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The worry over caste ith several of its leaders arithmetic close to the Lok MOOT POINT Wopenly expressing con- Sabha poll 2019 and the spi- * The BJP likely to discuss the blood on LoC cerns over the upper caste ralling implications of the anger against draconian anger against restoration of SC/ST (Prevention of arrest provisions of the the stringent provision of the Atrocities) Amendment Bill, SC/ST Act in its National Bajwa threat Scheduled Caste/Scheduled 2018 passed in Parliament last Executive today Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) month to nullify the Supreme * Party is monitoring the mood contradicts Act, the BJP is set to discuss the Court order (which had set cer- of upper castes in view of the issue in its National Executive tain safeguards prior to the upcoming Assembly polls meeting beginning on Saturday. arrest of the accused) has rat- and next year's LS elections Imran Khan’s The party is keenly moni- tled the party leadership. * BJP MP Subramanian toring the needle of the upper Prime Minister Narendra Swami, Harshwardhan Singh peace call caste compass in view of the Modi and BJP president Amit Dungarpur, Kalraj Mishra IANS n RAWALPINDI upcoming Assembly elections Shah reportedly discussed the have openly slammed the in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh implication of the scenario restoration of the provisions and Chhattisgarh, and next and instructed party leaders n sharp contrast to the rec- safeguarding our nation who year’s Lok Sabha poll. and spokespersons to be cau- * The upper castes have Ionciliatory tone of Pakistan’s fought remarkably in these “The Supreme Court ver- tious and not to offer a “loose alleged rampant misuse of Prime Minister Imran Khan difficult times and stood dict was correct. There should comment” on the issue. the law which gives police towards India, Army chief against such elements,” the be safeguards,” asserted former Though not averse to tak- the power to arrest the General Qamar Jawed Bajwa Army chief added. Union Agriculture Minister ing credit for moving and hav- accused without preliminary has vowed to avenge blood of “We have sacrificed a lot and BJP MP from ing passed the Amendment Bill enquiry and has no provision the country’s soldiers being but our job is not done. The Muzaffarnagar Sanjeev Balyan by Parliament in August, the of anticipatory bail shed on the border. war is still ongoing. We have yet denouncing the harsh clauses BJP is uncomfortable with the General Bajwa’s comments to reach the pinnacle of peace. in the Act. Talking to The response the upper caste-spon- However, the BJP feels that evidence on the ground. came while addressing the We have to make Pakistan Pioneer, the BJP leader said the sored Bharat Bandh got in the while it may have to bear the The matter was also recent- Defence Day ceremony in reach a level where no one can SC/ST Act “is driving fissures Hindi heartland. brunt of the upper caste anger, ly discussed at the meeting of Rawalpindi on Thursday to look at us with an evil intent.” in social integration”. The upper castes have it would help the party to the BJP Chief Ministers with Can't undo Parliament mark the 53rd anniversary of Former Indian cricketer- On the “anger” against alleged rampant misuse of the improve its image as pro-Dalits. the Prime Minister. Source the 1965 war with India. He turned-politician Navjot Singh reservation politics, Balyan law which gives police the “The expression of anger said the BJP leadership is ask- also paid respect to “brothers Sidhu earlier came under said the BJP manifesto speaks power to arrest the accused and agitation by the upper ing the upper caste MPs and its nod to arrest provisions and sisters in the occupied severe criticism after he hugged of reservation on “economic without preliminary enquiry caste against the restoration of leaders to reach out to their Jammu & Kashmir who’re writ- General Bajwa during Khan’s basis” and “that should be our and has no provision of antic- stringent clauses in the Act goes upper caste voters and assure ing the history of resistance”. oath-taking ceremony last party line”. ipatory bail. on to puncture the Opposition them that the Act would not be “We will avenge the blood month. The BJP MP was obvious- The Supreme Court, in its propaganda that we are against allowed to be misused on the as it is law now: SC flowing on the border,” Geo Sidhu’s photo of him seat- ly articulating upper caste angst order on the SC/ST Act, had the Dalits,” said a senior BJP ground. PTI n NEW DELHI on rampant misuse of the News quoted General Bajwa, as ed next to President of Pakistan against the “unfair treatment” laid down stringent safeguards, leader requesting anonymity The BJP Government in stringent SC/ST Act and held saying in the presence of Prime Occupied Kashmir (PoK) meted out to them in the cur- including provisions for antic- and suggesting that by default UP has already scrutinised he new amendments to the that there shall be no immedi- Minister, who had earlier said Masood Khan at the ceremo- rent system. ipatory bail and a “preliminary the BJP’s image is getting hit most of the cases under the Act TSC/ST law passed by ate arrest on any complaint that his Pakistan Tehreek-e- ny had also created some rip- Earlier party MP enquiry” before registration of (without the party asking and maintained that “right Parliament cannot be stayed at filed under the law. It had also Insaf (PTI) Government ples back home. Subramanian Swamy, a case. The apex court had for it). compensations” would be given this stage, the Supreme Court passed a slew of directions favoured good relations with Speaking at the same event, Harshwardhan Singh noted that there had been He said the party has, for wherever instances of misuse said Friday, as it sought the and said a public servant can be India and wanted to see lead- Khan said that “Pakistan would Dungarpur, Kalraj Mishra “instances of abuse” of the Act long, been accused of playing were proved after the investi- Centre’s response on a batch of arrested in cases lodged under ers of the two countries sitting no more participate in some- among several other leaders by “vested interests” for polit- anti-Dalit politics by the Left gation. pleas challenging the restored the SC/ST Act only after prior across the table to resolve all one else’s war” and insisted that have openly slammed the ical or personal reasons. and the Congress without any Continued on Page 7 provisions. approval by the competent disputes, including Kashmir. there was no civil-military The pleas have sought dec- authority. “Our armed forces and the divide in the country. laration of the new amend- On Friday, a Bench of entire nation have learned He said that he was against ments to the Schedule Castes Justices AK Sikri and Ashok much during their service to the war from the very begin- and Schedules Tribes Bhushan issued notice to the Pakistan. Fear and terrorism ning and his Government’s ` Two ISIS terrorists (Prevention of Atrocities) Act Centre and sought its response were thrust upon us. Our foreign policy would be in the Sinking soars as ultra vires. in six weeks. homes, schools, places of wor- best interest of the nation. Parliament on August 9 Counsel for petitioner ship, recreational sites and “I was against this war had passed the Bill to overturn Prathvi Raj Chauhan said the national institutions were from the very beginning. “We nabbed at Red Fort the apex court order concern- Bench should at least stay the attacked,” General Bajwa said. will not become part of a war ing certain safeguards against operation of the new provisions “Efforts were made to of any other country (in arrest under the SC/ST law. till the petition is being heard weaken and divide us from future)... Our foreign policy debt repayment The new amendment had by the court. within. But I salute all the cit- will be in the best interest of the overturned the March 20 order Continued on Page 7 izens of Pakistan and the ones nation,” he said. by `68,500 cr Yogi likens Akhilesh to Aurangzeb 4 of a family New Delhi: Sinking ` may rate of 65.1 per dollar in 2017, PNS n LUCKNOW hacked to lead the Centre to cater to according to Bloomberg. another mega expenditure — A weak currency always n a strident attack on foreign debt. According an hurts a country. Be it India or ISamajwadi Party president death in estimate by the State Bank of any other part of the world. Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh India, at the current rate, India Very simply, everything gets Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Allahabad will have to shell out an addi- more expensive.