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Late Sheila Dikshit’s daughter Latika slams Congress’ PC Chacko for blaming the party’s election loss on the former CM

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Late Sheila Dikshit’s daughter Latika slams Congress’ PC Chacko for blaming the party’s election loss on the former CM

In a stern reaction to PC Chacko’s statement where he pinned the blame for party’s disastrous performance in Delhi’s recently concluded Assembly polls on former Delhi chief minister and Congress leader late Sheila Dikshit, her daughter Latika Dikshit said that Congress which flaunted Sheila Dikshit’s work to seek votes has now blamed her for the poll drubbing.

According to a report by The Indian Express, Latika said: “Mr Chacko should be answering this… how his conscience allows him to say things like this for a person who has passed away.”

“I think we all have been brought up in a way that you don’t comment on somebody who is gone. I think it speaks volumes about Mr Chacko and I don’t think it’s worth commenting. She is gone and I am still mourning, it’s a great loss to me personally,” further responded the late CM’s daughter.

Yesterday, PC Chacko while submitting his resignation as the Delhi party chief had passed the buck for Congress’ disastrous performance in the Assembly elections to former Delhi CM late Sheila Dikshit.

Read: Congress leader Milind Deora slams Delhi Congress chief PC Chacko for blaming late Sheila Dikshit for Delhi debacle

Chacko reasoned that the Congress party’s downfall started in 2013 when Sheila Dikshit was the chief minister. Chacko added that the emergence of a new party AAP took away Congress’ entire vote bank and the party never managed to get it back.

Interestingly, Congress based this election’s entire campaign on Delhi’s “golden days” under Sheila Dikshit. In fact, the party’s campaign song also had Sheila Dikshit’s legacy as the highlight.  “Ek Dilli thi vo jo Sheila ne khud se sawara tha. Fir se Congress wali Dilli.” (There was a Delhi that Sheila developed. It’s time again for Congress’s Delhi). Now, following disastrous assembly elections for the Congress party, PC Chacko was quick to pin the blame on late Sheila Dikshit.

However, senior Congress leader Milind Deora expressed his disapproval with PC Chacko’s assertions. Extolling Sheila Dikshit, Deora said that she was an exceptional politician and administrator, adding that under her Delhi was transformed and Congress became stronger than ever. Deora stated that it is inappropriate to shift the blame on her after her death.

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera too had expressed his disagreement with holding Sheila Dikshit responsible for Congress’ abysmal performance in Delhi assembly elections. To reinforce his point, Khera pulled up vote-share figures Congress had with and without the leadership of Sheila Dikshit. In 2013, when Congress lost, it had a vote-share of 24.55 per cent. Vote-share in 2015 slipped to 9.7 per cent when Sheila Dikshit was not involved and in 2019, under the leadership of Sheila Dikshit, Congress’ vote-share again rose to 22.46 per cent.

After facing severe backlash, PC Chacko, speaking to The Indian Express, denied having named Dikshit. “I did not mention her name. I am being deliberately targeted,” he said.

It may be noted that Sheila Dikshit, who was Delhi’s chief ministers for three consecutive terms between 1998 and 2013, is praised by many as a good administrator. Her defeat in 2013, at the wake of the Commonwealth Games scam and country-wide protests against corruptions in the UPA government, had been a death-blow for Congress in Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal led AAP had ridden this anti-corruption wave to attain power at that time.

In the 70-member assembly, Congress could not open its account, failing miserably in sending even a single legislator to the Delhi Assembly for two consecutive terms. Congress’ tally stood at zero as it scored back-to-back ducks in the Delhi assembly elections.

Specify reasons for selecting candidate with pending criminal cases against them: SC tells political parties

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Specify reasons for selecting candidate with pending criminal cases against them: SC tells political parties

The Supreme court today has directed political parties to give reasons and justifications regarding their selection of a candidate with a criminal background.

The Bench headed by Justice R F Nariman and S Ravindra Bhat ruled that the political parties will have to provide reasons, credentials, achievements and criminal antecedents of candidates on their website, newspaper, and social media platforms justifying the selection of the candidate with criminal cases on them.

The BJP leader and Supreme court lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay has filed a plea against political parties selecting tainted politicians for contesting elections. He alleged that no serious efforts were made by the government as well as the election commission in the last six months to decriminalize the political party and the candidates chosen by it.

Stating that ‘winnability’ cannot be the only criteria for choosing a candidate, the apex court said that it cannot be the only justification for selecting a candidate. The bench said, “Political parties must put all the information in public domain about a candidate within 48 hours of clearing the name and party must also submit a report regarding publication within 24 hours of the nomination of candidate”.

“The parties will be liable for contempt if they fail to comply with this order”, the court ruled, and also directed the EC to file contempt in case of no-compliance.

In the recent Delhi Assembly election, 60 percent of the Aam Aadmi Party’s candidates contesting were of criminal background 51 percent of whom were facing serious charges according to a report of Association of Democratic Reforms. Bharatiya Janata Party’s 39% candidates have declared criminal cases against them, with 25% facing serious criminal cases. The Indian National Congress’s 27 percent declared criminal cases against them and 20 percent are facing serious charges.

Cricket bookie Sanjeev Chawla, accused in 2000 match fixing scandal, extradited to India from UK

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Cricket bookie Sanjeev Chawla, accused in 2000 match fixing scandal, extradited to India from UK

Bookie Sanjeev Chawla, key accused in the 2000 match-fixing scandal involving the late South African captain Hansie Cronje has been extradited from London, UK. Delhi Police escorted the accused to Delhi on Thursday morning nearly 20 years after the case was filed in 2000. The flight carrying Sanjeev Chawla landed in Delhi an hour before its scheduled time.


His extradition is being considered the first high profile of its kind under the India-UK Extradition Treaty, signed in 1992.

Chawla, who had turned a major bookie for the D-Company, will go through the necessary medical examinations before being taken to Tihar Jail and held in custody in accordance with the Indian government’s assurances given to the UK courts.

The bookie, who was on bail, was taken back into custody by the Met Police in the UK before he was handed over to Indian authorities.

In March last year, the UK Home Secretary gave the go-ahead for Sanjeev Chawla’s extradition after the Westminster Magistrates’ Court overruled a previous verdict to rule in favour of such a move.

As per reports, Sanjeev Chawla had taken his appeal against being extradited to India right up to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which rejected his application for an interim measure last week.

Sanjeev Chawla is alleged to have played a central role in conspiring with Hansie Cronje, the late South African cricket team captain, to fix a South African tour to India in February-March 2000.

According to the documents filed by Chawla in the UK High Court, he is described as a Delhi-born businessman, who moved to the UK on a business visa in 1996, where he has been based while making trips back and forth to India.

In 2000, his Indian passport was revoked. He was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 2003. In 2005, he got UK passport and has since been a British citizen.

In the details of the case that emerged, Chawla was introduced to the late South African captain Hansie Cronje in January-February 2000.

Chawla and another person lured Cronje by offering him a sufficient amount of money if he agreed to lose cricket matches. The tour took place in February-March 2000, with Chawla, Cronje and others conspiring to fix cricket matches in exchange for payment. Chawla reportedly played the central role also being the one in direct contact with Cronje, who was killed in a private plane crash in June 2002.

Both Chawla and Cronje were named in a 70-page charge sheet by the Crime Branch for “fixing matches played between India and South Africa from February 16, 2000, to March 20, 2000, in India”, according to reports.

The scandal broke in April 2000, when Delhi Police Crime Branch officer intercepted a conversation between blacklisted Sanjeev bookie Chawla and Cronje, in which it was learnt that the South African captain had accepted money to lose matches. Chawla has also been accused of offering money to two England players in August 1999. As soon as Delhi Police filed the FIR in the first week of March 2000, Chawla moved to the UK.

On June 14, 2016, Chawla was arrested in London following India’s request for his extradition, and UK officials then asked Delhi Police for details of security arrangements and facilities in the jail he will be kept in. This was done after Chawla raised several questions about security and facilities in Indian jails.

According to sources, Sanjeev Chawla operated one of the biggest betting syndicates in the late 1990s under the patronage of the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. While Chawla fixed matches through top cricketers in South Africa, India, Pakistan and other countries, D-Company ensured that bids are settled smoothly through overseas hawala transactions.

The spot-fixing scandal was patronised by D-Company boss Dawood Ibrahim and his close aide Chhota Shakeel.

Kashmir: Hurriyat issues notice from Pakistan, asks to prepare for SAS Geelani’s funeral, internet snapped in valley

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Kashmir: Hurriyat issues notice from Pakistan, asks to prepare for SAS Geelani’s funeral, internet snapped in valley

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has suspended mobile internet services to prevent rumours about the health of Pakistan-sponsored separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.

Reportedly, the services were snapped late on Wednesday night after some social media posts claimed the health of the 90-year-old Geelani deteriorated, the officials said. The security arrangements have also been scaled up at specific ‘vulnerable places’ across Kashmir, said the officials.

As per an IANS report, in a late-night development, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference released an ‘urgent’ statement from Muzaffarabad, Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying that all Imams and people should rush to Eidgah, Srinagar, for the funeral in case Geelani breaths his last.

In a two-page statement, Hurriyet announced that Geelani (90) has recently expressed his wish to be buried at the Mazar-e-Shuhada, Eidgah, Srinagar. Hurriyet, which has its office in Muzaffarabad and Islamabad, also appealed to the people of the Valley to be respectful to the leader and join the funeral. They have also laid out route plans for individual areas in the valley for Geelani’s funeral prayers procession.


However, Geelani’s family and government sources have said that his condition is stable. There were some speculative reports that Geelani had passed away on Friday evening. However, his son Naseem Geelani refuted the reports as rumours and said that his father was stable.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani is considered as the senior-most Hurriyat leader, which itself is sponsored by Pakistan. Geelani was previously a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir but later on founded his own party by the name of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. He has served as the Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyet (Freedom) Conference, a conglomerate of separatist parties in Jammu and Kashmir.

Geelani became an MLA from Sopore constituency first in 1972 and went on to become MLA for two more terms.

Geelani is over 90 years old. As per reports, he had developed a chest infection and has not been responding well to treatment.

EAM Jaishankar gives befitting reply to ‘historian’ Ram Guha as Nehru-Gandhi loyalist goes bonkers over Nehru’s criticism

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EAM Jaishankar gives befitting reply to ‘historian’ Ram Guha as Nehru-Gandhi loyalist goes bonkers over Nehru’s criticism

Ramachandra Guha, a Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist and also a popular fiction writer masquerading as a ‘historian’, on Thursday had to face massive embarrassment after Foreign Minister S Jaishankar gave a befitting reply to ultra-left wing author after he accused the former diplomat of peddling fake news.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, on Wednesday, citing a book had said that the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru did not want Sardar Patel in his Cabinet in 1947. He said he learnt about it from VP Menon’s autobiography.

Read: ‘Historian’ Ram Guha’s strident criticism of Rahul Gandhi triggers a meltdown for abusive troll Swati Chaturvedi

In a series of tweets, S Jaishankar said that Nehru omitted Patel from the initial Cabinet list and it was a subject for much debate.


The Minister had also stressed that exercise of writing history for politics in the past needs honest treatment. Citing VP Menon’s biography, Jaishankar said, “When Sardar died, a deliberate campaign was begun to efface his memory. I know this because I have seen it, and at times, I fell victim to it myself.”

Read: ‘Historian’ Ram Guha gets it wrong, attempts to carry out ‘surgical strike’ on our intellect

However, Jaishankar’s revelation of truth seems to have hurt Nehru-Gandhi Parivar loyalists like ‘Gandhi-fiction’ writer Ramachandra Guha. Citing an article written by another self-proclaimed historian and intellectual, Nehru-Gandhi loyalist Srinath Raghavan, Guha called Jaishankar’s earlier statement as a myth and ‘advised’ Jaishankar to leave this job to the BJP IT cell.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, too, was quick to cite the same source from Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint to prove VP Menon wrong.


External Minister Jaishankar, who usually ignores such troll attacks, however, responded to fiction-writer Ram Guha’s tirade. Taking a subtle dig at Guha’s credentials, External Affairs Minister said, “Some Foreign Ministers do read books. Maybe a good habit for some Professors too. In that case, strongly recommend the one I released yesterday.”


To that, Guha shared an archive letter from 1st August 1947 where Nehru invited Patel to be part of the cabinet.

However, how does this letter negate VP Menon’s claims is for everyone else to guess.

India Today peddles fake news about 3,000 Dalits converting to Islam after wall collapse, here is the truth

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India Today peddles fake news about 3,000 Dalits converting to Islam after wall collapse, here is the truth

India Today group, which houses the country’s greatest fake news expert Rajdeep Sardesai, seems to be getting extremely influenced by him as the media group has now resorted to peddling fake news, which has already been debunked in the past.

In a report, India Today group claimed that close to 3,000 people from the Dalit community converted to Islam in Mettupalayam, Coimbatore, after facing alleged caste discrimination following the death of 17 people due to wall collapse on December 2. The falling of ‘wall of discrimination’ as the protestors claimed, was the breaking point for many Dalits in the region who claimed that they have been regularly discriminated, claimed the report.

According to the report, a person named Mohammed Abubaker, originally known as Marx, converted to Islam soon after the December 2 event because of the prevailing caste injustice and untouchability. Another person named Sarath Kumar who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdhuallah reportedly said that it was only the Muslim brothers who stood and protested for them when their people were dead and no Hindu helped them.

The Tamil Puligal Katchi, a local fringe outfit had in December said that the mass conversion would be a protest against the indifference of the state government that had failed to act against a 20-foot high “caste wall” built illegally by a “caste Hindu”.

Further, India Today claimed that several reported cases of discrimination right from entry into temples to discrimination at the burial ground to discrimination towards Dalits at tea shops and public space, which have forced them to convert into Islam.

Fact Check:

According to a fact-finding team of Hindu Munnani group, who visited the village immediately after the incident and spoke to the Dalits regarding the claims that they had converted to Islam, this is completely fake. Dalits in the area had denied the claim on video and assured that they would co-exist with all community as they have been.

Relatives and neighbours of those who died after the compound wall collapsed in Nadur village had said no Muslim groups had approached them, and that they were devotees of Hindu deities, especially Ram. Several residents of the village had told an Indian Express team that they are devout Hindus and they are not converting to Islam. They said this was fake news and they didn’t know from where this news had originated.

After the villagers had denied the claim, Tamil Puligal Katchi had made a U-turn saying that they had not even visited the area, and 3000 people those were to be converted were from other areas, including Tirupur, Coimbatore, and nearby areas.

Read- As India Today defends its shoddy journalism, we look at their 5 other ‘pathbreaking investigations’

Hindu Munnani state Joint Organiser Rajesh had also alleged that Muslim countries were pumping in money to convert Hindus and had said in the colony there are only 150 families, and the claim that 3,000 would convert to Islam is a white lie. Nobody has converted to Islam which is a falsehood spread by a fringe group known as Tamil Tigers party (Tamil Puligals Katchi) which is famous for its hate speeches against Hindu and Hindu gods.

Rajesh further revealed that Tamil Tigers leader Thiruvalluvan was arrested for fomenting communal trouble in the past. According to Rajesh, TTP, in order to divert the issue, started spreading rumours that Dalits are embracing Islam. He has the support of the Foreign NGOs, separatist elements and others and they had lured the poor with money and other kinds had alleged Rajesh.

Therefore, it is possible that the people quoted by India Today who have converted to Islam are from other areas, and not from Mettupalayam. As even Tamil Puligal Katchi had said that they had not visited the place and people from other places were being converted.

Uttar Pradesh police denies attack on AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s relatives, says permission was denied earlier

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Uttar Pradesh police denies attack on AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s relatives, says permission was denied earlier

After reports had emerged that the Uttar Pradesh police had manhandled relatives of Anti-CAA riots accused AAP leader Amanatullah Khan on Tuesday evening following his victory in Delhi elections, the Uttar Pradesh police have refuted the allegations. The Police have said that there was no permission to carry out the victory parade as Section 144 was imposed in the area.

Reportedly, SSP Meerut clarified that after the victory of few leaders in Delhi elections, a procession was being carried out in Meerut. He said that the police just stopped it, as they did not have permission. The police have reportedly registered a case of violation of Section 144 against Khan’s relatives and villagers.

After the announcement of the result of Delhi polls on Tuesday evening, AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s relatives celebrated his victory which was allegedly stopped by the police. There were reports that cops allegedly lathi-charged Khan’s relatives and misbehaved with the women. However, the police have denied the allegations.

A female relative of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan alleged that she was physically assaulted by the Uttar Pradesh Police in Meerut for celebrating his victory in the Delhi Assembly polls. The woman had claimed that the police allegedly pulled her and also thrashed her other relatives as they were celebrating Khan’s win in his native village Agwanpur.

Anti-CAA riots accused Amanatullah Khan, sitting MLA from the Muslim-dominated Okhla constituency, retained his seat after defeating his BJP rival Brahm Singh by a huge margin of 91,827 votes in the recently-held Delhi Assembly elections.

It is pertinent to note that Okhla AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan is accused of instigating riots in Delhi during the anti-CAA protests. He had openly stood with Jamia Nagar protestors which turned violent in December. Later, an FIR was also filed against him for instigating violence through social media.

In an inflammatory speech on December 15 at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, Khan had attacked the BJP government for enacting the Citizenship Amendment Act by claiming that it was discriminatory for Muslims of the country. Khan had also alleged that the silence of Muslims on the Triple Talaq Act was taken as their weakness by the central government.

The speech which was attended by thousands of impassioned people gathered to protest against the CAA was allegedly delivered just minutes before the violence broke out on the streets of Delhi. Later videos also emerged in which AAP leader Amanatullah Khan was seen standing alongside Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam who is accused of pushing secessionist agenda.

Mamata Banerjee fear-mongers, spreads lies to scare people against NRC and NPR

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Mamata Banerjee fear-mongers, spreads lies to scare people against NRC and NPR

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has been spitting venom against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed NRC. She has also been vocal against the National Population Register (NPR).


Speaking at an event, the West Bengal CM stated that the central government is using organisations like banks, and post offices to ‘collect data for the NPR and NRC’. While addressing an administrative meeting in Kolkata, she was heard saying that banks and post offices are being used by the central government to collect data to they can “manipulate” the CAA, NRC and NPR.

Without naming or mentioning when and where she thinks such exercises happened, Mamata further said that such data collections by banks and post offices must stop immediately. She also claimed that the state government will not allow this.

They will ask you what do you do? What does your son do? Where do you live, where does your daughter study? Do not give them any information”, she was heard saying.

“The banks and post offices are doing this without taking the name of BJP…they are visiting houses to conduct the survey. They cannot do this without the state government’s permission. Do not give any information to anyone. We will not allow this, we will strongly handle this”, said Mamata.

Read: Bengal doctors crisis: A state which has pulled out of Ayushman Bharat, the poor are the worst affected of Mamata’s apathy

Mamata Banerjee has been known for her outbursts. She had also faced wide criticism over her double standards on Assam NRC. She had claimed if Assam NRC was implemented, there will be “civil war and bloodbath” after the final draft of the Assam NRC was published. She has launched a massive protest against the CAA, clubbing it with the NRC, that has not even been drafted yet. The fact that CAA does not even concern existing Indian citizens does not deter the Bengal CM from protesting against it either.

Mamata in West Bengal and Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala have ordered to halt all activities in preparation of the updation of the NPR. They both had cited their aspersions over the data being the ground for a nationwide NRC. They have been spreading fear among Indians that the NRC and NPR data will be used against them, wherein, actually, they fear these exercises will lead to the identification and expulsion of illegal immigrants they see as their vote banks.

Maths for Dummies: Former AAP leader and journalist Ashutosh’s mathematical equations leave netizens in splits

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Maths for Dummies: Former AAP leader and journalist Ashutosh’s mathematical equations leave netizens in splits

Election time is the most exciting time for journalists. While some became dancers, some took to philosophy and mathematics to express their state of mind. Former AAP core member and now a journalist again, Ashutosh took to Twitter to send out cryptic mathematical equations as his analysis of recently concluded Delhi assembly elections where AAP managed a landslide victory.


On Thursday, Ashutosh wondered if Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal is same as Prime Minister Narendra Modi minus the hate. He did not clarify whether he meant the hate PM Modi receives from his ‘critics’. On Wednesday, too, he tweeted cryptic message which was a little difficult to comprehend.


The strange equations led to some hilarity on Twitter.


Netizens took it upon themselves to point out the ‘correct’ equations.


Some even dug up his old ‘equations’.


And then there were some which made us laugh out loud. Literally, not figuratively.


And some more.


While others sent across some bitter truth bombs.

Ashutosh and Twitter

Born again journalist and former AAP leader Ashutosh has been a constant source of comic relief amidst tensions. After quitting AAP, he had gone off to mountains to recuperate and shared pictures. Then, too, netizens got quite creative with Photoshop. His tweets have always been a breath of fresh air in an otherwise depressing state of affairs on social media.

Did PM Modi actually claim only 2200 people declared income over 1 crore? Or some people just did not listen properly?

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Did PM Modi actually claim only 2200 people declared income over 1 crore? Or some people just did not listen properly?

PM Modi was at a Times Now event yesterday on February 12 wherein his speech he mentioned the problem of people not paying their income taxes, or inventing ways to hide their income. Speaking at the event, the PM mentioned some startling facts.

PM Modi mentioned that in a country of more than 130 crore people, only 1.5 crore people pay Income Tax. Even from the 1.5 crore people, the number of people announcing income of over 50 lakhs is just 3 lakhs.


PM Modi mentioned that among the numerous professionals, only 2200 professionals declare their annual income to be above Rs 1 crore. Though the PM had specifically mentioned ‘professionals’, many Twitter celebrities jumped to ‘fact-check’ the PM, claiming that he is stating false data and the number of people declaring income over Rs 1 crore is much more than the number the PM provided.

MK Venu, the founder of far-left propaganda website The Wire rushed to call the PM’s claim a ‘gaffe’. He was also quick to pontificate, that such gaffes ‘represent chaotic governance at some deeper level’.

via Twitter

The Wire’s ‘journalist’ Rohini Singh, quite famous for being a habitual fake news peddler, including the ones that result in massive lawsuits, also jumped to ‘fact-check’ the PM.

Journalist J Gopikrishnan too made the same mistake, he cited the data for 2018-19 financial year, that said over 97, 689 people had declared income over Rs 1 crore.

Via Twitter

However, the PM was not stating the total number of people who had declared income over Rs 1 crore. He was specifically discussing ‘professionals’ and had mentioned clearly that of the many professionals in India, only 2200 people had declared an income over Rs 1 crore.

It is common knowledge that most people with income over 1 crore per anum will be business tycoons, industrialists and such. But the PM was not speaking about them, he had specifically mentioned ‘professionals’ and had even explained to the audience that by ‘professionals’ he means Doctors, Engineers, Charted Accountants, Lawyers and even Bollywood stars. However, as is evident from the number of people ‘fact-checking’ the PM, they have either not bothered to listen to the PM’s words or thought that they can get away with twisting details and branding the PM as a liar.

The PM has said, “In a country of over 130 crore people, only 1.5 crore people pay income tax. Even among them only 3 lakh people declare their income as that above 50 lakhs. You will be shocked to hear that, in our country, where there are countless professionals, doctors, engineers, charted accountants, Bollywood artists,  lawyers, and today when even tier 2 and tier 3 cities are full of such professionals, only 2200 have declared their annual income to be above Rs 1 crore.”

The PM went ahead to state that “Only the Supreme Court in Delhi has more people than this. 2200 professionals in the whole country. How is this even believable? We are happy when we see people buying luxury cars, going on holidays abroad, but the numbers of taxpayers are saddening. It hurts because it burdens the people who are honest tax-payers.


Many people who had claimed this number of 2200 as a ‘gaffe’ may cite that they did it because they were quoting what the BJP official handle had mentioned. The tweet by BJP India’s official handle had generalised it as ‘people’. But it only showed that they had not bothered to listen to the video clip where the PM was speaking. The PM has specifically mentioned ‘professionals’ and only had cited the number of professionals who had declared income over Rs 1 crore.

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