.
He said that this is the building where he churned about the creation of Vande Mataram. Vande Mataram, who gave new life in the freedom struggle and the state government left it on its condition. When a BJP government is formed in Bengal, every Bengalis will be able to glorify their culture without fear of anyone.
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It is necessary to feed lotus in West Bengal …
He said that we will create such a Bengal which will be free from bargaining and will be equipped with employment and self-employment. He said that the people talking about Maa Mati and Manush have become a wall in front of the development of Bengal. It is important to feed lotus in Bengal so that the change that can happen in Bengal is expected in which our youth is living.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that rail and metro connectivity is the priority of the central government this year. These things should have been done decades ago and now we should not delay it further. Investments are being made in several infrastructure projects, including expansion of railway lines, electrification works.
TMC government is keeping the poor deprived of water …
The Prime Minister said that lakhs of poor families of Bengal are still deprived of free treatment facility of five lakh rupees under Ayushman Yojana. Let me give an example of how these efforts are made to help the poor. Water life mission is going on to deliver water from pipes to every house in the villages of the country.
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He said that the effort is that our mothers, sisters and daughters do not have to spend time and labor in fetching water. Children can be protected from diseases sown by polluted water. This is more important for Bengal because in one and a half twenty two crore rural houses, only nine lakh houses have tap water facility.
TMC government is sitting on 1100 crore pressures …
The PM said, at the speed at which the government here is working, at that speed, it is not known how many years will pass in transporting water from pipes to every house in Bengal. To provide water to every household, the Government of India gave more than Rs 1700 crores to the TMC government, but out of this only 609 crores was spent by the government here.
The Prime Minister further said that the rest of the 1100 crore government here has sat under pressure. This shows that the TMC government does not care about the poor, the sisters and daughters of Bengal. He said that the BJP government in Bengal has to be formed not only for the change of power but also for the change of Asol (complete).
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It was the fame of Calcutta, which was ruined…
The Prime Minister said that at one time Hooghly was the center of industries, there were factories, exports were done on a large scale, but today you know what is the situation of Hooghly. There was a time when in many folk songs of eastern India, the folk songs that were sung by mothers and sisters from house to house were sung that the people of the house went to ‘Calcutta’ to earn.
The Prime Minister said that in these songs, there was an expectation of what a person would bring when he returned from there. Such songs were sung all over the country outside Bengal. This was the fame of Calcutta, now all this has changed. People of Bengal, who once gave employment to all, are now forced to move to other states for employment. We will change it.
We will develop the area asol …
He said that we will take fast decisions, develop this area. There was a time when the jute mills here catered to the needs of the country, but this industry too was abandoned. Ever since the BJP government came to the center, several steps have been taken for the jute farmers. We have made it mandatory to use jute for packing wheat.
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The Prime Minister said that the central government sends money directly to the bank accounts of the poor and farmers, but, the Bengal government’s schemes do not reach the poor without the permission of TMC’s ‘Tolababas’. This is why TMC leaders are getting richer and normal families are getting poorer.
Development of Bengal is not possible until …
The Prime Minister said that the development of Bengal is not possible as long as there is rule of syndicate, there will be rule of bargaining, there will be cut culture, governance will give shelter to goons, the rule of law is not established here, to listen to the general public. Government does not form here. To change this situation, voice is coming from every corner of Bengal, ‘Aamra Aasol Poribartan Chahi’ (We need to change earlier).
Will give gifts of many projects
During this time, Prime Minister narendra Modi will give many projects to the state. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend the Prime Minister’s program. Mamta will stay away from the inauguration ceremony of several railway projects by the Prime Minister in Hooghly today. Even earlier, he had kept away from Prime Minister Modi’s program.
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On February 7, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated four projects in the oil, gas, and infrastructure sectors in Haldia, West Bengal. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was invited to join the program but she did not attend it. He did this because of the slogan ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by BJP workers in the presence of the Prime Minister on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. He called it his insult.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend PM Narendra Modi' programme of the inauguration of several railway projects in Hooghly today.
PM Modi will inaugurate extension of Kolkata Metro till Dakshineswar Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the extension of the North-South line of Kolkata Metro from Noapara to Dakshineswar on Monday. An official gave information about this. Kolkata Metro spokesperson Indrani Banerjee said that the Prime Minister will flag off the metro train from Noapada to Dakshineswar through an event in Hooghly district.
He said that the inaugural program is scheduled after noon on Monday and thousands of people will benefit from Noapara to Dakshineswar after the trains run on this 4.1 km long route. After the expansion of the North South line of the metro rail, devotees desirous of visiting Dakshineswar Kali temple, apart from regular passengers, will have the facility to travel fast and pollution free.
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The metro official said that it will now take more than an hour for the passengers of Kavi Subhash station to travel more than 31 kilometers to Dakshineswar.
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New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reached Bharat Mandapam in the national capital to attend BJP’s office bearers’ meeting which will set the agenda for the party’s two-day national convention.
Party national president J. P. Nadda welcomed the Prime Minister when he reached the venue.
Prime Minister Modi also took stock of the exhibition depicting the achievements of his government.
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According to sources, the office bearers’ meeting could have an addressed by the Prime Minister.
Cluster in-charges of the Lok Sabha areas could also attend the office bearers’ meeting, which is underway.
The saffron party will be holding a two-day national convention, beginning today in Bharat Mandapam in the national capital to formulate a strategy to secure over 370 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.
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The convention will be attended by 11,500 party representatives, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, chief ministers and Deputy chief minister of the BJP-ruled states, MPs and core committee members.
In his closing address, Prime Minister Modi will give the mantra for winning in the Lok Sabha polls and how to make the country develop by 2047. He will also highlight the achievements of the party.
When the framers of the Constitution were drafting it, they left the subject of the Uniform Civil Code or UCC as an aspirational dream that could be fulfilled at a later and more opportune time.
Uttarakhand could become the first state where the Uniform Civil Code will come into force. In 2022, the Uttarakhand State Government started the process and entrusted the job of preparing a draft for the UCC to a team led by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai.
The Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami-led government will place the draft of the Uniform Civil Code Uttarakhand 2024 Bill (UCC) before the state legislative assembly. The bill will be tabled in the forthcoming four-day special assembly session that began on Monday.
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The State Cabinet of the CM Pushkar Singh Dhami-led government had already Okayed the final draft of the UCC, and it envisages uniform civil laws for all the communities who reside in the state. If the Bill clears the legislative assembly, it will be sent to the Governor for approval. After the Governor approves the bill, it will then become law. The UCC was a big sticking point in the elections, and the BJP had promised to make it a law in the state.
What is the Uniform Civil Code?
The Uniform Civil Code or the UCC is a set of laws that will govern personal matters like marriage, divorce, adoption, inheritance, and succession for all the citizens of the state irrespective of their religious beliefs. Today different laws govern these personal matters for different communities of different religions. The UCC will replace all such diverse laws, and there will be only one uniform civil law.
Finer Details Of Uniform Civil Code Uttarakhand 2024 Bill
As already mentioned, the draft of the law was prepared by a team led by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai and also included retired justice Pramod Kohli, social activist Manu Gaur, former Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Shatrughan Singh, and Vice Chancellor of Doon University, Surekha Dangwal. The draft is composed of 740 pages and has four volumes.
The final draft was prepared after extensive feedback in written, oral, online from public forums and 43 public outreach programs which included more than 60,000 people. The final bill has been described as a joint and collective effort and included opinions from a diverse section of the public. The Bill seeks to abolish polygamy and child marriage, give equal property inheritance rights to girls and boys, and also seeks to remove the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate children, adopted and biological children.
A motley crowd of Muslims created a ruckus outside the Police Station after Salman Azhari, the Islamic preacher, was arrested by the police. Some Muslim journalists also defended the Islamic radical preacher who had earlier made genocidal remarks against Hindus and asked for his release.
On January 31, 2024, Mufti Salman Azhari gave a very vitriolic speech at a program in the Narayan Vidya Mandir grounds near the Junagadh court. The event was attended by a large number of Muslims in which the Mufti had given a hate speech that could be described as one inciting hatred against the majority community.
The police soon swung into action and arrested Mufti Salman Azhari for his hate-filled speeches. Hours after his arrest, a group of Muslim journalists came out in support of the radical Islamic preacher and asked for the immediate release of the cleric. They have also started the trending #ReleaseSalmanAzhari #IStandWithSalmanAzhari” on X and other social media sites.
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One such journalist, Ashraf Hussain, wrote that the cleric was an Islamic preacher and could not be categorized as a criminal. He went on to say that whatever will happen, will happen, and it is the will of Allah.
Another extremist Islamist preacher, Mohammad Asif Khan, said that Mufti Salman Azhari was innocent and became a victim of the smear campaign by the BJP IT Cell.
He also asked the followers of Mufti Salman Azhari to file a case against the IT cell trolls targeting the cleric.
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Another scribe, Ali Sohrab, who had behind him a history of vending fake narratives against the majority, also wrote that he stood in support of the Islamic preacher.
Imam Malik, who claims to be a political analyst, brushed off the genocidal statement made by the cleric and said that Mufti Salman Azhari was arrested by Gujarat Police for a poem that contained the word “Dog” in it.
Political commentator Nargis Bano, in a post on her Twitter handle, asked for the immediate release of Mufti Salman Azhari.
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WATCH Salman Azhari’s Viral Video
Mufti Salman Azhari had on January 31, 2024, given a very provocative speech at an event attended by a large number of Muslims on the grounds of Narayan Vidya Mandir near the Junagadh court.
'Hindus are dogs, it's their time but our time will also come – IsIamic leader Mufti Salman Azhari openly threatens Hindus for consequences"
This won't attract media coverage. It won't be called a hate speech but if any Hindu replies to him in his own language, that will become… pic.twitter.com/Oek0nG5dGt— Mr Sinha (Modi's family) (@MrSinha_) February 2, 2024
A video that has since become viral can be seen in which Mufti Salman Azhari was saying that the battle of Karbala is still unfinished, and today the dogs are ruling, and tomorrow will be our time. This was followed by the war cry “Labbek Ya Rasulullah,” and the crowd repeated after him.
Police have also registered FIR against the Organizers of the event, Muhammad Yusuf Malek, Azim Habib Odedara, along with Mufti Salman Azhari. The cases have been filed under Sections 153(C), 505(2), 188, and 114 of the IPC. The FIR has also included parts of the hate speech that were deemed highly inflammatory, directed against a particular community.
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The organizers had also violated the time limit for the event, which went on for much after the time limit had passed. The police have obtained a two-day police remand for Mufti Salman Azhari from the Mumbai Court to investigate the case. The police had applied for a transit remand for two days to take the Islamic cleric to be produced before a court in Junagadh.
The transit remand of Mufti Salman Azhari was opposed by Azhari’s lawyer Arif Siddiqui, who told reporters that the police did not give them the notice which must be given beforehand as per the law.
The Mumbai police have also registered a case against the followers of the cleric who had gathered outside the Ghatkopar police station and also blocked the LBS Road on Sunday night. Incidents of stone-throwing by the cleric’s followers on BEST buses have also been reported.
