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‘Honeytrapped’ driver working in India’s External Affairs Ministry arrested for passing confidential information to Pakistan

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‘Honeytrapped’ driver working in India’s External Affairs Ministry arrested for passing confidential information to Pakistan

In a joint operation, the Delhi Police and security agencies have apprehended a man for passing sensitive and confidential information to the ISI, the intelligence agency of Pakistan.

Citing sources, ANI reported that the accused used to work as a driver at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The man was reportedly honey-trapped by Pakistan’s intelligence agency. A probe has been initiated into the matter by the Delhi police.

This is, however, not the first time that such an incident has come to light.

Earlier in June this year, a contractual employee of the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) in Hyderabad was arrested for passing confidential defence information on India’s missile development to an alleged ISI operative in Pakistan through social media.

The 29-year-old accused, identified as Dukka Mallikarjuna Reddy alias Arjun Bittu was arrested from his residence in Triveni Nagar, Balapur, Hyderabad during a joint operation by the Special Operations Team, LB Nagar Zone, Rachakonda, and Balapur police on June 17.

The arrest was made under the supervision of Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat, Additional Commissioner of Police G Sudheer Babu, LB Nagar DCP Sunpreeth Singh, DCP (SOT) K Muralidhar and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Operations Team, Rachakonda.

Reddy was booked under Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 3 (1) (C), 5 (3), 5 (1) (A) of Official Secret Act-1923 at Balapur Police Station of Rachakonda Police Commissionerate. His two mobile phones, a SIM card, and a laptop were also seized by the authorities.

Medianama founder Nikhil Pahwa says he never wrote the article The Wire published in his name

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Medianama founder Nikhil Pahwa says he never wrote the article The Wire published in his name

On 18th November 2022, the leftist propaganda website The Wire published an article in the name of Nikhil Pahwa – the founder of Medianama. The website also tagged him in the tweet in which it shared the said article. However, Nikhil Pahwa responded to the tweet by saying that he never wrote the article ‘The Wire’ published in his name.

The article titled ‘Meta Layoffs, H-1B and the Life of Immigrant Labour’ was published on The Wire on 18th November 2022 at around 5:50 pm. This article explores the “difficult, stressful time ahead of the immigrant employees who lost their jobs with Meta”, claims The Wire. The portal tagged Nikhil Pahwa in a Twitter post in which the article was shared. The Wire wrote in a tweet, “The ripple effects of the Meta layoffs could be ghastly, especially for the many workers who’ve depended on employment with Meta for their US visas. Nikhil Pahwa writes for Future Tense Now.”

It is notable that a collaboration between Slate, New America, and Arizona State University called Future Tense explores new technology, public policy, and society. The Wire mentioned this at the end of the article. The article was actually written by Nitish Pahwa on the same issue which was published by Slate. It is titled, ‘Where Will the Thousands of Laid-Off Tech Workers Go?’.

Within minutes of The Wire tweeting the article and tagging Nikhil Pahwa in the tweet as the author, Nikhil Pahwa lashed out at the portal. He tweeted, “What the hell! I never wrote this. Dear The Wire, Can you please do your due diligence before you publicly attribute something to someone? Please remove this tweet and please remove any attribution to my Twitter handle or me.”

‘The Wire’ deleted the tweet after this and also changed the name of the author of that article on their website.

They also added a note below the article saying, “An earlier version of this article erroneously attributed the byline to Nikhil Pahwa instead of Nitish Pahwa.” They also expressed regret for the error, and tagged the correct author on Twitter this time.

A large flock of sheep has been walking in a circle for 12 days without stopping in China, CCTV video goes viral

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A large flock of sheep has been walking in a circle for 12 days without stopping in China, CCTV video goes viral

A group of sheep were seen moving aimlessly in a circle for a period of twelve days in China. The sheep can be seen walking continuously in circles inside their fence in northern China in the video, which was captured on security cameras in early November.

People are stunned and perplexed as they try to make sense of the bizarre behaviour seen in the viral video. The sheep are completely healthy, and the cause of the strange situation is unknown, according to People’s Daily, a state-run news organisation in China, which tweeted a video of it on Wednesday.

Ms Miao, the sheep owner, claimed the spectacle began with a few sheep until the entire herd joined in, according to Metro.

Lots of sheep can be seen chasing each other around in a circle in the CCTV footage. Other sheep are lounging in a circle, with some ultimately opting to join in. Others stayed perfectly motionless in the centre of the circle. On November 4, the mystery films were shot in the Inner Mongolian city of Baotou. The flock is seen moving clockwise in an almost perfect circle.

The farm had 34 sheep pens, however only the sheep in pen 13 moved throughout the circling exhibit. Some believe the sheep’s behaviour is caused by Listeriosis, a bacterial ailment often known as “circling disease.” Listeriosis can cause one side of the brain to become inflamed, causing the sheep to behave strangely.

According to a report by News.com.au, “Initially, affected animals are anorectic, depressed, and disoriented. They may propel themselves into corners, lean against stationary objects, or circle toward the affected side.”

Outbreaks are often caused by rotten or low-quality fodder. In sheep and goats, however, death generally occurs within 24-48 hours of the onset of symptoms.

Last year, sheep in East Sussex sparked a similar sensation when they were seen standing in concentric circles. Scientists have long wondered why some species, such as sharks and turtles, move in circular patterns. However, they have yet to reach a conclusion as to why.

While Rahul Gandhi accuses Veer Savarkar of wanting to become ‘obedient servant of British’, MK Gandhi had also used same phrase many times

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While Rahul Gandhi accuses Veer Savarkar of wanting to become ‘obedient servant of British’, MK Gandhi had also used same phrase many times

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi created a massive controversy with his comments on Veer Savarkar in his speeches during his Bharat Jodo Yatra. On November 15, Rahul Gandhi alleged that Veer Savarkar took pension from the British Government to work against the Congress party.

Then on November 17, he accused Savarkar of being loyal to the British rulers and helping them. He produces a letter written by Veer Savarkar to the British Government, where he had signed off by writing ‘I beg to remain sir, your most obedient servant’.

“I have a document that comprises Savarkar’s letter to British in which he has stated ‘I beg to remain, sir, your most obedient servant’. This is not written by me… but Savarkarji. Let everyone read this document,” Rahul Gandhi said. Displaying a print out of a copy of the letter Rahul Gandhi added, “I am very clear that he helped the British”.

Savarkar’s letter

He alleged that Savarkar betrayed leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel by signing the letter out of fear. While at the first glance it seems shocking that Savarkar desired to remain ‘most obedient servant’ of the British, Rahul Gandhi making the allegation actually exposes his shocking lack of knowledge about formal writing during that era.

Because, as already many people have already pointed out, it was the general practice at that time to end letters. Most prominent Indian letters used variations of this phrase before signing their letters to British officials and others.

M K Gandhi had written numerous letters to the British government during the Indian freedom movement that he was leading, and he himself had used such phrases. In one such letter to Lord Chelmsford, he wrote at the end, “I have the honour to remain, Your Excellency’s obdt. Servant”.

In another letter written to Duke of Connaught, MK Gandhi wrote at the end, “I beg to remain, Your Royal Highness’s faithful servant.”

It is not that Gandhi used such phrases only for British officials. In his letter to Russian author Leo Tolstoy, he had written, “I am, Your obedient servant, M. K. GANDHI”.

Gandhi’s letter to Leo Tolstoy

Letters written by other leaders at the time also used such phrases. This is evident that it was a standard practice, and it does not mean Veer Savarkar wanted to become an ‘obedient servant’ of the British, just like M K Gandhi didn’t want to become an ‘obedient servant’ of the British officers he wrote to.

Maharashtra: Two Congress workers booked for vandalising Veer Savarkar’s statue in Pune

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Maharashtra: Two Congress workers booked for vandalising Veer Savarkar’s statue in Pune

On 18th November 2022, Pune police booked two Congress workers for vandalising Veer Savarkar’s statue near Sarasbaug in the Swargate area of the city. Pune police also detained 15 BJP workers for protesting against Rahul Gandhi at the Congress office in the city.

The senior inspector Ashok Indulkar of the Swargate police station said that Congress workers were booked under sections 188, 504, and 153 of the Indian Penal Code for vandalising Savarkar’s statue. These workers raised a banner reading “Maafiveer (mercy seeker) Savarkar” near the Savarkar statue in Sarasbaug.

It was learned that the flex was installed by the Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress. It was planted around 1.30 pm on Thursday. It contained documents cited by Rahul Gandhi while his broadsides against the freedom fighter.

The politics in the state seems to be heating up as Rahul Gandhi trained guns at Veer Savarkar during his Bharat Jodo Yatra which reached the Akola district of Maharashtra this week. Many followers of Savarkar demonstrated against the Gandhi scion for his remarks on Savarkar.

In an effort to protest Rahul Gandhi’s comments on late Hindutva philosopher V D Savarkar, a number of BJP demonstrators stormed the Congress’s office in Pune on Friday. They tried to blacken pictures of the party leader. The demonstrators shouted anti-Rahul Gandhi slogans and tacked up posters reading “Mafiveer (mercy seeker) Jawaharlal Nehru” on the Congress Bhavan walls, according to a police officer in the Shivajinagar police station. Inspector Arvind Mane said, “We detained 10 to 15 workers from the premises of Congress Bhavan.”

The Congress scion had gone on a vitriolic tirade against Veer Savarkar during the Maharashtra leg of his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra.’ On Tuesday (November 15), Rahul Gandhi claimed that the freedom fighter took a pension from the British government to work against the Indian National Congress (INC).

Again on Thursday (November 17), he reiterated that Veer Savarkar helped the British government and wrote mercy petitions “out of fear”. Rahul Gandhi also accused the Indian freedom fighter of betraying the likes of Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, and Mahatma Gandhi.

YouTuber Gaurav Taneja, who was arrested after fans swarmed the Noida metro station on his birthday, asks for suggestions to celebrate his wife’s birthday

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YouTuber Gaurav Taneja, who was arrested after fans swarmed the Noida metro station on his birthday, asks for suggestions to celebrate his wife’s birthday

On 18th November 2022, YouTuber Gaurav Taneja asked his Twitter followers to suggest some ideas to celebrate the birthday of his wife. Gaurav Taneja wrote, “Kal wife ka birthday hai… koi surprise suggest Karo same level ka.” which means “Tomorrow is wife’s birthday, suggest some surprise of the same level”.

By saying “same level” he essentially meant the idea that Gaurav Taneja’s wife Ritu Rathee Taneja used to celebrate his birthday. She had earlier this year called his fans to a metro station in Noida to celebrate the YouTuber’s birthday causing a jam.

Netizens suggest ideas to Gaurav Taneja for celebrating his wife’s birthday

As soon as he tweeted this, netizens started giving replies to him referring to the earlier incident of chaos. Ankit Jain replied, “Metro book kar do” which means “book a metro”.

Another Twitter user @gganeshhh replied, “what is the same level?” Another Twitter user Corporate Ghumakkad replied, “On Gaurav’s birthday his wife planned a surprise which landed him in lockup.”

One Vivek Singh replied to Gaurav Taneja, “seedha police station hi book kr lo aap bhai iss baar” meaning that “directly book a police station this time”.

Maxtern posted, “metro wala surprise mat dena bas.”

The Metro station controversy

On 9th July 2022, Gaurav Taneja was arrested by the Sector 49 police station on charges of creating chaos in the city. He had gathered a crowd of his fans and followers under the metro station to celebrate his birthday, due to which the traffic situation collapsed. People were stuck in a traffic jam.

The YouTuber’s wife, Ritu Rathee Taneja, invited Gaurav’s subscribers and followers to a birthday celebration and a meet-and-greet with him. It was Ritu Rathee Taneja who is said to have booked the whole coach. These meet-and-greet events are typically organized by YouTubers and celebrities so that they can interact with and have fun with their fans.

It is notable that Gaurav Taneja worked as a pilot for Air Asia before becoming a full-time YouTuber after losing his job. He uploads daily vlogs to YouTube and has 7.57 million subscribers. Gaurav is also a fitness trainer and a law student, while Ritu Rathee Taneja is an Airbus A320 captain. The couple has two children named Kiaravi and Chaitravi.

MP: Hindu girl and Muslim boy caught while eloping away to Sagar; pregnant girl says boy’s mother promised his conversion to Hinduism after marriage

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MP: Hindu girl and Muslim boy caught while eloping away to Sagar; pregnant girl says boy’s mother promised his conversion to Hinduism after marriage

On Thursday, November 17, reports surfaced that the Government Railway Police (GRP) in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district apprehended a 15-year-old Hindu girl and a 17-year-old Muslim youth, both residents of Bhopal. The duo were trying to flee to Sagar to get married.

They, however, got down at the Vidisha railway station realising that they boarded the wrong train. The railway police, patrolling at the station, found the behaviour of the couple suspicious and based on that they detained the duo. On questioning, the police learnt that the minor girl was two months pregnant and that they were trying to elope to Sagar to the boy’s relative’s house where they planned to get married.

After apprehending the duo, the GRP ASI Manohar Singh Chauhan, head constable Shivraj Yadav, and several jawans called the girl’s mother. According to the mother, her daughter fled with the boy without the permission of her family members. At the same time, the boy’s family was well aware of the situation. During questioning, the boy revealed that he and the girl were travelling to Sagar to a relative’s house. His female relative was well aware of this as well. She had actually advised that he bring the girl to Sagar.

The Railway Police sent the youth to the Bhopal Juvenile Justice Board while the girl was sent to Bopal’s Child Welfare Committee.

Minor Hindu girl says Muslim boy and his family pressurised her to marry him

During a counselling session by Child Line, the minor Hindu girl revealed that the boy and his mother were forcing her to marry him. His mother told her, that she will get her son converted to Hinduism after marriage.

The girl also admitted to having known the boy for almost a year. The boy was a drug addict and involved in a myriad of illicit activities. The girl said that his mother emotionally blackmailed her by claiming that her son’s behaviour had improved since he met her. She pushed her to keep talking to her son. She also persuaded her to marry her son, claiming she would make sure he converted to Hinduism after marriage. “I felt forced to speak to him because of his mother’s insistence,” said the Hindu girl.

The girl then stated that the boy’s family relatives reside in the Sagar district. So they decided to get run away and get married in Sagar. According to the girl, they boarded the train and arrived in Itarsi. They caught another train to Sagar from there. They realised they had boarded the wrong train once they were on board. When the train arrived at Vidisha, the couple disembarked. The GRP stopped them and began questioning them when they were enquiring about the next available train to Sagar, stated the girl.

Deepa Sharma, a Vidisha Child Line counsellor, stated that the GRP police had informed them. During the counselling, it was learnt that the duo had been having an affair for a year. Both live in the same neighbourhood in Bhopal. The boy drives an auto and has previously been arrested for theft. He is also a drug addict.

The girl is the fourth in a family of four sisters and one brother. After her eldest sister’s marriage, her parents got divorced, and the brother moved in with the father while the three girls stayed back with the mother. The girl’s father runs a tea stall while the mother works in a hospital.

Deepa Sharma, the ChildLine counsellor, further stated that the girl’s mother was usually on the night shift. Taking advantage of the situation, the boy began to visit the girl’s home. The girl’s sisters also lived there, but they said nothing to the mother nor did they object. When the mother found out about their affair, she had the girl examined. It was then that the family discovered she was two months pregnant with the boy’s child.

Uttar Pradesh: Mohd Sufiyan arrested after an encounter, had pushed 19-year-old girlfriend to death in Lucknow

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Uttar Pradesh: Mohd Sufiyan arrested after an encounter, had pushed 19-year-old girlfriend to death in Lucknow

On Friday, three days after a 19-year-old girl Nidhi Gupta was reportedly pushed to death from the fourth floor of an apartment by her boyfriend Mohammad Sufiyan, the accused has been arrested. Sufiyan was absconding after the reported incident.

Nidhi had succumbed to injuries after falling from the fourth floor of the apartment where Sufiyan lives with his family. The incident happened in the Basant Kunj, Dubagga police station area in Lucknow earlier this week.

Police had placed a cash reward of Rs 25,000 in the accused Sufiyan’s name for his arrest.

On an informer’s tip-off police team reached the location where Sufiyan was staying. 16 police vehicles were carrying out a search operation to nab the accused, commissioner of West Zone CN Sinha informed TOI.

“Sufiyan was arrested on Friday in a police encounter in Lucknow’s Dubagga area,” Joint Commissioner of Police (JCP) Piyush Mordia told PTI.

Dubagga Station House Officer (SHO) Sukhvir Singh Bhadauriya said, “Sufiyan was apprehended around 1 pm in an encounter. He was hit by a bullet in the right foot. He has been admitted to King George’s Medical University (KGMU).”

An FIR has been filed against the man under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code, as well as relevant sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act (commonly called the love jihad law).

According to the reports, the girl was taking training to become a beautician and she was in a relationship with the accused Mohammed Sufiyan. On Tuesday, Nidhi and her family members had gone to Sifiyan’s house to confront him over his pressure on Nidhi to convert to Islam and marry him.

During the heated argument that ensued, Nidhi went to the rooftop and Sufiyan followed. Soon, Nidhi was pushed off to the ground. Nidhi’s family has alleged that Sufiyan pushed her to death because she had refused to convert and have a Nikah with him.

In the FIR lodged by the girl’s family, her mother has reportedly accused Sufiyan, who lives in the same locality, of harassing and forcing Nidhi to marry him under Islamic rituals. 

As per the Zee News report, Accused Sufiyan claimed to a have ‘video’ of Nidhi and was forcing her to marry him. Sufiyan was hellbent on converting Nidhi to Islam and doing Nikah (Muslim contract marriage) with her. 

On Tuesday night, the girl along with her mother, elder sister, and uncle went to confront the youth and complain to his family. While the two families were talking to each other, an altercation between Sufiyan and the girl started and he pushed her from the fourth floor, the mother told police.

8 ways in which Rahul Gandhi’s comments on Veer Savarkar have done BJP and Hindus, in general, a huge favour

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8 ways in which Rahul Gandhi’s comments on Veer Savarkar have done BJP and Hindus, in general, a huge favour

It is a widely held belief among most observers that clown Prince Rahul Gandhi is a gift that keeps on giving. His ridiculous gaffes, quickly licked clean by the army of corrupt media servants and fake intellectuals borrowed from the leftist ummah, are legion. They may be scrubbed clean from the “fearlessly independent” media that operates out of his servant quarters, but still reach us thanks to social room and leave us smiling and shaking our heads. 

But then when he talks serious stuff, he really starts gifting votes to BJP like a billionaire philanthropist. To give but one example from his “yatra”, his walking together with a man who butchered a calf in the middle of the street. An act termed barbaric by his own party obviously doesn’t mean Rahul disassociates with the barbarian. Why? He is now a full-time soldier in the Stalinist left’s pogrom on Hinduism. 

His recent comment on Savarkar has done BJP and Hindus in general, a huge favour.

  1. It keeps Savarkar in the news. Many youngsters even now simply don’t know him, thanks to CONLEFT’s control over what passes for history in India. And today’s young seek multiple sources – not necessarily narratives curated by the Politburo mass murderers and presented via their “eminent historian” coolies.
  2. Veer Savarkar was way ahead of his time, and his message will resonate with today’s young Hindus. He was beyond caste and advocated some things considered radical even today. As Prof Abhishek Banerji points out, that is exactly why the left fears him. Their divide-and-conquer strategy fails when Savarkar is better understood.
  3. You often come across media servants of the dynasty in the media, asking us why we are talking about Nehru and his failures in 2022. Well coolies, now your paymaster has legitimised it. As long as Rahul Gandhi talks about Veer Savarkar, there is as much, if not more logic in questioning Nehru and his disastrous policies we are still paying a price for. After all, Nehru and his family ran this country for decades, not Savarkar or his children.
  4. Rahul has also made it clear that he simply regurgitates nonsense fed to him by peddlers of Stalinist fringe leftist ideologies that have infiltrated his inner circle. He has zero understanding of facts. For example, his talks about signing off letters as “your most obedient servant”. That is the direct attack on Mahatma Gandhi as many have pointed out! I think it is a matter of time before someone fishes out a letter signed by his own family that is equally “obedient”.
  5. A lot of history has been blacked out from our books and memory by Stalinist leftists and fake historians who had an unwritten “you loot and plunder, live comfy lives, we sing your praise and bury facts. Just let us help ourselves to state funds and pursue our pogrom on Hinduism” agreement with the fascist dynasty.
  6. A good example is the apology letter written by Jawaharlal Nehru’s father Motilal to get his beloved son out of prison after barely a few days in a comfy room, not Andaman. Like all other unpleasant truths, this was buried. Historian Vikram Sampath brought it out. Now Rahul has given a million reasons for everyone in the right, to keep raking it up. That and the supposedly ‘platonic’ friendships that JLN formed with some of our colonisers.
  7. In a way, this is sad, because we should be looking at the good things done by historical personalities, even Nehru and leave their odd failings aside. Stalinist rapist butcher left propaganda ecosystem has never anyway obeyed this basic rule of decency. By throwing stones from a glass house, Rahul has made things worse.
  8. It also defies logic that colonial Britain punished its “obedient servant” to a harsh prison term in the Andamans, something it never did for Nehru who was supposedly opposing them! Again, this is something @Befittingfacts has rightly pointed out in SM and will surely become viral. Such comments will have absolutely no reason to be around if Rahul had not opened his mouth.

Thanks Rahul Gandhi!

Chhattisgarh: NSUI State General Secretary Ruhab Meman arrested for raping a college student after taking her to a secluded area

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Chhattisgarh: NSUI State General Secretary Ruhab Meman arrested for raping a college student after taking her to a secluded area

Ruhab Meman, the Chhattisgarh State General Secretary of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), the student arm of Congress, has been arrested for raping a girl student. In this case, the victim filed a complaint with Kanker’s Kotwali police station on Wednesday. Following this, the authorities apprehended the accused.

As reported by the Organiser, the victim informed the cops that Ruhab assisted her with college admission and that they used to communicate frequently over calls. Recently, Ruhab Meman brought the girl in his car to Singar Bhat forest under the pretext of strolling around and drove the car to a secluded place. He stopped over and raped the woman. He warned her not to tell anybody about the assault, but the girl stood up for herself and went to the police station.

According to Shalabh Sinha, SP Kanker, a complaint was lodged at the police station, and the culprit was arrested soon after an FIR was filed following the complaint. The accused was then brought before the court and put on judicial remand.

“An offence under Section 376, 506 and 323 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against the accused, which mounts for criminal charges of rape, criminal intimidation and voluntary causing hurt. The accused after committing the heinous assault on the victim also physically assaulted her and threatened her of facing dire consequences if she reported it to anyone,” Kanker Kotwali Station House Officer (SHO) Sharad Dubey told reporters.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has targeted the Congress party, saying that such crimes are committed in Chhattisgarh where the Congress party is in power. Notably, NSUI is the student wing of the Congress party.

BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya wrote, “In Chhattisgarh’s Kanker, state general secretary of NSUI (Congress Students Organisation) Ruhab Memon was arrested for raping a college student. Ruhab has been made co-in-charge for the by-election. The girl is Hindu, belongs to tribal society. Will Rahul and Priyanka go to Chhattisgarh for this?”

Ruhab Meman is a congress leader and has been quite active on social media. Ruhab also posted several posts claiming to be in support of women’s empowerment. He was appointed as the state general secretary of NSUI in 2018.

The post by Ruhab Meman.

NSUI state president Neeraj Pandey has responded to the severe allegations brought against the NSUI leader. He stated that he was expelled from the party as soon as the issue became public.

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