Hindutva goons disguised as "Gao Sewa Samiti" terrorise Muslims of Malegaon

Malegaon: As Eid Al-Azha festival approaches, Hindutva goons have stepped up their efforts to terror the Muslims of this district. Disguised as “Gao Sewa Samiti” and led by Subhash Malu and his associates, they are freely creating mischief in Malegaon.

During this festival which will fall this years towards the end of November, Muslims will offer qurbani, that is slaughtering permitted animals like bulls, buffalos, goats and sheep. People claiming to belong to Gaoshala Samiti, who are led by Subhash Malu, have taken the law in their hands to terrorise Muslims by spreading rumours and attacking vehicles carrying such animals. These goons, in the name of protecting cows, are looting animals being transported by merchants using force. They are also looting money and valuables of Muslims with the connivance of the local Police. This has endangered public peace and order.

President of Malegaon’s Qaumi Majlis-e-Shoora Maulana Abdul Kareem Milli has presented a memorandum on 18 November to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra drawing his attention to this criminal activity with police connivance. Maulana Milli asked the CM to personally intervene in this matter and save ordinary Muslims from the criminal activities of Hindutva goons who are looting and robbing peaceful Muslims.

Maulana Milli said in his memorandum that this activity surfaces each year at this time and every year some Muslims animal merchants are victimized by these goons.

During one such attack on 16 November 2009, two animal merchants were killed by these goons led by Subhash Malu and his associates. They attacked the animal merchants, robbed their valuable articles and money and looted the animals. The two merchants were shown as dying during a motor accident. Maulana Milli has asked the CM to order the prosecution of these goons especially Subhash Malu. He has demanded that this goon and his associates should be externed from Malegaon in order to ensure the town’s peace and communal harmony.

SP goes 'Mulayam' on BJP, says will attack Cong, Rao over Babri

New Delhi Clearly indicating closer coordination with the BJP, the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP), licking the wounds of its bypoll defeat, said on Thursday that it would focus its attack on the Congress over the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition. And that on “Black Day” December 6, party leaders would hit the streets with the slogan of “Hai Congress.” At a press conference he held with party general secretary Amar Singh, neither attacked the BJP for the demolition. In fact, Amar Singh said he had told Leader of Opposition L K Advani that “if the BJP was ready to shed its religious fundamentalism, then the SP can come close to it...(and) if this happens, then we can be part of a larger opposition.”
That Congress was the target was underlined by Mulayam. “Who opened the gates to the mosque? Who got idols placed in it? Which leader started his campaign from Ayodhya and promised to usher Ram Rajya?” he said, in a reference to former Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Rao. He added that by giving them a clean chit, the Liberhan report had “become useless.”
“Our slogan should have been Hai Ram, then we felt it should be Hai Rao but since Raoji is no more, we have chosen to adopt the slogan of Hai Congress,” Mulayam said.
Meanwhile, Amar Singh claimed he had the “original copy” of a letter written by Sheila Dikshit to the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao accusing him of supporting the Sangh Parivar in the demolition. “Mulayamji will read (the letter) out in the Lok Sabha and I will do so in the Rajya Sabha. In that letter, Sheilaji, the daughter-in-law of respected Congress leader Umakant Dikshit, clearly charges Narasimha Rao with colluding with saffron forces to demolish the mosque,” Amar Singh said. The Lok Sabha is scheduled to discuss the Liberhan report next week. Mulayam said that on December 18, the SP would hold an agitation along with major Opposition parties, including the Left, INLD, TDP, RLD, JD(S) and RJD, to protest against price rise and “inaction” on reports of other commissions such as the Sri Krishna Commission relating to the Mumbai riots. “We are talking to all,” Mulayam said.

5000 children under 5 die in India everyday: UNICEF

New Delhi, November 20: Despite a decrease in child mortality figures, 5,000 children under the age of five die in India everyday due to preventable causes, according to a latest UNICEF report. Within the under five mortality rate, the maximum 96 per cent of children who die belong to the Scheduled Tribes, 88 per cent to Scheduled Castes and 59 to general population.
"It is early marriage and inadequate health care of women which adversely affects the survival of their children," said Karen Hulshoff, Country Representative of UNICEF in India said.
The report says malnutrition rates in India continue to be very high. Though the percentage of malnourished children below the age of three has decreased from 52 per cent to 46 per cent, it is still way below the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
Forty seven per cent of women had deliveries with skilled health provider, it said.

Maoists are terrorists, no sympathy for them

Bhubaneswar: Terming Thursday’s attack on a passenger train in Jharkhand as a 'cowardly act', Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said that Maoists were terrorists and he had no sympathy for them. "There is no difference between terrorists and Maoists. They are making railway stations, trains, mobile towers and schools soft targets. They also held up a train in West Bengal. I have no sympathy for them," Pillai said after a meeting with senior Orissa government officials. Stating that coordinated operations by different states with help from the Centre could be beneficial for fighting Maoists, he said no military action was being planned against the extremists, but efforts were being made to restore the civil administration. (Oh! Still you people yet to decide to label them as Terrorists. Label them as Hindu Terrorists.- Editor)

Senior cops did not respond to 26/11 situation: Hasan Gafoor

New Delhi Some of the top Mumbai police officers have been accused by their former boss of dithering from "responding to the situation" during the 26/11 attacks. Gafoor Hasan, the then Mumbai Police Commissioner, said, "a section of senior police officers refused to be on the ground and take on the terrorists. By doing so, they chose to ignore the need of the hour."
Naming some of the seniors, Hasan, in an interview published in 'The Week' magazine just days ahead of the first anniversary of the attacks, said, "I told you there were a handful. For example, K L Prasad refused to come to the Trident and decided against hitting the roads. Devena Bharti, K Venkatesham and Parambhir Singh did not appear keen on responding to the situation as it kept dawning on us."
Prasad was then the Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) while Bharti was the Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime). Venkatesham was the Additional Commissioner of Police (South Region) and Singh was the Additional Commissioner of Police (Anti-Terrorism Squad).
"Yes, there was dearth of eagerness on the part of a handful of senior officers to be on the ground during those days," said Gafoor, replying to a question if he noticed a bit of unwillingness among the senior officers.
Now Director General of Police (Housing), Gafoor received a lot of flak from the Ram Pradhan Committee, which probed into how the security agencies responded to the deadly terror strikes that claimed more than 180 lives.
It had observed that command and control was not properly exercised during the handling of the attacks.
Asked how he felt when let down by his own men and if there was a bigger embarrassment, Gafoor said "yes there was, indeed. On November 28, I attended a meeting with the DGP and Home Minister. I was told to withdraw the NSG and instead use the Mumbai police for the ongoing operations. The DGP told me that the entire world was watching us and so we should put an immediate end to the siege and help defuse the crisis. This sounded ridiculous, as the NSG is an elite force that can tackle such crisis situation. I said it was even preposterous to even think of taking off the NSG."
Recalling the events that took place on November 26 last year, Gafoor said "the first thing on my mind was, of course, to liquidate the terrorists or to restrict and compel them to a corner and then cordon off the targeted area -- all this to engineer the safe evacuation of the people trapped inside."
Lauding the NSG for doing a "great job" in eliminating the terrorists, the former Mumbai Police Commissioner said "without them it would not have been possible to even map the terrorists' movement inside those built-up areas, let alone take them head on and overpower them ultimately."
Asked if believes that he was made a scapegoat, he said, "I cannot comment on that. But yes, political considerations do play a part in lot of things that are decided and ratified. It is politics and much more beyond."
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