The Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath has decided to build India’s first university for the transgender community at Kushinagar district to facilitate the transgender community to study right from class one to PG and even do research and get PhD degree.
Reportedly, the transgender university is being built by the Akhil Bhartiya Kinnar Siksha Seva Trust and will come up in Fazilnagar block of Kushinagar district.
“It is the first of its kind in the country where members of the transgender community will be able to get the education and the process of has already been initiated. From January 15 next year, two children who are brought up by the community members will get admission and from February and March other classes will start,” president of the trust Dr Krishna Mohan Mishra said.
Mishra added, “In the university, the transgender community will be able to study right from class one to PG and even do research and get PhD degree”.
MLA Ganga Singh Kushwaha said members of the community will get the education and will be able to give a new direction to the country. The foundation stone of the school was laid las Sunday in presence of BJP MP Ramapati Ram Tripathi.
The transgender community has welcomed Yogi Adityanath government’s decision and also expressed happiness over the opening of university. Laxmi Narain Tripathi of the Kinnar Akhara welcomed the decision and said that this will help the community members make a life beyond dancing at weddings. Such initiatives help them become self reliant.
“I am happy that we will be educated and get respect in the society. Education has power and I am sure it will not only change our lives but also the lives of others,” said Guddi Kinnar, one of the members of the community.
Even as the Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan was today heckled by leftist historian Irfan Habib for quoting Maulana Abul Kalam Azad during an event today, NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat brazened out the heckling of Khan, calling him an opportunistic alliance.
Lol.. Not agreeing with heckling, but you’re calling a former opportunistic politician now Governor Arif Mohammad Khan a scholar and renowned historian Irfan Habib a pseudo liberal.
Responding to the shock expressed by another journalist Aditya Raj Kaul on the appalling heckling of the Kerala governor by Habib, Gargi flippantly tweeted, “Lol..Not agreeing with heckling, but you’re calling a former opportunistic politician now Governor Arif Mohammad Khan a scholar and renowned historian Irfan Habib a pseudo-liberal”.
Contrary to the claim of the NDTV journalist, Arif Mohammad Khan can’t be called a opportunistic politician. The former Congress leader had resigned from Rajiv Gandhi government and quit the party as he didn’t agree with the Congress government’s decision to overturn the Supreme Court judgement in the Shah Bano case. Khan is a staunch advocate for reforms within the Muslim community, and a vocal supporter of abolition of Tripple Talaq. Khan was the Minister of State for Home in the Rajiv Gandhi government, and if he was opportunistic, he would not have resigned from such an imporatnt ministry over principles.
And for renowned historian Irfan Habib, he is infamous for weaving lies in the Ram Janambhoomi case. He, along with other leftist historians, had said that there was no mention of the dismantling of the temple before 19th century and Ayodhya is Bhudhist-Jain site. It is alleged that while the Muslim parties were ready for a settlement, Irfan Habib and other hisorians didn’t let that happen.
The far-left historian Irfan Habib had attempted to physically disrupt the Kerala Governor during his inaugural address 80th session of the Indian History Congress, and questioned Khan’s right on quoting Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. Habib said that Khan should not quote Azad and instead should cite Nathuram Godse.
The incident pertains to the inaugural meeting of the 80th session of the Indian History Congress held at Kannur University in Kerala today during which Habib had listed down some of his concerns surrounding the Citizenship Amendment Act. But when the governor tried to address those points during his address, Habib impertinently rose from his seat and tried to physically stop the governor from speaking.
Gargi, known for being a pro-Congress journalist, is a prominent NDTV anchor and married to Yusuf Ahmad Ansari. Ansari is the great-grandson of former Congress President Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari. In 2007, Yusuf Ansari wrote a hagiography of Sonia Gandhi titled ‘Triumph of Will’. He was a member of the department of policy planning and coordination of the All India Congress Committee. Ansari contested 2007 Uttar Pradesh assembly election as Congress candidate. It may be noted that many people wrongly assume former vice president Hamid Ansari to be the grandson of Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari, but actually he is the grandson of the brother of the former Congress president.
The Citizenship Amendment Act, after being passed by Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha has created a massive storm in the country. Islamist mobs, actively supported by Congress and other parties like SP have gone on a rampage in several states, with Uttar Pradesh getting the maximum brunt of it. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was in Uttar Pradesh today in order to meet the family of “anti-CAA activist” who was arrested by UP police. When in UP, she alleged that the UP police roughed her up and manhandled her. However, video evidence proves that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was, as usual, spreading fake news.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had claimed that when she got down from her car, she was stopped by the police on the way to meet Darapuri’s family, and a female police officer manhandled her and pushed her, causing her to fall.
She further said, “What is the reason for stopping us, that too in the middle of the city? This is not an issue of the SPG, but of the Uttar Pradesh Police. There is no point in stopping us. Will you stop (anyone) in the middle of a crossing?” she asked a police official. I was going in a peaceful manner, how was the law-and-order scenario going to deteriorate? I did not tell anyone about this (visit) so that not more than three persons accompany me. They do not have the right to stop me. If they want to arrest me, they should do so.”
The Congress has now released a video trying to prove that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was manhandled by the police. She has claimed that the lady police held her neck and pushed her to the ground. She has also alleged that she was held by her collar. She alleged that this happened twice.
Several people alleged that she was lying. In order to prove that she was not lying, Congress released a video where a woman officer was allegedly seen holding her neck and pushing her to the ground.
Interestingly, however, in the very video released by Congress, one cannot see anybody heckling Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. One can see that a woman officer approached Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and was trying to speak to her.
Screengrab from video released by Congress
After a brief conversation, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s goons can be seen heckling the lady police officer.
Screengrab from video released by Congress
And after the lady police officer was heckled, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra can be seen walking away.
Screengrab from video released by Congress
At no point of time in the video can one see either the lady police officer holding Priyanka Gandhi Vadra by the throat or Priyanka Gandhi Vadra being pushed to the ground and falling as claimed by her.
Despite the video released by Congress itself proving that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra lied blatantly, journalists of different hues have resorted to peddling that lie further instead of asking questions of Congress.
WATCH: To those saying nothing had happened in Lucknow and Priyanka Gandhi was lying about the manhandling, watch this video.
Prashant Kumar is a Congress loyalist who has in the past even hoped for PM Modi to get assassinated. In 2017, Prashant Kumar had posted a controversial tweet in the context of PM Modi appearing on Khadi Village Industries Commission’s (KVIC) calendar and diary. He had alleged that Modi has replaced Gandhi in the merchndise, and had asked how soon a Godse will come.
It is evident that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra lied blatantly and now, Congress has released a video where it is proved that she did in fact lied. However, the Congress loyalists in the media industry are now questioning the UP police instead of questioning Congress and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as to why a politician would lie to malign public servants and law enforcement officers and why her goons heckled a lady police officer.
After the Editors Guild issued a statement condemning a Twitter poll run by BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya, the guild is being slammed by social media users for its selective approach. The Guild had issued the strongly-worded statement after Malviya ran a poll asking whether controversial journalist Rajdeep Sardesai should handle the PR for the terror organisation ISIS.
Now even some journalists have joined the criticism against Editors Guild, accusing it of being biased. Today News18 anchor Amish Devgan posted a tweet saying that the Guild is selectively rising up for journalists. He said that the Editors Guild was silent when he was abused by Congress spokesperson on air. “The Guild must remain consistent,” he added.
Good but why this selectivity in rising up for journalists? The Guild remained silent when I was abused by Congress spokesperson on air. The Guild must remain consistent. https://t.co/bFhtg4ySWr
In July last year, Amish Devgan was abused by Congress spokesperson Rajiv Tyagi during a live TV debate. After Amish had questioned the selective outrage of mob lynchings by the Congress party, Tyagi had verbally abused him by calling him Dalal and Bhadwa (pimp). Despite Amish Devgan urging him to control his language, the Congress leader had continued his abuses.
Commenting on the tweet of Amish, another journalist, Vikas Bhaduria of ABP News, tweeted that the Editors Guild remains silent other than Guild office-bearer issues. It may be noted that Rajdeep Sardesai is a former president of Editors Guild and an Ex-Officio Member of the Executive Council of the Guild.
Several social media users also reminded the Guild that it was silent when a journalist was heckled and abused by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s team.
Journalist was abused, heckled and threatened by Priyanka’s Team. Same Editors Guild was silent.
Editors Guild can speak freely against ruling party but has no spine to speak against Gandhi Family.
In August this year, ABP Ganga reporter Nitish Pandey was blatantly abused, threatened by Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi’s close aide Sandeep Singh for asking questions to Gandhi. But the Editors Guild didn’t issue any statement at that time condemning the incident.
As for the Editor’s Guild, the less said the better. It’s a den of petty media politics.A cosy club of self-serving editors who express selective outrage. Cong targeting Zee News doesn’t qualify as a case worthy of their time. I mailed & called Shekhar Gupta repeatedly. No reply pic.twitter.com/jANEh30qgj
This is not the first time the Editors Guild has been slammed by journalists for being biased. Earlier this year, Zee News Editor in Chief had said that the Guild is a den of petty media politics, a cosy club of self-serving editors who express selective outrage. He had said that despite writing to the Guild regarding the Zee News being targeted by the Congress party, it did not qualify as a case worthy of their time. He has said that he didn’t get any reply even after sending mails and calling Guild President Shekhar Gupta repeatedly.
The attack by left-liberals on Kerala governor Arif Mohmmad Khan for his support to the Citizenship Amendment Act continues as he was heckled by historian Irfan Habib at an event in Kerala today. The left-leaning historian tried to physically disrupt the speech of the governor, even as people in the audience shouted slogans against the governor.
The incident happened at the inaugural meeting of the 80th session of the Indian History Congress held at Kannur University in Kerala today. According to tweets posted by the official Twitter account of the Kerala governor, Irfan Habib had made some points on the CAA. After that, the governor tried to address those points during his address, but at that time Habib rose from his seat and tried to physically stop the governor from speaking.
Irfan Habib also objected to Arif Mohammad Khan quoting Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, and said that the governor should quote Nathuram Godse instead. To this, the governor replied, “is Maulana Azad your personal property? He is ours.” The historian even pushed the governor’s ADC and security officer, who had tried to prevent him from reaching Khan.
As the governor was being heckled on the stage, people in the audience started shouting slogans against him. Shockingly, the police remained a mute spectator to this hooliganism by the historian, which is also a huge security issue.
“Let these people know they can’t shout me down. If I heard them quietly, they must hear me quietly,” Arif Mohmmad Khan said even as several people from the audience were shouting at him. He added that he has the right to respond to issues raised before him. “You will decide whom should I quote?”, he said responding to demands that he should not quote Azad and should quote Godse.
The governor said that he was duty bound to respond to the points made by his previous speakers and defend and protect the constitution, but trying to disrupt his speech from stage and audience due to intolerance towards different opinion is undemocratic.
Earlier, Kerala Congress revoked the invitation sent to the governor to attend the commemoration of former Kerala CM K Karunakaran, following his support for the CAA.
The Congress coteries seem to be as clueless about CAA, NPR and NRC as their supremo Rahul Gandhi. Soon after the Gandhi scion embarked on his deranged rants against CAA, NPR and NRC without understanding the issue at all, a member of AIPC (All India Professionals Congress, a ‘professional wing of INC), one Andria D’Souza aka ‘Ria Revealed’ made a fool of herself when she spectacularly faltered in answering basic questions on NPR on a Times Now debate.
On Friday, Congress member Andria D’Souza, better known by her moniker Ria D’Souza, who claims to be a political analyst, was left googling to figure out basic questions about the chronology of Aadhaar and NPR.
She claimed NPR was first conducted in 2003, to which the Times Now anchor, Rahul Shivshankar pointed out that it was first conducted in 2010. She couldn’t explain how NPR would disturb minorities and was flabbergasted when asked who came up with Aadhaar.
Her denseness left the fellow panellists as well as the anchor in splits. They were all left to ponder as to who out of the two- Ria D’Souza or Rahul Gandhi is the smarter in the flock of birdbrains.
Fellow panellist Shehzad Poonawalla later tweeted: @ProfCong deliberately sent one bright lady member on @TimesNow to “reveal” that Rahul is the smartest they have!
Source based news : @ProfCong deliberately sent one bright lady member on @TimesNow to “reveal” that Rahul is the smartest they have !
RT if you believe this could be true!!
Agar news galat hai to kya Professional Cong Iska khandan kar “Ria” hai?
For the uninitiated, Andria D’Souza, better known as Ria D’Souza, was born and raised in Dubai and was an ‘ace’ commercial art and business management student (as claimed by her in her LinkedIn profile).
SS of ria D’Souza’s now-deleted LinkedIn profile
Claiming to be a proud Congress member, Andria has said that she stands by Rahul Gandhi’s visions (and most certainly, it reflected in the Times Now debate).
SS of Ria D’Souza’s now-deleted LinkedIn profile
Interestingly, Andria D’Souza has had a flourishing career in the entertainment world before she decided to join the Congress. She was an Indian Emirati actress who has acted in films like ‘Kamasutra 3D’ and ‘For Adults Only’ as well as Pakistani serial ‘Maati’. She has also anchored shows for Zee Connect. Currently, Andria is a social media ‘activist’ and an active All India Professional Congress member.
The All India Professionals Congress is a professional wing of Indian National Congress chaired by another established Congress bigwig, Shashi Tharoor. Tharoor also has an equally intriguing past. The former Union minister who has been charged under Sections 498-A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the IPC but has evaded arrested in the case so far, has often been critical of Modi government.
Snapshot from AIPC website terming Shashi Tharoor as Chairman
The ‘Professional Congress’ (yes, paradoxes exist) member, Andria D’Souza, had once found herself in a rather embarrassing situation after it was revealed that she charges Rs 500 for tweeting promotional tweets.
It all started when BJP Delhi spokesperson Tajinder Bagga tweeted in September that the Flipkart Big Billion Sale promotion tweet which Andria had posted was a paid one and that too she was given Rs 500 for the same. The screenshot he shared showed a conversation between two people where a deal was carried out that ‘@riarevealed’ will post a paid tweet for Flipkart for Rs 500. When Andria tweeted the Flipkart Big Billion Sale tweet as mentioned in the conversation, Bagga shared the conversation and added how it is actually his birthday and not Flipkart foundation date as she mentioned in her tweet.
The ‘Kamasurta 3D’ actress then deleted her tweet and had a complete mental breakdown. At first, after deleting her tweet, she posted another tweet with changed date, pretending as if she just made a mistake.
Except, she goofed up here as well because Flipkart Big Billion Day sale for 2019 is between 29th September to 4th October and not between 10th – 14th October as the ‘Adults Only’ star tweeted. The above dates are from 2018.
This is where her meltdown started. When people started mocking how her tweets are up for sale, which could cast aspersions on her genuine support to Congress, she first came up with an excuse that she tweeted it as she wanted a ‘referral code’ for discount. Soon she started indulging in character assassination of Bagga and filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri who had mocked her for making ‘millions’ by trolling him.
A day later, Andria went on to claim how Tajinder Bagga ‘honey trapped’ her ‘manager’ who posted the tweet for Rs 500 ‘without her knowledge’.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, honey trapping is “a stratagem in which an attractive person entices another person into revealing information or doing something unwise.” With this, Ria also revealed (pun intended) her low IQ.
However, Andria’s hard work to quick fame does not end at this. Almost coming across as a threat to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘wisdom’, the Congress’ ‘enlightened’ member had once blamed Prime Minister Modi for an incident of violence that took place in Pakistan.
Andria had quoted a tweet by Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat which reported communal tension in Pakistani town Phuladiyoon where a Hindu doctor was booked over alleged blasphemy charges. The Hindu doctor was accused of burning the Quran.
Ria, however, thought that Prime Minister Modi should be held accountable for this incident in Pakistan. Ria lashed out on PM Modi for the violence in Pakistan and wondered if this was the ‘sabka saath sabka vikas’ he had promised. She even wished the India which voted for Modi ‘good luck’. Again, the incident Ria is holding PM Modi accountable for did not really happen in India.
Moving on, the Kamasutra actress had shot to quick fame after she filed an FIR against Salman Khan’ clothing brand Being Human CEO, alleging that how he abused her physically in November 2017 and attacked her, which led to sensorineural hearing loss in the right ear. Interestingly, in the case, a B Summary report was filed closing the report because the complaint was proved to have no merit. Ria had filed a protest petition against the dismissal of the case. The court had rejected the protest petition as well.
Now, going back to the debate on Times now, Andria D’Souza later took to Twitter claiming that she was being bullied on the show.
Dear @TimesNow u can get away bullying me.. But can’t get Away with the fact that Delhi UP n Mangalore r facing voilence.
Answer why are the jamia n aligarh students tortured???
Ur bullying will not change the fact that NRC is done to torture the poor n minority!!! https://t.co/m0brUv3UwT
After all the embarrassment the Congress member maintained that NRC is being done to torture the poor and minority, however, was STILL unable to explain how.
The Editors Guild of India today issued a statement condemning the Twitter poll ran by BJP IT cell head, Amit Malviya in which he had asked his followers to vote on whether controversial journalist Rajdeep Sardesai should handle the PR for the terror organisation Islamic State.
Calling it as “McCarthyist social media poll” on Rajdeep Sardesai, the Editors Guild of India termed the poll as “tasteless and deplorable” and lashed out at Malviya for casting aspersions on the integrity and patriotism of Rajdeep Sardesai, who had also served as the President of the Editors Guild of India in the past.
The Guild also called into question “the BJP’s commitment to a healthy debate and dissent without allowing disagreement to degenerate into abuse. It asked Mr Malviya to urgently withdraw the Twitter poll while asking the BJP to “caution him strongly”.
Amit Malviya had yesterday floated a benign Twitter poll, seeking answers from his Twitter followers on whether controversial journalist Rajdeep Sardesai should preside over the PR for the dreaded terror outfit ISIS. He had given four options for the Twitter users to vote- agree, strongly agree, disagree and he is irrelevant.
On Saturday, when the poll ended, about 33 per cent voted ‘disagree’ while 26 per cent and 28 per cent of the people voted for ‘agree’ and ‘strongly agree’ respectively. 13 per cent of the users voted for ‘he is irrelevant’. The poll saw participation from 144,287 Twitter users.
Just a day before, Rajdeep Sardesai had indeed behaved like the mouthpiece of radical Islamists when he had termed the anti-CAA riots as peaceful and patriotic even as Islamist mobs were rioting, indulging in violence, pelting stones and breaking temples.
While a harmless Twitter poll should not have warranted a response from the Editors Guild of India, but nonetheless, the Guild not only issued a strongly-worded letter of condemnation but it also asked the BJP to “strongly caution” Malviya to remove the poll.
As a citizen of India and an ordinary Twitter user, Malviya is well-within his rights to run a Twitter poll no matter how unpleasant or disagreeable it is for certain sections of the society. Instead of reprimanding and moral policing Malviya, the Editors Guild of India should have exhibited tolerance towards his right to Freedom of Expression.
The response from the Guild, in this case, is in sharp contradiction to its reticence to call out journalists like Ravish Kumar for their contemptuous remarks against fellow journalists. While Amit Malviya’s Twitter poll allegedly slandering Rajdeep Sardesai is denounced, the Editors Guild of India gives a free pass to the repeated derogatory jibes of “Godi Media” made by Ravish Kumar against journalists who do not conform with his worldview. The Editors Guild of India has so far not issued a single statement decrying Ravish Kumar for his snide remarks against other fellow journalists from the same fraternity.
Similarly, the Guild displayed remarkable alacrity in pulling up Malviya for allegedly tarnishing Rajdeep Sardesai but the comparable standard of rejoinder is not employed against Rajdeep for besmirching other journalists who dare question him on his beliefs.
Besides, the Editors Guild of India is notoriously infamous for exercising discretion in weighing in their opinions on contemporary issues. The Editors Guild of India had maintained a stoic silence over the pervasive violence during the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal. The vehicle of a Union Minister was vandalized, journalists were attacked, people clashed with the central forces that were deployed but these incidents did not wake up the Editors Guild of India from its blissful slumber.
Usually gratuitous in slamming the government against perceived inequities, the Editors Guild of India remained conspicuously silent when bouncers were sent to the Kapil Sibal’s Tiranga TV office for allegedly rooting out the sacked journalists from their premises. It also turned a blind eye to the abrupt lay-offs of the scribes without providing them with advance notice or a severance pay-off.
In fact, when a journalist was arrested in Karnataka during the Congress-JDS rule, the Editors Guild maintained stoic silence. Till date, that draconian move has not been condemned by the Guild. Further, they were more upset about a anti-Hindu fake news peddler being arrested than a DD journalist being murdered by Naxals.
The partisanship of the Editors Guild of India is evident when it goes hammer and tongs against an Individual for floating a harmless Twitter poll while keeping mum on serious offences like physical attacks against journalists and state-sponsored violence.
Moreover, one can also judge the credibility of the Editors Guild of India when its President, Shekhar Gupta, himself peddles lies and provides a platform for others- The Print, to lie promiscuously.
After Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan and his asinine coterie, the country’s sportspersons too have recently started showing extreme interest in India and its internal matters. After the overdramatic response against the Indian government’s decision to revoke the special autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir, their theatrics has now shifted over to the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Recently, former Pakistan cricket captain and a close relative of underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim Javed Miandad made an appeal to the International Cricket Council (ICC) for asking other member nations to stop touring and playing cricket in India, echoing the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani’s recent statements about Pakistan being far more safer than India.
The ex-batsman was referring to the Anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) riots that have taken place in India over the past few weeks.
Now responding to Miandad’s redundant theatrics, India’s former cricketer Vinod Kambli had said that Miandad’s habit of poking in others’ issues hasn’t yet gone.
Lambasting at Miandad on Twitter, Kambli reminded the Pakistani player that India has always provided the best security to the visiting teams, and perhaps he should find out which countries want to tour the terror-ravaged nation.
Kambli tweeted, “Miandad apki ungli karneki aadat gayi nai. Abhi retirement ke baad bhi chalu hai. Our country is safe. We have provided the best security to every touring nation coming to India. U should focus on checking which other country wants to tour Pakistan! @PakPassion ye dikha dena Javed Bhai”
Miandad apki ungli karneki aadat gayi nai.Abhi retirement ke baad bhi chalu hai.Our country is safe.We have provided the best security to every touring nation coming to ??.U should focus on checking which other country wants to tour ??!@PakPassion ye dikha dena Javed bhai ko
Like many other radical Pakistani celebrities, Miandad has also been known in the past for many of his anti-India tirades. Recently, in a video which had gone viral on social media, the former Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad was seen spewing venom against India. In the video, he was seen brandishing a sword and calling for a Jihad as he claimed to show solidarity with Kashmiris.
Javed Miandad, whose son Junaid is married to underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim’s daughter, was seen in a demonstration wearing the Pakistan cricket team’s jersey and heard saying that if he can wield a bat, he can also wield a sword.
As Miandad wraps the sword in his hand, a voice in the background can be heard saying, “Balla bhi tez tha ab talwar bhi tez hai. (The bat was sharp, now the sword is sharp)”.
Excited again, Javed Miandad proudly shows off his sword and shouts that if he can use a bat to hit a six, then why cannot he use the sword to kill a man.
This is not the first time Javed Miandad has made controversial remarks. Earlier, he had promoted violence by asking Kashmiris to pick up arms. After India decided to abrogate Article 370, a frustrated Miandad had claimed that the Indian government was “coward” and that Pakistan has not kept a nuclear arsenal for a show but to deploy on India.
Earlier, the former Pakistan cricketer had said that he will visit the Line of Control (LOC) with other sportspersons to propagate peace at the border but instead went there to propagate the usual war-mongering rhetoric to bay blood of the Indians.
It is not just Javed Miandad, earlier another cricketer, Shahid Afridi had tweeted in support of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s appeal to show solidarity with Kashmiri’s on Friday in the wake of abrogation of Article 370. He had also announced his visit to LOC and shaheed’s home.
After being under the firing line of the critiques for remaining absent from the Indian political landscape while the protests raged in some parts of the country against the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act, the former Congress President Rahul Gandhi today launched an attack on the RSS in an anti-CAA rally in Guwahati.
#WATCH Rahul Gandhi in Guwahati: Hum BJP aur RSS ko Assam ki history, bhasha ,sanskriti par akraman nahi karne denge. Assam ko Nagpur nahi chalayega, Assam ko RSS ke chaddi wale nahi chalayenge. Assam ko Assam ki janta chalayegi. pic.twitter.com/hzg4qaPRPv
Speaking at the rally, the Wayanad MP said that Assam will not be run by the “RSS chaddi walas”. ” We will not allow the BJP, RSS to ruin the history, language, the culture of Assam. Assam will not be ruled by Nagpur. RSS chaddi walas will not run Assam. Assam will be run by the people of Assam,” Gandhi said.
Interestingly, the ‘chaddi walla’ jibe is used by several assorted Leftists, Islamists and even Pakistan to deride the RSS which is a social organisation. Often time, even those who support the BJP are called ‘chaddi walas’ by Islamists in an attempt to deride Hindus.
Gandhi also accused the BJP of engineering violence in the state as he stated that wherever BJP goes, it destroys the peace and tranquillity of the place. “Wherever the BJP goes, it spreads hate. In Assam, the youth is protesting, in other states protests happening as well. Why do you have to shoot and kill them? BJP doesn’t want to listen to the voice of people,” Rahul said.
These tirades come on the heels of Gandhi’s deranged rant on the NPR where he absurdly linked the National Population Register to Demonetisation claiming that the BJP government at the centre is going to snatch the money from the poor and hand it over to its favoured 15 industrialists. “This is the second demonetisation. The money made off this(NPR) will be given to the 15 industrialists,” Gandhi claimed.
The Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath has walked the talk on their promise of making rioters pay for damaging the public property in the state as Muslims residents of Bulandshahr have paid over Rs 6 lakh to the district magistrate.
Reportedly, a group of Muslim residents of the Upeerkot area handed over a demand draft of Rs 6.27 lakh to District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar and Senior Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar Singh as a token of compensation for the damage caused to public property during clashes on December 20.
The delegation led by a local politician Shakilullah and other dignitaries from the Muslim community in Kotwali city area also handed over a letter to the DM pledging that a repeat of the violence would never occur in future. Bulandshahr was one of the worst-hit areas of anti-CAA violence in UP.
Last Friday, protests against the amended citizenship law in Bulandshahr turned violent, leading to damage of public property. DM Ravindra Kumar said that government vehicles and other properties were damaged by the mob last Friday.
“With this, Bulandshahr has made a good start, they have realised that the government property has been bought from the tax-payers money. It is their own loss and damage,” he said. “The people in Bulandshahr have come with an ‘avedan’ (request) letter and a demand draft of Rs 6,27,507. People have felt this (violence) should not have happened.” he added.
Kumar said the proposal for this move was made in a meeting with the commissioner and the inspector general. “In a meeting with senior officials, a proposal was put regarding the collection and offering to the administration,” he said.
The decision to impose a penalty on rioters comes after Uttar Pradesh government had initiated a crackdown on miscreants who resorted to violence during the protests against the recently enacted Citizenship Amendment Act.
The Uttar Pradesh government has already identified at least 498 properties to seize them, which belonged to rioters who vandalised public properties in the state during the anti-CAA protest. Notices have been already sent to these protesters regarding the same.
According to a circular, the government has identified the ‘anti-socials’ who caused damage to public property while taking part in anti-CAA protests. It will now confiscate their property to recover the damages. Earlier, the UP government 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.
Reportedly, at least 82 people from Lucknow, 148 from Meerut, 26 from Sambhal, 79 from Rampur, 13 from Ferozabad, 50 from Kanpur, 73 from Muzzafarnagar, 8 from Mao and 19 from Bulandshahar have been identified by the UP government as those who damaged the public property during the CAA protests in the state from December 10-24.
In the aftermath of the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act, riots, violence, arson and vandalism by rioting mobs in the name of ‘protests’ against the enactment of the law have taken place across the country.
