Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday attended the high tea ceremony at the Raj Bhavan in Patna but RJD leader and Nitish's deputy Tejashwi Yadav gave it a miss.
The development comes in the backdrop of speculations that Kumar, the JD(U) president, could pull out of the Mahagathbandhan and return to the NDA, led by the BJP.
Less than a week, post-Ram Mandir inauguration, - three wickets down in top batting order in the Opposition alliance. Mamata Banerjee is going solo in West Bengal, which has 42 seats and sizable Muslim population.
In Punjab with 13 seats, the AAP of Arvind Kejriwal has shut the door to Rahul Gandhi's Congress and now in Bihar - that has 40 seats - the JD(U) is reportedly making a 'Ghar wapsi' to the embrace of Narendra Modi's BJP.
"Ram Janma sthan ke saath hamari jay-parajay joori hui hae
(With the Birthplace of God Ram, India's story of victory and being vanquished in the past is linked),"
- L K Advani during the peak of Ram Mandir movement in 1990
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| Blogger with Advani 2001: Nagaland |
"The fact of the matter is Babar came there and his military commander brings down the Temple and built a Masjid. This is not a mere battle of Mandir-Masjid. It's a battlle of Bharat's vijay-parajay (Victory and defeat)," - Advani
"When I thought of starting the Movement...the Rath Yatra and present my party BJP's views across India, I thought it will be good if I have to link this Yatra to Somnath (from where Advani's Rath Yatra was started on Sept 25, 1990)".
"Because the story of Somnath is the story of India's victory and defeat. The destruction of Somnath temple is linked to our defeat...and its re-construction is linked to India's coming back and victory".
"Usi prakar, Ram Janm Sthan ke saath, hamari jay-parajay joori hui hae
(The same way, our victory and being vanquished is linked with the saga of Ram Jamnsthan Temple").
During the course of Rath Yatra, his entourage reached Delhi and this is what he said in the national capital:
"I am also conscious when I see highly educated people, university students, university teachers coming out and standing outside and the kind of enthusiasm I see in them makes me feel that in their case it is just not religiosity.
They may not be normally very religious but in their case it is the strong sense of revulsion against the Pseudo Secularism practiced by most political parties and they say here is a party at least which does not shy away from saying that Yes, if I am a Hindu...I am proud of being a Hindu".
And India's western neighbour, Pakistan -- may not ever learn any lesson !!
In the process, it may not stop poking its nose and harming Muslims in India :::
Pakistan’s UN envoy Munir Akram shared a plea with the global body urging it to protect Muslim sites in India.
During an OIC ambassadorial meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, Pakistan "condemned" the recent consecration of the Ram temple on the site of the demolished Babri Masjid.
“Pakistan condemns in the strongest terms the construction and consecration of the Ram Temple on the site of the demolished Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India,” he wrote in a letter addressed to Miguel Angel Moratinos, a top official for the UN Alliance of Civilisations.
“This trend poses a significant threat to the social, economic, and political well-being of Indian Muslims, as well as to the harmony and peace in the region.”
The letter came on the heels of local authorities’ drive in Mumbai tearing down several Muslim-owned makeshift shopfronts. The action by municipal authorities follows religious clashes sparked by the inauguration of Ram temple. Minor clashes broke out Sunday in parts of Mumbai, including one incident where Hindus chanting religious slogans passed through a Muslim neighbourhood on the megacity’s outskirts.
No serious injuries were reported in the melee but by Tuesday, authorities had called in excavators to knock down more than a dozen shopfronts belonging to Muslims in that locality, according to media reports.
The following evening another 40 shopfronts were knocked down on Mohammed Ali Road, a major downtown thoroughfare and centre of local Muslim commerce that had also seen weekend clashes.
“We were undertaking deep clearing of the road in which some temporary hawkers and so forth were removed,” a local municipal officer, who declined to be named, told AFP.
Numerous traders of all faiths often build makeshift shopfronts out of canvas and wood to shield their businesses and patrons from the city’s scorching sun and pounding monsoon rains.
“I cannot fathom why this was done,” Abdul Haseeb Khan, owner of a restaurant hit in the clearance drive, said. “If they didn’t want these structures here, they should have informed us and we would have removed it. This is no way to take action.”
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| Faisal Mosque, Islamabad |
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