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Thursday said the present wave name the Citizenship Mukherjee had raked up a “Selective, orchestrated, of largely peaceful protests that (Amendment) Act or CAA, in major controversy by visiting one-sided, out of context, or have “gripped” the country his address, his remarks, par- the RSS headquarters in motivated reporting and dis- will once again help deepening ticularly his reference to belief Nagpur two years ago. At that *+ play, aimed at pushing the par- India’s democratic roots. of the youth in upholding the time even people within his *+ tisan agendas of one group or Addressing the first Constitution of India, have own party, the Congress, crit- the other cannot or should not Sukumar Sen Memorial lecture come against the backdrop of icised him for showing prox- *+ ever be the nature and charac- series at Pravasi Bharatiya protests against the CAA. imity to the ruling BJP at the * * ter of journalism,” he had said. Kendra on Thursday, former Incidentally, at several Centre. In October last year, !" Supreme Court recently but President said the last few places protesters, mainly On December 19 last year, Mukherjee pressed on the the advocate said Pawan is still months have witnessed people, youths, grabbed headlines by speaking at the second Atal & ' importance of dialogue in a ith nine days left for their left with option to move a cura- particularly the youth, come simply reading the Preamble of Bihari Vajpayee Memorial democracy while delivering Wexecution, the four tive petition in the Supreme out on the streets in large the Constitution. Lecture at the India stable Government and not a tary democracy,” Mukherjee the North East Institute of death-row convicts in the Court. The lawyer also claimed numbers to voice their views The Modi Government has Foundation, Mukherjee had majoritarian one. A numerical said. The former President also Advanced Studies Foundation Nirbhaya gangrape case are that Akshay is also left with on issues “which in their view faced several protests during its cautioned against a “majori- majority in elections gives you pointed out that while people Day lecture in memory yet to inform the Tihar jail optiond to file curative petition. are important”. second term across the coun- tarian Government” against the right to make a stable gov- have given “strong majorities” of Justice (Retd) KN Saikia in authorities about when they Meanwhile, a senior jail “Indian democracy has try on issues such as CAA/ the backdrop of pan-India ernment. The lack of popular to various parties since 1952, Guwahati, Assam. want to meet their families for official while elaborating about been tested time and again. NRC/NPR, abrogation of protests against the CAA. majority forbids you from not a single one has been elect- Mukherjee stated that the the last time or whom they the procedure before executing Consensus is the lifeblood of Article 370, and Triple Talaq. “A numerical majority in (becoming) a majoritarian gov- ed with over 50 per cent vote. soul of India resides in plural- want to will their assets and the death-row convicts said after democracy. Democracy thrives Mukherjee’s daughter the elections only gives a polit- ernment. That is the message Similarly, delivering ism and celebration of its money that they have earned the death warrants were issued, on listening, deliberating, dis- Sharmistha Mukherjee, a ical party the right to form a and essence of our parliamen- Rajendra Mathur Memorial diversity. during their incarceration. the convicts were asked when Delhi Prisons authorities they would like to meet their have begun preparations for the respective families for the last execution of the four convicts time and if so, who all do they !$ " on February 1 and have con- wish to meet. But none of tracted Pawan, the hangman them have responded yet. from Meerut who would be The official said the con- paid 15,000 for each hanging. victs were also asked if they % Meanwhile, the counsel for would want to prepare their the convicts, AP Singh told The will, but they have not respond- Pioneer that options are there ed yet. “The families of all the before him as Akshay Singh four convicts are allowed to #"$"% tims’ average age was 73, with and Pawan Gupta’s curative meet them twice a week but the the oldest 89 and the youngest !"& Trump said the US was watch- petitions are yet to be filed last date of meeting has not hina on Thursday locked 48. So far 631 cases have been '"(") ing the developments related to before the Supreme Court. been fixed because they still Cdown five cities, including confirmed in 25 provincial- Kashmir “very closely” and Once the petitions are filed, the have not responded,” he said. Wuhan, suspending all public level regions in the country. rushing aside Prime repeated his offer to “help” hanging will be stayed till the “Dummy execution of the transport in an unprecedented The Government has BMinister Imran Khan’s plea resolve the matter. petitions are decided. four death-row convicts was move to contain the coron- sealed Wuhan and Huanggang, for global intervention to pre- Reacting to Khan’s call to The four convicts, Vinay performed in the prison last avirus that has infected over a prefecture level city with ! 3 4 / vent a showdown between “two the global community, the Shrama (26), Akshay Singh week. The officials recorded the 630 people and left 17 others over 7.4 million people, in an 3 4 nuclear armed” nations, New External Affairs Ministry (31), Mukesh Kumar (32) and weights of the convicts and dead, dampening the celebra- unprecedented effort to curb Delhi on Thursday rejected Spokesman Raveesh Kumar Pawan Gupta (25), who are then prepared the dummies tions of the Lunar New Year. the spread of the deadly novel President Donald Trump’s offer said Pakistan efforts would be lodged in separate cells of Jail accordingly with sacks filled On Thursday evening, coronavirus. The other three ! "#$%" of “ help” to resolve the matter better spent in taking verifiable No 3 where the execution will with debris and stones,” a Chinese officials announced cities too have substantial pop- insisting that Kashmir issue action against terror groups on take place, are scheduled to be senior jail official said. suspension of public transport ulation. New Delhi: An Indian nurse Affairs V Muraleedharan said. was a bilateral issue. its territory than trying to hanged at 6 am on February 1, The execution will take in five cities - Huanggang, From 10 am on Thursday, working at a hospital in Saudi In a tweet, he said, “Update India also asked Pakistan to “distract” the global commu- in case they fail to file the cura- place in Jail No 3, the offi- Ezhou, Zhijiang, Qianjiang and all public transportation, Arabia tested positive for the from @CGIJeddah : About 100 take verifiable action against nity. tive petition. cial said, adding that the Wuhan in Hubei province, including city buses, subways, novel coronavirus when she Indian nurses mostly from terror groups active there and In an interview on the According to AP Singh, Uttar Pradesh Prison official media reported. ferries and long-distance and nearly 100 of her Indian Kerala working at Al-Hayat blamed it for “spewing venom sidelines of the Davos meet, Pawan and Akshay still have authority has confirmed Wuhan, the city of 11 mil- coaches in Wuhan were sus- colleagues, mostly from Kerala, hospital have been tested and and false narratives” in the Imran Khan had urged inter- options to file curative petitions that Pawan Jallad from lion people where the virus is pended, and outbound chan- were screened, the none except one nurse was United Nations, saying it takes national powers — including in the Supreme Court. Pawan Meerut will be sent believed to have first emerged, nels at airports and railway sta- Government said on Thursday. found infected by Corona virus. to hate speech like ‘a fish takes the UN and the US — and Akshay are yet to request to hang the four has no trains or planes in or tions closed until further The affected nurse is being Affected nurse is being treated to water” on the Kashmir issue. to help de-escalate tensions for the “Presidential pardon”. convicts. out. Nationwide, a total of 17 notice. The city officials have treated at the Aseer National at Aseer National Hospital and Addressing the media between India and Pakistan A petition of Pawan claim- All the four are people have died, all of them in asked people in both the cities Hospital and is recovering well, is recovering well.” along with the Pakistan Prime before things get to a point of ing to be juvenile at the time of likely to hanged and around Wuhan. The vic- not to leave. Minister of State for External Detailed report on P5 Minister in Davos on Tuesday, no return.