Saturday, January 7, 2017
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Muslims must get Rs 7,000 crore in BMC budget: Asaduddin Owaisi - The Times of India, Mumbai
For the first time in 70 years, a Muslim leader talks in terms of hard cash.
MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi
Owaisi attacked the Congress-NCP and BJP-Sena governments for meting out "injustice" to Muslims. The party plans to field candidates for the BMC elections for the first time. "MIM will field candidates mostly in Muslim pockets like Madanpura, Bhendi Bazar, Jogeshwari, Santacruz, Bandra and Govandi. The party can unsettle the SP that has 9 corporators and also damage the prospects of the Congress-NCP combine," said a source.
"Muslims comprise 21% population in the Mumbai metropolitan region. In the Rs 37,000 crore BMC budget, the share of Muslims should be Rs 7,770 crore. Elect at least 20 to 25 members of MIM in the BMC and we will get the fair share for Muslim wards," Owaisi said.
He also criticized the state government's plan to construct the Shivaji memorial.
"We are not against the memorial but Shivaji himself would have not approved of this squandering taxpayers' money ," he said. Owaisi also slammed the Sena-BJP combine in the BMC and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for projecting Shivaji as a "Hindu warrior who fought Muslim Mughals".
"Mr Prime Minister, why didn't you mention the Mus lim Madari Mehtar who helped Shivaji escape from the Agra fort whi le you were praising Shivaji at the ceremony in Mumbai," he said.
Owaisi slammed the Samajwadi Party. "The cycle (SP's symbol) cannot move any further. The father is disqualifying the son who is rebelling against the father. It is complete chaos," he said.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
THE TIMES OF INDIA, MUMBAI
Muslims must get Rs 7,000 crore in BMC budget: Asaduddin Owaisi
Mohammed Wajihuddin| TNN | Jan 2, 2017, 06.33 AM ISTMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi
MUMBAI: MIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi kicked off his party's campaign for BMC polls at a public meeting at Nagpada junction on Sunday.
Owaisi attacked the Congress-NCP and BJP-Sena governments for meting out "injustice" to Muslims. The party plans to field candidates for the BMC elections for the first time. "MIM will field candidates mostly in Muslim pockets like Madanpura, Bhendi Bazar, Jogeshwari, Santacruz, Bandra and Govandi. The party can unsettle the SP that has 9 corporators and also damage the prospects of the Congress-NCP combine," said a source.
"Muslims comprise 21% population in the Mumbai metropolitan region. In the Rs 37,000 crore BMC budget, the share of Muslims should be Rs 7,770 crore. Elect at least 20 to 25 members of MIM in the BMC and we will get the fair share for Muslim wards," Owaisi said.
He also criticized the state government's plan to construct the Shivaji memorial.
"We are not against the memorial but Shivaji himself would have not approved of this squandering taxpayers' money ," he said. Owaisi also slammed the Sena-BJP combine in the BMC and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for projecting Shivaji as a "Hindu warrior who fought Muslim Mughals".
"Mr Prime Minister, why didn't you mention the Mus lim Madari Mehtar who helped Shivaji escape from the Agra fort whi le you were praising Shivaji at the ceremony in Mumbai," he said.
Owaisi also attacked the Centre's demonetisation move and took potshots at Modi's "propensity to boast".
Owaisi slammed the Samajwadi Party. "The cycle (SP's symbol) cannot move any further. The father is disqualifying the son who is rebelling against the father. It is complete chaos," he said.
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Saturday, December 31, 2016
President Carter's appeal to President Obama to give US diplomatic recognition to Palestine
December 31, 2016
I would request all who stand for justice for Palestinians, to send their own letters to the President, so that he may be encourage to consider the most crucial but very legal act that a US President can perform that would ensure future peace in the Middle East.
You may if you prefer add New Year's Greetings for the The President and his family.
Regards
Ghulam Muhammed,
| from: | Ghulam Muhammed<ghulammuhammed3@ | ||
| to: | comments@whitehouse.gov | ||
| cc: | ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com | ||
| date: | Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:39 PM | ||
| subject: | President Carter's appeal to President Obama to give US diplomatic recognition to Palestine | ||
| mailed-by: | gmail.com Dear President Barack Obama,
Your presidency will be really historical if you accept the appeal of President Carter as well as the deep wishes of millions to cut the Gordian knot and give US diplomatic recognition to Palestine as a State and save the world endless calamities that are sure to ensue if this festering wound is not dressed and adressed. Your courage and sagacity to snatch victory out of a long drawn fruitless confrontation with the monumental injustices heaped on hapless people of Palestine, is the call of the hour. If you hesitate, the golden opportunity will lost, possibly for ever.
My prayers are with you.
Sincerely yours,
Ghulam Muhammed
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Modi & Jaitley have triggered a billion mutinies
My tweet of today: Oct 13, 2016
Ghulam Muhammed
Modi & Jaitley have triggered a billion mutinies.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
City goes nuts trying to spend Rs 1000 and 500 notes - SABSE BADA RUPAIYA - Mumbai Mirror - The Times of India publication
Nov 10 2016 : Mirror (Mumbai)
City goes nuts trying to spend Rs 1000 and 500 notes - SABSE BADA RUPAIYA
Petrol pumps, bus and train ticket counters, medical shops, cabbies, autorickshaw drivers, toll plazas, even vegetable vendors and grocers... no one had a rupee to change for the hapless Mumbaikars yesterday
Housewives returning home without grocer ies, chaos at toll tax points, chemists and petrol pumps turning away customers, people queueing up in front of railway ticket counters, and small establishment owners not even bothering to open their shops... a never-seen-before crisis gripped Mumbai on Wednesday, after the overnight scrapping of currency notes of higher denominations.Before we get into the details of the harrowing Wednesday, here's some good news: 1: Most banks will remain open till 6 pm starting today, and a few till 8 pm. 2: The banks will also remain open on Saturday and Sunday.3: Toll tax has been suspended on national highways and all state roads in Maharashtra, including the five entry points into Mumbai, and the BandraWorli Sea Link, till Friday mid night.
While a majority of Mumbaikars agreed with the Centre's move, they were extremely upset at being inconvenienced. 
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City goes nuts trying to spend Rs 1000 and 500 notes - SABSE BADA RUPAIYA - Mumbai Mirror - The Times of India publication
Nov 10 2016 : Mirror (Mumbai)
City goes nuts trying to spend Rs 1000 and 500 notes - SABSE BADA RUPAIYA
Petrol pumps, bus and train ticket counters, medical shops, cabbies, autorickshaw drivers, toll plazas, even vegetable vendors and grocers... no one had a rupee to change for the hapless Mumbaikars yesterday
Housewives returning home without grocer ies, chaos at toll tax points, chemists and petrol pumps turning away customers, people queueing up in front of railway ticket counters, and small establishment owners not even bothering to open their shops... a never-seen-before crisis gripped Mumbai on Wednesday, after the overnight scrapping of currency notes of higher denominations.Before we get into the details of the harrowing Wednesday, here's some good news: 1: Most banks will remain open till 6 pm starting today, and a few till 8 pm. 2: The banks will also remain open on Saturday and Sunday.3: Toll tax has been suspended on national highways and all state roads in Maharashtra, including the five entry points into Mumbai, and the BandraWorli Sea Link, till Friday mid night.
While a majority of Mumbaikars agreed with the Centre's move, they were extremely upset at being inconvenienced.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Justice Katju forms 'Indian Reunification Association'
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
Justice Katju forms 'Indian Reunification Association'
Retired Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju, 70, is a Kashmiri Brahmin and hails from a very renowned family of lawyers. His grandfather Kailash Nath Katju was a freedom fighter and held very important posts as judge and governor. Justice Katju is now frequently in the news, as his comments on political and legal affairs are very clear, sharp and without any political blemishes to color. A very upright person all his life, he is secular to the core and even though he is a very learned Brahmin, he does not subscribe to Hindutva and has very unorthodox views on freedom struggle and the role of Congress leaders. Pained like all citizens over Modi government’s ill-considered raking up the old communal divide between Hindus and Muslims, now even aggressively targeting Pakistan in the so-called ‘surgical response’ to border incidents, Justice Katju has formed a reunification movement under ‘Indian Reunification Association’. In a brief email to members of his blog, he writes today:
“I got the idea of starting this Association only this morning.
For long I have said that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are really one nation called India, temporarily divided by the British on the basis of the bogus two nation theory and the wicked divide and rule policy ( see my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ' and B.N.Pande's speech ' History in the Service of Imperialism ' online ), that Pakistan is a fake, artificial entity, that Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are really Indians, and that we are bound to reunite one day. Only when we reunite can we emerge as a modern industrial giant, with our people enjoying full employment, healthcare, good education, nutritious food, etc and a high standard of living.
For too long have the Westerners, as well our internal reactionaries, befooled us into thinking that Hindus and Muslims are natural enemies, but how much longer must we remain befooled ? How much longer must blood flow between us ?
We share the same culture, we look like each other, we talk in Hundustani. I feel myself no different from Pakistanis when I meet them. In fact when abroad Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis intermix and socialize as if Partition had never taken place.
The first step in this process of reunification is to build up public opinion in favour of this idea. Once this idea grips the masses in India ( in which word I include Pakistan and Bangladesh ) no power in the world will be able to successfully oppose it ( though reactionaries, at home and abroad, will put up fierce resistance )
The setting up of the Indo-Pak-Bangladesh Reunification ( under a secular govt.) Association ( in brief known as the Indian Reunification Association ) will be the first organized step in the direction of reunification. I will temporarily be the President of the Association, until some other younger person is found to replace me.
The basic ideology of this Association will be as mentioned in my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ', in B.N. Pande's speech ' History in the Service of Imperialism ', and my other blogs in this connection on my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in.
Those who think that reunification is not possible since a lot of time has passed since 1947 need only be reminded that Germany was partitioned in 1945, but was reunited in 1990, Vietnam was partitioned by the Geneva Accords in 1954, but was reunuted in 1975, China has still not recognized Taiwan, etc.
Those who think unification is a only a dream, are reminded that when Mazzini spoke of Italian Unification, most people called him a dreamer, but later his dream was made a reality by Cavour and Garibaldi.
The object of this Association will be diametrically opposed to the ' Akhand Bharat ' concept of the RSS. While the RSS wants a united Hindu India, this Association wants a united secular India, in which religious freedom is guaranteed, but religious bigotry and extremism is not tolerated and is crushed.
All of you in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and even in foreign countries who subscribe to the views of this Association can start units of the Association wherever you are, and can communicate with me on mark_katju@yahoo.co.in.
This is only the beginning of a long process, and I invite suggestions from all who agree with the need for reunification about practical details of the organizational set up.”
On first glance given the conditions prevailing in the subcontinent, the prospect for any such reunification project may appear to be a mad man’s dream. However, as Justice Katju has cited from history, different currents may be occasioned by changed situations, when Indians may find their partitioned nation joined together in one big superpower, absorbing all different communities and ideologies that caused its division and disruption.
The new phase of opening up to global economic opportunities, will force India to look to its neighbors for convenient absorption of its own people, now divided and on the verge of internecine skirmishes carrying the danger of wars that may engulf the entire region.
It is this very visionary of Justice Katju to have made the clarion call to unite the nation. Other details, that forced the partitions, are even now in full force of intensity, while on the other hand it is equally forcing a large majority of peace-loving people to bury the hatchet and bring back that age of harmonious living when India had achieved the enviable economic status of registering 23 percent of world GDP.
Let the discussions begin, as to what are positives and negatives inherent in any such movement and how the positives could be nourished and negatives are to be starved, to achieve a start towards a very noble and most coveted future for our coming generations.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumabai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
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