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Pakistan hails ‘Muslim journalist Rana Ayyub’ for ‘exposing Fascist Modi’ on Kashmir and CAA, uses her to target ‘Brahmin Hindus’

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Pakistan hails ‘Muslim journalist Rana Ayyub’ for ‘exposing Fascist Modi’ on Kashmir and CAA, uses her to target ‘Brahmin Hindus’

It is no secret that certain Indian journalists have often worked to further Pakistan’s cause. It is also no secret that these journalists are often hailed by Pakistan for working inadvertently against the cause of India. Following the same pattern, the Pakistan Information Ministry today hailed ‘Muslim journalist Rana Ayyub’ for ‘exposing the fascist agenda of the Modi government’.

Tweet by Pakistan Information Ministry

The Pakistan Information Ministry’s official handle said that Special Assistant on Information and Broadcast, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan had praised “Muslim woman journalist” Rana Ayyub for exposing the “fascist agenda of Modi”.

This appreciation received by Muslim journalist Rana Ayyub came after Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan tweeted a “news video” praising Rana Ayyub.

She tweeted, “Raising and challenging the voice of brave people against oppression and oppression has always been a bright and memorable chapter in history. The courage that Indian Muslim female journalist Rana Ayub performed in her professional duties is worthy of praise”.


Calling Kashmir “Indian Occupied”, she hailed Rana Ayyub for exposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In the video plugged by Firdous Ashiq Awan, the video starts by hailing Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Nelson Mandela for fighting against oppression. Then, it goes on to put Rana Ayyub in the same league as Jinnah to say that the recent example of a journalist trying to fight oppression. It says that an example of an oppressive state in the modern world is India, alluding the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir and Citizenship Amendment Act which seeks to give citizenship to persecuted minorities from the oppressive Islamic countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

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

It then goes on to talk about the reason why the “brave” “Muslim journalist” is being hailed by the terror state of Pakistan.

Recently, controversial journalist Rana Ayyub illegally smuggled a foreign journalist in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir to report on the situation in the valley in the aftermath of the abrogation of Article 370. Journalist Dexter Filkins, in his article on the New Yorker, had brazenly admitted that he was illegally snuck into Kashmir by Ayyub.

Read: Showing complete disregard for law of the land, ‘journalist’ Rana Ayyub illegally smuggles a foreign journalist in Kashmir for New Yorker article

Filkins writes that he was invited by Rana Ayyub to Mumbai, from where they would try to get into Kashmir in blatant disregard to the Indian government’s order banning the foreign correspondents in Kashmir. The scribe mentions that Rana handed him a pair of scarves and told him to buy a kurta, the typical Indian tunic, to ‘disguise’ himself as an Indian. “I am ninety-nine per cent sure you will be caught, but you should come anyway. Just don’t open your mouth,” Filkins quoted Rana in his article.

Filkins further mentions in the article that when they landed at the Srinagar airport, Rana hustled him away without getting him enrolled at the “Registration for Foreigners” desk. Taking advantage of the milling policemen and commotion at the airport, Filkins and Rana made it to the curb without being noticed and vamoosed for Srinagar.

Read: From ridiculous conspiracy theories to incredulous lies: 12 lies spread by The New Yorker in its anti-Modi propaganda piece

This act by Rana and Filkins clearly violated the laws mandated by the Indian Government. According to Foreigners Order 1958, foreign nationals, tourists as well as journalists, required prior government permit to enter “restricted areas” or “protected areas”.

Unsurprisingly, the video then says that “given the history of Brahmin Hindus in India, CJ Post fears for the life of Rana Ayyub”. The Brahmin and Hindu hatred is nothing new for Pakistan or even for their soul sisters like Rana Ayyub. However, as dumb as Pakistan propaganda is, by deriding Brahmins and Hindus in general, they only exposed why an Act like the Citizenship Amendment Act is necessary in the first place.

Read: AltNews’ Pratik Sinha helps New Yorker water down Pulwama attack, cast aspersions that Balakot airstrike was fabricated

The result was a lie-ridden article by The New Yorker that had even quoted self-proclaimed fact-checker and closet Islamist Pratik Sinha.

Interestingly, the video that has been plugged by Pakistan is of a channel called “CJ Post”. The video’s narration is by a man who talks in an American accent giving the impression that the “news report” is by a foreign channel. However, it was back in 2017 that we had exposed how this channel is only a Pakistani propaganda front.

Read: How fake websites are being used by Pakistan to burn India in caste wars

It is rather evident that Rana Ayyub and Pakistan find common ground in not only their blind hate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi but also their hatred for Hindus and India. In fact, the fact that Pakistan referred to Rana Ayyub as a “Muslim journalist” fearing “Brahmin Hindus” itself points towards their shameless, collective bile.

Read: Supreme Court trashes Rana Ayyub’s Gujarat book, says it is based upon surmises, conjectures, and suppositions

Interestingly, Rana Ayyub’s controversial book-‘Gujarat Files’, which was trashed by the Supreme Court of India as a book based on conjectures, surmises and suppositions also targeted Narendra Modi based on pure lies, a cause that Ayyub and Pakistan have in common. After the anti-CAA riots by Muslim mobs, Rana Ayyub had also gone live on a news channel and lied that Muslims were protesting peacefully, thus, exposing another thread common between Pakistan and her – lying for the sake of Ummah.

Viral video: Maulvi threatens Amit Shah, says ‘even those Muslims who have not had Khatna yet are not afraid of Modi govt’

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Viral video: Maulvi threatens Amit Shah, says ‘even those Muslims who have not had Khatna yet are not afraid of Modi govt’

In an undated video which has gone viral on social media now, an Islamist Maulavi threatens Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah by claiming that even those Muslims who have not yet had ‘Khatna’ (circumcision) do not fear the Modi government.


“We respect Baba Ambedkar. We are here to protect to Constitution written by Baba Saheb Ambedkar. That ‘Aate ka Thaila’ (Sack of Wheat) Amit Shah said that Muslims do not have to fear. You (Amit Shah) should know that even those Muslims who have not had ‘Khatna’ (circumcision) yet are not afraid of you. Muslim children who do not how to pass their urine yet are not afraid of you. Muslims do not fear for you,” says rabid hate-monger Maulavi.

The Maulavi was responding to the assurances given by the Home Minister Amit Shah on the floor of parliament during the passage of Citizenship Amendment Act on December 11, stating that Muslims of the country need to not worry or fear about CAA, as the law does not affect the Muslim population of the country.

Dressed in a brownish-green attire with an Islamic headgear, Maulavi threatened violence against BJP and RSS workers by claiming that if Muslims hit the streets then BJP, RSS workers will be stripped of their clothes.

“We will show you the real picture, Inshallah. The Hindustan flag has three colours representing various religion. If they try to remove the Muslim (Green colour) from the flag and if Modi, Amit Shah and Yogi try to reach to the lowermost colour of the Indian flag, there is always a pole (Danda) attached to it. We will hit the BJP, RSS using that Danda in such a manner that their pants will be stripped off,” said the rabid Maulavi while trying to incite violence.

Read: 2019 anti-CAA protests: 9 visuals that prove they were motivated by deep-seated anti-Hindu bigotry and Islamic extremism

Taking his threats to abusive and derogatory levels, the Maulvi then declares that from the cloth that makes a single turban for a Muslim, they can make undergarments for 25 RSS members. The hatred, bigotry and open threats in his speech are indeed in a funny contrast with the relentless ‘minorities are in fear’ in India narrative.

Ever since the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed by the Modi government, Islamists, who are backed by opposition parties and “liberal-secular” media have unleashed violence across the country. The violence which started in West Bengal after Friday prayers at local mosques had soon spread to parts of Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, where Muslims resorted to riots, violence, arson and vandalism in the name of ‘protests’ against the enactment of the CAA.

Ironically, the CAA does not even concern Indian citizens, be it Muslims or any other community. However, in the name of protests, the Islamist groups have been exposing their anti-Hindu hatred openly.

Uttar Pradesh: SIT books 33 persons for provoking children to pelt stones at police during anti-CAA riots

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Uttar Pradesh: SIT books 33 persons for provoking children to pelt stones at police during anti-CAA riots

The SIT probing the anti-CAA violences in Uttar Pradesh has charged 33 arrested people for provoking children to pelt stones during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act last month. Uttar Pradesh was one of the worst-hit by the anti-CAA riots in which Muslim mobs ran amok damaging public property and injuring police personnel and innocent civilians. During the clashes, several minors were seen throwing stones at the policemen and vandalizing properties.

According to an official, an additional charge under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, has been imposed on 33 people who were arrested earlier for allegedly indulging in violence during the clashes that broke out on 20 December last month in Uttar Pradesh.

This section was added after receiving permission from Chief Judicial Magistrate Ravikant Yadav.

These 33 accused were found to have provoked minors to throw stones during the clashes with police, the official claimed, adding that all of them were earlier charged under various sections of the IPC.

Read- Anti-CAA riots: ‘Liberals’ brought back the ‘urban riot’, but Yogi Adityanath might have a solution

Incidentally, in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district too kids as young as seven years old were part of the mob which pelted stones at the police during the anti-CAA riots last month. The SP had then revealed that kids and teenagers between the age of 7 to 15 years who had no idea regarding CAA or NRC pelted stones at policemen and damaged police vehicles.

Meanwhile, a senior lawyer Chandraveer Singh informed that the sections of the Juvenile Act, 2015 were invoked as there were no such provision in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to book people for such offences.

Violent incidents of stone-pelting, vandalism, and arson had been reported from Bulandshahr, Muzaffarpur, Kanpur, Hamirpur, Firozabad, Hapur, Bahraich and several other places in Uttar Pradesh on December 20.

Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar had also taken a violent turn as protesters set vehicles on fire. Following the violent protests, the Uttar Pradesh police had registered cases against several accused persons.

Read- Anti-CAA riots: Uttar Pradesh police releases CCTV videos of rioters shooting at cops in Meerut

As many as 47 cases were registered at Nagar Kotwali and Civil Lines police stations, in which more than 250 people were named. Police have arrested more 80 people so far in the matter.

Condemning the violence and protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in parts of Uttar Pradesh and parts of the country, chief minister Yogi Adityanath had said that people cannot indulge in violence in the “name of protests”. The UP CM had assured that strict actions will be taken against hoodlums who have been trying to create unrest in his state and various parts of the country.

Merely a few days after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced tough measures to combat the anti-CAA rioters and promised to seize the property of every rioter and use its funds to repair the damaged public property, the Uttar Pradesh administration had sealed 50 shops belonging to rioters in Muzaffarnagar who caused damage to public property. The sealed shops are all in the trouble-hit Minakshi Chowk and Kachchi Sadak areas of the town.

Assault on RSS man Varun after pro-CAA rally: 6 SDPI supporters arrested, had planned to target Tejasvi Surya

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Assault on RSS man Varun after pro-CAA rally: 6 SDPI supporters arrested, had planned to target Tejasvi Surya

Six supporters of the Social Democratic Party of India(SDPI) have been arrested by the Bengaluru police on Friday in connection with an attack on a BJP-RSS supporter during the pro-CAA rally held in Bengaluru on December 22, 2019.


According to reports, RSS worker-Varun was attacked by the assailants when he was returning after attending the rally in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act on December 22, 2019. The culprits were identified following a thorough investigation by the Bengaluru police. The report states that identities of over 800 people were matched and cross-checked in order to establish the identity of the miscreants.

A case has been filed against the arrested under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code. A Special Investigation Team is being constituted by Bengaluru police to handle this case.

Varun was stabbed with sharp weapons. He was admitted in hospital with a skull fracture and other injuries.

Speaking about the arrest, Bengaluru Commissioner of Police, Bhaskar Rao said, “There were 6 people belonging to SDPI who were tasked with the responsibility of carrying out attacks against the leaders supporting the Citizenship Amendment Act. They were paid Rs 10000 by their handlers to create a commotion here. The Anti-Terror Unit will handle this case now.”

The Commissioner also added that the 6 SDPI supporters who were asked to create panic in the city had no contact with the Muslim community leaders in the city.

“We have CCTV footage and videos to back our claims. We will not let any terror module to operate here in Bengaluru. These guys used helmets to conceal their identity and mobile phones were recovered from them,” Rao said.

“Their objective was fuel panic during the pro CAA rally. All of them have been arrested. The investigation is underway to determine if there were others who supported these 6 SDPI supporters. We will not leave anyone. Their goal was to kill a Hindu leader, primarily Hindu activists. Stones were pelted during the rally too,” he added.

Times Now has stated citing sources that though the mastermind of the attack is yet to be identified, the police suspect that the attack was originally planned on Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya. Varun was attacked because the attackers could not get close to Surya due to the presence of security personnel around him.

Bru people will be no longer refugees in their own country, historic agreement signed to permanently settle them in Tripura

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Bru people will be no longer refugees in their own country, historic agreement signed to permanently settle them in Tripura

On Tuesday, the Home Ministry announced that it has brought to an end a 23-year old wait for over 30000 Bru tribals living in Tripura, after a “historic agreement” had been signed among the union government, the governments of Mizoram and Tripura; and the Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum. According to the agreement, it has been decided that the Bru refugees living in Tripura will not be sent back to Mizoram, but will be settled in Tripura.


The agreement marks a step back for the Modi government, as the union government was trying hard to repatriate the refugees back to their home state. The government had even gone to the extent of stopping their food supply for refusing to go back, but the Bru refugees didn’t budge. In the ninth round repatriation efforts by the union home ministry that started in October last year, less than a thousand people had moved back, among over 33,000 people living in camps in Tripura. In earlier efforts also only a small number of people had gone back.

During the ninth round of repatriation, Mizoram govt had indicated that this will be the last try and there won’t be any more effort to bring the refugees back. The union government had also said that this will be the last effort and after that, the refugee camps in Tripura will be closed down.

In the first week of November, the central govt had stopped food supplies to the six camps where the refugees are living, prompting protests and road blockades by them. The protests were withdrawn a few days later after the Tripura govt promised to resume supplies. The camps are located at Casco, Kahkchand, Hamchapara, Ashapara, Naishingpara and Gachimapara in Kanchanpur and Panisagar sub-divisions of Tripura.

Read- Mizoram Elections: Amid Congress opposition to their voting rights, Bru refugee camps urge political parties to stay away

The Bru people, also known as Reang, were apprehensive about their security in Mizoram, and therefore were not willing to go back. Moreover, they had demanded that they should be settled in a contiguous area in Mizoram for their own safety, integrity, unity, preservation of culture, language and identity. But Mizo organisations were opposing this and as a result, the Mizoram government could not fulfil this demand. It may be noted that majority people in the Bru tribe are Hindus, while the Mizoram is a Christian majority state.

The Brus had escaped from Mizoram following large-scale violence against them in 1997. The violence had started after a Mizo Forest Official was killed by Bru National Liberation Front’s militants. Repatriation of Bru people to Mizoram was started in 2010, and around 1600 families were resettled in the state, but the process was stopped after Mizo organisations started protesting. The people in camps also expressed fear in going back. Since then, they are living in Tripura, with financial and other assistance from the central government.

Till recently the central government was insisting that the Bru people living in Tripura will have to go back to Mizoram, therefore the agreement yesterday came as a surprise. Now the refugees will be allowed to settle in Tripura, they will no longer have to live in refugee camps. Tripura is their natural home as the largest number of Bru people, known as Reangs in Tripura, live in the state. According to the census of 2011, there were around 1.9 lakh Reangs in Tripura, making it the second-largest Tribal group after the Tripuris. Around 40,000 people from the tribe still live in Mizoram, and a smaller number of people from the community live in southern Assam.

Earlier Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb had written to the Union home ministry offering to settle the Bru people in the state. Deb had written that 5,082 families continue to live in camps as they refuse to go back to Mizoram, and hence they should be allowed to settle in Tripura. Tripura’s royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarma had also said that the displaced people should be provided land in Tripura, as they were original inhabitants of the state. “If you can accept lakhs and lakhs of people from another country (Bangladesh), then why can’t you accept the Brus who were natives of Tripura until being displaced by the Dumbur hydro-electric plant,” Debbarma had said. Former Tripura Congress chief Pradyot Manikya had also favoured settling them in Tripura. He had said, “Tripura has enough place to accommodate Reang people. This is your land and nobody can force you to quit from here,” while visiting the camps last year.

According to the agreement signed yesterday, the displaced families will be given 40×30 square feet residential plots, fixed deposit of Rs 4 lakhs, case aid of Rs 5,000 per month for two years, free ration for two years and Rs 1.5 lakh aid to build their house. The central government has sanctioned a package of Rs 600 crore for this purpose. The refugees will now enjoy complete rights as citizens, including voting rights. They will also get Tribal status in the state, and the Tripura government will arrange for documents for them like ration cards, Aadhaar etc. The Tripura government will hold a census at the camps within the next 15 days to ascertain the exact number of Bru refugees living there.

While they were living in camps, their names were in the voter lists of Mizoram, and it was very difficult for them to vote during elections. Earlier the Election Commission had arranged for them to vote in nearby border areas in Mizoram, but that was not allowed by the Mizoram govt during the last assembly election, insisting that the voters must come to their constituencies to cast their votes. This episode had even resulted in the removal of the chief electoral officer of Mizoram after the Mizo organisations and the Congress govt had revolted against him claiming that he was planning to set up polling booths inside the camps in Tripura.

‘Journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai’s propaganda against Modi govt on JNU fracas gets endorsement from Pakistan minister

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‘Journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai’s propaganda against Modi govt on JNU fracas gets endorsement from Pakistan minister

Ever since PM Modi returned to power after a resounding victory in 2019, there seems to be a synchronisation of thoughts and ideas among certain people in the Indian ‘Liberal-secular” media and the Pakistan establishment. A propaganda article in Hindustan Times written by Rajdeep Sardesai – one of the subcontinent’s biggest fake news peddlers, has got resounding support from the Pakistan establishment, as it is now being used to further anti-India propaganda.

On Thursday, Rajdeep Sardesai – the Michealangelo of Indian journalism, wrote an article concerning the recent violent protests that took place inside the JNU campus on January 5 and has unsurprisingly blamed the Modi government for all the controversies surrounding the university.

Implying that the Modi government has tried to hijack educational institutions, Sardesai wrote that PM Modi has brought his “Gujarat Model” to the national capital to suppress dissent in universities, especially in JNU.

Read: Placards calling Batla House encounter ‘fake’ spotted at JNU protests against Shashi Tharoor’s ‘Islamophobia’

According to him, the Modi government through the “Gujarat Model” is stifling dissent through a system of “control” on these universities through untrammelled state power. Sardesai wrote that a calculated attempt to stifle all forms of dissent on the campus in the name of enforcing discipline is being done by the Modi government in recent times, which he refers to it as “Gujarat Model”.

To make that ridiculous assertions, Rajdeep Sardesai wrote about an incident that took place in MS University, Vadodra in 2007 in which a group of VHP activists had allegedly attacked a student, Chandramohan, after they found that his paintings offended their religious sentiments. In his article, Rajdeep said that the police arrested the artist and threatened the faculty with an FIR for standing in support of Chandramohan. According to Rajdeep, the VHP activists were let off by the police, which he declares as part of the so-called ‘Gujarat Model’. Interestingly, Rajdeep is downright dishonest in connecting this with the then Gujarat CM Modi, since VHP was actually dessimated rather effectively by Modi in Gujarat and was in noway connected to BJP.

Read: Traitors of JNU, Nothing will be forgotten: Naxal-style poster seeking revenge on non-left professors and alumni put up inside JNU

Falaciously rawing a parallel between the 2007 Gujarat incident and the JNU incident, in which left-wing students had unleashed violence against students inside the campus on January 5, Rajdeep Sardesai not only tried to absolve the crimes of the left-wing students but also declares them as the ‘victims’. Sardesai subtly hinted that the left-wing students were the ones who got attacked inside the university and it was wrong on part of Delhi police to register a case against the seven left-wing students for unleashing violence inside the university. He, of course, completely misses how the violence was started by the Left after they vandalised the server room and did not allow students to register for the new semester.

Further, Rajdeep Sardesai claimed that de-politicisation of the campus and stifling of dissent is one of the characteristics of the ‘Gujarat Model’, which according to Rajdeep, is now being pushed onto other campuses across the country by the Modi government. He wrote that the conscious de-politicisation of the campus has not been done with the idea of raising academic standards, but to prevent the student community from mobilising on contentious issues.

Read: ‘Mea culpa’: Rajdeep Sardesai finally admits Modi wasn’t responsible for 2002 and that media sensationalised the riots

However, he himself contradicts on the issue of de-politicisation as he claimed that the Vice-Chancellors are being chosen solely on the basis of their loyalty to the ruling party. He then peddled half-truths that even private universities in Gujarat cannot resist any political pressure these days, which according to Sardesai happened after Ahmedabad University was forced to withdraw the appointment of the writer of “Gandhi fiction” Ramachandra Guha.

According to Rajdeep Sardesai, Guha, who claims to have written biography on MK Gandhi, must be allowed to teach in a university in a state as it is the birth state of Gandhi. Guha being a biographer of Gandhi and not teaching in Gujarat, a land where MK Gandhi was born, was a sign of excessive state control on universities as per Rajdeep Sardesai standards.

Essentially, what Rajdeep meant by ‘de-politicisation’ of the campus was essentially that only professors who support his political thinking and the Congress should be appointed.

Read: Professors joined leftists in harassing students, media largely focused on one side: ABVP student speaks to OpIndia on JNU violence

The most bizarre part of the entire argument of Rajdeep Sardesai to justify the JNU riots came from that fact that there was no wrong in JNU left-wing students carrying out violent protest inside the campus against the fee hike as PM Narendra Modi had himself been a part of the Nav Nirman Andolan, which began in 1973, a student protest march against a 20% hike in hostel food fees, an agitation that rapidly spread across the state.

“Today, it is likely that the student protesters of the 1970s would be dubbed by the government as “urban Naxals”, “tukde tukde gang” and “anti-nationals” who need to be packed-off to Pakistan. Where once the space for dissent was valued, and even supported, today any contrarian view attracts instant vilification. Where once taking a political stand was encouraged, today students are being pushed to abandon any form of political activity by the same leaders who claim to have emerged from the embryo of student politics,” wrote Sardesai.

Read: Radical Left Congress: Where treason and ‘bharat tere tukde honge’ is acceptable, but free speech on Social Media is not

However, what Sardesai carefully omitted that the protests that often take place inside the JNU campus resonate with anti-India propaganda, as chants of ‘Aazadi’ and Pro-Pakistan slogans appear often inside the campus while PM Modi’s student protests were a mere protest to address a grievance rather than challenging the sovereignty of the country as it happens in JNU regularly.

Unsurprisingly, the fake propaganda of Rajdeep Sardesai found resonance with Pakistani establishment as Pakistan Minister Fawad Chaudhary, who is otherwise known to be one of the most deranged men, supported the propaganda and shared it on social media to further anti-India hatred.


It is not surprising to see the nexus between “liberal-secular” media, certain opposition parties and Pakistani establishment, as lately it is evident with certain political parties, the intelligentsia are openly willing to join hands with Pakistan if it helped them to discredit the Modi government. The terrorist state of Pakistan welcomes any such anti-India propaganda that emanates from within India and are happy to support the narrative.

It was also recently evident after a ‘Free Kashmir’ placard was spotted at the protests in Mumbai and Pakistan was quick to join the narrative to take advantage out of the incident. Reacting to the protests, DGISPR of Pakistan Asif Ghafoor declared the placards were a sign that it was the ‘beginning of the end’ for India. In his tweet, he also claimed that Kashmir is Pakistan.

Read: As Islamist mobs set buses on fire and attack temples to oppose CAA, Rajdeep Sardesai paints them all as peaceful and patriotic

Ever since Article 370 was abrogated and later with the passing of Citizenship Amendment Act, the Pakistan establishment have successfully used the anti-Indian voices that emanate within the country to target India globally. Shockingly, the “liberal-secular” media establishment consciously or unconsciously play it to the hands of Pakistan by supporting these anti-India ‘protests’ and protestors who often shout anti-India slogans and controversial Islamic slogans, in the same voice as Pakistan.

At an event remembering Rohith Vemula, Bandra Christian priest expresses solidarity with protesters chanting ‘Joote Maro Sanghiyon Ko’

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At an event remembering Rohith Vemula, Bandra Christian priest expresses solidarity with protesters chanting ‘Joote Maro Sanghiyon Ko’

At Chaityabhoomi in Mumbai’s Dadar, a programme was organized in memory of Rohith Vemula. The programme looked more like an anti-CAA protest than a gathering in memory of Rohith Vemula, a PhD student of the University of Hyderabad who had committed suicide in 2015. At this gathering, there were chants of Azaadi and the protesters also sung songs against the RSS. Inciting violence, the protestors also chanted slogans like ‘Joote Maro Sanghiyon Ko’.

The programme was organized by the Joint Action Committee For Social Justice, Maharashtra. There were activists of the Samara Kala Manch singing anti-RSS and anti-BJP songs.

Pamphlet about the protest

One of the policemen present there said that the organisers have not obtained any previous permission for the programme.

Amid all chants, a Christian priest from Bandra addressed the gathering. He expressed solidarity with the protesters on behalf of the Christian community in India. Father said in his address that we are long past the partition and we don’t need to make reparation for partition now by bringing such laws.

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He also said that this gathering is for talking against discrimination against all communities like Dalits and Adivasis. He said that the in last five years Adivasis in Jharkhand were discriminated against and they have spoken through the ballot and changed the govt.

Read: Rohith’s suicide note: What the leftists don’t want to read

Father also said that if NRC is implemented, with the religious discrimination possibilities, we will have divisions in Indian society that will cause real description in our lives.

The Christian priest said that he is happy that the young people of the country have taken up the cause of opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act. He said that CAA might have been framed with good intentions in mind, but it is for them to tell the government that the partition is the past and laws like CAA are not required.

Interestingly, the Christian priest was present when slogans inciting violence were raised. The crowd was heard chanting ‘Joote Maro Sanghiyon Ko’ and ‘Joote Maaro ABVP Ko’ were heard.

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Further, the protestors terms ‘Sanghis’ as ‘Hitler Ki Aulad’ and urged the crowd to beat ‘Sanghis’ up with shoes. There were also heard chanting slogans against “Brahmanvadis” and “Sanatanis”.

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This address by the Bandra Christian priest raises some serious questions. Is the Church making a political statement? Are these protests backed by the Church? The presence of a priest in this Dadar gathering has made clear indications that the church might be actively involved in protests against the Modi govt.

Read: Rohith’s father blows the lid over his caste, says his son was “murdered”, attacks vulture politics

There were chants of ‘Kashmir tum Sangharsh Karo, Hum Tumhare Sath hai’. It is strange to see such chants supporting secessionists in Kashmir raised in a gathering to remember Rohith Vemula. One must ask if the Church support secessionists in Kashmir? Pamphlets saying ‘claim the lands for all oppressed!’ were also circulated in the gathering.

One wonders what exactly was going on in the gathering that was supposed to be in memory of Rohith Vemula? Who are these people fueling protests across the country? Is the Church supporting protests against an act that gives citizenship to persecuted Christian too? Is this all for a just cause or just to oppose the Modi govt that was once again elected with a huge mandate in 2019?

Meet Neeta Sodha: Granted Indian citizenship 18 years after she came from Pakistan, contesting Panchayat elections in Rajasthan

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Meet Neeta Sodha: Granted Indian citizenship 18 years after she came from Pakistan, contesting Panchayat elections in Rajasthan

Gram Panchayat elections were held yesterday in Rajasthan’s Tonk district. Neeta Sodha, a Pakistani immigrant, contested the polls for the post of the Sarpanch. Her father-in-law, Thakur Laxman Karan, has been the Sarpanch thrice. She cites him as the mentor and source of her inspiration behind the decision.


Neeta studied till Class 12th in Sindh before migrating to India in 2001. She was accompanied by her sister Anjana Sodha and her mother. However, her brother and father had stayed back in Pakistan. Her family hails from Mirpur Khas in Sindh, Pakistan.

Neeta Sodha came to India to pursue higher education and studied at Ajmer’s Sophia College. She graduated with a BA degree in 2005. As reported by Gulf News, Neeta got married in 2011 and has two children. After having lived in India for 18 years, Neeta was finally granted citizenship in September 2019.

Neeta is now contesting elections for the Sarpanch post in the Natwara Gram Panchayat. She wants to work towards achieving better healthcare, education, and women empowerment. She says she will work towards the economic empowerment of women in her village.

Read: Muslim student in Pakistan confesses he cooked up blasphemy charges against Hindu principal which led to violence on Hindus

When asked about her experience, she said that educational facilities and living conditions for women are better in India than Pakistan. She also acknowledged the overwhelming support that she has received in India.

This story comes to light at a time when the nation is embroiled in a heated debate surrounding the National Register of Citizens (NRC), National Population Register (NPR) and the Citizenship Act.

Viral video: Rajasthan SDM yells, calls on-duty doctor ‘mentally unstable’ for refusing to vacate his own seat for her

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Viral video: Rajasthan SDM yells, calls on-duty doctor ‘mentally unstable’ for refusing to vacate his own seat for her

In a video that has gone viral on social media, a visiting SDM was seen yelling at an on-duty doctor and calling him ‘mentally unstable’ while he kept on insisting that he is seeing patients and cannot vacate his seat for her.


In the viral video, the visiting RAS officer, who is reportedly one Priyanka Talania, the SDM of Pilibanga in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district, was seen yelling at an on-duty doctor as he tried to explain politely that he is seeing patients and hence cannot vacate his seat for her.

In the video, patients are seen standing as the SDM, supported by other officials surrounding her, goes on yelling, threatening and calling the doctor ‘mentally unstable’, just because he did not immediately offer her his own seat.

The doctor in the video is reportedly Dr Narendra Bishnoi. Dr Bishnoi was reportedly on-duty in the CHC, Goluwala, in the Hanumangarh district. Dr Bishnoi was seen calm and composed throughout the argument and answered to the yelling SDM that he had offered her a seat but since he is seeing patients who are waiting for him, he will not be able to vacate his own seat for her.

The video went viral on social media and generated thousands of reactions from the public. While a majority of the people hailed the doctor for not being intimidated by a yelling, threatening, senior officer who was clearly out of line, there were also some people who also stated that since the SDM is senior to the doctor in the administrative hierarchy, he should have vacated his own seat for her.


In another video that surfaced later, a CCTV clip from the same CHC showed that when the SDM entered the doctor’s office, (after 5 pm, not before it, as she had claimed), the doctor was seen attending to some patients. Upon the SDM’s entry, the doctor is seen getting up from his seat to greet her and offer her another seat across the table, after which the argument ensues.


The said SDM has now filed a complaint with the District Magistrate against the doctor, stating that she was misbehaved by the doctor when she had gone for an inspection after a complaint. She had added that upon inspecting the registers and files of the hospital, several lapses were found and added that she suspects the doctor has been selling the medicines provided for the patients for his personal gain.


As per reports, the incident has now not only sparked debate and reactions on social media, but after the SDM’s complaint against the doctor, had made doctors react against the SDM’s behaviour too. The Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors has condemned the SDM’s behaviour and has sought an apology.

As per reports, even the Indian Medical Association has condemned the SDM’s behaviour and has sought an apology to the doctor. Local news reports have stated that all medical stores in Goluwala were closed from 11 am to 1 pm on Thursday in protest of the SDM’s behaviour.

Rajdeep Sardesai calls Arif Mohammad Khan a ‘BJP agent’ and ‘rubber stamp’, the Kerala governor shuts him up and how

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Rajdeep Sardesai calls Arif Mohammad Khan a ‘BJP agent’ and ‘rubber stamp’, the Kerala governor shuts him up and how

As the anti-CAA ‘protests’ begins to fizzle out, the “liberal-secular” media seems to be desperate as they are now indulging in bullying and attacking people, especially constitutional heads for not subscribing to their views on the Citizenship Amendment Act. On Thursday, Rajdeep Sardesai, arguably India’s greatest fake news peddler, found an avenue to express his frustration against the Narendra Modi government by inviting Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan to his show to discuss the issue of CAA and the subsequent controversies that have erupted in the state of Kerala.

Kerala is in the middle of a controversy after the Communist-ruled state government bypassed the Governor Arif Mohammed Khan to move to Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act. As Kerala government had failed to consult him before taking such decision, Governor Khan had slammed the state government for not seeking his advice before filing a petition in the apex court challenging CAA.

Rajdeep Sardesai, premising his show on the Kerala controversy, went on to disrespect Arif Mohammad Khan, who is a constitutional head of the state, by calling him a ‘rubber stamp’. Sardesai then claimed that Khan was angry against the Kerala government for bypassing him to file a petition in the SC.

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However, an erudite Arif Mohammad Khan respectfully corrected Rajdeep Sardesai by stating that he was never angry as he only expressed his disappointment towards Kerala government’s decision. Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan said that he is a constitutional head and it is his right to advise the state government. If the state government moves to the SC without informing me, how do I exercise my constitutional right? asked Arif Mohammad Khan

Khan also slammed the Kerala government for passing a resolution against the CAA, a law passed by the parliament of the country. He also said that the Kerala government was trespassing their jurisdiction to pass such resolutions against the law that falls under the purview of the Central government.

Read: Congress MP threatens Governor Arif Mohammad Khan after he denounced anti-CAA resolution passed in Kerala: Read what he said

“They are using time and money to take a stand against the law, which otherwise should be spent on the welfare of the state and not to fight their political battle,” said Khan while attacking the Kerala government.

A visibly irritated Rajdeep Sardesai then insinuated that the Arif Mohammed Khan was objecting against Kerala government exercising its right to file a petition in Supreme Court against the CAA. Khan responded to the accusations by saying that it was his constitutional right to advise the state government on an important issue and the state government cannot hide information from the governor.

Rajdeep Sardesai continued to attack and disrespect Khan by calling a ‘rubber stamp’ governor. Sardesai then subtly advised Governor Khan to toe the line of the Kerala government by merely agreeing to all the decisions of the state government.

As Khan objected to Rajdeep Sardesai’s ‘rubber stamp’ jibe, Sardesai referred Kerala governor Arif Mohammad Khan as a ‘BJP agent’ and attacked him for taking a different stand on the issue of CAA, which was opposite to that of the left-government.

Read: After Marxist Irfan Habib heckled Arif Mohammad Khan, Aligarh Society plays victim, claims ‘democratic dissent’ being stifled

Responding to Rajdeep Sardesai’s disrespectful comments, Arif Mohammad Khan stated that the language used by the journalist was deeply problematic. Slamming Rajdeep for calling him a BJP agent, Khan stated that he was appointed by the President of India and not BJP.

In the garb of asking questions, Sardesai crossed all the limits by expressing his personal hatred towards Arif Mohammad Khan on a live show by calling him a party agent after the latter sought answers from the Kerala government.

Arif Mohammad Khan said that people like Rajdeep Sardesai has not learnt any lessons even after witnessing violent protests during Mandal and Shah Bano years and the after-effects the country had to face due to such protests as the then government had succumbed to the pressure of street protestors. Khan held Rajdeep Sardesai responsible for polarising and creating hatred in the societies.

Read: Deliberately spread fake news, grovel and apologise when caught: Here are 3 instances when Rajdeep Sardesai tendered ‘unconditional apologies’

Later in the show, Rajdeep Sardesai lamented over the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act and claimed that the law has polarised the country. Rajdeep Sardesai also claimed that the CAA was ‘unconstitutional’ as it discriminates people on the basis of religion and also shockingly defended the violent protests that are taking place on streets.

Khan argued with Rajdeep Sardesai by questioning whether Rajdeep Sardesai wanted people to hit to the streets to protest against the constitutionality of the law and asked people to challenge the constitutionality of the law in the court and not on the streets if they felt that the law was constitutional. To which, Rajdeep Sardesai resorted to false propaganda and claimed that people have been on the streets to ‘peacefully’ protest against the CAA.

Read: As Islamist mobs set buses on fire and attack temples to oppose CAA, Rajdeep Sardesai paints them all as peaceful and patriotic

In a hurry to discredit Arif Mohammad Khan and his support for the CAA, Sardesai made false claims stating the protests against the CAA were ‘peaceful’. In fact, the Muslims, who are protesting against the CAA has gone on a rampage ever since the law was passed by the parliament. The Muslim mobs have burnt cities and indulged in large scale violence and had unleashed violence across the country to ‘protest’ against the CAA. Unsurprisingly, Rajdeep Sardesai tried to absolve the crimes of these Muslim mobs by calling them peaceful.

On the live show, Khan also schooled Rajdeep Sardesai for creating a religious divide among the masses of the country by using making it a Hindu-Muslim issue.

Rajdeep Sardesai later claimed that he had visited Shaheen Bagh ‘protests’ in Delhi and claimed that their grievances were ‘genuine’. However, Rajdeep Sardesai did not utter a word regarding how Shaheen Bagh protests are a staged protest and causing huge inconvenience to the residents of Sarita Vihar as the Muslim mobs have occupied highways, bus stops and streets. Rajdeep, however, stated that the protestors had the right to be heard and hinted that the Modi government should listen to the Shaheen Bagh protestors regarding their views on CAA.

Read: Journalists lay the groundwork for ‘tactical retreat’ of Shaheen Bagh protests: Here are the possible reasons

In fact, Rajdeep Sardesai also deliberately ignored Muslim mobs shouting peaceful slogans of “Jinnah Wali Azadi” during the protestors at Shaheen Bagh.

To which, Khan said that he had only one advice for the protestors at Shaheen Bagh that they should avoid getting mislead by people and asked them to study the CAA law which has nothing to do with the Indian Muslims. As Arif Mohammad Khan tried explaining facts, an angry Rajdeep Sardesai resorted to fear-mongering by speculating on NRC. He claimed that CAA and NRC is a deadly combination which could cause divisions in society.

Khan held Rajdeep Sardesai responsible for the Hindu-Muslim polarization in the country and blamed him for spreading false rumours on NRC. He advised Rajdeep Sardesai not to use Hindu-Muslim terminology to create false community consciousness among the masses of the country.

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