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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- provincial authorities in the - manages Sikh shrines, will love, mutual respect and under- Meanwhile, strongly con- munity were hurt with the Punjab province have L send a four-member delegation standing. “The attack on demning the mob attack on the attack on Gurdwara Nankana akistan on Friday rejected informed that there was a scuf- ./$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 fle in the city of Nankana situation following an alleged & must be condemned chief Gobind Singh Longowal SGPC would also take up this historic Gurdwara Nanakana Sahib on Friday between two $ mob attack on Gurdwara unequivocally. Bigotry is a dan- appealed to the Pakistan matter with the United Nations. Sahib in Lahore was desecrat- Muslim 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 ! 3 4 controversy involving the con- tanding is its only known anti- ber delegation to Pakistan to Gurdwara Nankana Sahib. “untouched and undamaged” administration immediately 5 troversial Citizenship dote,” he said in a tweet. take stock of the situation “We request the and the “claims of destruction” intervened and arrested the +$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 accused, it 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 *($) 4 L Congress leader Rahul Lok Sabha member Meenakshi protest the arrest of their rela- L while denouncing the mob Lekhi said minorities in tives who were held ) , attack said bigotry is a danger- Pakistan have been subjected to ! " # $ % for alleged forced conversion of 3 ous, age old poison that knows threats for religious conversion, P ' "( ) * +# the girl. ))( $0 *($ $ (#) $ +,+ ' (& )* & ) ( # $ (& !() ! ! ! is true for the past six years of was adjudged the best during at the Centre. In 2020, Shiv- the Modi Government as well NDA regime. Sena, NCP and Congress are N ( & O $ " olitics over selection of the as 10 years of the UPA rule. The Bihar Government's sharing the power in the State 95 PRepublic Day tableaux is Tableaux selected for the R-Day theme of Jal-Jivan-Hariyali while BJP is in the power at the nothing new. What the UPA parade offer a unique oppor- Mission was rejected as "it Centre. Maharashtra was 3 2 $ Government did earlier, the tunity to witness the culture, does not fulfil the criteria for adjudged the best tableau in 6 / BJP-led NDA regime is repeat- heritage and other unique that". Bihar was not included in 2015 and 2018 when BJP-Shiv 3 + (< he US is sending nearly ing now. During the UPA aspects of various States. the Republic Day parade in Sena Government was in (> 3 3 /- T3,000 more Army troops to regime, Narendra Modi-ruled Under the UPA regime, 2019 as well. BJP-JD(United) power in the State and the total 171 hospitals have 40 /?5$ the Mideast as reinforcements Gujarat never got tableaux Gujarat failed to qualify for the alliance is ruling in the Bihar. Modi Government at the Abeen de-empanelled and in the volatile aftermath of the selected for the R-day celebra- five continuous years between The JD(U) did not protest Centre. The State was on the penalties to the tune of 4.5 3 $2 killing of an Iranian general in tion. Now that Modi is the 2009 and 2014. The State while the RJD termed it Bihar's third spot in 2017. crore have been imposed on a strike ordered by President Prime Minister, tableaux from tableaux, however, qualified in humiliation. Kerala's tableau for the R- hospitals for allegedly com- + 4 Donald Trump, defense offi- his home State has never been 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 The data shows Day parade was also rejected mitted fraud and indulging in / 3 cials said on Friday. omitted during the last five and 2020 during the NDA Maharashtra tableaux quali- for the second consecutive year malpractices under the - 3 $ The officials, who spoke on years, while Opposition-ruled regime led by Modi who came fied for Republic Day parades this year by the Centre. The Ayushman Bharat health insur- . condition of anonymity to dis- States have been routinely left to power in May 2014. on nine occasions in the past 13 theme proposed by the State for ance scheme, the apex body cuss a decision not yet ann- out of the celebration. West Bengal failed to qual- years but they failed to qualify its tableau was the State's art implementing has said. ounced by the Pentagon, said The Opposition has alleged ify for the R-Day Parade this in 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2020. and architecture, which would FIRs have been lodged $09 the troops are from the 82nd that West Bengal, Maharashtra year. The Bengal Government In all other years when comprise the traditional art against six hospitals in 3 : Airborne Division at Fort and Kerala, which aggressive- had proposed the theme of Maharashtra didn't qualify, the forms of Theyyam and Uttarakhand and Jharkhand, ?( @ Bragg, North Carolina. They ly protested against the Kanyasree for the tableau. The Centre and the State were ruled Kalamandala. The tableau the National Health $3 are in addition to about 700 sol- Citizenship (Amendment) Act, State has failed to qualify for by the same party. In 2008 and showed Kerala's backwaters, Authority said. 33 % diers from the 82nd Airborne have been omitted for obvious fourth straight years. The State, 2013, the Congress-NCP Kathakali, Mohiniyattam The NHA said the National 2 who deployed to Kuwait earli- political reasons.

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