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Despite calls for boycott, Romila Thapar delivers lecture at IIC: Some instances when Hindus were hounded, speeches cancelled, as Left called for boycott

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Despite calls for boycott, Romila Thapar delivers lecture at IIC: Some instances when Hindus were hounded, speeches cancelled, as Left called for boycott

On Saturday (January 14), controversial ‘historian’ Romila Thapar delivered her speech at the India International Centre (IIC), despite calls for a boycott.

As expected, Thapar used the occasion to cast aspersions on the existence of love jihad and negate the historical persecution of Hindus. “The Muslims culminated in Pakistan and the Hindus are edging towards a Hindu Rashtra. The colonial projection is succeeding,” she tried to create panic and hysteria.

She also claimed that the confrontation between the Mughals and the Rajputs was a complex political conflict that transcended the Hindi-Muslim confrontation. Romila Thapar also suggested that marriage alliances were used to strengthen social bonding.

“The Mughal royal family married into Rajput royal families of high status. Since Muslims as non-caste aliens were treated as ‘mleccha’ by upper caste Hindus, did the Rajput ruling families lose face marrying into a ‘mleccha’ family even if it was the imperial family?” she claimed.

Romila Thapar further added, “Apparently not. Was it a matter of pride that they were marrying ‘up’ as it were? There was of course no ‘love jihad’ in those days. Memoirs and autobiographies do not suggest that these were forced marriages since sociability among them on both sides was applauded.

Despite her dwindling credibility as a historian, she was platformed by the India International Centre. Such a luxury was not accorded to non-Left intellectuals, politicians and historians (the infamous case of Bloomsbury India for instance)

LSR succumbs to leftist pressure, de-platforms BJP spokesperson

The SC/ST Cell of Lady Shri Ram College had invited BJP national spokesperson Guru Prakash Paswan to give a talk on Ambedkar Jayanti, which is celebrated on April 14th each year.

However, due to an outcry from the Students Federation of India (SFI) last year, the invitation was eventually withdrawn. Paswan expressed his disappointment with the cancellation, as he had already begun preparing for the talk, which was to be titled “Ambedkar Beyond the Constitution.”

He remarked, “Apart from my political affiliation, I am a Dalit myself, and come from an academic background. I have even co-authored a book Makers of the Modern Dalit History and was willing to engage with the students. I feel that my voice has been stifled. This is disgraceful.”

Screengrab of the news report

A champion of cancel culture, SFI secretary Prachi claimed, “The BJP has a history of being anti-Dalit and an invite to a spokesperson of the party would be making a mockery of Ambedkar Jayanti. How can we keep the politics of a person aside and look only at his work? This cannot be done.”

JNU leads the pack of Leftist wolves

In December 2015, the infamous JNU student union displayed their intolerance over an invitation sent to Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev to the International Congress of Vedanta.

“The powerful student union objected tooth and nail to the invitation extended to him as the special speaker at the congregation”, read a report by India News.

In a series of tweets, Baba Ramdev said, “I would have surely gone to JNU if time allowed to have candid, scientific & logical discussion, even with my ideological adversaries.”

He further added, “Though I am not able to attend JNU event due to some other engagement. But fight around #BabaBlocked in an academic campus is unfortunate.”

Screengrab of the tweets by Baba Ramdev

In January 2017, an invitation sent to then BJP IT cell chief, Arvind Gupta, to speak at JNU’s Digital Financial Literacy Campaign was cancelled by the JNU administration following protests organised by the Left-dominated student council.

JNUSU President Mohit Pandey had accused Gupta of supposedly abusing women and running targeted online campaigns against political opponents. He claimed, “After destroying the country through demonetisation, they are trying to digitise the economy.”

“For that they are inviting a man who was instrumental in painting Kanhaiya as an anti-national and whose troll army ran a campaign where they claimed that Najeeb had joined ISIS,” he further alleged.

Screengrab of the report by India News

When Oxford University gave it to demands of anti-Hindu groups

In May last year, film director Vivek Agnihotri took to Twitter to inform that his invitation to address the Oxford Union was cancelled, just hours before the event.

“It was all confirmed on email but a few hours back, they said they had made a mistake, there was a double booking and they wouldn’t be able to host me today. Without even asking me, they changed the date to July 1 because on that day no student would be there and there’s no point doing an event,” he pointed out.

The director of ‘The Kashmir Files’ said that he was also not allowed to videotape his address at Cambridge University after deniers of Kashmiri Hindu genocide protested against such a move. He said that their opposition to his freedom of speech was based on his support of democratically elected PM Narendra Modi.

“They call me Islamophobic. As if killing thousands of Kashmiri Hindus was not Hinduphobic but making a film on the truth is Islamophobic Hindus are in minority at Oxford University. This is the oppression of the minority,” he was heard as saying.

These are only some of the events that were cancelled after the intolerant left-liberal ecosystem chose to curb freedom of speech while cribbing about the same on social media. It is also interesting to note that the intellectual class in India has the propensity to ignore the angst of Hindus against those who whitewash their genocide but have dropped speakers with remarkable alacrity when it comes to calls for a boycott from the Left, over trivial and mostly imagined reasons. Vivek Agnihotri, for example, was cancelled simply because he made a movie that shows the often whitewashed persecution and genocide of Kashmiri Hindus.

Guru Prakash Paswan, for example, is himself a Dalit scholar and was hounded by the Left simple because he disagreed with them as far as politics was concerned. He was cancelled despite the shill noise that the Left makes about hearing Dalit scholars and ensuring that the legacy of Dr Ambedkar is talked about.

Romila Thapar, on the other hand, is a “historian” who has been debunked by several scholars and has habitually whitewashed the genocide and persecution of Hindus. She was given a platform despite Hindus urging the cancellation of her talk, because it was evident that she would spread more distorted history to ensure that the amnesia of the Hindu community about their own history remains intact.

The Wire is sold out, published reports after taking money, I and my family are getting threats now: Brahmpuri lawyer

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The Wire is sold out, published reports after taking money, I and my family are getting threats now: Brahmpuri lawyer

Recently, some media outlets, including ‘The Wire’, claimed that a poster has been pasted in Delhi’s Brahmpuri, in which Hindus have been asked not to sell their houses to Muslims. It was claimed that these posters have been pasted by advocate Pradeep Sharma. The poster has the address of street number 13 located in Brahmpuri written on it. However, when we went on the ground and investigated, we found something different altogether. Pradeep Sharma has denied putting up any such poster.

We found that the person whose name is seen in this poster, Advocate Pradeep Sharma, practices in Karkardooma Court. He categorically stated that he has no connection to the poster and that his name was being misused. The lawyer said that he neither knew anything about what was written on the poster nor had anything to do with it. He said that he does not suspect anyone at the moment, but he has submitted a complaint to the police against unknown people.

Advocate Pradeep Sharma termed this news of ‘The Wire’ as a lie.

He, however, admitted that some Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs) are active here and don’t want the population of Muslims to increase in the area and want the migration of Hindus to stop. However, he also said that if such an appeal has to be made, then people should do it in their own name, and not in his name. Advocate Sharma also said that RWA should issue an appeal in its own name if it has to be done. He said that it is not right to get someone else trolled on social media in such a way.

Advocate Pradeep Sharma also reached Usmanpuri police station, with a memorandum of the complaint. He said that he has come to the police station to give his complaint, and to find out who has installed this poster, due to which he is being harassed and his family is being threatened. He said that ‘Muslim parties’ (home buyers) have backtracked after seeing this poster, due to which local Muslim leaders and property dealers are threatening him.

He also feared a threat to his family. The lawyer said that he himself came to know about this poster when he was threatened on social media after someone sent him a photo of the poster. He said that apart from the DCP, he has also given a complaint to the local police station. Regarding ‘The Wire’ news portal, he said that his first interview is coming in OpIndia and he has not even heard the name of ‘The Wire’.

Advocate Pradeep Sharma said, “I am unaware how my statement appeared in ‘The Wire’. I have no idea how ‘The Wire’ gave all the news against me. Whatever ‘The Wire’ has written, they are not my words. I didn’t give an interview. I got calls from some journalists, and I told them I had nothing to do with the poster. Someone has given money to a sold-out channel like ‘The Wire’ and published news against me.”

He further clarified that no one came from ‘The Wire’ to take his statement, but ‘The Wire’ accused him of spreading hatred and said that he is preventing Hindus from selling their houses to Muslims. Pradeep Sharma said that as an advocate, he considers it his duty to save his clients and has never differentiated between Hindu-Muslim as part of his professional life.

Pradeep Sharma has been living in Brahmpuri since birth, and his father bought this house in 1962. Advocate Sharma said that considering the safety of his family, he is planning to sell the house. He mentioned that when the riots took place in 2020, only a few houses belonged to Muslims, today there are many Muslim households in the area.

He said that Hindus are continuously migrating from the area and up to 10-15 Hindu families have migrated. He said that in February 2020, bullets were fired in front of his house and an attempt was made to break down the gate of his house.

Sharma further said that a mosque was built in the area 5-6 years ago, following which the population of Muslims started increasing. The lawyer said that the mosque was once the house of a Brahmin, which was made a mosque after being sold. He also said that outsider Muslims come in large numbers at the time of namaz and 500-700 people come there every Friday. Azaan for the namaz is also done through loudspeakers.

Pradeep Sharma has been trying to sell the house for the last 2-3 years and will sell it to whoever gives him the right amount, whether Hindu or Muslim. In fact, there is a temple in his house, due to which he is having trouble selling the house. He feared that this mischief may have been done because of that as Hindus are migrating, while Muslims refuse to buy a house with a temple.

Explaining his plan, he said that he is even ready to remove the temple from the house so that it can be sold. He said that 70% of the area is Hindu and 30% is Hindu. He said that Hindus protect Muslims and when Muslims left their homes, many Hindus protected them – there was no arson and no violence. He asserted that Hindus always show tolerance and they are never intolerant.

‘Freedom to protest is a fundamental principle but not absolute’: UK PM Rishi Sunak announces measures to clamp down disruptive protests

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‘Freedom to protest is a fundamental principle but not absolute’: UK PM Rishi Sunak announces measures to clamp down disruptive protests

The UK government, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, announced new measures to curb protests, expanding the situations in which police can take action to prevent significant disruption.

Recent protests on environmental issues have caused major disruptions in central London and blocked traffic on major roads, leading to calls for increased police authority. The government passed legislation in 2022 to address this menace, but it now plans to enact the Public Order Bill, which has been met with criticism from civil rights groups for being anti-democratic and granting too much power to the police.

On Monday, Rishi Sunak took to Twitter to announce that his government is moving to amend laws that would grant police greater power to clamp down on disruptive protests.

“Before Christmas, I promised to better support law enforcement to stop disruptive protests. Today, this government has delivered on that promise,” Sunak tweeted.

The government intends to amend the bill before it becomes law to broaden the definition of ‘serious disruption’, grant police more discretion, and clarify when the new powers can be used.

The government plans to expand the definition of “serious disruption” through an amendment to the Public Order Bill, providing the police with more discretion and clarity on when to intervene against individuals or groups who use tactics such as blocking roads and slow marching to cause disruption to the public, Sunak informed.

Despite the government granting additional powers to the police to prevent protestors from using guerrilla tactics, police leaders have informed the Prime Minister that there is confusion over what constitutes a “serious disruption.”

Clarifying the conundrum faced by the police, Sunak laid down conditions on when they should step in. They are as follows:-

  • Police will not need to wait for disruption to take place and can shut protests down before chaos erupts
  • Police will not need to treat a series of protests by the same group as standalone incidents but will be able to consider their total impact
  • Police will be able to consider long-running campaigns designed to cause repeat disruption over a period of days or weeks

The government claims that if the new legislation is approved, it will empower the police to take action to end disruptive protests before they occur.

The proposed bill also includes the criminalization of actions such as attaching oneself to objects or buildings and granting courts the ability to limit the rights of certain protesters to prevent significant disruption. It expands upon the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Act passed in April 2022, which led to several large-scale protests against the bill.

US-based political scientists conclude that large-scale violence in India significantly reduced in the last 20 years compared to the period between 1970-2000

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US-based political scientists conclude that large-scale violence in India significantly reduced in the last 20 years compared to the period between 1970-2000

US-based political scientists Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur have come up with a new book titled ‘Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State’. In this book, they have concluded that large-scale violence in India has significantly reduced in the last 20 years as compared to the time period between 1970 to 2000.

Summing it up, aggregate levels of violence in India – public and private – have declined in the first two decades of this century compared to the last two decades of the previous century. Both authors are teaching faculties in US-based universities. Professor Amit Ahuja is teaching at the University of California while Professor Devesh Kapur is at Johns Hopkins University.

According to a report by BBC, the finding by these two researchers stands in sharp contrast to the conclusion peddled by Thomas Blom Hansen, an anthropologist at Stanford University, that violence has now taken the center stage in public life in India. Thomas Blom Hansen drew these conclusions in his book ‘The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics’ published in 2021. However, Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur have come up with detailed statistics on every aspect of the large-scale violence to prove the former incorrect.

The authors combed through decades’ worth of government documents to conduct their research, which included a wide range of violent incidents in India, including riots, election-related violence, caste-based, religious, and ethnic violence, insurgency, terrorism, political murders, and hijackings. They discovered that during the “peak quarter century” from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, violence in India actually decreased across a number of these variables – in some cases, significantly.

Ethno-religious massacres

The duo found that, since 2002, India has not seen any ethnic or religious massacres to the same extent as the riots in Gujarat in 2002, the riots in Delhi in 1984 that targeted the Sikh community, or the murders of purportedly unlawful immigrants from Bangladesh in the small Assamese town of Nellie in 1983. In only these riots, more than 6,000 individuals officially lost their lives.

Terrorist attacks

The researchers noted that 8,749 individuals have died in terrorist acts in India since 2001, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2020. But after 2010, these attacks decreased significantly. Comparing the decade from 2000 to 2010 and the next decade, the number of terrorist events decreased by 70%, from 71 to 21, with the exception of Kashmir.

Incidents of riots

The number of riots increased about five times from the 1970s to the turn of the century. However, by the late 1990s, they had started to diminish. When the population is taken into account, currently, the number of riots in India is at a record low.

Violence during elections and high-profile murders

High-profile political killings and electoral violence have decreased significantly in India as per the research. Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi were assassinated in 1984 and 1991, respectively. India hasn’t seen a high-profile political assassination since then. Between 1989 and 2019, violence at voting centers decreased by 25%, while deaths associated with election violence decreased by 70%. This happened even though voter turnout increased, elections became more vigorous, and the number of voting booths doubled.

Plane hijacking incidents

In the three decades between the 1970s and 1990s, there were 15 hijackings of passenger aircraft operated by India. There haven’t been any since December 1999, when an Indian Airlines aircraft from Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked.

The researchers credit the government for better control of situations

Though there are various factors behind this decline in the incidents of violence, Professor Amit Ahuja and Professor Devesh Kapur credited this to the state to a major extent. According to them, the increased state capacity has contributed to the reduction of riots, insurgencies, and election-related violence. The tide of this violence has been slowed down in part by greater deployment of paramilitary troops, the use of helicopters and drones for surveillance, the erection of cell phone towers, strengthened police stations, new roads, and health and educational facilities in the afflicted regions.

The researchers mention, “The decline of violence is more due to enhanced state capacity and less the sort of political settlements that would provide consent of the governed and ensure that new cycles of violence don’t occur.”

Surat court rejects bail to ‘love jihad’ accused Muhammad Samat Ali Sheikh, who posed as a Hindu to lure a girl and forced her to read Namaz and convert

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Surat court rejects bail to ‘love jihad’ accused Muhammad Samat Ali Sheikh, who posed as a Hindu to lure a girl and forced her to read Namaz and convert

A local court in Surat denied bail to a 51-year-old man called Muhammad Samat Ali Sheikh who had disguised himself as Mukesh Mahavir Gupta and married a Hindu girl from the Dindili region. At the time, Sheikh claimed to be a Railway employee, reports Desh Gujarat.

After a few months of marriage, the victim Hindu girl realized that her husband was not Hindu. She was subsequently forced to convert to Islam and perform Namaz. Feeling harassed, the victim filed a complaint at the Dindoli police station of Surat. The police filed an FIR against the accused and charged him under the Freedom of Religion Act and other relevant sections of the IPC.

Since then, the accused has been held in judicial custody. The accused sought release for 30 days on medical grounds, but the government’s lawyer, RP Dobariya, had opposed it. The court in its order rejected the plea of the accused seeking bail. 

The menace of Love Jihad (Grooming jihad) has been rapidly spreading its tentacles across many parts of the country, where vulnerable Hindu women are being targeted by Muslim men, enticed and misled, forcibly converted to Islam, tortured, raped, and then either killed or abandoned.

To combat this grave threat, many states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, and Karnataka, have enacted stringent laws that criminalise Love Jihad and other forms of illegal conversions. Still, several incidents continue to emerge every other day from every nook and corner of the country where susceptible and vulnerable Hindu women are being targeted and exploited in the name of ‘love’.

OpIndia has consistently been at the forefront of reporting incidents in which vulnerable Hindu women are groomed to accept their own subjugation at the hands of Muslim men. When the year 2022 came to an end, OpIndia reported as many as 153 instances of ‘Love Jihad’ or ‘Grooming Jihad’ we documented last year.

Iran threatens French magazine Charlie Hebdo with Salman Rushdie-like fate for publishing cartoons on Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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Iran threatens French magazine Charlie Hebdo with Salman Rushdie-like fate for publishing cartoons on Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

On January 11, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards issued threats to France and the editors of a French satirical magazine named Charlie Hebdo that they might meet the same fate as Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses who was attacked last year. The threat came after the magazine published additional cartoons ridiculing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Rushdie has been threatened with execution since the publication of his controversial novel named ‘The Satanic Verses’ in the 1980s. He was forced to go into hiding for over ten years while the book provoked fury in Islamic countries, and in 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s then-supreme leader, issued a fatwa demanding Muslims murder the author. Rushdie was also attacked at a literary event in New York last year, suffering serious injuries.

“I advise the French and directors of the Charlie Hebdo magazine to take a look at the fate of Salman Rushdie. Do not play with Muslims. Salman Rushdie insulted the Qur’an and the Holy Prophet of Islam 30 years ago and hid in dangerous places. Sooner or later, Muslims will take revenge and you may arrest the avengers, but the dead will not rise again,” Major General Hossein Salami said on January 11.

The magazine editor, Laurent Sourisseau, known as Riss, responded to the threats by saying that he would publish more cartoons of Iran clerics. “The mullahs aren’t happy. The caricatures of their supreme leader… do not seem to have made them laugh. It is an honour in one sense, but above all proves that they feel their power is very fragile,” Riss was quoted as saying.

Charlie Hebdo releases caricatures on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The saga began when Charlie Hebdo released the winning sketches in a competition that asked people all over the globe to create the most repulsive caricatures of the Iranian leader as an expression of solidarity with the Iranian protest movement.

The publishing of the caricatures heightened tensions between Iran and France, with the latter shutting the French Institute for Research. The closing of the institute was described by Iran’s Foreign Ministry as a first step in response to the cartoons, and the country promised to actively pursue the case and take the necessary steps to make the country accountable.

In response to these threats, the satirical magazine doubled down and produced another magazine cover mocking Iran last week. According to the reports, the sketch published later depicts Mullahs entering and exiting a nude woman’s womb as her legs are exposed on the cover. “It took us a week to find the exit,” the caption read.

Reports mention that the satirical magazine was also hit by a cyber attack after publishing the caricatures initially. Riss also responded to this in the editorial saying that “a digital attack doesn’t leave anyone dead, but it sets the tone. The mullah’s regime feels in such danger that it considers it vital to its existence to hack the website of a French newspaper.”

Earlier, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian termed the release of Khamenei’s cartoons an “insult to the sanctities,” accusing Israel of being behind the action. Some government officials and organizations in other nations have decried the threats and urged for more pressure against Iran’s authorities.

Jharkhand: Armaan Ali traps a married Hindu woman into a relationship, beats her to death on her refusal to elope with him

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Jharkhand: Armaan Ali traps a married Hindu woman into a relationship, beats her to death on her refusal to elope with him

A married Hindu woman was beaten to death by Armaan Khan alias Rocky in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district. The deceased woman has been identified as Mamata Devi, a resident of Bhadwatand, in the Barkakana OP area of Ramgarh district.

Armaan is alleged to have fled following the incident. According to reports, Armaan was pressuring Mamata to divorce her husband and elope with him. Armaan killed her after she refused. Mamata’s three-year-old daughter was also present when he committed the crime. The incident occurred late Saturday evening (January 14).

According to reports, the accused Armaan Khan mercilessly killed Mamata Devi with a sickle.

According to media reports, Jaya Devi lives with her husband in a rented house in Bhadwatand under the Barkakana area of Ramgarh district. Recently her sister Mamta Devi has gone to visit her sister. Armaan also reached Bhadwatand to meet Mamata, whom he claimed to be in love with.

Jaya Devi reportedly told the police that Mamata and Armaan Ali use to often argue and fight with each other. Armaan often threatened Mamata and coerce her to meet him.

On the day of the incident, Jaya Devi had gone to Ramgarh town with her husband. When she returned, she found her sister, Mamata Devi dead in a pool of blood. She discovered Mamata Devi’s 3-year-old child sitting beside the body of her mother and crying profusely. She rushed Mamata Devi to a hospital but was declared brought dead.

On receiving the information of the murder, local Barkakana police station in-charge Shashi Prakash reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem.

Ramgarh SP Piyush Pandey told media that prima facie it appeared that both appeared to be in a relationship with consent, and on January 14, Armaan killed Mamata in a fit of rage following a verbal altercation.

The police are on the lookout for Armaan, and further investigation is underway.

Kerala HC pulls up CPM leader for manhandling Lord Ayyappa devotees at Sabarimala temple

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Kerala HC pulls up CPM leader for manhandling Lord Ayyappa devotees at Sabarimala temple

On Monday, the Kerala High Court strongly condemned the actions of Arun Kumar, a Sabarimala temple guard and CPM leader, who was caught on video pushing and shoving devotees while they were praying on Saturday, the busiest day of the two-month pilgrimage season.

A video of guard Arun Kumar, who is connected to CPM’s Travancore Devasom Board, the body which manages the daily operations of the hilltop shrine, had gone viral on social media and was brought to the attention of the high court’s Devasom bench by several lawyers.

The court expressed its disapproval and inquired about the identity and authority of the person who had touched the bodies of the pilgrims.

A bench of Justices Anil K Narendran and P G Ajithkumar asked the Board to provide details of the Devaswom guard concerned and the action if any, taken against him.

“The manner in which the Devaswom guard by name, ‘Arun’, regulated the movement of pilgrims in front of Sreekovil, through the first row, was in flagrant violation of the directions issued by this court in the decision in Sajeev Sastharam,” the bench said.

During the court proceedings, the bench stated that in a previous petition (Sajeev Sastharam vs. the State of Kerala), they had instructed the guards working for the TDB and the police officers on duty at Sopanam to manage the movement of devotees through barricades in a manner that causes the least inconvenience to pilgrims.

The state government counsel argued that the actions were part of crowd control measures, but the court emphasized that there are appropriate, scientific methods of controlling crowds and that it is the responsibility of the police to implement them.

The bench mentioned, however, on January 14, after the deity was adorned with the ‘Thiruvabharanam’, there were issues with the crowd management in front of the Sreekovil at Sannidhanam.

The court requested that the top official of the TDB and Arun Kumar be added as parties in the case and scheduled the next hearing for Tuesday.

Notably, Arun Kumar, who is now known to be a trade union leader of the CPI-M and is affiliated with the TDB, is also a close associate of the State Education Minister, V. Sivankutty.

The TDB suspended Arun Kumar for his act.

Lalit Modi on the oxygen support post-Covid, hands over everything to his son

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Lalit Modi on the oxygen support post-Covid, hands over everything to his son

Lalit Modi, the former chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL), who was in the news for dating Sushmita Sen in July 2022, recently announced on Instagram that he has been placed on continuous exterior oxygen support after experiencing double COVID in the previous two weeks. On 15th January 2023, he shared a document from his social media handles in which he has cleared that he is transferring the rights to his belongings to his son Ruchir Modi.

In a tweet, Lalit Modi wrote, “In light of what I have gone through, it’s time to retire and move on. And groom my kids. I am handing them all.” In this tweet, Lalit Modi shared the documents in which he nominated his son Ruchir Modi as the head of the Lalit Kumar Modi (LKM) branch of the KK Modi Family Trust (KKMFT). The former IPL head is facing a legal battle against his mother and his sister.

In the document, Lalit Modi wrote, “Myself, my late wife Minal Modi, and two children Ruchir Modi and Aliya Modi were the beneficiaries of KKMFT as members of the LKM Branch. Post demise of my wife Minal Modi, the LKM Branch of KKMFT comprises of myself and my two children Ruchir Modi and Allya Modi as the beneficiaries of KKMFT.”

Lalit Modi added, “The present litigation with my [nother and my sister, is tedious, strenuous and has gone on for a long, and even though there have been several rounds of discussion for settlement, there is no end in sight. It has caused and continues to cause me immense distress. I have discussed this with my daughter and she and I are of the opinion that should hand over control of the affairs of the LKM family and its beneficial interest in the Trust to my son Ruchir Modi.”

On 14th January 2023, Lalit Modi posted a photograph from his Instagram handle in which he is seen with external oxygen support. In the caption of this image, he wrote, “After 3 weeks in confinement with a double Covid in 2 weeks accompanied by influenza and deep pneumonia – and post trying several times to leave. Finally landed via air ambulance accompanied by two doctors and a superstar super efficient son who did so much for me back in London. The flight was smooth. Unfortunately still on 24/7 external oxygen.”

In the next post, he wrote, “With my two saviors. The two doctors, seriously for 3 weeks monitored me and treated me 24/7. One was Mexico City-based whose care I was under and the second was my London doctor who specifically flew into Mexico City to accompany me back to London. I have no words to describe of they sacrificed their time etc to get me out. Still need time to recover. Currently on 24/7 external oxygen. I was I thought touch and go. But my children and thief friends and my close friend Harish Salve were all with me 2 out of my three weeks fully by my side. They are all my family and part of me. God bless. Jai hind.”

In July 2022, former IPL commissioner and fugitive Indian businessman Lalit Modi announced that he is dating Bollywood actress and former Ms Universe Sushmita Sen. Sushmita Sen’s brother also wished Lalit Modi a speedy recovery as he shared about his ill health. Modi, who has been living in exile in London ever since BCCI ousted him, recently suffered from Covid twice.

NC leader and brother of former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah claims Central govt ‘planned’ Pulwama and Uri attacks

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NC leader and brother of former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah claims Central govt ‘planned’ Pulwama and Uri attacks

On Monday, January 16, the brother of Jammu and Kashmir’s former chief minister Farooq Abdullah and National Conference (NC) leader, Sheikh Mustafa Kamal went on a tirade against the Modi government. The NC leader went on to cast aspersions on the 2019 Pulwama attack and the 2016 Uri attack, echoing the statements of the terror state of Pakistan.

Sheikh Mustafa Kamal reportedly alleged that both attacks were ‘well-planned’ by the Central government. Mustafa alleged that none of the soldiers’ bodies or images were found following the brutal attacks. He further added that all the 30-40 soldiers who died belonged to the Scheduled Caste (SC) community (which is not true), probably hinting that the government carried out the attack to target Scheduled Castes.

“It is certain now that they (attacks) were planned by the Government of India. We didn’t see their photos and bodies and it is clear that all those 30-40 (soldiers) were SCs,” Kamal was quoted as saying by the news agency ANI. The NC leader added that “until it is clear as to who is the killer, all fingers point toward agencies of the government of India.”

How Indian opposition has repeatedly cast aspersions following the Pulwama attack

This is not the first time a member of the opposition party has insinuated that the Pulwama attack was orchestrated by PM Modi. In fact, on the first anniversary of the Pulwama attacks in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed by Islamic terrorists, insensitive Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to indulge in a political slugfest to target the BJP government rather than paying his tributes to the fallen soldiers who had laid their lives for the security of the country.

The Gandhi-scion had hinted that the barbaric incident might have been an inside job that benefitted the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Gandhi made the accusation despite the fact that the Islamic terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed had claimed responsibility for the attack.

Moreover, Congress leader B K Hariprasad, a Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka, had also stirred controversy by mocking the Pulwama terrorist attack which claimed the lives of more than 40 CRPF personnel. Hariprasad called the terrorist attack a ‘fixed match’ between PM Modi and Pakistan.

Similarly, Goa Congress leader Chellakumar had alleged that the Pulwama attack was orchestrated by PM Modi and went on to ask where were the bodies of terrorists who were killed in the airstrikes. Kumar had also floated a conspiracy theory that the Pulwama terror attack, the responsibility of which was claimed by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad, was an inside job.

When AAP and Congress demanded proof of the 2016 Surgical Strikes

Not only this, but the opposition members had also gone out of their way to raise suspicion on the veracity of India’s 2016 Surgical strikes in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir that came as a retaliation to the brutal terror attack in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir that claimed lives of 18 Indian soldiers and sought evidence for the same.

The Congress party and AAP had then run a campaign to discredit the government by casting aspersions over the authenticity of the operation, seeking evidence to prove the attack. They also claimed that there was no novelty in the raids and such forays have been carried out by the Army during previous regimes as well.

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