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A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

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  Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
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Delhi Government must take stern action against encroachments by extremist Muslims: VHP Chief

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"It will have dangerous consequences if the Delhi Government does not control the extremist Muslims that are flouting and disregarding all law & order in the national capital by forcibly constructing a mosque on the Municipal Corporation land!” stated Sri Ashok Singhal, Patron of Vishva Hindu Parishad (International) in a media conference here.  He asked: “Is it the teaching of Islam to forcibly offer Namaz flouting all law and setting aside the orders of the Hon’ble Delhi High Court on the Corporation and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) land?” He informed, “Without concord, any big Dharmic or religious activity whatsoever and especially the question of constructing a mosque is contrary to even Muslim law.”  Forcible construction of mosque in front of the Red Fort and offering Namaz there are acts of provocation, aggression and invitation to rancour and disgust between the Hindus and Muslims in the region of Delhi that needs to be prohibited. 

From the standpoint of the Hindu society, Delhi was built as Indraprastha by Emperor Yudhisthir over 5,000 years ago as the capital city of the Pandavas, and the ruins found in every nook & corner of this city and region are the remnants of temples, huge buildings, forts and architectural pieces.The illegal and conspiratorial activities that are underway to grab land citing it as the remnants of Akbarvadi Mosque and unilaterally declaring it as a mosque without examinations by the Archaeological Department, stopping of which misadventure and idiocy has been strictly ordered by the Hon’ble High Court as well as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to the Delhi Police, but the Delhi Police instead of stopping the extremists is engaged in suppressing the Sants and the Hindu society that are opposing such illegal activities. 

It appears that this encroachment by extremist Muslims enjoys the protection of the police.The most astonishing fact on the part of the Hon’ble Chief Minister Smt. Sheila Dikshit is that by not ordering the Delhi Police to take stern action she is herself flouting the law. The manner in which the macho late Sanjay Gandhi in the ‘70s not caring for Muslim votes had removed encroachments in Delhi, today similar hard decisions need to be taken. If to Smt. Dikshit the Delhi Police appears inadequate in controlling the situation, in that case she should call in the military to handle the job. Law would prevail in Delhi – the message and hints should go by her actions. If Smt. Dikshit does not sternly control the situation, then an extremely explosive situation cannot be prevented from developing and the people have to stand against it. Vishva Hindu Parishad will be compelled to take out demonstrations in all areas and Mohallas throughout Delhi. It is the paramount duty of the government to ensure control over these extremist forces under all circumstances.   

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