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New Delhi: Kerala Muslim Jama’ath Council has said that activist Rehana Fathima has been expelled from the Muslim community for “hurting the sentiments of lakhs of Hindu devotees. She had made an attempt to enter Sabarimala temple.

Initiating action against Rehana, Kerala Muslim Jama’ath Council president A Poonkunju said in a press statement Saturday that she had been expelled from the community.

He said the Council has also directed the Ernakulam Central Muslim Jama’ath to expel her and her family from the membership of Mahallu.

New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will address meetings in TRS bastions Bhainsa in Adilabad district and Kamareddy in north Telangana, and the stronghold of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM), Charminar. Gandhi will focus on the strongholds of TRS and AIMIM in Telangana voters when he kicks off his party’s campaign for the upcoming assembly elections in the state.

Muslim minorities, constituting 12% of the total electorate, and Andhra settlers with predominant presence in over 20 assembly segments out of 119 hold the key to winning elections in Telangana.

New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is now invoking Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar to sharpen its attacks against so-called urban naxals, which for them is becoming a big menace in the country.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat while delivering the annual Vijayadashami speech in Nagpur drew attention to Ambedkar’s speech to the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, in which he spoke about the need to hold fast to constitutional methods of achieving social and economic objectives and abandoning the bloody methods of revolution.

New Delhi: Union minister of state for tourism K Alphons said that #MeToo was a good movement as whatever inappropriate has taken place should come out in public domain, but cautioned against frivolous complaints by insincere people with an agenda.

He said M J Akbar’s resignation from the council of ministers in the wake of charges of sexual harassment against him would not affect the prospects of BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as the party had taken “prompt action”.

“People should be extremely careful when they raise an allegation. Yes, something inappropriate has taken place, it should be in public domain. There should not be any doubt about it, but I hope frivolous complaints are not raised by insincere people to fix people whom they do not like,” the tourism minister said.