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Lone Christian member in Pune Municipal Corporation is from MIM
Lone Christian member in Pune Municipal Corporation is from MIM CAMIL PARKHE | Monday, 13 March 2017 AT 12:51 PM IST All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen , political party , Muslim community , Christian candidate , PMC election , MIM , Ashwini Landge , christian community , Pune , Camil Parkhe goo.gl/GLVU3f PUNE: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, otherwise referred to as a political party representing only the Muslim community, has provided the only Christian member in the newly elected Pune Municipal Corporation. Ashwini Daniel Landge, a MIM nominee, was elected a member of the Pune Municipal Corporation from the open woman category in panel number six from Yerwada. Incidentally Landge is also the MIM's only member in the 162-member House. The MIM had contested altogether 25 seats in the city. The party had hoped to win a few seats in Muslim-dominated Kondhwa...
Has Maharashtra’s social reform movement failed to end casteism?
Has Maharashtra’s social reform movement failed to end casteism? CAMIL PARKHE | Tuesday, 27 September 2016 AT 02:07 PM IST goo.gl/WEzfbe Camil Parkhe , Maharashtra , social reform , Ratnagiri , Veer Savarkar , casteism When Veer Savarkar was interned at Ratnagiri from 1924 to 1937, being banned from undertaking any political activities, he utilised this period for ushering in social reforms within the Hindu community. One of his major initiatives during this period was building Patit Pavan temple at Ratnagiri with a view to open doors of temples to people even belonging to the then untouchable castes. Savarkar was against the barriers of castes which had divided the Hindu community, banning physical contact with the Shudras, attending meals or entering into matrimonial ties within different castes of the Hindu community. A few decades later, ‘Prabodhankar’ Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, father of Shiv Sena fou...
Political interference in profession, eating habits dangerous
Political interference in profession, eating habits dangerous goo.gl/C8nX87 Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE | Sunday, 28 August 2016 AT 09:39 AM IST Sakal Times One of the first major policy decisions implemented by the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance soon after forming the government in 2014 was to exhume the 19-year-old pending bill on the ban on the slaughter of cow and her progeny and secure the President’s approval for it. Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, who along with other BJP leaders had followed the Bill to its logical end, had then claimed that there is nothing communal about the ban. Soon after this bill became a law, there was a spurt in violent incidents related to the alleged eating or possession of beef in the country. The dubious credit for bringing the cow or beef issue at the Centre of nationwide controversy, therefore, should go to the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra. Subsequently, tension over the issue of cattle slaughter or be...