't cry at the movies. Aamir Khan cries at the movies. Ergo, he is not a real man, not He-Man, rippling with mardangi. He even carries his baby and holds hands with his wife in public, 3 types of Idiot.

Sounds terribly sexist, doesn't it? But the lament of tweeples and FB folk since discovering that Aamir cries at the movies like he was chopping onions, has made it clear that sexism is hale and hearty. He came out of the Bajrangi Bhaijaan screening wiping his eyes with a towel. Then came reports that he ran through a boxful of tissues while watching Katti Batti. Only its director is applauding these tears. Because this could be the new Bollywood magic formula: Aamir rota hai to picture super hit hota hai.

Kangana Ranaut says Katti Batti is such a rondu rom-com that she cried every night while shooting the film, but social media has taken this announcement in its stride because she's just a girl. She is supposed to cry at the movies, when Rose tells Jack she'll never let go in Titanic, when Shahrukh dies in Devdas, when Aamir returns to his planet in PK.

Real men don't cry but just get something in the eye, that too never with chick flicks or Disney weepers, only on manly occasions likeBraveheart yelling Freedom just before his head is lopped off. Guess what's not funny about this austere stereotyping? Not just that it keeps men from enjoying cinema to the fullest but in real life it confines them to this poky construct where they come out of the mother's womb punching and kicking, mukka and laat.

Aamir may help liberate India's male moviegoers. Maybe he's totally unlike your moustachioed cousin and chacha, tayaji and papa, but the same internet that spews sexism also provides role models beyond the immediate peer group. Influential metrosexuals like Ronaldo, Rafa and Becks aren't just teaching the world's men about the joys of mampering and waxed chests, but also man-crying.

Look, from No drama Obama to Teflon Modi, more and more high profile men are showing their emotions even as they are putting the man in mani-pedis. Where Justin Timberlake's Cry me a River used to be the normal thing, now the Madhuri Dixit message is gaining power: Teach boys not to make others cry, instead of don't cry. Respect is growing for tears as a sign of empathy which in turn is increasingly being respected as a vital aspect of emotional intelligence — the world and its leaders could do with more rather than less. Except when it comes to crocodile tears.

Real men cry when they lose crores at KBC, when a friend gets cancer, when the boat is about to sink, at marriage and divorce, birth and graduation, when the movie is really good but also when it's too terrible.
Crying at movies ruins your mardangi?

, UK, Friday 28 August 2015

Modi said on Sunday the government was ready to amend the proposed law and criticized the spreading of false rumors that made farmers afraid of the changes.

"I have always said that, in the dispute related to the land acquisition law, the government is open minded," Modi said in his monthly radio address. "I am willing to accept any suggestion for the benefit of farmers."

Modi swept to power last year on expectations he would accelerate an economic transformation that began in the 1990s but is struggling to build support for reforms in parliament, where his party is in the minority in the upper house.

Leaders of Modi's party said they had not given up on making it easier to acquire land needed to kick-start hundreds of billions of dollars in stalled projects. However, after failing to win support in parliament, they may ask states to pass their own laws.

Modi has had to issue temporary executive orders in the past seven months that allow the government to forcibly purchase farmland for industrial development. He has failed to secure the votes in parliament needed to make the changes permanent.

Land reform is critical for Modi's drive to build new roads, homes and factories and, if stalled, would blight his vision of 100 new 'smart' cities across India linked by industrial corridors and high-speed rail routes criss-crossing the country.

Conflict between farmers and companies trying to secure land for industrial projects has hampered India's plans to expand its network of highways, build mines and other infrastructure, holding up about $300 billion of investment.

http://news.yahoo.com/indias-modi-accepts-defeat-contentious-land-decree-change-081738626–business.html

Truth about Aurangzeb: Aurangzeb is victim of false propaganda against him. Fact is that he was a pious person, despite being the mighty emperor of wealthiest empire in the world, he did not lead luxurious life.   As per instructions of Islam, he led a frugal life.  He ate very little and never took alcohol. He wrote 'Quran' in his own handwriting and  sold them to earn extra wages for his personal use. He was not communal. Hindus occupied important positions in his administration and army. He conquered Afghanistan and did not trust any Muslim  but appointed Raja Jaswant Singh as its Subedar -and surprisingly  it was the most peaceful period in the history of Afghanistan!  Aurangzeb imposed 'Zazia' tax not in the beginning of his reign but towards the end of his rule (after about 25 years of his becoming emperor)  when his treasury had become exhausted by continuous wars  in the south, and against Marathas  in order to meet out expenses of wars, but he also imposed taxes on Muslims in the name of 'Zakat'. He  considered it a crime to utilize government money for personal benefits, an admirable quality for any ruler but very distasteful to our modern corrupt  politicians,  including Kesriwal, who want to efface his name from every signboard. Please read this article by research Scholar Brijendar Singh in order to know the true facts about Aurangzeb.

https://rationalinferences.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/aurangzeb-an-analysis/

Please read if you care to know the truth…!!!!!!!

EMPEROR AURANGZEB: TRUTHS ABOUT A RULER

Hello, I am Brijendra Singh; I have done my PGDM course from I.I.S.E Business School Lucknow. I am not a student of history but I like to read history due to my interest. In this article I have tried to provide some facts related to Emperor Aurangzeb. His image as a person and as a ruler is negative among the Indian citizens, but I am sure when you will go through this article your attitude will change towards this ruler.

Aurangzeb Alamgir was the sixth & the last great mughal emperor of India. He ruled India from 1658 to 1707 AD. He was one of the greatest mughal emperors & lived a very simple life. He lived on a small quantity of food, he used to write the quran with his own hand & sell them to earn extra wage. If he wanted, he could have lived a life of extra-ordinary luxury as the, emperors, kings, nawabs, rajas, maharajas did in those days.

He was a well-read man; he kept up his love of books till the end. He wrote beautiful Persian prose. A selection of his letters (Ruq'at-i-Alamgiri) has long been a standard model of simple but elegant prose. He understood music well but he gave up this amusement in accordance with Islamic injunctions.

Emperor Aurangzeb is considered as the greatest of all the mughal kings. The mughal state reached its height under his leadership. The state has 29.2% of the world population under its flag (175 million out of 600 million in 1700 AD) & was one of the richest states the world had ever seen, with a world GDP of 24.5% ($ 90.8 billion out of $ 371 billion in 1700).

Of all the Muslim rulers who ruled vast territories of India from 712 to 1857AD, probably no one has received as much condemnation from western & Hindu writers as Aurangzeb. He has been castigated as a religious Muslim who was anti-Hindu, who taxed them, who tried to convert them, who discriminated them in awarding high administrative positions, & who interfered in their religious matters. This view has been heavily promoted in the government approved text books in schools & colleges across post partition India (i.e., after 1947). These are fabrications against one of the best rulers of India who was pious, scholarly, saintly, un-biased, liberal, magnanimous, tolerant, competent & far sighted.

Fortunately, in recent years quite a few Hindu historians have come out in the open disputing those allegations. For e.g., historian Babu Nagendranath Banerjee rejected the accusation of forced conversion of Hindus by Muslim rulers by stating that if that was their intention then in India today there would not be nearly four times as many Hindus compared to Muslims, despite the fact that Muslims had ruled for nearly a thousand years. Banerjee challenged the Hindu hypothesis that Aurangzeb was anti-Hindu by reasoning that if the latter was truly guilty of such bigotry, how could he appoint a Hindu as his military commander -in –chief? Surely, he could have afforded to appoint a competent Muslim general in that position. Banerjee further stated: "No one should accuse Aurangzeb of being communal minded. In his administration the state policy was formulated by Hindus. A number of non-Muslims including Hindus, Sikhs, Marathas & Jats, were employed by him in his court. He did not compromise on the fundamentals of Islam, which are infact the moving spirit of every faith. Historical facts must be interpreted in their true & objective spirit & not subjectively as expressed by the Hindu writers.

Dr. BISHAMBHAR NATH PANDE'S VIEW

The late scholar & historian, Dr.Bishambhar Nath Pande's research efforts exploded myths on Aurangzeb's rule. They also offer an excellent example of what history has to teach us if only we study it dispassionately. Mr. Pande was ranked among the very few Indians & very fewer still Hindu historians who tried to be a little careful when dealing with such history. He knew that this history was 'originally compiled by European writers' whose main objective was to produce a history that would serve their policy of divide & rule.

In his famous Khuda Bakhsh Annual Lecture (1985) Dr. Pande said: "Thus under a definite policy the Indian history text books were so falsified & distorted as to give an impression that the medieval (i.e., Muslim) period of Indian history was full of atrocities committed by Muslim rulers on their Hindu subjects & the Hindus had to suffer terrible indignities under Muslim rule and there were no common factors (between Hindus & Muslims) in social, political & economic life."

Therefore, Dr.Pande was extra careful. Whenever he came across a 'fact' that looked odd to him, he would try to check & verify rather than adopt it uncritically. He came across a history text book taught in the Anglo-Bengali College, Allahabad, which claimed that "three thousand Brahmins had committed suicide as Tipu wanted to convert them forcibly into the fold of Islam." The author was a very famous scholar, Dr.Har Prasad Shastri, head of the department of Sanskrit at Kolkata University. (Tipu Sultan (1750-99), who ruled over the South Indian state of Mysore (1782-99), is one of the most heroic figures in Indian history. He died on the battle field, fighting the British.)

Was it true? Dr. Pande wrote immediately to the author & asked him for the source on which he had based this episode in his text-book. After several reminders, Dr. Shastri replied that he had taken this information from the Mysore gazetteer. So Dr. Pande requested the Mysore university vice- chancellor, Sir Brijendra Nath Seal, to verify for him Dr. Shastri's statement from the gazetteer. Sir Brijendra referred his letter to Prof. Srikantia who was then working on a new edition of the gazetteer. Srikantia wrote to say that the gazetteer mentioned no such incident and, as a historian himself, he was certain that nothing like this had taken place. Prof. Srikantia added that both the prime minister & commander-in-chief of Tipu Sultan were themselves Brahmins. He also enclosed a list of 136 Hindu temples which used to receive annual grants from the sultan's treasury.

It inspired that Shastri had lifted this story from Colonel Miles, History of Mysore, which Miles claimed he had taken from a Persian manuscript in the personal library of Queen Victoria. When Dr. Pande checked further, he found that no such manuscript existed in Queen Victoria's library.

FALSE HISTORY PROVIDED BY BRITISHERS

British historian Sir Henry Elliot remarked that Hindus "had not left any account which could unable us to gauge the traumatic impact the Muslim conquest and rule had on them?" Since there was none, Elliot went on to produce his own eight-volume history of India with contributions from British historians (1867). His history claimed Hindus were slain for disputing with 'Mohammedans', generally prohibited from worshipping and taking out religious processions , their idols were mutilated , their temples were destroyed , they were forced into conversion & marriages , & were killed & massacred by drunk Muslim tyrants. Thus Sir Henry, & scores of other empire scholars, went on to produce a synthetic Hindu verses Muslim history of India, & their lies became a history.

Lord Curzon(Governor General of India 1895-99 & Viceroy 1899-1904(d.1925) was told by the secretary of state for India, George Francis Hamilton , that they should " so plan the educational textbooks that the differences between community & community are further strengthened." Another Viceroy, Lord Dufferin (1884-88), was advised by the secretary of state in London that the "division of religious feelings is greatly to our advantage '', & that he expected "some good as a result of your committee of inquiry on Indian education & on teaching material ''. " We have maintained our power in India by playing – off one part against the other'', the secretary of state for India reminded yet another viceroy, Lord Elgin (1862-63), "& we must continue to do so. Do all you can, therefore to prevent all having a common feeling?"

MYTH RELATED TO DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLES

Some of the Hindu historians have accused Aurangzeb of demolishing Hindu temples. How factual is this accusation against a man, who has been known to be a saintly man, a strict adherent of Islam? The Qur'an prohibits any Muslim to impose his will on a non-Muslim by stating that "There is no compulsion in religion."(Surah al-Baqarah 2.256). The Surah al-Kafirun clearly states: "To you is your religion & to me is mine." It would be totally unbecoming of a learned scholar of Islam of his caliber, as Aurangzeb was known to be, to do things that are contrary to the dictates of the Qur'an.

Interestingly, the 1946 edition of the history textbook Etihash Parichaya (introduction to history) used in Bengal for the 5th & 6th graders states: "If Aurangzeb had the intention of demolishing temples to make way for mosques, there would not have been a single temple standing erect in India. On the contrary, Aurangzeb donated huge estates for use as temple sites & support thereof in Benaras, Kashmir & elsewhere. The official documentations for these land grants are still extant."

A stone inscription in the historic Balaji or Vishnu temple, located north of Chitrakut Balaghat, still shows that it was commissioned by the emperor himself. His administration made handsome donation to temple of Pandharpur – seat of deity Vitthal. Historian the late D.G Godse has claimed that trustees of Vitthal temple were more worried about marauding Maratha armies than the mughal one.

The proof of Aurangzeb's land grant for famous Hindu religious sites in Varanasi can easily be verified from the deed records extant at those sites. The same textbook (Etihash Parichaya) reads: "During the fifty year reign of Aurangzeb, not a single Hindu was forced to embrace Islam. He did not interfere with any Hindu religious activities". Alexander Hamilton, a British historian, toured India towards the end of Aurangzeb's fifty year's reign & observed that everyone was free to serve & worship god in his own way.

The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb is the most reviled of all the Muslim rulers in India. He was supposed to be a great destroyer of temples & oppressor of Hindus, & a 'fundamentalist' too. As chairman of the Allahabad municipality (1948-53), Dr. Bishambhar Nath Pande had to deal with a land dispute between two temple priests. One of them had filed in evidence some firmans (royal orders) to prove that Aurangzeb had, besides cash, gifted the land in question for the maintenance of his temple. Might they not be fake, Dr. Pande thought in view of Aurangzeb's fanatically anti-Hindu image? He showed them to his friend, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, a distinguished lawyer as well a great scholar of Arabic & Persian. He was also a Brahmin. Sapru examined the documents & declared they were genuine firmans issued by Aurangzeb. For Dr.Pande this was a 'new image of Aurangzeb', so he wrote to the chief priests of the various important temples, all over the country, requesting photocopies of any firman issued by aurangzeb that they may have in their possession. The response was overwhelming; he received copies of firmans of Aurangzeb from the great temples of Mahakaleshwara, Ujjain, Balaji temple, Chitrakut, Umanand temple Gauhati, & the Jain temple of Shatrunjai & other temples & gurudwaras scattered over northern India. These firmans were issued from 1659 to 1685AD. Though these are only few instances of Aurangzeb generous attitude towards Hindus & their temples, they are enough to show that what the historians have written about him was biased & is only one side of the picture. India is a vast land with thousands of temples scattered all over. If proper research is made, I am confident; many more instances would come to light which will show Aurangzeb's benevolent treatment of non-Muslims.

Aurangzeb did not indiscriminately destroy Hindu temples, as he is commonly believed to have done so, & that he directed the destruction of temples only when faced with insurgency. This was almost certainly the case with the Keshava Rai temple in the Mathura region, where the Jats rose in rebellion & yet even this policy of reprisal may have been modified, as Hindu temples in the Deccan were seldom destroyed. The image of Aurangzeb as an idol – breaker may not with stand scrutiny, since there is evidence to show that, like his predecessors, he continued to confer land grants or jagirs (large parcel of agricultural lands) upon Hindu temples, such as the Someshwar Nath Mahadev temple Allahabad, Jangum Badi Shiva temple in Varanasi, Umanand temple in Gauhati & numerous others. He did not harm to the famous Alura temples (a huge complex of Ancient temples) in his conquest of Deccan.

DEMOLITION OF KASHI VISHWANATH TEMPLE

Dr. Pande's research showed that Aurangzeb was as solicitous of the rights & welfare of his non-Muslim subjects as he was of his Muslim subjects. Hindu plaintiffs received full justice against their Muslims respondents &, if guilty, Muslims were given punishment as necessary.

One of the greatest charges against Aurangzeb is of the demolition of Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. That was a fact, but Dr. Pande unraveled the reason for it. "While Aurangzeb was passing near Varanasi on his way to Bengal, the Hindu Rajas in his retinue requested that if the halt was made for a day, their Ranis may go to Varanasi, have a dip in the Ganges & pay their homage to Lord Vishwanath. Aurangzeb readily agreed. "Army pickets were posted on the five mile route to Varanasi. The Ranis made journey to the palkis. They took their dip in the Ganges & went to the Vishwanath temple to pay their homage. After offering puja (worship) all the Ranis returned except one, the Maharani of Kutch. A thorough search was made of the temple precincts but the Rani was to be found nowhere.

"When Aurangzeb came to know about this, he was very much enraged. He sent his senior officers to search for the Rani. Ultimately they found that statue of Ganesh (the elephant – headed god) which was fixed in the wall was a moveable one. When the statue was moved, they saw a flight of stairs that led to the basement. To their horror they found the missing Rani dishonored & crying deprived of all her ornaments. The basement was just beneath Lord Vishwanath's seat."

The Raja demanded salutary action, & "Aurangzeb ordered that as the sacred precincts have been despoiled, Lord Vishwanath may be moved to some other place, the temple be razed to the ground & the Mahant (head priest) be arrested & punished."

EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-MUSLIMS

Aurangzeb has often been accused of closing the doors of official employment on the Hindus, but a study of the list of his officers shows this is not so. Actually there were more Hindu officers under him than under any other Mughal emperor. Though this was primarily due to a general increase in the number of officers, it shows that there was no ban on the employment of Hindus.

In his administration the state policy was formulated by Hindus. Two Hindus held the highest position in the state treasury. Some prejudiced Muslims even questioned the merit of his decision to appoint non-Muslims to such high offices. The emperor refuted them by stating that he had been following the dictates of the Shariah (Islamic law) which demands appointing right persons in right positions. During Aurangzeb's long reign of fifty years, many Hindus, notably Jaswant Singh, Jay Singh, Raja Rajrup, Kabir Singh, Arghanath Singh, Prem Dev Singh, Dilip Roy & Rasik Lal Crory, held very high administrative positions. Two of the highest ranked generals in Aurangzeb's administration, Jaswant Singh & Jay Singh, were Hindus. Other notable Hindu generals who commanded a garrison of two to five thousand soldiers were Raja Vim Singh of Udaypur, Indra Singh, & Achalaji & Arjuji. One wonders if Aurangzeb was hostile to Hindus, why would he position all these Hindus to high positions of authority, especially in the military, who could have mutinied against him & removed him from his throne?

Most Hindus like Akbar over Aurangzeb for his multi-ethnic court where Hindus were favored. Historian Shri Sharma states that while Emperor Akbar had 14 Hindu Mansabdars (high officials) in his court, Aurangzeb actually had 148 Hindu high officials in his court (Ref : Mughal Govn.). But this fact is somewhat less known.

If Aurangzeb was so ferocious a communalist, why is it, some historians have asked, that the number of Hindu employed in positions of eminence under Aurangzeb's reign rose from 24.5% in the time of his father Shah Jahan to 33% in the fourth decade of his own rule?

JIZYA AND OTHER TAXES

Now let us deal with Aurangzeb's imposition of the Jizya tax which had drawn severe criticism from many Hindu historians. It is true that Jizya was lifted during the reign of Akbar & Jahangir & that Aurangzeb later reinstated this. Before I delve into the subject of Aurangzeb's Jizya tax, or taxing the non-Muslims, it is worthwhile to point out that Jizya is nothing more than a war tax which was collected only from able-bodied young non-Muslim male citizens living in a Muslim country who did not want to volunteer for the defence of the country. That is, no such tax was collected from non-Muslims who volunteered to defend the country. This tax was not collected from women & neither from immature males nor from disabled or old male citizens. For payment of such taxes, it became incumbent upon the Muslim Government to protect the life, property & wealth of its non-Muslim citizens. If for any reason the Government failed to protect its citizens, especially during a war, the taxable amount was returned.

It should be pointed out here that zakat (2.5% of savings) & ushr (10% of agricultural products) were collected from all Muslims, who owned some wealth (beyond a certain minimum, called nisab). They also paid sadaqah, fitrah & khums. None of these were collected from any non-Muslim. As a matter of fact, the per capita collection from Muslims was several fold that of non-Muslims. Further to Aurangzeb's credit is his abolition of a lot of taxes, although this fact is not usually mentioned. In his book Mughal administration, Sir Jadunath Sarkar, foremost historian on the Mughal dynasty, mention's that during Aurangzeb's reign in power, nearly 65 types of taxes were abolished, which resulted in a yearly revenue loss of 50 million rupees from the state treasury.

Other historians stated that when Aurangzeb abolished 80 types of taxes, no one thanked him for his generosity. But when he imposed only one (jizya), & not heavy at all, people began to show their displeasure.

While some Hindu historians are retracting the lies, the textbooks & historic accounts in western countries have yet to admit their error & set the record straight.

SOME IMPORTANT POINTS RELATED TO CHARACTER OF AURANGZEB

Just think a man such, character, caliber that cares and concern for public can be unjust, cruel. Just imagine a king such cruel & unjust to the majority could rule a huge country, for about 50 years, where high majority members serving highest position & comprising 80% in the military.

He was so pious best character person noble & just. You cannot find a single one in the present leaders.

His personal piety however is undeniable. He led an exemplary simple pious life. He cares for the royal treasury as public treasury & for public. The present leaders considers public treasury to personal treasury.

Unlike his predecessors, Aurangzeb did consider the royal treasury as a trust of the citizens of his empire & did not use it for personal expenses.

He was Subedar in Deccan & Gujarat. He didn't destroy any temple. His period was peaceful & prosperous, called golden period.

Despite more than two decades he campaign as subedar in Deccan & Gujarat there is no record of temple destruction in the region. He continued to confer Jagirs to Hindu temples. His period was golden period & relatively peaceful, prosperous in his tenure.

He was maligned that he was against art & music. He was the accomplished musician playing VEENA. The largest numbers of books on classical Indian music in Persian were written during Aurangzeb's reign. He banned all nude dances.

Aurangzeb cruelty as mere rumors or at best lies invented by Hindu bigotry & British historians who wanted to weaken India by their divide & rule policy. Bankim Chatterjee, who served his whole life to British government, was a tool of this conspiracy and dividing.

He was so concern about duties; he did not miss prayer during the ongoing war.

He spread his prayer rug & prayed in the midst of battle ground, brought him much fame. He stopped all bad things, which today everybody want. Why government banned bar balayien, dances of Rakhi Sawant & Mallaika. Why sattabazi is illegal?

Today we pay more than 66% of our income as taxes. The present government is worse than Aurangzeb's.

He forbade sati, drinking, gambling, prostitution, devadasies, dancing in brothels, ashrams & mutts. He put jizya to Dhimmis (non-believers) which around 2.5% like Muslim pay their Zakat, 2.5% eligible person should pay. The old, women, children were exempted. Only the young man who didn't want to serve in the army should pay the jiziya. Indian parliament still hung the bill of Lok Pal, whereas Aurangzeb the only ruler who appointed Lok Pal to control corruption in Judiciary, Finance & other departments.

He appointed Muhattasib (lok pal) censors to control injustice & atrocities. The Brahmans & higher caste Hindus now found themselves facing Islamic law courts for the atrocities on lower castes Hindus.

He was best knowledgeable & brilliant administrator. He never tolerates injustice. He was a brave soldier & best commander in the field. He was the only who control Deccan & Bijapur dynasty. Under his leadership, in particular, he led Mughal forces in the conquest of the Deccan, seizing first the Golkunda & Bijapur Sultanates, & then attacking the Maratha chieftains. He annexed all the Maratha territories. He left Shivaji because he was no threat to his kingdom.

These are the few evidence of his greatness. The Brahmans & higher caste were subject to Aurangzeb justice. They maligned & created, invented, fabricated these & all other baseless stories.

This is all about emperor Aurangzeb. I am confident that when you will go through all these facts & figures your perception towards this Mughal emperor will change. Our medieval history consists of various false stories. Our nation had never seen an emperor like Aurangzeb. I need your feedback about this article. What should I do to change the perception of people? I want to know merits, demerits, area of scope & any suggestion related to this article from your side.

Reference:
http://www.yoindia.com/shayariadab/inspirational-stories-and-real-life-incidences/emperor-aurangzeb-t98568.0.html

Rally in Madhya Pradesh today, Hardik lays out pan-India agitation plan

Hardik said he would take his agitation seeking OBC status and reservation for Patidars across the country.

Land ordinance to go, PM Narendra Modi says farmers dearest

"Ready to amend land acquisition act to benefit farmers, who were subjected to misinformation leading to a lot of apprehension in their minds on the law," PM Modi said.

"Ready to amend land acquisition act to benefit farmers, who were subjected to misinformation leading to a lot of apprehension in their minds on the law," PM Modi said.

The government will allow its ordinance on the land acquisition Act to lapse on August 31, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in his Mann ki Baat radio programme. Making a direct appeal to farmers, the PM added that he couldn't allow anyone to create "fear" in their minds on the matter.

The decision to let the ordinance lapse follows unsuccessful attempts by the government to build a consensus in Parliament to get its amendments to the contentious land acquisition Act cleared.

READ: Congress has been exposed on Land Aquisition Bill, says Nitin Gadkari

Having earlier re-promulgated the ordinance thrice to bring changes to the 2013 law, the Modi government, in a major climb-down earlier this month, had agreed to drop most of its contentious amendments.

Modi said the suggestions to improve the Act had come from states, "which felt that if one has to benefit villages and poor farmers, to construct canals to water the fields, if we have to erect poles to bring electricity, construct roads and houses, and make available employment, we have to free this law from the clutches of bureaucracy".

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"But I saw that so many misgivings were spread, fear was instilled in the farmer. My farmer should not have doubts and should absolutely not be scared. I don't want to give an opportunity to anybody to scare the farmers… For me, every voice in the country is important, but the voice of the farmers has special significance," the PM said.

Announcing that he had decided that the ordinance on the land acquisition Bill "should be allowed to expire", Modi said, "It means restoration of the situation that prevailed before my government took over."

At the same time, he added, "13 points" in the ordinance which are directly linked to farmer benefit would be implemented from Sunday by notifying them under the rules. "We are doing this so the farmers do not lose," he said.

The PM stressed that the government has an "open mind" on the land acquisition Act. "I have repeatedly said that I am ready to accept any suggestion in the interest of farmers," he said.

"My farmer brothers and sisters, there is no reason for doubt," he added.

In the programme, Modi also referred to the recent violence surrounding the Patel quota agitation in Gujarat. Calling it "the dance of violence", he said the entire nation was pained if the land of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel witnessed something like this.

"But in a short span of time, the people of Gujarat handled the situation and played an active role in stopping the situation from worsening. And Gujarat once again began its journey on the path of peace," Modi said. "Peace, unity and brotherhood… this is the right path."

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Netaji's family approaches UK with plea to declassify files

The family has approached the UK government, asserting that it has classified files on him besides Japan and Russia.

৪৮ ঘণ্টা পরেও হদিশ নেই বস্তা ভর্তি প্রশ্নের, টেট কেলেঙ্কারিতে 'দিদি'র ভাইপোকে দায়ী করলেন বিমান

ব্যুরো: টেটের প্রশ্ন ভর্তি বস্তা উধাওযের পর কেটে গিয়েছে আটচল্লিশ ঘন্টার ও বেশি সময়।  এখনও বস্তার হদিশ নেই। এরই মধ্যে আগামিকাল  নবান্নে ফের বৈঠকে বসছেন শিক্ষামন্ত্রী। সেক্ষেত্রে পরবর্তী পরীক্ষার ক্ষেত্রে ডাক বিভাগকে ফের দায়িত্ব দেওয়া হবে কিনা সেবিষয়ে চূড়ান্ত  সিদ্ধান্ত হতে পারে।

টেটের প্রশ্নফাঁস কাণ্ডে দুই তৃণমূল সাংসদ অভিষেক ব্যানার্জি ও কল্যাণ ব্যানার্জির দিকে আঙুল তুললেন বিমান বসু। তাঁর অভিযোগ, প্রশ্নফাঁস কাণ্ডে গ্রেফতার করা হয়েছে ডাক বিভাগের দুই কর্মীকে। ওই দুজন আইএনটিটিইউসির নেতা এবং তৃণমূল সাংসদ অভিষেক ব্যানার্জি ও কল্যাণ ব্যানার্জির ঘনিষ্ঠ। প্রশ্নফাঁসের গোটা ঘটনাই সাজানো বলে অভিযোগ করেছেন বামফ্রন্ট চেয়ারম্যান।

উধাও বস্তাভর্তি প্রশ্নপত্র। ঘটনার পরদিনই থানায় অভিযোগ দায়ের করেছিল ডাক বিভাগ।  তারও একদিন পর মধ্যশিক্ষা পর্ষদ অভিযোগ দায়ের করে । কিন্তু অভিযোগ করাই সার। এখনও পর্যন্ত কেউ গ্রেফতার হয়নি। এমনকি প্রশ্নের বস্তা কোন জায়গা থেকে উধাও হল তারও উত্তর নেই। কিন্তু কেন । একটা এত বড় পরীক্ষা যেখানে পরীক্ষার্থীর সংখ্যা প্রায় ২২ লক্ষ সেখানে কেন এই ঢিলেমি।

প্রথমত- ঘটনার একদিন পরে অভিযোগ দায়ের করছে ডাক বিভাগ

দ্বিতীয়ত- মধ্যশিক্ষা পর্ষদ যখন গুনে দেখল একটা বস্তা প্রশ্ন কম , তখন সেখানে উস্থিত ছিল পুলিস। কিন্তু পর্ষদ তখন কোনও অভিযোগ দায়ের করল না। ঘটনা জানাজানি হওয়ার পর অর্থাত্ বস্তা হাপিস হওয়ার দুদিন পর থানায় অভিযোগ দায়ের করল।

তৃতীয়ত --বস্তার হদিশ তো দূরের কথা, কোন জায়গা থেকে বস্তা হারিয়েছিল তাও এখনও স্পষ্ট হয়নি।

আর স্বভাবতই প্রশ্ন উঠছে  কেন এই ঢিলেমি? এত বড় কান্ড যাতে রাজ্যের মুখ পুড়ল তাতে  যে গুরুত্ব দেওয়া উচিত ছিল তার ছিটে ফোঁটাও কেন দেখা যাচ্ছেনা। কারিগরি শিক্ষার প্রশ্ন ফাঁসের পর সিআইডি তদন্তে উঠে এসেছিল একের পর এক তৃণমূল নেতার নাম । অনেকেরই অনুমান, এক্ষেত্রেও বিষয়টা তেমন কিছু নয় তো? সেজন্যই এই ঢিলেমি। কারণ সেদিন বাসে ছিলেন ছ-জন লোক। যার মধ্যে দু-জন পুলিশ কর্মী, দু জন ডাক বিভাগের লোক আর চালক এবং খালাসি। এতগুলো লোকের মাঝখান থেকে হঠাত্ অত বড় বাসের পিছনের কাঁচ ভেঙে আস্ত একটা বস্তা পড়ে গেল, তাও কি সম্ভব?