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9/26/2014 Mrunal Current Polity: Love Jihad, Kerala Liquor Policy

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[Current] Polity SepW1: DESI liquor special editionKerala, Mizoram & IPS Training, Love Jihad, Tribalinsurgency

1. Mizoram permits DESI liquor2. Kerala wants to ban DESI Liquor3. IPS training academy bans DESI liquor4. Tribal insurgency in pre and post-independent India5. Love Jihad

Mizoram permits DESI liquor

1995: Mizoram passed law to completely ban liquor.But later Government feels that total prohibition has harmed the state-because juntaa still drinking Deshi and dying because of hooch. (Zahrili-sharaab).2014: new act, lifts total prohibition from the state.Now anyone above 21 years can drink- both deshi as well as videshi liquor.But hell need permit.New act raised fines and jail-terms for all type of drinking related offences.Any citizen can arrest drunkards but they have to hand them over to police orExcise and Narcotics officials.

Kerala wants to ban DESI Liquor

New liquor policy to apply total prohibition within 10 years in phased manner

Anti-Government argument Pro arguments

individual discipline andnot State discipline is whatis required.The policy will also affectstate income and tourismindustry- lakhs of peopleemployed directly andindirectly.

Kerala has highest per capitaconsumption of liquor- families arebroken, household savings are eroded.Constitution doesnt provideFundamental Right to sell liquor tothose bar owners. They were givenlicenses and the State has right tocancel licenses.Liquor is outside the purview ofcommerce in art19.State has power to impose restrictionon liquor trade, or create its own agencyto sell liquor. This doesnt violate art14



(equality before law).

Anyways, Under this policy, State Government planned to cancel bar licencesof all hotels below the category of five-star (from 12-September onwards).Obviously, those bar owners did not like it, NOT ONE BIT. so they went toHC and then to SC.

SC stayed the govt. order because of following reasons:

flaw in the policy- drunkards can still goto five star hotels or the zero starToddy shops!Policy is discriminatory and against constitutional right of equality if statewants to impose prohibition then ban should be equally imposed on all theliquor selling shops- irrespective of stars.Only 10% of the govt. outlet will be closed every year.Govt. should educate the mass against harmful effects of liquor before thesudden and outright ban on the small liquor shop.

IPS training academy bans DESI liquor

Aruna Bahuguna: first lady director of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel NationalPolice Academy (SVPNPA), Hyderabad.SVPNPA = place where IPS probationers are trained.But recently a trainee IPS died after drowning in the swimming pool, underthe influence of liquor.Therefore, Director has banned all types of liquor in the academy.

Tribal insurgency in pre and post-independent India

just some fodder points based on a book review in thehindu

Under British rule:

The British passed Forest Acts (1878, 1927) banned -shifting cultivation,foraging, grazing and hunting in Indian jungles.British kept the tribal areas under their direct administration throughGovernors and kept their forest almost intact until they left India.This negatively affected the livelihoods of tribes- leading to rebellions.The British branded their protests as savage attacks, and used extremeviolence to impose Colonial-civilisation on these savages.Konds of Odisha- they spill blood to worship their deity under Meriah rite.But British branded it as human sacrifice.

Under Free India:

Since 1980s, Central and Eastern India became the perfect guerrilla terrainfor the Naxalites.This region is home to a large tribal population. The Maoist movement spreadin these tribal belts because they Promised to end their historical



marginalisation; and managed to build intimacy with local people, overridingdifferences of caste or tribe.UPA Government took away nearly 1.2 lakh ht. of forest land and gave it toMNCs for mining and power projects.Tribal made to work in the most dangerous parts of mines and steel plants, forpetty wages. Thus, even the new civilised Indian are keeping them asprimitive as possible.

Love Jihad

ofcourse this is not part of mains syllabus. But, some eccentric UPSC interviewpanel-members asking such things.

Love Jihad

is an alleged conspiracy by Muslim men to entice, marry andconvert Hindu women to Islam.BJP, RSS, ABVP, BJP yuva morcha et al, have joined hands tofight love jihad in Western Uttar Pradesh.

HitlerMade similar allegations in his book Mein Kampf. That Jew menwere trapping German Christian women, thus polluting their racialpurity.

Deoband

If a boy/girl converts religion just for the sake of marriage, itis illegal. If Hindu girls are forced into Islam, that is alsoillegal.urged Muslim youths to avoid such a (marriage) situation thatgave the BJP an opportunity to target the entire community.

Sunniclerics

A few isolated cases of inter-religion marriage.But Media and political parties are sensationalizing it.There is no such systematic campaign by Muslims to convertHindu women.

UPGovernment

said in Highcourt, there is no Love-jihad in UP. (only Goonda-rajand Nakal-maafia)

ManekaGandhi

Have not received any such complaint so far, in ministry of womenand child.

RajnathSingh

Home minister is yet to study this term.

Mrunal We need following reform:

Few yearsback, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh gave a suggestion -all the stateassembly elections and parliament elections should be done simultaneously. Rightnow, there is some election or byelection here and there every few months, and as aresult

1. Parties 24/7 involved in appeasement, sensationlization, communalism,



pseudo-secularism, casteism, regionalism. But, none of them remembersGodhara, Love Jihad or Muzaffarnagar etc. once the election is over.

2. even if party wants to reform (say leaving all communal-secular-caste thingand focus on rebuilding party with development agenda), yet there is notenough timegap- because there is some stupid election around the corner. sothey have to fall back yet again to same communal-secular-caste thing as tostay in the debate.

3. Lot of black money spent, to win such elections.4. Both Union and state governments announce lot of election-freebies, waste

public money in newspaper ads to showcase their achievements- just beforethe model code of conduct begins.

5. and When it comes to taking bold steps like petrol price hike, railway farehike or removing LPG subsidies- they use the same model code of conductas an excuse for not doing so.

Follow up to that-

1. One person should be allowed to contest from one place only (so there is novacant post and bypolls when they resign from one seat).

2. there should be no by-polls anywhere. If someone is dead, arrested or resignsfrom the seat, consider it empty till the five year cycle ends. Because absenceor presence of one MP/MLA doesnt really affect ground development.Government can handover the MPLADS funds district administration directly-after all theyre the ones responsible to implementation.

Published on 18/09/2014 @ 8:15 pm under Category: Current Affairs Weekly

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