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Iranian woman files FIR against Rakhi Sawant Fatima’s husband Adil Khan Durrani accusing him of raping her

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Iranian woman files FIR against Rakhi Sawant Fatima’s husband Adil Khan Durrani accusing him of raping her

Troubles for Adil Khan Durrani, the husband of Rakhi Sawant Fatima, are far from coming to an end as a separate FIR has been filed against him in Mysore. The FIR was lodged by a young Iranian woman accusing Adil of rape. According to reports, the FIR has been registered at the VV Puram Police Station in Mysore in accordance with IPC section 376. Adil Khan is already held in 14 days of judicial custody in a fraud case filed by Rakhi Sawant. 

It is notable that recently it was revealed that Rakhi Sawant has married Adil Khan Durrani. It was also revealed that Rakhi had converted to Islam for the marriage, and changed her name to Rakhi Sawant Fatima.

Reportedly, the Iranian girl is a student who came to Mysore to do a course on Doctor of Pharmacy in India. She met Adil Khan at Desert Lab Food Adda, which is owned by Adil. They started to meet regularly, and this developed into an intimate relationship. They then started to live together, as he promised to marry her.

But when around 5 months ago the woman demanded to marry, Adil Khan refused. He told her that he was in a similar sort of relationship with several other girls.

Adil then allegedly threatened her by sending her intimate photos on Snapchat and blackmailed her to withdraw the complaint, threatening to release the pictures on social media. He also threatened to send the pictures to her parents. He also allegedly threatened to kill her if she filed any police complaint against him. 

But she filed a complaint against him, and an FIR has now been filed against Adil under IPC sections 376, 417, 420, 504, and 506. The Iranian woman claimed in her FIR that Adil had raped her under the pretext of marriage when they were living together in Mysore.

It is notable that the Maharashtra Police on Tuesday, February 7, arrested Adil Khan Durrani and took him to the Oshiwara police station in Mumbai after Rakhi Sawant Fatima filed a police complaint against Adil alleging that he mishandled her funds while she was a participant in the Bigg Boss Marathi season. The actress also held her husband responsible for her mother’s death.

In a video posted by Bollywood paparazzi Viral Bhayani on Instagram, Rakhi Sawant is heard asking Adil Khan to return her hard-earned Rs 1.50 crores. In the four-month-old video, Adil assured Rakhi that he will return all her money within the next four months.

According to the reports, Adil Khan Durrani, Rakhi Sawant’s husband, manages a business. His firms are located in Mysore, Karnataka. In Mysore, he also has an ice cream store under the name of Dezert Lab. Adil has also taken part in a lot of shooting contests at the state level. The couple made their wedding public in January this year. The two had a Nikah in May last year, following which Rakhi changed her name to ‘Rakhi Sawant Fatima’. The duo had participated in Salman Khan’s Bigg Boss season 15. 

Delhi court convicts 4 Al-Qaida terrorists, read how a lost passport in Turkey led Indian agencies to them

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Delhi court convicts 4 Al-Qaida terrorists, read how a lost passport in Turkey led Indian agencies to them

On Friday (February 10), a Delhi court convicted four terrorists under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The accused were identified as Mohammad Asif (Uttar Pradesh), Abdul Sami (Haryana), Abdul Rehman (Odisha), and Zafar Masood (Delhi).

As per a report by The Times of India, Mohammad Asif was arrested in 2015 after the Indian Intelligence agency busted the first module of the terror outfit Al Qaida in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).

The development came a year after Asif had approached the Indian embassy in Istanbul over a lost passport. While the embassy helped him return to India in 2014, he was arrested along with his 3 aides in an extensive 6-month operation conducted nationwide by Indian Intelligence.

They were later handed over to the Delhi Police. Following his arrest, Asif confirmed the identity of the Head of Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, Sanaul Haq (alias Maulana Asim Umar).

Haq was a native of the Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh and operated from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. He was killed in Afghanistan during a US raid in 2019.

Interestingly in 2013, Yasin Bhatkal, the then Head of the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, revealed that 2 Indians were managing the terror operations of Al Qaida from India and Afghanistan.

Indian Mujahideen joined hands with AQIS terrorists

It was only two years later in 2015 that the identity of the two men was confirmed as Mohammad Asif and Sanaul Haq. The founder of Indian Mujahideen, Riyaz Bhatkal, reportedly met Sanaul Haq in Afghanistan to expand terror operations in India. Later, Yasin Bhatkal learned about him through Riyaz.

During his interrogation, Mohammad Asif revealed that he, along with his two aides, went to Tehran in June 2013 after securing a 3-month-long visa to Iran. They had gone there under the pretext of paying ‘ziyarat’ (visitation) at the tomb of former Iranian Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.

Asif and his accomplices then smuggled themselves into Pakistan through a mosque, with entry gates in Iran but exit gates in Pakistan. Reportedly, the mosque route, which was not well known at the time to the Indian authorities, is regularly used to smuggle jihadis.

Mohammad Asif visited Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan before being apprehended

The AQIS terrorist then traveled to Quetta and Pishin districts in Balochistan province before making their way to Ghazni in Afghanistan. Thereafter, he and his aides proceeded toward South Waziristan and then to Muranshah in North Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

According to The Times of India, Asif spent 8 months in a terror training camp before returning to India. He was eventually tracked by Indian Intelligence authorities in Iran, kept in detention for a month, and sent to Turkey.

Since he had no travel documents, he sought help from the Indian embassy in Istanbul and fell into the trap set up by the Indian authorities. It must be mentioned that his co-terrorist Abdul Rehman, who was convicted under UAPA, had met 26/11 plotters including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.

Bharat Jodo Yatra: Congress workers beat each other up inside Takhat Sri Harimandir Ji Gurudwara in Bihar

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Bharat Jodo Yatra: Congress workers beat each other up inside Takhat Sri Harimandir Ji Gurudwara in Bihar

On Friday, a fight between two Congress workers inside Sri Harimandir Ji Gurudwara was caught on camera. The two leaders, Shammi Kapoor and Pappu Trivedi were part of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Patna. The leaders could be seen making death threats while gripping each other by the neck. Akhilesh Prasad Singh, the state president of the Congress, senior Congress leader Prem Chandra Mishra and Ajit Sharma, the leader of the Legislature Party, were also present at the time of the fight.

From Banka, the Bihar version of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has reached Patna. The Congress leaders were supposed to make obeisance at the Patna Sahib Gurdwara. According to eyewitnesses, after a little fracas, both Kapoor and Trivedi got into a heated argument. Things quickly got out of hand, and a fight broke out between the two groups. The controversy didn’t end there. Both sides continued brawling at the Gurdwara gate as well and kept hurling abuses at each other.

The policemen on the spot made an effort to calm both parties down but to no avail. Senior Congress leaders Singh and Mishra tried to intervene, but they were also ignored. However, when the fight escalated, the Congress state president left from there.

The fight apparently started over seating arrangements in the VIP lobby and plans to visit Takht Sahib. The local Congress leaders and individuals taking part in the yatra were at odds with one another. The former had set up separate arrangements for VIPs which infuriated the latter, leading to the nasty clash.

Taking a dig at Congress over the clash, BJP Bihar spokesperson Nikhil Anand tweeted that Rahul Gandhi should start a ‘Congress Jodo Yatra’ instead of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

On January 5, Mandar Parbat in Banka served as the starting point for the Bihar chapter of Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress national president, Mallikarjun Kharge, had also joined it at the time. The journey will come to a close in Gaya. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi have been invited to participate in the yatra by Bihar Congress.

Kolkata Police forces ‘Hindu Voice’ to delete Tweet on Hindu idol vandalism by threatening legal action

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Kolkata Police forces ‘Hindu Voice’ to delete Tweet on Hindu idol vandalism by threatening legal action

On Friday (February 10), popular Twitter user ‘Hindu Voice’ took to the micro-blogging platform to inform that it has been notified by the Kolkata Cyber police to take down a post about a recent case of idol vandalism in Islampur city in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal.

The notice, issued under the Code of Criminal procedure (CrPC) Section 149 (prevent the commission of a cognisable offence), alleged that the said post by ‘Hindu Voice’ could adversely affect the law and order situation in the State.

“It has been observed that you are using social media for posting offensive, malicious and inciting post… Cyber police Station Kolkata hereby issues notice against you under Section 149 Cr.P.C for posting such message … which can adversely affect the law and order situation. You are hereby directed to delete the post and also refrain from such acts failing which you will be liable for strict penal action under the relevant provision of law,” the notice warned.

In response to the intimidatory tactics adopted by the Kolkata Cyber Police, ‘Hindu Voice’ was forced to delete its tweet. It informed, “We got a notice from Kolkata Police’s Cyber Police Station directing to delete a certain post.”

“As we are a law-abiding entity, we are deleting the Murti breaking news for now. We are consulting with our lawyer. Namaskar to all,” the Twitter handle further emphasised.

The Background of the Case

As per a report by Asianet News, a statue of Goddess Kali was vandalised in the Shivdangi neighbourhood of Islampur city in the Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal on Thursday (February 9) night.

Besides, another idol of Radha-Krishna was broken in the in Milanpally area of Islampur. The development was confirmed by the locals to Asianet News. The incidents sparked anger amongst the Hindu residents in the city.  

Following the incident, the Hindu community held demonstrations on the State Highway and demanded the immediate arrest of the culprits. The protests were called off only after receiving assurance from the police administration.

Now it seems West Bengal police are trying to censor the news of the desecration.

Hindu women come up with a unique response to the Kerala Police’s instruction to remove saffron flags at Vellayani Bhadrakali Temple

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Hindu women come up with a unique response to the Kerala Police’s instruction to remove saffron flags at Vellayani Bhadrakali Temple

A day after a Hindu temple in Communist-ruled Kerala was directed by the police to not use saffron decoration during a festival, the Hindu devotees have adopted unique ways to oppose the ‘saffron ban’. This comes after the local police visited the Vellayani Bhadrakali temple located on the southern outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala and instructed the temple authorities to avoid saffron-coloured buntings, flags and other fabric on the premises for the upcoming Kaliyoottu Mahotsavam claiming that it will create a ‘law and order situation’.

As a mark of protest, several Hindu women wore traditional saree coupled with saffron blouses and suits with saffron dupattas. 

Earlier, in protest against the police instruction, devotees had set up a tent for a police post for the festival using saffron fabric. The temple authorities also have refused to remove the saffron flags and buntings. The devotees have alleged that the police are helping the anti-Hindu elements in the state.

In the meanwhile, the Kerala Police have written to the Vellayani Devi Temple authorities stating that they will be taking strict legal action against anyone who used saffron colour to decorate the temple premises during the festival. The police are claiming that decorating the temple premises using saffron buntings and flags will create law and order situation, and therefore instructed the temple authorities to use multicoloured buntings and flags.

The Vellayani Bhadrakali temple is situated next to Vellayani Lake, a wetland that draws a significant number of pilgrims during the Kaliyoottu Mahotsavam, which is held once every three years. It is managed by the Travancore Devaswom Board of the Kerala government, and it has a number of committees that are chosen annually by residents of the Kalliyoor panchayat nearby.

The triennial festival is scheduled to start on February 14, 2023, and will be the first one to be held in the last six years. The 2020 festival had to be interrupted due to the Wuhan virus pandemic. However, this year’s enthusiasm and preparations for the festival have also been dampened due to the unnecessary issue that has cropped up from the side of the local government. 

The Kerala Police have demanded that the temple’s administrators switch out their customary saffron-coloured buntings (torons), flags and other fabric for multicoloured ones since they worry that lining the temple’s approach road with solely saffron-coloured decorations might cause a law-and-order issue.

The Vellayani Bhadrakali temple authorities are enraged as it is blatantly disrespectful to religious sensibilities to have government officials interfere in a custom that the temple has maintained for centuries. At first, the temple administration thought that the instruction was regarding the ban on plastic flags, and therefore they used cloth buntings and flags. But later they found out that the objection was on the saffron colour.

Rageesh Kumar, the Nemom Station House Officer (SHO) and Inspector of Police made the demand while being escorted by a sizable police force. When the temple officials inquired as to why the saffron flags had to be changed, they were told that the police had received a telephone complaint over the colour of the torons and as a result, wanted them changed to multi-coloured ones to prevent a law-and-order issue.

Even though the Kerala Police has cited law and order concerns as the reason behind giving the ‘instructions’ to avoid saffron flags, there is politics involved in the matter. 

According to a Swarajya report, the Vellayani temple has been targeted for a few years now as it is the stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Vellayani temple lies within the boundary of Nemom assembly and Veteran BJP leader O Rajagopal had polled heavily in this segment in the 2014 general elections. Further, the temple lies in the Kalliyoor panchayat, the area which the BJP attained in the local body polls of 2015 and 2020.

About Kaliyoottu Festival

A ceremonial art form known as Kaliyoottu festival is celebrated in Southern Kerala, particularly in the Thiruvananthapuram district, in honour of the goddess Bhadrakali. The sacred battle between the goddess Kali and the demon Darika is commemorated at the festival. The Thottam Pattu is one of Kaliyoottu’s principal rituals. It requires 48 days for singing the Bhadrakali Thottam Pattu entirely.

The Kaliyoottu festival’s most significant rites include Kalamkaval, Nagaroottu, Uchabali, Dikkubali, Paranettu, and Nilathil Poru, which marks the festival’s conclusion. On the ninth day of Medam, the Paranettu will take place at the Vellayani devi temple.

In the ceremony called Kalamkaval, the chief priest wears a big murti-like on his headgear and dances in a trance-like state until he falls unconscious. The ritual known as Nagaroottu is carried out prior to Uchabali in order to appease the Nagas or serpents.

The uchabali ritual consists of 64 gestures, such as the mathsyam, sampannam, chathurasramam, sarpa mudra, and jyoti mudra. A majestic crown made of coconut palms is fixed at the location of the ritual, which is performed at midnight.

108 South Korean saints start Dhamma Yatra from Sarnath

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108 South Korean saints start Dhamma Yatra from Sarnath

On February 11, a group of 108 Buddhist saints from South Korea started Dhamma Yatra (walking pilgrimage) from Sarnath. They will cover 1,100 Kilometres in the next 43 days to trace the footsteps of Lord Buddha in India. The journey will finish at Shravasti, and the group will also travel through Nepal. This Yatra also marks 50 years of diplomatic relations between India and South Korea.

The event aims to strengthen further the mutual cooperation and friendship between the two nations. The group of saints will travel through various Buddhist holy sites, including Lumbini, Nepal, known as the birth Place of Lord Buddha, to Kushinagar, the place of Mahaparinirvana.

The Saints started their journey with a prayer at the Dhamek Stupa in Sarnath. It is believed that Lord Buddha preached his first sermons at this place. The Tourism Department of Uttar Pradesh gave a grand welcome to the Saints with 108-meter Dhammadhvaja. Ayush Minister of UP, Dayashankar Mishra, ambassador of the Republic of Korea to India, Chang Jae-bok and others attended the function.

At the event, Mishra said that Lord Buddha started his Dhamma Yatra from Sarnath by giving the first sermons and turning Dharma Chakra. He said, “I congratulate you for starting your 43-day pilgrimage from this holy place.”

Mishra added that this Yatra would strengthen the relationship between India and South Korea. Citing history, he said that the origin of Buddhist Jogye Sangha of Korea finds its roots in India. The Buddhist teacher Bodhidharma took Buddha’s Dhamma to China. His disciple Huineng took the tradition of meditation Seon to Korea. He said, “Shravasti, the origin of your meditation tradition Seon, is where your journey is coming to an end. In this sense, you have not come abroad but to the home of your spiritual ancestors.”

Chang Jae-bok said that 2023 is essential for the bilateral relations between South Korea and India. “This occasion coincides with India’s G20 Presidency, and South Korea is committed to India’s success at G20,” he added. He further remarked that the motto of India’s G20 presidency, ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future,’ is similar to the teachings of Lord Buddha.

The Saints will visit Bodhgaya in Bihar after Sarnath. Later, they will cover Nalanda, Rajgir, Griddhakuta mountain, and Vaishali in Bihar and move to Lumbini in Nepal. They will re-enter Uttar Pradesh via Kushinagar and complete the Yatra in Shravasti after visiting Kapilvastu.

PIL filed in Supreme Court seeking formation of Renaming Commission to identify ancient, historical, religious places named after foreign invaders

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PIL filed in Supreme Court seeking formation of Renaming Commission to identify ancient, historical, religious places named after foreign invaders

Days after the Mughal Garden in New Delhi was renamed as Amrit Udyan, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in Supreme Court seeking directions to the Central government to constitute a ‘Renaming Commission’ to find out and restore the original names of ancient historical, cultural and religious places which were changed by foreign invaders.

The PIL was filed by Supreme Court lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay, who asked the Supreme Court to issue an appropriate directive to the Home Ministry to form a “Renaming Commission” to determine the original names of “ancient historical cultural religious places” in order to protect the sovereignty and secure the “Right to Dignity, Right to Religion, and Right to Culture” guaranteed by Articles 21, 25, and 29 of the Indian Constitution.

According to the PIL, while the Mughal Garden in Rashtrapati Bhawan was recently renamed as Amrit Udyan, the government has not renamed a large number of roads named after invaders. It states several examples like Babur Road, Humayun Road, Akbar Road, Jahangir Road, Shahjahan Road, Bahadur Shah Road, Sher Shah Road, Aurangzeb Road, Tughlak Road, Safdarjung Road, Najaf Khan Road, Jauhar Road, Lodhi Road, Chelmsford Road and Hailey Road etc. The petition points out that houses of Cabinet Ministers, Parliamentarians and the Hon’ble Judges are located on these roads.

“Invaders not only renamed the general places but also changed the names of ancient historical cultural religious places, and their continuation after 75 years of Independence is against sovereignty, right to dignity, right to religion and right to culture guaranteed under Articles 21, 25 and 29,” the PIL states. It says that we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of independence but there are many ancient historical cultural religious places in the name of brutal foreign invaders, their servants, and family members.

The PIL also seeks that apart from directing the home ministry, the court can also direct the Archaeological Survey of India to research and publish the initial names of ancient historical cultural religious places.

‘Not one road named after Pandavas but many after foreign invaders’

Citing names of the prominent persons of the Mahabharat era, the PIL states that “injury to the citizens is extremely large” as Pandavas who converted a deserted land of Khandavprastha into Indraprastha do not have a single road, municipal ward, Assembly Constituency named after Lord Krishna, Balram, the five Pandavas, Draupadi, Kunti, and Abhimanyu. But many such places have been named after barbaric foreign invaders. The PIL contended that this infringes the rights to dignity, religion, and culture protected by Articles 21, 25, and 29 of the Indian Constitution in addition to being against Indian sovereignty.

Places that were renamed

The petitioner has also listed several names of places that were renamed by invaders such as “Ajatshatru Nagar was named after the barbaric “Begu” and called ‘Begusarai’. The ancient city ‘Nalanda Vihar’ was named after Conversion Missionary ‘Sharifuddin Ahmed’ and called ‘Bihar Sharif’. The cultural city ‘Dwar Banga’ was named after the cruel ‘Darbhang Khan’ and called ‘Darbhanga’. The religious city ‘Haripur’ was named after the vicious ‘Haji Shamsuddin Shah’ and called ‘Hajipur’. ‘Singhjani’ was named after conversion missionary ‘Jamal Baba’ and called ‘Jamalpur’. The Vedic city of ‘Videhpur’ was named after the barbarous Muzaffar Khan and called ‘Muzaffarpur’. Likewise, the historical city ‘Karnawati’ was named after Ahmad Shah and called ‘Ahmedabad.”

In addition to this, the petition also mentions the original and altered names of the five villages that Lord Krishna proposed the Kauravas to grant to Pandavas to avert the war. Indraprastha was renamed as Delhi, Swarnprastha as Sonipat, Panprastha as Panipat, Vyaghrprastha as Baghpat, and Tilprastha as Faridabad. The Hindu temples of  Tilprastha were destroyed by Sheikh Farid and several Hindus were converted to Islam as mentioned in the Jahangir Nama, however, the government did not rename Faridabad as Tilprastha.

In order to secure the “Right to Know” guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution, the petitioner has urged the court to order the Archaeological Survey of India to research and publish the original names of ancient historical-cultural religious sites that were changed by barbaric foreign invaders.

Taking to Twitter Advocated Ashwini Upadhyay informed about the PIL he has filed and wrote, “PIL in Supreme Court to constitute a ‘Renaming Commission’ to find out original names of Ancient Historical Cultural Religious Places named after Barbaric Foreign Invaders in order to maintain ‘Sovereignty’ and to secure Right to Dignity, Right to Religion & Right to Culture.”

2014 was Ambani (Sr) and Adani, 2019 was Ambani (Jr), opposition’s campaign in 2024 is going to be focused on Adani, will this strategy finally work?

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2014 was Ambani (Sr) and Adani, 2019 was Ambani (Jr), opposition’s campaign in 2024 is going to be focused on Adani, will this strategy finally work?

In January 2023, New York City-based short-seller Hindenburg Research published a report on the Adani Group, revealing their short position on the group’s stocks while raising concerns about the debt position and the accounting practices followed by the group. The report led to a lot of volatility in the group stocks and eventually led to Gautam Adani canceling the group’s FPO (Follow on Public Offer).

The Hindenburg report instantly led to a concerted attack on Narendra Modi-led NDA government from the Indian opposition parties. The Indian opposition alleged that Narendra Modi has close ties with the Adani Group’s Gautam Adani and that the government is giving undue favors to him. With this attack, the opposition also shared what is likely to be the main line of their attack in a bid to defeat Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

If the opposition’s line of attack seems eerily familiar, that is because it is. We have seen these similar attacks with similar names before, during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections (even before Modi became the PM), and during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, and looks like 2024 will complete the trilogy.

2014 and the “If Modi becomes PM, Adani-Ambani will run the country” campaign

Ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the newly formed Aam Aadmi Party and its leader Arvind Kejriwal spent months trying to scare voters with the names of Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani. Riding high on the party’s success in their first election for Delhi assembly, Arvind Kejriwal appeared on every news channel to tell the voters that if Modi becomes PM, the country will be run by Ambani and Adani.

All sorts of allegations were leveled against Narendra Modi by Arvind Kejriwal, including calling Modi a property dealer for the industrialists. Kejriwal also tried to scare people by telling them that gas prices will quadruple if Modi becomes PM, as he will have to hike these prices to benefit Mukesh Ambani. Incidentally, that 400% increase is yet to materialize to this date.

Who can forget Arvind Kejriwal dramatically “breaking open a safe” in a rally and taking out some documents and claiming that those documents contained details of Ambani’s black money. As one can guess, we never saw those documents again after the campaign got over.

All the campaigning against Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, and attempts to scare people with ‘evil billionaires’ worked as well as one expected. Aam Aadmi Party, which was supposedly at the peak of its popularity in 2014, ended up with 4 seats in total and lost deposits on 413 seats, 96% of the seats they contested. Even though the ploy by Arvind Kejriwal failed spectacularly, it seemed to inspire the Congress party and its scion Rahul Gandhi, and he decided this failed strategy is the way to go.

2019 Lok Sabha elections- The Anil Ambani-Rafale election

In 2016, India signed a deal to procure 36 much-needed Rafale fighter jets of around 58,000 crores. As part of the deal, Dassault (the company manufacturing Rafale) had an offset obligation of around 50% of the deal value. So 50% of the deal value had to be reinvested in India, and Dassault partnered with around 70 different Indian companies to execute that. One of those firms they partnered with, was Anil Ambani’s Joint Venture, which signed a deal of around 900 crores with Dassault. You can read all the facts about the deal here.

The deal, and the mention of the name Ambani, were enough for the Indian opposition to make all sorts of false claims ahead of the 2019 elections. The entire campaign of the opposition was centered around these allegations. Rahul Gandhi, the perennial PM candidate of the opposition, claimed that Modi is giving thousands and thousands of crores to Anil Ambani through this deal.

In some speeches, the allegations claimed that Anil Ambani was getting an amount that was double the actual deal value with Dassault. Along with making up imaginary numbers, the opposition also tried to conjure up an imaginary scenario where Anil Ambani was making Rafale jets.

Anil Ambani, who was once among the 10 wealthiest persons in the world, had become bankrupt by 2019, with his brother Mukesh Ambani’s financial help keeping him out of legal troubles. Therefore, while most voters wondered how can Modi be helping an industrialist if he is going bankrupt during his tenure, the opposition kept repeating its lies in the hope of convincing enough voters to move away from Narendra Modi.

Expectedly, this strategy of saying that Modi is personally providing benefits to an Ambani failed for the second time. This time, voters gave an even bigger majority to Narendra Modi-led NDA as they returned to power in style. And expectedly, the opposition forgot about Anil Ambani and Rafale deal the moment they saw in May 2019 that nobody is buying their lies.

2024- Adani returns while Ambanis go missing

Now, with the attack on Gautam Adani and his alleged links with Narendra Modi, the opposition’s election campaign for 2024 has officially begun. Ahead of 2019, Gautam Adani was largely ignored by the opposition as they focused on Anil Ambani. However, looks like Adani is back in focus for 2024.

Adani’s stocks have seen a superb rally in the last 3-4 years on the stock market, pushing him among the richest people in the world, and even second in the world at one time, behind Elon Musk. This rapid rise in wealth, due to the stock price movement, has convinced the opposition that he is the man to target if they want to defeat PM Modi in 2024.

While Adani is signing contracts all over opposition-ruled states, including Kerala, Rajasthan, and Bengal, the opposition is alleging that Adani’s net worth soared only because of the contracts given to him by PM Narendra Modi, the contracts he got after winning open tenders.

Meanwhile, Anil Ambani must be feeling totally ignored this time. While his elder brother Mukesh may appear here and there in the opposition’s campaign, even the Indian opposition must have realized that saying PM Modi personally helps an industrialist who has gone bankrupt is unlikely to get them results.

This strategy of repeating everywhere that Modi works for billionaires has failed twice already, in 2014 and in 2019, will it be the third time lucky for the Indian opposition, we wait and see.

Altaf Bukhalri of Apni Party says his party won’t allow “non-locals” to settle in Jammu & Kashmir

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Altaf Bukhalri of Apni Party says his party won’t allow “non-locals” to settle in Jammu & Kashmir

On February 11, the president of the Apni Party, Altaf Bukhari, said his party would not allow non-locals to settle in Jammu and Kashmir. He also criticised the ongoing anti-encroachment drive by the administration to take control of the government land.

He claimed his party would reverse all the “anti-people” decisions made by the administration once his party came to power. “The administration has no right to displace people from their land. If we form the next government, we will reverse anti-people decisions of the administration like stopping the darbar move practice and anti-encroachment drives,” he added.

Speaking at a function organised to welcome PDP leader from Samba Sanny Sangral to join Apni Party at its Gandhi Nagar headquarters, the former minister said, “We will not allow the non-locals to settle in Jammu and Kashmir. The land in J&K belongs to the people of the erstwhile state.” He further said, “It does not matter how much security they provide to them [non-locals]. No non-locals can live on our land. This land belongs to us. The people of Jammu and Kashmir own this land. If they think they can bring people to settle here on the cleared land, we will not sit idle. We will fight for the land and not allow any non-local to settle here.”

Giving an example of Delhi, he added the administration had no other option but to regularise the unauthorised colonies. He said, “Even the government in Delhi has regularised such colonies from time to time, but it seems they do not understand the issues of the poor people.”

Bukhari blamed Bharatiya Janata Party for delaying the elections in the Union Territory.

10,800 kms, 10 public meetings, 90 hours: How PM Modi’s schedule looks like

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10,800 kms, 10 public meetings, 90 hours: How PM Modi’s schedule looks like

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be covering over 10800 km and participating in 10 public meetings between February 10 and February 13, reported The Times of India.

On Friday (February 10), the 72 year old PM travelled to Lucknow from the National Capital and attended the inauguration of the Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit. He then flew to Mumbai, flagged off the Mumbai-Solapur and Mumbai- Sainagar Shirdi Vande Bharat Express trains from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus.

PM Modi also inaugurated the Vakola-Kurla and MTNL-LBS elevated corridor arms on Santacruz-Chembur Link Road and 2 vehicular underpasses at Kurar and Malad. It must be mentioned that Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections are scheduled to be held later this year.

The Indian Prime Minister also inaugurated the new campus of Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, an educational institute of the Dawoodi Bohra community, in Marol in Mumbai. Thereafter he flew back to Delhi and covered 2700 km in this process.

On Saturday (February 11), PM Modi headed to the poll-bound Northeastern State of Tripura and addressed two public meetings in Radhakishorepur and Ambassa. He covered 3000 km on that day.

On Sunday (February 12), the Indian Prime Minister will kick off year-long celebrations for the 200th birth anniversary of Dayanand Saraswati at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in the National Capital.

He will then head out to Dausa in Rajasthan and lay the foundation stone of road projects worth more than ₹18100 crores. He will also inaugurate the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway (first completed section) of the Sohna-Dausa stretch.

Later in the day, PM Modi will reach Bengaluru and thus cover 1750 km in this process. On Monday (February 13), he will inaugurate Aero India 2023 in the city and then address a public rally in Tripura’s capital city, Agartala. He will then head back to Delhi and cover 3350 km on the day.

Thus, PM Modi will cover 10 public meetings, launch development initiatives and travel over 10800 km within just 90 hours.

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