Uddhav to PM Illegal Immigrants Pose Mandir Wahin Banayenge, Par Date Nahin Batayenge, Taunts Sena Chief Nate Delay in Temple Con- Janmabhoomi
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RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2016-18 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 Late City Vol. 154 Issue 315 Published From *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable NATION 5 WORLD 7 SPORT 10 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL TRIPURA DECIDES TO ADOPT DOVAL, WANG HOLD SAINA ENTERS SYED BHUBANESWAR RANCHI CBSE SCHOOL COURSE BORDER TALKS RAIPUR CHANDIGARH MODI TOURNEY FINAL DEHRADUN LUCKNOW, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25, 2018; PAGES 12+8 `3 www.dailypioneer.com USUALSUSPECTS SWAPAN DASGUPTA Fix date for Ram temple: Uddhav to PM Illegal immigrants pose Mandir wahin banayenge, par date nahin batayenge, taunts Sena chief nate delay in temple con- Janmabhoomi. His visit comes ing. Why should I hide it? I struction is beyond compre- amid a clamour among Hindu have taken up the issue hension. Honouring the outfits to bring an Ordinance because of the elections only. threat to India’s integrity promise is real Hindutva,” to build the Ram temple at the I am going to Ayodhya to said Thackeray, who is slated disputed site at Ayodhya. Shiv remind the BJP about its ne of the most touching stories I read recently in the to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi Sena leaders Sanjay Raut, promise,” he said. OBritish press centred on the kindness and modesty of temple at the disputed site at Eknath Shinde and Rajan The Sena chief belted out former British Prime Minister Clement Atlee. Till last week, Ayodhya on Sunday. Vichare and Mumbai Mayor a new slogan: “Har Hindu ki few were aware that the understated Labour Party leader Soon after landing at Vishwanath Mahadeshwar yahi pukar, pehle mandir phir had sponsored a Jewish woman and her children and Ayodhya airport by a special have been camping in sarkar” (This is every Hindu’s facilitated their asylum from Germany, then under the grip of flight on Saturday, Thackeray Ayodhya for the last few days call — first comes the temple Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism. He hosted the family in his took part in rituals on Saryu to prepare for Thackeray’s and then Government). home for four months and never spoke about it, even when it river banks and performed programmes. On Friday, Shiv Sena MP was politically rewarding to do so. His was part of the Saryu pujan and Saryu arti “All Sena shakhas across Arvind Sawant said his party unspoken kindness that we often encounter from strangers, with wife Rashmi and son Maharashtra and party units was pushing for the con- especially in foreign lands. Aditya. across the country have been struction of a Ram temple in The issue of refugees is touchy and emotive. Historians The Sena chief was sched- asked to perform arti at the Ayodhya as it was promised by have unearthed the enormous difficulties that Jews, intent on uled to address a meeting of same time,” a Sena leader the BJP ahead of elections. fleeing from certain persecution, deportation and, eventually, Shiv Sainiks at Saryu banks said. “We have promised to the murder in the Nazi-controlled parts of Europe in the 1930s but permission was denied by Earlier this week, people of the country that and 1940s faced formidable obstacles trying to get out and Ayodhya district administra- Thackeray had said his trip to once we come to power Ram find sanctuary. Britain was said to be very inhospitable but, tion. Thackeray has brought a Ayodhya was to ‘remind’ the temple will be constructed at yet, some 80,000 Jewish refugees did manage to secure pot of soil from Shivaji’s bas- BJP of its poll promise. “Many Ayodhya. We are forgetting asylum in that country till the outbreak of the War. If Britain tion Shivneri Fort in Pune, are questioning why we (Shiv that promise. Therefore, was said to be mean-spirited, the US was no better. which will be handed over to Sena) are remembering Ram Uddhavji has taken this ini- Although some Jewish notables such as Albert Einstein the priest at Ram now as the elections are near- tiative,” he said. made America their home, draconian immigration rules resulted in only 21,000 refugees from Europe making their way across the Atlantic between 1934 and 1943. Although people remember the stellar role played by individuals such as Eleanor Roosevelt in getting persecuted Jews over to the Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Yuva Sena chief Aditya Thackeray present a silver brick to Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas Security beefed up ahead US, the state as a whole was unsympathetic — this despite chief, Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, at Lakshman Kila in Ayodhya on Saturday PTI the fact that the US was by no means an overcrowded land. I invoke the story of Atlee for an obvious reason. After PNS n LUCKNOW the Sena chief said, “Days, here for politics. The the details of the Holocaust came to be widely known, the months, years and genera- Government should either of VHP’s Dharma Sabha post-1945 attitude to refugees has veered between extreme aking his first foray into tions have passed. Mandir bring a Bill in Parliament or humanitarianism and pragmatism, both compassionate and Mthe bastion of Hindutva wahin banayenge, par date promulgate an Ordinance for PNS n LUCKNOW urged the Government to Ayodhya ahead of the hard-headed. Germany, for understandable reasons, has identity politics — Ayodhya nahin batayenge (You say you the temple construction at ensure their security. Dharma Sabha but cast asper- been the most welcoming — a reason why its compassion — BJP ally and Shiv Sena chief will make the temple there, Ayodhya,” Thackeray said dar- n the wake of the Dharma A UP Police spokesman sions on the intention of lead- Today, in many places, the has also been the most Uddhav Thackeray asked the but won’t tell the date),” he ing the BJP-led NDA ISabha, Ayodhya — the confirmed in Lucknow on ers in bringing a large num- misused. Sweden too has Modi Government on said. Government at the Centre, birth place of Ram — was Saturday that Ayodhya district ber of people to the town and very integrity of Indians are an impressive record, Saturday to spell out the date “First spell out when you ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha transformed into a fortress authorities had sealed all posing problems for the locals. while the Britain has when the Ram temple would will construct the temple, the polls. and over 70,000 security per- roads leading to Ansari’s Ansari said, “The Yogi being threatened by the always found a place for be constructed. rest we will talk later. I have Questioning the delay in sonnel, including PAC and home and pressed Rapid government has done what growing clout of non-Indian notables who found Reaching Ayodhya for his come to Ayodhya and will construction of the temple, the RAF personnel, were Action Force (RAF) to ensure was needed with tight securi- themselves on the wrong two-day visit to the town return only after learning Sena chief said, “The BJP has deployed for the VHP func- that no untoward incident ty arrangements in place in illegal immigrants, a side of the political divide ahead of a planned VHP’s about the date of temple con- a majority Government in tion and visit of Shiv Sena took place. Besdies, the Ayodhya. We are satisfied minority of whom are in their host countries. Sri Dharma Sabha on Sunday, struction. I have not come Delhi and hence this inordi- chief Uddhav Thakeray. administration deployed a with the steps taken by the Lankan Tamils, Iranians, Section 144 has already been heavy police force around government. refugees. It is time to take Vietnamese and Afghans clamped. stock before the situation have benefited from the Two senior officers — humanitarianism of the FM: Govt does ADG (technical) Ashutosh becomes explosive West. School kids among 30 Pandey and DIG (Jhansi However, as most Range) Subhash Singh Baghel people now agree, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s not need extra were rushed to Ayodhya to decision in 2015 to allow nearly a million refugees from Syria, killed as bus plunges ensure security. While Pandey Iraq, North Africa, not to mention those from Afghanistan and funds from RBI would be supervising blue Pakistan who joined the bandwagon, was a step too far. and yellow zone of disputed Apart from encouraging others to somehow get to Europe, into canal in K’taka area, Baghel would look after knowing they wouldn’t be turned back, it has changed the to meet target the red zone. debate over refugees and, by implication, immigration. KESTUR VASUKI n BENGALURU than 40 people were travelling New Delhi: Finance Minister Besides, five SP rank offi- Today, Europe is in the throes of a virulent anti-refugee on the bus which was going to Arun Jaitley has said the cers were deputed at Ayodhya backlash that has destabilised politics in Germany, Italy and private bus fell into the Mandya town. The school- Government does not need along with 15 ASPs and 19 all the Scandinavian countries. In another corner of the AVishveshwaraiah Canal on children had boarded the bus any extra funds from the DSPs. The temple town has world, Australia has clamped down on those who are seen Saturday around noon at after Saturday’s morning class. Reserve Bank of India or any been divided into eight zones to jump the queue for entry to a country that still encourages Kanaganamaradi village near Still rescue operations were other institution to meet the fis- and 16 sectors which would immigration. Some countries such as Poland and Hungary Pandavapura town, in Mandya on, said officials.