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Kolkata police summons Nupur Sharma yet again, 10 complaints lodged in various police stations: Details

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Kolkata police summons Nupur Sharma yet again, 10 complaints lodged in various police stations: Details

The controversy surrounding former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma refuses to die down as the Kolkata police have issued fresh summons to her yet again. Nupur Sharma had made certain innocuous remarks about Prophet Mohammad in a TimesNow debate as a response to a Muslim panellist insulting the Shivling found at the Gyanvapi disputed structure.

As per reports, Sharma has been summoned by the Amherst Street Police Station in North Kolkata in response to a complaint lodged against her on June 7 this year. She has been asked to appear before the cops on June 25, 2022.

While speaking about the development on Thursday (June 23), a police official claimed that the comments of the former BJP leader had triggered violence in different parts of West Bengal. He informed that complaints were registered against her at police stations in the State capital.

Earlier, Nupur Sharma was issued a summon by the Narkeldanga police station. She was asked to appear before them on June 20, 2022, under Section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).

The cops have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Nupur Sharma under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 34 (furtherance of common intention), 153A (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion).

Charges were also pressed under IPC Sections 295A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and 298 (Uttering words with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person).

Nupur Sharma sought 4 week’s extension for physical appearance

The ex-BJP leader had sought 4 weeks’ time to physically appear before the Narkeldanga police. She had conveyed the message to the cops via email. Nupur Sharma had cited threats to her life to seek an extension for physical appearance before the Kolkata police.

She had earlier questioned the nature of the relationship between Prophet Muhammad and his child bride Ayesha after Islamists compared the sacred Shivling, found inside the Gyanvapi mosque, to a fountain.

37 Shiv Sena MLAs write to Maharashtra deputy speaker reaffirming Eknath Shinde as leader of legislative party, names new chief whip

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37 Shiv Sena MLAs write to Maharashtra deputy speaker reaffirming Eknath Shinde as leader of legislative party, names new chief whip

Immediately after two more Shiv Sena MLAs reached Guwahati and joined the Eknath Shinde group in Hotel Radisson Blu, the rebel MLAs have sent a letter the deputy speaker of Maharashtra assembly reaffirming their position. In the letter signed by 37 Shiv Sena MLAs, they have stated that Eknath Shinde will remain as the leader of the legislative party, and Bharat Gogawale has been appointed as the chief whip of the party.

The copy of the letter has also been forwarded to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Secretary to the Legislative Council Rajendra Bhagwat. In the letter sent to the deputy speaker, the MLAs have said that Eknath Shinde was appointed as the leader of Shiv Sena legislative party on 31 October 2019, and he continues to be on the same post. It was proposed by Mahad MLA Bharat Gogawale and seconded by Ambernath MLA Balaji Kinikar.

Further, the MLAs have stated that Bharat Gogawale has been elected and appointed as the chief whip of the party. Along with this, the appointment of Sunil Prabhu to the post has been cancelled with immediate effect, the letter stated. The resolution was proposed by Kalyan West MLA Vishwanath Bhoir and seconded by Bhiwandi Rural MLA Shantaram More.

The letter contains the names and signatures of the 37 Shiv Sena MLAs currently staying at Hotel Radisson Blu in Guwahati. The last two names in the list are Dadaji Bhuse and Sanjay Rathod, who reached Guwahati today evening. This shows that the letter was already ready and other MLAs had probably already signed, and immediately after the two MLAs arrived, their signatures were taken and the letter was sent to Mumbai.

The letter was forwarded to the deputy speaker by Eknath Shinde, who said that he is sending a copy of the resolution passed on 23rd June reaffirming appointment of Shinde as leader of the legislative party and further appointment of Bharatshet Gogawale as the chief whip of the party.

With 37 MLAs, the rebel camp has now two-third of total Shiv Sena MLAs, and therefore they can’t be disqualified from the assembly. If the deputy speaker does not accept their demand, they can form a new party, and the speaker of the assembly will have to accept it. It is notable that the deputy speaker has already said that Shiv Sena’s move to remove Eknath Shinde from the post of leader of legislative party is valid. After Shinde moved to Surat with rebel MLAs on June 21, the party had removed him from the post, and named Ajay Choudhary as the new leader.

In the meanwhile, Eknath Shinde had also said that the party’s chief whip Sunil Prabhu ordering all MLAs to present for a meeting was illegal, as whips can be issued for assembly sessions only, not party meetings. “We know your tricks as well as the law. According to the tenth schedule of the Constitution a whip is required for legislative works and not for the meetings of the legislature party. There are countless judgements of the Supreme Court about this”, he tweeted.

Reacting to the party’s attempt to disqualify 12 MLAs including himself, Shinde added that the party can’t threaten to take action against 12 MLAs. He reiterated that they are the real Shiv Sena and real Shiv Sainiks of honorable Shiv Sena Supremo Balasaheb Thackeray.

Shinde said that they don’t pay attention to such threats as they know the law, and they are demanding an action for creating an illegal group when they don’t have the numbers.

‘We are real Shiv Sainiks, some people trying to finish Shiv Sena’: Eknath Shinde camp MLA Sanjay Shirsath releases video message

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‘We are real Shiv Sainiks, some people trying to finish Shiv Sena’: Eknath Shinde camp MLA Sanjay Shirsath releases video message

As the Eknath Shinde continues to get more rebel MLAs who are joining them in Guwahati, one the rebel MLAs Sanjay Shirsath have posted a video message sharing the thoughts of the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs who are currently staying in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Guwahati. This video, which was posted by Shirsath and also by Shinde, was shot in a restaurant of the five-star hotel.

In this video, Sanjay Shirsath said, “Yesterday, we all watched the video conference address by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. We listened to his opinions and thoughts. We felt bad. We had never imagined that Uddhav Saheb will become so much sentimental in such a situation. But, there are reasons behind what has happened. This has not happened overnight. This is not a miracle that happened within a day. All these MLAs had informed this Uddhav Saheb countless times, that be it Congress or be it Nationalist Congress Party, they are trying to finish us. If you closely observe the results of the last ZP elections and especially the recent Gram Panchayat elections, Shiv Sena stood in the fourth spot. The first spot is secured by a party whom we abuse day in and day out. The second number is NCP, the third is Congress, and then on the fourth spot comes Shiv Sena. Everyone told you from the bottom of their heart that these people are finishing off Shiv Sena.”

Sharing the video, he tweeted that they are not traitors, but real Shiv Sainiks, adding the some people are going to destroy Shiv Sena.

Sanjay Shirsath added, “You see in the constituency of any of the MLAs. Tehsildar, Talathi, and Police Officer, none of them are chosen from the good books of the local representatives. Then who will do the works of their public? And we have always shared these problems with Uddhav Saheb. Uddhav Saheb, you never responded on that. You never gave us that time. We used to tell this all to some secretary and they used to tell us that your message is communicated to Uddhav Saheb. Is this the way to run the political affairs?”

Sanjay Shirsath further said, “Uddhav Saheb, when you left the Varsha Bungalow (official residence of the chief minister of Maharashtra), at that time I noticed even the flowers on the vehicle. It felt like a farewell to a person who is leaving a place. A person is welcomed in this way when he is arriving, and not while leaving. I am one of them who think that the incident where my chief minister and party chief has to leave is bad.”

Sanjay Shirsath repeated the things about funds he wrote in the letter to the party chief Uddhav Thackeray. He said, “Saheb, every time we used to ask you for the funds. We used to get so many calls from your office too. Even if you check the office properly, you will find at least fifty letters by every Shiv Sena MLA asking you for various requirements. No action was taken on any of the letters. We did not get any funds to work. And it is not your drawback but it is a part of your nature that you say like that – ‘Don’t ask me about the transfers and funds’. Then what should we ask you for? At other times you used to tell us, ‘Don’t ask me for these works. You grow yourself and build your own institutions.’ How do we do that Sir, without funds?”

Sanjay Shirsath further said, “I and many other Shiv Sainiks like me are MLAs today only because we were blessed by Balasaheb Thackeray. But even while fighting the elections many of us were in extreme trouble and you know it very well. When did we have funds? And even today, who amongst us has money? How do we build institutions? You wished that we grow and make our own institutions. But how?”

Sanjay Shirsath added, “Therefore I request you once again through this video. We will not take the other route. We are staunch Shiv Sainiks of the Shiv Sena Supremo. We have separated because we are fed up with the trouble caused by Congress and Nationalist Congress Party. You cannot call us betrayers. Because we are not. We are the soldiers of Shiv Sena Supremo. He had taught us to rebel when there is an injustice.”

Sanjay Shirsath said, “Saheb, we never had a bad opinion about you. You worked very well during the corona pandemic period. We know about the health issues you had and we have even prayed for your better health when you were not well. We are a family. But it is not good to set our own home ablaze if you are angry at someone. Why do you do this?”

Asking the Shiv Sena party chief to break the alliance with Congress and NCP, Sanjay Shirsath said, “Will these leaders of Congress and NCP adjust with us? It is impossible, Saheb. You may not agree with our stand today, but somewhere within, you are supporting this stand of ours. And I am sure about it. We are here under the leadership of Shinde Saheb only because we now want to stand by the Hindutva thought given to us by Shiv Sena Supremo; the thought with which we learned to fight for a common man. Saheb, don’t call us rebels, instead, we are seeking your blessings. You just back us with your blessings and see how we fight ahead. That’s all we are expecting. Thank you.”

Liberals and journalists go into the 4th stage of depression as the fall of Shiv Sena appears imminent

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Liberals and journalists go into the 4th stage of depression as the fall of Shiv Sena appears imminent

On Wednesday, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray shifted his residence from ‘Varsha’ Bungalow which is the official residence of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra to ‘Matoshree’, his family residence in Mumbai, hinting at the fall of the MVA government. In a Facebook live speech, he also stated that he was not interested in being the state CM and would resign if his party members demand so.

This is a day after Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde rebelled against the MVA government and demanded the re-alliance of Shiv Sena with the BJP. Shinde who has attained the support of 44 MLAs including 37 Shiv Sena MLAs stated that the party led by CM Uddhav Thackeray was disrespecting the ideologies put forth by Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray. He also added that the current Shiv Sena had gone far away from the policies of Hindutva.

While many supported the point put forth by Eknath Shinde and criticized CM Thackeray for countering the argument with an emotional Facebook Live session, several leftists, liberals, and journalists expressed their grief and claimed that CM was forced to leave the official residence. Actress Simi Garewal showcased her support for Shiv Sena by praising CM Uddhav Thackeray. “Because he has no greed for power, he doesn’t play wily political games. It’s rare to find a leader of such dignity and integrity as Uddhav Thackeray”, she tweeted on June 22. She forgot that it was greed of power that made Uddhav Thackeray end decades old alliance with BJP and joined hands with Congress and NCP to become the CM. He had changed the alliance as BJP didn’t accept his demand for the CM post because BJP had won more seats than Shiv Sena in the assembly polls.

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Similarly, author Kiram Marmal lauded CM Uddhav Thackeray for being a ‘good CM’. “He’s been sensible, practical, understated, addressed citizens regularly without hectoring them or talking down to them, unlike some others. I honestly can’t think of anyone else who could do a better job amongst a current lot of contenders”, she added.

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The left liberals forgot that Uddhav Thackeray has been running the most vicious government, arresting youths and keeping them in jails with dozens of FIRs in different police stations accross the state just for some social media posts criticising the govt or the leaders of the alliance.

Journalist Swati Chaturvedi who writes for NDTV and Gulf news meanwhile responded emotionally to the emotional Facebook live session of the Maharashtra CM. She said that whatever Uddhav Thackeray said was straight from his heart and was zero drama. In the series of tweets, she added that CM Uddhav, whom she said has been known for past 20 years, had done a good job as state CM during the pandemic. “Maharashtra needs to decide if it wants ‘resort politics’ and big bucks deciding electoral choices”, she tweeted.

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Maharashtra has been the worst affected state in the Covid-19 pandemic, with workers from other states forced to leave the state during the lockdown. While PM Modi had asked the states to keep people from other states in the respective states to prevent migration of people in order to stop the spread of Coronavirus, Uddhav Thackeray was demanding to send back the workers from other states, eventually leading to pan-India spread of the Chinese Virus.

Journalist, Columnist, and Author Sagarika Ghosh also tweeted in support of Shiv Sena and said, “CM Uddhav Thackeray was an accidental CM yet, 1) kept out communal bulldozer politics from Maha, 2) gave empathetic admin during Covid 3) made attempt to recast Shiv Sena as a more moderate 21st-century force. Perhaps his exit was always inevitable yet also unfortunate”. While Ghosh supported Maharashtra CM, she indirectly targeted the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh and indirectly accused it of targeting people of a particular community.

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Just because Shive Sena severed ties with BJP, it became more moderate for Sagarika Ghose, despite the fact that the party has become more extremist in attacking its critics.

Also, the Quint journalist Aditya Menon credited CM Uddhav Thackeray for keeping Maharashtra safe from communal violence. Selectively omitting the recent incidents of violence against ex-BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma in Mumbai, Solapur, or the protests that were led in support of Hijab in Pune and Thane, Menon said that CM Uddhav Thackeray had kept the state safe from ‘anti-Muslim’ crackdowns in his tenure. “Thackeray took matured stand on most issues”, he said.

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Many other journalists also joined the race calling Uddhav a humble and kind politician. “Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray gracefully left Varsha bungalow. He did not cling to the power place. Rare to see such a kind humble gesture by a politician. Otherwise, despite several notices to politicians they refuse to vacate govt bungalows and treat them as their private property”, said journalist Sudhir Suryawanshi on June 22.

In the series of a tweet, he added that Thackeray was possibly the only one who could receive affection from common people and emotionally charged women Sainik. As CM Thackeray walked away from ‘Varsha to Matoshree’, many Shiv Sena women workers were seen supporting him and raising slogans like, “Uddhav Thackeray tum aage bad ho, hum tumhare Saath hai (UT you lead, we are with you)”.

NDTV journalist further mocked the intentions of Eknath Shinde who demanded the realliance of Shiv Sena and BJP. His tweet implied that Shinde was being used by the BJP for attaining power. “Uddhav Thackeray’s googly to Eknath Shinde – “can you assure the next CM will be from the Shiv Sena”. BJP wants its CM.”, she tweeted.

Eknath Shinde who is at present in Guwahati hotel has attained the crucial support of 35 Shiv Sena MLAs and 7 independent MLAs. Shinde has already said that he has no intentions to rebel against the ideologies of party supremo Balasaheb Thackeray and raised the slogans of ‘Shiv Sena Jindabad’ and ‘Balasaheb Thackeray ki Jay’ in the Radisson Blu Hotel. He reiterated that the Shiv Sena formed by Balasaheb Thackeray was different from the one that is led by CM Uddhav Thackeray.

Police on high alert as illegal Rohingya Muslims with links to Pakistan terror outfits establish a large network in Western Uttar Pradesh: Report

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Police on high alert as illegal Rohingya Muslims with links to Pakistan terror outfits establish a large network in Western Uttar Pradesh: Report

The rise in Rohingya Muslim infiltration from Myanmar, the majority of whom have affiliations to pro-Pakistan terror organisations, has posed a major challenge to the Uttar Pradesh authorities. The authorities have tightened the noose to nab these intruders, who have reportedly established a large network in the Western Districts of the state including Meerut, Aligarh, Bulandshahr and Deoband. According to a report by Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, the security agencies in the state have detained as many as 16 Rohingya Muslims in western UP between January 2021 and June 22, 2022.

As per data shared by the Hindi media outlet, on March 2nd, 2021, the UP ATS had apprehended one Rohingya illegal immigrant each from Unnao, Noida and Aligarh. Similarly, on March 12, 2021, two were apprehended from the Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh. Likewise, the ATS had nabbed 2 Rohingya illegal immigrants from Ghaziabad on June 8.

Continuing the crackdown on the Rohingya Muslims, who illegally enter India through the porous Indo-Bangladesh border and then infiltrate different parts of the country, the UP ATS nabbed four such intruders from Aligarh on June 17. According to reports, two of the accused, Mohammad Rafiq and Mohammad Aameen nabbed from Aligarh were also allegedly involved in gold smuggling.

Uttar Pradesh ATS arrests four more illegal Rohingya Muslims who ran a sophisticated human trafficking network

The following day, on June 18, the Uttar Pradesh police went on to conduct a similar operation and arrest four Rohingya illegal immigrants from Meerut for running a sophisticated international human trafficking syndicate from inside the country. 

According to the Uttar Pradesh police, the four Rohingyas – Hafiz Shamiullah, Azizul Rahman, Mohammad Ismail and Mufizur Rahman, who were nabbed by the Uttar Pradesh ATS had been staying illegally in India. They were caught running a notorious human trafficking syndicate and helped other illegal Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar infiltrate India.

OpIndia reported how following the arrest of the Rohingyas from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police revealed that these four arrested accused indulged in human trafficking of fellow Rohingyas, especially young girls, on the pretext of bringing them to India. The police said that the accused helped Rohingyas settled in Bangladesh to cross over to India with the help of forged documents such as Voter Id, Aadhar card, passports etc.

The report by Dainik Bhaskar further stated, that currently, more than two thousand Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi are living illegally in Uttar Pradesh, out of which almost 15,000 are settled in the Western region of the state.

According to the Uttar Pradesh police, one of the accused identified as Amir Hussain, a resident of Delhi, had during interrogation, revealed that he helped Rohingya Muslims infiltrate the country by securing forged Indian citizenship documents for them. Amir Husain had been living in Ghaziabad with forged papers.

It had come to light that a vendor operating from the Khajuri Khas area in Delhi had facilitated the illegal immigration of Rohingyas and settled them in Uttar Pradesh.

In a similar operation, the Uttar Pradesh police also arrested a Sant Kabir Nagar resident Azizullah on January 6, 2021. On February 28, one Mohammad Farooq and Hasan were nabbed from Aligarh’s Kamela Road. Shahid, Mohammad Farooq’s brother, was detained on March 1 in Unnao. These were all citizens of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, who illegally infiltrated India.

The Uttar Pradesh ATS, based on the interrogation of arrested Rohingya Muslims, also revealed that hundreds of Rohingyas have crossed over illegally into the country and are working in slaughterhouses in the state.

Moreover, in states like Bihar, West Bengal, Kerala, etc, where there is a heavy demand for labourers, these Rohingya Muslims take up these jobs and start living like any other local Muslim. They also bring others from Myanmar and Bangladesh and help them get similar low-wage jobs. They manage to get forged identity documents too which makes it difficult to identify them.

Dainik Bhaskar has provided a list of illegal Rohingya Muslims who have been apprehended from Deoband, Uttar Pradesh over the past 11 years. All of the accused who were detained had connections to one or more pro-Pakistan terror groups.

  • In the year 2001, Mufti Israr was arrested from Saharanpur Madrasa for terrorist activities.
  • Irfan, an accused in the 2005 Ayodhya bomb blast case, was also nabbed from Deoband in Uttar Pradesh.
  • In 2009, Amir Ahmed alias Bura, an agent of the Pakistani agency ISI, was arrested.
  • In the year 2016, Delhi Police arrested 12 suspected youths belonging to the terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed from Deoband.
  • In the year 2017, Bangladeshi terrorist Abdullah was arrested from Deoband.
  • Junaid Khan (Rohingya) was arrested from Deoband in the year 2018.
  • In the year 2019, 5 Bangladeshis were arrested from Deoband.

Kanpur: Islamists threaten to behead Bajrang Dal worker if he does not leave the organisation, orders to leave the house

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Kanpur: Islamists threaten to behead Bajrang Dal worker if he does not leave the organisation, orders to leave the house

Hrithik Kumar Verma, a Bajrang Dal member in the Madanpur village of Gujaini area of Kanpur has been threatened by local Islamists who are forcing him to leave his home and shift somewhere else. The Islamists are also asking him to give up the work he does with Bajrang Dal failing to which they have threatened to behead him.

A case is registered in this regard in the Gujaini police station of Kanpur and the police are doing further investigations. The youth Hrithik Kumar Verma has placed a ‘To Sale’ board outside his house and is asking chief minister Yogi Adityanath for help.

Hrithik Kumar Verma of Madanpur village in Gujaini of Kanpur has put a sale board outside his house. Image Source: Dainik Bhaskar

Hrithik Kumar Verma lives with his family in the Madanpur village of Gujaini in Kanpur. His house is surrounded by the Muslims living in that area. He is a Bajrang Dal worker. Hrithik Kumar Verma and his mother have alleged that the Islamists living in that locality have threatened Hrithik Kumar Verma and asked him to leave Bajrang Dal. They have also told the Vermas to vacate the home and go somewhere else.

Hrithik Kumar Verma has put a board outside his house pleading chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Image Source: Dainik Bhaskar

The whole family is terrorized by these threats issued by the local Islamists. The family members reached the Gujaini police station and registered a complaint about this incident and they have also put a board outside their house which says that this house is for sale as they want to escape due to threats by terrorists. On the other gate of his house, Hrithik Kumar Verma has put another board which is addressed to the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath. It reads, “Honorable Chie Minister, we are not safe in this colony. We are being forced to vacate our own house.” The police have started an investigation into this case.

According to Organizer Weekly, Anees Ali, Shahanshah Alam, Mehrukhan, Sahil alias Goldie, Hassan, and Badkau are the names of the accused in this case. As the news spread, members of Bajrang Dal from nearby localities started gathering at Hrithik Kumar Verma’s house. They have demanded that the police should take strict action in this case. The Bajrang Dal members have also said that while the police and administration are taking strict actions against the accused of the violence that erupted on 3rd June – like Mukhtar Baba – the Islamists are now targeting the properties of the Hindus living in the middle of a locality dominated by Muslims.

Sena MLC Ravindra Phatak who was sent to Surat to bring back rebels joins Eknath Shinde camp, leaves for Guwahati with two MLAs

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Sena MLC Ravindra Phatak who was sent to Surat to bring back rebels joins Eknath Shinde camp, leaves for Guwahati with two MLAs

Shiv Sena MLC Ravindra Phatak, who was sent to Surat on June 21 by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to bring back Eknath Shinde and other rebel MLAs, has joined the rebel camp now. According to reports, Phatak has left for Guwahati and is joining the Eknath Shinde camp today (June 23). Ravindra Phatak is also accompanied by two other MLAs. One of them is Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Rathod who is elected from the Digras constituency in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. The other MLA is Dadaji Bhuse who represents Malegaon outer constituency.

Ravindra Phatak and the two MLAs took a flight to Guwahati from the Surat airport and will arrive at Radisson Blu hotel where Eknath Shinde is currently staying with other rebel MLAs. After Sanjay Rathod joined the rebel camp, his wife Shital Rathod’s health deteriorated as her blood pressure increased, and she has been admitted at a hospital in Mumbai.

With Sanjay Rathod and Dadaji Bhuse joining the Eknath Shinde camp, there are now 37 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs. This means, Eknath Shinde can now officially announce that he and the other MLAs are defecting from Shiv Sena and they will not lose their MLA status under the anti-defection law. As Shiv Sena has 55 MLAs in the house, the rebel camp needs two-thirds or 37 MLAs to avoid action under the law.

Interestingly, most of the mainstream media reports have used the wrong spelling and designation of MLC Ravindra Phatak. His name is being spelled as Ravindra Phatak and he is being called an MLA whereas he actually is an MLC of Shiv Sena. Ravindra Phatak belongs to Thane which is the hometown and stronghold of Eknath Shinde who is leading the group of rebel MLAs.

On 23rd June 2022, Eknath Shinde showcased his power when video and photographs of 42 MLAs in the Radisson Blu hotel of Guwahati was shared on social media. It included 35 Shiv Sena MLAs and 7 independent MLAs who are supporting Shinde. Now the number of MLAs in Guwahati will reach 44.

Meanwhile, Nationalist Congress Party held a meeting of all its elected MLAs at the YB Chavan center. It is also being said, in Maharashtra, that a group of NCP MLAs is willing to join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party to form a government in Maharashtra if in case Uddhav Thackeray resigns. However, NCP state president Jayant Patil has said that Sharad Pawar’s decision will prevail.

The drama continues: Sanjay Rathod’s wife falls ill after her MLA husband leaves Uddhav Thackeray and proceeds to Guwahati to join Eknath Shinde

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The drama continues: Sanjay Rathod’s wife falls ill after her MLA husband leaves Uddhav Thackeray and proceeds to Guwahati to join Eknath Shinde

Maharashtra’s political spectrum is witnessing things unfolding like never before. In one such development, Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Rathod’s wife Shital Rathod is admitted to hospital as her husband chose to leave Uddhav Thackeray and left for Guwahati to join Eknath Shinde and other rebel MLAs.

Eknath Shinde has showcased his power through a video of the 42 MLAs who are with him in Guwahati’s Radisson Blu hotel. Out of these 42 MLAs, there are 35 Shiv Sena MLAs and 7 others are independent MLAs. Today, two more Shiv Sena MLAs are joining the rebel camp, and one of them is Sanjay Rathod. Reportedly, Shiv Sena MLAs Sanjay Rathod and Dadaji Bhuse along with party MLC Ravindra Phatak have left for Guwahati to join Eknath Shinde’s faction of Shiv Sena. This step taken by Sanjay Rathod has left his wife in shock and she was admitted to the JJ Hospital in Mumbai.

Reportedly, Shital Rathod was of the opinion that Sanjay Rathod should stay back with chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and that he should not leave the party to join the rebel MLAs. This had also caused a tense situation in his house. For the last few days, his phone was not reachable. After Shital Rathod learnt that her husband is joining the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs in Guwahati, she fell ill and her blood pressure shoot up. According to a report by News 18 Lokmat, Shital Rathod suddenly had a blood pressure problem out of the worry and was admitted to the JJ Hospital in Mumbai.

Sanjay Rathod was also a cabinet minister in Uddhav Thackeray’s Maha Vikas Aghadi government but he had to step down from the post after the rape allegations leveled against him. On the other hand, Nawab Malik of the Nationalist Congress Party who is jailed in a money laundering case and is accused of having dealt with the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s close associates is still a cabinet minister in Uddhav Thackeray’s government. This very well explains why Sanjay Rathod was unhappy with Uddhav Thackeray and decided to join hands with Eknath Shinde.

Eknath Shinde needs 37 out of 55 Shiv Sena MLAs to bypass the anti-defection law and claim his hold on the Shiv Sena legislature party in the Maharashtra Assembly.

Journalist mocks Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, when pointed out that he works for NDTV, he starts airing the propaganda channel’s dirty laundry

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Journalist mocks Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, when pointed out that he works for NDTV, he starts airing the propaganda channel’s dirty laundry

Amid the ongoing political turmoil in Maharashtra, ‘journalist’ Nadeem Ahmad Kazmi took to Twitter to mock Shiv Sena rebel leader Eknath Shinde. However, when it was pointed out that he works for NDTV, the ‘journalist’ promptly forgot about the Shiv Sena leader and instead took off on an unhinged rant against the propaganda channel. Kazmi is actually no more associated with NDTV as the channel had fired him in the year 2017, but his Twitter bio still shows he is working for the controversial channel.

Earlier in the day, Nadeem Ahmed Kazmi wrote an insulting Tweet against Shinde who, along with his group of MLAs is on the verge of successfully charting out their rebellion from the Shiv Sena. “Decency matters…Shinde will be an auto driver again…just mark my words,” Tweeted the ‘journalist’.

The so-called NDTV journalist raked up Shinde’s humble past in order to disparage him. Eknath Shinde, who has engineered the biggest revolt to hit Shiv Sena in over 15 years, was once an auto-rickshaw driver in Thane city adjoining Mumbai. In 1980, he was influenced by Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray and joined the party, working as a Sainik. Over time, Shinde, a four-time MLA who holds urban development and PWD portfolios in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, emerged as a key Sena leader in the Thane-Palghar region in Maharashtra.

A Twitter user Varun Sharma (@LogicalHindu_) shared the screenshot of Kazmi’s vilifying Tweet alongside the screenshot of his Twitter bio where he still identifies himself as an NDTV journalist. Tagging the channel’s editorial director Sonia Singh, consulting editor Nidhi Razdan and news anchor Gargi Rawat Ansari, Varun Sharma wrote, “.@nadeemkazmi64 is a Journalist with NDTV. Proud of you @soniandtv , @Nidhi , @GargiRawat – for teaching your colleagues decency, manners and ethics.

Twitter user Varun Sharma, in his subsequent Tweet, tagged the Press Club of India, asking whether they endorse the remarks made by their general secretary Nadeem Ahmed Kazmi.

NDTV’s editorial director Sonia Singh responded to Varun Sharma’s Tweets and informed that Nadeem Ahmed Kazmi is no more associated with the channel. “He has not been with NDTV since 2017,” Tweeted Sonia Singh.

Sonia Singh’s comment incensed Kazmi, who embarked on a full attack mode against the channel. In an extremely curt reply, Kazmi wrote, “Matter is subjudice. NDTV has been slapped with 10 k fine for not appearing in the court Pls find out from your lawyers. Thanks..”

Another Twitter user responded by asking what went wrong between him and NDTV, to which Kazmi claimed that in 2017, the channel had unceremoniously thrown him out despite him giving two decades of his career to the channel.

“I was illegally removed from my duty despite giving 2 decades of my prime time to the organisation. I stood fir them on crucial times but they ..you know..i suffered immensely and forced to leave Delhi. Have no source of income at the fag end of life at 58,” said Kazmi as he went on an unhinged rant against the controversial channel.

SS of Nadeem Ahmad Kazmi’s Twitter bio

Interestingly, even though Kazmi himself complained that the channel had wrongfully fired him, he still refers to himself as an NDTV employee. A part of his Twitter bio reads, “working with NDTV”.

His Linkedin profile also reads he is on “assignment at NDTV.”

SS of Nadeem Kazmi’s Linkedin profile

It may be recalled that on June 20, Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde was reported ‘missing’ along with several MLAs. The reports of him being ‘out of reach’ came out after legislative council elections on Monday. There have been rumours floating around that some of the Shiv Sena MLAs cross-voted in the elections resulting in the BJP winning the MLC seats.

Yesterday (June 22), a total of Shiv Sena 34 MLAs signed a letter in support of Shinde, and now the number of party MLAs in Guwahati has gone up to 35. After the initial movement of MLAs led by Eknath Shinde from Surat to Guwahati, 7 more MLAs arrived in Assam, and the number has now increased to 42. Three leaders reportedly reached Guwahati this morning, while another four had already joined the camp Wednesday night.

After Shiv Sena MLA Nitin Deshmukh claimed he was abducted to Surat and Guwahati, Eknath Shinde camp releases his photos with them busting his lies

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After Shiv Sena MLA Nitin Deshmukh claimed he was abducted to Surat and Guwahati, Eknath Shinde camp releases his photos with them busting his lies

Political drama in Maharashtra is not over yet. Shiv Sena MLA Nitin Deshmukh (Balapur constituency in the Akola district of Maharashtra) who returned to Maharashtra from Guwahati on 22nd June 2022 narrated his so-called journey in the press conference with Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut. Deshmukh had claimed that he was abducted to Surat and then to Guwahati, and he somehow managed to escape to Nagpur on a chartered plane. However, within hours of him claiming a forcible abduction by Eknath Shinde camp, the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs in Guwahati have shared Nitin Deshmukh’s happy visuals with them. In these photos and videos, Nitin Deshmukh does not seem to be unhappy or pressurized, but he is rather appearing happy.

In the photographs, Nitin Deshmukh can be seen inside and outside the chartered plane, and he certainly does not look like ‘abducted’, and looks like a free man instead who was travelling with the rebel camp on his on will.

Nitin Deshmukh had levelled several allegations against Eknath Shinde, the Shiv Sena rebel MLAs who are with him, Bharatiya Janata Party, and Gujarat police while narrating his self-proclaimed great escape. Nitin Deshmukh said that he was forcibly taken by the rebel MLAs and Eknath Shinde. He had also claimed that he was forcible taken to a hospital by around 150 policemen claiming he had an heart attack, and he was kept in the hospital and injected with medicine. He said that after he was taken to Guwahati, he managed to return to Nagpur on a Chartered plane. On his name appearing in the list of signatures of Shiv Sena MLAs supporting Eknath Shinde, Deshmukh had claimed that he had not signed the document, and his signature was doctored.

But the Shiv Sena MLAs in the Shinde camp have released his photographs with them where he is seen happily boarding the plane and landing at the airport. They have also released photographs and videos showing Nitin Deshmukh signing the letter in support of Eknath Shinde.

Nitin Deshmukh’s first press talk after returning on 22nd June 2022.

Nitin Deshmukh in his talk with the media said, “After the voting for the legislative council, I was taken to Thane along with our other fellow MLAs. It all seemed normal at that time. But after Thane, the vehicles suddenly took a turn and we were told that we are going somewhere else. When we reached Surat, I saw so many police personnel deployed there. I had never seen such a grand hotel in my life. Police officers including those of the IPS ranks were making sure that no Shiv Sena MLA goes back. So, this is the level of conspiracy and planning made by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Everything was happening with their support. In Surat, I told Eknath Shinde saheb that I want to go back, but he did not listen to me.”

Nitin Deshmukh’s second press talk with Sanjay Raut on 23rd June 2022.

Alleging Gujarat police for forcibly abducting him on the inputs of Eknath Shinde and BJP, Nitin Deshmukh said, “I somehow managed to escape at around 12 in the noon. Till 3 pm I was roaming on the roads and was chased by not less than 150 policemen. Somewhere I stopped near some school or college and called my fellow leaders in Maharashtra who arranged a vehicle for me. Before the vehicle could reach me, the police lifted me and took me to a hospital. This means that my phone call was also being tracked and listened to. In the hospital, from 3 pm to 6:30 pm I somehow dodged the doctors and did not allow them to touch me. But at around 6:30 pm, around 10-15 people lifted me and gave me an injection in my arm saying that I have just had a heart attack. I was unconscious for some time after this. When I woke up, I was in a hospital room and around 50 police were in that room to keep a watch on me.”

Nitin Deshmukh further said, “Then I decided to go with the rebel MLAs and see what exactly they are going to do and come back in an intelligent manner because physical resistance was not the way to fight with this well-planned conspiracy. I went to Guwahati with them and in Guwahati, I somehow managed to arrange a special airplane that would take me to Nagpur and came back.” Nitin Deshmukh did not disclose who helped him to fly back from Guwahati, and who arranged a chartered plane at such a short notice. He said that it was the almighty God himself who helped him out and that he will not name the man who helped him in Guwahati. He also compared his comeback with the heroic escape of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj from Agra.

Nitin Deshmukh also claimed that his signature seen in the resolution signed by the rebel MLAs is forged and incorrect. In the first press talk on 22nd June 2022, he even went on to claim that the one who is seen in the visuals while signing the document is not him but somebody else looking like him. But on 23rd June 2022, in a press conference with senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, he did not say any such thing. The MLAs in the Shinde camp have also released more photographs of Nitin Deshmukh signing the resolution. Nitin Deshmukh is clearly identified in those photographs.

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