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‘Hindustan zindabad tha, hai aur rahega,’ PM Modi tweets after meeting actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol

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‘Hindustan zindabad tha, hai aur rahega,’ PM Modi tweets after meeting actor-turned-politician Sunny Deol

On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met actor Sunny Deol, who is the BJP’s candidate from Gurudaspur constituency of Punjab.

As PM Modi met the actor-turned-politician, he tweeted not only a photograph of him being with Sunny Deol but also posted a famous dialogue of Deol – “Hindustan Zindabad Tha, Hai Aur Rahega”.


The prime minister said that he was struck by the actor’s humility and deep passion for a better India and also “rooted for his victory in Gurdaspur”.

“What struck me about Sunny Deol is his humility and deep passion for a better India. Happy to have met him today. We are all rooting for his victory in Gurdaspur!” he posted on Twitter.

The popular dialogue from the movie ‘Gadar’ has been a cult classic across the country in which actor Sunny Deol had played the role of a ‘nationalist’.

During a roadshow on Saturday in Barmer, Rajasthan a huge crowd gathered to catch a glimpse of the actor-politician Sunny Deol and played his famous dialogue from the movie ‘Gadar’ – “Hindustan zindabad tha, zindabad hai, zindabad rahega” in the background as he waved at the crowd.

Earlier this week, actor Sunny Deol followed his footsteps of his step-mother Hema Malini and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. He will be contesting from Gurdaspur. The popular actor, renowned for his roles in superhit movies such a Gadar and Ghatak.

Late actor Vinod Khanna was representing the Gurudaspur constituency till his death in 2017. Vinod Khanna had won Gurudaspur constituency four times in 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014 making him one of the most successful Bollywood actors in electoral politics.

Modi is here to stay, whether the 600 members of ‘intolerant gang’ like it or not

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Modi is here to stay, whether the 600 members of ‘intolerant gang’ like it or not

The people of India are intelligent enough to know who is right for them and who is not and they have been exercising their right to vote for the last 70 years and they will continue to do so. They will never vote for Rahul Gandhi, a dim witted man child, for whom being the PM of this great country is nothing more than a childhood tantrum. The crowds that emerge on the roads of India and polling booths for Narendra Modi do not belong to one sect, but they represent India irrespective of class, creed and religion. Unlike the intolerant group of people with blinkers, they have the ability to differentiate between a false narrative and an honest intention and that is the sole reason Modi has been winning elections and hearts for the last 18years, first as a CM and then as a PM. It is unprecedented to see such kind of fervour for a leader of the nation.

If there was any iota of truth in the narrative that the “Intolerant” group has been trying to peddle for the last 5years, then India would be on the streets stirring up a revolution, just the same way in 2013-14 it happened and the Congress govt was literally thrown out because of a mass movement for it’s massive corruption and treachery.

The Gandhi family has a history of tyranny and anarchy. A little more than 25years ago- the era of Indira Gandhi, that was the Emergency era. Indira and Sanjay Gandhi, the mother-son duo were running the country like their personal fiefdom. Throwing people in jail was very common and their only grievance was, those people weren’t subservient enough. They wanted Kishore Kumar to sing in their private durbar, he refused, he was banned. Journalists, writers, politicians, activists were being thrown into the dungeon because they were not convenient enough for the fancy of the Gandhi parivar. Sanjay Gandhi actually sterilised poor people, because he believed they clearly didn’t have the right to procreate. So your advocacy that the Gandhi parivar is the messiah of the poor is either laughable or stems out of ignorance.

Dear intolerang gang, this kind if inequity might be your kind of freedom but not New India’s.

Then came the era of Rajeev Gandhi, the Sikh killings and the justification, it’s fine if 80000 Sikhs are killed because Rajiv was a man out for cold blooded revenge- so it was rather justified to go on a carnage, might be your idea of humanity, not New India’s. Then Rajiv pioneered the era of corruption- his words, not Modi’s ” out of 100 paise only 15paise reaches the needy”. Corruption became the DNA of Gandhi’s.

But the era of Rahul and Sonia happens to be the crown jewel of the Gandhi dynasty. The mother-son duo ran a govt for 10 years pulling strings of a puppet PM and keeping the seat warm for Rahul Baba. This man’s ignorance and denseness is a must for the history books. But since you 600 odd people, are cheer leading for him, I am sure you can identify with Rahul’s level of the intellect, but majority of the country thankfully can’t. Except Rahul’s sister, who is a hobby politician, the entire family is on bail on corruption charges. They are so inefficient and inept for the job, that they shudder at the name of Modi, fearing humiliating loss, they choose to let Modi literally win uncontested than facing him in the electoral battle. Their this single step says how insincere they are about their job and most importantly about the election. Forget Rahul for a moment, let’s talk about the MahaGathbandhan- the so called coalition who ganged up to fight one man called Modi. The state of the so called MahaGathbandhan is a joke filled with selfish, egoist, power hungry people who could not even come to a consensus in something as simple as seat sharing for elections and these people want to run a coalition, imagine if it were to happen, that would be a royal mess.

You comprise of 600 odd people, your say would have a meaning, if your leader, Rahul Gandhi would have a spine. No one in Mahagathbandhan also is interested in ousting Modi. They are scared and spineless in front of Modi. Spineless creatures crawl they don’t lead. Your “Intolerant” ilk suffers from the Stockholm syndrome- a syndrome that happens when the captured considers the captor as their saviour. It is very difficult for many people who are used to the servitude of the Gandhi family to digest someone who does not have the ruler mentality while seating on the Supreme chair. Servitude is an addiction and unfortunately there aren’t many deaddiction centres. But hopefully, it should wean off with the time and if it doesn’t; then you have to continue behaving like the beast in heat coining agendas and absurd fancy terms like Intolerance.

Let’s get down to hard fact and the cold truth: Modi is here to stay, whether 600 of you like it or not. You are just a small drop of NO in the ocean of YES and your opinion does not really matter to India because come the voting day India will vote for Narendra Damodardas Modi. #BharatBoleNaMoNaMo

Leave Kashmir if Article 370 is bad, no need to take the burden of Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti tells PM Modi

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Leave Kashmir if Article 370 is bad, no need to take the burden of Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti tells PM Modi

On Saturday, PDP president and former Chief Minister of J&K Mehbooba Mufti asked prime minister Narendra Modi to leave Kashmir if he thinks that Article 370 is bad. She was responding to PM saying that Article 370 has done maximum damage to the state.

Mehbooba Mufti said that if PM thinks Kashmir is a financial burden on the country, the state should be let go. She went on to say, “If the prime minister believes that our relationship has a foundation without Article 370 then leave Kashmir. If he thinks Kashmir is staring at bankruptcy then leave Kashmir. Why does he want to take the burden of this bankruptcy?”


PM Modi, in an interview to Aajtak, said that Article 370 and 35A have done maximum damage to the state of Jammu and Kashmir. “We set up AIIMS and IIM in Kashmir but top professors are not ready to go there because they can’t buy property there. The rents there are very high. There is no investment in J&K because investors feel they won’t get land there,” said the PM.

He added that Kashmir is facing bankruptcy, terrorists have ended tourism in the state and people do not invest here due to Article 370 and 35A. On being asked why the BJP wasn’t able to fulfil its promise of removing these articles, he said that people who talk about separation have no right to contest for the elections.

In the BJP manifesto, the party had promised to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35-A of the Indian constitution if they get back to power.

Mehbooba Mufti had claimed that she had fought with the BJP for two years in order to protect Article 370, during the PDP-BJP rule in the state. She said, “I had made it clear to Modi that if they tinker with the special status of the state then PDP will leave the government.”

Mehbooba Mufti had also accused the Congress and the NCP of attempting to reduce the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. When Congress leader Ghulam Nabi became the Chief Minister he sold state land to Amarnath board. NC founder late Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah became the chief minister after signing the 1975 accord with Indira Gandhi.

Mumbai restaurant asks people to ‘think about spicy beef roast’ before voting, deletes Facebook post after public backlash

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Mumbai restaurant asks people to ‘think about spicy beef roast’ before voting, deletes Facebook post after public backlash

A Mumbai based restaurant, ‘Imbiss’ in Bandra had urged the voters to ‘think about that spicy beef roast garnished with pepper’ before voting tomorrow.

Imbiss, Bandra post on Facebook, now deleted

The image was posted on Facebook at 10:27 pm last night and had garnered over 635 shares and 123 comments. However, Imbiss has now deleted the post.

The image was a reference to the 2015 order by the then President of India, Dr Pranab Mukherjee which banned beef in Maharashtra. The bill banned the slaughter of all cattle with exception of water buffaloes. Apparently, the roast beef was one of their most popular items on the menu which was banned post the beef ban.

Imbiss got called out by people that the reference to ‘beef’ has hurt their religious sentiments and that this politicisation of food was uncalled for.

People reacted to Imbiss’ post which hurt their religious sentiments
People reacted to Imbiss’ post which hurt their religious sentiments

Later, in a statement issued by the restaurant, Imbiss has said that it does not support any political party and apologised to the patrons for hurting the religious sentiments.

Imbiss Restaurant apology posted on Facebook

Mumbai, Maharashtra will be voting tomorrow in the fourth phase of voting.

Delhi: Nadeem Khan arrested for posing as CRPF constable at a Delhi metro station, two Aadhaar cards recovered

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Delhi: Nadeem Khan arrested for posing as CRPF constable at a Delhi metro station, two Aadhaar cards recovered

Nadeem Khan, a youth hailing from Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested by the CISF at a Delhi Metro station on Sunday after he was caught masquerading as a CRPF jawan.

According to the reports, Nadeem Khan was intercepted at the Chandni Chowk metro station on Saturday as his activities were found to be suspicious. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) caught the Muslim youth on Saturday at about 8.22 pm. He was wearing the CRPF uniform.

“Upon enquiry, the man did not give any satisfactory reply and was not having any force ID card or any proof of being a force member,” a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official said as reported by PTI.

Shockingly, the arrested youth was caught with two Aadhaar Cards with different dates of birth, father’s name and addresses along with a mobile phone.

Reportedly, Nadeem Khan was not carrying any identity card or any proof of being a force member. He had claimed that he was a trainee at the Central Reserve Police Force training force in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir and that he was on his way to Shamli to attend his mother’s funeral.

However, after the initial investigation, it was found that Nadeem Khan statements were untrue as there was no such trainee of the said name in that RTC. Subsequently, UP Police was also contacted and it was found that his parents are fine.

Nadeem Khan has now been handed over to Delhi Metro Rail Police Station (DMRP) Kashmere gate, to further probe the case and find out his motive.

Fact check: Mayawati lied that Narendra Modi included his caste in OBC list when he was Gujarat CM

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Fact check: Mayawati lied that Narendra Modi included his caste in OBC list when he was Gujarat CM

Launching a personal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati said on Saturday that Modi originally did not belong to backward caste. She alleged that when Narendra Modi was chief minister of Gujarat, he had added his caste to the list of Other Backward Class (OBC). Mayawati said that in order to derive political benefits during elections, Modi got his upper caste included in the list of OBCs.

Narendra Modi belongs to the Modh Ghanchi caste, which is listed as an OBC by the Gujarat government. And a perusal of the records shows that Mayawati clearly lying by saying that his caste was included in the list during the term of Modi as CM of the state. Records show that the Modh Ghanchi caste was classified as OBC in July 1994, much before Modi became chief minister.

On 25th July 1994, the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment had added several castes to the list of OBCs, and Modh Ghanchi was one of them. This was done by issuing a resolution numbered SSP/1194/1411/A dated 25/07/1994. The relevant page of the resolution, which is in Gujarati, has been appended below.

The full resolution can be accessed here on the website of Social Justice and Empowerment department of Gujarat government.

It may be noted that reservations for OBCs were granted only during VP Singh government after the Mandal Commission report. Before that only SCs and STs were eligible for reservation. And the practice of including more castes under the OBC had started after the Mandal Commission report was accepted. Accordingly, respective states had identified OBC castes and included them in the list in the 1990s, and PM’s caste Modh Ghanchi was one of the castes to be listed as OBC in 1994 in Gujarat.

This is not the first time Modi’s OBC status was questioned by the opposition. In 2014 also Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil had alleged that Narendra Modi is a “fake OBC”. He had also claimed Modh Ghanchi caste was not in the OBC list before Modi became CM. At that time, the Gujarat government had issued a clarification saying that Modi’s caste was notified as OBC in 1994 itself.

AAP’s Atishi Marlena appeals to people to vote for goons if it helps to defeat BJP

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AAP’s Atishi Marlena appeals to people to vote for goons if it helps to defeat BJP

Atishi ‘Marx-Lenin’ Marlena, the Aam Aadmi Party candidate from East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, speaking at a meet organised by the Jamia collective, at Tikona Park, Delhi once again voiced her party’s ideologies by saying that in order to defeat BJP even if people have to vote for goons, they should not hesitate.


In the above video, Atishi could be heard saying, “hum sab ki yeh zimmedari banti hai ki humein wahan pe vote aise candidate ko, aisi party ko daalna hai, jo wahan par BJP ko hara sake. Lekin humein yeh bhi pata hai sabko ki yeh ek fact hai ki poore desh bhar mein koi aisi single party nahin hai jo BJP ko hara sake. Alag alag states mein alag alag partiyan hai jo BJP ko hara sakti hai. Jaise UP mein BJP ko sirf SP aur BSP ki coalition hara sakti hai aur koi nahin hara sakta. So if we were UP voters to humein kya karna chahiye tha? Humein apna vote jaa ke SP-BSP ke gathbandhan ko dena chahiye, chaahe unka jaisa bhi candidate ho. Humare ek jaankar hai unse baat ho rahi thi. To kehte hai humare ilake ka candidate gunda hai, main kya karu? I said abhi aankh band kar ke coalition ko daal do vote. Because this is an election jahan par BJP ko harana zaruri hai.”

It is our responsibility that we vote that candidate, that party who could defeat the BJP. But we all know that there is no single party which can take on the BJP and defeat them. So we need to vote for other state parties. Like in UP, only BSP-SP could defeat the BJP. So if we were UP voters what should we do? We should go and vote the SP-BSP candidate, no matter who is the candidate. Someone I know was telling me that my candidate is a gunda (a goon), what should I do? I said just vote for him blindly because it is more important to defeat the BJP, Atishi said.

Marlena was speaking at a talk organised by Jamia Collective. Jamia Collective is an Islamic organisation initiated in the year 2015 with a strength of merely 1577 followers on Facebook. This biased organisation which claims to be the platform of artists and intellectuals and has been a host to several self-proclaimed intellectuals like journalist Saba Naqvi and Javed Akhtar, this time chose the controversial Atishi Marlena as their guest of honour.

The credentials of this so-called youth icon and a revolutionary as claimed by the Lutyens cabal, are as dubious as her last name. Atishi, who had earlier changed her name to ‘Singh’ is back to being ‘Atishi Marlena’ in her 2019 election affidavit.

In August 2018, AAP leader Atishi Marlena had dropped her last name ‘Marlena’ from her name. It was alleged that the name was dropped because it was ‘Christian sounding’, which may not be suitable in her campaign during Lok Sabha elections. The party had denied the allegations, saying that her real surname was Singh and the Marlena surname was given by her parents, which is a combination of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.

Subsequent to this change, the party poster carried only her first name Atishi, and she had changed her Twitter handle from @Atishimarlena to @AtishiAAP. The name was also changed in all party records and campaigning materials and on the AAP website.

In fact, the AAP, a spent force that has been begging Congress, a party with zero MLAs in Delhi for an alliance, had clearly used Atishi as a gizmo to play on the caste and religious sentiments of the voters.

However, AAP party playing such dirty tricks to remain in the competition is not new. In fact, a former journalist turned politician Ashutosh, who quit the AAP on August 15 last year, also alleged that Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party had forced him to mention his last name when he contested 2014 Lok Sabha election from Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi. He further said that despite the fact that he is not using his surname in the public, the party chose to include his surname, which was protested by Ashutosh. He further added that he was advised not to drop his surname as it would be difficult to win because ‘many people of his caste were voters’ in that area.

‘Historian’ Ram Guha gets it wrong, attempts to carry out ‘surgical strike’ on our intellect

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‘Historian’ Ram Guha gets it wrong, attempts to carry out ‘surgical strike’ on our intellect

Nehruvian Historian and left-wing propagandist Ramachandra Guha, who often indulges in distorting historical facts has yet again resorted to similar propaganda claiming that the world ‘surgical strikes’ was first invoked by PM Modi and the army itself did not use the term initially.

In a propaganda post written by Ramachandra Guha in controversial left-wing media The Telegraph, Guha says that it was Narendra Modi government and the propagandists were the first to the term the counter-terror operations inside Pakistan occupied Kashmir as ‘surgical strike’ and claims that the army did not itself use the term to denote it as such.

Image Source: https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/surgical-strike-against-science-and-scholarship/cid/1689471

In a hurry to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ramachandra Guha indulges in creating his own facts as he does so often. However, the fact is the term surgical strikes was first invoked by the Army itself through the DGMO’s press conference on September 29, 2016, after the attacks were carried out inside Pakistan occupied Kashmir and not by Prime Minister Modi himself as accused by Guha.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCKmP4aHNpY?start=210]

Interestingly, Guha’s ideological associate controversial journalist Ravish Kumar had also carried out a debate discussing ‘Surgical strikes’ following the counter-terror operations. By this logic, ‘intellectual’ Ramachandra Guha just ended up referring to Ravish Kumar as Modi’s propagandist’.

Ramachandra Guha, a left-wing historian and a loyalist to the Nehru family is often seen as a controversial figure. Guha has been slammed frequently on social media for falsifying facts and resorting to slander against certain individuals. Ramchandra Guha, who advertises himself as a historian, has been called out various time for inaccuracies in his historical facts and his blind support for the Nehru dynasty.

In November last year, the ABVP had written a memorandum to the Vice-Chancellor demanding the cancellation of Guha’s appointment for being “critical of India’s Hindu culture”. Following the embarrassment, Ramachandra Guha had himself pulled out from teaching assignment citing circumstances ‘beyond his control’.

‘Unemployed’ Kanhaiya Kumar publishes front page ads in newspapers, plagiarises BJP leader’s tagline

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‘Unemployed’ Kanhaiya Kumar publishes front page ads in newspapers, plagiarises BJP leader’s tagline

Despite having award-winning entitled lyricist Javed Akhtar and his wife Shabana Azmi campaign for him, CPI’s Lok Sabha 2019 candidate for Begusarai Kanhaiya Kumar was caught plagiarising BJP leader Devender Kadyan’s tagline, “Neta Nahin Beta”. Kanhaiya Kumar, who has mentioned in his affidavit that he is unemployed was found running a full-page ad on the front page of the newspaper.

CPI’s Kanhaiya Kumar’s front page ad in Jagran on April 27

Kanhaiya Kumar’s tagline ‘neta nahin beta’ is actually BJP leader Devender Kadyan’s tagline, which he has been using for at least a year now.

In fact, he even has a Facebook page with the said tagline.

Devender Kadyan’s ‘Neta Nahin Beta’ Facebook page created in April 2018

Kadyan, a BJP leader from Haryana, was earlier associated with the Congress and was also a General Secretary before he switched sides and joined the BJP earlier this year.

Devender Kadyan image

Ironically, Kanhaiya does not hold high regards for those who give full-page ads in newspapers.


Kanhaiya Kumar’s hypocrisy was called out by many Twitter users who called out the irony in putting out expensive ads when Kanhaiya Kumar claims he is poor and has no money to buy gas cylinder.


Meanwhile, ditched by the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, CPI has fielded Kanhaiya Kumar from Begusarai. The locals of Begusarai have revealed how Kanhaiya Kumar’s goons have beaten them up on his instructions after they waved black flags during his road show.

And now, despite having an ‘anti-Communist’ Javed Akhtar campaign for the self-proclaimed proud communist, Kanhaiya Kumar had to resort to not just stealing someone else’s tagline but also ended up putting out a full front page ad in newspaper he is otherwise critical of.

West Bengal: Poll officials go to CEO over TMC leader’s threats, seek his house arrest for free and fair elections

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West Bengal: Poll officials go to CEO over TMC leader’s threats, seek his house arrest for free and fair elections

An association of poll officials have reportedly approached West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer requesting for stringent measures including a house arrest, against the Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal. Mondal is the TMC’s Birbhum district chief and has been reportedly threatening polling officials to ‘conduct the poll’ in TMC’s favour.

The association of polling officials have sought CEO’s help to conduct free and fair elections. The association, in a written complaint, has reportedly said there is also information of removal of central forces in case they become too active in any booths. The polling officials want the commission to ensure that Mondal is not able to communicate and influence polling process.

Earlier this month, Mondal had appealed to the Election Commission to ‘let him rig the polls‘ and ‘allow’ his people to ‘manage 500-600 votes’ per booth. Last year in September he was caught on camera telling his party workers to frame a local BJP leader in a fake ‘ganja case’. In the video, that had gone viral on social media, the TMC leader could be seen telling party workers that if they are not able to ‘control’ her, they should get her arrested. Mondal is also seen in the video telling the party workers to get the SP on the line so he can pass on the instructions.

Anubrata, like his party leader, seems to be having little regard for the law. In 2013, he had allegedly asked his partymen to throw bombs at police personnel and burn down the houses of panchayat election candidates who are contesting against TMC. during the 2016 assembly elections in the state, he was put under 24-hour police surveillance by the election commission. In 2017, he was caught in a video threatening a police DSP that unless he starts arresting CPM leaders his men will start burning houses.

The Trinamool Congress is notoriously known for electoral violence and other illegalities on the day of the elections. Last year, TMC had won 20,000 seats uncontested in West Bengal Panchayat elections amidst the allegations that the party which fielded its candidates on all rural seats, had prevented the filing of nominations by resorting to violence. The BJP had moved the Supreme Court to interfere in the matter of its party workers not being allowed to file nominations for the Panchayat elections.

Fearing serious violence and electoral irregularities in the West Bengal, the Election Commission of India decided to hold the elections in the state in seven phases starting from April 11 to May 19. The results of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will be declared on May 23

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