Retired judge also hits out at the BJP for trying to ‘defame’ Elgaar Parishad 2. While admitting that Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Sharjeel Usmani should not have generalised against the Hindu community in his speech made on the occasion of the second edition of the ‘Elgaar Parishad’ in January, retired Bombay High Court judge B.G. Kolse-Patil, one of the organisers of the event, nevertheless accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to defame the Parishad by filing a case against the AMU student leader.
“While his speech was fine, he ought to have used the words ‘Manuwadi’ or ‘Brahmanwadi’ that would have conveyed the kind of patriarchal and casteist mentality we are fighting against instead of generalising the entire Hindu community. That was a mistake. If anybody’s sentiments have been hurt, then I apologise,” said Mr. Kolse-Patil.
Book Sharjeel Usmani for sedition, demands Maha BJP
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At Elgar Parishad 2021, calls for freedom for the ‘Bhima Koregaon 16’
After the first edition of the anti-caste event in 2018, several people were arrested for allegedly provoking violence in a village near Pune. Jan 31, 2021 · 06:30 am Members of the Samta Kala Manch cultural group performing at the 2021 Elgar Parishad in Pune on January 30. | Photo: Aarefa Johari
On Saturday morning, people entering Pune’s Ganesh Kala Krida auditorium were greeted by dozens of police officials at every gate, multiple security checkpoints with metal detectors, repeated bag-checks and body pat-downs, and police sniffer dogs roaming around the compound.
The intense police scrutiny was on account of the event held at the auditorium: Elgar Parishad 2021, the defiant second edition of an event that became controversial after the Maharashtra police accused its organisers – a coalition of 250 anti-caste and human organisations – of instigating caste-based violenc
Nudge to IIT professors to speak up on EVMs Former CEC critical of experts committee that is supposed to give advise on technical aspects of the voting machines and the VVPAT devices
Former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi on Monday questioned the silence of the Election Commission’s technical experts committee on the complaints and suspicions aired repeatedly about electronic voting machines’ vulnerability to tampering.
Speaking at Sabrang news portal’s webinar on “the EVM conundrum”, Quraishi tried to uphold the poll panel’s guarantee that the voting machines cannot be tampered with.
However, he was critical of the experts committee that is supposed to advise the commission on technical aspects of the voting machines and the voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) devices.
Mangaluru: Exclusive - If Congress dies, there will be no India, says Sasikanth Senthil
Sun, Jan 24 2021 07:21:54 PM
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Mangaluru, Jan 24: Former IAS officer Sasikanth Senthil had last served as deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district. A 2009 batch officer, he had resigned in 2019 alleging that that it would be âunethicalâ for him to continue as a civil servant in the government when the fundamental building blocks of our diverse democracy are being compromised in an unprecedented mannerâ.
Senthil then participated in protests against the government over the Citizenship Amendment Act and other issues. He joined Tamil Nadu Congress in 2020 saying he has always worked for the welfare of the people and will continue to do so.
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