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India Gazette
3 days ago
- Politics
- India Gazette
Indian parliamentary committee for SC-ST welfare convenes two-days meeting in Dharamshala, meets Dalai Lama
Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], June 6 (ANI): 18 members of the Indian parliament (including 12 from Lok Sabha and 6 from Rajya Sabha) of the parliamentary committee on the welfare of scheduled caste and scheduled tribes along with their family members and officers of the parliamentary committee and other officials came here to attend a 2-day meeting in Dharamshala for June 5 and 6. The delegation, led by chairman Dr Faggan Singh Kulaste, a Lok Sabha member, is here for a meeting with various stakeholders. The Indian parliamentarians also met with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Some members met the Dalai Lama on Thursday, and a few met him on Friday. While interacting with the delegation, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said, 'Honoured and happy meeting with this big delegation. We consider India to be truly our father's are followers of Buddha, and one institution in India--Nalanda- we study Nalanda's thoughts. So when I visited Nalanda, I really felt something very moving, so now. I state more or less India now, not only because of its big population but also because of all the major world's rich traditions live together. Thank you.' Faggan Singh Kulste, Lok Sabha Member and the committee's chairman, told ANI, 'This is an SC-ST welfare committee of the parliament, which has a wide significance in the country. The parliament has announced this committee for the welfare of India's 25 per cent population. The committee talks about the rights and welfare of SC-ST government employees. Although the SC and ST commissions already exist, this committee takes note of all the proceedings done by the commissions, and then the Parliament and the government act according to the recommendations of this committee. The committee has a total of 30 members, 20 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Raj Sabha, and we have nearly 18 members attending the 2-days meeting in Dharamshala here. Some of the committee members met the Dalai Lama yesterday, and a few are meeting him today. It was a nice meeting with him. It was an informal courtesy call. The Dalai Lama has very positive thoughts for this country, and we also supported him.' Mithilesh Kumar, Rajya Sabha member, Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, told ANI, 'We have come to Dharamshala on a study tour and we got so many things here which will be raised and discussed in the Parliament. We also met the Dalai Lama, who said that we must be strong while living in India and be cautious of China. And we also extend our support towards him.' (ANI)
New Indian Express
17-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
MP BJP minister stirs row with ‘our terrorists' remark amid party leaders' controversial statements
BHOPAL: Ruling BJP continues to be on the target of the opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh, following the controversial remarks of its senior politicians about the Indian Armed Forces' Operation Sindoor. After MP cabinet minister Vijay Shah and state's deputy CM Jagdish Devda, now another senior politician – the seven-time Lok Sabha member and former union minister Faggan Singh Kulaste is on the principal opposition party's target, for his 'Pakistan ke hamare aatankwadi log (our terrorists of Pakistan)" statement. When questioned by journalists in Dindori district on Friday about Operation Sindoor and the controversial speech by MP minister Vijay Shah about Colonel Sofia Qureshi, the seventh-time MP from Mandla-ST seat Faggan Singh Kulaste, said the minister (Vijah Shah) has said something, 'but I've not seen or heard it'. He further said that Operation Sindoor was a matter of pride for the entire nation. However, it was the next line which actually landed him in controversy, as he said, 'Pakistan ke jo hamare aatankwadi log hain, unko muhtod jawab diya hai. (Our terrorists from Pakistan have been given a befitting reply). Sharing the ex-union minister's video on 'X' (formerly twitter), the MP Congress posted on Saturday, 'He (Kulaste) has not only insulted the army by calling the country's enemy Pakistani terrorists as our terrorists, but also made a fun of the martyrdom of the martyrs. The unbridled and foul-mouthed BJP leaders have now stopped so low that they've started calling even the terrorists as their own! This is a direct question to the MP CM and the country's PM, will both maintain silence on such a leader, or has the statement come with their consent?' Kulaste, one of the prominent tribal politicians of BJP in MP, however, clarified on Saturday that his statement has been presented in a distorted manner and the accusations of the Congress are baseless.
