The members of ABVP on Friday took out a protest march at India Gate in New Delhi against an event in support of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru at JNU.
Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru cannot be hanged till other mercy petitions pending before his are disposed of, feels the government.
A total of 78 Muslims were in the fray in the Lok Sabha elections this year, a significant drop from the last polls when 115 Muslim candidates were fielded by various parties.
A probe has been ordered to find out how a television channel interviewed Mohammad Afzal inside Tihar jail. The move comes after director general of Tihar jail B K Gupta was pulled up by the Union home ministry.
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru today distanced himself from the Delhi High Court bomb last calling it a "barbaric crime" and "cowardly act" that must be condemned by all.
The family of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru on Tuesday said their only demand was that the Centre return his body to enable them to give him a proper burial.
As part of the celebrations, Govindas or Dahi Handi participants form multi-tiered human pyramids to break 'Dahi Handis' (claypots filled with curd) suspended in mid-air.
In controversial remarks, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil said when the government has been pressing for clemency for Sarabjit Singh facing death sentence in Pakistan, how can the demand be made for the hanging of Afzal Guru, condemned prisoner in Parliament attack. "You want Afzal Guru to be hanged. (At the same time) you are saying that don't hang a person who has gone to Pakistan (Singh)," Patil told reporters in Latur on Tuesday.
Both Houses have been adjourned for some time.
More than 40 per cent of the 908 candidates contesting the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir are Independents, leading to claims that a large number of them have been propped up by the Bharatiya Janata Party to divide votes.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah, who is opposed to the execution of Mohammed Afzal, has said the death punishment for the Parliament terror attack convict is "too extreme".
the breakaway HC has given a general strike call on Friday in protest against the court's order.
Rejecting the contention that the execution of Afzal Guru had a political motive, Congress hit out at BJP saying it was trying to make electoral mileage by raising the issue.
Kashmir Valley remained under curfew for the third day on Monday even as mobile Internet services remained suspended and newspapers failed to hit the stands following hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.
At least a dozen persons were injured in protestor-security force clashes in the curfew bound Kashmir Valley following the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
The family of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been informed about his hanging by the Tihar authorities through Speed Post and the Jammu and Kashmir government was taken into confidence before his execution, the Centre said on Saturday. "They (Tihar jail authorities) intimated the family through Speed Post, registered post and the Director General of Jammu and Kashmir pPolice has been told to check with the family whether they got it or not," Home Secy R K said.
Kalam had sent Guru's mercy plea to the home ministry for its views.
At least five persons were injured as fresh protests today broke out in Kashmir against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru even as authorities relaxed curfew for three hours in some parts of the Valley, officials said.
Noting that the President's actions did not reflect his esteemed position, Thackeray said Kalam was a leading scientist of the country but had lost the dignity of the post after he became President.
An enraged Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah questioned the media for raking up only the case of hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and said law would take its own course.
The family of Afzal Guru, who was hanged two weeks ago at Tihar jail, has not yet approached the prison authorities to pray at his grave though the government has made the offer for his close relatives.
People had also started gathering at Mukhtar Ansari's residence in Ghazipur and there was a large deployment of security personnel around the house.
The body of Afzal Guru will be buried inside the premises of Tihar Jail, according to sources in the Delhi police. There is a provision in the jail manual to permit family members of a death row convict to get possession of his body and perform the funeral secretively.
Opposition People's Democratic Party on Thursday accused Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of dragging the state assembly into the Afzal Guru issue and refusing to take a stand when the clemency resolution came up for discussion in the House.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday said that Pranab Mukherjee should begin his tenure as President by rejecting the mercy plea of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and create history. Congratulating Mukherjee on his election as the 13th President, Thackeray said we have great expectations from Pranab Mukherjee.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday appealed President Pratibha Patil to use 'the mercy option in favor of Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru in view of the political and humanitarian situation prevailing in the state'.
Charging him with 'lying' on the issue of detention centres for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and equating the Sarabjit case with that of Afzal Guru, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday demanded an apology from Home Minister Shivraj Patil, failing which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must sack him from the Council of Ministers.
Over 50 youths have been arrested for allegedly being involved in stone-pelting during protests that rocked parts of the Kashmir valley following execution of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru.
A case has been registered against a Central Reserve Police Force unit for allegedly using "excessive force" against persons protesting hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru that left one person dead and four others injured.
"Faced with growing popular opposition and resistance on every front, the Congress party and the UPA government are desperately trying to appease the BJP and the communal-fascist brigade," General Secretary of CPI(ML) Liberation, Dipankar Bhattacharya said in a statement in New Delhi.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday told the state assembly that 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's hanging was not 'selective and political' and that 'the course of action regarding similar cases would determine it'.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that Centre's course of action regarding cases similar to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru will determine whether Guru's hanging was "selective and political".
"Give up arms and come for talks or our forces will hunt you down," the home minister said in election rallies in Jammu and Kashmir.
A petition was on Monday filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the government for handing over Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's body to his family and for laying down guidelines on the issue of relatives' claims over bodies of executed prisoners.
Official sources said it was a normal procedure for the President to refer all pending mercy petitions for consideration to a new home minister after he takes charge.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday charged Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah with "provoking" the situation in KashmirValley and condemned his interview for having a "sympathetic chord" for Afzal Guru who was hanged last week for his role in the Parliament attack case.
