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Last location of rapper MC Kode traced to Noida, mother appeals missing son to return home

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Last location of rapper MC Kode traced to Noida, mother appeals missing son to return home

Rapper MC Kode, who had landed up in controversy recently after his old abusive and Hinduphobic videos went viral on social media platforms, has allegedly gone missing after posting a cryptic Instagram message from New Delhi since Wednesday.

However, the Delhi Police has informed that as per investigations his last location was traced in Noida before his phone was switched off.

Delhi Police on Saturday had lodged an FIR of kidnapping and started their investigation. “With the help of technical surveillance, police found that his phone’s last location was in Noida on May 25. It was later switched off. They have now written letters to social media sites to provide certain information related to his account,” informed police sources.

MC Kode’s mother appeals missing son to return home

MC Kode’s mother Deepa Tiwari on Sunday appealed her missing son to return home. “Aditya your mother will also die with you, please come back, all are with you and we will solve all problems. Every day is a new day, please come back we are waiting for you,” Tiwari said in a statement to ANI.

“From that time we have been troubled and are searching for him. After six years social media threw it up (MC Kode’s six-year-old video from a rap battle)… he had apologized for that but then the trolling began and he even received death threats, he was completely broken and don’t know where he has gone away now,” she added.

Mc Kode’s mother further informed that the Delhi Police was acting in a routine manner even after an official complaint was lodged. Informing about MC Kode’s career, Tiwari said that he was a self-made person who ran his own company and organized rap music battles. However, after being trolled on social media, he lost all endorsements from companies and received death threats.

Blaming social media for her son’s disappearance, Tiwari said, “One person announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for anyone who would slap him 20 times and record it. t is a complete creation of social media! This is 100 per cent social media generated episode. If this matter wasn’t dragged after a long time of 6 years then Aditya would have been with us…Social media didn’t realize if threats are coming, then monitoring should have been done. Social media is responsible for my son’s agony.”

“He is a very sensitive boy, when the trolling episode did not stop even after several apologies, he went into darkness. He stopped getting work and his career was completely finished,” she added.

MC Kode’s cryptic message on Instagram

MC Kode, who goes by the handle ‘forreal_kode’, had posted a long post on Instagram on June 2 saying how he has been facing constant suffering, trials and tribulations of life that has made him weak after his videos went viral. In his post, MC Kode said that he was standing at an isolated bridge overlooking the Yamuna river where he could see the waves ‘answering his distress call’ while giving him ‘much needed perspective’.

MC Kode’s Instagram post

Threatening to end his life, the rapper said he could only ask for forgiveness as his selfish actions will definitely cause a great amount of grief.

A search operation and a thorough investigation into the matter is underway. The rapper had received severe criticism online after his old video had gone viral where he was seen using vile, abusive and Hinduphobic statements endorsing rape and assault against women.

US immunologist who had emailed Fauci that Coronavirus ‘looks engineered’ deletes Twitter account after his lies were exposed

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US immunologist who had emailed Fauci that Coronavirus ‘looks engineered’ deletes Twitter account after his lies were exposed

Amidst the ongoing controversy over the ‘Coronavirus lab leak’ hypothesis and the possible coverup, US immunologist Kristian G. Andersen has been forced to delete his Twitter account after his doublespeak on Covid-19 origins was exposed on the microblogging platform. The revelations were made by a popular Twitter user named Alex Berenson.

Andersen is a professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research and has a close association with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

In an email transcript from January 31 last year, Andersen had informed Dr Fauci on the possibility of the Wuhan Coronavirus being engineered in a laboratory. “On a phylogenetic tree the virus looks totally normal and the close clustering with bats suggest that bats serve as the reservoir. The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” the immunologist had said.

Screengrab of the email transcript by Andersen

Andersen further emphasised, “I should mention that after discussions earlier today, Eddie, Bob, Mike, and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory. But we have to look at this much more closely, and there are still further analyses to be done, so those opinions could still change.” While the immunologist had hinted at the possibility of engineered virus in his email correspondence, he publicly dismissed all such possibilities.

Kristian Andersen has claimed Covid-19 lab leak theory as flawed

A day earlier on January 30, 2020, junior US Senator (Arkansas) Tom Cotton had hinted at how Covid-19 might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory (referring to Wuhan Institute of Virology). He had tweeted, “We still don’t know where coronavirus originated. Could have been a market, a farm, a food processing company. I would note that Wuhan has China’s only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world’s most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus.”

Screengrab of the tweet by Tom Cotton

However, the following day (January 31, 2020), Andersen claimed that the analyses by Senator Tom Cotton were completely flawed and wrong. “Thanks for looping me in Tara (referring to epidemiologist Tara C Smith who had dismissed Covid-19 lab leak hypothesis). I only had a very quick look at the link but the analyses are completely flawed and wrong. They can safely be ignored,” Andersen had tweeted. As pointed out earlier, the immunologist had highlighted the possibility of ‘engineered virus in his private email correspondence with Dr. Fauci.

Screengrab of the tweet by Andersen

Immunologist comes up with bizarre explanation, later deletes account

On being quizzed by netizens after the email transcripts were made publicly available, Kristian G Andersen was quick to delete the tweets that exposed his doublespeak. In his defence, the immunologist came up with a bizarre explanation. He alleged, “My old tweets auto-deletes.” Netizens were quick to point out that there was no feature in place which would facilitate auto-deletion of tweets. Embarrassed and stuck in his own trap of white lies, Andersen deleted his Twitter profile altogether.

Screengrab of the tweet by Kristian G Andersen

Indian experts reveal about the coverup by Dr Fauci, Andersen

In a debate on NewsX, Dr PSV Rao accused Dr Anthony Fauci of lying to the world about the true nature of the coronavirus. He pointed out the discrepancy between the assertions made by Dr Fauci in his leaked emails from February 2020 and the public remarks made by him then. In February 2020, Dr Fauci talked about the genome sequencing of the coronavirus, pointing out that the virus was not evolutionary. However, his email conversations from that time revealed that this was not the case.

Dr Rao further said, “In the month of Jan there were two other publications, one by Wuhan Doctors about the cases and another study by Hong Kong doctors who had gone to Wuhan and studied the disease. Both the research published are saying the same thing. A leading infectious disease expert, Kristian Andersen, emailed Dr Fauci that some of the features of the virus looked engineered. But he did not announce it in public. This reveals that Dr Fauci was already aware of the man-made nature of the virus but he did not inform the public about the same.”

‘Khalistan Zindabad’ chants help us ‘release’ the pain: Akal Takht head priest justifies separatist slogans raised in the temple complex

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‘Khalistan Zindabad’ chants help us ‘release’ the pain: Akal Takht head priest justifies separatist slogans raised in the temple complex

As the 6th of June marked the 37th anniversary of Operation Bluestar at the Golden Temple, the occasion on Sunday was marked by separatist sloganeering, defended by Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh and SGPC Chief. 

The five-day event which began with putting the bullet-hit Bir of Guru Granth Sahib on display ended with chants like ‘Khalistan Zindabad’ by a section of Sikh hardliners. “This is a deep wound on Sikhs, which gives pain throughout the year. On its anniversary, we reduce this pain by uttering ‘Khalistan Zindabad’. It can never be forgotten. It will be part of our memory forever,” said the acting Jathedar during his customary address on the anniversary of Operation Bluestar.

However, this wasn’t the first time that a demand for Khalistan was raised from the event. While addressing the occasion last year, the Jathedar had stated that every Sikh wished for a Khalistan and if the government offers them a separate nation, “they will accept it happily”.

“No voice was raised when masjid was demolished”

In an attempt justify the separatist slogans, Jatherdar remarked, “It was fortunate that the Sikh community reacted promptly if any wrong was done to its significance. No voice was raised when masjid was demolished to pave way for raising mandir or Article 370 was abolished, yet when recently a Sikh was thrashed in UP, the Sikhs not only from India but from UK, US and Canada raised voice against it. This was an example of our live soul and our strength which has to be maintained.”

Term the event as ‘Amritsar Sikh Genocide’

Jathedar informed that they have been receiving several emails from people demanding to name the event ‘Amritsar Sikh genocide’. However, the attack was not executed only on the Golden Temple but also on 37 other Sikh shrines across the country, exclaimed the Jathedar.

“It was not constrained to Amritsar only. In 1984, the genocide had started on the streets of Delhi, Kanpur, Tata Nagar and other areas between November 1-4. Hence, it should be termed as ’84 da ghallughara (genocide),” he said.

Further justifying his statement, the Jathedar informed that the earlier massacres of Sikhs in 1746 by the Mughal empire in which 7,000 Sikhs lost their lives was termed as ‘chhota ghallughara’ whereas, the 1762 massacre in which 35,000 Sikhs were killed by Mughals was termed as ‘vadda ghallughara’. The 1984 Army attack was nothing short of it, he claimed. 

SGPC Chief supports the ‘Josh’

Endorsing Jathedar’s views on ‘pro-Khalistani slogans’, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Bibi Jagir Kaur said, “This is an expression of the Sikh youth’s ‘josh’ (vehemence). As Singh Sahib (Jathedar) stated the youngsters demonstrated their sentiments and healed their pain on the occasion.”

“This ‘josh’ suggests that the Sikh community is alive and acts independently. A community losing ‘josh’ is considered dead. When the youths raise these slogans, they demonstrate that they are competent to fight the enemy. So, we have no objection to it,” she added.

Son of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale honored with ‘siropa’

Later in the event, the Jathedar honoured Ishar Singh, son of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale along with Bhai Manjit Singh and Satwant Kaur, the brother and daughter of Bhai Amrik Singh, former federation head with ‘siropa’ (robe of honour) at the Akal Takht.

Takht Kesgarh Sahib Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh, and head priest of Akal Takht Giani Gurmukh Singh and SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur were present for the ceremony.

Red Fort violence accused present at the occasion

The prime accused of the Red Fort violence and out on bail Deep Sidhu with their supporters along with SAD (Amritsar) chief Simranjit Singh Mann were also present on the occasion. 

Watch: Khalistanis in London hold protest march on the anniversary of Operation Bluestar, burn Indian national flag

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Watch: Khalistanis in London hold protest march on the anniversary of Operation Bluestar, burn Indian national flag

On June 6, two Indian Tricolours were set ablaze and stamped upon by Khalistanis on Trafalgar Square, London, amidst slogans of “Khalistan Zindabad”. The Indian High Commission has issued a statement in which they said they were extremely concerned and distressed by the incident. The High Commission also promised to take action against those who desecrated the Indian National Flag.

As per a report in the Times of India, the Indian High Commission said, “We have taken note of the people who were there trying to desecrate the flag, and we will take action. We were also surprised to see that the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) were present. The numbers who turned up were far less than in previous years, which demonstrates that they are failing to muster enough support for Khalistan, besides the continual failure of the whole movement.”

Naomi Canton, TOI’s journalist from the UK, shared multiple videos of the incident. In the first video, a man with a black scarf covering his face set ablaze the Tricolour that was kept on the floor. Once the flag caught fire, he used a flammable spray to ensure it burnt down to ashes. The bystanders were heard raising slogans like “Khalistan Zindabad” and “Na Hindi, Na Hindu, Na Hindustan, Banke Rahega Khalistan”.

In the second video she shared, the same guy brought the second Tricolour to set it on fire.

After the flags were gutted, two police officers came over. The masked man who burnt down the flag was seen pouring water over the remnants of the flags. One of the police officers picked up the remaining portion of the flags and left the spot.

Setting flags ablaze is not a crime in Britain, said Police

A spokesperson for Metropolitan Police said in a statement that setting flags on fire is not a criminal offence in Britain. He further added that he was not aware of the flag-burning incident, and no one was arrested from the group of Sikhs raising slogans against India.

The event to remember Khalistani terrorist Bhindranwale

As per reports, Five Khalsa Sikhs dressed in traditional attire of “Paanch Pyare” had led the march of hundreds of Khalistani sympathizers from Wellington Arch to Trafalgar Square. Some people were selling Khalistan T-Shirts etc. Banners donning Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale were seen at the event. A Sikh woman, who was selling the T-shirts, told TOI, “It is important the next generation knows about this.”

Khalistani flags spotted

There were several Khalistanis marching with the yellow Khalistan flags. Some of them were wearing “Punjab Referendum 2020” T-shirts. The so-called Referendum 2020 is an initiative run by banned terrorist organization Sikhs For Justice. It the same organization that had announced a cash prize for raising Khalistani Flag on Red Fort on Republic Day this year.

The protestors were also raising slogans favouring Scottish Sikh Jagtar Singh Johal, who is currently lodged in jail in India for his alleged role in murdering Hindu leaders in Punjab.

Uttar Pradesh: Gangster Parvez Ahmed shot dead by STF in an encounter in Gorakhpur, was operating out of Nepal

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Uttar Pradesh: Gangster Parvez Ahmed shot dead by STF in an encounter in Gorakhpur, was operating out of Nepal

Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Sunday shot dead gangster Parvez Ahmed in an encounter. Ahmed was wanted in BSP leader Jugaram Mehndi’s murder two years back. As per reports, he had escaped to Nepal after the murder and had a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head.

As per reports, he was spotted in Pipiganj of Gorakhpur area on a motorcycle with one of his aides. He had reportedly come to Gorakhpur from Nepal to meet someone where the police surrounded them. The police asked him to surrender but he opened fire at the police. According to police, he was killed in retaliatory firing.

In May this year, he had demanded extortion money from a businessman. When hew did not get the money, he allegedly killed him. Since then the STF had upped their ante to catch him.

Ahmed was a resident of Makhdoomnagar in Ambedkar Nagar district and was a close aide of underworld don Khan Mubarak and Chhota Rajan. He was involved in made in Pakistan fake currency smuggling racket from Nepal.

BSP leader Jugaram Mehndi’s murder

On 15th October 2018 at around 10 AM, assailants fired multiple bullets on BSP leader Jugaram Mehndi in Hirapur Bazar, Ambedkar Nagar. His driver was also killed while two passersby were injured. A case was registered against gangster Khan Mubarak and 10 others. Khan Mubarak himself is currently lodged in Hardoi jail.

A .32 mm pistol, one 9 mm pistol and 8 rounds of cartridge were recovered from Parvez. Rs 500 cash and a bag with some essentials were also recovered.

SMaRT, a collaboration of nationalistic media outlets to challenge the monopoly of left-liberal media, launches its website

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SMaRT, a collaboration of nationalistic media outlets to challenge the monopoly of left-liberal media, launches its website

Samachar Manyata Association for Research and Training (SMaRT), a platform for nationalistic and dharmic digital media outlets, launched its website on June 5. Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Rajya Sabha MP and the President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations, launched the website in a virtual event. SMaRT has been set up to break the monopoly of the left-liberals over the narrative in Indian media.

A statement issued by SMaRT said, “One of the biggest tragedies of independent India has been monopolisation of the narrative space by subscribers of one political ideology – starting from left of the Centre all the way to the extreme – communism and Marxism. While academia can be credited with providing the intellectual heft and popular media such as movies for subtly pushing the agenda, it is the news media which has been most influential for the simple reason that it reached more people than academics did (via radio, papers and finally tv) and was taken seriously unlike popular media.”

It adds that this narrative monopoly was broken in the last decade as social media emerged as a viable alternative to the mainstream media, which exposed the major names in the mainstream media what they are- shallow, partisan elites with disdain for India’s majority, their culture and their values.

It says that the people who challenged this old media are ordinary citizens with zero political access, graduated fresh from middle classes, holding the civilisational ethos of this land in high regard and nationalistic to a fault. One couldn’t have hoped for a more suited group of individuals to challenge the ‘manipulated media’, SMaRT said.

On various platforms such as news portals, social media, YouTube etc, such nationalistic people are making a disunited attempts to challenge the narratives set by the left-liberal media. As a result, even though well intentioned and highly motivated, they have not been able to achieve the desired result as they suffer from lack of a support system that the other side is well-armed with.

SMaRT is an initiative to fill this gap. SMaRT is not an industry association, and it does not attempt to influence editorial policies of any of its members. SMaRT aims to nurture and support its members through various initiatives that can help improve the quality of their content, widen its reach and help them achieve financial sustainability. These support initiatives include research grants, translation services, legal support, multimedia facilities for generating high quality content, start-up funding, advertisement support and more.

SMaRT was launched on 25th October, 2020, and within these 7 months, it has reached a key milestone of 60 members, with a combined reach of 80 million+ hits/views/impressions every month. SMaRT says it looks forward to encourage more nationalist and dharmic media members to join this initiative to amplify its voice to a much wider audience through this synergistic alliance.

“Monopolies are bad. They lead to lethargy, incompetence, inefficiency and ultimately bankruptcy. That’s what has happened in India’s media space as well. It’s time to change that”, the SMaRT press release added.

Former cricketer Harbhajan Singh glorifies Khalistani terrorist Bhindranwale on death anniversary, offers ‘pranam’

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Former cricketer Harbhajan Singh glorifies Khalistani terrorist Bhindranwale on death anniversary, offers ‘pranam’

Former cricketer Harbhajan Singh glorified Khalistani terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale on his death anniversary on Sunday. Harbhajan Singh hailed him as a ‘martyr’ and offered him ‘pranam’ in an Instagram story.

Harbhajan Singh glorifies Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (Image source: @netaji_bond/Twitter)

The poster says, “Live with pride, die for the religion.” He paid tribute to the terrorists on the 37th anniversary of Operation Blue Star. It features Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale at the center wearing a blue turban.

Posters of Bhindranwale as well as Khalistan flags were seen during an event inside Sri Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar earlier today. Pro-Khalistan group Dal Khalsa also carried out a march to the shrine to mark 6th June as ‘Khalistan Day’.

Operation Blue Star

Operation Blue Star was carried out between June 1 and June 8, 1984, in Amritsar’s Golden Temple. It was the biggest internal security mission ever undertaken by the Indian Army. It was ordered by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India as a solution to law and order situation in Punjab.

During Operation Blue Star, Khalistan supporters took over the Akal Takht complex in Amritsar’s Golden Temple. The casualties as per the official reports were 83 Indian Army jawans and 492 civilians throughout the whole Operation. Few months later, on 31st October, 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards to avenge for the Operation Blue Star. This led to large-scale anti-Sikh riots in India where Congress leaders were accused of leading mobs against Sikhs.

‘2 Rs Yogi toolkit’ fake, retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh had shared a doctored audio clip that showed UP CM in bad light

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‘2 Rs Yogi toolkit’ fake, retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh had shared a doctored audio clip that showed UP CM in bad light

An audio clip had gone viral recently where a person could be heard being told to tweet in favour of Yogi Adityanath from a fake account. The name of Gajendra Chauhan is also mentioned. Propagandists had cited the audio clip to claim that people were being told to tweet in support of BJP for 2 rupees, which led it to being labeled ‘2 Rs Yogi toolkit’.

The audio was posted by retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh, who has been attacking the BJP govt continuous for last several months.

Uttar Pradesh police investigated the matter following a complaint by Atul Kushwaha on the 31st of May and found that it was a doctored video shared with the intention to cause defamation. In a statement, the Kanpur Nagar Media Cell has said that Ashish Pandey and Atul Kushwaha work in social media management for various clients.

Thus, due to professional rivalry, Pandey wanted to ruin Kushwaha’s reputation. Pandey solicited the help of subordinate Himanshu Saini to achieve the objective. Himanshu befriended a 15-year old boy on social media and recorded two calls which were conversations with him.

Statement by Kanpur Nagar Media Cell

After that, Ashish Pandey and Himanshu Saini edited the two audio clips to create a clip that could be made to go viral. It was this doctored ‘2 Rs Yogi toolkit’ audio that retired IAS officer SP Singh had shared on Twitter and ‘journalist’ Rohini Singh had tweeted about it.

Evidence has been recovered from the mobile phones and laptops of the accused and both of them have confessed to the crime. A case has been registered under sections 465/468/469/471/505/34 and other relevant provisions of the IT Act.

Earlier this week, the Kanpur Police had filed an FIR against Surya Pratap Singh, Puneet Saini and Himanshu Saini after Atul Khushwaha had registered a complaint against them. He had said that ‘as part of the cheap politics of the Opposition, his name is being ruined on social media. He added that “the audio is also attempting to defame the Yogi government.”

Another woman volunteer alleges harassment by ‘farmer’ protest activists, kept quiet so far because she did not want to compromise the ‘morcha’

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Another woman volunteer alleges harassment by ‘farmer’ protest activists, kept quiet so far because she did not want to compromise the ‘morcha’

Less than a month after a woman from West Bengal was allegedly raped by two ‘farmer’ protestors at the Tikri border, another case of harassment has been reported from the farmer protest site.

A social media user named Shivani Dhillon (@shivani_sikh) said that a Punjabi volunteer was harassed by farmer protest volunteers. Taking to Twitter, Dhillon accused followers of a person named Dr Swaiman Singh, an American doctor who is one of the organisers of the protests, of harassing a woman volunteer working at his organisation, promoting vaccine amongst protestors.

Sharing the screenshots of an Instagram post shared by the victim, Dhillon narrated how Dr Swaiman Singh and his followers harassed the victim.

Narrating her ordeal in the post, the victim said that after watching videos of Dr Swaiman Singh’s work, she wanted to create awareness about Covid-19 and vaccinations amongst protestors sitting at Tikri Border and hence she decided to volunteer in his organization in April this year.

As she came to the Tikri border, she was given a room with women protestors from a village at the end of the corridor in the building of Pind California, a medical centre established by Dr Swaiman Singh at the Tikri protest site.

“In the first few interactions themselves, I felt uneasy with some of the male volunteers, but I brushed it off. I did not interact much with them in these two days except when absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, on the third day, the female doctors and my women roommates had to leave, and I was left alone in the room. There were women protestors still in the other room, and I asked a few of them to sleep in my room as I didn’t want to be left alone,” the woman, whose identity is yet to be known, said.

According to the victim, the followers of Dr Singh passed lewd comments on her, who insinuated that she was in a romantic/sexual relationship with another volunteer. However, when the lady protested and gave an earful to the two and tried to complain to an uncle nearby, the alleged protestors ganged up on the latter and bullied the victim.

As the victim went to Dr Singh to complain about the behaviour of the two individuals, he refused to help her, saying, “this wasn’t America”, and that those volunteers had been here for 4-5 months, while she had been at the protest site for only 2-3 days.

“The next day the first thing I went to Dr Singh and told him that I needed to talk to him about something imp. We had a chat in the noon where I told him that his volunteers made me uncomfortable. To which his reaction was – I cannot take care of your safety. That he will leave me back to Singhu and will call me when the women doctors were here. That this wasn’t America etc,” the women noted her in post.

The victim further said that the during three-four days she spent at the Tikri border, she came to know that Dr Singh’s volunteers were slut-shaming her.

“They weren’t used to woman giving it back to them or listening to ‘No’, and their fragile ego had been shattered to pieces by my actions. Hence the slut-shaming. I thought it would end once I left the protest (and I shudder to think how many more women would have left coz of the rampant sexism, misogyny, and the harassment faced at the hands of these men! inclusive space much?)” the victim shared her story.

Interestingly, she also said that she had kept quiet so far because she did not want to want to affect the ‘morcha’ negatively.

Concluding her post, the woman said that if anyone did not care for morcha, it was Dr Singh and not her. The victim also said that the morcha is not affected by women who speak out the crimes of their perpetrators but by the men who do such things. “And this shame or guilt is not mine to have, but it is the harassers and their enablers who need self-introspection and stop treating us women as a dispensable part of this protest and society in general,” she said.

The horrific case of protestors sexually harassing a Punjabi volunteer comes just a month after a 25-year old women activist hailing from West Bengal was raped and blackmailed by the goons at the farmers’ protest at the Delhi-Haryana Tikri border.

Woman who died of COVID at the Tikri border protest site was raped and blackmailed

A woman protestor had reached the protest site at Tikri in mid-April, who was subjected to sexual assault on more than one occasion.

The incident had come to light after her father had filed an FIR. As per the complaint, on April 10, the woman, aged around 25 years, came to the Tikri border protest site from West Bengal with a group to join the farmers’ protest against the recently enacted agriculture laws.

The father of the victim had said that his daughter was raped by two men at the Tikri protest site. The whole story was narrated by the woman to her father over the phone as per the complaint. In his complaint, the father named six persons identified as Anil Malik, Anup Singh Chanaut, Ankur Sangwan, Kovita Arya, Jagdish Brar and Yogita Suhag, who went to West Bengal on behalf of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha.

The main perpetrators of the crime are alleged to be two AAP leaders who masterminded the entire incident. On April 26, the victim was admitted to a hospital in the Jhajjar district, who also showed Covid symptoms. However, the young woman succumbed to death on April 30 after contracting coronavirus.

Editors note: In an earlier version of this article, we had identified the victim as a ‘nurse’ when she was actually just a volunteer. Further, this article classified this incident as a case of molestation when it was a case of sexual harassment. We had relied on social media posts and other reports from mainstream media like CNN News 18. It should be noted that the Instagram post by the victim matched with the screenshots put up by the Twitter user, however, we didn’t use the Instagram post as our source as we tried to avoid putting out any identifiable details of the victim as mandated by the law. Some errors crept in due to this process. This report has also been updated to reflect that the victim stayed silent for a long time because she did not want to compromise the ‘sanctity of the ‘farmers protest’ and continues to support the farmers protest. The report has been updated and the error is regretted.

Saayoni Ghosh, who made Hinduphobic posts, appointed president of TMC youth wing

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Saayoni Ghosh, who made Hinduphobic posts, appointed president of TMC youth wing

Actress Saayoni Ghosh has been appointed the president of the All India Trinamool Youth Congress on Saturday. Incidentally, she is the same actress who had come under the scanner for her Hinduphobic social media posts.

“This is the first time in my career that I was offered but refused two films without even reading the scripts. Since acting is in my blood, I will act if I am given an offer that I can’t refuse. Currently I will give my 120% to politics and Mamata Banerjee,” the actress said following her appointment.

Saayoni Ghosh contested the 2021 Assembly Elections from the Asansol South constituency where she lost to BJP’s Agnimitra Paul by a margin of just under 4,500 votes.

Saayoni Ghosh
The controversial tweet by Saayoni Ghosh

On February 18, 2015, the actress had tweeted a picture wherein a female character was seen putting a condom over the sacred Hindu symbol of a Shivling. She wrote, “Gods cudnt have been more useful.” Her tweet maligning Hindu culture was posted on the auspicious occasion of Maha Shivratri, which was observed on February 17 that year.

Saayoni Ghosh had subsequently issued an apology claiming that her account had been hacked. Following the announcement of her candidature from Asansol South, people had outraged against the decision and accused the Trinamool Congress of not caring for Hindu sentiments.

Recently, during the campaign for the West Bengal assembly elections, Mamata Banerjee was spotted chanting the Chandi Paath and other Hindu incantations to rebut allegations that her party indulges in minority appeasement. However, with elections out of the way, she has cleared the path for Ghosh’s elevation to the position.

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