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Amit Shah compares Mahagathbandhan to a band of thieves during election rally in Rajasthan

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Amit Shah compares Mahagathbandhan to a band of thieves during election rally in Rajasthan

BJP President Amit Shah yesterday compared the Mahagathbandhan, the proposed alliance of opposition parties against the BJP, with a band of thieves. He said that the Opposition accuses Prime Minister Modi of corruption while actually, it is the Opposition partied that looted the wealth of the country.

Addressing an election rally in Rajasthan, Shah labelled the Mahagathbandhan as a band of 40 thieves, who were thrown out of the villages they looted by a newly-appointed ‘chowkidar’ (Prime Minister Modi).

“All of them united and told the villagers that the chowkidar is the thief. The villagers beat them up and banished them from the village. On the one hand, this Mahagathbandhan is a unity of those who loot the wealth of the public through corrupt means. On the other hand, there is the Narendra Modi government that has safeguarded the nation,” Shah said.

Shah attacked the Congress Party for indulging in corruption that spanned from outer space to below the earth. “In space they did the 2G scam, in the skies they did the AgustaWestland helicopter scam, on land they did the Adarsh Society scam, the scam involving the purchase of submarines spread their corruption to the seas and they stole coal from below the earth. Their corruption can be seen everywhere, today they are questioning us?” Shah said.

“During his 10-year term, intruders would enter the country from all fronts and carry out their acts of terrorism and no one used to do anything. During Modi ji’s government, after terrorists killed and burnt our soldiers alive in Uri, he directed the Army to carry out surgical strikes. Our Army exacted revenge for our soldiers’ deaths by carrying out that operation in Pakistan,” said Shah criticising Congress for their poor handling of terrorist activities during former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government.

Shah spoke about how Modi-led government’s initiative to introduce the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam led to over 40 lakh immigrants being recognised as immigrants and promised to cleanse the entire nation of such illegal immigrants if BJP is elected to power in Rajasthan.

Rajasthan goes t polls on Dec 7 and the results of the elections will be out on Dec 11.

No, Times Now, Yogi Adityanath did not say Lord Hanuman was a Dalit

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No, Times Now, Yogi Adityanath did not say Lord Hanuman was a Dalit

Remember the shoddy and bizarre ‘research’ on fake news in India by BBC where they misinterpreted ‘Diwaliya kanoon’ as ‘law changed during Diwali’? Times Now had its own BBC moment today.

Times Now tweet claiming Yogi said Lord Hanuman was a Dalit

‘Lord Hanuman was Dalit who united India from east to west, north to south: UP CM Yogi Adityanath in Rajasthan’ screamed Times Now tweet. In the article, Times Now has embedded a video where Yogi Adityanath could be heard saying that to vote for Ram Kishan (BJP candidate in Alwar) should be ‘Bajrangi sankalp‘ (vow like Lord Hanuman).

From 00:17, Yogi Adityanath could be heard saying,

Bajrangbali humari bharatiya parampara mein ek aise lok devta hai, jo swayam parvasi hai, nirvasi hai… <pause>

Dalit hai, vanchit hai, sab ko le kar ke, sabhi poore bharatiya samuday ko uttar se le ke dakshin tak, purab se pashchim tak, sab ko jodne ka kaarya bajrangbali karte hai. aur isiliye bajrangbali ka sankalp hona chahiye.

As can be heard above, Yogi Adityanath said, “In Indian tradition, Bajrangbali is loved by all, lives in a forest and has no place to call it home. The Dalits, the deprived, He (Lord Hanuman) takes them all, everyone in the Indian community, from the north to the south, from the east to the west, together. Bajrangbali has carried out the task of uniting everyone. Hence, (voting for BJP) should be a Bajrangi sankalp (vow). Unlike Times Now, which has misquoted Yogi Adityanath.

While Yogi did call Lord Hanuman as a god who lives in the forest, he did not call Him a Dalit. He, in fact, said that how Lord Hanuman does not discriminate his devotees and takes all strata of people along.

The media’s obsession with Dalit politics and using it to fan tension is not new. There have been several cases of atrocities on Dalits by Muslims which have been summarily ignored by the media because it doesn’t conform to the narrative of ‘Hindus oppressing Dalits’. It was not long ago that the media had concocted the story of a Dalit man being murdered for riding a horse, but it turned out to be false.

Times Now’s lack of comprehension skills in interpreting what Yogi Adityanath said is rather unfortunate.

Ganga cleaning got a major boost, the river got rid of waste from Asia’s largest sewer

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Ganga cleaning got a major boost, the river got rid of waste from Asia’s largest sewer

Cleaning of river Ganga got a major boost when the engineers in Kanpur finally got rid of waste from Sissamau Nalla, diverting it to Jajamau sewage treatment plant. The drain was reputed to be Asia’s largest and is about 128 years old. The completion of this project marks is expected to have a profound impact on the Namami Gange project.


Earlier, 14 crores liters of sewage was being emptied in the Ganga, but recently 8 crore liters of sewage was being sent back to the STP. However, it was a herculean task for the engineers to stop the remaining 6 crore liters of sewage from getting drained in Ganga because the velocity of the drain was similar to a canal. The JNNURM’s Dotted Pipeline along with the British era Dot Nala are on the same route. This had made it difficult to pump sewage water to the STP 9.5 kilometers away from the slopes. This was one of the most important projects under Namami Gange initiative.

Last Month, Ganga was salvaged from sewage from two other drains around Kanpur. The water department had started sending waste from Mure mills and Nawabganj drain to Jajamau plant for treatment. This has prevented the release of about 2.25 crore litres of toxic waste into Ganga. In addition, a nearby sewage drain Dabka Nallah which used to excrete 30 lakh liters of waste in Ganga was closed. The Jajamau treatment plant purges the waste fluids and releases the purified water into Ganga.

The CM of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat on Tuesday examined Namami Gange projects in a meeting held in the secretariat. The officials apprised him of the details of the projects going on to cleanse the river Ganga. He claimed, 15 projects out of the 32 projects on the banks of the river Ganga have been completed. Officials informed him that the work in the remaining 16 projects is underway and tendering process is initiated in the remaining one. According to them, the work on the 3.65Km sewer line on Arihant Vihar, Vishnu Garden and Kankhal is under progress.

The National Mission for Clean Ganga is the implementation wing of National Ganga Council which was set up in October 2016 with an aim to clean Ganga and its tributaries in a comprehensive manner.

Namami Ganga, a flagship programme was sanctioned by the Modi government in June 2014 with a budget outlay of ₹20,000 crore to accomplish the twin objectives of effective reduction of pollution, conservation, and rejuvenation of the Ganga. Sewage Treatment Infrastructure, River-Front Development, River-Surface Cleaning, Bio-Diversity, and Industrial Effluent Monitoring are some of the areas on which Namami Ganga initiatives are based.

Jack Dorsey under investigation for potential falsities in his testimony about censorship on Twitter

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Jack Dorsey under investigation for potential falsities in his testimony about censorship on Twitter

According to The Federalist, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is reviewing whether Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gave false statements under oath during his testimony before the committee in September. It is a federal crime to provide false testimony to Congress.

The hearing was about Twitter’s alleged arbitrary censorship of content published on the site. Conservatives have often accused the platform of discrimination and silencing their voices to favour the progressives. Twitter is known to suspend Conservative accounts with an alarming frequency.

“The committee is aware of Twitter’s actions and is currently reviewing Mr Dorsey’s testimony,” an aide working for the committee aide told The Federalist after Twitter suddenly banned Jesse Kelly, a Marine combat veteran, writer, and popular radio talk show host, without explanation.

An aide working for the committee provided a statement to Breitbart News also confirming the development. It is unclear whether it is the same aide who leaked the news to The Federalist.

The statement to Breitbart News states:

“The committee is aware of Twitter’s actions and is currently reviewing Mr. Dorsey’s testimony. However, Twitter has not yet provided responses to members’ questions for the record, despite an October 15th deadline. It is important that Congress receive this requested information to ensure we are able to properly perform our oversight responsibilities. We believe Twitter and other tech companies should be forthright with Congress and the American people in an effort to shed light on often opaque rules and processes. Transparency and trust are essential components of our increasingly digital communication channels.”

“I want to start by making something very clear,” Dorsey had testified on September 5, 2018. “We don’t consider political viewpoints, perspectives, or party affiliation in any of our policies or enforcement decisions, period.” “Our policies and our algorithms don’t take into consideration any affiliation, philosophy, or viewpoint,” Dorsey said again later in the hearing.

Twitter’s ‘hateful conduct’ policy reveals a definite progressive bias. The platform has now banned ‘misgendering’ and ‘deadnaming’ after modifying its policy. ‘Misgendering’ means referring to a transgender person with the ‘wrong pronouns’, that is, pronouns that the person hasn’t chosen for himself or herself. ‘Deadnaming’ refers to addressing a transgender person by their pre-transition name. These are extreme radical leftist ideas which are not endorsed by even mainstream leftists. Feminist Meghan Murphy was banned from Twitter for saying men aren’t women. Under such circumstances, it will be very hard for Jack Dorsey to argue that Twitter does not discriminate against common sense mainstream conservative beliefs.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been having a bad time lately. He created a furore in India by posing with a placard that declared ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’, an extremist Leftist trope of demonizing an entire community. Twitter India’s legal head apologized profusely to everyone for hurting their sentiments. As a platform, Twitter appears to fully embrace the ideology of Postmodernism. A local court in Jodhpur, Rajasthan has also admitted a plea against Dorsey over the anti-Brahmin placard.

Assembly elections: Telangana’s first transwoman candidate goes missing, kidnap suspected

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Assembly elections: Telangana’s first transwoman candidate goes missing, kidnap suspected

A transwoman activist, Chandramukhi Muvvala (32), contesting Telanaga assembly elections on a CPI(M)-led Bahujan Left Front or BLF ticket from the Goshamahal constituency in Old Hyderabad, went missing from her home on Tuesday.

A press release issued by a coalition, the Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti, said Chandramukhi was untraceable all day and was feared to have been kidnapped.

“We fear for her safety and condemn the lack of safety measures organised for her and for other women and transgender candidates, which acts as a strong force that dissuades transgender persons and women from joining politics. Chandramukhi’s campaign kicked off just one day before she went missing,” the press release stated.

A missing person complaint has been filed at the Banjara Hills police station. The FIR stated that her phone was switched off after she met her mother on Monday night. Her lawyer, MA Shakeel, reportedly said he will file a petition in the Hyderabad high court on Wednesday.

As an activist with ‘Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti’, Chandramukhi had reportedly raised her voice against atrocities upon members of her community and had always firmly voiced her opinions at rallies and public meetings, upholding the self-respect of transgenders. Her decision to contest the elections was also a decision that she felt would help the entire community, her followers confirmed, demanding that police act immediately to trace her.

Muvvala is the first and only transgender woman to contest in Telangana Assembly elections. She is contesting against the incumbent BJP MLA T Raja Singh, Mukesh Goud from Congress and Prem Singh Rathore from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).

Meanwhile, the candidate of the Samajwadi Forward Bloc contesting from Gajwel constituency, K Dinesh Chakravarthy had also gone missing on November 22 soon after filing the nomination. He was, however, traced and produced before the Hyderabad high court on November 27.

Amidst the Telangana assembly election pressure, it was earlier reported how Congress candidate for Gajwel assembly constituency, Vanteru Pratap Reddy allegedly made a futile self-immolation attempt to prevent the police from conducting a search in his house at Kompally, on alleged charges of distributing money to buy votes. He had attacked the TRS government for trying to intimidate him ahead of Telangana elections.

Telangana constituency, presently represented by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) goes into polls on December 7. Results would be declared on December 11 along with the results of the other poll-bound states, namely Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan.

During Congress regime, Rs 90,000 crore was looted every year using 6 crore bogus names: PM Modi

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During Congress regime, Rs 90,000 crore was looted every year using 6 crore bogus names: PM Modi

Launching a scathing attack on Congress, prime minister Narendra Modi said that new methods to loot public money were invented during the Congress regime. He said the current government have detected so many loopholes in earlier processes that it is unbelievable. Now that the Modi government is locking down those holes, the Congress party is furious on him, Modi said. He said that is the reason why the Congress party is making personal attacks on him and his parents.

Addressing an election rally in Rajasthan, Modi said that during the Congress rule, women who did not exist were getting a regular pension, households that did not exist were having ration cards and getting subsidised items. Narendra Modi informed that so far, the government have identified 6 crore such bogus names, which were used to syphon out ₹90,000 crore of public funds every year. Modi also added that all this happened when the government was being run by a remote control.


Modi also said that while the Congress leadership pretends to care for the poor, they have no knowledge of how poor people live. He said that people who don’t even know whether chana (chickpea) grows on a tree or shrub, who don’t know the difference between moong and masoor, are roaming around teaching farming to others.


Modi emphasised that he is just like any other common man, saying he lived his life like others, like everyone else he was not born with a silver spoon. He said his parents didn’t rule the country like common people, taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi. He said such elite people don’t know how a firewood stove is used, they do not know what is smoke. He has seen his mother using such stoves, and the resultant smoke that brought tears in the eyes. That is how he got the inspiration to launch the Ujjwala scheme, Modi said.

Polling for assembly election in Rajasthan will take place on 7th December.

‘Aren’t easy to come by’: Christian zealot Chau travelled without missionary visa to convert the Sentinelese

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‘Aren’t easy to come by’: Christian zealot Chau travelled without missionary visa to convert the Sentinelese

As per a new report on the Washington Post, the Missionary organization John Allen Chau belonged to was aware that he had travelled to India as a tourist without a proper missionary visa because they “aren’t easy to come by”. Chau was the Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese tribe when he attempted to convert them to Christianity at the North Sentinel Island.

Mary Ho, the international executive leader of All nations, a missionary organization that sends evangelicals to 40 countries, said that the group provided him with training and support. As per the report, she was “surprised by the “soft-spoken, very gentle young man” who had a very “radical call” to find “unreached groups.” Ho said further, “You could see that every decision he has made, every step he has taken since then was driven by his desire to be among the North Sentinelese people.” Contrary to Indian authorities, Ho insists that Chau had not violated any laws.

Others interviewed in the report agreed that Chau was obsessed with the Sentinelese tribe and it was his ambition to convert the uncontacted tribe to Christianity. His friend, John Middleton Ramsey, claims that Chau was aware that what his actions were not legal. “He knew of the dangers of this place,” Ramsey said as per the report. “He didn’t want any hearts to get broken should something go wrong. He was very much aware of what he was doing. He also knew it wasn’t exactly legal.”

As we have reported earlier, Christian missionaries zealously believe that Judgment Day will arrive only when every people group in the world has some number of Christians. Zealot Christians have also dubbed Chau who risked wiping out the entire Sentinelese tribe, a ‘martyr‘ for the cause of Jesus. He wanted to ‘establish the Kingdom of Jesus on the island’. It appears that the religious zealotry of the Christian evangelical community contributed significantly towards Chau’s ultimate fate.

Congress comes up with its first ‘EVM tampered’ theory in the ongoing Assembly elections season

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Congress comes up with its first ‘EVM tampered’ theory in the ongoing Assembly elections season

In Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari, Congress has registered its first protest with the state Chief Electoral Officer alleging EVM tampering. Suspecting EVM tampering massive protests had erupted outside a strong room where EVMs were kept before counting. The protestors complained that a tehsildar and few others had entered the strong room on Tuesday.

As per reports, Anand Pawar, an independent candidate sat on a dharna outside the strong room after a tehsildar, two patwaris and technicians allegedly entered the room for replacing the CCTV monitor installed outside the strong room. However, officials tried to pacify the protestors by saying that they would be provided with the CCTV footage to show no tampering is taking place.

State Congress unit led a delegation of leaders including state in-charge P L Punia, state head Bhupesh Baghel, Campaign Committee chairman Charandas Mahant and others to the Chief Electoral Officer’s residence last evening. However, after they were informed that the officer is at his office, the delegation reached the office. They alleged EVM tampering since the tehsildar and others were inside the strong room for a couple of hours with mobile phones and laptops.

Congress’ obsession with EVMs has reached such level that a few days back, a Congress worker died of cold after being outdoors for hours in a bid to ‘protect the EVMs’.

Elections were held in Chhattisgarh in two phases, with polling concluded on 20th November. The results will be declared on 11th December 2018 along with other states, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana.

Ganapathi, the Maoist chief for over 16 years quits citing heath issues, Basavraj to take over: Reports

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Ganapathi, the Maoist chief for over 16 years quits citing heath issues, Basavraj to take over: Reports

Muppala Lakshman Rao, 72, alias Ganapathi, the general secretary of CPI (Maoist) has stepped down, paving the way for his second-in-command Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavraj, 63, to take over the post.

The change of guard has been anticipated ever since the party’s Central Committee meeting was held in Feb 2017, and a resolution on ‘veteran comrades’ was passed asking senior leadership to voluntarily step down from their responsibilities because of their age.

Though there are rumours that the change was due to ideological differences, it is being expected that the Maoists wanted a younger leader to take charge.

The change took place about two months ago, and it was authenticated by a surrendered Maoist, who surrendered himself with an AK-47 in Chhattisgarh recently, after the murders of Araku MLA Kidari Sarveswara Rao and former MLA Siveri Soma in Andhra Pradesh.

The TDP leaders were killed near Livitiput village in Dumbriguda Mandal in Visakhapatnam agency by a 40-member Maoist crack team on September 23. The killing bore the signature of Basavraj and the involvement of PLGA (People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army), which is headed by Basavraj, was established.

Basavraj was earlier heading the Central Military Commission, the fighting force of the Maoists, and is known to be a field strategist with good knowledge of explosives and guerrilla warfare.

Basavraj is from Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh and is a graduate from the former Regional Engineering College in Warangal, which is now called NIT-Warangal. Ganapathi is the son of a farmer from Birpur village in Telangana’s Jagtial and holds a B.Sc. and a B.Ed. degree from a Karimnagar college.

It was Ganapathi who played a key role in the formation of the present outfit, the CPI (Maoist), after the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), People’s War (People’s War Group) and the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI), in 2004.

The Naxalite movement started in 1967 in West Bengal as a response to the exploitation of tribals by landlords in Naxalbari. The lack of governance in deep forests and tribal areas led to the growth of the movement. It can be seen even today, that deep-set tribal areas in the hearts of Chhattisgarh and Srikakulam have a heavy presence of Naxalites or Maoists.

However, due to continuous efforts of the police forces and the government, the Naxalites are losing their grip. The party’s influence is now limited to the forests of and around Chhattisgarh.

Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, on November 16, during his two-day election campaign in Chattisgarh had assured that the menace of Naxalism will end in next three to five years. Talking to reporters Rajnath Singh said, “Naxalism will end in next three to five years. The surrender process is continuous and the government has decided to make the rehabilitation policy more effective.”

Singh said that Maoism is going through its last phase and it has been reduced from ninety districts to ten or eleven districts. He appealed to the Maoists to surrender and assured them of providing benefits of rehabilitation policy being pursued by the government.

Earlier, the US State Department had released statistical data collected globally in its annual report on terrorism in which the Communist Party of India (Maoist) was ranked as the 4th deadliest terror organisation in the world with a total of 295 attacks causing 206 deaths, 212 injuries and 125 kidnappings.

In the last few years, the NDA government has managed to inflict heavy losses on the left-wing terrorism not only in the strategic geographical hold but also by cutting off their support system by tackling funding channels and encouraging tribals of Naxal infested areas to join the mainstream.

The Wire misreports survey to show Rahul Gandhi is preferred over PM Narendra Modi by MP voters

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The Wire misreports survey to show Rahul Gandhi is preferred over PM Narendra Modi by MP voters

As the election season begins in the country, the leftist propaganda website, The Wire seems to be back to its usual propaganda of publishing fake news. The Wire, which has a complicated relationship with the truth has now published another report, where it invents fake data from a CSDS-Lokniti survey to claim that Congress President Rahul Gandhi is more liked than Narendra Modi in the Madhya Pradesh.

The Wire, in its dishonest article, has claimed that the recently conducted Lokniti-CSDS Pre Election Surveys has pointed out that Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s likeability in Madhya Pradesh is much higher than Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Wire in an urgency to invent new narrative right before the state goes to polls seems to have found it tough to comprehend the data published by the CSDS-Lokniti. It has used the data of these pre-election surveys and blatantly misused the data to propagate Rahul Gandhi’s fake ratings, while the actual survey predicts the opposite.

The pre-election survey conducted by Lokniti-CSDS in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chattisgarh suggest completely opposite of what controversial website, The Wire claims in its report. The survey suggests that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was found to be highly liked in all three states. It must be mentioned here the CSDS does not have a very good track record of predicting elections and has often been highly skewed towards the Congress and its allies. In fact, Yogendra Yadav is himself seen as an anti-Modi public figure.

The Lokniti-CSDS survey predicts that PM Narendra Modi’s popularity is high in Madhya Pradesh compared to Rahul Gandhi, opposite to what The Wire suggests. In the survey, 39%  and 25% of the respondents have either “highly liked Modi” or “somewhat like Modi” respectively compared to 33% and 30% to Rahul Gandhi in the same criteria. The data shows that Narendra Modi is leading Rahul Gandhi against the narrative published by the website, which says “Gandhi is liked more than Prime Minister Narendra Modi” in Madhya Pradesh.

Image Source: Lokniti-CSDS survey
The CSDS-Lokniti survey clear projects Narendra Modi is more liked than Rahul Gandhi.

The Lokniti-CSDS suggests that Prime Minister Modi’s popularity might be slightly lesser than Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, but its higher than the likeability of the Congress President Rahul Gandhi.

Interestingly, for the post of Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chauhan despite facing anti-incumbency of 15 years rule in the state tops the list of preference for the post of chief minister with 37% compared to 24% for Scindia.

According to CSDS-Lokniti survey, Shivraj Singh Chauhan leads the CM race in Madhya Pradesh

The Wire in its attempt to discredit BJP leadership has yet again resorted to invent new data and publish factually incorrect reports to suit their agenda. The controversial leftist propaganda website has time and again resorted to publishing fake news, defamatory articles against individuals with a different ideological viewpoint. Recently, Anil Ambani-led Reliance group has sued leftist propaganda website The Wire for Rs. 6,000 crore over its coverage of the Rafale deal.

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