Now, Yogi govt mulls bringing legislation to control religious places in UP

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January 3, 2021

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Lucknow, Jan 3: After controversial legislation on Love Jihad, the Yogi Adityanath government is all set to keep the communal cauldron boiling as it is contemplating to bring a Bill to regulate and control the religious places on private and public land.

Highly placed sources in the government said that a presentation regarding this was made before Chief Minister recently.

"He has approved it and suggested some minor changes. The law department will incorporate these changes in the draft bill " the official said.

This is the second time when such a move has been initiated. Earlier, Ram Prakash Gupta government in 2000 had brought a bill on similar lines called 'UP Regulation of Public Religious Building and Places Bill Bill 2000'. The bill was passed by the state assembly despite protests by the Opposition. However, when it went for the assent of Raj Bhawan, the then governor Suraj Bhan sent it to the President for his consent.

The Presidential consent never came and the Bill failed to turn into an Act for implementation.

The sources say that the new law is likely to be called 'Uttar Pradesh Regulation and Registration of Religious Places' and would be moved by the religious affairs department after it is vetted by the department of law .

"The new law is aimed at regulating the functioning of all religious places. This is being done after reports of misappropriation of funds have increased. Besides, there are reports of religious places are being constructed without taking permission, " the official said.

This bill will also regulate the use of building as public religious place or the construction of religious places.

"The motive of this bill is to spread communal hatred. This bill will stop members of a particular community to construct their religious place," Amarnath Agarwal,  a senior Congress leader said.

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November 11,2024

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The Manipur Kuki MLAs have released a statement calling out Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's 'lies' in the Supreme Court. In a joint statement, the MLAs, including those from the Bharatiya Janata Party, said they had not had any meeting with the Chief Minister since May 3, 2023, nor did they intend to meet him in the future as “he was the mastermind behind the violence”.

As per the MLAs, the SG lied about state CM N Biren Singh speaking to Kuki MLAs to control the situation there, in order to halt a Supreme Court probe into the leaked tapes which allege that Singh has been complicit in the violence that broke out between Kukis and Meitis there.

"We...clarify that we have never had any meeting with Chief Minister, Shri N. Biren Singh since May 3, 2023, nor have any intention to meet him in future as he is the mastermind behind the violence and ethnic cleansing of our people from the Imphal valley, which is continuing till today, the latest being the brutal killing and burning of Mrs Zosangkim Hmar on November 7, 2024," the letter read, while condemning the recent 'barbaric' killing of the woman there, and noting the SG's assertion is 'tantamount' to misleading the top court.

“We, the undersigned ten MLAs, have come to know that during the Supreme Court hearing held on November 8, 2024, the Solicitor General of India submitted that ‘CM is meeting all Kuki MLAs and trying to bring the situation down to get peace’. In this connection, we hereby categorically state that this submission is a blatant lie and tantamount to misleading the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India,” the statement said.

The Supreme Court, while hearing a petition by a Kuki organisation, asked that it submit audio tapes to substantiate its claim that the Chief Minister was instrumental in inciting and organising violence in the northeastern State.

Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta orally informed the court that the Chief Minister was meeting all the Kuki-Zo MLAs and that peace in the State had come at a huge cost.

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