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  • Intellectuals hold sit-in near Amartya Sen’s Santiniketan house for second day

    Intellectuals hold sit-in near Amartya Sen’s Santiniketan house for second day

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    Santiniketan: Intellectuals held a sit-in near the ancestral house of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen here on Saturday protesting against the notice by Visva-Bharati university to the economist to vacate 0.13 acres (5,500 sq ft) of the total 1.38 acres allegedly held by him ‘illegally’ or face eviction.

    Rabindranath Tagore’s songs of protest were sung during the sit-in.

    Among the intellectuals who took part in the protest, held for the second consecutive day, were film maker Goutam Ghosh, painters Suvaprasanna and Jogen Choudhury.

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    In another podium, set up near by, leaders of the ruling TMC sat in protest. They included state minister Chandranath Sinha, Suri MLA and Birbhum zilla parishad president Bikash Roy Choudhury, Labhpur MLA Abhijit Sinha and Nanoor MLA Bidhan Majhi.
    Scores of party activists too sat with them.

    The TMC is opposing the Visva-Bharati notice to Sen tooth and nail.

    “I have come all the way from Kolkata to voice my protest against the harassment and insult to an internationally respected economist like Amartya Sen, who is among the country’s pride. The way his land issue is being treated by Visva-Bharati authorities is unfortunate as the matter is sub-judice,” Ghosh said.

    “This is not the Visva-Bharati we have known. We demand that Amartya babu should not be subjected to such treatment any more,” the filmmaker told PTI over phone.

    Sinha said people of Bengal are aghast over the treatment meted out to Sen by the university and the “democratic protest” against it will continue for the next few days.

    The protests followed sit-ins by the ‘Committee for Protection of Social Dignity’, which too was held in front of of Pratichi on the same issue on Friday. Tagore’s famed drama ‘Rakta Karabi’ was staged as a mark of protest and local people and Ashramites of Visva-Bharati protested by singing the Bard’s songs.

    ‘Rakta Karabi’ is a powerful and poignant play where commercial expoitation, oppression, power, love and obsession operate on different levels and manifest themselves in different shades.

    Visva Bharati spokesperson Mahua Banerjee said, “The matter is in the court. We respect its order and the law of the land. We have lodged a complaint to the competent authorities.

    “Since Section 145 is in force to maintain peace and tranquility in the area near Pratichi, how is such a kind of gathering permissible?”… This will be our response regarding the activities (by the protestors) since May 5, 2023,” she said.

    Set up in 1921 by Rabindranath Tagore, Visva-Bharati was declared a university in 1951 and is West Bengal’s only central university. The prime minister is its chancellor.

    Calcutta High Court on May 4 gave an interim stay against an eviction order of Visva-Bharati asking Sen to vacate 0.13 acres at his ancestral Santiniketan residence by May 6. An appeal for a stay on possible eviction was fixed for hearing later in the month at a court in Suri.

    Visva-Bharati had sent the eviction notice to Sen on April 19, asking him to vacate 13 decimal of the 1.38 acres land of his residence within May 6. The university has been claiming that Sen is in possession of 1.38 acre of land in the Santiniketan campus, which is in excess of his legal entitlement of 1.25 acres.

    The economist in his petition to the court said that the 1.38 acres plot on which ‘Pratichi’ stands was given on lease for 99 years to his father Ashutosh Sen in October 1943 by the then Visva-Bharati general secretary Rathindranath Tagore, Gurudev’s son.

    Sen had earlier moved a court in Suri against the eviction notice, but the court set May 15 as the date of hearing well after the university’s deadline to vacate the land.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Delhi: K Kavitha holds sit-in protest for Women’s Reservation Bill

    Delhi: K Kavitha holds sit-in protest for Women’s Reservation Bill

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    Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Smithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha’s Bharat Jagruthi is staging a day-long hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in Delhi from 9 am to 4 pm on Friday demanding the introduction of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the current parliament session.

    The inaugural session was held at 10 am by senior leaders and general secretary of CPI Sitaram Yechury followed by K Kavitha’s address on the hunger strike.

    The Sit-in Dharna has attendees from opposition parties and women’s organisations who have supported the Women’s Reservation Bill from across India.

    The protest will also witness programs like plays and songs while expecting around 5,000 supporters from 18 political parties to participate in it.

    Several Opposition leaders including Sitaram AAP- Sanjay Singh and Chitra Sarwara, Shiv Sena- Delegation, Akali Dal – Naresh Gujral, PDP- Anjum Javed Mirza, NC- Dr Shami Firdous, TMC- Sushmita Dev, JDU- KC Tyagi, NCP- Dr Seema Malik, Narayana K – CPI, Sitaram Yechury -CPM, Samajwadi party – Pooja Shukla, RLD – Shyam Rajak, MP Kapil Sibal are expected to take part.

    Spearheaded by BRS MLC K Kavitha, around 500-600 people will sit on hunger strike, demanding the Centre to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill which has been long pending and ensure 33 percent reservation for women in the Parliament and state legislatures.

    Following directions from the BRS supremo K Chandrashekhar Rao, ministers Satyavathi Rathod and P Sabitha Indra Reddy along with women MPs, MLAs, MLCs and other leaders from BRS will participate in the day-long demonstration.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Anantnag Patwar Association Stages Sit-in, Seek Prompt Redressal of Various Demands

    Anantnag Patwar Association Stages Sit-in, Seek Prompt Redressal of Various Demands

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    CPI (M) Leader MY Tarigami Also Raises Voice in Favour of Striking Patwaris

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    Srinagar, Mar 7 (GNS): The Anantnag Patwar Association staged a sit-in protest at Achabal against the administration to press for an early redressal of their demands.

    Talking to GNS, the Patwar Association said they have also been demanding a hike in pay scales for Patwaris, timely departmental promotion of Patwaris and Girdawars, a ban on direct recruitment of Tehsildars, construction of Patwar Khanas, creation of Patwar Halqas and Girdawar circles, timely conduct of DPCs, and an increase in their allowances.

    “We are sitting here under the banner of All Jammu and Kashmir Patwari Association for the seventh consecutive day, to let the government know about our demands. We graduate patwaris have a grade pay issue which the government should consider.”

    “Like other Education and Finance departments have handsome grade pay, and teachers have a grade pay of 2800, while account officers in the finance department have handsome grade pay. Similarly, we graduate Patwaris demand a genuine increase in our grade pay.”

    “The other issue is that Girdawar circle and Pathwar Halqa are the same since the time of Maharaja Hari Singh. As we all are aware, so much development has been done since then we as such demand delimitation of Pathwar Halqa and Girdawar circle,” he said.

    “We would also like to draw the keen interest of the administration towards the direct recruitment of Naib Tehsildars and we demand a 75:25 quota, like the one in vogue in the Union territory of Ladakh. Of the 75%, Girdawars and departmental Patwaris should be promoted to Naib Tehsildar”, he further said.

    Meanwhile CPI (M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami has also urged the government to redress genuine demands of striking patwaris. “The strike of patwaris has paralysed the working in revenue department”, Tarigami said.

    “The administration has been giving assurances and making promises that their genuine grievances would be redressed, but nothing seems to be happening on ground, forcing them to go on protest. The demands include increase in the grade pay of graduate patwaris, timely departmental promotion of patwaris,girdawaris, rent for Patwar Khanas (Private accommodation), construction of new Patwar Khanas, creation of new patwar halqas and Girdawar circles are all genuine demands, which the must be fulfilled without any further delay”, Tarigami in a statement issued here said.

    He urged that the Government must talk to the representatives of the Association and take effective steps to settle their genuine demands. (GNS)

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    ( With inputs from : thegnskashmir.com )

  • TDP leader’s wife threatens sit-in at DGP office

    TDP leader’s wife threatens sit-in at DGP office

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    Vijayawada: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national spokesperson Kommareddy Pattabhiram’s wife, Chandana, on Tuesday threatened to sit on an indefinite hunger strike in front of the Director General of Police’s office demanding information about his whereabouts.

    She told reporters that Pattabhiram disappeared when he went to the TDP office at Gannavaram near Vijayawada on Monday evening after it was attacked by the supporters of YSR Congress Party MLA Vallabhaneni Vamsi.

    She said Pattabhi’s car was also found damaged on the road.

    “We don’t know whether he was arrested by police or kidnapped by YSRCP goons. We have not received any information since last night,” she said.

    Chandana reiterated that if anything happens to her husband, Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy and the DGP will be held responsible.

    “The car driver and the personal assistant (PA) of my husband are at the local police station, but my husband is missing. I have absolutely no knowledge where the police have shifted him,” Chandana said.

    Pointing out that even his phone is switched off, she said that if anything happens to him both the Chief Minister and the DGP will be responsible.

    Supporters of MLA Vamsi had attacked the TDP office at Gannavaram on Monday evening. They set afire a vehicle in the premises and ransacked the office.

    They were angry over some remarks made by TDP leaders against their leader.

    The TDP leaders say they had only found fault with Vamsi for making personal remarks against TDP president Chandrababu Naidu and his son Nara Lokesh.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )