Former US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been the most prominent Democrat to have gone against the party line on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. Contrary to her former Democrat colleagues, she has maintained that it was a clear case of self-defense. On Wednesday, Tulsi Gabbard shared a video where she once again reiterated her stand that it was wrong of the mainstream media and US President Joe Biden to call the teenager a White Supremacist.
Outrageously, within hours and without evidence, MSM and Biden labeled Rittenhouse a white supremacist. This is unfair and further eroded people’s trusts in our President and MSM. pic.twitter.com/rnjObndanb
She said, “From the beginning, we are seeing this thing play out, where evidence doesn’t matter, facts doesn’t matter (sic). Hearing all these comments being made, they are grossly inaccurate, and it just shows how politicised the whole thing was from the beginning.”
She continued, “And unfortunately, how dangerous this path is if you follow it down its course. Where every white person is a white supremacist is essentially the message that they are sending, whether you realise it or not. And so, therefore if you look at our judicial system, you look at jury trials, does this mean that we don’t allow white people on juries anymore because they can’t be impartial because they are all white supremacists?”
“But then if so, they are saying, okay, we gotta get rid of the whole system, reform the whole system. Okay, so if you get rid of all the juries, then what? So then you have one person who’s making a decision about the fate of someone’s life and their future. How does that stand up to the ideals of a democratic society? It doesn’t. It starts to buckle and fall apart very quickly,” added Tulsi Gabbard.
The former Congresswoman made the comments on the Greg Gutfeld show on Fox News. Earlier, she had said that the jury got it right when it concluded that Kyle Rittenhouse was not guilty on all charges. The teenager was accused of intentional homicide after he killed two protesters in self-defense.
Gabbard said that the fact that the charges were even brought in against Rittenhouse showed that the prosecution was motivated by politics, which ought to be considered criminal. Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty after he claimed before the court that he shot the violent protesters in self-defense.
Prior to that, there were numerous lies spread by the mainstream media against the teenager, the most ostentatious being the allegation that he “crossed state lines” and he was defending property in the city of Kenosha which they claimed he had no connection to. This was despite the fact that his father lived in Kenosha and had family there and he worked in the city too. Furthermore, his home was less than a half an hour drive from the city.
The Cyber Cell unit of Mumbai Police Monday arrested a 33-year-old man from Rajasthan for allegedly posing as a woman and trying to extort Shiv Sena MLA Mangesh Kudalkar with a morphed obscene video of his. Two other accused in the case are absconding.
The accused, identified as Mousamdin Mohammed Khan, contacted the MLA via Facebook on October 19. Pretending to be a woman, the imposter claimed he was in trouble and sought the MLA’s phone number. According to the police, Kudalkar shared his number with the accused and subsequently, posing as a woman, Khan video called him which lasted for a few seconds.
Having received the MLA’s number and confirming that it was indeed MLA Kudalkar’s personal number, Khan went on to create a morphed vulgar video of the Shiv Sena leader and sent it to him on Whatsapp. He demanded money from the MLA, threatening him of making the video public if he refused to accede to his demands.
As per a report published in Indian Express, the MLA paid some money initially, but when Khan demanded more, he approached Mumbai Police. Kudalkar, an MLA from Kurla, filed a complaint with the cyber police on October 23. The cyber cell of the police tracked the accused to Bharatpur in Rajasthan, and with the help of local police arrested him. Two other accused involved in the case are on the run. The police have launched a search probe to arrest them.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Rashmi Karandikar (cyber) said, “We have taken transit remand of the culprit. The team of police along with him should be here Wednesday and we will comment only after they are here.”
The Mumbai cyber police did an excellent investigation and nabbed the culprits in no time. I urge people to report such incidents to the cybercrime police,” said Kudalkar after the culprit was nabbed by the cyber unit of the Mumbai Police.
On November 24, Sanjay Mishra, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Chief Minister of Tripura, received summons from Kolkata Police via email in connection to a case registered against him at Narkeldanga Police station. The case has been registered under Sections 153B, 268, 468, 469, 471, 500, 505(I)(b) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 54 of the Disaster Management Act 2005.
Summons sent to OSD to CM Trupura by Kolkata Police.
The summons read, “In exercise of the power conferred U/s 41A Cr. P.C., I do hereby inform you that you are the FIR named an accused person of the above referred case, and it is revealed during investigation that there are reasonable grounds to question you to ascertain the fact and circumstances from you. Hence, you are requested to appear at Narkeldanga PS on 25.11.2021 at 12:00 PM and meet the I.O. of the case S.I. S. Bandopadhyay of Narkeldanga PS.”
It further read in case Mishra failed to appear before the Police, it might result in his arrest as per law.
TMC has a history of using Kolkata Police to level political scores
This is not the first time the ruling party of West Bengal, Trinamool Congress, has used the Police to settle political scores. In August, Kolkata Police had arrested BJP leader Sajal Ghosh. In the process, they broke down his door and arrested him under Arms Act. Ghosh had claimed that he was arrested despite of not being involved in any criminal activity.
A quote attributed to Savarkar has been going around in academic circles which shows that Savarkar supported Jinnah’s two nation theory. This article examines the quote and its implications.
The quote is “I have no quarrel with Mr Jinnah’s two-nation theory. We Hindus are a nation by ourselves and it is a historical fact that Hindus and Muslims are two nations (sic)”.
So, what is the (primary) source of this quote? Is it real or fabricated? Let us examine.
One can find this quote in Prabhu Narain Bapu’s PhD. thesis titled ‘Constructing Nation and History Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India 1915-1930′ submitted to the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London in November 2009. (For the online version of the thesis, click here)
You can see (below) that the page 77 of the thesis contains the aforementioned quote.
Part II Sangathan Ideology; Chapter 5 Hindutva – A Nation of Hindu Race and Culture; Section III. Hindu Rashtra of the said thesis.
If you look closely, you will find that the primary source quoted by the PhD. scholar is ‘111 Savarkar, Hindu Rashtra Darshan, p. 14-5,20, 24.’
Citation Number 111
The book can be found here (click) or here (click) or here (click). The quote cannot be found anywhere in the book, let alone pages 14, 15, 20 or 24 as cited in the thesis.
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It appears baffling that a PhD thesis submitted to the ‘prestigious’ University of London contains such a mistake. However, our quest here is not to judge but to enumerate and construe.
Taking a slight detour, it would be important to state the fact that Dhruv Rathee (a pro-AAP YouTuber), in order to prove that Savarkar was responsible for partition, cited this quote from a book which was written by this very PhD. scholar Prabhu Narain Bapu. Also, the said book was based on this very thesis.
Sourced from a book written by London School of Economics graduate who has a PhD in history. It reflects the whole ideology of Hindu Mahasabha more than the single line you quoted
Coming back to topic, where did this quote then come from? A website maintained by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal & Gandhi Research Foundation states that these words were said by Savarkar in 1945. Their stated source is ‘vide Indian Educational Register 1943 vol. 2 page 10’. However, it is inimical to common sense and logic that a document published/written in 1943 would contain a quote from 1945. The website can be accessed here (click).
Snippet of the relevant portion of the website.
The source (Indian Educational Register, 1943, Vol.2, page 10) is also known as Indian Annual Register. Prof. Shamsul Islam cites this very source for the quote but mentions the date of the quote to be 15th August, 1943 and the place to be Nagpur in an article for the Counterview blog. Link to that article is this (click).
Relevant portion of Prof. Shamsul Islam’s article.
The link to the relevant volume of Indian Annual Register is this (click). One can find this quote in the document. The date is 15th August, 1943 and the venue is Kanpur.
Indian Annual Register, 1943, Vol.2 , page 10
If viewed from here, it appears that:
1. The the quote is real. 2. Narain Prabhu Bapu merely misquoted in his PhD. thesis (still a grave mistake). 3. The website maintained by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal & Gandhi Research Foundation merely gave the wrong year (1945 instead of 1943). 4. Savarkar indeed supported the two nation theory.
As with most of the things, the devil lies in the details here. As you can see, the document also mentions that Savarkar wanted to join hand with those who agreed with four basic provisions:
1. Territorial Integrity of India 2. Majority rule in provinces and the Centre 3. Residuary powers in the Centre 4. Recruitment to civil services on merit alone
Let us now revise, what exactly is the Two nation theory of Jinnah. At Lahore session of the Muslim League, he had put forward a resolution surmising his demand. That and his other principles of the theory can be summarized as follows:
1. Partition: He wanted Muslim majority ““Independent States” in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign (sic)” 2. Minority rights in India: He wanted “adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards shall be specially provided in the constitution” for “the protection of their religious, cultural, economic, political, administrative and other rights and interests”. 3. Separate interests of Muslims and Hindus: Whole of the resolution was based on the idea that the interests of the two communities are fundamentally different and they cannot be welded into one nation. This can be understood from the use of the term ”Muslim India”. 4. Provincial autonomy and recruitment: Earlier, he had suggested that only in few subjects should remain with centre and the rest including the residuary powers shall remain with the provinces (Point one and two of Jinnah’s fourteen points). Further, he wanted reservation for Muslims in recruitment to public service (Point eleven of the said points).
One can refer to the Lahore Resoultion of the Muslim League and Jinnah’s fourteen points as the source of the above.
It becomes extremely clear, hence, that while Jinnah wanted partition, Savarkar wanted Territorial Integrity of India. Jinnah wanted minority representation while Savarkar wanted Majority rule. Jinnah wanted residuary powers to reside in the provinces but Savarkar wanted them to reside in Centre. Jinnah wanted reservation in recruitment to civil/public service while Savarkar wanted merit to be the sole criterion. How can then be that Savarkar had ‘no quarrel’ with Jinnah’s two nation theory?
Vikram Sampath in his latest book (biography) of Savarkar titled ‘Savarkar (Part 2): A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966’ has cleared the issue.
Ch 7, Leaning on a Broken Reed
Savarkar’s views were distorted and presented as he himself claimed in an interview to Kaal daily on 19 August, 1943. It can safely be concluded, hence, that Savarkar did not want the partition of the country.
On November 24, an invitation of “Prophet Bajinder Singh Ministries” started to make rounds on social media platforms. The organization is starting its branch in Moga on November 25, as suggested by an advertorial video on the official YouTube channel of Bajinder Singh. The ad on YouTube alleged the attendees would witness “miracles” by Bajinder Singh. It claimed Singh would heal people with cancer, disabilities and possessions.
Bajinder Singh is the same person whose ‘Mera Yeshu Yeshu’ video became a meme on the internet.
Though the YouTube video does not talk about who all have been invited as Chief Guests, the invitation card mentioned Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, Congress MLA Harjot Kamal, actor Sonu Sood and his sister Malvika Sood. Notably, Malvika is all set to contest the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections from Moga.
The invitation card has attracted sharp criticism on social media as Bajinder Singh has been accused of converting people to Christianity on the pretext of false and misleading promises. While sharing the invitation, Author Ratan Sharda said, “What does it say about #Congress CM? What does it say of the party? What does it say of SGPC Amritsar, Sukhbir Singh Badal and Akali Dal who hate & abuse RSS for stressing Sikh Hindu unity but silent on this blatant conversion game?” he further questioned, “Bajinder has become a prophet now and CM #Channi his disciple?”
Bajinder has become a prophet now and CM #Channi his disciple? ?
Investigative journalist Vijay Patel said, “Why this Bajinder is not healing Corona? And look at the guest list. CM of Punjab and Sonu Sood are on the list.”
Singh’s name had been linked to a murder and a rape case in the past. He was also accused of looting the followers of money on the pretext of ‘miraculous healing’. National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has also asked the Punjab Police to initiate a case against Bajinder Singh under POCSO Act in August 2021 after videos of Singh emerged on the internet where he was seen using a minor boy for forceful religious conversion activity.
The ‘healer baba’ surprisingly has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube and over 2 lakh followers on Facebook. His social media pages mostly consist of testimonials and claims of curing illnesses like HIV infections, paralysis by simply applying his prayed anointing oil, curing a deaf and dumb child by using the same oil.
Bajinder Singh’s conversion network is increasing in Punjab at a rapid pace without any strong opposition from the government or local leaders. With a new branch in Moga, Singh may expand its conversion network in villages around the city in Punjab.
Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari in his book ‘10 Flashpoints; 20 Years’ has accused Congress-led UPA government dithered in responding to Pakistan sponsored November 26, 2008, Mumbai terror attacks. The book is scheduled to be released on December 1.
Manish Tewari is Congress MP from Anandpur Sahib as well as the national spokesperson of the party.
In his book he has said that the UPA government headed by Manmohan Singh did not act strongly against Pakistan after the Mumbai terror attack. He said that such a restraint against Islamabad was perceived as a symbol of weakness.
Happy to announce that my Fourth Book will be in the market shortly- ’10 Flash Points; 20 Years – National Security Situations that Impacted India’. The book objectively delves into every salient National Security Challenge India has faced in the past two decades. Stay tuned pic.twitter.com/zuS8lDhxhH
“For a state that has no compunctions in brutally slaughtering hundreds of innocent people, restraint is not a sign of strength; it is perceived as a symbol of weakness,” he has written.
He has questioned the silence of the UPA in acting against Islamabad and said UPA wasted the opportunity to give a befitting to Pakistan. “There comes a time when actions must speak louder than words. 26/11 was one such time when it just should have been done. It, therefore, is my considered opinion that India should have actioned a kinetic response in the days following India’s 9/11,” he observed in the book.
The Congress officially so far has not issued any statement regarding this blunt admission about Manmohan Singh led UPA government lacking spine to act against Pakistan.
The Congress so far has not issued any statement regarding the blunt admission that Manmohan Singh led UPA government lacked spine to act against Pakistan. However, the likes of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury who is the leader of the party in the parliament said that his book will sell like hotcakes and the salesman will be the BJP.
But this is just an attempt to avoid answering since even after more than a decade the Congress has not responded what prevented the then Prime Minister and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi from ordering the army to nail Pakistan conclusively.
BJP targets Congress
On the disclosure of Manish Tewari, the BJP targeted the Congress for compromising with national security. It alleged that the UPA government had put national security at stake by not responding strongly after the terror attacks.
In-charge of BJP’s National Information and Technology Department Amit Malviya said after Salman Khurshid, another Congress leader has thrown UPA under the bus to sell his book.
After Salman Khurshid, another Congress leader throws UPA under the bus to sell his book.
Manish Tewari in his new book slams the UPA for weakness in the name of restrain post 26/11.
Air Chief Marshal Fali Major is already on record saying IAF was ready to strike but UPA froze. pic.twitter.com/LOlYl77fgD
But this is not for the first time when Manish Tewari has put the Congress in the dock for not acting against Pakistan. In 2019, on the anniversary of 26/11 he had tweeted: “What would happened to Pakistan if 26/11 would have unfortunately happened in the US & the smoking gun would have nailed Pakistan conclusively as it did in the case of the Mumbai outrage? – I often wonder………”
What would happened to Pakistan if 26/11 would have unfortunately happened in the US & the smoking gun would have nailed Pakistan conclusively as it did in the case of the Mumbai outrage? – I often wonder………
Manish Tewari’s book refreshed a many a dirty secrets and tricks of the Congress
While the world was slamming Pakistan for perpetrating the 26/11 attacks through its non-state actors, leaders of the Congress party like Digvijay Singh were floating conspiracy theories to fix RSS in the terror attacks. They were spreading ‘saffron terrorism’ for the Mumbai terror attacks.
Aziz Burney, known for his anti-Hindu rants, was one of the key figures who actively pushed Congress party’s conspiracies against the RSS. Burney, who was the Group Editor of Sahara Publications like Roznama Rashtriya Sahara, Bazm-e-Sahara, Aalami Sahara, had published a book titled, “26/11 RSS Ki Saazish?” (26/11, An RSS Conspiracy?) to pin the blame on RSS for the Mumbai Terror attacks that were carried by Pakistan-based Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
On 26th November 2008, Pakistani terrorists crossed the border and unleashed attacks in Mumbai. The attacks occurred at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai Chabad House, The Oberoi Trident, The Taj Palace & Tower, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital, The Nariman House, the Metro Cinema, and in a lane behind the Times of India building and St. Xavier’s College. There was also an explosion at Mazagaon, in Mumbai’s port area, and in a taxi at Vile Parle. At least 174 people were killed (the numbers are suspected to be far more) and 300 people were injured.
Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday threatened the Centre with yet another tractor rally, alleging that if farmers’ demands are not met, then 30 tractors will march towards the Parliament on November 29, the day when the winter session of the Parliament is to commence.
“On November 29, 30 tractors and 500 people will march to the parliament to press the Centre for a statutory guarantee on the minimum support price(MSP) on crops. Besides, we will also demand the centre to pass the Seed bill, Pesticide bill, withdrawal of cases against protesters lodged across the country and compensation to the families of protesters who died during the year-long agitation,” Tikait said while adding that they will march to the Parliament in order to convey their demands to the Centre.
#Breaking | Rakesh Tikait threatens the government says if the demands are not met then 30 tractors will march towards the Parliament on November 29th.@RakeshTikaitBKU shares his views with @PrashastiMedia
However, while talking to ANI, Rakesh said more than 60 tractors and 1,000 people will be heading towards the Parliament on November 29. “The tractors will go through the roads, which have been opened by the government. We were accused of keeping the roads blocked. We did not block the road. Blocking the roads is not our movement. Perhaps, our movement is to talk to the government. We will straight go to the Parliament,” Tikait told news agency ANI.
Rakesh Tikait had threatened to continue protests after PM Modi announced withdrawal of farm laws
Earlier last week, Rakesh Tikait had said that the farmers will continue their protests against farm laws regardless of PM Modi’s announcement that the Centre would repeal the agricultural bills in the forthcoming parliamentary session.
PM Modi, addressing the nation on November 19, said that by the end of this month, the Centre would complete the process of repealing the three farm laws. He then appealed to the protesting farmers and middlemen to return to their homes on this Gurupurab and stop their protest. He further said that the government will form a committee to formulate laws for the benefit of the farmers.
He further said that the government had introduced the laws after due deliberation but perhaps it was the shortcoming of the government that they could not convince all farmers that the laws were indeed in their benefit. Further, he said that the past governments had deliberated on these laws as well but it was the Modi government that had implemented them.
He said that all his decisions were in the interest of the nation and he will continue to work for the benefit of the nation.
However, Tikait continued his intimidatory tactics against the government, insisting that the protest would continue unless the farm laws are repealed in the Parliament. “The farmers’ protest will not stop immediately, we will wait till the day when agricultural laws are repealed in Parliament. Besides MSP, the Centre should also discuss other issues with the farmers,” Tikait tweeted.
Over the week, as Tikait and his supporters felt emboldened by PM Modi’s decision to withdraw the farm laws, their list of demands, which was earlier limited to the invalidation of the farm bills, has steadily swelled. A day after PM Modi announced that the farm laws will be repealed, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait shared an ever-growing list of demands, stating that they would not back down unless the government fulfils all of them.
“The protest is not over yet and the government is yet to clarify its stand on MSP. We have been demanding a law guaranteeing it and also a committee for farmers,” Tikait said. “There are other issues as well as over 700 protesters (a number given by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha) lost their lives in one year of protest at Delhi’s borders and the government will have to do something for their families,” he added.
On November 22, members of Hindu organisations like the Hindu Rakshi Dal and Hindu Chhatra Sangh in Assam submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, district Cachar, Assam. In the memorandum, they have asked him to take action against some local Christian miscreants for vandalising a Hindu place of worship in Mahadevtilla in the Katigorah Tehsil of Cachar, Assam. The place where the incident took place has a large settlement of people belonging to the Khasi community, 85 per cent of whomhave embraced Christianity.
The group, in its letter, accused some Khasi Christians to be behind the attack. They said that the miscreants desecrated a Shivling and a Trishul that had been installed beneath a Banyan tree in the area more than a century ago. The Hindus in the area considered the Banyan tree extremely sacred and worshipped the Shivling placed beneath it every day.
Letter written to Deputy Commissioner of the Cachar district by the Hindu outfit
Letter written to Deputy Commissioner of the Cachar district by the Hindu outfit
The letter said that the local Khasi Christians cut down the Banyan tree, uprooted and desecrated the Shivling and the Trishul placed there. They also threw away the other religious things placed beneath the Banyan tree. The Christian miscreants threatened the Hindus with dire consequences if they returned to worship.
The Hindu organisation asked the Deputy Commissioner of the Cachar district in Assam to ensure that the place is vacated from the clutches of the miscreants. They also demanded that the Shivling and Trishul be restored in the same place. They suggested that the area be barricaded with iron rods to prevent future accidents. They also asked the authorities to adopt adequate security measures to safeguard the Hindus in the area. The Hindu outfit warned the authorities that if appropriate action is not taken within a month, they would be forced to take up the matter in their hands to restore the sanctity of the place.
The Hindus of Manipur protested and filed a complaint with the Forest Department and the Cachar Police. The police advised them to wait a few days, but residents claim that the cops aren’t doing much in the matter.
Meanwhile, a report by the local newspaper Barak Bulletin suggests that while a section of locals opined that the Banyan tree was axed inadvertently, most believe that the act was intentionally carried out to intimidate the Manipuri and Bengali Hindus living in the locality.
Locals claim that the Christian conversion groups have recently become a major threat for them. Local Hindus believe that these Christian evangelists are aiming to violently expand the Christian presence in the area by either converting or eliminating Hindus.
“People from the Khasia Punji (Khasi Settlement) intentionally cut the tree to threaten us against any sort of Hindu practices. They have been doing such activities for a long time. This is the extreme step that they have taken,” a local resident said on the condition of anonymity. The local who belonged to the Manipuri community said that a complaint about “Khasiya aggression” has been submitted to the local forest office.
OpIndia’s conversation with Hindu community and Police regarding the incident in Assam
OpIndia reached out to Aninda Dev, Hindu Chatra Sangh, to learn more about the case. Dev said, “The local Khasi Christians not only uprooted and desecrated the Shivling and Trishool but also threatened and misbehaved with the local Hindus.” He further blamed Police for inaction and said, “The local police is not taking any action against the miscreants. Instead, they threatened the local Hindus to stay away from the Christians.” He added that Hindu Raksha Dal and student union Hindu Chatra Sangh have submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli and requested her to take appropriate action against the Christians involved in the incident.
We also reached out to Subhasish Choudhury, Hindu Raksha Dal, who narrated the whole incident. He said, “The Khasi Christian community and the Manipuri Hindus had a pact that they would not interfere in each other’s religious matters and would stay away from the sacred Banyan tree. However, the Christian miscreants broke the pact and uprooted the tree along with Shivlinga and Trishool that was installed under the Banyan tree for over a century.” He said despite filing the complaint at the forest department and local police station, they did not take any action.
“On November 17, when some Manipuri Hindus went to perform Pooja, they were stopped and threatened not to come back by the Christians. They informed the Police about the incident. The DSP came and went to meet the Khasi Christian leader with the Manipur Hindu community leader. The Christian leader tried to mislead the Police by saying Hindus worshipped another tree to which the Hindus objected and told that they had been worshipping the tree for over 100 years,” he said. Subhasish said DSP had promised the Hindus that they would take action, but so far, even after seven days, no action has been taken.
We tried reaching out to the Deputy Commissioner but could not connect. Meanwhile, Cachar SP Ramandeep Kaur said, “The information you have received is incorrect. There was a banyan tree that locals worshipped. A case under Forest Act has been filed and local SI is investigating the case. Investigating in the matter is underway to find if it is an act of mischief or tree was cut inadvertently.”
Journalist Aditya Raj Kaul has received death threats from a group that calls itself ‘ISIS Kashmir’. Kaul has informed that he has alerted the Uttar Pradesh Police and the Special Cell of the Delhi Police of the matter and hopes that the terrorists will be traced soon.
In the three screenshots attached by Aditya Raj Kaul, it can be clearly seen that he is being threated with death. In one screenshot, ISIS Kashmir tells him that he is their next target.
Source: @AdityaRajKaul/Twitter
In the second screenshot, the terrorist says, “We are going to kill you soon.”
Source: @AdityaRajKaul/Twitter
ISIS Kashmir also claimed to have all his details, where he lived and where he was currently, and claimed that it was only a matter of time before they beheaded him.
Source: @AdityaRajKaul/Twitter
BJP MP Gautam Gambhir has also received threats from ISIS Kashmir. The threat to him said, “We’re going to kill you and you’re family.” Subsequently, security has been increased outside his residence.
Recently, ISIS mouthpiece Voice of Hind threatened to break Idols of Gods in India. The cover of its newly released edition showed a computer-generated broken idol of Bhagwan Shiv. Under the idol, the cover says, “It’s time to break false Gods”.
Aditya Raj Kaul has been vocal against separatism and terrorism in Kashmir, which perhaps earned him the hatred of Islamic extremists. There have also been a series of targeted killings of civilians in Kashmir recently which makes the threats even more concerning.
Cricketer turned politician Gautam Gambhir has approached Delhi Police alleging that he has received death threats from ‘ISIS Kashmir’. The BJP MP from East Delhi Constituency said he received death threat from the terror outfit on his official email id.
The email from ISIS Kashmir says,” We’re going to kill you and you’re family” with no subject or sender’s name.
A letter written by the staff of the former Indian southpaw to the Delhi Police said, “This is further to our telecon, we have received an email from ISIS Kashmir on the official mail of honourable MP Sir evening at 9:32 pm. This mail states death threat to him and his family…..I therefore request to make adequate security arrangement and lodge an FIR.”
Speaking to ANI, DCP Central, Shweta Chauhan, said, “Gautam Gambhir has submitted a written complaint about the death threat. He has received the threat on his official email id. The security has been increased outside his residence.”
The police have also forwarded the complaint to the Cyber Cell of the Special Cell to know the origins of the mail. An initial probe has also been launched by the Delhi Police.
Gautam Gambhir, a fierce critic of terrorism emanating from Pakistan
Never shy of raising his opinions in public, Gambhir has often stood in solidarity with the Indian Armed Forces in Kashmir and criticised terrorists and Pakistani establishment for fomenting trouble in the India’s northern states.
Gambhir had recently expressed his stern objection to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s reference to Pakistan PM Imran Khan as “bada bhai”, meaning big brother.
“Send ur son or daughter to the border & then call a terrorist state head ur big brother! #Disgusting #Spineless,” Gambhir had tweeted while making a sharp attack.
ISIS terrorists nabbed in Jammu and Kashmir
ISIS is a terrorist organisation that follows a Salafi Islamist doctrine and aims to bring the entire works under the fold of Islam.
Earlier in July this year, the Indian security agencies had found the first ever direct connection of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS in Jammu and Kashmir with the arrest of one of its founding members Qasim Khorasani and two of his associates.
ISIS also claims to be active in the Indian subcontinent through ISIS-K or Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) – an offshoot of the Islamic State terror group that operates in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Khorasan refers to a historical region comprising of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan, the territories once controlled by a caliphate.
