The Supreme Court on Tuesday served notice to the Madhya Pradesh state government seeking a response from Kamal Nath government by Wednesday on the plea of former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan seeking a direction to conduct an immediate floor test on the floor of the assembly. The notice was also served to the Speaker, Principal Secretary of assembly and the Governor. The matter will be listed on Wednesday at 10.30 AM.
In the plea, BJP had stated that the Congress Government in Madhya Pradesh led by Kamal Nath has “lack of confidence” and his government has been “reduced to a minority.” “It has no moral, legal, democratic or constitutional right to remain in power even for a single day. All possible attempts are being made by the Hon’ble Chief Minister to convert his minority government into the majority by giving all possible threats, allurements to the members of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. The horsetrading is at its peak. Therefore, it is essential that floor test is conducted on 16.3.2020 itself as already directed by Hon’ble Governor, so that it becomes absolutely clear as to whether the Hon’ble Chief Minister continues to enjoy the confidence of the majority of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha,” the plea stated.
Meanwhile, former CM and BJP stalwart Shivraj Singh Chauhan accused the Kamal Nath government of employing “pressure and allurement” tactics to save it from falling. Chouhan’s statement came hours after the apex court asked the state government to give by Wednesday its response to his plea seeking a direction for an immediate floor test.
On Monday, soon after the Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, NP Prajapati, adjourned the assembly in view of coronavirus outbreak, without ordering a floor test and reportedly defying the directions of Governor Lalji Tandon, BJP had moved Supreme Court against the decision.
On 16th March, Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon wrote to the Chief Minister of MP, Kamal Nath, ordering a floor test to prove majority on 17th March 2020. In a strongly worded letter, the Governor rebuked Kamal Nath and said that despite asking him to prove majority on the floor on 16th, it was not done.
Every year, thousands of enthusiastic Indians queue up to be a part of MTV Roadies, a reality TV show involving travel, drama, adventure and a touch of voyeurism. The selection of the candidates hinges upon the discretion of a set of sanctimonious jury members who evaluate the contestants based on their moral uprightness, integrity, skills, capabilities and other unique characteristics.
The contestants, in their bid to appear distinct from the horde and brighten their prospects of selection, embellish their responses to jury’s questions with either scandalising choices or stark admissions about specific incidents in their lives or when asked about their reaction on a particular scenario.
In one such incident recently, one of the contestant raised the heckles of the jury members when he claimed of hitting his girlfriend for her disloyalty. The contestant remorselessly claimed that in the fit of anger he slapped his ex-girlfriend after he came to know that she dated 5 other men simultaneously along with him. Flustered by this admission, one of the jury members and gang leader Neha Dhupia hectored the Roadies contestant for apparently hitting his former girlfriend for cheating on him behind his back.
The candid admission by the contestant did not sit well with Neha Dhupia who lost her cool on the contestant for resorting to violence against his ex-girlfriend for her infidelity. Defending the girl, Dhupia blasted at the contestant saying, “What you are saying that she went out with not one but 5 other boys, listen to me, it’s her choice. Maybe the problem lies with you. Nobody gives you a right to slap a girl.”
Soon after Neha’s video of outburst against the contestant went viral, she was at the receiving end of criticism by many social media users who accused Dhupia of being a hypocrite and highlighted her tranquil behaviour when a female contestant in one of the previous editions of the Roadies show proudly claimed that she had hit 4 men. Netizens were unsparing in calling out Neha’s duplicity, calling her a “fake feminist” who outrages over a man hitting a woman but discreetly accedes to a woman hitting a man.
In addition, social media users were also merciless in pointing out to an earlier video in which Dhupia had evidently acknowledged having cheated on her boyfriend.
In the Roadies audition when Neha Dhupia rebukes the contestant for slapping his unfaithful girlfriend, another jury member, Nikhil Chinapa, joins in Dhupia to lambast the contestant for his violent demeanour against the girl. When the contestant attempts to explain his actions, an apoplectic Chinapa walks up to him hurling abuses at him. The contestant tries to defend himself saying that if he’s loyal to someone, he would expect the same from his partner as well. But, Nikhil tries to provoke him asking him to mirror his anger in front of him.
While Chinapa passed moralising sermons against the use of violence to express one’s disappointment, Twitter users promptly dredged up an old video from obscurity where he was seen slapping a Roadies contestant to remind Chinapa to practice what he preaches before mouthing off platitudes to others. Just as abuse in relationship, physical or emotional, is wrong, so is bullying and public humiliation to make a point.
mf @nikhilchinapa who gave you the licence to slap a contestant..? mf you say no to violence? even if he didn’t perform well do you have the fcuking right to slap him? pic.twitter.com/lcZ6qZFq2Q
This incident added fuel to the fire as the Twitter users appeared more infuriated than impressed with the jury members’ selective display of conniption against the contestants’ perceived immoral behaviour. Users drew out the contrast between the jury members’ disposition towards abusing and deriding a contestant for resorting to violence and maintaining a stoic silence over the incidents of violence exhibited by the fellow members of the jury.
Roadies show has a long and unremitting tradition of hurling expletives and abuses against the contestants by Roadie judges. This morally depraved tradition was pioneered by none other than the founder of the Roadies TV show Raghu Ram, for whom it was a habit to vent his spleen by abusing contestants whose views did not conform with his blinkered worldview. There have been umpteen instances when Raghu had subjected the contestants to relentless abuses and ignominy along with manhandling. However, his associate jury members simply watched over the whimsical Raghu on his meltdown.
In another incident, Roadies judge Prince Narula had gotten embroiled in a heated argument with one of the contestants, following which he slapped him. However, none of the judges-Neha Dhupia, Nikhil Chinapa or others hauled Narula over the coals for his blatant act of aggression.
In one of the episodes of previous editions of Roadies, then judge Karan Kamra was seen landing a resounding slap on a contestant’s cheek after he seemed perturbed by the contestant’s response. However, not one of the remaining judges raised their objection to Kundra’s act of violence. While Neha watched Kundra thwacking the contestant, Rannvijay Singh was seen silently appreciating Kundra’s action.
Roadies judge himself slaps a contestant & now MF @nikhilchinapa says violence shouldn’t be done no matter what.
From being an adventure reality TV show, Roadies has now devolved into a pitiable cringe-worthy show whose jury members have a bloated sense of entitlement, believing themselves to be a cut above the world and a false sense of notion that they are exempted from being evaluated by the same token as the contestants. While they sermonise others on having strong moral probity and subject contestants to higher standards of propriety, their own conduct hardly conforms to the virtuous ideals they put the contestants through.
A photograph of Baba Ramdev admitted in a hospital is being circulated on social media with the claim that the yoga guru had to be hospitalised after he overdosed on cow urine. But no such thing has happened, and an old photograph is being circulated to mock Baba Ramdev using the cow urine drink jibe, which is a favourite tool used by Jihadi terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists to mock Hindus.
The photo shows a weak-looking Baba Ramdev in a hospital, surrounded by several people including doctors. A Twitter user (@rehman_5) shared the photo claiming that he drank “too much cow urine to show resistance power to corona virus”.
Similar claims were made by many other users, including users named ‘Areba Noor Wazir’ and ‘Bleed Green’ who identify themselves on Twitter as a Pakistani Muslims.
To avoid the Coronavirus Virus, Baba Ramdev from India was hospitalised after taking an overdose of Cow Urine ?? pic.twitter.com/EzB9GUmBYC
Using the photograph to do a reverse image search on the Internet shows that the photograph is from 2011, when the health of Baba Ramdev had deteriorated following a hunger strike. The photograph was published by India Today in June 2011, which says that Baba Ramdev was admitted to the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences on Friday after his condition deteriorated at his ashram in Haridwar. He was on a fast for nine days to protest against corruption and black money issues, after which he was hospitalised.
The Photograph was taken on June 12, 2011, when Baba Ramdev had broken the fast after staying two days at the hospital. He had broken the fast on the appeal of spiritual leaders.
Debunking the misleading claims on March 5, the official spokesperson of Baba Ramdev, Tijarawala SK, said, “This is stupid and shameful. He (Ramdev) is perfectly healthy. He has been interviewed by several news channels in the past 2 days. Today he is travelling to Bangalore.”
Therefore, the claim that Baba Ramdev has been hospitalised recently for overdosing on cow urine is false.
The spiritual leader has often been the target of fake news. Earlier, an activist doctor had posted a confidential medical report of a private individual to falsely claim that the associate of Baba Ramdev consumes ganja (Marijuana). Dr Anand Rai, who is known as a whistleblower of the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, posted the copy of a medical test report on his verified Twitter handle making the claim.
Dr Rai is close to senior Congress leaders, who wanted to contest Madhya Pradesh assembly elections in 2018 on a congress ticket. In the medical report that he posted on Twitter, the name of the patient is mentioned as Acharya Balgovind Ji, and the report indicates that urine test of the person is positive THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), which is an active ingredient of Marijuana.
Many former judges have joined politics post their retirement. That is nothing new. So, why are we hyping the nomination of former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha and calling his judgments partial?
Yesterday, President Kovind nominated former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha. Ranjan Gogoi was the 46th Chief Justice of India who is credited for passing many a fearless judgment. He is also the one who helped us solve the centuries-old political and religious dispute of the Ram Janmabhoomi before he retired! He also was responsible for allowing women to enter Kerala’s Sabrimala temple.
Before I address the social media frenzy over the appointment of former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha, we need to understand the role and importance of the nominated members in the Rajya Sabha. Article 80 (1)(a) when read with Article 80 (3) of the Constitution of India provides that the President can nominate 12 members to the upper house of the parliament i.e. Rajya Sabha, that has 250 members in all. These members shall be from amongst persons who have special knowledge or practical experience in respect of such matters as literature, science, art, and social service.
The reason behind these nominations is that distinguished people who have the experience and have prospered in their respective fields can serve the country without having to undergo the grueling election process. Nomination to the Rajya Sabha is not just a recognition of their merit but it also will help the parliament in terms of adding knowledge and diversity during the debates and discussions. If I may quote our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in one of his addresses in Lok Sabha on the 13th of May 1953, “They do not represent political parties or anything, but they represent really the high watermark of literature or art or culture or whatever it may be”.
Former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s appointment to the Rajya Sabha has caused quite a furor on social media who have now questioned the independence of the judiciary. The opposition leaders have also hinted that all the “judgments” passed by former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi in favor of the government were done in exchange for this Rajya Sabha seat. But, I think they forgot that the father of Ranjan Gogoi is Kesab Chandra Gogoi who was a Congress leader and he had also served as the Chief Minister of Assam for two months in the year 1982. As of the Ayodhya verdict, wasn’t it a unanimous verdict of a 5 judge bench which consisted of Justice Bobde (our present Chief Justice of India), Justice Chandrachud (Our future Chief justice of India), Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer? Similarly, wasn’t Rafale a verdict of a three-judge bench?
No judge in a judicial bench can determine the judgment alone. Also, none of the judgments can be politically motivated or be done to one’s whims and fancies. All judgments are the courts’ decision of the rights and liabilities of the party in a legal action or proceeding. The judgments also need to include the reason for a particular decision being taken. It gives you all the reasons as to how the judicial bench came to the final conclusion. And to say the least, all of the judgments should uphold our law of the land, the Constitution of India. So, to say that our judgments are partial is basically disregarding the Constitution of India. Just because a judicial bench delivers an unpopular judgement doesn’t make them partial. All those judgments are legally and constitutionally viable and will be added to precedents for the future!
As for former judges being a part of the political system doesn’t violate any legal or constitutional provisions. Actually, there are no provisions for the same. And before our oppositions point fingers at us, there have been many ex-judges who have joined political parties in the past, including their own party. We have seen Retired judge Justice Abhay Thipsay join the Indian National Congress in 2018. There are many more such cases in the past like Chief Justices of India Ranganath Misra and P Sathasivam, Justices Baharul Islam, KS Hegde, Vijay Bahuguna and M Rama Jois who have joined different parties across the spectrum post their tenures as judges.
If I may remind my readers of another incident. It is the infamous story of Justice Baharul Islam. He was first elected to the Rajya Sabha as a member of the Indian National Congress in 1972. Then he resigned from the Rajya Sabha to become a judge in the Gauhati High Court. After he retired as the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court, he was made a judge in the Supreme Court! This was absolutely unprecedented! He had passed a judgement absolving the then Congress Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra in the urban cooperative bank scandal. He then resigned from the Supreme Court and contested elections as a Congress candidate and was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha. I think this incident got buried as history was being written by the biased historians!
But here, Justice Gogoi hasn’t even joined a party. He just is a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. So, I guess it is just unnecessary sensationalization of the appointment of former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha just to win a few viral posts and some social-media hype!
Lucknow police registered a fresh FIR against 22 people and 100-150 unidentified persons on Monday for allegedly rioting, damaging Ghanta Ghar (Clock Tower) monument and raising “inciting slogans” against the police and administration in connection with the Lucknow anti-CAA riots in December last year.
The FIR read that several women defaced and damaged the historical Ghanta Ghar monument and organised an illegal protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at the spot on January 17, 2020.
According to the FIR, two persons who were out on bail in connection with the December 19 arson and rioting in the state were felicitated by the protestors at Ghanta Ghar on Saturday.
On March 14 (Saturday), two of the 57 people, whose photographs have been plastered across the city by the administration for recovery of money for the damage to public properties, were felicitated by the protesters at Ghanta Ghar.
“An illegal protest against CAA and NRC is going on by some women and women’s organisations at Lucknow’s Ghanta Ghar, which is in a heritage zone. These people are damaging the beauty of the monument by hijacking the stairs there and by putting nails in the walls there for their posters and banners. Encouraged by these women, several men are also raising inciting slogans against police and the government. These acts are affecting the parks and environment around Ghanta Ghar. There are a lot of tourist spots and religious places near Ghanta Ghar and several tourists from the country and outside come there. We have also received complaints from tourists of misbehaviour, fights and looting by those protesting. The complaints are under investigation,” the FIR registered on a complaint of Pramod Kumar Mishra, Station House Officer of Thakurganj police station stated.
Police said that two accused named in the FIR registered on Monday, Ebad Khan and Nitin Raj, have been arrested. In the last seven days, Uttar Pradesh police have arrested 23 people involved in the Lucknow anti-CAA riots perpetrated in December last year. Moreover, action against 27 people has been taken under the Gangster Act.
The Lucknow police on March 14 imposed the the “Gangster Act” against those arrested for violence during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on December 19 last year.
On lines of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, groups of Muslim women with children had squatted near the Ghanta Ghar (Clock Tower) in Lucknow’s old quarters protesting against CAA, NRC on December 19, last year. Despite efforts by the police, the women have refused to budge from the site.
Besides Delhi, protests had unfolded in several parts of the country over the Citizenship Amendment Law since it was passed on December 11 and has led to clashes at several places including Uttar Pradesh.
In a strange turn of events, ‘journalist’ Swati Chaturvedi today attacked Islamist Rana Ayyub for her insensitive tweet on the coronavirus outbreak in India.
What is left for a virus to kill in a morally corrupt nation
On 16th March, Ayyub took to Twitter to say out aloud that everyone in India is so ‘dead’ from inside because of being morally corrupt, what can a virus kill. As many as 126 people including foreign nationals have been tested positive in India for the COVID-19 coronavirus. This has resulted in three deaths till now. States have been taking precautionary measures to contain the spread of the disease. The bizarre rant as the world battles the pandemic made people call out her hate.
Swati Chaturvedi, an abusive troll herself masquerading as a journalist, called Ayyub a ‘disgusting person’.
Rana Ayyub ‘vile person’
She tweeted another tweet referring to Ayyub as as person having empathy of a doorknob and called her a vile person. Furthering her attack on Ayyub, Chaturvedi said she feels sorry for those who consider her a ‘journalist’.
I feel sorry for those who mistake Ms Ayyub for a journalist. She’s a dodgy opportunist sans any rigour https://t.co/YQQZjWrk1x
But then it seems Chaturvedi pointed out Ayyub that she was factually incorrect somewhere after which Ayyub blocked her.
Rana Ayyub claims to have exposed the Gujarat riots cover up of @PMOIndia by the CBI. Yet the “Tehelka” journalist thought the CBI reports to the home ministry. Ms Ayyub blocked me here when I told her that the CBI does not report to Rajnath Singh. ?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has praised India’s efforts in containing the spread of coronavirus that has claimed around 7000 lives and infected 1.82 lac people worldwide. The virus that originated from Wuhan, China has affected 125 people in India, leading to 3 casualties so far.
The representative of WHO to India, Henk Bekedam said, “The commitment from the Indian government and the Prime Minister’s Office has been enormous, very impressive. It is one of the reasons why India is still doing quite well. I am very impressed that everyone has been mobilised.”
He added, “We have very good research capacity in India and especially at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and department of health research. They have been able to identify the virus. Now India will continue to be part of the research community.”
Henk Bekedam, WHO Representative to India on #Coronavirus: The commitment from Indian govt, the Prime Minister’s Office has been enormous, very impressive. It is one of the reasons why India is still doing quite well. I am very impressed that everyone has been mobilised. pic.twitter.com/RtNSMTsiag
“We have a simple message to all countries – test, test, test. All countries should be able to test all suspected cases, they cannot fight this pandemic blindfolded.” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had said earlier.
India had become the fifth country in the world after Japan, Thailand, USA and China to successfully isolate the life-threatening Covid-19 strain. The feat was achieved by the scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune where 11 strains of the Covid-19 were isolated from a patient.
“The strains are the prerequisite for conducting any research related to viruses,” said Raman R. Gangakhedkar, head of the epidemiology and communicable diseases division of the Indian Council of Medical Research. This is hailed as the first step towards the development of drugs and vaccines against the pandemic by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
According to reports, the isolated strain has a 99.98% match with the virus in China’s Wuhan. This significant medical breakthrough will help India in developing a vaccine for the deadly Coronavirus. Although it will still take one and a half to two years to develop a vaccine, even if the trial procedures are expedited.
Following the passage of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which speeds up Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities of the three neighbouring Islamic countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, violent protests had erupted in the national capital and other parts of the country. Following a call of Sharjeel Imam, the radical Islamist and JNU student who is currently arrested on charges of sedition, few women belonging to Muslim community sat on a protest at Shaheen Bagh. They blocked a bus stop and a main road causing severe problems to the public of Delhi. For about three months now, these so-called ‘protesters’ in Shaheen Bagh have blocked one of the busiest thoroughfares in the national capital in protest against the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Even as the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called off all religious, family, social, political or cultural gathering in the wake of threat due to Coronavirus in the national Capital, the iconic Shaheen Bagh ‘protest’ site is not going to get empty anytime soon. The ‘protestors’ have refused to follow the containment orders and decided not to curl off their protest.
The Muslim women sitting there, carrying on the feigned peaceful protest to supposedly save the constitutional rights of the (so-called) minorities in the country by shouting pro-Pakistan and Hinduphobic slogans like “Jinnah Wali Azadi”, demanding another partition of the country, have said blatantly that the protest will go on undeterred and that they will not comply with the Delhi government’s orders.
From what is coming across, the ‘protestors’ present at Shaheen Bagh have made this demonstration more into an ego tussle. As days pass, it is panning out to be indeed not the “right to dissent”, as initially claimed, but an attempt to tyrannize their views on others, which is indeed anti-India and blatantly Hindophobic in nature. And to do so, these protestors are ready to go to any extreme lengths. Even the death of an infant has not deterred these people from carrying out the diabolic agenda.
In one of the most heart-wrenching of recent times, four-month-old infant Mohammed Jahan lost his life after suffering from severe cold and congestion during anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh. However, Nazia, the mother of the four-month-old infant Mohammad Jahan, has been unapologetic about her son’s death. Instead, she had chosen to ignore his death and rejoin the ‘protests’ at the Shaheen Bagh.
A shocking video had also gone viral across social media platforms in which kids are seen holding posters of the four-month-old infant Mohammed Jahan who died at Shaheen Bagh. One of the protestors in the background had claimed that the death of the four-month-old kid was nothing but a ‘Qurbani’ or sacrifice for the anti-CAA movement. They have used small kids, who seem to have no idea regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act, as ‘props’ at these protests.
These unsympathetic and hard-hearted ‘protestors’ seem to have zero respect for public safety and human life. The selfish ‘protestors’ do not care whether their own children are dying. And now, amidst coronavirus outbreak, they will sit in for protests in groups of 45 people to circumvent the Delhi government order prohibiting gathering of 50 or more people. This just goes out to show that they do not care for public health and safety either.
This more so when their protests are misplaced. Their protest against the CAA is not to protect themselves because CAA is not applicable to Indians, Muslims or otherwise. The women are protesting because they do not want the persecuted religious minorities of neighbouring Islamic countries to get faster Indian citizenship. And now after the deaths of the infants, they don’t care whether their selfish ‘protests’ are creating a health hazard.
In a progressive development, the Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way for the Grant of Permanent Commission for women officers in the Indian Navy. The top court said that objecting to a permanent commission for women in the Indian Navy will be gender stereotyping and that there should be no discrimination between men and women on the issue of grant of permanent commission in the Navy.
The Bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud upheld the Delhi High Court order of granting permanent commission to women officers and rejected the Union government’s plea referring to the physiological limitations of women officers in granting a permanent commission marking it as a reflection of gender stereotyping on the part of the government.
The bench ruled that “women officers can sail with the same efficiency as their male counterparts and there should be no discrimination. Denying women officers an opportunity for the permanent commission would result in a serious miscarriage of justice to those SSC women officers who have served the nation.”
The court ruled that the application of permanent commission-based will be considered based on the availability of vacancies and recommendations of Chief of naval staff.
The women officers whose Short Service Commission (SSC) came to an end before 2008 would be deemed to have been considered for Permanent Commission as a one-time measure. Rest, all the service of women officers who are not in service and those who are denied permanent commission shall be deemed pensionable service.
The Bench added that women officers in the Commodore position shall be entitled pensionary benefits and Rs 25 lakh compensation each.
The Court order came as a result of the petition of Union Government against the Delhi High court 2015 order of granting the permanent commission to women officers.
In February this year, the top court had ordered the centre to grant permanent commission to women in the Army and directed to comply with the ruling within three months.
A Permanent Commission entitles an officer to serve in Navy/Army till he/she retires unlike Short Service Commissions (SSC) which is currently of 10 years and will be extended to four more years.
Bengal-based media house The Telegraph, in full display of casteism, has shown its hate for the Dalits. In an article on ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi’s nomination to Rajya Sabha by the President, The Telegraph compared him to ‘covid’.
The Telegraph’s article on ex-CJI Gogoi
“Kovind, not Covid, did it’, the headline read. Covid-19 is a pandemic, a coronavirus disease which has impacted lakhs of people globally as of this moment. In its bid to make a wordplay on President’s name by comparing it to the deadly virus, The Telegraph just hit a new low.
Netizens pointed out how President Ramnath Kovind is a Dalit by caste and comparing him to the virus would be an insult to the Dalits who have been facing years of oppression in India. They expressed disappointment at the way the President was targeted.
Dirty and cheap @ttindia ! Shame! How can you sarcastically compare my president @rashtrapatibhvn with a virus? Becos my president comes from dalit background? @VPSecretariat@PMOIndia pl lock down this @ttindia & arrest the editor under SCST Atrocious act! . Cc; @AmitShah
@TwitterIndia targetted harassment by this verified news outlet @ttindia in a bad manner against the president of India, @rashtrapatibhvn who is a "Dalit". I have already reported this tweet, please have a look. Very unfortunate and sad to see such a low-level propaganda article.
Even as twitterati expressed shock at the horrifying insult to the President, there were others who deemed the headline which insults Dalits ‘brilliant’. Faulty ‘fact-checker’ AltNews Director Nirjari Sinha thought this insult to the Dalits is ‘bold and brilliant’.
The Telegraph takes pride in ‘in your face’ headlines except when it comes to reporting on things happening in its own backyard in West Bengal. The Telegraph is more of an advocacy group than an actual media organization. During the elections, its editor had claimed in an article removing Narendra Modi from power was the only hope for India’s redemption. This is not how a news organization functions or is supposed to function.
If The Telegraph concerned itself more with journalistic integrity and chose to ally itself more with truth instead of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), its standards will without a doubt improve drastically. But it appears the editors of the newspaper will be more willing to accompany Frodo Baggins to Mordor than that. In the meantime, journalism will continue to suffer. Perhaps, The Telegraph can find its spine in Mamata Banerjee’s purse.
