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Everything that doesn’t fit ideology of a clique is not unconstitutional: 51 NLUO students extend support to CAA, slam critics

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Everything that doesn’t fit ideology of a clique is not unconstitutional: 51 NLUO students extend support to CAA, slam critics

Amidst the spate of violent protests and riots in many left-leaning universities across the country against the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (Anti-CAA riots), now, the students of National Law University Odisha (NLUO), have come forth to extend their support to the Bill that intends to naturalise persecuted Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian refugees from neighbouring countries.


“We undersigned law students of the National Law University Odisha, Cuttack with utmost respect for solidarity issues for our fellow colleagues, but also as proud Indian citizens and having prudently read, understood and reasonably being able to perceive the purpose voice our unequivocal support for the Citizenship Amendment Act,” the statement released by the signatories said.

The NLUO students also condemned the “premeditated violent protests” and “destruction of public property” by motivated sections in the aftermath of the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Read: Media tried to ‘manufacture consent’ about the authenticity of anti-CAA protests: Here is how students foiled that attempt

It further read that the enactment of the CAA Act is in no way discriminatory against a particular community and found on an intelligible differentia under the Article 14 of the Indian Constitution and will seek the objective of protecting and preserving the persecuted minorities from the three neighbouring countries.

In a scathing attack against the CAA protestors, the letter rubbished the critiques of the CAA Act saying, “The detractors of the CAA  must remember that everything that does not fit the particular ideology of a particular clique, is not unconstitutional”.

Read: Khilafat 2.0: How Useful Idiots in the media and political parties were fooled by Jamia students associated with the ‘blood brother’ of a banned Radical Islamic outfit

”We, therefore, appeal the cynics and pathological naysayers to uphold their democratic right to protest and not misuse their freedom. The legitimacy and sanctuary of the protests shall be maintained but no rational person opposes peaceful protests. Stone pelting and arson can never be considered as forms of protests, encouraging such acts must be condemned,” it read.

Earlier, the premier students’ body DSSF of the TISS institute had come forward voicing their support for the newly legislated Citizenship Amendment Act.

The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Bill had triggered a series of violent protests in some pockets of the country. The protests which were deemed ‘peaceful’ by many saw violence, arson and acts of vandalism, committed by the demonstrators, especially in Delhi and West Bengal.

No right to question India when its own closet is brimming with skeletons: Here is why USCIRF should back off on CAA

Vinayak Jain
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No right to question India when its own closet is brimming with skeletons: Here is why USCIRF should back off on CAA

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has condemned the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA, then CAB) of the Narendra Modi government stating that it is ‘deeply troubled’ by the bill and recommends sanctions on Home Minister Amit Shah and other ‘principal leadership’ if the CAB (now CAA) successfully goes through both the houses.

Liberals and self-proclaimed ‘intellectuals’ have gone gaga over the report. These people are suffering from an existential crisis as their unabated access into the functioning of the government has been neutralised by Prime Minister Modi, and thus, they’re hanging onto the USCIRF report like a desperate man clinging onto a feeble branch in a raging river. If they depend too much on this ‘branch’ they will flow away in the current and drown.

The reason for saying so is that the US itself has explicitly or tacitly indulged in a plethora of human rights violations and looked away from bloody acts that have punished innocents for being born into a faith that doesn’t sit down well with the regressive beliefs of the majority. The US has absolutely no moral standing to question the Narendra Modi government as the one thing this dispensation has shown is a staunch desire to take development to all sections of the society without any shred of discrimination. (Seems like the USCIRF was more happy with Manmohan Singh’s statement about minorities having first right on the resources of the country probably because the US had an influence on Indian policies back then which has now been blown to smithereens).

Read: USCIRF, the commission that recommended denial of US visa to Modi, threats US sanctions against Amit Shah if CAB is passed

The USCIRF is said to be an independent body. However, it is not exactly a non-political entity considering that it was created by ‘The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998’ which was passed by the 105th US Congress (1997-99) and signed into law by the then-President Bill Clinton. The first sentence of the act reveals a lot: “An act to express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, individuals persecuted in foreign countries on account of religion…” In simple words, what the USCIRF says and does is essentially an extension of US foreign policy. It will ignore what it sees unfit for the geopolitical interests of the country.

Why it chose to go to the extent of threatening sanctions on our leadership is because the US has been unable to influence and alter our policies since 2014, which, has been a regular feature of its functioning not just with respect to India but many other countries for decades. It is indeed the foremost superpower in the world but, somehow, it feels that it is also the international moral police. Ironically, in this case, the police has committed a hell of a lot more crimes that those it attempts to regulate and punish.

Before I go on to unravel a tiny piece of US hypocrisy, I wish to remind readers that what India has proposed through the CAA – shelter and citizenship for persecuted minorities in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh – is exactly what President Trump did in 2017. In an interview, he said that persecuted Christians will be given priority as refugees as they have been ‘horribly treated’. Nothing more needs to be said in this matter.

America has been particularly lenient towards Pakistan. The gravest injustice America did, despite always pretending to have an eye out for crimes against innocents, was when it ignored Pakistan’s sanguinary campaign in East Pakistan to eliminate Bengali Muslims and Hindus. At that time it suited America to support Pakistan as it was an ally against Communism and Soviet influence in South Asia, and so, it let millions be massacred, raped and displaced.

Read: USCIRF, the commission that recommended denial of US visa to Modi, threats US sanctions against Amit Shah if CAB is passed

This soft corner that the American establishment has for Pakistan continues till date as it looks away from atrocities committed in Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and PoK. And all this simply because exposing Pakistan’s inhumane acts would hurt American interests. In this context, it doesn’t give a toss for human rights.

Now, let’s turn to America’s own history. (The following anecdotes have been taken from Noam Chomsky’s ‘How The World Works’)

In 1949, America put its espionage network in Eastern Europe under the control of Reinhard Gehlen. Gehlen had headed Nazi military intelligence on the Eastern Front. This network went on to take in many notorious Nazi criminals. Operations conducted under the US-Nazi ‘alliance’ provided agents and supplies to armies established by Hitler that were still up and running in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the 1950s.

The Americans had invaded Panama in the early ‘90s. Once the invasion was over, President Bush announced an aid of $1 billion. The fascinating aspect to this ‘aid’ package was that $400 million were incentives to US businesses to export products to Panama, $150 million was to pay off bank loans and $65 million were for private sector loans and guarantees to US investors. After ravaging the country with an invasion, American aid of $1 billion constituted of $615 million that essentially went from American taxpayers into the hands of American businesses. Is this looking after the interests of war-torn humans?

Suharto, a dictator of Indonesia in the 1960s, was largely supported by the West. His coming to power had involved the killing of almost 7 lakh people, and yet, it was allowed to happen. Another example of American apathy comes from Vietnam. As if the war and carnage unleashed wasn’t enough to disrupt lives in Vietnam, the US went on to prevent even the most meagre aid from reaching the Vietnamese that was meant to act as a balm to the seething wounds. India wanted to send 100 water buffaloes to Vietnam but the US threatened to cancel Food for Peace aid. Pencils and solar pumps to Cambodia were also tried to be stopped by the State Department.

A perfect summing up to this article would be to quote the findings of two academics – Lars Schoultz and Edward Herman. The former discovered that ‘US aid has tended to flow disproportionately to Latin governments which torture their citizens’. Herman also found a close correlation between US aid and torture of citizens.

Bhim Army chief defies police ban, leads protest march from Jama Masjid, detained after trying to escape: Report

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Bhim Army chief defies police ban, leads protest march from Jama Masjid, detained after trying to escape: Report

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad surfaced at the Jama Masjid in Delhi today, dramatically defying a ban on protests amidst heavy police presence. Azad was seen holding up a copy of the preamble of the constitution along with posters of BR Ambedkar as he led his supporters in a protest inside the gates of the Jama Masjid just after Friday prayers.

As per reports, Delhi Police had detained Azad first near Jama Masjid, but he managed to slip away. Later he was detained near Daryaganj.

The Delhi Police had denied permission to Chandrashekhar Azad’s protest march against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act from Jama Masjid to Jantar Mantar. Reports say that thousands of Muslims gathered at Jama Masjid after the Friday prayers, joined by Bhim Army members.


Informing that the Bhim Army has been given permission to hold their proposed protest at Jantar Mantar and not in Jama Masjid area, Delhi Police PRO MS Randhawa said that as long as these protests are being conducted at designated areas, Delhi police will not interfere but if protestors start thronging into other locations then necessary action will be taken.

The Delhi Police PRO restated that organisers seeking permission to hold protests should apply for only the designated locations. “If they hold protests in non-designated areas then it will cause public disturbance and affect emergency services”, said MS Randhawa.

Prohibitory orders under CrPC Section 144 are in place near the Red Fort area since Thursday, after a protest march was called on by various opposition parties.

“This is not the traditional route for any protest march. In Delhi, protests are held at designated routes. I request, through the media, to the people to not believe in any rumours and restrict themselves from spreading it. Also, cooperate with the police forces. Section 144 has been imposed only in Red Fort area and nowhere else,” Delhi Police Public Relation Officer MS Randhawa told media.

Thousands of protestors including several opposition leaders hit the streets in the national capital on Thursday, defying heavy security clampdown and prohibitory orders.

Opposition leaders D Raja, Sitaram Yechury, Nilotpal Basu, Brinda Karat, Ajay Maken, Sandeep Dikshit and activists Yogendra Yadav, Umar Khalid were among over 1,200 people detained from areas around Red Fort and Mandi House.

In a hilarious gaffe, US Department of Agriculture lists fictional country ‘Wakanda’ as a free-trade partner, removes later

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In a hilarious gaffe, US Department of Agriculture lists fictional country ‘Wakanda’ as a free-trade partner, removes later

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has listed the fictional country of ‘Wakanda’ as its free-trading partner. A USDA spokesperson said the Kingdom of Wakanda was added to the list by accident during a staff test. The Kingdom of Wakanda is the home of Black Panther, the Marvel superhero, and is portrayed in comic books and the 2018 blockbuster movie as an isolated African nation with the most powerful technology on the planet. Wakanda featured prominently in the movie Avengers: Infinity War.

Reportedly, the tariff tracking site, run by the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, features a drop-down list of dozens of real countries and their trade agreement policies on everything from fish to fruit.


The US department’s online tariff tracker also hosted a detailed list of goods the two nations apparently traded, including ducks, donkeys and dairy cows. The fictional country was removed soon from the list after US media first reported on the gaffe.

Read: Chandrayaan 2: India’s mission Moon cheaper than Hollywood blockbusters like Avengers Infinity Wars and Bandra Worli Sea link

“Over the past few weeks, the Foreign Agricultural Service staff who maintain the Tariff Tracker have been using test files to ensure that the system is running properly,” said Mike Illenberg, a USDA spokesman.

The USDA officials have now clarified that they have removed Wakanda from the website, and noted that information displayed is not official and should only be used as a general reference.

“The Wakanda information should have been removed after testing and has now been taken down,” the official added.

Unnao rape case: Delhi court sentences Kuldeep Sengar to life imprisonment, imposes Rs 25 lakh fine

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Unnao rape case: Delhi court sentences Kuldeep Sengar to life imprisonment, imposes Rs 25 lakh fine

On Friday, a Delhi court awarded life imprisonment to rape accused former MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for raping a minor girl in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh in 2017.

According to the reports, the District Judge Dharmesh Sharma also imposed a fine of Rs 25 lakh in the case and directed the rape survivor be paid Rs 10 lakh as compensation. The four-time MLA will remain in jail for the rest of his life.

On December 16, Former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was convicted in the Unnao rape and kidnapping case by Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court. The court had convicted Sengar under the sections of IPC and the POCSO Act for raping a minor.

The CBI’s counsel and the complainant had sought maximum punishment for Sengar, saying that the court must consider the prolonged ordeal faced by the victim. The counsel of the victim had additionally sought sufficient monetary compensation for the rape survivor.

However, Sengar’s counsel had urged the court to give him minimum punishment of 10-years jail term, saying he had no prior criminal record. The counsel of the victim also supported the CBI’s submission and additionally sought sufficient monetary compensation for the rape survivor.

Former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was the prime accused in the 2017 high profile rape case. The case pertains to kidnapping and rape committed by Sengar and his plot to silence the victim and intimidate her relatives by framing them in police cases based on flippant charges.

Read: Accident involving Unnao victim was not planned, finds CBI: Drops murder charges against suspended BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar

In August this year, the victim of the Unnao rape case was travelling to Rae Bareli with her two aunts, and her lawyer Mahendra Singh when their vehicle was hit by a truck, rendering them critically injured. The vehicle had collided with a truck going in the opposite direction towards Lalganj in UP. The victim survived the near-fatal accident.

Two of her aunts were killed in the accident while her lawyer also sustained serious injuries. The woman’s family has filed a complaint alleging “conspiracy” behind the car crash.

Anti-CAA protests: Sharmistha Mukherjee, other Congress members detained near Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence

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Anti-CAA protests: Sharmistha Mukherjee, other Congress members detained near Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence

The chief of Delhi Mahila Congress, Sharmistha Mukherjee was today detained near Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence in Delhi during a protest against the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Sharmistha, who is the daughter of former President of India Pranab Mukherjee, said that she along with 50 other Delhi Mahila Congress members were taken into the Mandir Marg police station by Delhi Police.


The police have claimed that they had detained Mukherjee along with others for organising a protest march “very close” to Shah’s residence.

In the last few days, the National Capital of the country witnessed a series of violent protests as rioters went on a rampage destroying public properties and vandalising scores of the vehicles. The riots in the Seelampur neighbourhood of Delhi also saw intense stone pelting and bomb explosion.

PM Modi had earlier issued an appeal to the citizens to maintain calm and accused the Congress party leaders of fanning falsehoods and misinformation about the Citizenship Amendment Bill. PM Modi had alleged that politicians with vested interests were firing off from the students’ shoulders. Union Home Minister Amit Shah too had warned protesting students to first understand the provisions of the Act instead of being tricked into by the opposition leaders.

A concerted attempt to spread misinformation about the Citizenship Amendment Bill triggered violent protests across the country following the passage of the law in the Upper House of the Parliament. From Delhi to West Bengal and Assam, violence gripped the country. Buses have been torched, trains have been burnt and massive loss has been caused to public property.

‘Shame shame’ slogans: Lawyers request Delhi HC judges to take contempt of court action against Jamia lobby

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‘Shame shame’ slogans: Lawyers request Delhi HC judges to take contempt of court action against Jamia lobby

The Delhi High court on Friday agreed to form a committee to look into the unprecedented incident of the lawyers’ lobby shouting ‘shame on you’ at the judges in the courtroom yesterday after the bench refused to provide any interim protection to Jamia’s student rioters from any coercive action, including arrest by Delhi Police.

This decision came after several senior advocates, heads of bar associations and central government lawyers mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar the need for contempt action against those who “disrespected the judiciary”.

One senior advocate while pressing the bench to take action against those lawyers who disrespected the court said that a strong message needs to go out that such incidents will not be tolerated. He also informed the bench that the lawyers’ lobby which appeared yesterday and their clients had also resorted to vandalism outside the court.

He furthered that the people who create ruckus outside should not be allowed to do the same inside the court and intimidate the judiciary.

Another advocate, RP Luthra informed the court that he had fallen prey to the angst of the lawyers’ lobby after he raised objections for their behaviour in court. It was only due to police intervention that he got rescued, said Luthra.

After hearing all the advocates, the bench agreed on referring the matter to one of its relevant committees to undertake an inquiry.

On Thursday, as the Delhi HC turned down the petition for protection to Jamia rioters and refuse to set the next hearing at an earlier date, the situation in the courtroom took an unprecedented turn and the lawyers representing the petitioners allegedly started hooting the judges by shouting ‘shame shame’ as they moved towards their chambers.

Hearing petitions requesting the formation of a judicial commission to investigate the violence at the Jamia Millia Islamia on Sunday, the Delhi High Court bench comprising of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar, yesterday refused to provide any interim protection to student rioters from any coercive action, including arrest by Delhi Police.

The court also issued a notice to the Centre, the Delhi government and the police, asking them to file a response on a plea over Jamia Milia University incident. The court posts the matter for further hearing on February 4.

Read: ‘Just because they are students, they can’t take law into their hands,’ CJI Bobde tells petitioners seeking judicial inquiry in Jamia incident

The court’s decision came while hearing six petitions seeking medical treatment and compensation for injured students in the protests against CAA over the past few days.

Delhi witnessed violent scenes on Sunday when several buses, motor-bikes and private vehicles were set ablaze during anti-CAA riots near south Delhi’s Jamia Nagar area. The Delhi police in a bid to control the frenzied mob, later entered the Jamia campus and fired tear gas shells, baton-charged and detained several rioters.

Anti-CAA Seelampur riots: Police arrest Raees who got injured after the bomb he was trying to hurl at police exploded in his hand

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Anti-CAA Seelampur riots: Police arrest Raees who got injured after the bomb he was trying to hurl at police exploded in his hand

Bomber Raees was arrested by the Delhi police today after he injured himself while hurling a petrol bomb during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) riots in Seelampur, Delhi on December 17, 2019.

Shortly after the explosion, a video had gone viral in which one can see how the accused Raees got himself injured while trying to throw a petrol bomb to further instigate the riots. In the video, the crowd can be heard shouting “Uska haath gaya” (his hand has gone) after the explosion.


Raees was hospitalised after the bomb he had tried to throw at the police forces prematurely exploded in his own hands. He was undergoing treatment at Geru Tej bahadur (GTB) Hospital, but had remained incognito to evade arrest. Joint CP Alok Kumar informed that the police looking for the rioter got wind of his whereabouts and he was subsequently arrested from the hospital.

According to the police, Raees is still in the hospital, but today he will be taken before magistrate for hearing. The police is yet to reveal about the seriousness of his wound.

Read- Seelampur violence: Announcements for mobilisation were made from local Mosques, says report

Delhi was in the grips of unprecedented violence after the ‘peaceful’ anti-CAA ‘protestors’ resorted to vandalism, arson and stone-pelting. Many vehicles were torched while public property was extensively damaged by the lumpen rioters.

Besides, police have said that Section 144 has been imposed in some sensitive areas of northeastern and eastern Delhi following the violent protests and they continuously counselling people for restoration of peace in the region.

The police have so far arrested 21 people on the charges of rioting and vandalism in the Seelampur riots case while many others have been identified. The police believes that there might be a possibility of another wave of rioting after the protestors called for a ‘bandh’ on Friday.

Muslim radicals set Delhi ablaze: What explains the behaviour of these Indian Muslims

Tarek Fatah
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Muslim radicals set Delhi ablaze: What explains the behaviour of these Indian Muslims

The past week in India has seen enraged mobs burning buses, setting alight trains in protests that seem to be engineered to falsely depict the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having an anti-Muslim agenda.

The current rampaging began soon after the Indian parliament enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on December 11, which grants easy access to Indian citizenship to non-Muslims of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh who faced religious persecution and sought refuge in India prior to December 31, 2014.

The CAA does not affect any Indian citizen of any religion, yet Islamist groups active in India’s Jama Islamic University in Delhi and the Aligarh Muslim University came onto the streets claiming discrimination on the basis of religion.

Read: Modi government dispels myths about CAA: Here are 19 FAQs and their answers

Indian Muslim leadership’s outrage seemed to be based on their fear that allowing citizenship to persecuted Pakistani Christians, Hindus and Sikhs would increase the non-Muslim population of the country and thus dilute the veto power they’ve exercised in India for the last 70 years. Therefore, to maintain the balance they insist that Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan too should be allowed to become Indians.

Never mind the fact that the genesis of Pakistan that was carved out of India in 1947, was based on the Islamist argument that Muslims cannot live in a land with a non-Muslim majority. As a result, Hindus and Sikhs faced genocide in Pakistan, a million died and close to 10 million were displaced to meet the whims and fancy of the founders of the world’s first Islamic State.

Read: Khilafat 2.0: How Useful Idiots in the media and political parties were fooled by Jamia students associated with the ‘blood brother’ of a banned Radical Islamic outfit

As I did the rounds on Indian TV networks on Wednesday, that threatening Muslim attitude was palpable. While Islamic clerics did not shy away from their hostility towards me, one threatened me, saying “Your turn will come soon.”

This as residents and students of Muslim districts in the capital demonstrated their street power by blocking roads and chanting such hate-filled slogans as “Hinduon se lenge azadi” (We’ll snatch our freedom from the Hindus).

Read: Facebook removes The Quint’s “fact-check” where they had declared the ‘Hinduon se Azadi’ video as fake

Instead of clarifying to the community that the CAA is not against Muslims or Islam, the opposition political parties have poured fuel on the fire in their attempt to appease the Islamist agenda and garner votes in the Jan 2020 elections for the Delhi State Assembly.

On Thursday, the Communists Parties and other Left-wing groups have also thrown their weight behind the Islamists and plan a ‘nation-wide’ protest today against the new Citizenship Act, according to a statement issued by these parties.

Read: Who is instigating violence in colleges: Congress, NSUI, a sinister WhatsApp group and anti-CAA protests

To understand the behaviour of Indian Muslims and their leadership, one needs to read what India’s leading Muslim politician and nationalist and first education minister had to say about Muslims and their politics. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad told a Kolkata audience on 27th October 1914:

“This biradari (community of Muslims) has been established by God… All relationships in the world can break down, but this relationship can never be severed. It is possible a father turns against his son, not impossible that a mother separates her child from her lap… But the relationship that a Chinese Muslim has with an African Muslim, an Arab Bedouin has with the Tatar shepherd, and which binds in one soul a neo-Muslim of India with the right-descendant Qureshi of Mecca, there is no power on earth to break it, to cut off this chain…”

Meanwhile, the International Business Times quoting intelligence sources reported that banned extremist and militant Islamic fundamentalist organisations – the Students Islamic Movement (SIMI) and the Popular Front of India (PFI) were behind the CAA violence.

Read: CAA exposes nexus between Congress and Islamists: Intelligence report says PFI, SIMI behind violent protests

In addition, a hijabi woman depicted as a hero of the anti-CAA movement was reported by IANS – Indian Asian News Service as having links with the Indian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind.

Sitting in Delhi and watching the Islamists play their cards to bring disrepute to the Indian Republic, I can see the parallels in Canada where despite the evidence, we keep appeasing the Islamists who have a foothold in every party and every urban municipality.

The menace is real; the response unreal.

Pakistan based Islamic terror groups may try to assassinate PM Modi at Ramlila Maidan rally: Intelligence reports

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Pakistan based Islamic terror groups may try to assassinate PM Modi at Ramlila Maidan rally: Intelligence reports

The Intelligence agencies have informed the Special Protection Group and the Delhi Police that the Pakistan-based terror groups plan to target PM Narendra Modi at the Ramlila ground on December 22 where he will be addressing a mega rally organised by the BJP on the issue of the Centre’s move to regularise unauthorised colonies in Delhi.

According to reports, the central agencies have directed the security establishments to fully implement instruction contained in the Blue Book for the protection of the Prime Minister while making the security arrangements.

The intelligence agencies stated that they have fresh inputs that terror organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed operatives have been mobilised in India to assassinate Prime Minister Modi at Ramlila ground, where a huge gathering and presence of media persons in huge numbers are expected.

“The recent enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (December 12), the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict (November 9) and abrogation of Article 370 (August 5), besides pre-emptive air strikes on non-military targets inside Pakistan by Indian Air Force have added fresh dimensions to the threat scenario,” the intelligence report stated.

The Special Protection Group along with the Delhi Police will be responsible for the security at the Ramlila ground. PM Narendra Modi will be present at the rally along with various NDA Chief Ministers and cabinet ministers.

The agencies said in “the given situation reprisal action by Pakistan based terrorist groups cannot be ruled out”. The agencies stated that Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) continues to provide infrastructural and other financial/logistical assistance to terror groups.

“In October 2019, letter received by National Investigation Agency (NIA) purportedly published by Lashkar-e-Taiba, threatened to target Indian dignitaries, including the Prime Minister, to avenge the alleged excesses by the Indian Armed Forces in Jammu and Kashmir,” the agencies have flagged.

In September 2019, Shamshe Wani of the Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) had written a letter threatening to avenge PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and NSA Ajit Doval following the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.

An input in July 2019, indicated that Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AguH), an al-Qaeda affiliate group in the Jammu and Kashmir warned India of terror attacks and had threatened PM Modi.

Similarly, according to input on May 28, 2019, a group of Pakistan based Lashkar e Taiba and JeM terrorists having Pakistan and Afghani passports aided and abetted by a Delhi-based individual planned to execute terrorist attacks in India and around Eid-ul-Fitr festival.

“According to another May 2019 input, the Indian Mujahideen has been instructed by Dawah Academy in Pakistan to target Old Delhi, Ghaziabad and Lucknow in a bid to instigate communal violence,” the agencies mentioned.

They also stated that an online article title “Lone Wolf – to carry Global Jihad” suspected to have been published in March 2019 by an operative Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), urged Bangladeshis to carry out lone-wolf attacks against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other right-wing Hindu leaders.

In a message in February 2019 to his followers, JeM’s Masood Azhar issued threats to take revenge on the Indian Prime minister for alleged killing Kashmiri Muslims.

The agencies also flagged that past inputs also indicated a threat to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Delhi region from these outfits. “It would be essential to put in place stringent access control measures, appropriate security law and order arrangements and crowd control mechanism at the venue and route of the Prime Minister,” the agencies said.

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