On Sunday, October 16, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court observed that the principles of the 2019 Citizenship (Amendment) Act could be applied to Hindu Tamils who were forced to abandon Sri Lanka. The single-judge bench of Justice GR Swaminathan held that although Sri Lanka is not covered under CAA, the Hindu Tamils in the Island country could obtain Indian citizenship under the Act as they were the “primary victim of racial strife.”
“Sri Lankan Hindu Tamils were the primary victim of racial strife; can apply for Indian Citizenship as per CAA 2019”: Madras High Court@SukritiMishra12 reportshttps://t.co/Xx3bMET8gV
Notably, the humanitarian law brought in by the Modi government seeks to expedite the citizenship process for religiously persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who arrived in India as refugees before December 31, 2014. Though the persecuted Hindus of Sri Lanka currently do not fall under its ambit, the Madras High Court has asked the central government to decide on the matter within 16 weeks.
“Though Sri Lanka does not fall within the said amendment, the very same principle is equally applicable,” he said. “One can take judicial notice of the fact that the Hindu Tamils of Sri Lanka were the primary victims of the racial strife,” Justice Swaminathan noted.
The court was hearing a petition filed by S Abirami, a 29-year-old girl from Sri Lanka who moved to India due to ethnic victimisation. Abirami applied for Indian citizenship.
Abirami was born in a Trichy nursing home on December 14, 1993. She went to school in India, received an Aadhar Card, and has lived there for the past 29 years. Her efforts to get citizenship, however, were futile, so she filed the current petition.
The petitioner requested that the District Magistrate/District Collectors grant her permission to send her application for citizenship to the Central Government. She further requested that the Central Government issue orders within six weeks of receiving her application. Abirami’s plea stated that the Central Government should take note of the unique situation in which she is placed.
The single-judge panel noted that Abirami is the daughter of migrant parents and was born in India. The court went on to say that because she has never been a Sri Lankan citizen, the issue of renunciation does not arise. The court stated that if her motion is denied, she will become “stateless.”
Finally, the court asked the Assistant Solicitor General and the Additional Government Pleader to forward Abirami’s appeal to the Central Government for consideration and gave the latter 6 weeks to respond.
Notably, last year, the Centre for Democracy, Pluralism, and Human Rights (CDPHR), an organisation that advocates for equality, justice, and human rights, released a report on India’s seven neighbouring countries last year, emphasising major human rights crimes against minorities, particularly Hindus. According to the research, Sri Lanka is one of India’s seven neighbouring countries where Hindus have been persecuted for years.
The Center for Democracy Pluralism and Human Rights report has also raised concerns over the status of human rights and religious minorities in Sri Lanka. Talking about the civil war, the report suggested that at least 100,000 people lost their lives and 20,000 Tamils disappeared in the 26-year-long civil war.
The General Secretary of the Indian National Congress, newly appointed as in-charge of Communication, Jairam Ramesh did a podcast with the Editor of ANI, Smita Prakash. He was upset that while he is ready to debate on topics related to economics, the constitution and politics, the media is focused on the cost of the T-Shirt that Rahul Gandhi wears, who he meets etc. Jairam Ramesh forgot that the debate around the cost of dresses was started by Rahul Gandhi himself, but we are not getting into that debate in this article.
At around the 48:00 minute in this video, in quick succession, Jairam Ramesh mentioned 5 points on which he wanted debates to happen, but was upset that those don’t happen. So, I thought it would be good to discuss his 5 points in a detailed article.
1.Political centralisation is results in states getting weaker.
Every time Congress party says something like this, my mind immediately goes to the below picture from the Invest Karnataka Summit from the year 2016.
Invest Karnataka Summit 2016
On stage, you can see a long list of Union Cabinet ministers along with the Chief Minister of Karnataka. What’s so great about the picture you may ask? The union ministers all represent the BJP and the Karnataka Chief minister represents the Congress party. So what? You may wonder! Below is a picture from the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in the year 2013.
Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2013.
You do not see a single Union Cabinet minister, because it was the UPA that was in power at the centre and therefore they used to make sure that Union ministers are not at summits organised by the BJP-led governments in the state!
The 2016 Karnataka picture is not an exception. Accompanied by a host of his colleagues, India’s Finance Minister spoke at West Bengal Investor Summit in 2015 and inaugurated the Make in Odisha conclave in 2016 – both ruled by staunch opponents of the BJP. All these participations are in addition to equivalent participation in BJP-ruled states too.
But here’s what is worse – in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi requested the Chief Ministers of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka to join him on his China tour. Karnataka Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah (from the Congress party) refused to travel with the PM for political reasons. It is the Congress party that played petty politics at the risk of investments to the state of Karnataka (incidentally the home state of Jairam Ramesh!) and today wants a debate on “Political centralisation results in states getting weaker”!
It is not just the participation at the investment summits that can be highlighted towards the Narendra Modi government’s efforts to make all states stronger. At a media summit, the then Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh was asked – “Is it easy working with the centre?”. Pat comes the reply from Captain Amarinder Singh – “I have no problems. I am getting full cooperation”.
You may snark and say Amarinder Singh now joined the BJP. But then at the same summit in the same panel was Chief Minister H.D.Kumaraswamy who reiterated the same sentiment – “I have no problems working with the centre”. We have had KCR himself and his son KTR also praise the Modi government for assisting the state of Telangana, several times. As recently as 2 days back, Rajasthan’s Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot praised the Union minister Prahalad Joshi for helping them with the coal crisis.
You may still be a cynic and say that all these folks are political opportunists who will ally with the BJP or are angry with the Congress party. And for that argument, I give you this – Kerala Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan. Despite all that clamour of social media during the Kerala floods, he has publicly said “it shows how supportive the Centre has been towards Kerala”. Certainly, you cannot accuse the Communists of helping the BJP!
All these statements of the Chief Ministers are a far cry from how they used to be during the UPA. Sample this – in the year 2011, the Congress Chief Minister of Maharashtra accused the Congress-led UPA central government of not giving enough funds to Maharashtra!
The GST Council is on the best examples of involving all states in the decision-making process of the states. A total of 47 meetings have been held so far, and except for one meeting, all decisions in all these meetings were taken unanimously. Can you even begin to imagine the scale of this effort?
Today, states get 10% more money than what they used to get pre-2015 from Central revenues. Today, all states get a proportionate share in 100s of infrastructure projects (ranging from roads to rail to airports to bridges to tunnels and so on!). Today, MPs cutting across party lines appreciate the PM for clearing long pending projects in their areas. Would all of this have been possible with a vengeful Congress government at the helm of affairs? Do all of these examples really mean that the states are getting weaker?
2.Constitutional bodies getting weaker.
Someone says Constitutional bodies are getting weaker and my mind immediately goes to this letter written by the then Chief Election Commissioner to the President of India, accusing the Election Commissioner Navin Chawla of leaking information to the Congress party. Or to the fact that another former CEC, M.S.Gill, joined the Congress party immediately after his retirement and soon became a minister in a Congress-led government.
Speaking of Constitutional bodies, the Productivity of the 15th Lok Sabha has been the worst in the last 50 years! Imagine, the worst ever! Sonia Gandhi’s UPA was in power during this term and in fact, was in its 2nd term. The 16th Lok Sabha (2014 to 2019) worked 20% more hours than the 15th LS, but more importantly, the “proportion of time spent by 16th Lok Sabha on legislation (32%) is higher than other Lok Sabhas”. 32% higher than the other Lok Sabhas! And Congress makes an argument that Constitutional bodies are getting weaker?
Speaking of Constitutional bodies, many of the far-reaching recommendations of the 14th and 15th Finance Commissions were accepted in totality, thus strengthening both the centre and the states. In fact, the Modi government strengthened the Finance Commissions themselves by laying out fresh guidelines that make use of the latest information and technology to help recommend the best course of action for the country!
Speaking of Constitutional bodies, we have witnessed how the office of the Prime Minister of India has been abjectly surrendered during the rule of Sonia Gandhi’s UPA (examples galore).
3.Constitution being ignored.
History is replete with examples of how the Congress party “ignored” the Constitution! The several times it dismissed popularly elected state governments; the imposition of Emergency in the country and subsequent amendments to the constitution; and the creation of parallel power structures (such as the all-powerful NAC under Sonia Gandhi), are all prime examples of how the Congress party has actually ignored the Constitution. And yet the newly appointed Communications in charge of the Congress party actually wants us to believe that the Constitution is being ignored by the BJP!
4.Polarisation is taking place. And is intensifying.
A very simple metric demolishes this argument to pieces. There were nearly 70-80 documented large riots in India when the Congress was in power. There are not even 10 large riots documented in India when the BJP was in power (for 14 years now). The father of polarization is the Congress party. Congress Chief Ministers have accused Congress MPs of engineering riots to grab their chair – can anything get worse than this? The Congress is shocked that today many Hindus are vocal about their way of life; their practices and their beliefs. And unable to grasp this awakening, they resort to a silly classification of “polarization”!
5.Economic Inequality is increasing.
Centuries-old cliché that doesn’t hold much relevance to today’s India. Rahul Gandhi’s stress on Ambani and Adani has become so boring that even his own state CMs are ignoring his rhetoric now. India has seen a record number of Income Tax filers; a record number of additions to the EPFO portal; a record number of automobile sales; a record number of mobile manufacturing and sales; we can go on and on about how today’s India is working hard to bridge the inequality gap. The Congress is however struck with this broken record of Ambani-Adani.
Jairam Ramesh’s diatribe against the media is nothing new. The Congress’s latest strategy seems to be to play the victim by saying they aren’t getting enough space to speak. Apart from a few delusional folks in Congress, there is no one who believes that the Congress party doesn’t get enough space! It is high time they realise that both their message and messenger need to change. It is high time they stop blaming people of India for not realising the awesomeness of Rahul Gandhi.
Days after making wild allegations against Meta and BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya, whom they attributed to having superpowers to control workings within Facebook’s parent company, propaganda outlet The Wire has now backed out and cried victim. In a statement released on Monday, The Wire claimed they are not ‘ready to play this game further’. The Wire also revealed how one of their reporters working on this story had a personal relationship with the Meta ‘insider’.
Interestingly, in the statement published on their website they have skipped the portion where it reveals that The Wire’s reporter has a personal relationship with Meta’s ‘source’ who ‘leaked’ documents. The archived version of the same statement which contained this revelation can be obtained here. They added a disclaimer that they edited the website version of their statement to clear relationships with their sources in Meta. Except, instead of clearing, they ended up removing the damning fact that one of their reporters had a personal relationship with the said Meta ‘insider’.
To put things in perspective, Meta has dismissed all allegations by The Wire and said that the ‘evidences’ provided were fabricated.
The Wire, in its statement, claimed that Meta’s responses, where it said that all the evidence The Wire gave to claim how BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya possesses some superpowers by virtue of being in an ‘elite list’ of users in ‘XCheck’, was fabricated were to goad them to give out more information about their source. This, when many tech experts, most of whom are actually Modi haters and dislike BJP to the core, have called out the shoddy reportage of The Wire. Even the images of so-called emails shared by The Wire were rejected by Meta as fabricated.
Meta categorically mentioned how the ‘workspace’ The Wire put up as evidence, was actually a spoof video made on a dummy/free trial version by someone and they are investigating it further. The Wire also claimed that Microsoft Asia’s employee Ujjwal Kumar, also helped them verify some mail as a legitimate email from Meta. Meta uses Microsoft email services and if an employee with Microsoft indeed indulged in this, it could likely tantamount to breach of client confidentiality, raising serious concerns about Microsoft’s privacy policy. OpIndia has written to Microsoft Asia regarding the concerns but we have not heard back from them yet.
The Wire has now claimed it will continue to work to independently verify Meta executive’s ’email’, which he has termed as fabricated. However, in all this, The Wire has not mentioned even once about their fantastical claims regarding Malviya’s superpowers to target any and every individual he wants at will in Meta. The trigger of this entire mess were the ridiculous claims conjured up by The Wire which even the BJP supporters found hard to believe. However, The Wire has chosen to stay silent on those claims.
A group of female college students reportedly raised trouble at a college in Bihar after being asked to take off their hijab in the examination hall. The incident occurred at MDDM College in Muzaffarpur. The students claim that during the exam, they were asked to take off their hijabs so that officials could check for Bluetooth devices.
Reportedly, the girl students objected to standard checking to prevent malpractice during exams. They were then asked to leave the hall by the authorities, as per reports.
Muzaffarpur, Bihar | We were in the classroom & were writing the exam when the teacher asked to take off the hijab saying that we might be wearing a bluetooth device. On not taking off hijab the teacher asked us to leave, say students pic.twitter.com/E6zFFeW7pC
“We were in the classroom & were writing the exam when the teacher asked to take off the hijab saying that we might be wearing a Bluetooth device. On not taking off hijab the teacher asked us to leave,” the girl students said.
Meanwhile, another student giving the exam in the same class named Fatima shared with the media that nobody was asked to remove their hijab. The students were just asked to show their ears to make sure nobody is using Bluetooth devices to cheat during the exam.
#मुजफ्फरपुर के महंत दर्शन दास महिला काॅलेज में पिछले 7-8 वर्षों से ड्रेस कोड लागू है।
हिजाब विवाद को मुजफ्फरपुर में घुसाने की कोशिश कर रही दो लड़कियाँ ड्रेस में भी नहीं थी। ये ड्रेस में है, इस लड़की को भी सुना जाए और सच झूठ का आकलन किया जाए। #Muzaffarpur#MDDMCollegepic.twitter.com/vzUt8VMccW
Fatima also shared that the same girls go on and attend functions elsewhere without any hijab or even a dupatta, but when it comes to examinations, they bring hijab and religion into the picture. She added that these cases become religious in nature once such objections are raised.
The college administration characterized it as a routine inspection, but the students made it into a larger controversy by exaggerating it over religious grounds. MDDM college principal Dr Kanupriya said that a student got “aggressive” when asked to take off her hijab so that it could be checked to determine if she was concealing a Bluetooth device. “She said that she won’t write the exams but won’t show her ears. Then she started raising this issue on the basis of religion,” the principal said.
She further added, “It’s shocking that a class 11th girl will behave like this. It seems somebody has misdirected her in the name of religion and hijab. There’s no discrimination based on religion or caste on school premises.”
It’s shocking that a class 11th girl will behave like this. It seems somebody has misdirected her in the name of religion and hijab. There’s no discrimination based on religion or caste on school premises: College Principal pic.twitter.com/0rr5h9I2XQ
The college administration had to call the police to get things under control. The MDDM College principal reaffirmed that there is no discrimination based on caste or religion on school premises and that the student was incited in the name of religion over the matter. Pertinently, the issue of hijab in educational institutions, which was first raised in Karnataka, seems to have reached the state of Bihar.
It is worth noting that exam cheating is a widespread problem in Bihar that is yet to be addressed. Bihar board examinations have gained a reputation in recent years as a result of bogus topper controversies. Ruby Rai supposedly topped the Bihar Board examinations years ago, only to be revealed that she could not even tell the names of the subjects she had topped in.
Another Bihar Board exam topper a year later was illiterate in his subjects.
Family members help students cheat during Bihar Board exams in Hajipur, Bihar https://t.co/yZGcYkgejV
On October 16, Meta replied to the ‘explanation’ video published by The Wire in its latest report accusing Facebook’s parent company of working on instructions of BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya to ‘silence some critics’. In a tweet thread, Guy Rosen, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Meta, said, “The latest video from The Wire does not show an internal Instagram system. Our investigation has identified a spoof created on October 13 using our enterprise Meta Workplace product.”
The spoof was set up as a free trial Workplace account under the name “Instagram” and using the IG brand as its profile pic. We’ve locked the account for violating policies and are continuing to investigate. We’ll provide further updates as warranted here: https://t.co/CiVFJsOvti
Meta further said that the spoof was set up using a free trial Workspace account and used the Instagram brand as its profile picture. After identifying the account, they locked it, and further investigation is underway. He said, “The spoof was set up as a free trial Workplace account under the name “Instagram” and using the IG brand as its profile pic. We’ve locked the account for violating policies and are continuing to investigate.”
Meta also updated the statement about The Wire’s “expose” with the new findings. In its statement, Meta said, “This is an ongoing investigation, and we will update as it unfolds. At this time, we can confirm that the video shared by the Wire that purports to show an internal Instagram system (and which the Wire claims are evidence that their false allegations are true) in fact depicts an externally-created Meta Workplace account that was deliberately set up with Instagram’s name and brand insignia in order to deceive people. We have located the Workplace account in question, and found that it was created on October 13 — after the Wire’s news reports were initially published.”
It further added, “The account was set up externally as a free trial account on Meta’s enterprise Workplace product under the name “Instagram” and using the Instagram brand as its profile picture. It is not an internal account. Based on the timing of this account’s creation on October 13, it appears to have been set up specifically in order to manufacture evidence to support the Wire’s inaccurate reporting. We have locked the account because it’s in violation of our policies and is being used to perpetuate fraud and mislead journalists.”
The Wire claims its source sent a real-time video of the Workspace account
In its latest report, The Wire claimed to have accessed a screen recording from its source at Meta, where the source claimed to have logged into the Instagram workspace account that Meta previously claimed does not exist.
The Wire claimed, “As is clear in the video, the URL that Meta has officially claimed “is not in use” is very much in use. New reports had been added on the day of the video’s recording. The video also showed the source navigating through the secure ‘instagram.workplace.com’ workspace and opening the notes section.”
“The Wire asked the source to run a timer while they were screen-recording to show that it was happening in real-time. Our team also ascertained that the video hadn’t been tampered with, using the video’s metadata (they have been removed from the file we have made public). Additionally, the cursor maintained consistency throughout the video’s duration, with no abrupt breaks,” it added.
Experts debunk The Wire’s claims
One of the important aspects of the report was that The Wire claimed there were no ‘abrupt breaks’ in the cursor movement. It is one of the most crucial claims, as the cursor movement can give away if the video is modified without getting into metadata and other information. However, their claim was debunked by experts on Twitter.
Law and Policy expert Pranesh Prakash pointed out that The Wire’s claims were inconsistent with the video they posted. In a Twitter thread, he said that at one point in the video, the cursor did move abruptly. Pranesh posted the video and said, “Curiouser and curiouser: The cursor in the video released by The Wire abruptly jumps at 0:35, just at the moment when the person is logging into http://instagram.workplace.com.” The anomaly in the video was earlier reported @binhonglee.
Curiouser and curiouser: The cursor in the video released by @thewire_in abruptly jumps at 0:35, just at the moment when the person is logging into https://t.co/2D5YYt6Dmb.
He also added a video uploaded by The Wire and trimmed a 5-second video out of it to show the ‘abrupt break’ of the cursor in the video. He said, “The Wire states: “Additionally, the cursor maintained consistency throughout the video’s duration, with no abrupt breaks.” I’ve clipped the moment the cursor disappears and reappears elsewhere, during the login sequence. I think this qualifies as an “abrupt break,” don’t you?”
The Wire states: “Additionally, the cursor maintained consistency throughout the video’s duration, with no abrupt breaks.”
I’ve clipped the moment the cursor disappears and reappears elsewhere, during the login sequence. I think this qualifies as an “abrupt break”, don’t you? pic.twitter.com/P44a5Owghr
The Wire, on October 10, claimed Meta gave special previliges to Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT Cell Chief under XCheck program that he uses to get posts removed from Instagram, no questions asked. Meta, as well as netizens, refuted the claims. The Wire then came out with explanation after explanation, but all of them were called out repeatedly.
On Sunday (October 16), another case of Love Jihad (Grooming Jihad) came to light after the Madhya Pradesh police registered a case against a man named Mohammad Akram for impersonating as a Hindu, luring a woman and then raping her in a hotel.
As per reports, the incident occurred in Bhopal city of Madhya Pradesh. The accused claimed to be Amar Kushwaha in a bid to develop a friendship with the victim. After talking to her for a month over call, Akram took her to a hotel and raped her.
He then coerced her into converting to Islam and also threatened to kill her. It has come to light that the Hindu woman is a mother of two children and used to reside in the Ashok Garden locality of Bhopal.
MP| Woman complained that 2 months ago she became friends with a man.He introduced himself as Amar Kushwaha. Today he took her to a hotel &raped her.He revealed his real name as Mohd. Akram.FIR registered on the basis of complaint. Search on to nab him:SHO MP Nagar,Bhopal (16.10) pic.twitter.com/kToQbZcPMg
The accused was booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religious Act 2020 on the basis of the complaint of the Hindu girl.
While speaking about the development to ANI, Sudhir Arjariya informed, “The complainant girl told that she has been talking to a young man on call for a month, who introduced himself as Amar Kushwaha, who took her to the hotel today and raped her.”
He further added, “Later he revealed himself as Mohammad Akram. And also pressurized her to change religion for marriage.”Arjariya is the station in charge of the Madhya Pradesh Nagar police.
After the matter became public, the Hindu outfit ‘Sanskriti Bachao Manch’ reached the police station and demanded strict punishment for the accused to stop the rising cases of grooming jihad. The cops have now launched a manhunt to nab Akram, who has been on the run from law enforcement authorities.
Firdos Khan arrested for forcibly converting woman to Islam in MP
Earlier in July this year, a 21-year-old woman was physically assaulted by one Firdos Khan and forced to convert to Islam. According to the reports, the incident occurred in the Moghat area of Titgaon in the Khandwa district.
On refusing the proposal of conversion to Islam, the girl was abducted by Firdos who took her to Khandwa Railway station and forced her to accompany him to Jabalpur. On July 1, the duo first reached Khandwa, then Burhanpur and then Jabalpur.
The accused also forcefully developed physical relations with the girl during the travel. Firdos was eventually nabbed by the cops.
On 16th October 2022, Muslim Twitter users abused another Muslim woman from US, named Shirin Khan, for hosting Rana Ayyub. According to these Islamist Twitter users, Rana Ayyub is a ‘Gustakh-e-Rasool supporter’ and according to them, it was wrong of Shirin Khan to host such a ‘Gustakh-e-Rasool supporter’ like Rana Ayyub. It is notable that Rana Ayyub is called a Gustakh-e-Rasool supporter because she had tweeted wishing for well being of author Salman Rushdie. However, she later deleted that tweet after coming under attack from Internet Jihadis.
Rana Ayyub is currently on a visit to the USA, where she has met several anti-Hindu persons and organisations, like former Tennis star Martina Navratilova, and people associated with anti-Hindu propaganda in the west. During this visit, she also visited Shirin Khan, who is presumably from India. Shirin Khan posted a picture with Rana Ayyub calling her a guest, and it opened the floodgates of tweets by these Muslim Twitter users who started abusing Shirin Khan for hosting Rana Ayyub. Shirin Khan wrote in her tweet, “My beautiful guest Rana Ayyub”, and added the red heart emoji.
A Twitter user Bint Nuh posted, “Disgusting. No one on the face of the earth is as ugly as this Islamophobe who supports a gustakh. No Muslim would want to see this filthy cockroach of Uncle Sam. please keep your fondness for white human excreta to yourself & refrain from putting such creepy content in public.”
Disgusting ? No one on the face of earth is as ugly as this Islamophobe who supports a gustakh. No Muslim would want to see this filthy cockroach of Uncle Sam. please keep your fondness for white human excreta to yourself & refrain from putting such creepy content in public. https://t.co/KMc7VNokol
Another Muslim Twitter user named (Abdullah) Shirk Destroyer tweeted, “Dekh Rahe Ho Firoz Gustakh e Rasool ke supporters se dosti badhayi jaa rahi hai Kya muh dikhayenge ye Log allah ke Rasoolallh ko Ek sahaba the ki rasolallah k wazu ke paani ke liye daudte the Un ke liye sanp ka zaher bardasht krte the Koi galti se hath bhi badhaye to” which means “See Firoz, she is being friends with a ‘gustakh-e-rasool’. Will they be able to show their face to Rasoolallah (Peace be upon him). There were people like Sahaba who used to run for getting water for Rasoolallah’s wuzu. They would even endure a snake’s venom for Rasoolallah (Peace be upon him). Even if someone heads towards him with ill intentions, they would scream.”
Dekh Rahe Ho Firoz
Gustakh e Rasool ke supporters se dosti badhayi jaa rahi hai
Kya muh dikhayenge ye Log allah ke Rasoolallh ﷺ ko
Ek sahaba the ki rasolallah ﷺ k wazu ke paani ke liye daudte the
Another Muslim Twitter user Maverik posted, “Good Good, next time take selfies with nupur sharma and navin jindal. Jab apko Liberal gustaakho se problem nahi hai to RW waalo se special nafrat krna illogical hai.” (When you don’t have any problem with liberal gustakh, then it is illogical to hate right-wingers.)
Good Good , next time take selfies with nupur sharma and navin jindal.
Jab apko Liberal gustaakho se problem nahi hai to RW waalo se special nafrat krna illogical hai. https://t.co/IoUIS0DrsW
A Twitter handle named @Abstawakkul wrote, “A muhajibah posing proudly for a selfie with the supporter of the enemy of Allah and Rasool Allah(saws) aka Salman Rushdie. Some of the core reasons for the decline of a nation is when Ignorance and hypocrisy will widespread in the community. Don’t know what to say; is it ignorance or hypocrisy?”
1/2 A muhajibah posing proudly for a selfie with the supporter of enemy of Allah and Rasool Allah(saws) aka salman rushdie.Some of the core reasons for decline of a nation is,when Ignorance and hypocrisy will widespread in the community.Don’t know what to say; is it ignorance or https://t.co/x8NqfcCZ0M
An-Nahda posted, “This is the problem with Muslims today they don’t make friends or enemies on the basis of Islam. I don’t understand how some muslims can happily pose for pics with someone who supports a vile person like Rushdie.”
This is the problem with Muslims today they don’t make friends or enemies on the basis of Islam. I don’t understand how some muslims can happily pose for pics with someone who supports a vile person like Rushdie. https://t.co/lIJfkWCzK9
Another Muslim Twitter user Ababeel posted, “Run-of-the-mill Islamophobic hijabi, convincing Muslims to compromise with the honor of RasoolAllah (Peace be upon him), aligning with LIBERALS for worldly gain, subtly planting liberalism in Muslim minds.”
Run-of-the-mill Islamophobic hijabi, convincing Muslims to compromise with the honor of RasoolAllah ﷺ, aligning with LIBERALS for wordly gain, subtly planting liberalism in Muslim minds. https://t.co/UvEBYEGCfl
Not only this, the conversations below these tweets were shading more light on Shariat and the provisions of punishments as per Shariat for supporting a gustakh.
Shaheen Allama asked a Twitter user ‘united4u’ “Don’t you know she is taking selfies with a supporter of gustakh?” The Twitter user ‘united4u’ replied, “Allah is there for justice. He knows what is in one’s mind.” Shaheen Allama replied, “You know how justice is done according to Shariat with those who are gustakh. You are talking about the things within one’s mind. Does anyone know what goes on in a thief’s mind? But he is punished for the theft. Likewise, Allah may know what is inside one’s mind but the person will be judged on his or her actions.” After this, ‘united4u’ replied, “You are right brother but I don’t want to get caught on the judgment day by saying something now. Because we don’t know the whole thing.”
Financial fraud-accused Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub deleted her August 12 tweet praying for Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie’s recovery after he was stabbed in New York. After the attack on Rushdie, Rana Ayyub tweeted how she was praying for his recovery. However, after the Muslim community on Twitter condemned her, she has since deleted her tweet. Many Islamists took to Twitter to school Ayyub that while they respect her, they cannot follow or support someone who wishes well upon someone who had ‘blasphemed’ about Prophet Muhammad.
On 16th October 2022, Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated India’s first aluminium freight rake at Bhubaneswar railway station. The First Aluminum Freight Rake – 61 BOBRNALHSM1, was flagged off by the minister and the rake’s destination is Bilaspur. The rake is a dedicated effort for the Make in India program as it has been fully designed and developed indigenously in collaboration with RDSO, HINDALCO, and Besco Wagon.
Aluminium rakes are a major improvement over steel rakes as they have several advantages, they are lighter and therefore consume less fuel, they can carry more material due to reduced weight, and they last longer and need less maintenance.
The official statement of Hindalco stated that the aluminium rakes have been developed with the aim to modernize freight transportation and enable large carbon savings for Indian Railways. It further mentions that these rakes are 180 tonnes lighter than existing steel rakes, can carry 5-10% more payload, and consume less energy with relatively negligible wear and tear to rolling stock and rails.
India's indigenously built all-alliminium freight rail wagons- inaugurated today!
These shining alluminium wagons are 180 tonnes lighter than the existing steel rakes, this decreases the fuel consumption & increases the speed, resulting in higher utilisation of track hours 1/3 pic.twitter.com/0TCdrmgdP8
The wagons are fully lockbolted construction with no welding on the superstructure, and its payload to tare ratio is 2.85, higher than steel wagons. According to the ministry, the reduced tare will reduce carbon footprint as lower consumption of fuel in empty direction and more transport of freight in the loaded condition. A single rake can save over 14,500 tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime. Moreover, as aluminium does not degrade like steel, the resale value of rakes is 80%. Moreover, due to the higher corrosion and abrasion resistance of the metal, the maintenance cost of the rakes will be lower. However, the cost will be 35% higher as aluminium is costlier than steel and the entire superstructure is all aluminium.
The ministry further said that the iron industry consumes a lot of Nickel and Cadmium which comes from import. Therefore, the use of Aluminum wagons will result in less import of these materials. At the same time, this is good for the local aluminium industry.
“These wagons save 14,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions, have more carrying capacity, consume less energy and are corrosion-resistant. They are 100% recyclable and even after 30 years, they will be as good as new. These aluminium wagons will enable us to achieve our climate goals,” Minister Vaishnaw said. For every 100 kg weight reduction of the wagon, the lifetime CO2 saving is 8-10 tonnes. This translates to a saving of more than 14,500 tonnes of CO2 for a single rake.
A 61-wagon rake was launched by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the Bhubaneswar station. These wagons will transport coal to the Lapanga, Odisha-based Aditya Smelter of Hindalco. The wagons are specially designed to carry coal with a bottom discharge facility.
The Railways is planning to add over one lakh aluminium wagons to its freight trains in the coming years, and therefore it will lead to a substantial reduction in CO2 emissions. If 15-20% of freight trains are replaced with aluminium rakes, the annual CO2 reduction would be around 25 lakh tonnes.
The aluminium rakes are manufactured by BESCO based on an RDSO-approved design, and they are made from high-strength aluminium alloy plates and extrusions. The alloy is made in India at Hindalco’s rolling facility in Hirakud in Odisha, and the extrusions are made at the company’s Renukoot plant in UP.
Apart from freight trains, Indian Railways is also introducing aluminium passenger coaches in near future. The Railways have already announced plans to make new Vande Bharat train sets with aluminium bodies. Hindalco is reportedly planning to participate in the manufacturing of aluminium coaches for high-speed passenger trains.
In a church in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, a new case of religious conversion has been reported. A pastor is accused of enticing non-Christians to become Christians by offering them money. Members of the “Hindu Jagran Manch” said that they raided the church and ended the program. They complained to the police and asked that the offenders be brought to justice.
The incident happened on Sunday (October 16, 2022) in the Phulpur police station area of Varanasi. Hindu organisations have handed over the pastor to authorities. Following an investigation, the police have promised to take action.
An individual by the name of Chhotelal Jaiswal reportedly ran a church in the Babatpur locality. The name of the church is Sarva India Ministry. Hindu organisations complained to the Varanasi police that the accused church pastor offered Hindus Rs 50,000 per head in exchange for conversion. Additionally, it is said that Chhotelal paid Rs 2,000 in advance for this.
Gaurav Singh and Vaibhav Singh are the names of people who were offered advance money for conversion. OpIndia has a copy of the complaint. According to the complaint, as part of the conversion program, everyone was also asked to attend church on Sunday. OpIndia also has a video of this occurrence, in which Hindu organisation members enter the midst of the session and demand that Chhotelal halt the indoctrination. In the same video, several women are seen arguing with Hindu groups.
Members of a Hindu group are shown in a video displaying religious books used in the programme. On the place, there is also a register with numerous names and other information written in it. There are empty chairs in the church, and some individuals are shouting among themselves. IG Range Varanasi instructed the Varanasi Rural Police to take action in this case. Varanasi Police has responded to the order by IG and launched an investigation into the matter.
Following the incident, several Bharatiya Janata Party leaders reached the police station and demanded action against the accused pastor Chotelal.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray wrote a letter to Devendra Fadnavis on 16th October 2022 suggesting BJP back out from the Andheri east by-poll. The Andheri east assembly seat is vacant as Shiv Sena’s elected representative from that constituency Ramesh Latke passed away. Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction) has fielded Latke’s wife Rujuta Latke from the seat in the upcoming by-election. Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Murji Patel from this seat. Raj Thackeray requested Fadnavis that as the late MLA’s wife is contesting from the seat, the ruling alliance should not contest the bypolls.
In his letter, Raj Thackeray said, “I am writing this letter with a special request. After the sudden death of MLA, Ramesh Latke, for the Andher- East, the by-poll election has been announced. His widow, Rujuta Latke has filed in for candidature for the same. Shri. Ramesh was an efficient worker who began his journey up from being a ‘shakha-pramukh’ I have witnessed his journey and growth in the political arena. After his death, to see his wife become an MLA in his constituency; will be a solace to his departed soul.”
After the death of MLA Ramesh Latke, his widow has filed for candidature in the Andheri east by-poll. I request you to not fight any candidate against her. This will be an honourable tribute to the departed soul.@Dev_Fadnavispic.twitter.com/OE8CDZkQsX
He further wrote in the letter, “I sincerely request you to not enter this by-poll election and put a candidate against Rujuta Latke. Whenever, there has been a situation, wherein a sitting MLA has passed away and a family member has filed for their candidature, our party has refrained from fighting the by-poll. This is our way of paying our reverence to the departed soul. I appeal to you with these sentiments in mind. Sentiments such as these are a part of our Maharashtra culture. I hope you will consider my appeal.”
However, Devendra Fadnavis has rejected the appeal, saying he alone does not the authority to decide on the candidate of the party for the polls. When asked about his reaction to Raj Thackeray’s letter, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said, “I cannot take decisions alone in the BJP. If I want to take a decision on Raj Thackeray’s letter, I will have to discuss it with party colleagues and senior leaders. Balasaheb’s Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) is also with us. So I have to discuss this with Eknath Shinde also.”
Devendra Fadnavis added, “Raj Thackeray has written this letter in good spirit. We will definitely consider his letter. Even in the past, be it the by-election at the time of RR Patil’s demise or the recent legislative council elections, whenever we were requested like this, we have taken a decision. However, I will have to discuss in the party when we have already fielded a candidate in this election. Only then can the right decision be taken.”
Prasad Lad is the spokesperson of the state unit of the BJP. He said, “We respect Raj Thackeray. This could be Raj Thackeray’s personal opinion or his party’s opinion. The party leadership Devendra Fadnavis and Ashish Shelar will take a decision on this. In what spirit did he write the letter? We don’t know about it. There was no discussion on this issue. Nevertheless, it will be decided by the party leadership and the party leaders.”
