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BJP President Amit Shah says will not allow reservation for Muslims
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party will not allow the Telangana government to implement a 12 per cent reservation for minorities, party President Amit Shah said on Sunday.
Addressing election rallies at four places in the state, he said the BJP would neither provide quota on the basis of religion nor allow its implementation by others.
“As long as the BJP is in power at the Centre, there is no question of giving reservation to minorities,” he said at a meeting in Nirmal town.
He was referring to the resolution passed by the Telangana legislature and sent to the Centre, seeking its approval for increasing reservation for Muslims in jobs and education from the current 4 per cent to 12 per cent.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K. Chandrashekar Rao, during his election speeches, has been targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not giving the nod to hike the quota for Muslims.
Terming the TRS government’s move as “unconstitutional”, the BJP chief pointed out that the Supreme Court has fixed a ceiling of 50 per cent on the overall quota.
He asked the TRS to specify whose quota it proposes to cut to provide reservation to the minorities.
Shah said his party would stand like a rock to protect the reservation for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes.
The BJP president, who also addressed rallies in Parkala, Narayankhed and Dubbaka, said that only his party could provide a government in Telangana that would not be dependent on the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and its President Asaduddin Owaisi.
“Only the BJP can take on Majlis and Owaisi,” he said.
As long as BJP is in power at Centre, no reservation for Muslims says Amit Shah:
Shah said the TRS government had also stopped celebrating Telangana Liberation Day, as it was scared of Owaisi. He said if voted to power, the BJP would celebrate the day on a grand scale in every village.
Recalling that it was in Nirmal that MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi had delivered a speech, insulting Hindu gods and goddesses, Shah said the TRS government failed to take action against him.
He said the December 7 election would decide the future of the state. “You have given opportunity to all other parties to form government. Give a chance to us, we will turn Telangana into a model state.”
Shah said the TRS chief had imposed the burden of an additional election by going in for early polls to the state Assembly to promote his son and daughter.
He claimed that the TRS chief Rao was afraid of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s impact if the Assembly polls were to be held along with the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.
He claimed that the central government provided over Rs 2.30 lakh crore for the development of Telangana during the last four years. He said half of these funds were allocated under the 14th Finance Commission.
He said Telangana was a revenue-surplus state but the TRS government imposed a burden of Rs 2 lakh crore in the form of loans on the state.
He said that Communists, who were losing ground across the world, and Congress, which was getting wiped out in the country, had come together in Telangana.
The BJP chief alleged that Congress President Rahul Gandhi backed urban Maoists when the Maharashtra government arrested them. “The Maoists have only two options. Either join the mainstream or be ready to go to jail,” he added.
The State Scores Extra High on Gaming-Friendly Industry Index
Meghalaya scored 92.85 out of 100 possible points in a Gaming Industry Index and proved to be India’s most gaming-friendly state following its recent profound legislation changes over the field allowing land-based and online gaming, including games of chance, under a licensing regime.
The index by the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to measure the level of legalisation on gambling and betting achieved by a state based on the scores over a set of seven different games – lottery, horse racing, betting on sports, poker, rummy, casino and fantasy sports
Starting from February last year, Meghalaya became the third state in India’s northeast to legalise gambling and betting after Sikkim and Nagaland. After consultations with the UKIBC, the state proceeded with the adoption of the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 and the nullification of the Meghalaya Prevention of Gambling Act, 1970. Subsequently in December, the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021 were notified and came into force.
All for the Tourists
The move to legalise and license various forms of offline and online betting and gambling in Meghalaya is aimed at boosting tourism and creating jobs, and altogether raising taxation revenues for the northeastern state. At the same time, the opportunities to bet and gamble legally will be reserved only for tourists and visitors.
“We came out with a Gaming Act and subsequently framed the Regulation of Gaming Rules, 2021. The government will accordingly issue licenses to operate games of skill and chance, both online and offline,” said James P. K. Sangma, Meghalaya State Law and Taxation Minister speaking in the capital city of Shillong. “But the legalized gambling and gaming will only be for tourists and not residents of Meghalaya,” he continued.
To be allowed to play, tourists and people visiting the state for work or business purposes will have to prove their non-resident status by presenting appropriate documents, in a process similar to a bank KYC (Know Your Customer) procedure.
Meghalaya Reaches Out to a Vast Market
With 140 millions of people in India estimated to bet regularly on sports, and a total of 370 million desi bettors around prominent sporting events, as per data from one of the latest reports by Esse N Videri, Meghalaya is set to reach out and take a piece of a vast market.
Estimates on the financial value of India’s sports betting market, combined across all types of offline channels and online sports and cricket predictions and betting platforms, speak about amounts between $130 and $150 billion (roughly between ₹9.7 and ₹11.5 lakh crore).
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi are shown to deliver the highest number of bettors and Meghalaya can count on substantial tourists flow from their betting circles. The sports betting communities of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are also not to be underestimated.
Among the sports, cricket is most popular, registering 68 percent of the total bet count analyzed by Esse N Videri. Football takes second position with 11 percent of the bets, followed by betting on FIFA at 7 percent and on eCricket at 5 percent. The last position in the Top 5 of popular sports for betting in India is taken by tennis with 3 percent of the bet count.
Local Citizens will Still have Their Teer Betting
Meghalaya residents will still be permitted to participate in teer betting over arrow-shooting results. Teer is a traditional method of gambling, somewhat similar to a lottery draw, and held under the rules of the Meghalaya Regulation of the Game of Arrow Shooting and the Sale of Teer Tickets Act, 2018.
Teer includes bettors wagering on the number of arrows that reach the target which is placed about 50 meters away from a team of 20 archers positioned in a semicircle.
The archers shoot volleys of arrows at the target for ten minutes, and players place their bets choosing a number between 0 and 99 trying to guess the last two digits of the number of arrows that successfully pierce the target.
If, for example, the number of hits is 256, anyone who has bet on 56 wins an amount eight times bigger than their wager.
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