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Navjot Singh Sidhu, TMC sup- management committee...They Taking to Twitter, Rahul remo Mamata Banerjee, the told us the situation is normal ! he Shiromani Gurdwara termed Friday attack repre- leftists and the “Urban Naxals” now,” Longowal said. # $% TParbhandhak Committee hensible, and said the only who have been opposing the The SGPC chief said the &'() +L (SGPC), the apex body which known antidote to bigotry is amended Citizenship Act. sentiments of the Sikh com- .27 provincial authorities in the - manages Sikh shrines, will love, mutual respect and under- Meanwhile, strongly con- munity were hurt with the Punjab province have informed L send a four-member delegation standing. “The attack on demning the mob attack on the attack on Gurdwara Nankana akistan on Friday rejected that there was a scuffle in the ./$0 &'&' to Pakistan to take stock of the Nankana Sahib is reprehensible historic Sikh shrine, SGPC Sahib. Longowal said that the Pthe media reports that the city of Nankana Sahib on situation following an alleged & must be condemned chief Gobind Singh Longowal SGPC would also take up this historic Gurdwara Nanakana Friday between two Muslim $ mob attack on Gurdwara unequivocally. Bigotry is a dan- appealed to the Pakistan matter with the United Nations. Sahib in Lahore was desecrat- groups. 0 Nankana Sahib, the birthplace gerous, age old poison that Government to take strict Punjab’s former Chief ed in a mob attack, saying the The altercation happened of Guru Nanak Dev, which has knows no borders. Love + action against culprits. Minister Parkash Singh Badal birthplace of founder of on a minor incident at a tea- $2Q +Q been dragged into the ongoing Mutual Respect + Unders- “We will send a four-mem- too condemned the attack on Sikhism Guru Nanak remains stall and the district adminis- ! 3 4 controversy involving the con- tanding is its only known anti- ber delegation to Pakistan to Gurdwara Nankana Sahib. “untouched and undamaged” tration immediately intervened 5 troversial Citizenship dote,” he said in a tweet. take stock of the situation “We request the and the “claims of destruction” and arrested the accused, it +$6 (Amendment) Act or CAA. Engaging in the debate, there,” he said, adding that the Government of India to imme- of one of the holiest Sikh said. A day after the incident of Union Minister Hardeep Singh delegation would also meet diately take steps so that peace shrines are “false”. “Attempts to paint this inci- $0 mob attack on the Sikh shrine Puri sought to know whether Sikh families in Nankana Sahib. and harmony is restored,” said The Pakistan Foreign dent as a communal issue are 07 in Pakistan, Congress leader those protesting across the “The delegation will also Badal. Office in a statement said the patently motivated. Most 4 4 Rahul Gandhi condemned it, country against the CAA need- importantly, the gurdwara $0 while the BJP sought to justi- ed more evidence of oppression remains untouched and 07 fy the CAA saying the incident of minorities in the neigh- undamaged. All insinuations to $ was yet another evidence of bouring country. the contrary, particularly the % atrocities against the minorities He said the violent mob claims of acts of ‘desecration 8 in the neighbouring country. that besieged the Nankana and destruction’ and desecra- 9: ();' $0 Against the backdrop of Sahib Gurdwara had threat- tion of the holy place, are not 4 widespread protests against the ened to change the name of the only false but also mischie- CAA that allows Indian citi- holy place to “Ghulam-e- vous,” the Foreign Office said. $0 zenship to six persecuted reli- Mustafa”. The Foreign Office state- gious minorities, excluding “The violent mob that ment has come after some $ Muslims, from Pakistan, besieged Nankana Sahib reports in the Indian media / $ Bangladesh and Afghanistan, Gurdwara has threatened to said that a mob attack had / ();< the Nankana Sahib incident has change the name of our holy taken place at the shrine. $ further heated up the running place to Ghulam-e-Mustafa. The reports suggested that political debate with External Do those who are opposing the hundreds of angry residents at Affairs Ministry saying that the CAA need more evidence of Nankana Sahib pelted stones at members of the minority Sikh oppression of minorities in the Sikh pilgrims on Friday. community in Pakistan have Pakistan,” Puri said in a tweet Police in Pakistan said on $2 been subjected to acts of vio- in Hindi, along with a video Friday that a group of people, !" lence at the holy city of Nan- clip that showed a mob threat- led by the family of a Muslim kana Sahib. Pakistan has, how- ening to change the name of man who married a Sikh " #! $ ever, denied media reports on the gurdwara. teenager, held a day-long sit-in !! = desecration of Nankana Sahib. Another BJP leader and outside the gurdwara to protest 4 L Congress leader Rahul Lok Sabha member Meenakshi the arrest of their relatives #!" L while denouncing the mob Lekhi said minorities in who were held for alleged " % attack said bigotry is a danger- Pakistan have been subjected to ! " forced conversion of the 3 ous, age old poison that knows threats for religious conversion, P $% & '! girl. ""! $0 #! !" '(' # $ %& "! # $ !!" %& 66./ heritage and other unique humiliation. its tableau was the State's art aspects of various States. The data shows and architecture, which would N ! O $ olitics over selection of the Under the UPA regime, Maharashtra tableaux quali- comprise the traditional art 95 PRepublic Day tableaux is Gujarat failed to qualify for the fied for Republic Day parades forms of Theyyam and nothing new. What the UPA five continuous years between on nine occasions in the past 13 Kalamandala. The tableau " 3 2 $ / 8 Government did earlier, the 2009 and 2014. The State years but they failed to qualify showed Kerala's backwaters, 6 / BJP-led NDA regime is repeat- tableaux, however, qualified in in 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2020. Kathakali, Mohiniyattam 66./ 3 + (< he US is sending nearly ing now. During the UPA 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 In all other years when dancers and percussionists (> 3 3 /- T3,000 more Army troops to regime, Narendra Modi-ruled and 2020 during the NDA Maharashtra didn't qualify, the playing the tradition instru- total 171 hospitals have 40 /?5$ the Mideast as reinforcements Gujarat never got tableaux regime led by Modi who came Centre and the State were ruled ment of Chenda (drums). Abeen de-empanelled and in the volatile aftermath of the selected for the R-day celebra- to power in May 2014. by the same party. In 2008 and Kerala tableau was adjudged penalties to the tune of 4.5 3 $2 killing of an Iranian general in tion. Now that Modi is the West Bengal failed to qual- 2013, the Congress-NCP best in 2013 when UPA-II was crore have been imposed on a strike ordered by President Prime Minister, tableaux from ify for the R-Day Parade this alliance was in power in in power at the Centre. Kerala, hospitals for allegedly com- + 4 Donald Trump, defense offi- his home State has never been year. The Bengal Government Maharashtra and the same par- ruled by the CPI(M) mitted fraud and indulging in / 3 cials said on Friday. omitted during the last five had proposed the theme of ties shared power at the Centre. Government was leading the malpractices under the - 3 $ The officials, who spoke on years, while Opposition-ruled Kanyasree for the tableau. The In 2016, BJP-Shiv Sena alliance protest against the Citizenship Ayushman Bharat health insur- . condition of anonymity to dis- States have been routinely left State has failed to qualify for shared power in the State and Amendment Act, Abrogation ance scheme, the apex body cuss a decision not yet ann- out of the celebration. fourth straight years. The State, the same parties shared power of Article 370 and Ram Temple. implementing has said. ounced by the Pentagon, said The Opposition has alleged however, qualified in 2012, at the Centre. Interestingly, Jammu & FIRs have been lodged $09 the troops are from the 82nd that West Bengal, Maharashtra 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and In 2020, Shiv-Sena, NCP Kashmir is the only State whose against six hospitals in 3 : Airborne Division at Fort and Kerala, which aggressive- 2019. West Bengal was and Congress are sharing the tableau was selected for the Uttarakhand and Jharkhand, ?( @ Bragg, North Carolina. They ly protested against the adjudged best in 2014 when power in the State while BJP is parade every year (15 times) the National Health Authority $3 are in addition to about 700 sol- Citizenship (Amendment) Act, UPA II was in power at the in the power at the Centre. from 2005 to 2019. said. The NHA said the 33 % diers from the 82nd Airborne have been omitted for obvious Centre, and in 2016 the State Maharashtra was adjudged the Next in line is Karnataka National Anti-Fraud Unit has 2 who deployed to Kuwait earli- political reasons.