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India Gazette
18-05-2025
- General
- India Gazette
UP: Rampur Raza library organises exhibition to honour Indian armed forces
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 18 (ANI): Rampur Raza Library is hosting a week-long event 'Veerotsav' from May 15 to 21 in honour of the Indian armed forces with a focus on commemorating the bravery of soldiers in the Operation Sindoor. An exhibition on the theme 'Ek Desh, Ek Dhadkan' has also been organised by the library. Speaking to ANI, Director of Rampur Raza library, Pushkar Mishra said, 'Indian Armed Forces buried the terrorists in their own places, they had killed people in Pahalgam after asking their religion. To honour the courage of our brave Armed Forces, Rampur Raza Library has organised 'Veerotsav' from 15th to 21st May.' 'We have organised an exhibition related to our bravehearts. The 'Ek Desh, Ek Dhadkan' (One Nation, One Heartbeat) yatra is scheduled for May 19, beginning at 5 PM from Gandhi Samadhi, Rampur, and culminating in the courtyard of Rampur Raza Library,' he added. As part of the observance, an exhibition has been set up at the library featuring books and photographs related to Indian soldiers, including those who participated in the freedom struggle. The exhibition also includes historical objects, arms and belongings associated with freedom fighters and Nawabs connected to the region. The gathering is expected to include library officials, personnel from security forces, local organisations, and citizens of Rampur. Highlighting the message of the yatra, Mishra said, 'Those who shoot by asking their religion, we want to convey this message to the citizens of the entire planet, that we all Indians are one. Our country is one, our heartbeat is one and we bow to the bravery of our brave soldiers.' 'The message of Rampur Raza Library's one country, one heartbeat journey, is that no one can break us. We are all one in opposition to religious terrorism and together we will uproot this religious terrorism from the whole world,' he added. Visitors expressed their appreciation for the exhibition and the effort to highlight India's military history and cultural heritage. Ankush, a local visitor, said, 'Here we have got some information about our old history, who are great men. And we liked it... the rest is beautiful here and we got information about them.' Ravi Singh, who came from Bareilly district, said, 'When I was entering the courtyard, this is a very beautiful Phulwadi and the fort is there... there are books about them, scriptures, many books here people are reading there with such comfort. Inside, it's like a museum where you can see pictures of Nawab Sahab, freedom fighters, ornaments, weapons, and more.' Operation Sindoor was India's decisive military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. After the attack, Pakistan retaliated with cross-border shelling across the Line of Control and Jammu and Kashmir as well as attempted drone attacks along the border regions, following which India launched a coordinated attack and damaged radar infrastructure, communication centres, and airfields across 11 airbases in Pakistan. After this, on May 10, an understanding of the cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan was announced. (ANI)
The Hindu
06-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Sambhal ‘critical' for BJP in all yardstick, says party's organisational in-charge
Describing Sambhal, 'critical' for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in all yardstick, organizational Election In-charge of the party in the district on Monday ()May 5, 2025) said the saffron party gave representation to 12 Caste groups in block level organization team recently, signaling caste outreach in the sensitive district. Speaking to The Hindu, Pushkar Mishra, Organisational Election In-charge of the party said broader representation of all social segment has been the aim of the ruling party, pushing the West U.P. district as 'critical' for the BJP in all parameters. 'Giving proper representation to all social groups within the organisational and electoral structure is the working ideology of the BJP. In early, 1990s, I suggested the idea to K. N. Govindacharya to give every class and caste of the Indian society due representation. He gave a statement on 'social engineering' which was widely quoted all over, later on during the presidency of Nitin Gadkari Ji, the same blueprint was prepared to give representation to various social segments, which was executed by Shri Amit Shah Ji after 2014. Recently, as organizational in-charge of Sambhal, we gave representation to 12 caste groups as Mandal president out of 18 names declared. In the next few days, the rest two Mandal presidents will be announced. The strength of the BJP lies in its capability of giving representation to each and every section of the society, unlike other parties which are caste or family parties,' said Pushkar Mishra, organizational Election In-charge of BJP Sambhal. Mandal, similar to block is a key unit at the lower level of the BJP structure. Out of the 18 declared presidents, nine are from Other Backward Classes (OBC) category while two hails from the Rajput community, three Brahmins. Among OBCs, one hails from Kushwaha community, two Jat, one from Saini community, three from Yadav community. One Jatav (Scheduled Caste), one Pasi (Scheduled Caste) are also giving responsibility of Mandal (block) president. There is no Muslim in the list. On asked how he sees Sambhal, Dr. Mishra, a trained sociologist with a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) described Sambhal 'critical' for the BJP in all yard's tick, added, 'Sambhal is one of the district that faced has riotous violence time and again throughout history, now for the first time communities which suffered, had now able to articulate concerns and political consciousness. The city is bound to become one of beacons of articulating civilizational consciousness and critical for the BJP in all yardstick,'. Sambhal, a west U.P. town remain in limelight as it witnessed violence on November 24, the second day of the Shahi Jama Mosque survey as protesters gathered near the mosque and clashed with U.P. police personnel, leading to heavy stone pelting and alleged gun shots being fired by cops with U.P. police claimed of using 'mild force' to control the situation. Five people died and several others were injured in the clashes. U.P. police denied charges that it fired at the protesters. The Supreme Court since ordered the Sambhal trial court to halt proceedings in the case and its survey.
Indian Express
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
JNU is one chapter in ABVP's growth story from Ladakh to Goa, with BJP's rise clearing the way
The improvement in performance of the RSS student wing ABVP in the JNU Students' Union (JNUSU) elections – it won a central panel post after almost a decade, and lost two others by thin margins – is better news for the organisation than it appears on the surface. Its wins in JNU included two councillor posts in the School of Social Sciences (SSS) – the hub of Marxism at the institute long identified with Left ideology, and a School where the most eminent Left scholars of the country once taught. The ABVP didn't just make a debut in the SSS, it equalled the tally of the United Left, which also won two councillor posts (of the SSS's total of 5). The fifth seat went to a recent organisation called Collective, which is seen to be broadly Left-leaning. The ABVP's JNU upswing reflects the rapid growth of the organisation, formed in 1948, in the last decade or so (coinciding with the BJP going from strength to strength in national elections). It is now the biggest student organisation of the country by far. It was in 1996 that the ABVP last registered a win in JNU, getting three of the four central panel seats. But even then, it won just one councillor seat in the SSS. Again in 2000, when the ABVP won the JNUSU president's post for the first – and last – time, with Sandeep Mahapatra clinching it by one vote, the student's outfit got just one councillor seat in the SSS. Pushkar Mishra — now the director of the Rampur Raza Library and a senior BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh — who was the ABVP's contender for the JNUSU president's post in 1999 and lost by four votes, told The Indian Express that the student union poll results reflect the larger changes in society. 'The socio-historical forces of civilisational consciousness have been articulated in the rest of the country. In JNU, the civilisational consciousness was articulated in 1996 in a comprehensive manner. The performance of the ABVP is a leap in that direction. There is disarray in social science discourse the world over, and improvement in the SSS is reflective of a search for a direction,' Mishra, who did his PhD in sociology from JNU, said. In Delhi University, the other big institution in the Capital, the ABVP has dominated student politics for about a decade, replacing the Congress's NSUI (National Students' Union of India). This year, the president is from the NSUI but the other three posts are with the ABVP. ABVP national organising secretary Ashish Chauhan points to the organisation's geographical 'spread' over the past few years, particularly its expansion in BJP-ruled Assam. 'Be it Gauhati University for the last 10 years, or Assam University, Silchar, Dibrugarh University or Cotton University, we have begun to win seats. And we have developed a proper Assamese student leadership there,' Chauhan told The Indian Express. In Assam University, the ABVP has participated in four student union elections since 2015 – a year after the Modi government came to power. In 2024, it won the posts of president, vice-president, assistant general secretary and cultural secretary. ABVP Delhi state secretary Harsh Attri cites the example of Ladakh University, where the ABVP took home all the seven posts in both 2022 and 2023. In 2024, it got three. Attri adds: 'In the Central University of Himachal Pradesh at Kangra, the ABVP in 2024 won 19 posts out of 20. In Haryana in 2018, the organisation won in many colleges in Bhiwani, Jind and Indira Gandhi University, Rewari.' In Haryana Central University, 29 of the 34 elected departmental representatives belong to the ABVP, while even in Goa University, the ABVP won all the nine seats the last time, Attri said. While not many universities in Uttar Pradesh hold student union elections, the ABVP has been doing well in neighbouring Bihar. In Patna University, the ABVP's Maithily Mrinalini was elected president in 2025, becoming the first woman to head the student union in its history of 108 years. Since 2012, the ABVP has consistently been winning in the university, including the posts of vice-president, general secretary and treasurer. Last week, the inauguration of a new ABVP office in Delhi reflected the organisation's growing heft, with RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat himself attending. Also present were star ABVP alumni from various fields, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Dharmendra Pradhan, and multiple state ministers and MPs, apart from many RSS pracharaks and BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde. Incidentally, the route from the ABVP to the BJP is not as straightforward as it is from the NSUI to the Congress, and often must make its way through the larger Sangh Parivar. ABVP members could be associated with any of the multiple RSS organisations, such as the Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Vidya Bharti, etc., and not all may end up becoming prominent BJP politicians.
