Chennai - Sandesh

The steadfast trouble of Hindus wins at Rasathipuram Panchayat

15 year patience struggle of a Hindus of a tamilnadu village has paid rich dividends.

Visharam is a town in the Arcot Assembly constituency in Vellore District, Tamilnadu. Visharam had two Pamchayats – Melvisharam dominated by Muslims and Keelvisharam dominated by SC's and MBCs. Melvisharam is termed as a 'Darul Islam' in Tamilnadu. 

Local residents of municipal wards of 3, 4, 5 and 6 attached to Melvisharam Municipality, were boycotting the local body polls for the past 15 years. Jamaath of Melvisharam practiced discrimination against Hindus of the four wards. Both visharams (Melvisharam and Keelvisharam) were merged and Upgraded to Grade III Municipality giving no room for the Hindus to survive by the secular Governments of Tamilnadu. Dr. Swamy filed a PIL in support of village status demand. In November 2009, Supreme Court had given a direction to the State Governor to the submit details and ordered that the four wards be converted into a village. Based upon this order, the residents fielded around 17 candidates for the local body elections and cast their votes in the local body election conducted on October, 2011. 

Muslims hate reservation to Scheduled Caste

It was come to light that Muslims in Coimbatore are not ready to allow people of Scheduled Caste (SC) to enjoy the legal reservation available to them. 

In yet another local body election held at Kurichi and Kuniamuthur of Coimbatore district, Tamilnadu residents registered 'No Vote' option under Rule 71 of the Tamilnadu Town Panchayats, Third Grade Municipalities and Municipal Corporation Councils Rules, 2006. Residents said that under the expansion (from 72 to 100 wards) and delimitation exercise carried out by the Coimbatore Corporation, Wards 1, 2 and 21 in Kuniamuthur Municipality had been merged to form Ward 87 of the Corporation, Wards 1,2,3 and 6 of the Kurichi Municipality had been merged to form Ward 95. They said that the new wards had been reserved for the members of the Scheduled Caste and Women. The residents pointed out that of the 20,000 voters in these new wards, 90 per cent belonged to the Muslim community. They alleged that the reservation was against their community and hence decided to abstain from voting for the Councillor's post.