Received issued No. 10 of Radiance dated 15th June 2024. You have printed photographs of Shri Modi and Shri Amit Shah on the cover page and repeated the same photographs on Page No.7. You should NOT have published the photographs of Shri Modi and Shri Amit Shah. I, a Gujarati, do NOT want to see these Gujaratis’ photographs in Radiance.
Both these Gujaratis are anti-minority. We have not forgotten anti-Muslims riots of 2002.
You could have published their photographs of revenue stamp size, if at all required to be published.
It creates an impression among readers that Radiance is a mouthpiece of RSS.
Farooq AbdulgafarBawani
Rajkot, Gujarat, India
Unified Progress?
Though the BJP could not get 272+ seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi successfully formed NDA government consecutively for the third term with the support of regional alliance partners such as Telugu Desam Party President and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu and Bihar’s JDU’s supremo Nitish Kumar.
It is unfortunate that the campaign slogan used by none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikaas” has not only been a disappointment to the Muslim community, but also been proved wrong. All the 71 ministers who have been appointed to the council in the new government are non-Muslims. One wonders if he really believes in progress for all.
Syed Amjad Ali
Secunderabad, Telangana
A Big Relief for the Residents of Vishalgad Fort
In a judgment of great significance, the Bombay High Court has permitted the age-old tradition of animal slaughtering during the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha at a dargah located within the precincts of the Vishalgad Fort in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district.The decision came after the court distinguished between what constituted a ‘protected area’ and a ‘protected monument’, and described the state government’s decision to ban the practice as “absurd to say the least”.
A bench of Justices BP Colabawalla and Firdosh Pooniwalla heard multiple petitions, challenging various directives from the Director of Archaeology and Museums, Mumbai, the Superintendent of Police, Kolhapur, and the CEO of Zilla Parishad, Kolhapur, banning the slaughtering of animals and birds at Vishalgad.
The government pleaders contended that the entire Vishalgad Fort, along with 333 acres and 19 gunthas, was a “protectedmonument” and that slaughtering couldn’t be permitted. However, the bench did not agree with the argument and observed that the Act itself made a distinction between what is a ‘protected area’ and a ‘protected monument’.
The court noted that 107 families residing in the area would be unduly affected by a ban on cooking and food consumption, which it termed “absurd”. “This would effectively mean that these 107 families would either have to starve or go outside their homes (beyond 333 acres 19 gunthas) and cook and consume their food. This interpretation would be absurd to say the least,” the bench said.
The court also clarified that slaughtering should occur on private land and not in open or public spaces. The court’s order is a big relief for the residents of the Fort.
Ajmal Khan
Mumbai, Maharashtra