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  • Congress MLA Irfan Ansari performs puja at Baidyanath Dham, BJP MP demands his arrest

    By PTI
    DEOGHAR: Jharkhand’s Congress MLA Irfan Ansari on Wednesday performed puja at the famous Baidyanath Dham temple at Deoghar, considered to be the most sacred abode of Lord Shiva, creating a controversy.

    Claiming that entry of non-Hindus is not allowed in the temple, BJP MP Dr Nishikant Dubey demanded immediate arrest of Ansari.

    The MLA of Jamtara, along with his companions, entered the sanctum sanctorum of the temple and performed the puja.

    Photographs of the act were also taken.

    Ansari claimed that he has been coming to the Baidyanath Dham temple since his childhood to take the blessings of Lord Shiva.

    “Whenever elections come, I have been blessed by Baba Bhole (Lord Shiva) and I have won. Who is Nishikant Dubey to take me away from Baba?” Ansari said.

    Dubey, the MP of Godda, demanded that the states JMM-led government order arrest of Ansari and take action against the deputy commissioner and the superintendent of police of Deoghar for allowing this to happen.

    “No non-Hindu has entered the sanctum sanctorum of the Baba temple till date.

    Just as the entry of non-Muslims is forbidden in the Kaaba in Mecca, the entry of non-Hindus into the Baba temple is also forbidden,” he told a press conference.

    Kaaba is a small shrine located inside the Great Mosque in Mecca and considered by Muslims as the holiest spot on Earth.

    Dubey said that once National Confrence leader Farooq Abdullah, when he was a Union minister, came to Deoghar and bowed down to Baba with folded hands from outside, but did not enter the sanctum sanctorum.

  • BJP MP Nishikant Dubey demands President’s rule in Jharkhand

    By ANI
    New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey on Thursday demanded the imposition of the President’s rule in Jharkhand alleging that 4,000 rape cases were reported last year in the state and women are not safe there.

    “Our Prime Minister talks of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao but in last one year, 4,000 rape cases were reported in Jharkhand. Girls and women were murdered after rape. The Chief Minister himself is accused of a 2013 rape case and the matter is being heard in Bombay High Court,” Dubey, Lok Sabha MP from Godda constituency of Jharkhand said.

    “Women are not safe there and hence I want to say that it is the favourable condition to impose President”s rule there and hence I want to request that President’s rule should be imposed immediately in Jharkhand to protect women,” he added.

    He was speaking during the zero hour in Lok Sabha.

    The Lower House of the Parliament resumed proceedings after the fourth adjournment, amid sloganeering from Opposition in protest against farm laws. BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, who WAS in the Chair, has requested the protesting members to use the Zero Hour to raise important issues.

    Vishnu Dayal Sharma, BJP MP from Jharkhand’s Palamu asked for railways crossings that have been shut down to be opened in his constituency in the state.

    During Zero Hour, Manoj Tiwari BJP MP from North-East constituency of Delhi raised the issue of education in Delhi. He requested the Education Ministry to provide Navodaya Vidyalaya in his Lok Sabha constituency.

    “A lot of students are failing exams because teachers are either not available or are unable to give attention to children in schools. I don’t want to leave the important matter of education on the Delhi government so kindly open a Navodaya Vidyalay in my constituency,” Tiwari said.

    Madhya Pradesh’ Balaghat MP Dhal Singh Bisen urged the government to enhance internet connectivity in his constituency.