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‘Hindutva policies…’, says Owaisi as 1.8L Muslims opt out of higher studies

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Hyderabad: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi shared a recent study that reports nearly 1,79,147 Muslim students dropped out of higher studies, an 8 percent decline from 2019-2021.
The report – All India Survey on Higher Education 2020–21 – by the Union Ministry of Education, stated that this decline has been observed not in states with higher population density but in smaller states as well.
Blaming poverty and discrimination for the decline of Muslim student enrollment, Owaisi said that the current Narendra Modi-led Central government’s policies on education have only made the situation worse by scrapping various fellowships such as MANF (Maulana Azad National Fellowship).

“Poverty & discrimination have barred Muslims from accessing higher education Add to this Modi govt removing even few support systems for minorities. In Karnataka, they scrapped 4% quota for poor Muslims. They’ve removed or restricted fellowships & scholarships for minorities,” he tweeted.
Modi’s “love” for pasmanda Muslims is bearing fruit. Hindutva policies have resulted in Muslims dropping out of higher education. Just between 2019-21, 1.80lakh Muslims dropped out of higher education. No community has seen such drastic fall in history 1/https://t.co/Gib8CXhoDD
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) May 9, 2023
In December last year, the Centre decided to discontinue the MANF from 2022-23 for minorities as according to them, the scheme overlaps with various other fellowship schemes for higher education.
In March, the Centre tossed off four percent of the Muslim reservation and moved the community into the 10 percent Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).
Without taking any names, Owaisi said that neither the secular parties nor Hindutva ideology are willing to accept Muslims as part of the society.
“Neither secular parties nor Sanghis is willing to accept that Muslims need reservations & scholarships. Not on the basis of religion but on the basis of backwardness. Forcing Muslims to live impoverished & uneducated lives is forcing them to live as second-class citizens,” he tweeted.

The decline in Muslim students, according to the report, has been observed in states with higher population density as well as smaller states.
The highest Muslim student decline was reported in Uttar Pradesh with 36 percent, followed by Jammu and Kashmir at 26 percent, Maharashtra at 8.5 percent, Tamil Nadu at 8.1 percent, Gujarat at 6.1 percent, Bihar at 5.7 percent and Karnataka at 3.7 percent.
Only Tamil Nadu witnessed a rise in Muslim student enrollment.
The report said that other minority communities such as Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs (Other Backward Classes) have reported an incline of 4.2 percent, 11.9 percent and 4 percent, respectively compared to 2019-20.
The upper caste also reported an increase in the number of student enrollment with a growth rate of 13.6 percent.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

May 9, 2023
Bihar: Hindutva group supports Dhirendra Shastri

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Patna: At a time when RJD is objecting to Dhirendra Shastri’s proposed visit to Patna, Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) on Tuesday came out in support of the self-styled godman.
ABHM national president Swami Chakrapani slammed Bihar environment minister Tej Pratap Yadav for making statements against Dhirendra Shastri.
Tej Pratap Yadav is enjoying the backing of the state government and hence is giving statements against a Hindu saint. If he wants to stop anyone, he should team up with Owaisi who is responsible for spreading poison in society,” Chakrapani said.

“When Lalu Prasad’s family was deprived of power in Bihar, Tej Pratap Yadav was hopping from one temple to another. He sometimes dons the look of Lord Shiva and at times that of Lord Krishna. Now, he is enjoying power in Bihar and hence boycotting the visit of a saint. The statement of Tej Pratap Yadav is extremely unfortunate,” Chakrapani said.
Dhirendra Shastri plans to visit Patna on May 13 and will stay till May 17 for a religious programme in Naubatpur locality.
A number of RJD leaders, including Tej Pratap Yadav, Jagadanand Singh, Vrisan Patel and others, objected to his visit.
They alleged that Shastri is visiting the state to create differences in society and is advocating for making India a Hindu nation.

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May 2, 2023
‘Godse ne Gandhi ko goli nahi thoki hoti toh..’: Hindutva leaders in Maha

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Hate speech against the Muslim community dominated the Hindu Janjagaran Dharmsabha, an event organised by a Hindutva organisation called the Sakal Hindu Samaj in Daighar Gaon in Thane district, Maharashtra.
The event occurred on Sunday, on the eve of Maharashtra Formation Day which falls on May 1.
Many right-wing leaders took part and spun a narrative regarding how the Hindu community is in constant danger from the Muslim minorities in the country.

One of them, Muni Nilesh Chandra Maharaj, went as far as crediting Nathuram Godse (assassin of Mahatma Gandhi) as the sole reason why India is still dominated by the Hindus.
Using the metaphor chand-sitaare (which translates to the moon and the stars), symbols in an Islamic flag, he said, “Gandhiji ka prem sirf chand-sitaare see tha. Godse ne yadi seene mein goli nahi thoki hothi tho aaj tho aaj poora Hindu samaj Makkah-Madina mein namaz pad raha hotha (Gandhiji was only interested in stars and moons. Had Godse not shot Gandhi on his chest, the whole Hindu community would be offering namaz in Makkah-Madina).”
“If Godse hadn’t shot Mahatma Gandhi in his chest, Hindus would have been praying in Mecca,” said Muni Nilesh Chandra Maharaj pic.twitter.com/wtIbW9ufIp
— HindutvaWatch (@HindutvaWatchIn) May 1, 2023
Chandra Maharaj further added that it is required to transform oneself into a hardcore Hindu to save the community.
Other speakers such as Bharatanand Saraswati Maharaj urged Hindu women to carry a weapon in order to ‘safeguard themselves from Muslim men’.
“These (Muslim) graveyards in Mumbra should be destroyed. If the Forest Department does not take any action, then kar sevaks will do the needful,” the seer said.

He also appealed to the crowd to watch ‘The Kerala Story’, an upcoming Hindi movie that allegedly speaks about religious conversions of Kerala Hindu women and how the Muslim community ‘trap’ and recruits them into ISIS (a Muslim terror organisation).
“I would ask everybody to support The Kerala Story movie. It says around 32,000 Hindu women are trapped as part of ‘love jihad’,” Saraswati Maharaj claimed.
Sadhvi Saraswati targeted Muslims by discouraging the crowd from doing any kind of business with the Muslim community.
“Take that car you always wanted to buy after two years, but refrain from doing any kind of business with them (Muslims). Do not sell your land to Muslims,” she said referring to ‘land jihad’.
“Hindu ko Hindu ki kaatha hai. Secularism ke vajah se (Only a Hindu can destroy another Hindu and secularism is to blame),” she said.
Referring to AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi as a jackal, Sadhvi said, “Bhool ja geedar, tera sapna sapna reh jayega kyunki is dharthi pe keval Hindutva raaj karega (Your dream will remain a dream. Only Hindutva will rule in this soil).”
Siasat.com tried to contact the Thane police but received no response.
On April 28, the Supreme Court of India passed an order giving a free hand to the police force of all states and Union Territories to file a suo moto case against those inflicting hate speech.
The order shall be made applicable irrespective of religion and warned that any delay in registering cases will be treated as contempt of the court.
“Where have we reached in the name of religion? What have we reduced religion to is really tragic,” the apex court had then observed and directed Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Uttarakhand to crack down hard on those making hate speeches, calling them shocking for a country that is religion-neutral.

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May 1, 2023
‘Doesn’t know what is Hindutva’: Uddhav Thackeray makes all-out attack on BJP

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Jalgaon: In a strong, no-holds-barred attack, Shiv Sena-UBT President Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said that ruling Bharatiya Janata Party “doesn’t know what is Hindutva”.
“Hindutva is not a matter of selfishness, but a nationalist. The BJP doesn’t understand what Hindutva is. Their Hindutva is centred around cow and gomutra (cow-urine). Cow slaughter is banned in one state but not in others… This is their Hindutva,” said Thackeray, as the BJP fights the Karnataka elections on its pet-theme.
Addressing a massive rally in Pachora, Jalgaon this evening, Thackeray denied the charge that he had left Hindutva, saying that after he took the oath as Chief Minister in November 2019, all religions were treated equally.

“I have gone with the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)… I have not left Hindutva and will never leave it… show me one instance which made you feel that I had discarded Hindutva,” he asked.
Targetting the BJP, he said that “crushing other people and parties” with the support of central investigating agencies or letting loose goons to attack women leaders of opposing political parties “is not our Hindutva”.
“People ask me – is the BJP a challenge before us? I say the BJP is not a challenge. The real challenge before us is how shall we undo the damage that the BJP is inflicting on the country,” he asserted.
He questioned “how is it possible that all corrupt people who join your party (BJP) suddenly become clean”, and said that the BJP hounds anybody opposing or daring them.
Training guns on the Shiv Sena of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Thackeray said that “seeing this massive gathering, even Pakistan would have said which is the real Shiv Sena… only the Modi-appointed Election Commission of India (ECI) could not realise it”.

“Some traitors and thieves (Shinde) believed that they are the Shiv Sena. ‘Arre hatt..!’ Look at this sea of humanity… Your throng will burn down soon… There were natural disasters and even coronavirus in Maharashtra which we tackled effectively, but now this government itself is a calamity for the state,” declared Thackeray amid loud cheers and applause.
He reiterated that the BJP must declare now whether they going to fight the next elections under Shinde’s leadership, and if not then whether the reports are true, that all 48 Lok Sabha seats will be contested by only the BJP.
“The stole the party, they took away the bow and arrow symbol and are trying to steal my father (the late Balasaheb Thackeray). Those who have nothing resort to thieving like this… First you (the voters) elected and put them on the horse, now they deserve to be yanked off their high horse,” thundered Thackeray.
He lauded former Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik’s statements on corruption and the Pulwama attacks and how he was asked to keep shut in the matter by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was in the Corbett National Park at that time.
Thackeray also heaped praises on several “brave, mardana Shiv Sainiks” like Sanjay Raut, Rajan Salvi, Nitin Deshmukh and others for not succumbing to the BJP’s pressures through the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax or Central Bureau of Investigation and chose to remain with him, and even spent time in jail.
The Sena-UBT chief threw the gauntlet at the ruling Shiv Sena saying he will be addressing more such rallies all over the state, plus joint public meetings of the MVA.
“You can come with Modi and your stolen bow and arrow. I will confront you with my name… Hold the elections now… we are ready to fight and burn your throne with our flaming torch,” warned Thackeray.
The mammoth rally which got underway around dusk was addressed by other leaders like Leader of Opposition in the Council Ambadas Danve, MP Arvind Sawant, Deputy Leader Sushma Andhare, Vaishali Patil and others.
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April 23, 2023
Hyderabad: Temporary mosque removed after complaint from Hindutva groups

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Hyderabad: Authorities here on Saturday removed a temporary mosque set up using a container truck cabin on the banks of River Musi at Amberpet. The structure was illegal and had no permission from the authorities concerned.
Some local groups had objections to the mosque and lodged complaints with the district collector and GHMC after which the local Revenue authorities and police acted and removed the structure.
The matter came to light after some Hindutva groups and social media accounts shared the news on their pages and websites about it.

“A cabin made of iron was brought here and given the form of a mosque. Namaz prayers were also offered at this mosque. Three days later, when Bajrang Sena came to know about this, they informed other Hindu organisations. All the Hindu organisations together gave a letter to the District Collector, Commissioner of the Corporation, and Divisional Commissioner requesting the removal of the illegal mosque. The Administration removed the mosque subsequently,” reported sanatanprabhat.org on its website.
Following the development, the police posted a picket in the area.
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April 23, 2023
Hindutva activist lashes out against BJP for withdrawing security

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Mangaluru: Hindu right-wing leader Satyajith Surathkal on Friday strongly criticised the state government’s decision to withdraw the security provided to him on account of the Assembly elections.
Addressing reporters at the press club here, Surathkal, who is Dakshina Kannada district Hindu Jagaran Forum leader, said BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel and RSS leaders would be responsible if he got killed during the election process.
Surathkal said he had been provided security for the past 16 years. “It is now removed on the pretext of elections and even my revolver has been taken. Appeals made to the state Home Minister and Sangh Parivar leaders proved futile,” he said.

Surathkal said he had been receiving threats only because he stood for the Hindutva cause. “I have no political ambition and will continue the fight,” he said.
Dakshina Kannada district Hindu Jagarana Vedike leaders Raviraj, Nagesh and others were present at the press conference.
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April 22, 2023
Is Caste census oppn’s ‘Brahmastra’ against BJP’s Hindutva in 2024?

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New Delhi: The opposition parties are yet to firm up an alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, but their unanimous demands for a caste census and the removal of the reservation cap could be a binding factor and hand them what a section of leaders feels the “Brahmastra” to counter the BJP and its Hindutva plank.
The issues of caste census and reservation not only put all opposition parties on the same page but leaders feel it could also help them win back many backward classes who have veered towards the BJP in the recent past.
Tejaswi Yadav in Bihar
At a DMK-convened conference, RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav summed it up for opposition parties when he had said that the best way to beat the BJP’s politics of “polarisation” was through social justice-based politics.

Rahul Gandhi in Kolar
This formula has been adopted by the Congress with much enthusiasm with Rahul Gandhi making an aggressive pitch for a caste-based census and the removal of 50 per cent cap on reservation in his recent speech in Karnataka’s Kolar, in a bid to turn the tables on the BJP that had been gunning for him over his 2019 “Modi surname” remarks alleging that he insulted OBCs.
The BJP has hit back at Gandhi for his remarks, alleging that he is being “disingenuous” with his claim on the issue of social justice when the erstwhile Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka did nothing to address long-pending demands of Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
The Opposition has spoken with unanimity on general issues such as inflation and rising employment but lacked cohesiveness on specific issues like the Adani matter.
However, with the issues of caste-based census and removal of reservation cap, opposition parties have found an arrow with which they can hit multiple targets at one go — it forges instant unity in the opposition ranks, puts the BJP on the back foot as it is yet to spell out its stance on them categorically, and prepares a counter for the Hindutva push expected closer to the polls.
With Congress aggressively taking up the issue, it is likely to endear the party to regional outfits which have till now been circumspect of the grand old party fearing that it may play the “big brother” by superseding their agenda with issues of its own.

Asked about the Congress’ strong pitch, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh told PTI, “The demand for a caste-based census was articulated forcefully by many civil society groups to Rahul Gandhi during Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress is following through on that demand.”
A socio-economic caste census was conducted by the end of 2012 covering some 25 crore households but the data could not be published for various reasons, he pointed out.
AAP joins the voice
An example of how the issue of caste-based census could be the glue for the Opposition unity is how even the Aam Aadmi Party which does not see eye-to-eye with the Congress on most issues has joined the caste-based census chorus.
The JD(U) and the RJD, which are part of the ruling ‘Mahagathbandhan’ alliance in Bihar, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have also been vociferously demanding caste-based census for a long time.
The caste census and the removal of the cap on reservation are also likely to put the BJP in a quandary and test its own outreach to the backward classes.
Bihar BJP supports caste census, central BJP yet to respond
The BJP unit in Bihar had supported a resolution at an all-party meeting convened by Nitish Kumar and later a unanimous resolution was passed in the Bihar Assembly on caste census. However, the BJP’s central leadership is yet to respond to the demand for a socio-economic and caste census.
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said the “doublespeak” of the BJP is clear from its “ambivalent position” on the Opposition demand for publishing the figures of the caste-based census of 2011.
“It (BJP) seeks the votes of the forward classes while it engages in doublespeak on backward classes,” he alleged.
Sibal added that just being on the same page on this issue was not enough and that the Opposition unity requires much more than this.
RJD MP Manoj Jha, another prominent voice in the Opposition ranks, also underlined the importance of the caste-based census issue.
“We have been demanding caste-based census, it started in 2010-11 when Lalu ji, Sharad ji and Mulayam ji raised this question and the then UPA government agreed to it. Subsequently, 2014 heralded (Narendra) Modi ji’s victory and myself and other MPs raised the question as to what happened to the data and we were told that the data got corrupted. Don’t know whether the corruption was of the data or somewhere else,” Jha told PTI.
“The Kolar speech of Rahul ji provided a further impetus to the demand made by several state governments and leaders from diverse political parties. It is important to see that it is not a political issue, it involves deepening of democracy, who would not want deepening of democracy, it involves psychological, social and political empowerment of communities, it involves ensuring of representation in accordance with their population,” the RJD leader said.
Having said that, it is important to collectively raise this issue and tell the prime minister and his party that politics cannot be rhetorical, one has to come down to the ground and look at what are the critical issues, he said.
“The critical issue is that in the governance structure and bureaucracy, the representation of SCs, STs and OBCs is negligible. Can a democracy live with such anomalies that is our question and that is how we will take it up forward,” he asserted.
Political commentator Sanjay Jha, who was once a spokesperson for the Congress party, alleged that India has been devastated by a double whammy — unemployment crisis and extreme inequality — under the current government.
“The biggest sufferers are those from underprivileged communities and the backward classes. No amount or number of social welfare programmes being propagated by the BJP can neutralize the deprivation and the economic destitution of millions of Indians. Therefore the Opposition is completely justified in focusing on social justice as its key political message,” he told PTI.
“That’s why a nervous BJP is prevaricating on the caste census, as at core, it remains an upper caste party. Further, it is a party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich,” he claimed.
A leader on condition of anonymity said that with the BJP likely to use its Hindutva plank to consolidate its vote bank, the demands for a caste-based census and the removal of the reservation cap could be the Opposition’s “Brahmastra” ahead of the 2024 elections.
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April 18, 2023
BJP’s Hindutva seeks to engineer riots between Hindus & Muslims: Sena (UBT) publication

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Mumbai: In a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party over the issue of Hindutva, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Wednesday said the BJP’s version of the ideology seeks to “engineer” riots between Hindus and Muslims, and then reap political benefits out of them.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led outfit maintained its former ally has found love for the Muslim community ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
In an editorial in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the Shiv Sena (UBT) said the national saffron party reaches out to the minority community by wearing the “veil of secularism” when elections are around the corner.

The Marathi daily alleged the Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) works as ‘B’ and ‘C’ teams of the BJP.
“The 2024 (Lok Sabha) polls are around the corner which is why the BJP has found love for the Muslim community. Will his love last for a year till the elections or will it stop after that? Their Hindutva is to engineer riots between Hindus and Muslims, and then reap political benefits out of them,” said the editorial.
Hindu-Muslim polarisation is their traditional modus operandi and reaping political benefits out of it is the BJP’s “real face”, the Opposition party alleged.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) publication dubbed the BJP as “hypocrite”.
The Opposition party’s attack on the BJP comes days after Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, a key ally of the national party, visited Ayodhya along with his party MLAs and leaders.

Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, a senior BJP leader, had accompanied Shinde during the Sunday visit to the temple town in Uttar Pradesh.
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April 12, 2023
Agra: 4 Hindutva workers arrested for implicating Muslims in ‘cow slaughter’

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After a police investigation found that four Muslim youngsters were falsely accused of cow slaughter on Ram Navami, Agra police arrested four Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) workers for filing a fake complaint.
The police said that the ABHM members conspired with the rivals of the four wrongfully accused youngsters, and the entire plan was concocted to settle scores.
Among the arrested ABHM workers is Sanjay Jat, who claims to be the organisation’s spokesperson. He has previously grabbed local headlines for making divisive and communally heated utterances. The four ABHM activists have been charged under the Indian Penal Code section 120B (criminal conspiracy).

“Four ABHM activists and office bearers — Jitendra Kushwaha, Sanjay Jat, Brajesh Bhadoria, and Saurabh Sharma — have been arrested for hatching a conspiracy on the sensitive occasion of Ram Navami,” RK Singh, the additional commissioner of police (ACP), stated on Wednesday.
In addition to the four ABHM members, authorities have arrested three rivals of the four innocent youngsters for being active participants in the plan. “Seven people have been arrested in this case so far. One of them surrendered himself,” ACP Singh stated.
On March 30, Jitendra Kushwaha, an ABHM office bearer, filed an FIR at Agra’s Itimad-ud-Duala police station against four Muslim teenagers, stating that they butchered a cow on Ram Navami. Jitendra said that he and other ABHM members hurried to the scene, but the ‘accused had gone by then’.
CCTV evidence, however, proved that the four youngsters accused of cow slaughter were not present on the scene on the day in question, and the phoney report was submitted out of rivalry. Shanu (alias Illi), Imran Qureshi, four ABHM members, and three others reportedly plotted the plot.
Shanu and Imran both reportedly have a criminal history. They face half-dozen charges in several cases. Previously, Nakeem, one of the four youngsters framed by the accused group, filed a complaint against Shanu and Imran. The two were detained when Nakeem, an Agra Nagar Nigam employee, filed a complaint. This is why the accused couple harboured resentment towards him and the other three and plotted with ABHM personnel to frame them in a bogus case, the police said.

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April 12, 2023
Gujarat: Hindutva leader Kajal Hindusthani arrested over hate speech

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Right-wing leader Kajal Hindusthani has been arrested by the Gir Somnath police in Gujarat on Sunday over her recent hate speech.
At an event organised by Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) organisations, Kajal Hindusthani made an Islamophobic hate speech targetting Muslim women by listing out the ‘benefits’ of marrying into a Hindu household.
“You (Muslim women) will be protected by Hindu men of the family. No one can force or have incest with you. You do not need to wear a burqa at 45-degree Celsius heat,” were some of her remarks.

Soon after her speech, communal tension and stone pelting between the Hindus and Muslims were reported in the area. Two people were injured and 50 people were detained by the police.
Police also booked Kajal Hindusthani over her hate speech.
Combing operations were carried out by the police during the night in Una town and seized a number of swords, rods and other such objects were from some houses.
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April 9, 2023