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Congress sends 2 BJP MLAs in Madhya Pradesh who cross-voted in their favour to an undisclosed location

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Congress sends 2 BJP MLAs in Madhya Pradesh who cross-voted in their favour to an undisclosed location

Hours after the BJP claimed that Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh wouldn’t last for more than a single day, two BJP MLAs in the state have been sent to an undisclosed location by the Congress party. Earlier in the day, these two BJP MLAs had cross-voted for Congress during voting on criminal law (amendment) in Madhya Pradesh assembly. This is a preemptive action taken by Congress in the state after it accused the BJP of orchestrating the fall of Congress-JDS coalition government in Karnataka.


It is speculated that the two MLAs will join the Congress party soon. Both are scheduled to join chief minister Kamal Nath for dinner tonight. Narayan Tripathi is a former Congress leader who had joined BJP in 2014. He said that is his “ghar wapasi”.

Earlier today, BJP leader Gopal Bhargava claimed the government in Madhya Pradesh would fall in a day if number 1 and 2 issues an order. But the party had to face humiliation in the assembly as two of their own MLAs voted for the Congress government in assembly. The two BJP MLAs- Narayan Tripathi and Sharad Kaul, who cross-voted in favour of Congress during the voting on the criminal law (amendment) in the assembly reasoned they were not treated respectfully in the party. Since then both have been sent to an undisclosed location by the Congress to keep BJP away from reconciling with these estranged lawmakers.

Meanwhile, CM Kamal Nath on Wednesday had thrown a gauntlet to the BJP to bring a no-trust motion in the assembly. Kamal Nath led-Congress has 114 MLAs in the 230 member Madhya Pradesh assembly while BJP has 109. 4 independent legislators, 2 from BSP and the lone SP lawmaker have also extended their support to the Congress party.

In a dramatic turn of events, Congress obtained the support of 122 MLAs during vote division on the amendment bill as two BJP MLAs abstained from voting today. BJP tried to say the two crossvotes do not matter because the party didn’t issue a whip.

The BJP concurred with the law minister PC Sharma in his proposed amendments to the Criminal Procedure Act and extended its support for the same, BSP MLA Sanjiv Singh Sahu demanded the division of votes on the matter. The speaker announced the division of votes. Although the bill should have been passed with voice vote, division of vote was sought as a strategy to show that the government has the numbers in the backdrop of fall of Congress-JDS government fall in Karnataka. While the Congress MLAs went out to cast their votes, the BJP MLAs stayed behind in the house. The speaker then declared that 122 voted in favour of the bill while none voted against it.

Leader of Opposition, Bhargava complained that signatures of 12 absent MLAs were forged by the Congress ministers and refused to accept that the 2 BJP MLAs voted in their favour. The law minister PC Sharma asserted their government is stable and strong and that CM Kamal Nath is in touch with the BJP MLAs.

Former CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan later said the government was scared and therefore, consciously tried to showcase its strength through vote division. “It was a rare occasion when both ruling party and opposition backed a bill, but still vote division was done,” said Chouhan. He further added that BJP has maintained the government in Madhya Pradesh would fall on its own. He also alleged that adding the vote division was done to avoid discussion on farmers’ issue.

This development comes a day after the coalition government of Janta Dal (Secular) and Congress, led by CM HD Kumaraswamy officially collapsed.

National Commission for Minorities member says no mob lynching case filed with them, Govt says no common pattern of mob lynching

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National Commission for Minorities member says no mob lynching case filed with them, Govt says no common pattern of mob lynching

In the wake of the rising ‘mob lynching’ debates, Manjit Singh Rai, National Commission for Minorities member Wednesday revealed that no case of mob lynching has been registered with the commission. Singh however, assured of appropriate action if any such case is highlighted before the commission.

“Till now we have not got any case pertaining to mob lynching. If such a case comes to us, then we will certainly summon the concerned department. It is the work of the home department to issue an advisory,” stated Rai. He was speaking to journalists after chairing a meeting of district officers on the issue of implementation of schemes for minorities.

Rai assured that commission would initiate strict action against culprits for exploiting and ill-treating minorities when such cases are highlighted before the commission. He asserted that issuing advisories in such cases is the job of the home ministry. He also pointed out that their job is to bring the culprits to books each time such cases are allotted to them.

Rai suggested that law enforcement agencies work diligently towards such cases and swing into action each time such cases are highlighted on social media.

Earlier today, G Kishan Reddy, Minister of State (MoS) for home affairs during Question Hour asserted that BJP government intends to deal with the issue of mob lynching with seriousness and that the PM had expressed his concern about the same.


“Available data shows that there is no common pattern of mob lynching and incidents have happened in different states at different times. Incidents have happened in different states ruled by different political parties,” Reddy highlighted.

The MoS highlighted such incidents have come to fore from different parts of the country including Kerala, Tripura and West Bengal on earlier occasions as well.

Ghulam Nabi Azad, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha had claimed that incidents of violence and lynching against dalits and minorities had risen in the last five years. He went on to allege that members of a particular political party were forcing the minorities to chant certain slogans and such news was not being highlighted on TV but circulated through social media.

Azad further questioned the government on the number of advisories it had sent to state governments on the issue.

Manoj Kumar Jha of the RJD raked up the Muzaffarnagar riots issue and stated that 40 accused had been acquitted. He questioned the government on the steps being taken to protect the witnesses.

In response to his concern, Home Minister Amit Shah suggested that minister concerned can respond only when he has information on the specified time period.

A dangerous turn: ‘Scholars’ and ‘celebrities’ cross the boundaries of mere hypocrisy and ally with a convicted naxalite

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A dangerous turn: ‘Scholars’ and ‘celebrities’ cross the boundaries of mere hypocrisy and ally with a convicted naxalite

A rag-tag bunch of ‘intellectuals’ and ‘celebrities’ have written to the Prime Minister on Tuesday claiming that atrocities against Muslims and Dalits have increased under the NDA regime and have deemed Jai Shri Ram a ‘provocative war-cry’. Amusingly enough, the letter which begins by referring to the signatories as “peace-loving and proud Indians” had an actual convicted Naxalite signing it.

It’s also not surprising then that the letter claimed people should not be branded ‘anti-nation’ or ‘Urban Naxal’ for voicing their dissent. Of course, the message acquires special significance when it has as its signatory a convicted Naxalite.

Numerous celebrities have signed the said letter. Anjan Dutt, Anupam Roy and Rupam Islam are superstars in the Bengali music industry. One wonders how they feel about the fact they collaborated with a convicted Naxalite on this particular matter. One wonders how their fans feel about. As a fan of their music, I am pretty disgusted. Anurag Kashyap, infamous for maintaining his silence over the sexual harassment of a woman by another celebrity, too signed this letter that reeks of self-righteous indignation.

The letter was also signed by numerous scholars and professional activists as well. Alleged Historian Ramchandra Guha, a devotee of Jawaharlal Nehru, appears on the list of signatories. Partha Chatterjee and Ashis Nandy feature in the list of signatories as well.

While people from the entertainment industry can be excused for not being familiar with the nitty-gritty of statistics and databases, how could scholars rely on a database as faulty as factchecker.in to form their conclusions? What excuse do they have for relying on such shoddy propaganda to further their narrative? These are scholars. We need to ask, what on earth are they teaching their students?

Celebrities are stupid, they generally are. And they can be convinced to do the bidding of activists as long as it makes them feel good about themselves. But the fact that scholars not only relied on dubious propaganda to further their narrative, they had no qualms in allying themselves with a convicted Naxalite to take a dig at Hindus either.

At OpIndia.com, we have documented in detail about the barrage of actual hate crimes that have been committed against Hindus. We have documented how fake hate crimes have been invented to suppress the fact that Hindus have been suffering a worrying number of hate crimes themselves. The desecration of Temples has become the norm. It took the desecration of the Durga Mandir at Old Delhi to awaken the people of this country to that fact.

The celebrities and the scholars who have signed the letter make no mention about the rising hate crimes against Hindus at all. They are completely oblivious to it. Many of the signatories are from Bengal. People are getting killed in the state for chanting Jai Shri Ram, none of these celebrities has written to Mamata Banerjee expressing their concern.

West Bengal very recently was in chaos after a Muslim mob descended at the NRS Medical College and Hospital and attacked the doctors and interns present. In that case, the Police refused to act because the perpetrators belonged to a community that is the ruling disposition’s vote-bank. And yet, none of these celebrities then had nothing to say.

While they demonize Jai Shri Ram, Indian society is being held hostage by toxic elements of the Muslim community. These elements receive direct patronage from politicians such as Mamata Banerjee and others from the secular camp while the opposing faction throws freebies at them in the hope that they will mend their ways. Why are scholars and celebrities not worried about that?

We have Akbaruddin Owaisi, an elected representative of the Telangana Legislative Assembly, who once infamously demanded that the Police be withdrawn across the country for 15 minutes so that Muslims could show Hindus who the boss is. On Tuesday, he resorted to hate speech again and claimed that RSS is still scared over the 15-minute speech he had made. Such incitement to violence doesn’t concern our bleeding-heart intellectuals.

Tik Tok has become a tool to incite violence for toxic Muslim celebrities such as Ajaz Khan. He mocked the Police for not arresting him which appears to have hurt the self-respect of the Police enough to have him arrested. But he was released on bail and back on social media spouting his usual nonsense. Why is it that none of these celebrities from the entertainment industry are speaking about the likes of Ajaz Khan?

It’s not merely hypocrisy anymore, all of us know they are filthy hypocrites. They have crossed the line of mere hypocrisy to enter a territory where they are now allying with convicted Naxalites in their attempt to undermine Narendra Modi’s leadership.

The rhetoric they are peddling is extremely dangerous as well. It’s merely sophisticated propaganda designed to generate a victimhood frenzy among the Muslim community. We know what happens when such propaganda gains momentum. The riots across Indian cities in response to the alleged lynching of Tabrez Ansari is a testament to that effect. Thus, in essence, the scholars and celebrities are allying with a convicted Naxalite to further propaganda that could actually result in widespread violence across the country.

Furthermore, they have dubiously clubbed Muslims and Dalits together. In reality, it can be argued that the alleged increase in crimes against Dalits is due to the toxic elements from the Muslim community. We have documented a series of hate crimes that have been committed against Dalits by Muslim driven by religious motives. But the scholars and celebrities appear not to care and instead blame ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

The entire exercise appears to be straight out of the ‘Urban Naxal’ playbook. It appears to be an attempt to further sow the seeds of discord within the country at a time when hate crimes against Hindus are on the rise and communal harmony is being threatened by toxic entities. The fact that an actual convicted Naxalite is one of the signatories to that letter certainly points towards that. One wonders at this point, can we call people who ally themselves with convicted Naxalites ‘Urban Naxals’ or is that slander as well?

Arnab Goswami remotely ‘hacks’ into the press conference of ‘achievers and celebrities’, questions them on their hypocrisy

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Arnab Goswami remotely ‘hacks’ into the press conference of ‘achievers and celebrities’, questions them on their hypocrisy

Yesterday, around 49 celebrities across all platforms in the likes of Bollywood, theatres, historians and artists wrote a letter to PM Narendra Modi, claiming intolerance in the country under the BJP regime.

In a live TV confrontation today, Republic TV’s editor-in-chief, Arnab Goswami ‘haked’ into the press conference to pose questions at these lobbyists who alleged the rise of hate crimes across the country.


When Aparna Sen was addressing a press conference and answering questions of reporters present their, Arnab Goswami started asking her questions from Republic studios over phone. A reporter from Republic TV was also present at the venue, and apparently, Arnab’s telephonic questions were blasted via loudspeaker during the press conference.

Ironically, the filmmaker, Aparna Sen, who was very much an integral part of this particular lobby of celebrities creating an unnecessary brouhaha and indulging in fearmongering over intolerance in the country under BJP’s governance, not only evaded the questions posed to her but looked visibly irked as Arnab shot a series of questions at her.

Some questions Arnab Goswami asked the filmmaker:

  • Why were you silent when Muslim fanatics were attacking Zaira Wasim?
  • Where were you when Ayub Pandith was being lynched?
  • Where were you when Muslim clerics asked minorities to pick up arms?
  • Why are you selective about raising your voice?
  • When Congress govt charge-sheeted Pehlu Khan where were you?
  • When Mamata Banerjee arrested a girl Priyanka Sharma on the meme, where were you?
  • Where were you when a man was attacked for saying Jai Shri Ram?
  • Where were you when 7-year-old was attacked for chanting Jai Shri Ram?
  • Where were you when the temple was attacked in Delhi?
  • Jignesh Mevani said there should be armed-conflict, where were you then?
  • Did you speak on Kashmiri Pandits and victims of terrorism in Kashmir?
  • Where were you when critics of Kumaraswamy was arrested in Karnataka?

In response, Sen, as expected, not only eluded every single question but also made hand gestures and simmered at the editor-in-chief, Arnab Goswami.

She was seen saying, “Hi Arnab, you have started your whatabouteries, I am not going to answer any of your whatabouteries. Please address the issue. You are not going to succeed in shouting, I’m done. I refuse to answer”.


Though Arnab stood firm, trying to expose the hypocrisy of these so-called intellectuals, Aparna Sen chose to evade the questions by saying things like “I don’t want to dignify questions like this with an answer, it is so ridiculous”. She furthered that “people have become so politicised these days, so polarised these days that they can’t understand simple humanitarian concerns”.

Meanwhile, in the letter dated to 23rd July 2019, 49 celebrities, including filmmakers like Anurag Kashyap, Konkana Sen Sharma, Mani Ratnam, Aparna Sen and many others, wrote to PM Narendra Modi, stating that they are ‘deeply concerned’ about a number of tragic events that have been happening in the country in recent times. The letter said claimed that ‘Jai Shri Ram is now a provocative ‘War-cry’. One of the signatories to the letter is a convicted Naxalite, Binayak Sen.

Explaining their stance further, the letter claims that the lynching of Muslims, Dalits and other minorities must be stopped immediately and that they were ‘shocked’ to learn that there have been no less than 840 instances of atrocities against Dalits in the year 2016 and that there has been a definite decline in the percentage of convictions.

Claiming that there is no democracy without dissent, the celebrities expressed that no certain individual should be branded as ‘anti-national’ or ‘Urban Naxal’ because of the dissent against the government.

While speaking to Republic TV, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap confirmed the authenticity of the letter and stated that it was ‘self-explanatory’.

Rajasthan Mahila Congress leader launches personal attack on PM Modi for sharing playful pics with his “special friend”

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Rajasthan Mahila Congress leader launches personal attack on PM Modi for sharing playful pics with his “special friend”

In line with her party tradition, Reena Mimrot, State General Secretary of Rajasthan Mahila Congress targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter for sharing playful pictures with his “special friend” who visited him in his office yesterday.

Mimrot tweeted, “Modji samay par ghar jaate to aaj doosare ke bachche nahin khilaane padate.” This roughly translates as “Had Modiji settled down on time in life, he would not have to play with other’s kids.”


This is a direct attack on personal choice of Narendra Modi he has made about his life. Just because someone is bachelor, it does not mean they are not allowed to play with kids. Congress leaders keeps attacking the prime minister on his personal life, which is very unfortunate.

PM Modi had set the internet on fire on Tuesday when he had posted few pictures of him playing with a kid on his official Instagram handle. In no time, the pictures became a hot topic of discussion on social media arousing the curiosity of the netizens to learn about the identity of the baby.

Modi had captioned the pictures as “A very special friend came to meet me in Parliament today.”

It was later revealed the little kid playing with the PM was the grandaughter of BJP MP Satyanarayan Jatiya.

While it was not the first time when the PM was photographed with kids. However, his reference to him as a “special friend” sent the internet into a tizzy.

 

India jumps 5 places to Rank 52 on the list of Global Innovation Index 2019

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India jumps 5 places to Rank 52 on the list of Global Innovation Index 2019

India has risen by 5 positions from its last year’s rank 57 to 52 in the recently published list of Global Innovation Index (GII). The Global Innovation Index (GII) is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation and provides a subjective and objective analysis of data derived from several sources, including the International Telecommunication Union, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum. It is published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organisation, in partnership with other organisations and institutions. 

India has topped the list of innovative economies in central and southern Asia. Switzerland leads the innovation index of countries followed by Sweden and the US. India’s north-eastern neighbour, China is ranked at 14. However, other neighbours such as Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh are at 105, 109 and 116 respectively. The entire report can be read here.

(Source: GII)

One of the most pertinent findings of the GII is the rise of middle-income countries such as India in strengthening the global innovation landscape. Applauding India for its remarkable improvement in its innovation index, the report states that India continues to be the most innovative economy in Central & Southern Asia—a distinction held since 2011. India is consistently among the top in the world in innovation drivers such as ICT services exports, Graduates in science & engineering, the quality of universities, Gross capital formation—a measure of economy-wide investments—and Creative goods exports.

India also stands out in the GII ranking of the world’s top science and technology clusters with Bengaluru, Mumbai, and New Delhi featuring prominently among the global top 100 clusters. Being upbeat about India’s steady progress, the report says that if progress is upheld—India will make a true impact on global innovation in the years to come.

Technology Clusters (Source: GII)

Though the geography of innovation is rapidly shifting from high-income economies to middle-income economies, the report draws attention to the great innovation divide that persists as innovation inputs and outputs remain concentrated in very few economies. In terms of continuous innovation improvement, only Asia is improving while the rest of the world is still struggling to catch up with North America, Europe, South East Asia and Oceania.

3 Indian institutes have made into the top 10 universities in the middle-income group. Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru) and Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D) have featured in the top 10 universities/ colleges list prepared by the GII.v

Russia unable to find any document on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in their archive: Government in Lok Sabha

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Russia unable to find any document on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in their archive: Government in Lok Sabha

On Wednesday, the government informed the Lok Sabha that the Russian government was unable to find any documents in Russian archives pertaining to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.


In a written reply to a question asked by Badruddin Ajmal, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said that India had requested Russia several times since 2014 seeking information on Netaji. The Russian government has said that it was unable to find any documents despite carrying out additional investigations.

India sought information on Netaji such as to whether he was in Russia anytime before or after August 1945 and whether he escaped to Russia in August 1945 or thereafter as reported by some researchers.

Netaji is believed to have died in an air crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945. He had founded the Indian National Army also known as the Azad Hind Fauj. As his last days remain a mystery, there are several theories about his whereabouts and actually what happened to him. Some people have claimed that Netaji Bose was in Russia till at least 1968. BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had even claimed said that Stalin was instrumental in “murdering” Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who didn’t die in 1945 in a plane crash. He had also said that Bose was kept in a Russian prison before his murder, and PM Jawaharlal Nehru was aware of this.

Due to such claims, India had asked Russia to find if they have any information regarding Bose.

The Judicial Commission constituted in 2016 to probe the identity of ‘Gumnami Baba’, widely believed to be Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in disguise, has reportedly concluded that it could not arrive at a definitive conclusion.

PM Modi has undertaken various measures to immortalise the legacy of Netaji and the INA. In January this year, PM Modi had inaugurated a museum of  Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at the Red fort.

PM Modi renamed three Island of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Bose had hoisted the national flag at Port Blair. The Ross Island was renamed to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Island, Neil Island to Shahid Dweep and Havelock Island to Swaraj Dweep. A Rs 75 commemorative coin was also released to mark the 75th anniversary.

Under-achiever Bhayanak Sen writes to PM Modi, talks about rising ‘achiever-thought-terrorism’

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Under-achiever Bhayanak Sen writes to PM Modi, talks about rising ‘achiever-thought-terrorism’

Under-achiever Bhayanak Sen today wrote a letter to Prime Minister Modi talking about the rising ‘achiever-thought-terrorism‘ that has been gripping the nation since 16th May 2014. OpIndia has an exclusive copy of the letter which has been reduced below verbatim.

24th July 2019,

To,

Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi,

Honourable Prime Minister of India

Dear Prime Minister,

I am a peace loving and proud Indian and deeply concerned about a number of tragic events that have been happening in recent times in our beloved country.

Our Constitution, which originally described India as a ‘sovereign democratic republic’ but became ‘secular’ and ‘socialist’ during the Emergency, where all religions, ethnicities, gender and castes are equal. Hence, to ensure that every citizen enjoys the rights given to him/her by the constitution, my submission is:

    1. The rising cases of ‘fake hate crimes‘ must be stopped immediately. I was shocked to learn that Muslim men these days say that they were beaten up because they refused to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ to be applauded in the community. What happened to destroying the temples to win accolades?Speaking of temples, a temple in the heart of national capital was destroyed by a Muslim mob. Media houses, whitewashed and downplayed the desecration of the Hindu temple. The ‘fact-checkers’ who also run ‘hate crime tracker’ as parallel business so that they can be quoted by ‘achievers’ and ‘intellectuals’ and foreign publications, made the people who destroyed the temple as victims.When will this propaganda stop? The ‘achievers’ and the ‘intellectuals’ keep talking about the Dalit-Muslim unity and how the communities are suppressed by the Hindu majoritarian government of yours. When will the people of both these communities as well as the ‘achievers’ and ‘intellectuals’ wake up and smell the coffee that this narrative is nothing but a farce?You have criticised the genuine cases in the Parliament, and rightly so, Mr. Prime Minister, but that is not enough! What action has been taken against the ones who are spreading falsehood? I strongly feel that they should be taken to task because kab tak narrative ko counter karte rahoge?Regrettably, ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is being referred to as a war-cry and petty criminals are faking it that they were beaten up because they didn’t chant the slogan. We are threatened with ‘unprecedented action’ by the Imam if Hindu boys are not arrested. That too over an incident that never took place. If life imprisonment without parole can be the sentence in cases of murder, why not for people who are trying to disturb the communal harmony of the nation for their vested interests, which is even more heinous? No citizen should have to live in fear in his/her own country! As the highest Executive in this country, you must put a stop to the name of Ram being defiled in this manner.

      Have you heard about the Dara Hua Musalman? Of course, you have, you get the letters by the ‘achievers’ and ‘intellectuals’ all the time talking about how the pious Muslims are scared and live in fear under your government. But how come no one talks about the toxic fundamentalism that gets broadcasted through speakers and runs riot?

    2. There is no democracy without dissent. A Hindu woman should not be forced to distribute Quran by an order of the court just because of a Facebook post. It is as condemnable as forcing a Muslim man to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Of course, the assorted ‘achievers’ and ‘intellectuals’ will never ask you why should a Hindu girl be forced to distribute Quran. Dissent is democratic only if emerges from the other end of political spectrum.Criticising the ‘achievers’, ‘intellectuals’ and seasonal dissenters does not imply one is a bigot. Referring to oneself as ‘intellectual’ does not make one ‘intelligent’ and above criticism. They are only a part of the country. Hence, anti-‘achiever’ stand cannot be equated with bigotry. An open environment where dissent is not ridiculed, only helps an ‘intellectual’ become ‘intelligent’.

I hope my suggestions are taken in spirit they are meant – as average Indian genuinely concerned with ‘achiever-thought-terrorism’ who think they are the only ones who know how democracy works.

With best regards,

Yours sincerely,

Bhayanak Sen

An under-achiever

“When will he learn to place country over politics?” Tejasvi Surya slams Rahul Gandhi for his attack on PM Modi over Trump’s comment

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“When will he learn to place country over politics?” Tejasvi Surya slams Rahul Gandhi for his attack on PM Modi over Trump’s comment

After over twelve hours had passed since the controversy erupted over Trump’s Kashmir statement, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi had finally taken to Twitter yesterday, to react on US President Donald Trump’s gaffe on the issue of third party mediation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Now, reacting sharply to the Gandhi scions Tweet, in which he claimed that PM Modi has betrayed the interest of the country and the 1972 Shimla Agreement, the Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya slammed the Congress ex-president saying, “A categorical rejection is never enough for the newly elected MP from Wayanad, be it from the people of Amethi or from a Cabinet rank Minister! It almost feels like RG’s only objective here is to strain Indo-US friendship! When will he learn to place country over politics?!”


Rahul Gandhi expressing trust in Donald Trump over the Indian Prime Minister had also rejected the clarification given by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in the Rajya Sabha, terming the denial “weak”.

This deliberate attack the Gandhi scion came even as Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar issued a statement in both Houses of Parliament wherein he categorically mentioned that Prime Minister Modi had not requested Trump for any mediation on Kashmir issue. He asserted that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan and there would be no involvement of any third party.

“I assure the House categorically that no such request has been made by PM to the US President. I also reiterate that it has been India’s consistent position that all outstanding issues with Pakistan are discussed bilaterally. Any engagement with Pakistan would require an end to cross-border terrorism,” said Jaishankar.

“The Shimla Agreement and the Lahore declaration provide the basis to resolve all issues between India and Pakistan bilaterally,” he added.

Yet, the regular hate mongers, which includes a section of trolls from the media and politics and the Congress, of course, jumped to this opportunity to train guns at PM Narendra Modi.

While the former was busy spreading falsehood regarding India’s stand despite clarification from the MEA, Congress treated this opportunity to attack PM Modi. Making full use of this opportunity, Congress, yesterday, also gave an adjournment motion notice in the Lok Sabha over Trump’s remarks.

Convicted Naxalite Binayak Sen signs ‘rising intolerance’ letter to PM Modi, calls self ‘peace loving proud Indian’

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Convicted Naxalite Binayak Sen signs ‘rising intolerance’ letter to PM Modi, calls self ‘peace loving proud Indian’

Prominent ‘achievers and celebrities’ have written a letter to Prime Minister Modi claiming that atrocities against ‘Muslims and Dalits’ have increased in India. The letter also claims that ‘Jai Shri Ram’ has become a ‘provocative warcry’ and this is helping the lynching incidents against Muslims and Dalit. Amidst the cacophony of the drama, a certain fact appears to have escaped people’s attention. One of the signatories to the letter is a convicted Naxalite, Binayak Sen.

It is ironic that a man convicted of sedition for helping Naxalites is taking the moral high ground in a letter that refers to the signatories as “peace-loving and proud Indians”.

The names in the letter

Binayak Sen was convicted in 2010 on charges of sedition for his links to Naxals and sentenced to life imprisonment under sections 124A and 120(B) of the IPC. He was also found guilty under section 8(1) of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act. He was given bail by the Supreme Court in 2011. He is associated with the PUCL, an organization we have reported on extensively, that is closely linked with the arrested ‘Urban Naxals’.

Convicted for sedition and helping Naxalites to set up a network to fight the state of India, Binayak Sen was a Vice President of the PUCL even after his conviction by Raipur Sessions Court. The West Bengal unit of PUCL also published a book exonerating Sen of all his crimes and branded him a “victim of state atrocity”.

As it turns out, he was in the Committee for Police Reforms of the Aam Aadmi Party announced in 2014. Sen was in the committee for resolving the Naxalite question as well. Binayak Sen has links with the Congress party as well. Sen was named a member of the government’s Planning Commission on health in 2011. Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Raman Singh, had slammed the decision to include Sen in the panel and wrote to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deeming it “shocking and against all norms and propriety”.

Despite his conviction for sedition and associations with the PUCL, which has extensive links to separatists across the country from Kashmir to Manipur through the coordinating organization CDRO, Binaya Sen continues to enjoy the support of the intellectual fraternity. He has even been invited to TISS to deliver a keynote address at an event. It only goes ion to show the moral bankruptcy of the ‘intellectual’ fraternity that a convicted Naxalite is allowed to sign a letter that calls its signatories “peace-loving and proud Indians”.

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