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Chinmayanand case: Petition by law student seeking stay on arrest in extortion case rejected by Allahabad HC

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Chinmayanand case: Petition by law student seeking stay on arrest in extortion case rejected by Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court today turned down the law student’s petition seeking a stay on arrest in the extortion case filed by Swami Chinmayanand against her, saying that it has no jurisdiction to pass the order. BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand is accused of raping the girl and he has later on filed an extortion case against her.

The court said that this was a special bench monitoring the probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the petitioner could file a similar petition in a regular court.

Moreover, Allahabad High Court’s division bench, comprising Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Manju Rani Chauhan, also turned down the woman’s plea to record her statement afresh before the magistrate under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). The court asked the woman to submit an application in this regard in the trial court.

It also expressed satisfaction over the SIT status report in a sexual assault case filed by a postgraduate student against former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand.

The law student from Shahjahanpur, who has accused former Union Minister Swami Chinmayanand of raping and physically exploiting her, was on September 20 (Friday) charged with extortion in a case filed by Chinmayanand, even as the SIT probing the case arrested him.

SIT chief Naveen Arora said the former BJP MP had confessed to “almost all” the allegations made against him, barring rape. Despite the student’s complaint, Chinmayanand was not charged with rape but was arrested under Section 376 C of the IPC, which pertains to misusing authority to seduce or induce a woman to have sexual intercourse.

The SIT also arrested the victim’s friend, a man named Sanjay Singh along with two others, who had allegedly sent a WhatsApp message demanding a ransom of Rs 5 crore from Chinmayanand on September 20.

Focus should shift from Kashmir to POK: As PM Modi alludes to ‘decisive war’ against terror, Gen Bipin Rawat talks about POK and Pakistan

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Focus should shift from Kashmir to POK: As PM Modi alludes to ‘decisive war’ against terror, Gen Bipin Rawat talks about POK and Pakistan

Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat has said that Army has war-gamed any possible action in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, and accordingly made plans. He also said that the focus should shift from J&K to PoK.

Talking to The Economic Times, General Rawat said that Pakistan will avoid a conventional war with India as it does not have capabilities for the same, instead, it will continue to wage a proxy war against India using terrorists. He said that Pakistan is supporting terrorism in Kashmir in the garb of helping the local population, and it has itself acknowledged the same. Pakistan is hungry for ‘attention’ and is adamant about ensuring third-party intervention on the Kashmir issue, he added.

Talking about any possible action in PoK, General Rawat said that the Army’s 15 Corps regularly perform war games and it is always not defensive, sometimes the games also involve crossing the border. Even 14 Corps performs such games. “So, there are plans”, he asserted.

Indian Army’s 15 Corps is based at Srinagar, and it is largely involved with counter-terrorism operations, and mainly focuses on Pakistan border. The 14 Corps is based at Leh, and it looks after both the borders with Pakistan and China.

General Rawat said that now the focus should be taken away from Jammy and Kashmir and concentrated on the other side. “It is important to take the heat off J&K. It would have to be taken to the other side — PoK and Gilgit Baltistan,” he said.

The Army chief has reiterated what several senior union ministers have already said, that now the focus will be on PoK. Last week, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had said that PoK is part of India and one day we will have physical jurisdiction over it. Last month. While announcing the abrogation of Article 370, home minister Amit Shah had also reiterated that PoK and Aksai Chin are part of India.

General Rawat also informed that Pakistan has reactivated the Balakot terror camp, which was destroyed by Indian Air Force. “Balakot has been re-activated by Pakistan, very recently. This shows Balakot was affected, it was damaged and it highlights some action was taken by the Indian Air Force at Balakot and now they have got the people back there”, he said while talking to media in Chennai today.

Lashing out at the neighbouring nation, Bipin Rawat said, “Pakistan violates ceasefire to push terrorists into our territory. We know how to deal with ceasefire violations. Our troops know how to position themselves and take action. We are alert and will ensure that maximum infiltration bids are foiled.”

He also said that at least 500 terrorists are waiting to infiltrate in India from across the border.

The comments of the Indian Army Chief come just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about a ‘Decisive War’ against terror. While addressing the ‘Howdy Modi’ event at Houston in the USA last night, Modi had said that the time for a ‘Decisive War’ against terror has come. Addressing the same event, US President Donald Trump has also raised the issue of ‘radical Islamic terrorism’, the brand of terrorism that Pakistan specialises in. We are committed to protecting innocent civilians from the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, which had drawn a huge applause from the audience.

Saradha chit fund scam: Former Kolkata Commissioner Rajeev Kumar‘s wife files anticipatory bail plea in Calcutta HC on her husband’s behalf

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Saradha chit fund scam: Former Kolkata Commissioner Rajeev Kumar‘s wife files anticipatory bail plea in Calcutta HC on her husband’s behalf

Former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, who is believed to be close Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, has filed a petition seeking anticipatory bail fearing arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) as he failed to turn up for inquisition in the Saradha Chit Fund scam.


Kumar’s plea for seeking anticipatory bail was already turned down by a court in Kolkata on Saturday. Today, Rajeev Kumar’s anticipatory bail plea was today filed his wife at the Calcutta High Court. The CBI is yet to trace Rajeev Kumar.

On Friday last week, Kumar, who is currently serving as the additional director general of West Bengal Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), moved the court seeking anticipatory bail, days after the Kolkata high court cancelled his interim protection from arrest.

The CBI advocate Kalicharan Mishra then argued that Kumar should not be granted bail “considering the social ramification of the case and in the interest of fair and transparent investigation”.

The Supreme Court has already that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has in its status report made ‘very very serious’ revelations on the interrogation of former Kolkata Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in the Saradha chit fund scam. The CBI had claimed that the police had taken charge of all evidence and documents pertaining to the investigation and a lot of it had already been caused to be disappeared.

The Saradha scam broke out into the open in 2013 when a ponzi scheme run by the Saradha Group, a consortium of over 200 private companies, collapsed after collecting hundreds and thousands of crores from over 15 lakh investors.

Senior leaders of the Trinamool Congress have been alleged to be intimately involved in the scam ever since the CBI initiated its investigation. In December 2014, state transport and sports minister, Madan Mitra, was arrested by the central investigative agency in connection with the scam. Mitra was accused of criminal conspiracy, cheating and misappropriation.

The state of West Bengal was amidst massive chaos in February 2019 after the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had resorted to ‘dharna’ politics to allegedly save herself from Saradha chit fund scam investigation. Mamata Banerjee had sat on ‘Dharna’ after Kolkata Police had forcefully detained eight CBI officials who had gone to visit police commissioner Rajeev Kumar to obtain crucial information regarding the Saradha scam.

Three Nobel winners crib to Gates Foundation about award to PM Modi: Here is who they are and why they are hypocrites

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Three Nobel winners crib to Gates Foundation about award to PM Modi: Here is who they are and why they are hypocrites

Least Sandpiper is a small, shorebird, which in Hindi is called Titahari. It is said that it sleeps with its feet held up. Legendary Hindi Satirist, Shri Harishankar Parsai wrote that the intellectuals are today are like the little shorebird which sleeps on its back with feet held up in the air with a belief that it will hold the skies when they fall. The writer has long passed away and this is one of his great quote which holds true even for today’s intellectuals. The intellectual world of today has become a well-oiled club of networkers. There are those who sit on the high table that decides to pick up those who would offer the best price and aligns the best for their future politics.

Unlike the boisterous and visually aggressive nations, you will find the Swedish and Norwegians lurking in shadows, in protest against one dam here and one nuclear power plant there, in a developing nation. If the trade is the international policy of China, Consumerism is the international policy of the US, Spirituality of India, the terror of Pakistan, Oil of the Middle-East- for the Scandinavian nations, it is silence, evangelism and activism in shadows. If Parsai was alive today, he would smirk and say that Nobel Foundation which established these Swedish awards in the memory of the Swedish inventor of Dynamite is nothing but a factory to stamp and brand spent forces as global flock of Sandpipers in a hope that they will collectively hold the skies up with the power of propaganda.

As Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, who for the first time brought a large part of India under sanitation network, goes to the US for receiving an award from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a letter surfaces signed by three Nobel Laureates opposing the same. Some say, this was inevitable as the whole sham of Nobel awards began as a PR exercise to an unkind eulogy of the Swedish inventor, albeit mistaken one (on the death of his brother), which stated that ‘Dr Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.’

The peace prize nominations have often been particularly ranging from strange to downright crazy. Yasser Arafat got the Nobel peace prize in 1994 while heading PLO, Hitler was nominated in 1939 (nomination later was withdrawn), Stalin was nominated twice, in 1945 and 1948, though he did not win. Gandhi, whose name these illustrious laureates invoke was nominated five times but was never given a Nobel. Henry Kissinger won it in 1973 before he began bombing Cambodia. As the choice of the awardees become more and more political, one takes these laureates less and less like a voice of conscience, more and more as a noise of propaganda, available on rent to any cause which can bring them more public visibility through publicity or notoriety.

The three signatories of the letter, prominently mentioning their names as Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, 2011 and 2003 respectively, are Mairead Maguire, Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman and Shirin Ebadi. This identification itself looks pretty telling when one looks at it in perspective of the statement noted author Jean-Paul Sartre made when he declined the Nobel, stating, ‘A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honourable form.’ These noted intellectuals here have allowed their complete identity merges with the award here. Sartre would surely have had a hearty laugh merely looking at the way signatories define themselves.

The letter of three Nobel Laureates reeks of unread, tutored rhetoric. They invoke the message on Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website to start the letter, which reads as “All lives have equal value”. They forget that equality is the basic thing which was missing in the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution which was applicable to the State of Jammu and Kashmir before the abrogation of Article 370. The Preamble of the erstwhile constitution of Kashmir copies the Preamble of Indian Constitution with two differences – It does not mention the word ‘Secular’ and it does not mention the phrase ‘Equality of Status and opportunity’. I am not even going to the Constitution of Islamic State of Pakistan which does not have a locus-standi here on a matter pertaining to the state which acceded to India in 1947. That the so-called votaries of equality are picking the fight on behalf of a state which is an Islamic theocracy makes their invocation of Equality to restore either a Muslim-majoritarian state or a fully Islamic state in Kashmir is sad and funny simultaneously.

Mairead Maguire has been on her part, pretty interesting character. She was deported from Israel in 2010 and from Egypt in 2013. The lady does not know facts and follows the propaganda, claiming that under Modi, since 2014, India has descended into chaos and violence. She ignores the fact the mobocracy as a phenomenon is something the British left India with, having highly politicized the police force. She also ignores the fact that apart from much-publicized three or four cases of mob-violence in a nation of 135 Crore people, over a period of now almost six years, there neither has been any major terror attack against the civilian population nor has there been any communal riots. The illustrious propagandists also mention that in Assam, 1.9 million ‘Indians’ have been stripped of citizenship. They forget that illegal immigrants are not the citizen of the state they invade illegally. The same Supreme Court whose order they refer to in the context of mobocracy instructed the Government to bring in NRC, is something they conveniently forget.

The signatories lament that the Government has kept people without internet for a month. Social media has been used extensively to cause disturbances in the valley, create violence, with the last one being the suicide attack on Indian Forces causing the loss of around fifty human life. Do these laureates suggest that the desire of people to use internet outweighs the responsibility of the Government to protect human lives? We do know that for the Western intellectuals, human lives in India mean little. But for the Government of India, it is the solemn responsibility to protect human lives, offer equality of opportunities and to provide a secular environment across India in which no region is given special anti-women, anti-Dalit rights because it is home to the majority of one particular religion.

The pretenders can go home and find comfort in the fact that the political journey of Ms Mairead started with an unfortunate accident by a Jeep driven by IRA rebels under attack by the British Army, who were fighting for self-determination of Irish people, is today arguing the case for Self-Determination in that part of India which acceded to India through legitimate Article of Accession. The Peace People had, in the context of Irish Armed revolution, on the death of a young boy with plastic bullet, released a clear statement stating that – We (the Peace people) do not equate the vicious and determined terrorism of the Republican and Loyalist paramilitary forces with those ‘occasional’ instances when members of the security forces may have stepped beyond the rule of law.

The hypocrisy of the same people now standing with the motivated religious terrorists (who incidentally killed three Kashmiri people since the abrogation of Article 370) is for everyone to see. They had also mentioned that in context of Ireland, “each individual must exercise his or her conscience bearing in mind that while we do not wish to create a community riddled with suspicion or a landscape dotted with new prisons, such an outcome might be preferable to the unending tragedy of innocents shot, burned or blown to bits.”Unlike the usual practice of Nobel Laureates to commit the prize money to popular cause, Ms Mairead kept it to herself, which is another matter. We do not actually know if she was really driven by a genuine interest in case of Kashmir looking at her record and her previously stated position on State vs. terror. The group led by noble Ms Mairead has written to Bill and Melinda Gates, asking them to not award Mr Narendra Modi, without mentioning facts, rather explaining their own preference. Reading their letter, I cannot but thank Parsai for so wonderfully defining these hypocrites as what they truly represent. The world has seen through their hypocrisy and varying stand when the victims of terror are of white skin or brown.

The other lady, Tawakkol Karman till recently was a member of Yemeni Al-Islah often charged to be a part of the Muslim Brotherhood. Both Tawakkol and Shirin Ebadi are known, feminists. One can only hope that they know the discrimination against women was integral to the Article 370, which has been abrogated by Indian Government, as women of Kashmir lost ancestral rights if they married out of Kashmir. They can in the meantime, religious rants under the garb of human rights, based on selective inputs of the lobbyists on behalf of whom they act.

They can continue lying on their backs with legs held up in the air. The world has nevertheless, moved on, in its fight against religious intolerance and fanatical nation-states founded on the basis of religion, using terror as a tool of democracy.

Pakistan court denies judicial probe for the death of Hindu medical student found dead in hostel room

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Pakistan court denies judicial probe for the death of Hindu medical student found dead in hostel room

Pakistan has denied justice to the young Hindu student, Namrita Chandani, a final year BDS student in the Bibi Asifa Dental College of Larkana, Pakistan who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her hostel room on September 16.


Larkana district and sessions judge in Pakistan has reportedly declined to hold a judicial enquiry into her death. She was found lying down with a rope tied around her neck while her room was locked from inside.

On September 20, the Sindh Police had finally arrested two students in connection with the murder of Namrita Chandani. The two suspects have been taken into the custody by the police after they traced the call data from Namrita’s cell phone.

The mysterious murder of Namrita has raised suspicions whether they were attempts to forceful conversions, which has become rampant in Pakistan especially in Sindh.

The police and other authorities have tried to downplay the incident by saying that she committed suicide. However, her family has asserted that she was murdered. Her brother, Vishal who is a medical consultant, said that the preliminary checkup showed that she was murdered.

The police and other authorities, initially trying to pass off the incident as suicide and now Pakistan’ court denying judicial inquiry into the case, throws light on the apathy of the Pakistani authorities towards the Hindu minorities in the country.

The mysterious death of Hindu student Namrita came just a day after violence against minority Hindus was unleashed by Muslims from Ghotki, Pakistan, the region where the deceased hailed from. Ghotki, a city in Pakistan’s Sindh province has been known for the persecution of Hindus, who are in minority in Pakistan.

On September 15, following an allegation of blasphemy against a Hindu school principal, Hindu temples, shops and homes of minority Hindus were ransacked by Muslim rioters. However, later it was revealed that the attack on Hindus was a pre-planned event to cover-up a child abduction incident. The school principal had thwarted efforts by giving refuge to one of the Hindu girls, who was abducted by associates of child kidnapper Mian Mitho.

Moreover, there have been innumerable cases of abduction and forced conversion of minority Hindu’s in Pakistan which is notoriously known for its persecution of not only religious minorities but also ethnic minorities within their own country.

Jammu and Kashmir: Security forces recover 40 kg explosives from Kathua region, averts a major terror attack

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Jammu and Kashmir: Security forces recover 40 kg explosives from Kathua region, averts a major terror attack

The security forces on Monday recovered 40 kgs of explosives from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua region, averting a major possible terror attack.

The seizure of the explosives was made during a search operation in Dewal village of Dilawal area of Kathua. Following a tip-off, the troops of Army’s Intelligence Corps and Jammu and Kashmir Police undertook a joint operation and conducted a search at a suspected location and recovered a cache of locally-made explosives foiling a possible attack.

According to reports, one person has been arrested in the connection with recovery of the explosives and is currently being interrogated. Further details are awaited.

Earlier in the day Army chief, Bipin Rawat while speaking to the media in Chennai revealed that Pakistan had reactivated the Balakot terror camp.

“Balakot has been re-activated by Pakistan, very recently. This shows Balakot was affected, it was damaged and it highlights some action was taken by the Indian Air Force at Balakot and now they have got the people back there”, the Army chief said in a statement.


Lashing out at the neighbouring nation, Bipin Rawat said, “Pakistan violates ceasefire to push terrorists into our territory. We know how to deal with ceasefire violations. Our troops know how to position themselves and take action. We are alert and will ensure that maximum infiltration bids are foiled.”

He also said that at least 500 terrorists are waiting to infiltrate in India from across the border.

Pakistan, which has been left completely rattled by the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir has been persistently trying to push terrorists across the border into the Valley. It has time and again threatened India with ‘attacks’. There has also been an increased threat of terror attacks initiated by Pakistan supported by Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI.

Yesterday, Pakistan once again violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir with mortars being fired in Mendhar sector of Poonch district.

On September 12, arms and ammunition were recovered during routine checking at Lakhanpur border in Kathua. It is reported that the weapons were being brought to Srinagar from Amritsar in Punjab. Moreover, three terrorists had been arrested and six AK-47 rifles along with Rs 4.5 lakh cash have been recovered from them.

Earlier it was reported how the Indian security agencies have recently cracked some code words being used by the Pakistani Army and terrorist groups along the other side of LoC to communicate with terrorists active inside Jammu and Kashmir. As per reports, the coded messages are being sent through FM stations installed along the LoC in PoK.

Many attempts by Pakistan’s BAT forces and terrorist groups to push infiltrators have also been thwarted by Indian forces.

There had also been a sudden surge in the instances of ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the LoC at different sectors. A report by the Indian Army has mentioned that since August 5, there had been over 300 instances of ceasefire violation by Pakistan.

Recently, the Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson, Raveesh Kumar also confirmed that there has been more than 2,050 unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistan forces this year, furthering that at least 21 Indians had died due to the said violations by the Pakistani forces.

Defunct schools and 50,000 closed temples in Kashmir valley will be reopened: Union Minister G Kishan Reddy

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Defunct schools and 50,000 closed temples in Kashmir valley will be reopened: Union Minister G Kishan Reddy

The Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Monday declared that a committee has been set up by the government to survey the number of closed schools in the Kashmir valley which will be reopened. Reddy also stated that around 50,000 temples in the Kashmir Valley have closed down over the years. Of these, some were destroyed while the idols in some temples were defiled. The government has ordered a survey of such temples, he said.


The decision to survey abandoned and desecrated temples, defunct schools in the Valley comes after the state of Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its separate status following the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcated into two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh by the Modi-led government on August 5, 2019.

For almost 3 decades now, Jammu and Kashmir has been in the throes of Islamic extremism as schools and temples in the state bore the brunt of rising radicalism in the state. The indigenous Kashmiri Pandit community was driven out of the state in 1989 after Islamic radicals unleashed terror in the Valley, triggering Pandits’ exodus from the state.

With reviving schools and temples in the state, the government aims to prune down the extremism in the state and proceed in the direction of repatriation of Kashmiri Pandit community back in Jammu and Kashmir and amend a historical wrong.

Yesterday, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy threatened Pakistan saying that if they fight a war with India, it will be wiped out from the face of the earth. Pakistan has been desperately trying to raise the issue of abrogation of Article 370 on international forums but it has not been taken seriously by the western countries as they rally behind India and declared India’s move to rescind Article 370 as its internal matter.

Home Minister Amit Shah proposes a single multipurpose ID card, census of 2021 to be digital using mobile app

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Home Minister Amit Shah proposes a single multipurpose ID card, census of 2021 to be digital using mobile app

The Home Minister of India Amit Shah on Monday proposed the idea of a single multipurpose identity card for citizens. He said that such a multipurpose ID card can include various utilities such as Aadhar, passport, election card, driving license, and bank accounts. Shah also said that the census in 2021 will be conducted digitally, via a mobile app.


“We can have just one card for all utilities like Aadhaar, passport, election card, bank account, driving licence, voter card. This is a potential,” Shah said. Shah further added that there should be a mechanism that when a person dies, the information in the population data should be updated automatically.

At an event in Delhi, Shah also hinted at the government’s preference of going for a digital census. He stated that a mobile app will be used in the next census of India which will be carried out in 2021. “A mobile app will be used in Census 2021. It will be a transformation from paper census to digital census,” Shah said.

This is the first time country’s census would be conducted digitally. The last census was carried out in 2011 when the country’s population came out around 121 crores. Earlier this year, in March, the government had announced that the next census would be conducted in 2 phases with March 2021 as the reference date. The notification issued by the government said that for states such as Jammu and Kashmir, snow-bound areas of Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal, the reference date shall be the first day of October 2020.

Shah said the Census 2021 data will be the base for the country’s future planning, development initiatives and welfare schemes and people’s wholehearted participation is key to the success of the exercise. “India’s total 130 crore population should be informed about its benefits. How the census data could be used for future planning, development initiatives and welfare schemes. The utilisation of census data is multi-dimensional and will be a significant contribution in nation’s progress,” he said.

The home minister said that the census will help in demarcating boundaries of municipal wards, assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies. He appealed to census officials to carry out the exercises sincerely as this is an opportunity for them to do ‘Punya’.

Karnataka: Congress MLA Byrathi Suresh was responsible for Siddaramaiah’s son death, alleges disqualified Congress MLA MTB Nagaraj

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Karnataka: Congress MLA Byrathi Suresh was responsible for Siddaramaiah’s son death, alleges disqualified Congress MLA MTB Nagaraj

In a shocking allegation, disqualified Congress MLA MTB Nagaraj on Sunday stated that Hebbal MLA and Congress leader Byrathi Suresh was the reason behind the death of former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s son, Rakesh. Rakesh died mysteriously in Belgium in 2016 after a multiple-organ failure.

According to the reports, Hosakote MLA MTB Nagaraj has blamed Byrathi Suresh for the death of Rakesh Siddaramaiah. MTB Nagaraj said that Rakesh Siddaramaiah would have lived for another 50 years if not for Byrathi Suresh. Nagaraj alleged that Suresh had encouraged the bad habits of Rakesh, which eventually led to his death while he was travelling in Europe.

Speaking to the reporters, “He (Suresh) is a baccha (kid) in politics. Suresh is the prime reason behind Siddaramaiah’s son’s demise. He was the one who spoilt Rakesh. Siddaramaiah’s son would have lived for years had he not gotten mixed up in the wrong company of Suresh.”

Byrathi Suresh, the Congress MLA from Hebbal constituency in Karnataka, is considered to be a close aide of Siddaramaiah and is one of the wealthiest leaders from the state.

The controversial allegations were made after there were speculations that Byrati Suresh’s wife Padmavati would be contesting for the Congress in the upcoming elections from the Hosakote seat. Last week, it was announced that bye-elections will be held in Karnataka on October 21.

Launching an attack on Hebbal MLA Suresh, Nagaraj said, “I do not need to learn politics from Byrathi Suresh. I know how he made his money. Better he keeps quite. He is still a child in politics.”

MTB Nagaraj, a disqualified MLA, was a very close aide to former CM Sidharamaiah. As he decided to withdraw his support to the Congress-JDS coalition, MTB Nagaraj was disqualified by Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar along with 16 others.

Meanwhile, Byrathi Suresh has hit back against MTB Nagaraj, stated that former Hosakote MLA’s remarks showed his desperation as he feared losing the deposit if he contested by-polls from Hoskote. “Rakesh was like a brother to me,” he said.

PM Modi repeats old ‘Ab ki baar Trump Sarkar’ slogan in Houston: The Democrats literally asked for it, starting right from Hillary Clinton

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PM Modi repeats old ‘Ab ki baar Trump Sarkar’ slogan in Houston: The Democrats literally asked for it, starting right from Hillary Clinton

Prime Minister Narendra Modi heaped praises on US President Donald Trump during the #HowdyModi event. He introduced the POTUS to his ‘family’ of the thousands and thousands of people of Indian origin who had gathered at Houston. Significantly enough, Modi mentioned both of their trademark catchphrases which will no doubt cause many heartburns.

“Make America Great Again,” said Narendra Modi although he cloaked it effectively by using it in a longer sentence. At another point, while talking about when Trump was a candidate, he said, “Abki Baar Trump Sarkar,” a phrase Donald Trump had used to endear himself to the Indian American community during his presidential campaign. This wasn’t Narendra Modi campaigning for Donald Trump or endorsing him as President as some would like to believe. This was Narendra Modi sending a message to those who wish to interfere in the internal affairs of India: Words have consequences.

The US in 2019 is a deeply divided country. Thus, Narendra Modi embracing Donald Trump and praising him effusively when he is a deeply polarizing figure in American politics does carry a significant message for Trump’s political opponents as well. It also demonstrates how the Indian government perceives the current crop of Democrats attempting to defeat Trump in 2020.

Those who have been keeping a watch on American politics will know that the Democrat party has been hijacked by a radical bunch of Postmodernist Leftists whose opinions and policy statements are at odds with stability and prosperity. It has made Trump’s reelection bid much easier and they are taking policy positions that are making them extremely unpopular with the average American. And with the comments they made following the abrogation of Article 370, they have made Democrats unpopular with important allies of the United States such as India.

To be clear, Narendra Modi has also shared a turbulent relationship with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump’s rival in the 2016 Presidential elections. Therefore, heaping effusive praises on Donald Trump could very well be Narendra Modi’s way of gloating on Hillary’s defeat. It might be his way of paying one of the most corrupt US politicians to ever run for office in her own coin. It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton wanted to “get Modi” in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots.

In 2014, retired US officials had revealed that “during the tenure in office of Secretary Clinton, several expert teams in the guise of NGOs were sent to Gujarat to try and find mass graves”. “Hillary Clinton likes to operate through NGOs, which are given funding through indirect channels, and which target individuals and countries seen as less than respectful to her views on foreign and domestic policy in the target countries,” it was further revealed.

One retired official claimed that “rather than US NGOs, (the former) Secretary of State Clinton favoured operating through organizations based in the Netherlands, Denmark and the Scandinavian countries, especially Norway” as these were outside the radar of big power politics. It was also claimed that these NGOs were responsible for the protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant protests. Foreign interference in these protests is something that even then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had claimed at the time. Therefore, it’s no wonder that Narendra Modi had scores to settle with Hillary Clinton.

It is also pertinent to mention here that Sonia Gandhi’s NAC which had drafted the anti-Hindu Communal Violence Bill comprised of members who were associated with various foreign funded NGOs. Therefore, it’s not difficult to imagine a situation where Hillary Clinton pursued her policy objectives through these very same NGOs which had their men in Sonia Gandhi’s NAC. Furthermore, since taking office, Modi Sarkar has waged a war against FCRA NGOs. Therefore, some much-needed medication for the Corrupt Clinton was definitely on the cards.

Having said that, the current bunch of Democrat Presidential hopefuls with the notable exception of Tulsi Gabbard and to a lesser extent, Joe Biden, are rabidly anti-India. It’s not surprising considering the fact that Islamists are one of their most important voter-base. Some of them have even been elected to the US House of Representatives. And in the Democratic Primaries, prominent Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has been taking the Jihadist line on Kashmir after being sucked into it by the likes of Ilhan Omar.

Even on Sunday, crazy old Bernie thought it was a good idea to needle the Indian Prime Minister with his opinions on Kashmir. He wrote in an article, “The Modi-Trump rally is happening at a moment when the state of Kashmir remains under lockdown. In early August, Modi’s government unilaterally revoked Kashmir’s longstanding autonomy, has cracked down on dissent, jailed political leaders and instituted a communications blackout.”

He went on to assert, ” I believe the U.S. president must speak clearly in support of international humanitarian law and in support of a UN-backed peaceful resolution between India and Pakistan that respects the will of the Kashmiri people.” He also condemned Trump for abandoning what he calls the USA’s “global leadership role”. He also promised to “make the promotion of democracy and human rights a priority for the United States.”

Now, it is understandable why Narendra Modi wouldn’t take kindly to it. India cannot have anyone meddling with its internal affairs. It’s something the New India will not tolerate. Therefore, it demanded a response and a response is what the Democrats received at Houston.

Bernie Sanders has made such comments on Kashmir earlier as well. He called India’s actions “unacceptable” and that “and the communications blockade must be lifted immediately, and the US government must be speak out boldly in support of international humanitarian live and in support of a UN backed peaceful resolution”. This was after Ilhan Omar, another prominent face of the Democrats with a very shady past, made similar remarks on Kashmir.

Omar said, “We should be calling for an immediate restoration of communication; respect for human rights, democratic norms, and religious freedom; and de-escalation in Kashmir. International organizations should be allowed to fully document what is happening on the ground.” Other than these two, numerous other Democrats had made very problematic remarks on Kashmir that, no doubt, made the Indian government extremely wary of them. Therefore, a response had to be made.

If all of this were not enough, George Soros, a prominent Democrat donor who has time and again interfered in the internal affairs of various countries through his network of NGOs, met with Imran Khan at around the same time. From the perspective of the Indian government, this was a major Democrat Donor colluding with an enemy. It is also pertinent to remember that many FCRA NGOs that receive foreign funds from George Soros have been trying to further political objectives in India.


Thus, quite naturally, the Indian government believes Donald Trump is much better for Indian national interests than the Democrats looking to unseat him. Donald Trump’s trade war with China is also extremely conducive to boost the Indian economy. We have been saying at OpIndia.com that we will see more and more cooperation between the two countries as the US takes on the Chinese regime. It is inevitable as India is the only regional power that can stand up to China. We demonstrated it admirably during the confrontation with the Chinese at Doklam.

Under sich circumstances, the Democrat leadership alienated the Indian administration, something it really shouldn’t have done. Combined with the turbulent relationship that Narendra Modi shares with Hillary Clinton, Trump is the bullet that he used to drive a point home. The Democrats hate Trump, they can’t stand him at all. Thus, by embracing him and showering him with compliments, Narendra Modi has sent an important message.

Do not interfere with the internal affairs of India. We are a sovereign country, the custodian of a civilization with a 5000-year-old history. We shall not tolerate attempts to infringe upon our sovereignty. We respect the internal matters of other countries and we expect them to observe the same courtesy in their relationship with us. We do not seek to impose our values on other countries and we shall not tolerate anyone attempting to impose their values on us. If such terms are violated, a response will be served. To Hillary Clinton, the message was simple, Vengeance is a dish best served cold.

Many people are speculating that Democrats will turn hostile against India should they return to power next year or in 2024. However, their concerns appear to be misguided. In 2020, Donald Trump appears set for reelection. It is extremely unlikely that the Democrats will be able to win the Presidency given their conduct in the past couple of years.

By 2024, India will be in a much stronger position and the Democrat establishment may well not be in a position to hurt India in manner. Thus, Narendra Modi made a calculated gamble that four more years of Trump will give India enough of a window to establish ourselves firmly in the global arena thus neutering the threat of a severe Democrat backlash.

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