In Rajkot (Gujarat State) city, a local trustee of Gujarat State Waqf Board (GSWB) and nine Muslims were arrested for forced eviction of shops rented to Hindu tenants. The shops are property of a Masjid Trust. These shops were rented to Hindu traders as far back as 65 years. Rent is nominal. GSWB passed an order and asked the Hindu tenants to vacate the shops after due process of law. But trustees threw out the belongings of the tenants and took law into their own hands. One of the affected tenants lodged a complaint with law enforcement authorities. The police took immediate actions and handed over possession of shops back to tenants who are all Hindus.
The police acted at the fastest possible speed and helped the tenants and handed over possession to them within 24 hours. Even the state’s junior state home minister, Harsh Sanghavi, visited the site and assured full cooperation from the Govt.
A million-dollar question arises here, would the state machinery act at the fastest possible speed, if the situation were the other way round?
I leave it to the learned readers of Radiance to draw their own conclusions.
Farooq AbdulgafarBawani
Rajkot, Gujarat, India
Manipur: No Solution Yet?
It is terrible it took 250+ deaths and innumerable firing incidents for the chief minister of Manipur to finally say sorry for the ethnic strife in his state. And still, the conflict is simmering with neither the BJP-led Central government, nor the state government able to find a feasible solution which satisfies both the warring sides – the Meitis and the Kukis.
Don’t we have brilliant ethnic and tribal experts who can find a magical formula acceptable to all, which can finally ensure peace in the hauntingly beautiful land? Or are there elements who would like to use the quota dispute as a means to meet their political ends?
It is becoming obvious with each passing day that with even the prime minister shying away from visiting the state, the Central government is clueless when it comes to putting an end to the violence.
Ameen Mohammed
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Is It a Political Gimmick?
This Republic Day Asif Bashir, a resident of Peshawar, Pakistan, is set to receive one of India’s prestigious civilian awards for his extraordinary bravery during Hajj 2024. He will be honoured as a state guest during the national festivities. Bashir will be awarded the Jeevan RakshakPadak by President Droupadi Murmu for his selfless rescue efforts. Bashir’s recognition stems from his heroic actions during a deadly heatwave in Mina, Saudi Arabia, last year.
Indian citizens have not forgotten that Wakeel Hasan and his team of rat-miners rescued 41 construction workers trapped in a Himalayan tunnel in northern Uttarakhand. The irony is that in spite of this heroic act of Wakeel Hasan, the house of Wakeel Hasan was demolished on February 28, 2024 – only about three months after he did the heroic service to the nation. Neither the Uttarakhand Government nor the Centre bothered to honour Wakeel Hasan.
This is political jiggery-pokery.
Aquib Hasan
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh