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Time of India
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- Time of India
'I'm proud to say no Hindu can ever be a terrorist': Amit Shah in Rajya Sabha
NEW DELHI: "I am proud to say, no Hindu can ever be a terrorist," Union home minister Amit Shah declared in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, hitting out at Congress for manufacturing the thesis of "saffron terror" to malign majority community as part of its politics of appeasement. "They tried to give terrorism a religious colour for the sake of votes - but people of India rejected that falsehood," he said. Shah recalled the effort in some quarters to blame Hindutva outfits for the 26/11 terror attacks that Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out in Mumbai, and said Congress neta Digvijaya Singh was among those who fanned it. tnn 'Afzal Guru couldn't be hanged as long as PC was home mantri' Home minister Amit Shah recalled the effort in some quarters to blame Hindutva outfits for the 26/11 terror attacks that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) carried out. "All this was done for political gain. Innocent people were jailed, tortured and defamed - not in pursuit of justice but to build a story that served electoral purposes," Shah said, without naming names. Significantly, his attack came on the eve of a court judgment in the Malegaon terror blasts case - the first case allegedly involving members of Abhinav Bharat, supposedly an extremist Hindutva outfit. On Tuesday, PM Narendra Modi in Lok Sabha had also attacked Congress for talking on Hindutva terror even as "Pakistan-backed terror organisations like the LeT were carrying out bomb attacks in different parts" during its regimes. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like TV providers are furious: this gadget gives you access to all channels Techno Mag Learn More Undo In a leaked diplomatic cable, a neta can be heard saying that he was more concerned about "Hindu terror", Modi had said, in what was seen as a reference to the Wikileaks disclosure of a purported conversation between a US diplomat and Rahul Gandhi, then a Congress MP. Participating in the special discussion on Operation Sindoor and Operation Mahadev, Shah accused Congress of enabling terrorism through decades of "appeasement politics" and weakening India's internal security. "The only reason terrorism spread in this country was because of your (Congress) vote-bank calculations," he said. He also said death sentence for Afzal Guru, who was convicted for the terror attack on Parliament, could not be carried out for long as P Chidambaram was home minister. On J&K, Shah said terrorism was now at its lowest point. "There was a time when Pakistan didn't even need to send terrorists. Our own youth were being radicalised. But in the last six months, not a single Kashmiri youth has picked up a gun. All those being eliminated now are Pakistanis," he said. "In the last six months, terrorist groups have not been able to enlist a single local youth," said Shah, who emphasised that the last elections in J&K were the fairest the it has seen. "Elections in J&K were routinely rigged. One senior security officer told me that his main job during the polls was not to ensure safety but to stuff ballots," he said, adding that faith in the fairness has led to a huge turnaround in sentiment. "There was not a single village where processions were not taken out against the killings of tourists at Pahalgam," he said. On Pakistan, he reiterated, "There will be no dialogue until terrorism ends. We stopped only after they pleaded for a ceasefire - when they were on their knees."
Time of India
26 minutes ago
- Time of India
Odisha yet to set timeline for notifying PESA Rules: Min
1 2 Bhubaneswar: Odisha govt has not yet set a timeline for notifying the PESA Rules to implement the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, across all scheduled areas (tribal-dominated) in the state, Union minister of state for panchayati raj, S P Singh Baghel, informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The Act gives powers to gram sabhas in scheduled areas for managing natural resources. In response to a query from BJD member Sasmit Patra, the minister said the Odisha govt has not specified a timeline for the notification of PESA Rules. However, the state has indicated that the rules will be implemented after thoroughly examining objections, suggestions and feedback from relevant stakeholder departments. To implement the PESA provisions in Odisha's Fifth Schedule areas, state govt has incorporated them into the Orissa Grama Panchayats Act, 1964. Baghel further informed that a draft notification for the Odisha Grama Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Rules, 2023, was published in the Odisha Gazette on Nov 10, 2023. The state invited objections and suggestions from all affected parties. Following this, state govt conducted personal hearings with individuals and organisations that submitted objections or suggestions regarding the draft notification. These hearings were held in phases to finalise the draft. Additionally, the panchayati raj and drinking water department has held numerous consultative meetings with various stakeholder departments. After considering the objections and suggestions, state govt has modified the draft PESA Rules and shared them with all stakeholder departments for review and constructive feedback. The process remains ongoing as the state seeks to finalise the rules for effective implementation. In Sept 2024, state panchayati raj minister Rabi Naik announced in the assembly that the govt is planning to notify PESA rules and implement the PESA Act soon. Naik said draft rules were translated into Odia and Santhali languages and sent to collectors of districts having scheduled areas to ensure wider consultation among the stakeholders. The rules are needed to implement the central Act. Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Sundargarh and Mayurbhanj districts fully come under Fifth Schedule areas, besides, parts of Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Ganjam, Gajapati, Sambalpur, Keonjhar and Balasore.
Time of India
40 minutes ago
- Time of India
Trump's rant against India undercuts claim of having used trade to broker Operation Sindoor truce with Pakistan
NEW DELHI: When he lashed out at India for not lowering tariffs for American businesses, US President Donald Trump undercut the claim he has incessantly made: that on May 10, the Modi govt caved in to his threat of not doing trade with India if it did not pause Operation Sindoor against Pakistan. He had also suggested that India would get a good deal for its compliance. Trump's outburst on Truth Social on Wednesday conflicted with his claim of having frog marched India to cease Operation Sindoor by dangling the threat of stopping trade. Interestingly, the 'all things not good' admission from the US president, who has earned the reputation of being the global scold because of his petulance and pugnacity, came on a day when the two Houses of Parliament concluded a debate on Operation Sindoor that was dominated by Trump's claim of having mediated the suspension of hostilities. On Tuesday, PM Modi had refuted Trump's claim, saying no global leader had asked him to cease the offensive, and that it was the sheer ferocity of the IAF strikes on Pakistan's airbases that led Islamabad to sue for peace on May 10. That was getting as close as an Indian PM could get to accuse the US president of inexactitude. External affairs minister S Jaishankar went a step further on both Tuesday and Wednesday, stating that Trump and Modi did not talk between April 22 and June 16 when in a telephonic conversation, Modi had rebutted the suggestion that the operation against Pakistan was ceased because of anyone's mediation. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Modern manufacturing techniques explained. Shopper Experts Learn More Undo In a significant decision, the Modi govt got foreign secretary Vikram Misri to let out details of the conversation. India has also consistently rebutted Trump's claim that trade was a factor in India's decision to stop attacking Pakistan after May 10.
