The Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested the deputy mayor of Srinagar, Imran Sheikh, in connection with JK Bank loan fraud case. The Deputy Mayor of Srinagar is accused of massive corruption and to have taken a loan of Rs 138 crores for illegal appropriation of subsidy given to his company for setting up of a Controlled Atmosphere (CA) store at Lassipora, Pulwama.
Press release by ACB
Sheikh was earlier deposed from the position of deputy mayor after a no-confidence motion was passed against him by corporators of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation.
The ACB registered a case against Imran, the Director of Srinagar-based Kehwa Square, some officers of Jammu and Kashmir Bank and other government officials for alleged illegal appropriation of the subsidy with an inflated project cost for establishment of CA storage at Lassipora in Pulwama.
In the inspection carried out by a joint team of various authorities and government officials, the cost of the project was assessed to be around Rs 33 crore, the ACB spokesman said. Out of the 33 crores, the subsidy component amounted to 50 per cent of the project cost(EPC)- Rs 16.50 crore, as per norms of the Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan (HMNEH).
It was also unearthed during the investigation that the Kehwa Group has six more business units and Sheikh Imran had raised separate loan facilities and overdrafts for these units.
“The arrears on account of loan accumulated to Rs 138 crore. Imran sought a one-time settlement with the JK Bank authorities as one of the companies, Kehwa Square had turned into a non-performing asset. Sheikh hatched a conspiracy with Kehwa Group partners and JK Bank officials to settle the loan of Rs 138 crores for a mere Rs 78 crores,” the agency said.
According to the ACB investigation, large amounts of the loan was directed which was meant for construction of the CA store. The ACB is currently investigating the case to unravel more details about bank fraud.
It is noteworthy to mention that Sheikh had earlier boasted about his ties to ISI top brass and his close links with Hizbul commander Riyaz Naikoo. In a shocking revelation, Imran had also claimed that he can have Sajjad Lone and Srinagar mayor Junaid Azim Mattoo assassinated.
Interestingly, Sheikh Mohammad Imran has urged Kashmiris to prefix their names with ‘mujahid’ and send a message that the term is in no way related to terrorism and defeat in the elections those who have been inciting Communal passions.
The white-washing of the crimes perpetrated by Muslim mobs against the police officials during the anti-CAA protests have already begun with “liberal-secular” media, opposition parties and Islamists giving clean-chit to violent rioters and instead have pushed all the blame on the state police who tried to stop the Muslim rioters from unleashing more violence.
Continuing this trend, Swara Bhaskar, one of the key ultra-left-wing freelance protestors, also on Thursday put the blame on the Uttar Pradesh police for their alleged excess against the rioters and went on to make a mindless rant by claiming that UP police was up for “revenge” against the rioters.
Speaking to a news reporter, former junior artist Swara Bhaskar exposed her lack of awareness regarding the violent protests of Muslim mob across the country and gave a clean chit to the mobs that went on a rampage. According to Swara, the UP police should not have retaliated against the mobs despite the latter indulging in violent stone-pelting.
Swara, on the one hand, blamed the Uttar Pradesh for failing to maintain law and order of the state when Muslim mobs unleashed riots on the streets. Later, contradicting herself she went on to question the Uttar Pradesh for controlling the riots by retaliating against the violent mob when they pelted stones at the police force.
Swara exposed her hypocrisy when she asserted that UP cops should maintain law and order but those cops doing should not have ‘retaliated’ against violent Muslim mobs and instead, they should take measures to “control” it.
This @ReallySwara keeps asserting that maintaining law & order is police’s responsibility.
And then says that retaliating to a murderous mob is a ‘revenge’, which Police must not resort to!
In the video, a journalist can be seen asking the former Bollywood entertainer whether the police officials should have stayed quiet when the mobs pelted stone at them and stated that it was natural for police to retaliate against a violent mob.
Swara Bhaskar who seems to have got irritated after the journalist stated facts, angrily asked, “Are you fighting a war, are you on the border, what is this language. Should the police retaliate or should it control the rioters and establish law and order”.
Bhaskar later foulmouthed the journalist by saying that the problem lies in the mentality of people like him and called him communal. She then went on to claim that the UP government does not consider Muslims as equal citizens.
Later, she peddled half-truths regarding violent incidents that occurred in Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia University by claiming that police entered the university and fired bullets on the students.
Responding to the reporter’s question whether she would appeal to the protestors to understand the law before indulging in violent protests, Swara Bhaskar without any hesitation or shame blamed the government for misleading the public rather than accepting that most of the protestors did not have any clue regarding the CAA that they are protesting against.
In the aftermath of the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act, riots, violence, arson and vandalism by rioting mobs in the name of ‘protests’ against the enactment of the law have taken place across the country.
The Muslim mobs have gone on a rampage across the country to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act. These mobs have resorted to extreme violence against police officials including firing bullets and injuring them as they tried to stop these violent mobs from pelting stones. The mobs have also damaged crores worth of public infrastructure including police stations, railway infrastructures to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The country has been in the midst of violence unleashed by Muslim mobs after the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was passed by the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. One of the states that have seen the maximum violence by Muslim mobs is Uttar Pradesh, however, the state has taken swift action against the rioters. The Police came down heavily on the rioters and have even started the process to confiscate their property to compensate for the loss to public property. The action by the State against rioters has not gone down well with several ‘secularists’ who wanted the state to let the Muslim mobs run riots. One of them, seem to be the propaganda channel NDTV that habitually peddles fake news.
After the swift action against the rioters, the official Twitter handle of Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath tweeted hailing the action sanctioned by the CM.
हर दंगाई हतप्रभ है।
हर उपद्रवी हैरान है।
देख कर योगी सरकार की सख्ती मंसूबे सभी के शांत हैं।
कुछ भी कर लो अब, क्षतिपूर्ति तो क्षति करने वाले से ही होगी, ये योगी जी का ऐलान है।
हर हिंसक गतिविधि अब रोयेगी क्योंकि यूपी में योगी सरकार है। #TheGreat_CmYogi
“Every rioter is stunned. Every rowdy/troublemaker is shocked. Watching Yogi government’s strict ways everyone is sitting calmly. Do whatever you wish, rioters will pay for the damage, this is Yogi ji’s announcement. Every violent act will now cry (of fear) because now UP has Yogi govt”.
The tweet by Yogi Adityanath’s office was rather simple. It hailed the tough action by the Yogi government against the rioters who were unleashing violence in the state. However, NDTV had different plans.
The NDTV headline read, “Shocked Every Protester”: Yogi Adityanath Justifies UP Crackdown”.
The opening paragraph of the NDTV article read, “Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday justified his government’s crackdown on agitations against the Citizenship Amendment Act, saying that the action has “shocked” every protester into silence”.
The NDTV seems to have deliberately mistranslated Yogi Adityanath’s Office’s tweet to present a false picture. The headline and the first paragraph of the NDTV article suggest that Yogi Adityanath was deliberately cracking down on peaceful protestors and then, was boasting about the crackdown.
However, that is not what Yogi Adityanath Office’s tweet had said.
The headline has the word ‘shocked’ and hence, it is reasonable to believe that the headline was NDTV’s translation of the second line of the tweet which read, “हर उपद्रवी हैरान है”. The word ‘उपद्रवी’ when translated into English would mean a troublemaker or a rowdy person, thereby implying that the tweet was talking about the crackdown on rioters. However, NDTV has chosen to translate the word ‘उपद्रवी’ to ‘protestor’.
In Hindi, if one were to write ‘protestor’, one would write ‘प्रदर्शनकारी’ and not ‘उपद्रवी’.
Thus, the correct representation of Yogi Adityanath’s tweet would roughly be “All the rioters are shocked (to see police action)” and not “shocked all protestors”. NDTV changed the meaning of the entire sentence completely from ‘rioters being shocked’ to ‘the government shocking protestors with its actions’.
This nefarious misreporting by NDTV is in tune with the opposition’s insinuations and allegations that the Uttar Pradesh government came down heavily on peaceful protestors. The Congress has a political reason to shut its eyes to violent Muslim mobs, however, one wonders why a media entity would follow suit.
The state of Uttar Pradesh had indeed witnessed large-scale violence pertaining to the anti-CAA protests. However, as the police reports have substantiated, a large number of the violent incidents accompanying these protests were meticulously planned and plotted beforehand by the Islamists who participated in thousands to express their discontent with the passage of the Bill that intends to grant citizenship to the persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
In one such incident from Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh, a frenzied mob of Islamists masquerading as students ran riot and broke the University’s Bab-e-Syed gate. Subsequently, the crazed mob of hoodlums pelted stones at the law enforcement officials, provoking them to initiate crackdown against them. The video evidence shattered the leftist cabal’s false assertions that the UP Police had broken down the AMU gate and that they had forcibly barged in the hostels to pick up the protestors.
Three people associated with the radical Islamic organisation PFI, including UP state head Waseem, have been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police for engineering violence by spreading misinformation through social media platforms. Besides, Samajwadi Party’s Sambhal MP was also arrested by the police for inciting mobs to embrace violent means while a case was registered by police against several accused persons including Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders Shafiqur Rahman Barq and Feroz Khan for indulging in violent protests in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh.
Recently, the Congress party had too tweeted deriding the Yogi Adityanath government for its action against rioters. It would almost seem like a section of the media and the Congress party are on cohorts and wanted the state government to let the Muslim mobs run amock, riot and indulge into violence.
On Friday, Muslim protestors burnt the effigy of the spiritual head of Ajmer Dargah, Dargah Deewan Syed Zainul Abedin Ali Khan after he said Muslims living in India need not fear the CAA and had appealed to the government not to implement the law till discussions with protestors are held.
Reportedly, a large number of Muslims, including the Khadims joined the rally against CAA, which took place after Friday prayers and demanded that the government withdraw the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). During the protest, they also burnt an effigy of Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, the spiritual head of the Ajmer Dargah and accused him of misleading Muslims on the issue of the CAA.
“The Centre should repeal the Act, which is an attack on the Preamble of the Constitution. The government should also say that the NRC (National Register of Citizens) will not be implemented (countrywide),” said Sarwar Chisty, a Khadim of the dargah.
Amidst Muslim mobs going on a rampage across the country, Deewan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, the spiritual head had last week urged Muslims not to fear against the CAA stating that the new legislation was not against Muslims. However, he had also urged the Centre to implement the amended Act only after allaying the fear over it.
Later, Khan also demanded that the government stopped the implementation of the amended Citizenship Act and wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this regard.
In the aftermath of the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act, riots, violence, arson and vandalism by rioting mobs in the name of ‘protests’ against the enactment of the law have taken place across the country.
The Muslim mobs have gone on a rampage across the country to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act. These mobs have resorted to extreme violence against police officials including firing bullets and injuring them as they tried to stop these violent mobs from pelting stones. The mobs have also damaged crores worth of public infrastructure including police stations, railway infrastructures to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
A controversy has erupted in Karnataka on Friday over the issue of senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar sponsoring the construction of a 114-foot statue of Jesus Christ after the ruling BJP government sought a report from local authorities regarding the status of the land that was earmarked for the project.
Reportedly, the Yediyurappa government has decided to take a relook at the land sanctioned by former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy. Revenue Minister R Ashoka said the land allotted was gomal (grazing) and not a barren one as claimed by Shivakumar. “I have asked the deputy commissioner of Ramanagara district to submit a report on the land allotment,” he added.
Earlier, the office of Shivakumar has stated that the Congress leader was utilising his own funds to purchase 10 acres of land at Kapalibetta from the government for the trust that is constructing the statue and claimed it would become the tallest monolithic statue of Jesus in the world. On December 25, Shivakumar had laid the foundation at a prayer meet and handed over the title deed for the project.
However, senior minister R Ashoka speaking on the ownership of the land said that the land was not Shivakumar’s property but a government gomala land. “I don’t know in what sense he (Shivakumar) has said he has purchased and given it… no one can donate it to anyone,” R Ashoka added.
Amidst rumours in the social media that Kapalibetta is now being called “Yesubetta”, the minister said, “For thousands of years it has been known as Kapalibetta, and for no reason, we will allow its name to be changed,” he said, adding the land was given for the sake of development and not to hand over it to others.
Meanwhile, DK Shivakumar move to ‘donate’ land for Jesus Christ statue in Karnataka has invited sharp criticism from the BJP with former Union minister Ananthkumar Hegde attacked him by saying, “A Tihar returned gentleman is trying to please his Italian mother for a post by demonstrating his gallantry through a statue of Jesus Christ. It will not be surprising if more Ghulams (slaves) from the Congress jumped into the arena of appeasement politics.”
Karnataka BJP minister KS Eshwarappa ridiculed Shivakumar by saying that the Congress party which had opposed the construction of Ram temple was installing the statue of Jesus Christ. In a tweet, he mentioned that Jesus Christ was born in the Vatican, instead of Bethlehem.
“To impress their leader, those in the Congress, who opposed the construction of a grand temple dedicated to Lord Ram, born in our holy country, are going to build from their own money a statue of Jesus, who was born in the Vatican,” Eshwarappa tweeted.
Another BJP MP from Mysuru, Partap Simha, questioned the motive behind installing the statue and demanded to know whether it was a scheme to convert Vokkaligas of Kanakapura. In a tweet, he asked Shivakumar whether he had forgotten seers of Mutts like Siddaganga, Suttur and Adichunchanagiri.
“Erecting the statute of Shivakumara Swamiji (Siddaganga mutt) would have been like a crown on Kapalibetta- isn’t it?”, he tweeted.
Out-on-bail Congress leader DK Shivakumar had inaugurated the proposed statue on December 25 at Harobele village in Kanakapura, a predominantly Christian locality. The proposed 114-feet statue will come up at Kapalibetta. The title deed of the 10-acres land was handed over to a trust by DK Shivakumar on Christmas.
The total height of the statue will be 114 feet, 13 feet of the statue would be comprised of steps, which have already been laid. The foundation stone laying process was done by worshipping the stone on the right foot segment of the Lord.
Historian and Writer William Dalrymple has acknowledged that the Left-academicians and Nehruvian historians in the country had indeed hijacked History textbooks and turned it into propaganda soon after India attained its independence.
Speaking at the ‘Express Adda’ – a talk show organised by Indian Express in Delhi last week, writer Dalrymple said that it was true that the early Nehruvian textbooks were written by Romila Thapar and other ‘Marxists’. He also said that the Marxists presented a ” rose-tinted vision” of Hindu-Muslim unity running through the whole of the Delhi Sultanate right through the Mughals, which left room for the right-wing to state those books were not history.
The host had asked Dalrymple about the eternal ‘right-wing’ grouse that post-independence academia was hijacked by the Left and that the academic part of managing India was ‘given’ to the Left-wing.
William Dalrymple further said that the history textbooks written especially in the 1950s left sufficient room for questioning their authenticity. He, however, claimed that it was a reality that all those Nehruvian historians were great historians which the right-wing successors were not.
When the host asked Dalrymple whether he means that the right-wing was justified in their grouse, Dalrymple said that history books written by Marxists did present a rose-tinted version of Hindu Muslim unity thereby leaving room for complaint by the right-wing.
William Dalrymple’s statements come at a time when there is a larger debate across the country regarding the credibility and integrity of these Marxist historians, who used ‘textbooks’ as their propaganda tool to indoctrinate their ideology among masses. It is now widely believed that Indian history we read is fabricated.
These history ‘textbooks’ have also been considered to be a handiwork of Nehruvian academicians and Marxist scholars who fear the revival of Hinduism in a largely Hindu country. However, lately, a movement has been gaining traction across the country seeking revisions of India’s history books.
On Friday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said it was a matter of highest satisfaction for him that he tried to run the government on the path shown by Jesus Christ, reports Republic TV.
As elections are approaching in Delhi, Kejriwal attempted to piggyback on Jesus Christ as on Friday he claimed that his government has tried to serve the poor according to the path shown by Jesus Christ. Kejriwal said Jesus served the poor and destitute all his life and the AAP government too has opened Mohalla Clinics, provided free treatment in Delhi government hospitals and improved education to serve the poor.
“As we complete five years, it’s a matter of highest satisfaction for us that we have tried to run the government on the path shown by Jesus Christ,” Arvind Kejriwal said.
Kejriwal termed forgiveness the greatest message given by Jesus. “We would be fortunate if we could follow even one per cent of his teachings,” he said.
Kejriwal was speaking at a Christmas and New Year event hosted by Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel. “It is a country of different languages, religions, castes and cultures. Such diversity can not be found in any other country,” he added.
Terming diversity India’s “soul and spirit”, Arvind Kejriwal urged people to preserve it. He further added that it was everyone’s duty to stop anyone trying to snatch away India’s diversity.
“This diversity is the most significant quality of our country. We have to preserve this diversity and if anyone tries to snatch it we have to make all efforts to stop them” he said.
He added that the Delhi Vidhan Sabha under its current speaker has developed a “beautiful tradition” of celebrating festivals of different religions, Kejriwal described the Legislative Assembly premises as “Mini India”.
The function was attended by Anil Couto, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Delhi, Subodh Mondal, Bishop of Methodist Church of India, and Warris K Masih, Diocese of Delhi (CNI), Deputy Speaker of Delhi Assembly Rakhi Birla and people from the Christian community.
The Uttar Pradesh police have released several videos and pictures through social media and various TV channels in the last few days, exposing the faces of several amongst the unruly Muslim mobs who ran amok in the state, in the pretext of protesting against the newly introduced Citizenship Amendment Act. But now a Muslim cleric has said that these videos have made Muslims insecure, by painting them as terrorists.
Flustered by the aggressive actions being taken by the UP Police to expose the Muslim troublemakers in the state, Udupi-Chikmagalur-Hassan Khazi PM Ibrahim Musliyaar Bekal on Thursday said the video clippings, posted on social media by police and telecast on some TV channels, have made ‘Muslims insecure’.
“The police are looking at us with suspicion,” said the Khazi, adding that the Muslim people agitating have come across as ‘terrorists’.
The video clips released by the Uttar Pradesh Police have exposed the frenzied Muslim mob’s nefarious agenda of creating unrest in the country at the behest of several Opposition leaders.
Leaders from half a dozen Muslim organisations, including SJU, SMA, SSF, SYS, said Muslims feel unsafe in the presence of policemen. They blamed the police for being selective in uploading video clippings of the violence.
An organised smear campaign is being run against the UP police alleging them of wantonly employing violent means to suppress ‘peaceful protests’ staged by the opposers of the CAA. However, this was debunked by the UP police by releasing videos and photos that conclusively implicated the rioters.
On December 20, the Uttar Pradesh police had uploaded as many as 9 videos of stone-pelting, arson, vandalism by mobs and action by police during anti-CAA riots in Uttar Pradesh.
In one of the videos from AMU, charged-up rioters can be seen breaking down the gate of the AMU as against the claim made by the sympathisers of the rioters that UP police broke it down. In another image circulated by Firozabad police, stones and bricks placed on the roofs of the houses can be seen, effectively vindicating the police stance that the protests were diligently planned to incite violence and anarchy.
Besides, UP CM Yogi Adityanath had already hinted that he has zero tolerance for the unruly behaviour of the mob indulging in arson and vandalism. In an unprecedented crackdown against the lumpen elements, the Yogi government arrested 1113 people after filing 327 cases related to violence. The state government has also issued notices to 372 people to recover damages to public infrastructure by seizing their properties.
However, despite the overwhelming evidence incriminating the Muslim rioters, the Muslim organisations, backed by Congress functionaries, have chosen to stand in solidarity with those who exhibited absolute disregard for the law of the land and actively took part in carrying out riots and instigating violence against the law enforcement agencies.
In a strange incident, the members of a Church choir in Kerala dressed up in Muslim attire, with girls wearing headscarves and boys in skull caps to express their solidarity with the anti-CAA movement in the country.
This bizarre protest comes at a time when Citizenship Amendment Act gives citizenship to persecuted religious minorities, including Christians, from the neighbouring three Islamic nations, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who have taken refuge in India prior to 31st December 2014.
Reportedly, fourteen protestors wearing Muslim attire sang carols during Christmas celebrations at St Thomas Mar Thoma Church in Kozhencherry in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta.
In the video of the performance shared on social media, the youngsters of the Church Choir group are seen singing Christmas carols composed in the tune of ‘Mappila pattu,’ which are traditional songs sung by the Muslim community in Kerala. The girls can be seen rhythmically clapping their hands similar to ‘Oppana’, another traditional art form of the Muslim community.
The video is being circulated with the caption ‘Christmas: Celebration of Refugees’.
This is India, no one can stop the unity of our religions. Please see how these youngsters appeared in their X’mas carol service in solidarity with Indian Muslims and protest against CAA&NRC. This was part of their Christmas carol service in Marthoma Church, Kozhenchery, Kerala. pic.twitter.com/CQjHb4GULn
Speaking to the media, Father Daniel T Philip, Assistant Vicar, said it was significant to express their solidarity to the agitations against CAA during the Christmas celebration.
“Jesus and his parents had to flee after his birth as refugees because of a king. What we are witnessing now can very well be related to it. People are being denied citizenship, their identities are getting lost, and they are being forced to run away as refugees. So for us, this year’s Christmas celebration is in solidarity with those people who are being victimised,” claimed Father Daniel.
He also added that the protestors chose to wear Muslim attire for the choir as a symbolic protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that protestors can be identified by their clothes. He added that the true meaning of Christmas lies in spreading peace among people.
“That is what we tried to do with this endeavour. There is no point in discriminating between communities or different persons; what we need is peace among all,” he said.
The event was organised by the Kozhencherry unit of Yuvajansakhyam, a youth wing of the Marthoma Church. Rev Daniel T Thomas, a priest who trained the youths, said that the carol was composed in mappila pattu style to express solidarity with those protesting against the CAA.
In a similar solidarity ‘protest’, few Churches in Kerala, Kolkata, Telangana and Assam had given sermon calls to people on Christmas-eve and morning mass to oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act. Reportedly, some Kolkata churches called for an end to ‘politics of hate’. The law which gives citizenship to persecuted Christians in three neighbouring states is being opposed by Churches in India.
Kerala’s Syro-Malabar Catholic Church also said that they are getting ‘anxious’ because of barriers of ‘differentiation and division being created’. In a church sermon, Archbishop Mar Anthony Kariyil said that attempts should not be made to create confusion and complexity amongst people.
In Secunderabad, Telangana, Wesley Church on Christmas Day congregation had people standing with placards that read “We Indians reject CAA” and “CAA against the constitution”.
The Muslim mobs have gone on a rampage across the country to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act. These mobs have resorted to extreme violence against police officials including firing bullets and injuring them as they tried to stop these violent mobs from pelting stones. The mobs have also damaged crores worth of public infrastructure including police stations, railway infrastructures to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
In a shocking remark made by the CPI(M) leader Mohammad Salim, the former Member of Parliament compared the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to different breeds of dogs.
Speaking at an anti-CAA rally in the Bardhaman district of West Bengal, Salim likened the PM and the West Bengal CM to dogs and then went on to explain about their breeds.
Mohammad Salim said that when our PM was the CM of Gujarat, he used to refer to allegations levelled by opposition leaders as ‘bhaukna’, or barking of dogs. He then went on the to explain the meaning of bhaukna, saying it is same as the Bengali word for barking. But when talking about local breed dogs, people use the Bengali term, but when talking about foreign breeds like Alsatian dogs, people use the Hindi term for the barking of dogs. After that to explain the difference between local and foreign breeds of dogs, the CPI leader chose to use the examples of Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee. He said that just like different breeds of dogs are the same with some minor differences, Modi and Banerjee are also same with some minor differences. The difference between the PM and the CM are like the matter of breeds and pedigree of dogs, he added.
The debased attack on the Prime Minister comes at a time when opposition politicians across the country are trying to foment people to rise up in arms against the central government for the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act that intends to grant citizenship to the persecuted minorities from the neighbouring countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
This is not the first time that Salim had made a controversial remark. Earlier in 2015, in sparring with BJP’s Rajnath Singh, Salim claimed that Singh made a loaded Hindu comment in a magazine to describe the significance of Narendra Modi ascending to the position of Prime Minister of the country. This resulted in an emotional riposte from Singh who vehemently protested against the allegations levelled by Salim. Singh’s emotional counter and the resolute protests from the BJP benches caused a series of adjournments after which the Speaker decided to remove Salim’s controversial remarks from the House proceedings.
