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Today’s India is like Hitler’s Germany, says Congress: Here is what Hitler’s Germany looked like and why Congress is out of its mind

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Today’s India is like Hitler’s Germany, says Congress: Here is what Hitler’s Germany looked like and why Congress is out of its mind

It is quite appalling to see many who’re part of the ecosystem create a narrative that today’s India reeks of Hitler’s Germany. The latest example being that of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh who said that what’s happening today is similar to what happened in Germany in the 1930s.

Not only does this comparison stink of political desperation and a blatant disregard for the atrocities that the Jewry of Europe faced but also a shocking dearth of basic knowledge of what happened in Germany under Adolf Hitler. This article aims to infuse some sense and awareness of the truth in the shallow brains of those who trivialise the watershed event of the systematic elimination of over five million Jews.

The Reichstag First Decree

On 27 February 1933, the German parliament building, the Reichstag, caught fire. It was believed that Herman Goering, a Nazi leader and the Minister of Interior, was responsible for the fire. But Hitler blamed the communists and anarchists.

Read: Anurag Kashyap shares fake video to prove Modi’s ‘hate me, not India’ remark same as Hitler’s: Here is the truth

This incident allowed Hitler to enable the First Decree which reduced civil liberties of Germans thus paving the way to jail anyone. Many political opponents and citizens were taken into protective custody, Schutzhaft, for an undetermined period of time. Those jailed were forced to accept Nazi ideology and methods and were employed in harsh conditions in various infrastructure projects and defence factories.

The Enabling Act

On 23 March 1933, the Reichstag approved the Enabling Act by which full legislative power was handed to the Reichskanzler, Hitler, and the government. This period of transfer of power ended only when Hitler died.

Read: AIMIM chief Owaisi continues his rant: Compares CAB to Nuremberg race laws and Amit Shah to Hitler

This led to the implementation of Gleichschaltung which was the forcible coordination and assimilation of the Nazi party and the German state. Soon, the Nazi Party dissolved local elections. Reich leaders were then appointed in order to create a Nazi mechanism parallel to that of the state. 

The Fuehrer

The SA which was the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing was levelling tacit threats to Hitler. Hitler couldn’t take it. On 30 June 1934, Hitler ordered the SS to eliminate the SA leadership in what was called the ‘Night of Long Knives’. All SA leaders and some other enemies of the Nazi party and conservative figures were slaughtered.

Read: Pakistan toes the Indian opposition line by equating PM Modi to Hitler, lies about UNHRC

In August 1934, German president Paul Von Hindenburg died. Hitler grabbed this chance to unite the positions of Chancellor and that of the President thus making his status as the Fuehrer an officially national one. Soon, the German army is known as the Wehrmachts wore a personal oath of loyalty to the Fuehrer. To Hitler, mind you, not to Germany or its people.

Attacking Public and Political Life

All trade unions were abolished. In replacement, the German Labour Front or the Nazi Organisation was established. All other political parties were dismantled as well leaving just the Nazi Party as the legal one.

Leftist movements were outlawed. Student organisations were dealt with in the same way leaving only the National Socialist German Student League in existence. The same thing was done to teachers unions.  

Cultural Oppression

A Reich cultural organisation was established and all cultural activities had to get its approval. Hitler had gained power on 30 January and that day was declared a national holiday. Soon enough no German citizen could avoid or stay away from the effects of Nazism.

These are only some of the actions taken by the Nazi Party to ensure absolute and iron-handed control on Germany. A small example of how Hitler propagated his views was through the distribution of radios to Germans who didn’t belong to any of those sections of society which he despised. The radio wasn’t a small object to possess. Not all could afford it. But it was simply distributed for free. But, as expected, there was a significant caveat. The radio did not have all the stations. It only had names of German cities on its panel and you could only use it for listening to Nazi propaganda.

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I don’t even need to compare all that has been mentioned above to the prevailing situation in India. Every single one of Prime Minister Modi’s detractors is hale and hearty, abusing and criticising him on every platform available. No ideologically and politically contradictory organisations have been banned. No cultural restrictions have been placed. And obviously, no opponent has been sent to concentration camps. Any sane person can notice all of this.

Then why is this ridiculous narrative being peddled? Do these sycophants really don’t have anything better to question Narendra Modi with but to bring up a part of history that has absolutely no relevance today?

At women’s anti-CAA rally, NCP MP Supriya Sule says that Triple Talaq is good for women according to Quran

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At women’s anti-CAA rally, NCP MP Supriya Sule says that Triple Talaq is good for women according to Quran

During a speech at the anti-CAA rally held in Mumbai on Friday, NCP MP Supriya Sule said that triple talaq us good for women as per Quran. During the speech, Sule mentioned an incident some time ago when she had met a woman at her constituency before the triple talaq was outlawed by the parliament.

Sule said this while addressing a women’s rally at the YMCA ground in Mumbai protesting against the CAA, NRC and NPR on Friday. Interestingly, most women in the protest came in a burqa, yet again indicating the pro-Islamic agenda behind the anti-CAA protests.

The NCP MP said that while roaming in a market to meet common people, she had decided to talk to few people in front of hijab shops about the triple talaq issue before her speech on the triple talaq bill in Lok Sabha. She said that she had met a Muslim woman completely covered in a burqa, who had said that she has done a PhD. After that, she met another woman with two daughters, all of them covered in burqas, who said that she was a doctor and her daughters were also doctors. When Sule asked the doctor whether the triple talaq should be kept or it should be removed, the woman said that it should be kept. When Sule asked what happens when her husband becomes angry, the woman got angry and shot back why Sule should have any concern if her husband got angry.

After that, Supriya Sule asked the woman to explain the importance of triple talaq. The woman said her name is Kiran Kulkarni, who had married a Muslim man. After marriage, she studied the Quran, and she knows the Islamic holy book very well. “I know the entire Quran, and it has told me that we need a provision like the triple talaq. And we think that nobody should go to jail due to it”.

Narrating the incident, Supriya Sule said ‘however my husband maybe, he is my husband and the father of my children, and nobody can send him to jail. If there is any issue at home, we will look into it’. She said that parents, relatives, friends etc will explain the husband to resolve the issues, and household matters should not be taken outside. She said that a woman will never send her husband to jail.

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Almost every woman attended the ant-CAA protest in Burqa

Sule said that if a woman sends her husband (actually ex-husband after triple talaq is given) for this reason, society will criticise her, her children will be told that their mother is evil who sent her husband to jail. She said that every community have their own rules and traditions, and the government should not interfere in the same. We women will decide what is good or bad for us, just like the CAA and NRC are bad for us, the Baramati MP said.

This is not the first time Supriya Sule quoted Kiran Kulkarni, who is known as Hina now, while taking a stand against criminalising triple talaq. In her speech in Lok Sabha in December 2018 during the debate on Triple Talaq bill also she had narrated how a Hindu woman who had converted into Islam had claimed that the provision of triple talaq is good for women as per Quran.

It is interesting to note that the MP chose to take the examples of highly educated and well-established Muslim woman to support instant divorce as per Sharia law. Women for such backgrounds are not a usual victim of this practice, and such women can support themselves even after instant divorce as they have own earnings. The real victims of triple talaq were rural Muslim woman with little or no formal education and no earning, and they were exploited by Muslim using the combination of triple talaq and nikah halala.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra bats for Hardik Patel who was convicted for rioting, blames BJP for a court ordered arrest

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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra bats for Hardik Patel who was convicted for rioting, blames BJP for a court ordered arrest

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday stood in support of convicted of causing riots Hardik Patel after he was arrested for failing to appear before a court in a 2015 sedition case. The Gandhi-scion accused the BJP of repeatedly harassing party leader Hardik Patel.

Taking to Twitter, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said Patel has been fighting for the employment of youth and the rights of farmers.

“The BJP is repeatedly harassing Hardik Patel, who fights for the rights of farmers and employment for youths. Hardik has raised the people’s voice, asked for jobs for them, and made demands for scholarships. He also launched a farmers’ movement. The BJP is terming all this as sedition.”


On Saturday night, controversial Congress leader Hardik Patel was arrested in Ahmedabad for failing to appear before a trial court in connection with a sedition case. He has been sent to judicial custody till January 24.

Read: Gujarat: Congress leader Hardik Patel arrested for failing to appear before trial court in sedition case, sent to judicial custody

The arrest came after Ahmedabad sessions court had issued an arrest warrant after Patel repeatedly missed the trial of the case registered against him in 2015 during the violent agitation for quota for the Patidar community.

Patel was booked by the Crime Branch in 2015 under sedition charges over his provocative remarks where he allegedly asked his supporters to kill the policemen rather than committing suicide for the cause of reservation.

Read: Convicted felon and Congress leader Hardik Patel makes a racist remark, says ‘if I want to look for Chowkidar, I will go to Nepal’

Hardik Patel, who had joined the Congress ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, had suffered a major setback after he was barred from contesting the Lok Sabha elections as he was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in prison by the High Court in a case of rioting and arson in Visnagar town in 2015.

Saba Naqvi mirrors Jihadis, insinuates that re-settling Kashmiri Pandits in the valley is a part of the ‘Hinduisation’ project

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Saba Naqvi mirrors Jihadis, insinuates that re-settling Kashmiri Pandits in the valley is a part of the ‘Hinduisation’ project

Self-proclaimed ‘Journalist’ Saba Naqvi on Friday went on to make offensive statements yet again by not only questioning India’s right on the Jammu and Kashmir but also expressed her anger over the return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Kashmir valley, decades after the genocide was perpetrated against them by Islamic terrorists.

Speaking at an India Today debate over the recent statements made by CDS General Bipin Rawat on the need of de-radicalisation camps in Jammu and Kashmir to tackle radicalisation among youths, Saba Naqvi went on to say that CDS General Rawat was completely out of line to speak on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.


Saba Naqvi went on then make absurd statements by claiming that India has ‘taken’ Kashmir, implying that there was some sort of occupation in the union territory of J&K.

“You have taken Kashmir, you are slowly Hinduising India and then you say we are integrating Kashmir and now you say want to pick up them and put into a camp,” said Naqvi as she suffered a meltdown.

Read: The real Saba Naqvi: Here is how the ‘neutral journalist’ supported killers of Ram Sevaks in Sabarmati Express burning

Shockingly, Saba Naqvi seems to have a problem with Kashmiri Pandits returning to their homeland, three decades after they were persecuted by Islamic radicals and terrorists in Kashmir. “You want Hindu Pandits to return to the valley, Do you think we are fools here?” asked Saba Naqvi as she opposed the idea of Pandits returning to their homeland.

In essence, Saba Naqvi asserted that the return of Kashmiri Hindus to the valley, from where they were ethnically cleansed by Jihadis is a project to ‘Hinduise’ Islamic Kashmir. This is exactly the mindset the led to the genocide of Hindus in Kashmir in the first place.

Read: Latest poster from Shaheen Bagh confirms that CAA ‘protests’ is about Islamist supremacy and Hinduphobia: Here is why

Even back then, one can remember the vilification of the Kashmiri Hindus at the hand of journalists who behaved like Jihadi allies. One recalls how Barkha Dutt gave a convenient context to the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits back then by insinuating that the Kashmiri Muslims were disgruntled because the Hindus got all the jobs and lucrative positions, thereby, shielding the Islamism that led to the genocide.

The bizarre part of the show is when Naqvi tried to communalise a news program by accusing journalist Gaurav Sawant of subconsciously bringing people on his show, who associated themselves as ‘Muslims’.

On Thursday, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said de-radicalisation camps are operating in the country as it was necessary to isolate people who are completely radicalised.

Read: Clipped or not, Barkha mirrored the Nazis in her video by giving genocide a convenient context

In an address at an event in New Delhi, General Rawat speaking on the situation in Kashmir said that girls and boys as young as 10 and 12 years are being radicalised in the Valley which he described as a matter of concern.

“These people can still be isolated from radicalisation in a gradual way. But there are people who have been completely radicalised. These people need to be taken out separately, possibly taken to some de-radicalisation camps,” General Rawat had said.

Ever since Citizenship Amendment Act was passed in the parliament, the Islamists and members of “liberal-secular” media ecosystem have been trying to spread false propaganda, incite people to pick up arms against the Modi government.

Read: The Battle from CAA to JNU: Khilafat 2.0, Communist Fantasies, Petty Politics and the conspiracy of Hong Kong style protests

Saba Naqvi, who has been relentless in spreading false propaganda on social media platforms, got caught yet again as she tried to pass off a photoshopped image of ABVP members protesting against the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Saba, by quoting a tweet containing the misleading picture, alluded that ABVP was protesting against the CAA legislation brought in by the BJP-led government, and claimed that it shows how that the world is changing. However, it turned out that the image was a fake image and the image belonged to the JNU unit of the ABVP, who along with a section of teachers came out on streets to extend their support for the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Shabana Azmi accident: FIR registered against driver for endangering life, rash driving due to which the car rammed into truck

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Shabana Azmi accident: FIR registered against driver for endangering life, rash driving due to which the car rammed into truck

An FIR has been registered against the driver of Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi for rash driving as her car rammed into a truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Saturday causing severe injuries to both the driver and Shabana Azmi after the accident, ANI reported.

According to the reports, the truck driver has accused Azmi’s driver Amlesh Kamat of rash driving, which caused the car accident. “Due to rash driving by the driver, the car hit the moving truck on Pune-Mumbai Expressway which resulted in the accident,” the FIR said.

The case was registered under sections 279 – Rash driving on a public way and 337 -Causing hurt by act endangering the life/personal safety of others of the Indian Penal Code besides sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.

Shabana Azmi’s car post-accident
The truck that Shabana Azmi’s car hit

However, police said that since sections are bailable offences, the actor’s driver will not be arrested and will be issued a notice instead.

Reportedly, Azmi was returning to Mumbai from Pune in a Tata Safari car when her driver overtook the vehicle ahead of him from the left-most lane and crashed into a truck.

Azmi and her car driver both got severely injured when their car was hit by a truck when they were on their way from Pune to Mumbai. Her husband, lyricist Javed Akhtar, was also in the car with them and he is safe. The injured were shifted to MGM Hospital.

Azmi was admitted to the hospital at 4.45 pm. She underwent CT scans and X-rays of the head, neck and chest, and ultrasonography of the abdomen said Medical Superintendent Dr KR Salgotra.

“She suffered a subdural hematoma to the left side of her brain, a fracture below her right eye and injuries to her cervical spine. At her request, we shifted her to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Andheri (West),” said Dr Salgotra.

Must obey: While Congress fear-mongers and refuses to implement CAA in states, Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid burst the bubble

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Must obey: While Congress fear-mongers and refuses to implement CAA in states, Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid burst the bubble

Congress leader Kapil Sibal made headlines on Saturday when he said that the refusal to implement CAA by States would be unconstitutional. He made those comments while speaking at the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF) held in Kozhikode. His comments come at a time when the Congress-ruled States refused to implement the law passed by both Houses of the Parliament and have been spreading canards about the Act.


Kapil Sibal said that CAA is national legislation and no state can go about saying that it will not implement CAA. He also stressed on the importance of not scoring political brownies. Sibal highlighted that a State is within its right to oppose the law or pass a resolution in the Assembly asking the Union Government to withdraw it. He stated that NRC is loosely based on NPR, the implementation of which has to be carried out by the local registrar. He questioned whether the State Government is going to oppose its own state-level officers.

Sibal reiterated that a State cannot however constitutionally prevent the implementation of a law passed by the Parliament. He asserted that such a move would be “problematic” and pave the way for many difficulties.

Read: While Congress party keeps protesting against CAA, Congress govt in Rajasthan gives land at half prices to Pakistani migrants in the state

He said, “When you come to national politics, I think we all must stand together because this is national legislation. So, we should not be scoring political points. You must know that if the CAA is passed, no state can say ‘I will not implement it’. That is not possible. That is unconstitutional. You can oppose it. You can pass a resolution in the Assembly and ask the Central government to withdraw it (to say please withdraw it)”.

Kapil Sibal further added, “But constitutionally to say that I will not implement it is going to be problematic and it is going to create more difficulty. So, what we need to do is politically get together, fight this battle and let the Congress party nationally lead the charge”.

On the sidelines of the event, he had also urged all opposition parties to stay united and allow the Indian National Congress to lead the Anti-CAA movement at the national level.

Read: CAA: 4 Goa Congress leaders quit, slam Congress for ‘misleading people, creating fear in minorities for political mileage’

Interestingly, commenting on the statements made by Kapil Sibal, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid too supported his stand. Khurshid said, “If the SC doesn’t interfere, it’ll remain on the statute book. If something is on the statute book, you have to obey the law, else there are consequences”.

The statements coming from Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid are rather interesting considering Congress has been fuelling unrest and spreading canards over CAA and even NRC throughout the country. In fact, Congress-ruled states along with the Left have also asserted that they will not implement CAA, NRC or even NPR.

The Communist Kerela Government had earlier filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the CAA. It is of the view that the law is  “discriminatory” and violative of the basic structure of the Constitution.

Read: After Congress, AAP leaders booked for anti-CAA violence, ‘protestors’ question absence of Rahul, Priyanka and Kejriwal at Shaheen Bagh, Jamia

The Government had also passed a resolution in the State Assembly, asking the Union Government to scrap the law. The Congress-ruled Punjab was quick to follow the footsteps of the Kerala government.

Kamal Nath, the Chief Minister of Congress-ruled Madhya Pradesh had also asserted that he will not be implementing CAA in the state. “Any law that is anti-people, anti-constitution, anti-society, anti-religion will not be implemented in Madhya Pradesh till Congress is in power,” Kamal Nath had said after leading a march against the CAA in Bhopal.

The statement made by the Congress old guard directly contradicts the rigid stand to “not implement CAA” held by the Chief Ministers of the Congress-ruled states such as Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh.

I thought this guy was a villain and talked crap only in movies: Adnan Sami on Raza Murad using him to criticise CAA

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I thought this guy was a villain and talked crap only in movies: Adnan Sami on Raza Murad using him to criticise CAA

The Citizenship Amendment Act which aims to give citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighbouring Islamic nations like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan has resulted in widespread riots and protests by Muslim mobs since its passage in the Parliament. Several individuals, especially from Bollywood have commented on the Act and asserted that it is against the tenets of ‘secularism’. The latest to join the bandwagon was actor Raza Murad who has now been slammed by musician Adnan Sami.

Speaking to India Today, Raza Murad hinted that the Citizenship Amendment Act is against the secular principles of the Indian Constitution. He said that nobody can be discriminated against on the basis of religion as per the constitution. Of course, Raza Murad failed to realise that CAA has nothing to do with the current citizens of India or the rights they are guaranteed under the Constitution.


Saying that CAA should also include Muslims and be based on merit, Raza Murad, who had joined Congress in 2004, said that India even gave citizenship to Adnan Sami, who is a Muslim and was a Pakistani citizen. Using Adnan Sami to hit out at CAA, Murad said that Sami’s father was also a soldier in the Pakistan Airforce and yet he was given citizenship. Further, he said that he doesn’t have a problem with Sami’s citizenship, however, his problem is that one community is being othered in the Act.

Read: By filing suit against CAA, Communists in Kerala have ensured that they will be remembered for opposing justice for persecuted minorities

Reacting to Raza Murad using him as a means to target the CAA, Adnan Sami took to Twitter to slam the actor.

Tweeting, Adnan Sami said, “I thought that this guy was a villain & talked crap only in Movies!!”.


Earlier, Adnan Sami had spoken in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Act. He had said, “The CAB Bill is for religions that are being persecuted in ‘Theocratic States’. Muslims are NOT persecuted for their religion in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh because they are in majority over there. Muslims CAN still apply for Indian citizenship like before. All are welcome through the legal ‘Front Door’!”

Adnan Sami, who got Indian citizenship in 2015 on humanitarian grounds after he legally applied for it was right, indeed.

Read: Modi government dispels myths about CAA: Here are 19 FAQs and their answers

It is pertinent to note here that Home Minister Amit Shah had revealed earlier that the Narendra Modi-led NDA government has provided citizenship to 566 Muslims since it came to power in 2014. The revelation made by Amit Shah dispeled the narrative that persecuted Muslims from the three neighbouring Islamic States will not be able to acquire Indian Citizenship going forward.

Read: 566 Muslims given Indian Citizenship under Modi government: Amit Shah informs Rajya Sabha during CAB debate

The Citizenship Amendment Act aims to specifically expedite the citizenship process for persecuted minorities from neighbouring Islamic nations, however, that does not stop anyone else to apply for citizenship, just like Adnan Sami did.

Gujarat: Congress leader Hardik Patel arrested for failing to appear before trial court in sedition case, sent to judicial custody

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Gujarat: Congress leader Hardik Patel arrested for failing to appear before trial court in sedition case, sent to judicial custody

Controversial Congress leader Hardik Patel was arrested on Saturday night in Ahmedabad for failing to appear before a trial court in connection with a sedition case. He has been sent to judicial custody till January 24.

According to the reports, Hardik Patel was arrested near Viramgam in Ahmedabad on Saturday after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him in the case.


Earlier, Ahmedabad sessions court had issued an arrest warrant after Patel repeatedly missed the trial of the case registered against him in 2015 during the violent agitation for quota for the Patidar community.

Read: Man who slapped Hardik Patel at a rally in Gujarat explains why he did it

Hardik Patel was booked by the Crime Branch in 2015 under sedition charges over his provocative remarks where he had allegedly asked his supporters to kill policemen rather than commit suicide for the cause of reservation.

However, Patel had asserted that there was no evidence against him in the charge-sheet filed by the Crime Branch with regard to criminal conspiracy and inciting people to dislodge the government during the violent agitation that followed August 25, 2015 gathering by Patidar community.

Read: Hardik Patel, the face of Patidar agitation has been found guilty for causing a riot, sentenced for two years in jail

In a big setback, Hardik Patel, the face of Patidar agitation in Gujarat, was barred from contesting the 2019 elections as he was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in prison by the High Court in a case of rioting and arson in Visnagar town in 2015. The high court in August 2018 suspended the sentence of 2 years in prison but not the conviction.

“Even after your 10 generations you will not be able to match the courage of Savarkar”: Smriti Irani tears into Rahul Gandhi for his remark

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“Even after your 10 generations you will not be able to match the courage of Savarkar”: Smriti Irani tears into Rahul Gandhi for his remark

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday launched a scathing attack on senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his last month’s ‘Rahul Savarkar’ remark. Addressing a public gathering in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, Smriti Irani took a shot at the Wayanad MP saying that even after ten generations, Rahul Gandhi will not be able to match the courage of Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar.


Defiant to apologise for his sexist and insensitive ‘Rape in India’ comment, mocking the violent crimes against women by twisting the ‘make in India’ slogan originally intended to promote growth and economic development in the country, the Gandhi-scion Rahul Gandhi last month during the ‘Bharat Bachao’ rally in Delhi had said, “My name is not Rahul Savarkar, won’t apologise for the truth”, alluding to Savarkar’s alleged apology to the British seeking an early release from Andaman jail.

The Congress leader had opened a whole new can of worms for himself when he shamelessly invoked Savarkar alongside his ridiculous ‘Rape in India’ comment.

Furious at Rahul Gandhi over his outrageous remark, Ranjit Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s grandson had then tore into the senior Congress leader saying that he should be beaten in public by the Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray for his offensive comment.

Today, Shiv Sena’s (Congress’ new alliance partner) leader Sanjay Raut also launched an attack on the Congress party, especially Gandhi-scion Rahul Gandhi for ridiculing nationalist hero Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Speaking to the media, Shiv Sena RS member Sanjay Raut today said: “Those who oppose Veer Savarkar, they may be from any ideology or party, let them stay for just two days at the cell in Andaman cellular jail where Savarkar was lodged. Only then will they realize his sacrifice and his contribution to the nation.”

Congress has on several occasions attempted to malign Veer Savarkar’s contributions to India’s freedom by branding him as a “loyal colonialist”.

Earlier this month, a group affiliated to the Congress had distributed booklets titled Veer Savarkar, Kitne Veer?’ in one of its workshops. The booklet had claimed that co-founder of Hindu Mahasabha Veer Savarkar had a physical relationship with Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin. Both Shiva Sena and NCP both urged the Congress to withdraw the booklet.

The BJP, which is the opposition party in the state had slammed the ruling coalition in the state for vilifying Veer Savarkar. Former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had slammed Shiv Sena for its silence over the anti-Savarkar tirade by Congress and had said that the “Tiger has turned into a cat”.

Maharashtra: Ayurvedic doctor Sayyed Abdul Rehman Khan detained for sending threating letter in Urdu with ‘poisonous chemical’ to Sadhvi Pragya

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Maharashtra: Ayurvedic doctor Sayyed Abdul Rehman Khan detained for sending threating letter in Urdu with ‘poisonous chemical’ to Sadhvi Pragya

The Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) detained an ayurvedic doctor from Nanded district of Maharashtra on Thursday after BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur alleged that she received an envelope containing poisonous chemicals in it. The police have reportedly confiscated the envelope from her residence that carried a letter written in Urdu.

The letter was sent in October, but as Sadhvi Pragya was not present in Bhopal at that time, the envelope was not opened, as letters personally addressed to the MP are opened only on her presence. The envelope was opened on January 13, and it contained a letter in Urdu, a plastic pouch with some chemical adhesive which caused a burning sensation, and some other papers.

According to Nanded police inspector Pradeep Kakade, one Dr Sayyed Abdul Rehman Khan (35), who operated a clinic in Dhanegaon village in Nanded was arrested by the MP ATS for allegedly sending a suspicious envelope to the Bhopal MP.

Kakade mentioned that the police had kept him under surveillance by tracking his mobile phone location for the last few months, as he had sent similar letters to other politicians and government officials too in the past. However, he would not take his phone with him while travelling to different cities such as Nanded, Nagpur, Pune and Aurangabad to post the letters to Sadhvi. In addition, Kakade claimed that Khan had been in dispute with his brother and was arrested for being involved in violent fights.

The letter written in Urdu mentioned a group called Ansarul Musalmeen, whose men had been assigned the task to eliminate Thakur and later carry out 26/11 and Pulwama style terror attacks. In the same letter, the doctor had written that his brother was a member of this terror group and he was among those assigned the task.

The letter also alleged that his brother and mother wanted to harm Pragya Thakur, and they had got him arrested in an attempt to murder case.

A police case was lodged under charges of criminal intimidation and deliberately causing grievous hurt after Sadhvi Pragya filed a complaint at Kamla Nagar police station, Bhopal.

Read- Congress MLA threatens to burn Sadhvi Pragya alive if she sets foot in Madhya Pradesh

According to police sources, doctor Sayyed Abdul Rahman Khan did all these to frame his brother and mother in a false terror case. That’s why he had sent the letters from Pune, where his brother lives, and mentioned his brother and mother in the letter. He had also included copies of his brother’s documents and his mother’s identity card, so that the police investigation is directed at them. According to police, the earlier letters sent by Dr Sayyed to others also tried to frame his brother and mother in false terror cases.

Initial reports had claimed that the envelope also had crossed out photos of Thakur, PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, with a message stating that the MP had “insulted Mahatma Gandhi and the former Mumbai’s Anti Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare”.

However, Thakur had then said that the letters may have been sent by terrorists and that she is not intimidated by such tactics.

Sadhvi Pragya had often attracted criticism and ire from a section of people for her tendentious remarks. Recently, BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya was seen in her constituency, Bhopal, interacting with the people for spreading awareness about the Citizenship Amendment Act. Sadhvi participated in BJP’s door-to-door campaign where she distributed pamphlets in support of the Citizenship Law. She had then asserted that Madhya Pradesh will have to implement the law.

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