The residents of the Mahadalit colony in Purnia are living in fear after a mob of radical Islamists attacked them and set their homes on fire. Now more horror stories have emerged from the incident. Locals say that the mob entered their homes and tried to rape the women. The mob tried to rape a pregnant woman. When they were unable to do so, they beat her up with chain.
Even children and old people were beaten mercilessly. One ASHA worker said that she had helped deliver babies in homes of the accused. They even targeted her and tried to rape her. She was attacked with swords. Somehow, she managed to escape in semi-naked condition to save her life. Daughter in law of Mewalal Rai, who was killed in the violence, said that he was beaten up with chain, sticks and a weapon with sharp blade.
Mahadalit colony attacked in Purnia
On May 22, around 100-150 members of the Muslim community attacked a Mahadalit colony in Purnia, Bihar. They beaten up everyone irrespective of age or gender. A retired watchman was also killed in the attack. In the aftermath of the incident that took place in Majhua Toli, SP Dayashankar sent Bayasi station in-charge Amit Kumar to Police Line for his negligence. Circle Inspector Sunil Kumar Suman, Thamdaha, was sent to take charge of the police station in Bayasi.
Rizvi, Shakeed, and Ilyasi are among the main accused in the case. The Police are claiming that it was a land dispute and no one joined the attackers from outside. On the other hand, BJP is saying that there were over 300 attackers. Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has alleged that Rohingya Muslims were also part of the mob.
Location of the incident raises red flags
The location of the incident calls for a serious investigation. It is only eight kilometers away from the famous ‘Chicken’s neck’ that on the radar of anti-India forces, including China. It is a narrow pathway that connects the northeast to the rest of the country. Siliguri is the major region in this area. Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sikkim, and the mountains of Darjeeling connect to India via this region. The Muslim-dominating areas of North Dinajpur in West Bengal and Kishanganj in Bihar are connected to this region.
It has to be noted that Sharjeel Imam, a former student of AMU, had threatened to cut down this chicken’s neck during anti-CAA protests and provoked Muslims to fulfill his dream. Imam is currently under police custody over his involvement in anti-CAA protests.
‘Hindus are under attack in Muslim-dominated areas’
BJP leader Devesh Kumar said that Hindus are under attack in dominating Muslim areas. It has been happening in West Bengal, where Hindus are forced to migrate to other states, and it is happening in Bihar as well. State Head of BJP, Sanjay Jaiswal, has spoken to CM Nitish Kumar over the incident, who promised a speedy trial of the accused.
— अनंत विजय/ Anant Vijay (@anantvijay) May 25, 2021
Women were sexually assaulted, elders and children were attacked, and houses were burnt down during the attack in Purnia. The residents are constantly living in fear. A pregnant woman said that Iliyas tried to rape her, and when he did not succeed, he beaten her up with a chain. The marks of the atrocities that pregnant women faced are still visible on her body.
A complaint has been filed with the Ministry of Home Affairs against John Rose Austin Jayalal, the National President of the Indian Medical Association, seeking action against him for abusing his power and resorting to proselytization during the pandemic.
Legal Right Protection Forum, a legal-activism group, has written a detailed letter to the centre demanding strict action against Johnrose Austin Jayalal, accusing him of using the Covid-19 pandemic to convert patients to Christianity.
Filed complaint @NMC_IND and @MoHFW_INDIA seeking revocation of Medical Practitioner’s License of Mr. John Jayalal, President, Indian Medical Association @IMAIndiaOrg as he has openly declared his intention of splitting human beings into Christians and non-Christians. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/P9D5cE9vUP
— Legal Rights Protection Forum (@lawinforce) May 27, 2021
In its complaint, the LRPF sought revocation of Medical Practitioner’s License of IMA President John Jayalal, alleging that the controversial doctor has openly declared his intention of splitting human beings into Christians and non-Christians and converting the latter to Christianity using every available opportunity.
The legal-activist group asked the government to stop all funds to IMA until John Jayalal is removed from his position as President. Dr Johnrose Austin Jayalal was appointed as the national president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) for the year 2020-2021 at its 95th annual national conference held in December 2020.
According to the Communemag report, the LRPF has alleged that the president of the IMA is using his position to propagate Christianity. Instead of treating the Covid-19 pandemic as a humanitarian catastrophe, Dr Jayalal and his team of evangelists were rubbing their hands and treating the pandemic as an opportunity to spread the Gospel in new ways to more and more people, the complaint read.
“This is nothing short of a vulture-like approach to human suffering, death and devastation. In the weakest moments of their life, instead of giving comfort and solace to the suffering millions, Dr Jayalal and his team of rabid evangelists are making grandiose plans to exploit the sufferings of fellow humans by converting them to Christianity. It is also shocking that as a medical doctor, instead of relying on his medical skills, he has chosen to thrust the fear of God into people suffering from the Covid-19 Pandemic,” the complaint filed by LRPF said.
Jayalal claims “Hindu nationalist government” is against modern medicine
The LRPF has pointed out two interviews given by Jayalal where he had expressed strong views about proselytizing Hindus. The complaint mentions Jaylal’s interview with Haggai International, where he says that the “Hindu Nationalist government” wants to destroy modern medicine.
“Please keep this in your international prayers. If everything goes their way, we will not have pure modern medicine courses in India by 2030,” he says in the interview as per the complaint filed by LRPF.
“They want to make it one nation, one system of medicine. Next, they will want to make it one religion. This is also based on the Sanskrit language, which is always traditionally based on Hindu principles. This is an indirect way for the government to introduce the language of Sanskrit and the language of Hindutva into the minds of the people,” Jayalal had said in that interview.
Church takes care of people, not the government: Dr Jayalal
In another interview to Christianity Today, Jayalal had said that it was the Church that took care of the poor people, implying that the government did not do anything.
Further, Jayalal claims that they have been organizing hunger strikes, protests and also simultaneously fighting in the Supreme Court against non-allopathic systems of medicine.
Promoting the proselytizing activities, Jayalal said that Christian doctors should be engaged in both ‘physical’ and ‘spiritual’ healing and called for more Christian doctors to work in secular institutions, mission institutions, and medical colleges.
“I am working as a professor of surgery in a medical college, so it is also a good opportunity for me to carry on the principles of Christian healing there. I also have the privilege of mentoring graduates and the interns,” he said in an interview with Christianity Today.
As per Jayalal, proselytization is easy in India as the country is a polytheistic society. “One of the things we must always remember is that Hinduism or Hindutva is different from other religions because of polytheism. They accept different gods. They have no difficulty in accepting or proclaiming that Jesus is one of the gods or Muhammad is one of the gods. So religious restrictions are less when comparing them with systems of other countries. I personally feel that it is healthy in India,” Jayalal has been quoted saying.
Covid-19’s silver lining is that Christianity is growing: Dr JA Jayalal
In his interview with Christianity Today, Dr Jayalal saw a silver lining in an otherwise dreary and bleak coronavirus outbreak. According to him, despite the hardships, difficulties, and restrictions that came in the wake of the pandemic, Christianity was growing.
“I am able to see, even amid persecution, even amid difficulties, even amid the control by the government, even among the restrictions we face in openly proclaiming the message, by various means and ways, Christianity is growing,” he told CT.
According to Dr. Jayalal, it was only because of people’s unwavering faith in Jesus Christ, a crisis as grave as the coronavirus pandemic had been averted. “It’s only the grace of God Almighty that helps us to get over the crisis and stay safe, and it was his grace that protected us. Through night-time prayers, family prayers, Christians began shifting from materialistic things to blessings in heaven. They began to concentrate more on that,” he said.
Not just Christian evangelism, Dr Jayalal is known to harbour extreme hatred towards the ruling dispensation as he has consistently targeted the leaders of the Bhartiya Janata Party including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath by sharing misleading claims, cartoons and hashtags revealing his ideology.
Here is a glimpseof Jayalal’s social media posts, where he has openly expressed his visceral hate for Hindus, especially PM Modi.
Mehul Choksi, one of the prime accused in PNB fraud case, has now been found in Dominica. He was taken into custody by the authorities and will be repatriated to India. As per reports, he had gone ‘missing’ from Antigua earlier this week where he is a citizen. However, he has since been traced to Dominica.
As per a News18 report, he was spotted in Dominica’s capital city of Roseau at the Canefield beach where he was disposing some documents at the sea. Police got suspicious on seeing him and approached him. When he was asked about his purpose to visit Dominica, he refused to answer. Professional scuba divers are deployed to scour the sea to retrieve the documents he appeared to be getting rid of. He was reportedly planning to flee to Cuba upon arriving illegally in Dominica.
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has agreed to Choksi’s repatriation. As reported by news agency ANI, Browne said he has requested Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit to not return Choksi to Antigua where he has rights as a citizen but instead send him back to India.
Browne said that he was found in Dominica, another country, where he appeared to have entered illegally, possibly by boats. Dominican government is cooperating with Indian and Antiguan governments. Since he does not seem to be a citizen of Dominica, it appears his repatriation to India may be fairly easier. “We will not accept him back. He made a monumental error by skipping island,” he said.
PNB scam
Choksi, along with his nephew Nirav Modi, are accused of perpetrating bank fraud worth Rs 13,600 crore on Punjab National Bank. The fraud came to light in 2018 and he along with his nephew have been on the run since. While Modi is currently in UK, Choksi was in Antigua.
Recently, a UK court had ruled that his nephew Nirav Modi will be extradited to India from UK to face charges of conspiring to defraud PNB. Choksi faces charges of criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating and dishonesty, including delivery of property, corruption and money laundering.
Social media websites are awash with an old video of a popular rapper MC Kode wherein he is seen abusing Hindu beliefs and Hindu epics.
A short clip of the video, which was released on YouTube on 12 June 2016, suddenly started doing the rounds on the internet after it was discovered that rapper MC Kode, also known as Aditya Tiwari, had made deprecating remarks against Hindus in it. The video is about a rap battle between two contestants in which MC Kode is seen insulting the Hindu epic of Mahabharata and the cow, an animal considered sacred according to Hinduism.
“…If you are a Hindu, I will f*ck your Gau, I will f*ck your holy cow…I will fu*king masturbate on Mahabharata, Geeta Geeta,” MC Kode says in the video.
I will fu***ing Mas***bate of Mahabharata kya tha wo Geeta Geeta Defaming Hinduism Shrimadbhagavat geeta Want to look cool
— Kartik Shrivastava (@TheOutspokenBoy) May 26, 2021
Aditya Tiwari, who has MC Kode as his stage name, is a rap artist based out of New Delhi. For years, he has been hosting, participating, and judging rap battles across many states, including Mumbai, Gujarat, Guwahati, Jaipur, Uttar Pradesh & Haryana.
Stand-up comedians, YouTubers insult Hindus and Hinduism
Of late, abusing Hindus and Hindu beliefs have become a norm in the country. Be it stand-up comedians, Bollywood artists, YouTubers and now the rap performers, insulting Hindus and mocking their beliefs has been considered as par for the course. Last year, the so-called stand-up comedian Agrima Joshua’s old video had gone viral in which she was seen mocking the memorial built to the revered Hindu icon Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
The viral video spawned a massive controversy as the MNS workers stormed the studio where the gig was performed and vandalised it. The blowback from the controversy inevitably spilt into the entire stand-up comedian industry, with comedians getting exposed for making crass jokes on Hindus and Hinduism. The criticism led the comedians to deactivate and purge their accounts of past Hinduphobic content for the fear of being brought to reckoning.
In August 2020, an Islamist YouTuber ‘Heer Khan’ released a video wherein she abusedHindu Gods and Goddesses, refers to Goddess Sita as r*ndi and Ayodhya as who*ehouse.
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic had hit the world last year, foreign liberal media has been showing a strange attitude while reporting on India. When India’s infection numbers were lower compared to developed nations like the USA, Italy and the UK, the international left-liberal media had wondered how it can be possible. For them, the low death rate in India due to Covid-19 was a mystery.
One year has passed since then, India has faced the second wave of the pandemic, with more deadly variants of the virus causing increased infection and more deaths. But the western media is not satisfied, they don’t believe the official numbers, believing the actual infection and fatality numbers are much more.
On May 25, New York Times published an article claiming that India’s actual Covid-19 death numbers are exponentially more than the officially published numbers. They predicted that India’s death numbers range between 6 lakh to 42 lakh, against the official number of 3 lakh. The article by Lazaro Gamio and James Glanz also estimated that the total Covid-19 cases in the country should be 40 crore to 70 crore, while the official number is 2.7 crore. Thus, NYT is claiming that India’s Covid-19 positive and death numbers are highly under-reported.
But the entire analysis done in the article is based on ‘estimates’ based on randomly selected numbers, and it does not explain why and how those estimates were made.
The article talks about three likely scenarios, conservative, more likely, and worse scenario. Based on these scenarios, they have estimated 40 crore, 54 crore and 70 crore infections and 6 lakh, 16 lakh and 42 lakh death respectively for each scenario.
NYT uses arbitrarily chosen random numbers
Now, New York Times has not used any statistically relevant theory to arrive at these numbers. They just randomly assumed by what degree the actually infections are more, and calculated the fatality numbers from a similarly arbitrarily assumed fatality rate.
For the ‘conservative’ estimate, they assumed actual infections are 15 times more, and multiplying current number of 2.69 crore on May 24, they arrived at the estimated infections at 40401 million (40.42 crore). After that, they assumed a fatality rate of 0.15%, and decided that estimated deaths should be 6 lakh.
‘Conservative’ estimate of India’s Covid numbers by NYT
What was the basis for increasing infections by 15 times and assuming 0.15% death rate? That is not answered in the report.
‘More likely’ estimate of India’s Covid numbers by NYT
Similarly, for ‘more likely’ and ‘worst’ scenario estimates, they increased infections by 20 and 26 times, and assumed fatality rates of 0.30% and 0.60%, again giving any explanations. They reason that fatality rates go up with higher infections as the healthcare system gets overwhelmed and may people don’t get treatment. While that is true, no reason is given for choosing the rates they have used.
‘Worse’ estimate of India’s Covid numbers by NYT
For each subsequent scenario, they increased infections by higher magnitude, and then used a higher fatality rate to arrive at highly inflated death numbers.
The entire News York Times article is nothing but an exercise of ‘what if’ analysis using simple arithmetic, it does not have any statistical analysis needed to arrive the kind of conclusion they are claiming. It just multiplies the official infection numbers with random numbers, and then further multiplies them with randomly chosen fatality rates to calculate the estimated deaths.
As proof that the entire article is nothing but an arithmetic exercise of multiplying India’s official Covid-19 number with random numbers, the article also included the estimated numbers if the actual cases are 10 times more, and the fatality rate is 0.10%.
‘Unexplained’ estimate of India’s Covid numbers by NYT
There is no accompanying text for this calculation, it does not say what category of scenario it is. If the conservative estimate is 15 times, then what kind of estimate is 10 times, the article does not explain. This is purely a random calculation.
Cites serosurveys but don’t use their numbers
The article says that they relied on the three serosurveys done in India last year. In serosurveys, a small number of people are tested for Covid-19 antibodies, and the from the percentage of people showing the antigen in their bodies, the total infection in the entire population is estimated. The survey is based on the fact that people development antibodies for a pathogen after it is exposed to that pathogen, therefore, people who carried the Covid-19 antibodies was infected with the virus, and their bodies fought the virus without showing any symptoms.
Although the scientific basis for the serosurvey is sound, it suffers from many issues just like any other sample survey, like issues with sample selection, geographical spread of the samples etc. This means, the NYT attempted to debunk official Covid-19 numbers of India using data estimated from surveys.
Moreover, NYT cited three serosurveys, while two of them estimated that actual numbers are 26 and 28 times of actual numbers, one estimated it was 13 times. This is a very wide fluctuation in the numbers, raising doubt whether they can be used for any meaningful estimation.
Even though they have cited the serosurveys, they didn’t use the exact numbers to arrive at the estimates. They only used the 26 times figure for their ‘worst’ analysis as mentioned above. For the rest two, the authors just randomly allotted numbers of 15 and 20 to project the estimated infections without giving any basis for using those numbers.
No basis for death rate estimates
The NYT article has a section titled ‘How we estimated death rates’. While it raised the hope that there is an explanation behind the assumed death rates of 0.15%, 0.30% and 0.60% they have used, actually there was no explanation. They used a misleading title for the section, as it does not say how exactly they estimated the death rates. The section talks about how it is difficult to estimate the death rate as it depends on various factors like the age of the population. It does not contain a single sentence to inform how they estimated the death rates.
Quotes people proven wrong earlier
The article quotes several persons in support of its claim, and one of them is Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. He is the same person who had predicted very high infection numbers for India last year, and after his predictions proved to be inaccurate, he is now peddling the theory that India must be underreporting cases and deaths.
Last year in March, several Indian media houses had interviewed him, where he had claimed that India will face 30 to 50 crore 300 million to 500 million cases by July 2020. By the end of July 2020, India had less than 16 lakh positive cases.
After the claims by is Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, an Indian, proved to be false, the same claims about Covid-19 in India are now being made by foreign authors in a foreign publication. Somehow, it looks like a part of the ongoing efforts by the left liberals to target the Modi govt using international left-wing publications. Suddenly media houses like The New York Times, Washington Post, Time magazine etc are publishing lots of anti-Modi govt articles written by Indian left liberal columnist, and the NYT article on the estimated Covid-19 deaths also looks like the part of the same agenda.
Central govt not responsible for reported deaths
India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi shared the NYT article to attack the Modi govt at the centre. However, what Rahul Gandhi forgets is that the central govt is not responsible for any underreporting of Covid-19 deaths, if any.
Healthcare is a state subject, which means the entire Covid-19 management, along with recording the infection and death numbers, are done by the state govts. And BJP is not in power in all the states, several of them are ruled by non-NDA parties. If Rahul Gandhi thinks that India’s Covid-19 numbers are not real, he is also saying that Congress-ruled states like Punjab, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh etc are also not reporting correct Covid-19 infection and death numbers.
Therefore, if Rahul Gandhi believes the NYT numbers, he should tweet, ‘Numbers don’t lie, state governments in India do’.
‘Shaky’ record keeping system?
Showing the racist attitude of the white authors, the article also claims that ‘the system for keeping vital records in India is shaky at best’, while arguing that India’s Covid-19 numbers are not correct. Like always, they forget that India is a major IT powerhouse, and the country had developed a robust IT infrastructure to track the pandemic at its earlier stages. According to ICMR protocols, all testing laboratories are required to report Covid test results at the ICMR database. The agency has even taken steps to record the results of home testing after the self-testing kit ‘Coviself’ was approved. Users taking the test using the kit are advised to submit the result at the ICMR Covid1-19 Testing portal.
Therefore, the claim that India’s system of keeping Covid-19 test records is shaky is also completely false.
Similarly, India also has an established system of recording births and deaths, and it is not possible to underreport deaths to a large extent. While some Covid-19 deaths may be recorded as normal deaths, the variation can’t be as large as the NYT report is claiming. Today, families need to register the death of their family members due to various reasons like inheritance, financial, insurance etc. Therefore, most deaths are recorded, even if they don’t take place in hospitals.
The government respects the right of privacy and has no intention to violate it when WhatsApp is required to disclose the origin of a particular message, the Ministry of Electronics and IT said in a statement on Wednesday after the popular messaging service moved the Delhi High Court challenging the Centre’s new digital rules.
“Such requirements are only in case when the message is required for prevention, investigation or punishment of very serious offences related to the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the state, friendly relations with foreign states, or public order, or of incitement to an offence relating to the above or in relation with rape, sexually explicit material or child sexual abuse material. Right to Privacy is a Fundamental Right,” MeitY said in a press statement.
Whatsapp moves Delhi HC against New Digital Rules
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has filed a case in the Delhi High Court against the Indian government, seeking to block the new IT rules that come into effect from Wednesday, 26 May.
According to the reports, WhatsApp has filed a petition against the Government of India on May 25 in the Delhi High Court protesting against the new IT rules that require “significant social media intermediaries” like WhatsApp to “trace” the origin of particular messages sent on the service.
The petition asks the Delhi High Court to declare that the new rules as null and void as they ‘violate privacy rights guaranteed by the Indian constitution’, as per WhatsApp.
As per the recently notified Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, social media intermediaries with more than 5 million users and providing messaging services will have to enable the identification of the first originator of problematic content that may harm the country’s interests and several other provisions described in the rules.
The social media intermediaries like WhatsApp will have to trace the originator of the content on the basis of a judicial order passed by a court or by a competent authority under section 69 of the IT Act. As per the new Digital Media Ethics Code promulgated by the ministry of information technology, social media intermediaries will lose protection from lawsuits and criminal prosecution if they fail to adhere to the code.
As per the new IT Rules 2021, the digital media platforms will now need to have a larger grievance redressal mechanism, which will include a Chief Compliance Officer, a Nodal Contact Person and a Resident Grievance Officer. Besides, all social media platforms are mandated to publish these details on their apps and websites and explain to users the mechanism in place to make a complaint against any content on the platform. These complaints need to be acknowledged within 24 hours of receipt and these complaints need to be actioned upon within a period of 15 days from the date of receipt.
However, while Whatsapp moved the High Court against the New Digital Rules, its parent company, Facebook on Tuesday, 25 May, had said that it would comply with the provisions of Information Technology rules and was in discussion with the government on a few more issues.
“Pursuant to the IT Rules, we are working to implement operational processes and improve efficiencies. Facebook remains committed to people’s ability to freely and safely express themselves on our platform,” a spokesperson for the company had said.
Taking cognisance of multiple media reports that said police officials had hammered nails in the hands and legs of a man, Bareilly Police on Wednesday refuted the allegations, calling them baseless and concocted.
A senior police officer of the Bareilly Police addressed the media over the incident, stating that the man in question is still on the run and allegations of nails being drilled in his hands and legs are completely baseless. He is accused of misbehaving with police officials and violating COVID-19 norms. The officer said the allegations are nothing but a part of the conspiracy hatched by the accused to malign the police and escape arrest.
“The incident pertains to the Baradari area where a man named Ranjit had accused police officials of hammering nails in his hands and legs. A probe had been conducted in this regard and it has come to fore that on May 24 this man was roaming around without a mask. He even indulged in misbehaving with the police officers who accosted him for breaking COVID-19 protocols,” the officer said.
He further added, “The man was booked under Sections 323, 504, 506, 332, 353, 178, 269 and others of the Indian Penal Code. He had managed to escape from the location. Last night, the police raided his house to arrest him. But he was not found in his house.”
The police stated that the accused Ranjit was never placed in custody for the current incident that happened on May 24, but had managed to flee from the scene. He has recently surfaced with nails on his hand and leg claiming the police did it to him, which is completely false.
The police officer also revealed that the man in question was a history-sheeter and had served jail time in connection with a 2019 case in which he was convicted for damaging the idols in a temple.
“The accused had served jail time before. He is making false allegations to escape the arrest. The man has been on the run ever since he misbehaved with the police officials on May 24. We are constantly on the lookout for him. Therefore, the allegations of police hammering nails in his hands and legs are completely baseless and untrue,” the police officer said.
The police have stated that the nail shown on his hand was hammered there by the culprit himself to escape arrest and concoct a story of police brutality.
Ranjit’s family claims police thrashed their son and drilled nails in his hands and legs
An article published in Dainik Bhaskar quoted Ranjit and his family to accuse the police of indulging in brutality. The family members claimed Ranjit was sitting outside his house when the police came and took him to the police station. The police thrashed him and hammered nails in his hands and legs, the family had claimed.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) headed by Dr Johnrose Austin Jayalal, most noted for issuing letters after letters, has launched yet another scathing attack on Yog Guru Baba Ramdev by filing a Rs 1000 crore defamation case over his statements dissing allopathy. Indian Medical Association is the country’s largest professional council of healthcare personnel.
This comes after Baba Ramdev had fired 25 questions at the IMA demanding permanent cure and treatments for common ailments.
However, it is imperative to note that this is not the first time Baba Ramdev has come under fire by the IMA especially their head Dr Jayalal. Not just slamming Ramdev, but Dr Jayalal is a habitual Ayurveda and BJP hater as well.
Here’s what his social media profile looks like
While one might think that a social media profile of a Doctor heading a medical organization would talk about healing, cures and medical advancements, one will be taken by surprise upon viewing Dr Jayalal’s Twitter profile.
Dr Jayalal has consistently targeted the leaders of the Bhartiya Janta Party including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath by sharing news (some even fake), cartoons and hashtags revealing his ideology.
Image Source: Twitter
As can be seen, Dr Jayalal shares frequent anti-Modi posts and cartoons to take a dig at the PM. As head of the IMA, he has made his political leanings quite clearly. What is to say that his statements do not reflect his ideology?
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The Christian doctor has been actively and aggressively hounding Baba Ramdev and his company since the onset of the pandemic for his contribution against the battle. From calling him a quack to discrediting Ayurveda completely, Dr Jayalal has been at it since quite a while. Ayurvedic medicines as well as Yoga over centuries have been proven to help patients with chronic illnesses along with other medical science. For one to work, other need not be totally discredited.
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He has also led concerted attacks on the Ayush Mantralaya and was the one who initiated protests against the Centre allowing Ayurveda practitioners to perform surgery. Calling it a ‘SayNoToMixopathy’ campaign, he spent months giving interviews, lectures and seminars slandering Ayurveda under the garb of the new rule amidst the raging pandemic.
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The IMA doctors went on a hunger strike to protest the new notification and even held ‘meme and poster’ contests thereby distributing ‘gifts’ to the winners to fuel the protests. A worrisome screenshot shared by Dr Jayalal himself reveals how a plan was being brewed to make it an anti- Farm Bills like protest since “nothing could happen from this hunger strike.”
Dr Jayalal also extended support to the farmers’ protest wanting to show the government in a poor light.
Image Source: Twitter
His other retweets also show similar mindset.
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Dr Jayalal wants to promote family medicine
Nothing could be more ironic than the Christian doctor wanting to protest one ‘holistic medical treatment’ by promoting another ‘holistic healing’ method.
Dr Jayalal in his interview with Christianity Today made absolutely shocking and bizarre statements while talking of his plan to use the Indian Medical Association to plant more Christian doctors.
Some startling remarks made by Dr Jayalal in this interview include:
The doctor who has been running a campaign to advocate “real science” said, “It’s only the grace of God Almighty that helps us to get over the crisis and stay safe, and it was his grace that protected us.”
“I am able to see, even amid persecution, even amid difficulties, even amid the control by the government, even among the restrictions we face in openly proclaiming the message, by various means and ways, Christianity is growing,” he told CT. CT later on edited out this portion.
Disdain for Ayurveda
Dr Jayalal said that the government has faith in Ayurveda because of their cultural value and traditional belief in the Hindutva.
“The government of India, because of their cultural value and traditional belief in the Hindutva, believes in a system called Ayurveda. For the last three or four years, they have tried to replace modern medicine with this. Now, starting in 2030, you will have to study this alongside Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, homoeopathy, yoga, and naturopathy,” Dr Jayalal said.
Dr Jayalal contends the renewed focus on the Sanskrit language is a way through which the government wants to introduce the language of Hindutva into the minds of the people.
“This (Ayurveda, Unani, homoeopathy, yoga etc.) is also based on the Sanskrit language, which is always traditionally based on the Hindu principles. This is an indirect way for the government to introduce the language of Sanskrit and the language of Hindutva into the minds of the people,” Dr Jayalal had said in an interview with Christianity Today.
Claims God saved India from the pandemic
“I personally feel God must have been distracted with the US and now he is focusing on India, and he is having some grace on us in India [laughing]. So we want to proclaim the message that it is the grace of God, and it is not by our power, not by our might, but by the grace of God along with the good health care delivery system, that we are getting that positive response,” he claimed.
IMA chief aims to cultivate more people to accept Christianity
Dr Jayalal had revealed, “After this lockdown, may God’s grace cultivate more people to look into the church as the place of blessings for them…Indian Christians can practice the message of the goodness of God Almighty and the hope of salvation in their life.”
In an interview, when asked what is Christian community’s relationship with Hindu nationalists, Dr Jayalal suggested that Hindus should accept Jesus and Muhammad as their Gods because their religion is based on polytheism. Since Hindus believe in multiple Gods, Dr Jayalal believes it is not difficult for them to exhibit tolerance and internalise Christian and Islamic practices.
“One of the things we must always remember is that Hinduism or Hindutva is different from other religions because of polytheism. They accept different gods. They have no difficulty in accepting or proclaiming that Jesus is one of the gods or Muhammad is one of the gods. So religious restrictions are less when comparing them with systems of other countries. I personally feel that it is not that difficult in India,” Dr Jayalal said.
On promoting “family medicine”
“As a Christian, one opportunity which I was able to include in the medical association is the concept of family medicine. I feel this is a good opportunity to lead the country with an example of Christianity under the principles of servant leadership. Though Christians make up less than 2.5 to 3 percent of the population in this country, as a Christian doctor, I have the privilege to lead this organization. I pray to God Almighty to give me the wisdom, knowledge, and courage to lead this country in the medical profession,” he added.
Use hospitals to convert Hindus to Christianity
Dr Jayalal had claimed that Christian doctors are blessed with a special ability to provide “holistic healing”, which includes spiritual, mental and social healing.
“Normally in the medical profession, we talk about the physical curing. But as a Christian, I believe we are not just here to physically cure, but God Almighty has called us to give holistic healing, which includes the spiritual healing, the mental healing, and the social healing,” he had said.
What Dr Jayalal is implying here is that by the virtue of their faith, Christian doctors are gifted with a paranormal ability to effect just not physical curing but mental and spiritual healing as well. He then goes on to say more Christian doctors are required to work more in secular institutions, mission institutions, and medical colleges, who can impart “Christian healing” to the patients.
If Dr JA Jayalal’s utterances are to be believed, he harbours missionary zeal to convert the weak and the vulnerable to Christianity in “secular organisations” that he serves and has contempt for Hindu nationalism and the Government of India.
Further, he said that the coronavirus pandemic has provided “the urgent need of the proclamation of the Gospel to people who are suffering from the virus has allowed us to share the Gospel even in secular institutions”.
The modus operandi
Dy Jayalal in the interview said, “We need more Christian doctors to work more in secular institutions, mission institutions, and medical colleges. I am working as a professor of surgery in a medical college, so it is also a good opportunity for me to carry on the principles of holistic healing there. I also have the privilege of mentoring graduates and the interns.”
Dr Jayalal is also a member of the Christian Medical Association Of India, Good Samaritan Club and Red Cross Society Of India as per his website.
Former IAS officer Samir Singh Chandel recently penned an article on Shekhar Gupta’s The Print, arguing in favor of the VVIP culture that has been abolished by the Modi government. The retired bureaucrat lamented that the removal of red beacons from cars has severely dented the motivation of IAS officers to carry out their duties. However, it has now come to the fore that the former bureaucrat was notorious for remaining absent from work for months on end.
In a writ petition filed in 2019, the State of Rajasthan had accused the former bureaucrat of repeatedly skiving off from work. The petition, which was published in a Times of India report, said Chandel had become a “problematic bureaucrat” for the state government. He was allegedly missing from service for 20 months. The report further said Chandel was unceremoniously returned by the central government where he had gone for deputation.
In 2001, Chandel did not report for the job for a full 294 days. When he returned to work and reported the matter’s personnel department, he was transferred to the administrative reforms department. However, Samir hardly worked for 2 to 3 days and had again gone missing.
“In the past 20 months, he has been sending leave applications without confirming whether his leave applications have been accepted or not. Singh has been stating reasons of either his IAS wife Shubhra Singh or his own illness for being absent. Often he has written that wife Shubhra was hospitalised. The personnel department sent him a registered notice on October 21, 2002, asking him the reasons for his leave and also on what account he was on continuous leave. The registered letter returned without being delivered with a comment ‘addressee not found’,” the petition said.
Besides, the article further said that Samir was facing several charges and a report has also been filed at a Jaipur police station against him on charges of non-payment and other irregularities. Samir was allegedly involved with a financial company, which was run by his relatives. Many people claimed they deposited their money thinking it to be Samir’s company, which later stopped its operations. The company owes them several lakhs.
Samir Singh Chandel proffers bizarre arguments in his article to The Print to defend bureaucrats for their inadequacies
The accusations of Chandel skipping work comes against the background of a recent article written by him in The Print in which he made bizarre arguments to blame the Indian government for the incompetence of the system.
In his article, Chandel said, “The system of accountability for civil servants to the elected representatives is based on two assumptions, which are both inherently flawed. The first assumption is that public representatives would be motivated to work out of a sense of public service. But the reality is that political activity has turned into a commercial enterprise. People invest huge amounts of resources in order to secure election victories. All political parties of India are now populated with petty, medium contractors, not leaders oriented towards public service.”
Then, he proceeds to add, “The second assumption is that people’s representatives will actually represent the people who elect them. In a situation where the spirit of service is gone, there is now a desire to ‘profit’ from an earlier investment. Therefore, representatives are more likely to prioritise commercial interests, rather than the needs of the public.”
The article written by Chandel was replete with absurd arguments to blame the central government and absolve the bureaucracy of any shortcomings. At one instance in the article, Chandel contended that the lack of motivation among the civil servants is because the government had taken away their laal batti (red beacon). He lambasted the government for stripping the red beacon, which he claimed brought prestige and authority to the civil servants.
The author wrote, “One of the first actions of the Modi government was to remove the mandatory requirement of sanctions to prosecute civil servants, a feature that stripped any sense of legal protection available to them. This was followed by the removal of so-called ‘Red Beacons’, the only vestige of authority and prestige that was available to civil servants, in the field.”
“In the absence of prestige and authority, officers lose their initiative and drive. In various state governments, the office of district magistrate has been reduced to a glorified post office that receives instructions from various government departments and passes them on to field officers,” Chandel had added.
India has many ancient traditions that are fascinating and interesting. On the other hand, some western journalists and western-influenced so-called media persons often find these traditions bizarre. So much so, they are often unable to digest the fact that a single religion, Hinduism, can have different traditions to deal with dead bodies. From cremation to burials, the rituals change every few miles that confuse them even more.
The tradition of burying dead bodies in Hinduism
One such lesser-known tradition is to bury the dead alongside Ganga’s banks in some locations of Uttar Pradesh. Before 1988, the tradition of immersing dead bodies in Ganga was popular among the masses as they were deemed unfit for cremation. However, Supreme Court ruled against the practice and deemed it illegal to immerse dead bodies in the river.
There can be several reasons which make a dead body unfit for cremation according to tradition, such as if the person died of a snake bite, if it was an infant, if the person had some skin disease or if the person was a Sadhu. In these cases, it is advised, as per traditions, to bury the dead body.
Similarly, in some families, they do not cremate anyone but bury them alongside Ganga banks in shallow graves. These graves are then covered with bamboo sticks and Ram Naam Clothes that are considered sacred. Shringverpur Ghat and Phaphamau Ghat in Prayagraj are famous for such burials. In recent times, amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the media houses that are filled with reports that are totally disconnected from the Hindu traditions suddenly found these Ghats.
While such burials always took place on riverbanks at some places, the media splashed the images of such burial sites as the victims of Covid-19. Unable to cremate the bodies, they were forced to burry them, the media reports claimed, unaware of the facts.
CM Yogi Adityanath talked about the tradition
Though there is no denial in the fact that the number of deaths due to Covid-19 has increased exponentially during the second wave, it is not proper to connect a traditional practice to own propaganda. On May 26, Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh, shared a report by Jagran and said, “When there was no corona, three years ago the images were same on the Ghats.” The report that Jagran published talked in detail about the tradition in some Hindu families where dead bodies are buried at Ganga Ghat.
— Yogi Adityanath Office (@myogioffice) May 26, 2021
The half-baked narrative of liberal media
Though some of them might be aware of the reality, it was taken as a great opportunity to demean state and union government. On May 24, alleged journalist Barkha Dutt who runs a Youtube channel named Mojo Story, published a report in which visuals of one such Ghat were shown with several dead bodies buried in shallow graves. The narration of the report mentioned, “While some came flowing in the river, some were found buried in the sand on the Ghats.” The report further claimed that over 1000 bodies were washed up the shores while showing buried bodies on the Ghat.
The report showed as if these people were denied proper cremation for some reason, let it be a shortage of money or Covid. Another video report published by the Channel had Barkha herself narrating how these bodies were “discovered,” and it was no less than a shock for her. She said, “Yes, we are not saying that [burials] does not happen, but every Ghat I have reported now in UP, locals have testified that there is a surge in the bodies buried in shallow graves.”
Most of the photographs of buried bodies are from 2018
The report suggested that the photographs that are being shared on social media platforms were mostly from 2018, when the work of beautification of Ghats was underway amidst preparations for Kumbh 2019. The photographs were clicked by photojournalist Mukesh Kanaujia of Jagran. They quoted an 85-years-old priest Rammurat Mishra who said that he had seen such burials since childhood. “Those who had skin disease or were bitten by a snake are buried here. Some families, both rich and poor, have a tradition of burying the dead.” According to another local, his family has a tradition of choosing their site of burial.
A video of photojournalist Mukesh Kanaujia also surfaced in which he said there are more dead bodies, but that does not mean it is something that happened recently. He said, “When he was asked to cover the burials on Ganga Ghats, he noticed thousands of such burials. That time there was no corona. It is a tradition in some families that they bury their loved ones after death.”
On May 17, Inspector General of Police (Prayagraj Range) KP Mishra refuted the claim of an increase in such burials in recent times. He told Times of India that all Covid bodies were cremated and not buried at Phaphamau Ghat. He said, “We have deployed policemen, Jal Police, and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) for patrolling of river banks to ensure no bodies are immersed in the Ganga and Yamuna, nor is anybody buried in the sand on the river banks. Our teams have been patrolling Chatnaag, Phaphamau, and Shringverpur ghats round the clock and keeping strict vigil.”
When he was asked about the families who did not have money for cremation, he said, “Our teams have also been assisting those who do not have funds for a proper funeral. People are sensitive, and they heed on being told that the practice pollutes holy rivers.”
Media vultures are polluting the environment
The vultures, the birds that feed on the dead, are known to clean the environment. But, the vultures in media are functioning on the contrary by polluting the minds of the readers by showing them misleading and half-baked reports. What could be “shocking” or “bizarre” for the liberal and western section of the media is one of the many traditions and rituals that Hindus follow while performing the last rites of their loved ones.
