On Tuesday (14th November), the Congress party courted controversy after it mistook the Hindu festival of Govardhan Puja for ‘Bhai Dooj’.
In a tweet (archive), the official X handle of the grand old party claimed, “Greetings to every citizen on the occasion of Bhai Dooj, which celebrates the love between brother and sister.”
As per Hindu traditions, ‘Bhai Dooj‘ will be observed this year on Wednesday (15th November). In fact, Govardhan Puja (also called Annakut) will be conducted on Tuesday (14th November).
सभी देशवासियों को भाई-बहन के परस्पर प्रेम के प्रतीक पर्व 'भाई दूज' की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं। pic.twitter.com/KBFIjqIpGz
On this day, Hindus worship Lord Krishna for lifting the Govardhan parvat (hill) and protecting the villagers from the wrath of Lord Indra. However, the Congres party conveniently passed off Govardhan Puja as ‘Bhai Dooj.’
Netizens were clearly miffed at the grand old party for being oblivious and indifferent towards Hindu traditions. One X user wrote, “Bhai Dooj will not be celebrated today. This tweet shows clear ignorance about Bharatiya culture and traditions.”
On Friday (10th November), Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam lashed out at his own party, alleging that there are some leaders in the party who hate Lord Ram and Hindus.
“I don’t have personal animosity towards anyone but I have felt that there are some leaders in Congress who hate not only hate the Ram Mandir but also hate even the name of Lord Ram. These leaders not only hate Hindutva but also hate the word ‘Hindu’, they want to insult Hindu religious gurus. They don’t like that there should be a Hindu religious guru in the party,” he was heard saying.
On 12th November (Sunday), Congress started peddling a claim that Union Home Minister Amit Shah was met with an indifferent attitude by voters during his address at a rally. According to the purported video shared by several Congress leaders and its sympathisers, it was claimed that when a senior BJP leader asked voters to complete the sloganeering and said ‘Congress party’, he was astounded to hear “Congress Party Zindabad’ from the large gathering.
The party insinuated that it was a major embarrassment for the BJP leader and evidence of the fact that Congress will form a government in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. However, on 13th November, taking to X, BJP leader and National Secretary BJYM, Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga announced that the video shared by Congress-affiliated handles was faked. He also asserted that he would file a case against Congress leader Supriya Shrinate for sharing these false claims attributed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The BJP leader also shared an unedited version of the incident in which a large gathering could be heard saying Congress party Murdabad, albeit with an apparent lack of synchronization. However, Shah asked voters not to raise Murdabad sloganeering, as can be heard from the video of the incident.
Fake news pedllar is always scared to show the truth to spread hate and lies.
A new global toolkit by the left-liberals seems to be in the making, this time by using the Israel-Hamas war as an excuse to further the radical Islamist agenda of terrorist sympathisers. A group named “The Solidarity Movement” is set to organise so-called demonstrations across at least 9 cities in India on 14th November. While the protests are said to be pro-Palestine, it is evident that the march is pro-Hamas as well, given that we found rhetoric refusing to acknowledge Hamas as a terror group by the founder.
Screenshot of “The Solidarity Movement” page on Instagram
According to several posts shared by the group on Instagram, the demonstrations were scheduled for Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Calicut, Kolkata, Bangalore, and Kochi. The timings given for the protests range from 8 AM to 10 PM. While the post sharing details of the demonstration in Mumbai was deleted last night, an update was posted on their Instagram account informing about the change of venue of the demonstration.
Screenshot of The Solidarity Movement sharing story about update in Mumbai demonstration venue
However, as of this morning, the demonstrations stood cancelled in Pune as per the update on their Instagram account.
Screenshot of post informing about cancellation of demonstration in Bengaluru
Demonstration by The Solidarity Movement not granted permission and stood cancelled as of this morning in Pune
While the larger narrative and agenda appear to be the same from the details available on the group’s Instagram account, some details of the demonstration vary in different cities.
The agenda of the solidarity march
The Solidarity Movement has shared one post each for every city where the demonstrations are being organised. The details about how the demonstrations will be held are largely the same for every city and have been explained over 9 pages on their Instagram posts.
Screenshot of “The Solidarity Movement” post shared by the page on Instagram with details of demonstration planned in Kolkata
Page 1 is titled “Rise India” and includes the timing, date, and location of the demonstration. Page 2 has point-by-point guidelines for the participants, calling them to gather nationwide in large numbers at public places at the same time, same day, and in multiple cities. The idea is to launch or give the picture that they are launching a life-changing event that for some reason should directly concern Indians.
Screenshot of page 2 of “The Solidarity Movement’s” modus operandi for the 14th November demonstrations in “solidarity with Palestine”
Demonstrators have been told to carry watermelons for the event. The fruit with a red interior, green outer layer, and black seeds represent the colours of the Palestinian flag. The demonstrations have also been told to launch a social media storm for the event throughout the day by tagging ‘The Solidarity Movement’, which has called itself “a citizen collective to host all of our actions”.
The guidelines also instruct participants to “have at least four lawyers to calmly deal with disruptors or police”. The guidelines instruct demonstrators to wear black as an expression to call for a ceasefire. Lastly, a specific guideline is set that all demonstrations across the 10 cities will be “united by a common ritual”, the detail of which is given on page 3 of the Instagram post.
“The Ritual is to use our breath to honour the lives of those innocent civilians who were martyred by chanting their names in a communal prayer. We refuse to diminish them to just a number and vow to uplift their memory as a blessing.”
Screenshot of page 3 of the post by The Solidary Movement calling for a “communal prayer” on 14th November
Notice the words “communal prayer”, and the next page, that is, page 4 of the post, shows a video as an example demonstrating the ritual. The video is of pro-Palestinians in New York protesting outside The New York Times office by reading the names of the Palestinians killed in the Israel-Hamas war published on the mock newspaper copies of “The New York War Crimes”.
Screenshot from page 4 of The Solidarity Movement’s Instagram post showing a video for an example on how to show solidarity with Palestine.
Page 5 of The Solidarity Movement’s Instagram post has some notes where it calls the demonstrations a “citizen-led solidarity collective”. It then decries how “not all cities have the liberty to exercise their basic right to gather to mourn/protest or be in the community due to the current political climate amplified with the upcoming elections, despite our democratic laws stating that we can”.
Screenshot of page 5 of The Solidarity Movement’s post sharing notes about the demonstrations
The language of this text is not something that we haven’t seen before and it is safe to say that one can look forward to the Modi-bashing as it mentions “current political climate”, a phrase used to spread propaganda that intolerance has somehow risen in India under PM Modi.
The note also has a provocative tone when it reads, “Therefore, in some cities, standing up for humanity and against genocide is an act of civil disobedience. Those who choose to show up are aware of the risks involved and the courage it takes.”
It would essentially appear that the organisers of these protest are using the Israel-Hamas war to perhaps further the Muslim persecution false narrative in India and thereby instigate the Muslims in India as well.
This coming from a group of people ready with lawyers. However, they also admit at the end of the note that they have come up with a “clever plan to minimise the disruption and consequences authorities can exert over us”. That plan is on page 6 of the post.
Screenshot of page 6 from The Solidarity Movement’s post sharing the plan for the demonstrations
“The Plan” instructs demonstrators to “be in clusters of 6-10 people sitting slightly spaced out but in the common area. Everyone is a copy of the list of martyrs on their phones. One person in each group is the Reader who will say the name of the martyr and their age. A list of names of those who have died in Gaza has been shared, which includes 6,747 names. However, the problem is that the list has been taken from the Gaza Health Ministry which is essentially run by Hamas.
“Everyone else to repeat as a form of prayer. Engage in this ritual for one hour at least knowing that you stand united with thousands of Indians in different cities doing exactly the same ritual in that point of time,” the plan concludes by calling for peaceful dispersion.
On page 7, “The Plan” has also been explained in the form of an image of the clusters they have asked participants to form.
Image of the cluster shared in the post by The Solidarity Movement as an example
Now comes the problematic part of this nationwide demonstration. On page 8, The Solidarity Movement says, “November 14 is celebrated as Children’s Day in India.” This explains that the group has chosen Children’s Day in India and linked it with the death of children in Gaza to justify the demonstrations. If you still wonder why that is still a problem, there’s more.
On page 8 of the post, Children’s Day in India on 14th November combined with death of children in Palestine to create a narrative and prompt response for the demonstrations organised by Hamas-supporting group The Solidarity Movement
Meanwhile, the post ends with the same “Rise India” logo, which has a (false) Palestine map-shaped piece of watermelon for an I as in Rise, and a “Yallah!”
One of the details that raises suspicion is that the location of the protest in Ahmedabad has not been disclosed. For the demonstration planned in Ahmedabad, the post reads, “Exact location disclosed only upon RSVP. DM us!”
Location for demonstration in Ahmedabad not disclosed
The post about the Kochi demonstration reveals an even more sinister plan. “The Solidarity Movement” has called for children to join the protests along with their parents. “Calling out to all the children, the parents, and all citizens to demand together, CEASEFIRE NOW,” the post reads.
It goes on to mention the deceased children to emotionally appeal to users on the social media platform to join in the protests. The post shows a Palestinian boy with injuries and hands on his back. “Are you wondering who this 10 years old Palestinian boy, Handala, is?”
The Solidarity Movement is dragging children into the demonstrations planned in Kochi
A long emotional description of this Palestinian boy’s life has been used to give out a call for Indian children to join the demonstrations. The group is essentially calling for Indian children to make themselves a part of, and take sides in an ongoing global conflict!
The group has openly, in its post on the Kochi demonstration, admitted that it aims to direct the thinking of young Indian children, at least those who might partake in the protests, as per its worldview. “Here is an invitation to come raise a citizenry of children who are aware of what’s happening around them and help them refine their understanding of the world through enabling them on how to think critically, centering empathy for all human beings”.
Another post shared by the page mentions that they have been receiving requests from Jaipur, Goa, Pondicherry, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Kolkata to organise the demonstrations. It then goes on to mention how the same can be organised by locals.
As if marketing itself like a protest-organising firm, the page shares four steps to organise the demonstrations. “We provide outreach support/legal advice/leadership support/connections to the nationwide organiser network/funding support/whatever you need!” the post reads.
What or Who is The Solidarity Movement?
A light digging revealed that the Hamas sympathising group on Instagram was formed in October itself, like many other pro-Palestinian groups that suddenly began to crop up on the social media website peddling the Hamas agenda. However, it has no presence, at least not in the same name, on Facebook and Twitter.
Date shows that The Solidarity Movement was found just last month
A little more research led to its founders namely, Pooja Pradeep and Aysha Zabha, the details about whom have been given in the RSVP link shared by the former on her Instagram bio. On the RSVP, the name “India-Palestine Solidarity Space” appears.
Screenshot of the RSVP shared by Pooja Pradeep on her Instagram bio
However, even though the RSVP provides the link to the Instagram handle of Aysha Zabha, it does not seem to exist anymore. Another point that raises suspicion.
According to the details on the RSVP, Pooja Prashant is the founder of the so-called movement and is an “educator” and “civil organiser who works in the international conflict transformation space with significant experience working with Israeli and Palestinian communities”.
What the bio does not tell you is Pooja Prashant has very anti-Israel views. In one of many such posts on Instagram, she has used the following hashtags, that is, “#istandwithisrael #ireallydont #thethingsihavetodo #UGH.” In another such post, she shares images from what looks like a small Jewish settlement in Fort Kochi, as per information on her post. The first few images show Hebrew language and Jewish symbols and the last image in this post shows Jesus Christ with the quote, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
Pooja Prashant has captioned this post as, “Shalom, y’all. Go to the last slide and say it with me. NOPE,” expressing her disagreement with the quote with regards to Israel.
Screenshot of The Solidarity Movement founder Pooja Pradeep’s anti-Israel post
While on one hand, Pooja is a vocal supporter of Pinarayi Vijayan-led CPI(M) government in Kerala, on the other hand, she justifies terrorist group Hamas by saying that “Hamas is not a terrorist organisation according to Indian law and policy.”
A story highlight shared by pooja pradeep on her instagram profile hailing the left government in Kerala
A story highlight shared by pooja pradeep on her instagram profile defending Hamas
The intention behind “The Solidarity Movement” demonstrations scheduled for 14th November is clear upon seeing this story post shared by Pooja wherein she writes, “Hindutva is Zionism of our country”.
A story on Instagram shared by Pooja Pradeep saying “Hindutva is the Zionism of our country”
A post on the page calls for donations and has mentioned a Dr Farhan Kabeer for the same. His Instagram bio shows he is a prosthodontist and dental surgeon and also an artist.
Dr Farhan Kabeer, an orthodontist and artist for The Solidarity Movement and is also collecting the donations for them
Moreover, a man named ashfaque_ej on Instagram, who has promoted the upcoming demonstrations, has shared posts on his Instagram story demanding “Azadi”. Yes, it seems a new breed of Umar Khalids and Kanhaiya Kumars are in the making behind this so-called “solidarity” for Palestine.
A supporter of The Solidarity Movement has shared a story using the anti-national “Azadi” slogan chanted by the Kanhaiya Kumar and cabal in JNU a few years ago
An Instagram user named Saloni Chopra has also promoted the event. She is an “Indian-Australian actor”.
Screenshot of a post by another supporter of The Solidarity Movement
In one of her posts, she mentions how she has decided to not celebrate Diwali because of the Israel-Hamas war. “No Diwali this year for me. Didn’t have the heart to celebrate it. I could barely get through the posts on my feed because the big gorgeous lehangas and party celebrations were all mixed up with updates of displaced G*zan Journalists and civilians crying….,” she goes on.
These are the people behind the demonstrations slated for 14th November.
The questionable timing of the protests
Calls for a “global intifada” have been made for some weeks now by pro-Hamas lobbyists around the world. Naturally, Greta Thunberg has been one of the vocal lobbyists with her sharing the stage with a Hamas-backing bigot named Sara Rachdan.
Several protests in “solidarity with Palestine” have also been organised in Kerala. At one such event, a former Hamas chief made a virtual address giving the call to “Bulldoze Hindutva, unroot Zionism”. A recent rally organised in Kochi was by The Solidarity Movement.
What’s more interesting is just how closely these demonstrations are being organised around the world in terms of dates. An Instagram page named free.palestine.nl (Netherlands) – which, by the way, was also formed in October – has posted details of a demonstration to be organised at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam on 14th November at 6 PM local time.
Demonstrations planned in Amsterdam on 14th November in solidarity with Palestine
The Palestinian Students Union at Columbia University is set to organise a demonstration “in solidarity” on 14th November. The page sharing this information, named cu_dar, too, has been formed this very month. They have asked participants to wear the Kaffiyeh, which symbolises support for Palestine.
The funding for The Solidarity Movement
The donate post on The Solidarity Movement account says that the fundraiser will be closed if their goal is met and the donors will be redirected to Palestine Red Crescent and/or other credible aid organisations’ fundraisers doing “God’s work on the ground in Gaza”.
A cursory look at the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reveals that under the guise of running and providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, the PRCS uses victimisation as grounds for demonising Israel which is waging an all-out war on Hamas.
⭕ The child Reem was injured during the aggression on #Gaza, and she was receiving treatment inside Al-Quds Hospital, which is out of service facility and no longer operational due to the depletion of fuel supplies and the non-arrival of humanitarian aid.#alqudshospital… pic.twitter.com/oi98YcmELu
The way the demonstrations are being organised by The Solidarity Movement is not something that is happening for the first time. However, this is perhaps the first that a left-liberal-Islamist toolkit has come to notice before it was implemented.
There have been several such toolkits used during the last few years to fuel protests and demonstrations.
In late October, a toolkit released by the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), in the garb of supporting Palestine, used highly objectionable language to support Hamas.
The toolkit pointed out that the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel took place on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war, also known as the Yom Kippur War or Ramadan War or the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The Hamas terror attack has been called “Toofan Al-Aqsa (Al-Aqsa Flood)” in the toolkit.
NSJP referred to the Hamas terrorists as “Palestinian resistance” and the Israeli people as “Zionist settler society”.
In June this year, a combined group of Hindu-hating and anti-India propagandists went to great lengths, along with the ISI, to disrupt PM Modi’s US visit. The strategy included organising demonstrations, talking about “religious intolerance” in India, prompting Twitter trends and so on.
In April last year, a global campaign was launched against Hindus. British-American Journalist Mehdi Hassan, TV presenter and Chef Padma Lakshmi and German Footballer Mesut Ozil have made unimaginable assertions against India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while being openly complicit in being propagandists over the so-called narrative of ‘Muslim Persecution in India’.
In February 2021, a so-called climate activist in India Disha Ravi was arrested by the Delhi police for her role in creating and distributing the toolkit in relation to the farmer protests in Delhi. This came after Great Thunberg accidentally released a toolkit that her supporters could use to propagate misinformation about the farmers’ protests.
Another Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist, and close aide of Masood Azhar, Maulana Raheem Ullah Tariq was shot dead by ‘unknown men’ in the Orangi town area of Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday (13th November).
According to media reports, he was going to attend a religious gathering when unidentified people opened fire at him. Local media outlets from Pakistan, citing police officials, reported that the incident appeared as a case of “targeted killing”.
The media report referred to the wanted terrorist as “Mauzin”, a person who proclaims the call to the daily prayer. It also cited Senior Superintendent of the Police (SSP) West who confirmed the murder and called it a “targeted killing”. The Police official added that two unknown individuals on a bike approached the deceased and fired three shots.
The police official said that the forensic team had recovered the mobile phone and other valuables from Tariq. However, the family of the slain terrorist Rahim Ullah has rejected the enmity accusations. This was reportedly the 19th terrorist shot dead in Pakistan this year by unknown gunmen.
This comes less than a week after Akram Khan Ghazi, a senior commander of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was killed by unidentified bike-borne assailants in the Bajaur district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
As per the reports, Ghazi was a recruiter for LeT who had radicalised many terrorists who had infiltrated the Kashmir Valley in several batches in recent years.
The news of Tariq and Ghazi’s deaths emerges amid a string of mysterious killings of terrorists in Pakistan by unknown assailants over the past few weeks. These incidents appear to follow a pattern of unidentified individuals carrying out similar mysterious killings of terrorists in the country in recent weeks.
Earlier, on 5th November, Khwaja Shahid, also known as Mia Mujahid, a key commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba and one of the masterminds of the 2018 terrorist attack on an Indian Army camp in Sunjuwan, which left six people dead, was reportedly abducted and then found beheaded close to the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Similarly, one of the masterminds of the Dhangri terror attack, Riyaz Ahmad alias Abu Qasim, was shot and killed in September inside a mosque in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir by unidentified gunmen.
In another such incident, an anonymous assassin shot dead a key Hizbul Mujahideen commander Bashir Ahmad Peer also known as Imtiyaz Alam in Rawalpindi in March of this year.
Former Al-Badr Mujahideen commander Syed Khalid Raza was eliminated in Karachi in February by unidentified gunmen in what the police called a targeted strike. Aijaz Ahmad Ahangar, a terrorist from Kashmir who served as the chief commander of the international terror organisation Islamic State was discovered dead in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province earlier this year. Taliban had reportedly assassinated him.
On 13th November (Monday), Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the law and order issue of ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ slogans and warned voters that such slogans are a result of abject ‘misgovernance’ by the Congress-led Rajasthan government. While addressing a public meeting in Barwani, Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi lambasted the Congress party and coined a new phrase ‘Congress Aayi, Tabaahi Laayi’. (Translation – Whenever Congress comes to power, they bring in destitution.)
PM Modi warned first-time voters that whenever Congress comes to power, they bring corruption and lawlessness. While addressing Madhya Pradesh voters, he also took a dig at the Congress government in Rajasthan citing the chants of ‘Sar Tan se Juda’ (STSJ) slogans, pointing towards the Kanhaiyalal murder case. For those unversed, the STSJ slogans are direct violent threats of beheading the person against whom they are raised.
In a scathing attack on the rival party, Congress, PM Modi stressed that nobody would have ever imagined that ‘Sar Tan se Juda’ type slogans would be raised in India.
Referring to Rajasthan, the Prime Minister said, “Congress has another identity. Wherever Congress comes, crime reaches its peak. Riots become common under Congress’s government. Atrocities against sisters and daughters reach their peak under the Congress government. It becomes difficult for people to celebrate their customs and festivals.”
विकसित मध्य प्रदेश के साथ विकसित भारत के लिए भाजपा प्रतिबद्ध है। बड़वानी का यह जनसैलाब बताता है कि प्रदेश की जनता को सिर्फ भाजपा पर भरोसा है। https://t.co/dsJgipxIg5
PM Modi added, “Look in neighbouring Rajasthan. What hasn’t happened in the last 5 years? Could we even imagine that we would ever hear slogans like ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ in India? But due to the misrule of Congress, this happened in front of the cameras in the land of brave hearts (Veerdhara) Rajasthan. We have to save Rajasthan and not let Madhya Pradesh go towards destruction. The country is not trusting the words and promises of Congress at all.”
During his address, PM Modi reiterated the slogan, Abki bar, BJP sarkar. PM Modi asserted, “Nowadays another slogan is echoing in Madhya Pradesh. It has come from the hearts of the people. Derived from decades of experience. This slogan has emerged from what voters have seen with their eyes. Whenever Congress comes to power, they bring destitution. Madhya Pradesh has suffered this. The experience of the past years says that Congress has been wiped out from many places. There has been prosperity there. Where the Congress government has come again, even the most prosperous states are in trouble.”
PM Modi also contrasted political promises made by the BJP vis-a-vis Congress. He contrasted the BJP’s commitment to delivering on promises with the unfulfilled assurances made by Congress in states like Himachal Pradesh.
Referring to states like Himachal and Karnataka, PM Modi accused Congress of making false promises to the public. PM Modi highlighted that Congress made tall promises to bring prosperity to the farmers, mothers, and employees of Himachal. They played with people by giving false hopes, but today the situation is such that petrol and diesel have become expensive there. Farmers had to dump their apple produce in the water. He highlighted similar happenings in Karnataka after the formation of the Congress government.
The Prime Minister further added, “This is what was done in Karnataka. As soon as the Congress government was formed, electricity became expensive, milk became expensive. Due to this, ordinary families, farmers, and everyone big and small are troubled. If development has come to a standstill in Karnataka, such destruction can bring prosperity to Karnataka, so imagine what it will do to Madhya Pradesh.”
Sarcastically taking a hit at the infamous phrase of Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi noted, “Right now Congress can promise to build a palace of gold to get the chair (form government). Now who will bring this gold, Aaloo wala? There is no hope from Congress. Currently, they will offer to give voters a palace of gold, then they will say that I will extract gold from potatoes and then I will build it. As soon as it gets power, Congress will forget you and start looting business.”
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought permission from Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena to investigate allegations against Satyendar Jain, former jail minister of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, for extorting money from high-profile prisoners during his tenure.
The CBI has also requested permission to investigate the then Tihar Jail Superintendent Danics officer Raj Kumar, who allegedly aided in extorting money from one of the prisoners.
Jain and ex-Jail Superintendent Raj Kumar have been accused of extorting a large sum of money from “high profile prisoners”, including conman Sukash Chandrashekhar in exchange for providing protection in jails. The Tihar jail is under the AAP government’s jurisdiction.
The CBI claimed that it had proof that Satyendar Jain allegedly ‘extorted’ and received money from Chandrashekar in various tranches to enable the alleged conman to live a peaceful and comfortable life in jail.
Sources said the CBI sent the request for prosecution to the LG and sought permission to prosecute Satyendar under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Earlier, the Supreme Court on November 6 extended the interim bail granted to AAP leader Satyendar Jain till November 24 in the money laundering case.
Jain has been in custody since May last year after the Enforcement Directorate attached properties worth Rs. 4.81 crore belonging to five companies in the money laundering case against him and a few others. Satyendar Jain is accused of having laundered money through four companies allegedly linked to him.
The ED case is based on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) complaint registered on the allegation that Satyender Jain had acquired movable properties in the name of various persons from February 14, 2015, to May 31, 2017, which he could not satisfactorily account for.
(This news report is published from a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has not been written or edited by OpIndia staff)
The Israel Defence Force (IDF) troops killed 21 members of a terror cell that opened fire at Israeli forces from Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, The Times of Israel reported on Monday.
According to the IDF, the cell had opened fire at troops of the 188th Armoured Brigade with light arms and RPGs, while being “embedded within a group of civilians at the entrance of the hospital.”
The IDF said troops, with air support, returned fire at the Hamas operatives, killing 21 of them. No troops were hurt but one tank was damaged by an RPG.
The Times of Israel reported, quoting the IDF, that amid the exchange of fire, civilians were seen leaving the hospital, and other operatives came out of adjacent buildings and hid among them to attack the Israeli forces.
After firing RPGs at troops, the IDF says the operatives fled back into the hospital.
“This incident is another example of Hamas’s continued abuse of civilian structures, including hospitals, to carry out attacks,” the IDF adds in a statement.
The military releases footage of the battle that appears to show RPG-wielding terrorists running into the hospital.
Meanwhile, IDF said that the IDF troops continue operational activity around the Shati area. During this, the Hamas terrorist infrastructure was uncovered at the Quds University, and inside the Abu Bakr Mosque, Soldiers located a tunnel shaft, intelligence materials and weapons in the area of Beit Hanoun and Inside the residence of a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist, a large number of weapons were discovered in a child’s bedroom.
The Israeli Air Force said, “As part of the fighting in the Gaza Strip, aircraft of the Air Force and the ground forces attacked 4,300 strikes, hundreds of anti-tank launching positions, about 300 tunnel shafts, attacked about 3,000 terrorist infrastructures, including over a hundred captured buildings and hundreds of Hamas terrorist organization’s weapons and command targets and control of the terrorist organization.”
Amid the ongoing tensions and escalation of the war, the Israeli government is earmarking 200 million shekels (USD 51.7 million) to reinforce the security infrastructure of the country’s hospitals, the Health and Finance Ministries announced.
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On 13th November (Monday), Former British Prime Minister David Cameron returned to the UK government as Foreign Secretary. Cameron will now replace James Cleverly, who was appointed Home Secretary after Suella Braverman was sacked reportedly for her remarks on pro-Palestinian protests in the country.
The shocking return of Former PM Cameron, who had been away from politics for almost seven years, came during UK PM Rishi Sunak’s cabinet reshuffle which was triggered after Braverman’s sacking. Earlier in the day, Cameron was spotted entering PM Rishi Sunak’s office after Braverman was sacked, which raised speculations about his return. Consequently, the speculations were confirmed when Rishi Sunak’s office announced Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary.
Following his appointment, the Conservative leader Cameron took to X sharing why he chose to accept Sunak’s proposal. He said, “The Prime Minister has asked me to serve as his Foreign Secretary and I have gladly accepted.” He also highlighted the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict and Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East emphasising that Britain is a “truly international country”.
David Cameron noted, “While I have been out of front-line politics for the last seven years, I hope that my experience – as Conservative Leader for eleven years and Prime Minister for six – will assist me in helping the Prime Minister to meet these vital challenges.”
Regarding his disagreements with Rishi Sunak and praising Sunak’s overall leadership, David Cameron stated, “Though I may have disagreed with some individual decisions, it is clear to me that Rishi Sunak is a strong and capable Prime Minister, who is showing exemplary leadership at a difficult time. I want to help him to deliver the security and prosperity our country needs and be part of the strongest possible team that serves the United Kingdom and that can be presented to the country when the General Election is held.”
Earlier in the day, British media reported that Braverman was sacked as she had criticised the police on how it handled the pro-Palestinian protests. She also dubbed such protests “hate marches” and accused the country’s largest police force of having a “double standard” in dealing with aggression during the protests. Her statements put pressure on Rishi Sunak to sack her.
In an article in ‘The Times’ newspaper, Suella Braverman said the pro-Palestinian protests in London “are an assertion of primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists – of the kind we are more used to seeing in Northern Ireland”.
Braverman also claimed that the police officers “play favourites” and alleged that right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are met with a “stern response” while “pro-Palestinian mobs” are “largely ignored”.
Commenting on her article, PM Rishi Sunak’s office said her article was published without his clearance, as per the ministerial code.
In the first half of November 2023, the Uttar Pradesh Police’s ‘Anti-Terrorist Squad’ (ATS) arrested 7 terrorists from the ‘Aligarh ISIS module’. The arrested terror suspects have been identified as Abdullah Arshlan, Maaz bin Tariq, Naved, Wajiuddin, Rakib Imam, Noman, and Mohammad Nazim.
Now, according to credible sources, ATS has intensified its search for two high-profile terrorists from this module who are currently absconding. The names of the absconding suspects are Abdul Samad Malik and Faizan Bakhtiar. As per the security forces, they have learnt that the accused had connections with the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). This has posed serious challenges and questions are now being raised about whether AMU has become a ‘safe haven’ for terrorists.
According to information received by OpIndia from sources, ATS is also looking out for another suspect Harish Farooqui who is being monitored by the NIA (National Investigation Agency) and the Special Cell of Delhi Police. Farooqui is a former student of AMU and is considered to have played an instrumental role in setting up the SAMU Group. He has been on the run since Shahnawaz, who was linked to the Pune ISIS network, was arrested by the Delhi Police.
Abdul Samad Malik, accused of having links with the ‘Aligarh ISIS’ module, is currently on the priority list of Uttar Pradesh ATS. He is an accused named in the FIR which was lodged by Aligarh in charge of ATS. According to sources, Abdul, originally a resident of Sambhal district, is well-versed in the Arabic language.
He is allegedly the most extremist thinker in this group who radicalises and instigates the youth to even become suicide bombers. Abdul did his graduation from Aligarh Muslim University from 2019 to 2022. Since 2022, he has been studying Master in Social Working (MSW). Malik is said to have been absconding since the arrest of Abdullah Arshlan and efforts are being made to nab him.
Another student of AMU, Faizan Bakhtiar, is also said to be associated with the Aligarh ISIS module. Faizan Bakhtiar is originally from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. He is said to have expertise in using social media to radicalise the youth. According to information received by OpIndia from its sources, Faizan is also accused of buying and selling illegal weapons from other districts. He is also pursuing an MSW (Master in Social Working) course from Aligarh Muslim University.
Both Faizan Bakhtiar and Abdul Samad Malik have kept their phones switched off since the time UP ATS busted the ‘Aligarh ISIS’ module. Both of them were associated with Students of Aligarh Muslim University (SAMU) and had been seen participating in its functions.
Abdul Samad Malik was also accused of giving provocative speeches. All of them are accused of conspiring to establish an ISIS network inside the country. In their speeches, objectionable things were said against the Hindu religion. Besides, they also vow and announce that Sharia law will be implemented in India. The arrest of several of these terrorists associated with this network before Diwali was considered a major achievement of UP ATS.
So-called climate activist Greta Thunberg’s recent stint in Amsterdam was anything but about the climate. Thunberg was interrupted by a man for precisely this reason who grabbed the microphone from her hand after she turned the event into a platform for pro-Hamas voices.
A video doing rounds on X, formerly Twitter, shows Thunberg donning a kaffiyeh, a scarf worn in Arab countries, but more commonly adopted by Palestinians as a symbol of their hate for Israel and Jews.
In the video, the ‘student-turned-activist’ can be heard saying, “We have not been listened to, the people in power have not been listening,” when a man in a green jacket comes up to her and takes the mic from her hand. He says, “I have come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view.” It must be pointed out that at no point did the individual appear violent.
Man take away mic from so called environmentalist Greta Thunberg who was using climate change platform for supporting Hamas.
However, Greta appears bullish. Even when the man has been grabbed and is being dragged out with his hands locked, Greta keeps walking up to him and follows him all the while telling him to “calm down”. Throughout, the people in the audience, many waving the Palestinian flag, boo the man.
Once the man in question is out of the scene, Greta returns and joins the audience to chant “No climate justice on occupied land”.
The entire incident unfolded after Thunberg allowed a pro-Hamas Palestinian woman named Sara Rachdan and an Afghan woman activist for Palestinians named Sahar Shirazd, to speak during the climate protest.
Sara Rachdan has shared several video posts on Instagram directly supporting Hamas and calling the terrorist attack on Israel on 7th October an “action by the Palestinian people”.
Meanwhile, making absolutely no sense whatsoever, Greta Thunberg while peddling her leftist agenda, said, “As a climate justice movement, we have to listen to the voices of those who are being oppressed and those who are fighting for freedom and for justice. Otherwise, there can be no climate justice without international solidarity.”
What was projected as a climate event was in reality a propaganda platform for Islamists to be furthered by the left liberal cabal which Thunberg has historically represented.
This is not the first time that Thunberg has been promoting Hamas terrorism globally. In October, she posted an image with three more activists supporting Gaza and a soft toy of a blue Octopus with an angry face in the photo, which is deemed as a sign of anti-semitism. She later deleted the image and replaced it with one without the symbol.
