New Delhi: Even though Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nasty election speech in Rajasthan's Banswara has triggered a nationwide controversy, the Election Commission has so far not taken any action. Meanwhile the Opposition bloc INDIA called the speech an attempt to divert attention from "real issues".
Addressing the people Banswara, on April 21, (Sunday) Modi openly attacked India’s Muslims, suggesting they were “infiltrators” and went on to claim that the opposition if elected would give away “mangalsutras” and “land” of those listening to his speech to them (Muslims).
He referred to his immediate predecessor, Dr Manmohan Singh who was in office for 10 years as prime minister till 2014, and said, “Earlier, when his government was in power, he had said that Muslims have the first right on the country’s property, which means who will they collect this property and distribute it to – those who have more children, will distribute it to the infiltrators. Will the money of your hard work be given to the infiltrators? Do you approve of this?”
Modi went on to say, “This Congress manifesto is saying that they will calculate the gold of the mothers and sisters, get information about it and then distribute it. Manmohan Singh’s government had said that Muslims have the first right on property. Brothers and sisters, these urban Naxal thoughts will not let even your mangalsutra escape, they will go this far.”
Narendra Modi and the BJP so far in their campaign trail have invoked religious faith, the Ram temple and Lord Ram multiple times, directly using it to call for people to vote for them. The Election Commission has been completely silent on the messaging via videos, tweets and other exhortations.
Did Manmohan Singh really say that?
Modi’s claim that Dr Singh said that is not new and was refuted in 2006 itself by Singh’s PMO, when Modi had first made the false claim. The PMO had termed such remarks, “a deliberate and mischievous misinterpretation of what the Prime Minister said here yesterday at the meeting of the National Development Council, on fiscal priorities of the government.” It was termed “an avoidable controversy has been generated. The Prime Minister’s observations have also been quoted out of context in some sections of the electronic media, fuelling a baseless controversy.”
The full text of the paragraph in which the Prime Minister referred to the issue of minority empowerment to clarify the matter is as follows:
“I believe our collective priorities are clear: agriculture, irrigation and water resources, health, education, critical investment in rural infrastructure, and the essential public investment needs of general infrastructure, along with programmes for the upliftment of SC/STs, other backward classes, minorities and women and children. The component plans for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will need to be revitalized. We will have to devise innovative plans to ensure that minorities, particularly the Muslim minority, are empowered to share equitably in the fruits of development. They must have the first claim on resources. The Centre has a myriad other responsibilities whose demands will have to be fitted within the over-all resource availability.”
The PMO’s clarification said. “it will be seen from the above that the Prime Minister’s reference to “first claim on resources” refers to all the “priority” areas listed above, including programmes for the upliftment of SCs, STs, OBCs, women and children and minorities.
Opposition reacts
Chairman, Media and Publicity department of the Congress, Pawan Khera said in a video message in a post, “We challenge the Prime Minister to show us if the word Hindu or Muslim is written anywhere in our manifesto. This kind of lightness is there in your mentality, in your political values. We have talked about justice for the youth, women, farmers, tribals, middle class and workers. Do you object to this as well?”
Khera was referring to earlier mistruths uttered by Modi about the “Muslim League” having influenced the Congress manifesto.
In Jharkhand’s Ranchi at an opposition rally, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is reported to have said by BBC Hindi, “If democracy and the Constitution end in the country, then the people will have nothing left. Babasaheb Ambedkar ji and Jawaharlal Nehru ji gave equal voting rights to everyone, due to which all classes got respect. But Narendra Modi wants to snatch their rights from the poor.”
B.V. Srinivas termed it as unfortunate that “this person is the Prime Minister of this country, and an even bigger tragedy is that the Election Commission of India is no longer alive.” He said that “due to the frustration of impending defeat, the Prime Minister of India is openly sowing the seeds of hatred, he is polarising by misquoting Manmohan Singh’s 18-year-old incomplete statement, But the Election Commission (Modi ka parivar) is bowing down.”
Modi’s past hate-speech
Modi, in his 12-year tenure as chief minister of Gujarat was known to have made speeches targeting the state’s minority Muslim community brazenly, terming camps where Muslims were forced to stay in after communal violence gripped the state in 2002. Frontline covered him on his Gujarat Gaurav Yatra started shortly after the violence, at a rally at Becharaji in Mehsana district in northern Gujarat, when he said, “What should we do? Run relief camps for them? Do we want to open baby-producing centres? But for certain people that means hum paanch, hamare pachees.”
In 2017 it was time again for direct speech targeting Muslims when in February he spoke of ‘shamshaan versus kabristan’ campaigning for UP and then for Gujarat elections when the BJP had its worst performance this millennium, in a speech at Palanpur on December 10, 2017 Modi invoked a “secret meeting” to get Pakistan to fix Gujarat’s assembly polls. He said that a meeting was held at Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s residence, attended by former PM Manmohan Singh, former Vice-President Hamid Ansari, former Army Chief Deepak Kapoor and distinguished diplomats to execute the plot. Modi’s PMO faced embarrassment when in response to an RTI filed by the Congress, his office was forced to say that Modi’s campaign speech could have been based on an “informal input”.
In the only question he has answered as part of a press conference with Joe Biden on June 22, 2023, Modi was asked, “India has long prided itself as the world’s largest democracy, but there are many human rights groups who say that your government has discriminated against religious minorities and sought to silence its critics. As you stand here in the East Room of the White House, where so many world leaders have made commitments to protecting democracy, what steps are you and your government willing to take to improve the rights of Muslims and other minorities in your country and to uphold free speech?”
In response Modi appeared visibly frazzled and denied all charges. “I’m actually really surprised that people say so. And so, people don’t say it. Indeed, India is a democracy.”
The journalist was trolled online by BJP leaders and supporters to such an extent that the White House had to come out and defend her and strongly denounce the trolling and abuse.
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@suresh
For eg: if u throw out ur parents. And bring Beggar from the street. And u look after them very well. Thinking that this will reach ur parents.
Will ur real parents may like this.
Same with God. God will not like
@suresh
U ur self answered to ur question. I.e in unauthorized manner. Wrong is wrong.
Unknowingly if u make a mistake God might forgive u. But knowingly if u worship dummy Gods. God might not forgive u.
U have to fight fo
@True indian, Do you know what it means - \ sink deeper into darkness\""
@Suresh
\shudhama poapvidham\"
\"He is bodyless and pure.\"
[Yajurveda 40:8]6
\"Andhatama pravishanti ye asambhuti mupaste\"
\"They enter darkness, those who worship the natural elements\" (Air, Water, Fire, etc.). \"
@suresh.
Correctly said. Unauthorized manner means in wrong way. Just u can make right way. But worshipping one true God. Whose image cannot be seen in this world. No where in vedas shows the picture of krishna or rama.
Wrong is wron
@ TRUE INDIAN, Chapter 9, verse-23 \ye py anya-devata-bhakta yajante, shraddhayanvitah, te pi mam eva kaunteya yajanty avidhi - purvakam.
O Arjuna, those who devotedly worship different demigods, although faithfully, they also worship me only
@suresh
\Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.\"
[Bhagavad Gita 7:20]
The Gita states tha
@ TRUE INDIAN, are u in skype?
@ TRUE INDIAN, TIRUNARAYANAN OF MELKOTE & BIBI THULLUKKA NACHIYAR. In 1311 A.D., Mallik Kafur had carried out lightining raid on this temple and took away the golden idol of the lord to Delhi. But as luck would have it, his daughter Thulukka fell in love
@ True Indian, I feel presence of God in my path. I feel blessed. You may call it split personality. But I think it works very well. I just love it...
@Suresh
May God show u the right path.
@Suresh
Here is the scientific evidence by nasa that moon split into 2. And re-joined.
Allah says in Quran that Moon split into two and re-joined.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lunar-graben.html
The East India co. was ruling Tamil nadu in 1812 and Rous Peter was collector of Madurai. Rous Peter was kind hearted person and treated people of all faiths equally. He restored peace, prosperity and justice in Menaksi's Pattanam, Madurai.As district collector, peter was not only in charge of temple town, but also for administration of Temple. peter had a habit of going around the temple everyday before beginning his work.One night the city experience a huge thunder storm with lightning. Peter was inside his bungalow in deep sleep, Suddenly a 3 yr old girl appeared and dragged him out of his house.As soon as they left the bungalow lightening struck building and the bungalow collapsed.Peter was shocked, he immediately followed the girl, who playfully entered the meenakshi Amman temple sanctom sanctoram and right in front of his eyes there she disappeared. Peter was sure it was the meenakshi Amman came to rescue in the form of mysterious girl. The ruler goddess Meenakshi had come down to save a good man from calamity. Peter was ever grateful to mother meenakshi and donated many gold & jewelry gifts, these are displayed even today and kept in museum.
@True India, you are not taking any pains to read what I have written. your question Where is earth, answer just read my previous message on why Uranus. Neptune not included in Nav graha. Dittos for earth.
@suresh
Where is earth
1. Surya (a.k.a. Ravi), the Sun
2. Soma, the Moon
3. Mangala, Mars
4. Buddha, Mercury
5. Briahspati, Jupiter, also called \Guru\" the master (servent) of all graha.
6.Shukra, Venus
@TRUE INDIAN,
Navgrahas are those heavenly bodies affecting life & lifeless things on earth, including earth itself. So they are studied upon.
Uranus, neptune are farthest planets, do not have much impact on earth, hence not included.
@Suresh
Earth,Uranus and neptune is not included in the Navagraha. In the navagraha book why??
@Suresh
Now science tells us that pluto is not a planet. It is dwarf planet And there are some more dwarf planet as well.
I haven't disgraced it, i respect rama shiva etc. but we believe they might be messenger of God.
Some of ur vedas scripture are similiar to that of Quran. But if u follow the teaching of vedas. U will be a muslim.
There is only one God and one religion.
Muslim is nothing but submission of will to God. Even vedas speak about that. But unfortunately u dont follow.
If u do just the opposite of vedas. Will God likes it. That is my question.
I think u should question ur Hindu pandits that if vedas says one god and should not make the idol of it,
I respect that u respect Holy Quran. And Quran also says not to degrade or insult other religion, But u can show them or teach them, its upto them who believe it or not.
Allah sent 124,000 prophets on earth. Thats why i said they might be messenger of God.
Too many Gods means they fight among each other some of the Gods view may be different. Many says some Gods asks for human blood, Animal blood. If one god doesn't answer ur prayers then u have to try with other Gods.
@ true indian,
Before 1400 years, Vedic religion knew 9 planets, their orbits,
We already knew about eclipse, how its caused. (akashganga- milkyway,) and so whats the great in that, if your book says earth is egg shaped, it is and we know
@TRUE INDIAN,
It was you praising your book, that its post graduation, no errors. etc. etc.
If you scroll back & see anywhere in my comments you will not find a single comment disgracing your holy book. Why, becoz of the teachings and greatness
@Suresh
if anywhere in your books its written VEDAS are wrong, its a wrong statement.
I have already quoted. I think u missed it. Scroll down and read
@suresh
SELF PRAISE IS OFTEN DISGRACE.\ you are praising your books so much.
This is not my book. This is Allah's book. And it is for everybody. And Even it for u.
Many of the hindus like shudras etc are not permitted to
@Suresh
Some of the vedas matches with quran. Like it says God is one. He has no father no mother. Dont worship dummy Gods. Worship him Alone. Dont associate parnters with him. There is no second God.
We follow some of ur vedas. But
@Suresh
Some of the vedas matches with quran. Like it says God is one. He has no father no mother. Dont worship dummy Gods. Worship him Alone. Dont associate parnters with him. There is no second God.
We follow some of ur vedas. But
@TRUE INDIAN,
\SELF PRAISE IS OFTEN DISGRACE.\" you are praising your books so much.
Teachings of your books have not provided you enough Maturity and prudence in the matter of understanding god. If your book was complete without any errors the
Quran says earth is egg shaped.
Before science used to tell earth is round. Then many people were worried. How science says earth is round.
Now we cAme to know that. Science now says that earth is Geo sperical in shape. Just like an egg.
Even quran says that. One human being's finger doesn't match with another. Now we cAme to know that recently.
Even there are so many scientific proofs. Which science have come to know.
The biggest proof that Quran is the word of God. Is the Book is given to the prophet Mohammed. Who doesn't know to read and write.
Even in bible it says: I have many things to say onto u. But u cannot bear them.
Bible says: And i will send u another Comforter. And the book will be given to him. Who doesn't know to read and write.
And he will guide u onto all truth.
@Suresh
Regarding the saints ur talking.
Science has already proved
It is dissociative identity disorder, a disease that affects the person's identity, making them think they're someone else.
Go and watch the mo
BURYING BETTER THAN CREMATING DEAD BODIES
1.Components of human body present in the soil
Elements that are present in the human body are present in lesser or greater quantity in the soil. Hence it is more scientific to bury a dead body, as it easily gets decomposed and mixed in the soil.
2.No Pollution
Cremating (burning) the dead body leads to pollution of the atmosphere which is detrimental to health and harmful for the environment. There is no such pollution caused by burying a dead body.
3.Surrounding land becomes fertile
To cremate a dead body several trees have to be chopped, which reduces the greenery and harms the environment and the ecology. When dead bodies are buried, besides the trees being saved, the surrounding land becomes fertile and it improves the environment.
Economical
It is expensive to cremate a dead body when tons of wood have to be burned. Annually there is a loss of crores of rupees, only because dead bodies are cremated in India. Burying dead bodies is FREE
Same land can be utilised for burying another body
The wood used for cremating a dead body cannot be reutilised for cremating another dead body since it gets converted to ashes. The land used for burying a dead body can be reutilised for burying another body after a few years since the human body gets decomposed and mixed in the soil.
@TRUE INDIAN,
First you have say whether \VEDAS are RIGHT OR WRONG.\"
1) If VEDAS are right and word of GOD - then you need not have to refer any other books.
2) If VEDAS are wrong - then you should neither read it nor refer it.
@Suresh
Can we Prove Quran is From God?
Muslims have something that offers the clearest proof of all - The Holy Quran. There is no other book like it anywhere on earth. It is absolutely perfect in the Arabic language. It has no
@Suresh
If u don't believe in vedas. That means u will not remain a Hindu.
Vedas says there only one God.
1. “Ekam evadvitiyam” meaning” He is One only without a second.
[Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1]
@suresh
Aagama shastra which speaks about God taking human form
Let us put this candidate, ‘Bhagwan’ Rajneesh, to the test of Surah Ikhlas, the touchstone of theology:
The first criterion is “Say, He is Allah, one and only
@True Indian, You only read few points of Vedas here and there. I told you about Agama shastra, did you read that? no. 2) I told you about saints and their work, but did you read that? No. My dear friend google it out. just like you read few words of geet
@ True Indian. They are not proofs. these are quotes from your books which we don't believe. Hence disqualified.
@Suresh
I answered all ur questions with proof. But u couldn't give me
A single answer with proof.
And ur telling me iam dim witted. Ur running away from
The truth.
@Suresh
I answered all ur questions with proof. But u couldn't give me
A single answer with proof.
And ur telling me iam dim witted. Ur running away from
The truth.
@Suresh
Proof
The Black Stone was sent down by Allah to this earth from Paradise.
al-Tirmidhi, 877; al-Nasaa’i, 2935.
@suresh
Proof
Volume 2, Book 26, Number 667:
Umar came near the Black Stone and kissed it and said \NO DOUBT, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE A STONE AND CAN NEITHER BENEFIT ANYONE NOR HARM ANYONE. Had I not seen Allah's Apostle ki
@suresh
Proof
Volume 2, Book 26, Number 667:
Umar came near the Black Stone and kissed it and said \NO DOUBT, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE A STONE AND CAN NEITHER BENEFIT ANYONE NOR HARM ANYONE. Had I not seen Allah's Apostle ki
Proof 2
In the Quran, God addresses Prophet Muhammad “You never recited any Scripture before We revealed this one to you; you never wrote one down with your hand” (29:48). , Prophet Muhammad who was known to be illiterate, neither read any previous scriptures nor wrote the Quran.
This is a blessed Book which We sent down to you [Muhammad], for people to ponder over its message, and for those with understanding to be reminded. (Quran, 38:29)
Proof
Quran 7:143
Allah says when Musa (Moses) came at the time and place appointed by Us, and Allah spoke to him, he said: \O my Lord! Show me (Yourself), that I may look upon You.\" Allah said: \"You cannot see Me, but look upon the mountain if it stands still in its place then you shall see Me.\" So when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He made it collapse to dust, and Musa (Moses) fell down unconscious. Then when he recovered his senses he said: \"Glory be to You, I turn to You in repentance and I am the first of the believers.\"
Replaced sheep
Quran 37-100 to 109
God put Abraham to a most difficult trial, the details of which are described in the Quran. “O my Lord! Grant me (Abraham) a righteous (son)!” So We gave him the good news of a boy ready to suffer and forbear. “Then, when the (the son) reached the age of serious work with him, he said: “O my son I see in a vision that I offer you in sacrifice: Now say what is your view!” (The son) said: “O My father! Do as you are commanded: You will find me if God so wills, one practising patience and constancy!” So when they had both submitted their wills (to God), and he had made him prostrate on his face (for sacrifice), We called out to him: “O Abraham! You have already fulfilled the vision!” Thus indeed do we reward those who do right. “For this was obviously a trial and We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice: and We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times: Peace and salutation to Abraham! (37:100-109).
This is the origin of the Islamic precept of sacrifice in fulfilment of God’s command provided in the Quran: “... to your Lord turn in prayer and sacrifice.” (108:2).
The aim of sacrifice, like all other fundamentals of Islam, is to imbibe piety and self righteousness. It also promotes the spirit of sacrifice for a right cause. To explain its purpose, God says in the Quran. “It is not their meat, nor their blood, that reaches God, It is their piety that reaches God”: (22:37)"
True Indian, are you dim witted, you ask same questions which you asked earlier and I answered it, now just scroll down and read. This is getting a boring with each comments.
@ True Indian, Show me proof that Mosses seen God, show me proof that you will see god after death, show me proof that god really asked abrahm replaced sheep and u celebrate Bakrid since then. Show me proof that god disclosed instructions to your prophet.
@Suresh
If i come and say to u, that i have seen God. will u believe me.
Now u will ask, If Moses says how will u believe.
It allah said in Quran, Not Moses.
@Suresh
Shiva Couldn't Recognize his own son, Ganapathi.
How did he recognize others.
IF some one claim also, It is called Split Personality.
@suresh
the above mentioned name Themselves says that they have seen God.
Show me the proof.
@True Indian, Are you really true Indian, as you say only Mosses seen God. There are so many Indian saints seen God. 1) Meera bai, 2) Kanakadasa, 3) Namdev 4) Tukaram 5) Dyaneshwar, 6) Sakubai 7) Kanho patra 8) Akka Mahadevi, 9) Sena Barbar, 10) Bappa Bea
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