Home Blog Page 6265

Delhi MP sends list of illegally built Mosques, Muslim shrines, Madrasas and cemeteries on govt property to Lieutenant Governor

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Delhi MP sends list of illegally built Mosques, Muslim shrines, Madrasas and cemeteries on govt property to Lieutenant Governor

The member of parliament from Delhi Pravesh Verma today met the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Anil Baijal in regard to the illegal encroachment of government land for construction of mosques, cemetery, madrasas and Muslim shrines. He has submitted a list of 54 such government land on which illegal mosque and graveyard were erected.

In the letter written to the Lt Governor, the MP from the West Delhi Lok Sabha seat alleged that there exist 54 mosques, Muslim shrines, madrasas and cemeteries built on land that actually belonged to Delhi government. The Lieutenant Governor has assured him that all these places will be investigated and if his allegations are proven true then the government authorities will take control of such properties.

Letter written to LG by BJP MP Pravesh Verma (Source: India TV)

According to Verma’s letter, the construction was done on grounds of Gram Sabha, flood department, food department, DDA and MCD where parks, public toilets and community centres were envisioned to be constructed. Pravesh Verma has urged the Governor to constitute a committee of the heads of the concerned District Magistrates and concerned departments and order an investigation wherever the illegal occupations are held.

List of encroached land submitted by MP Verma (Source: India TV)

MP Verma said, “When the elections start approaching, construction of religious structures like mosques, Muslim shrines and graveyards starts commencing. I only have an objection to the construction of these structures on government land illegally. There are 54 such places where mosques and graveyards are built. The list of the unlawfully encroached land that has been sent to Lt Governor includes lands belonging to the 4 Lok Sabha constituencies of Delhi. Such illegal occupation has happened in other constituencies of Delhi as well.”

Another minor Hindu girl abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan’s Hyderabad, accused identified as Syed Irshad Shah

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Another minor Hindu girl abducted and forcibly converted to Islam in Pakistan’s Hyderabad, accused identified as Syed Irshad Shah

The fury over recent incidents of kidnapping, forcible conversion and marriages of Hindu girls in Pakistan had not yet settled when another such case has been reported from Pakistan’s Hyderabad district.

A 13-year-old Pooja Sotahar Kumari, daughter of Fatan Rathore, resident of village Bakhsho Laghari in Hyderabad district’s Hosri Taluka, was kidnapped, forcefully converted and subsequently married to a man identified as Syed Irshad Shah.


The police have registered an FIR under section 365-B (kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel for marriage) of the Pakistan Penal Code after the victim’s father lodged a complaint at Hoosri police station in Hyderabad district of Pakistan. They were accompanied to the police station by the human rights activist and advocate Akhtar Laghari.

Police confirmed that a first information report (FIR) over the alleged kidnapping of the Hindu girl from Paban’s Bakhsho Leghari village has been registered and two suspects, which included Irshad’s brother, have been apprehended. The primary accused, however, is still absconding, confirmed the police at the Paban police station.

They also said that the investigation is on and they are yet to recover the missing victim.

There have been many such cases reported in the recent past. On March 20, two underage Hindu girls Raveena (13) and Reena (15) were abducted from their home in Pakistan’s Sindh on the eve of Holi. The girls were later forcefully converted and married off to older Muslim men. The case had generated widespread outrage among the minority Hindus of Pakistan who have been struggling for their rights under apathetic governments in Pakistan.

Within days of this deplorable incident, another Hindu minor girl belonging to the Meghwar community was also allegedly kidnapped from Tando Bagho in Badin district in Pakistan’s Sindh province.

Recently, a report released by the Members of the European Parliament (MEP) threw light on the plight of religious minorities in Pakistan. The report claims that around 1000 girls from religious minorities are forcibly converted to Islam every year. The numbers might be higher as many cases are not even reported.

The report provides a pattern of how such cases are dealt with authorities, how it acts as a deterrence for the minority communities in filing cases. The local police are often biased in favour of the majority community. As soon as the incidents of abduction and rape become public, the abductors tend to marry off the victim in an attempt to clear the suspicion of sexual assault.

This is often followed by abductors filing counter-complaints against the victim’s family of harassing the girl and conspiring to convert her back. If a case somehow reaches the court, the victim is required to testify whether she converted and married out of her own free will. Since in most cases, the victim remains in the custody of the abductor during the course of proceedings, she is forced to testify that she converted out of her own free will and the case is closed.

Batla House: The encounter where killing of two Indian Mujahideen terrorists made Sonia Gandhi ‘cry bitterly’

Nirwa Mehta
-
0
Batla House: The encounter where killing of two Indian Mujahideen terrorists made Sonia Gandhi ‘cry bitterly’

John Abraham starrer Batla House film is set to be released on 15th August. The film’s trailer was released yesterday.

The trailer starts with a scene where Delhi Police officials are readying for a raid in a small house. An encounter ensues between the police officers and men in the room who are eventually killed. This leads to a huge uproar that the encounter was a fake one.

Batla House encounter

The film is based on true events which transpired in the heart of national capital on 19th September 2008. The men killed in the encounter were Indian Mujahideen terrorists, Atif Ameen and Mohammad Sajid. Mohammad Saif was arrested and Shahzad and Junaid managed to escape.

The beginning

On 13th September 2008, the national capital was rocked by five serial blasts. At 6:07 PM, one blast took place at the busy Ghaffar Market. When the injured were taken to nearby RML Hospital, an explosive kept in a car nearby exploded. Soon after, two blasts took place in the busy Connaught Place. Eyewitnesses claim they saw two men put explosives inside a dustbin. Minutes later two more blasts took place at M-block market in Greater Kailash 1.


Prior to Delhi blasts, Jaipur (13 May), Bengaluru (25 July) and Ahmedabad (26 July) had witnessed serial blasts killing dozens. Indian Mujahideen had claimed responsibility of the bomb blasts. Atif Ameen, who was killed in the Batla House encounter, was the chief bomber of Indian Mujahideen.

The encounter

A week after the serial blasts, a team of seven Delhi Police officials, led by encounter specialist Mohan Chand Sharma reached L-18, Batla House. The Police team was working on a specific input that a man wanted in serial blasts was hiding in Batla House in Jamia Nagar.

Police attempted to storm the second floor flat of the building. It was followed by heavy firing from both sides. In the exchange, Atif Ameen and Mohammad Sajid were killed. Mohammad Saif was arrested while Shahzad and Junaid managed to escape. Police Inspector Sharma was also injured and later succumbed to his injuries and head constable Balwinder was injured. One of the terrorists who escaped is believed to have become an ISIS recruiter.

The aftermath

Following the killings of the terrorists, the human rights activists were up in the arms against Delhi Police. Jamia Teachers’ Soliditary Association (JTSA) organised ‘Jan Sunwais’ or Kangaroo courts where testimonies were taken to portray the encounter as ‘fake’. Prashant Bhushan, Arundhati Roy and Kavita Krishnan were amongst the ones who attended these. Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University teachers also joined in.

“Sonia Gandhi ro padi”

Meanwhile, Salman Khurshid, a senior Congress leader, in one of his rallies during 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, had said that Sonia Gandhi, the then Congress President cried bitterly after seeing the images of the slain terrorists.

Khurshid had said, “When we showed Sonia Gandhi the images of the ‘incident’, she started crying bitterly and with folded hands, she said please do not show me these pictures. Immediately go and speak to the Wazir-e-Azam (Dr Manmohan Singh) and discuss the mater. I talked to the PM and it was decided that the matter will be further investigated.”

However, the party, later on, got into firefighting mode and Congress’ Digvijaya Singh denied any such meeting. Congress leader Pervez Hashmi, who was part of the delegation that met Sonia Gandhi also denied having seen her cry. “She was worried,” he had then clarified. Eventually, 7 years later, even Khurshid said that she never cried.

The incident of killing of terrorists which may or may not have made the president of the party which was heading the coalition government at Centre at that time cry is now going to be on the celluloid.

For long, uncomfortable incidents have been shoved under the rug, mainly, because the political dispensation rather keeps the memories of the horrors that befell the nation silent. One recalls the uproar when Madhur Bhandarkar made ‘Indu Sarkar’ which was based on the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi, or when recently, Vivek Agnihotri made a movie based on Lal Bahadur Shashtri. Perhaps one can be hopeful, that the collective Omerta that has bound Bollywood to the Congress party is finally, at the end of its natural life cycle.

Former TDP MLA Prabhakar Reddy says that Telugu Desam Party will merge into BJP

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Former TDP MLA Prabhakar Reddy says that Telugu Desam Party will merge into BJP

Former MLA of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) JC Prabhakar Reddy said today that the party led by Chandrababu Naidu will merge into the BJP. He says that there are no permanent friends or foes in politics.


Prabhakar Reddy is the brother of former Telugu Desam Party MP JC Diwakar Reddy. According to him, PM Modi would greatly benefit from Chandrababu Naidu’s ideas and experiences.

He also said, “PM Modi believes in Chandrababu Naidu and now, BJP is also realising the need of the TDP because BJP leader Kishan Reddy indicated it during his recent visit to Andhra Pradesh”.

Just yesterday senior leader Chandu Sambasiva Rao had decided to quit from the TDP. He would be joining the BJP on July 14. Last month 4 out of the 6 Telugu Desam Party MPs have resigned from the party. S Chowdary, CM Ramesh, TG Venkatesh, the TDP MPs from Andhra Pradesh and lone party MP from Telangana Garikapati Mohan Rao had passed a resolution following their decision to quit the party and join BJP.

Recently, the Congress-JDS coalition government has faced trouble in the state of Karnataka. 15 MLAs had resigned from the party. In today’s SC hearing, the court has permitted the rebel MLAs to to meet the Assembly Speaker and submit their resignations. While in Goa, 10 out of 15 Congress MLAs have quit the party and merged with BJP.

Filing PILs for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code is a bad idea, here’s why

K Bhattacharjee
-
0
Filing PILs for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code is a bad idea, here’s why

Senior Advocate and spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ashwini Upadhyay, has been waging a battle in the Courts for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code. He had filed a PIL seeking a direction to the Central Government to draft a UCC in the spirit of the Constitution.

On the face of it, Upadhyay’s intentions appear noble. However, as the wise men say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Therefore, we ought to consider the PIL on the basis of its own merit and not the virtue of its intentions. For when consequences are terrible, good intentions are little consolation.

Implementation of the UCC should be the sole prerogative of the elected Central Government, not the Judiciary. It ought to be left to people who have been elected by the citizens of this country. An unelected body, which has developed tyrannical tendencies in recent times, should have nothing to do with it. If the Judiciary starts interfering with consequential matters such as the UCC, then what is the point of voting in elections?

Upadhyay’s PIL does not wish for the Judiciary to interfere with its drafting. He merely wants a direction to be issued to the Law Commission in that particular regard. However, whether such a code should be drafted at all should be entirely the prerogative of the elected government. If they do not, then it should be the responsibility of the voters to hold them accountable, not the Judiciary. If the elected government believes that the UCC is not a necessity, then it is up to the voters to either reward or punish them, not the Supreme Judiciary.

The person who filed the current PIL is a member of the party with 303 MPs in the Lok Sabha. Instead of involving the Judiciary, a better strategy would be getting the top leadership of the BJP on board with his plans. His party has the strength to bulldoze through the idea if it’s serious about it. A PIL appears to be a misguided strategy.

The larger issue is the constant ground that the elected government, over the course of the past three decades, has been ceding to the Judiciary. For much of the time period, India was ruled by coalition governments which often had parties with antagonistic ideologies in power. As a consequence, governments often found it hard to take hard decisions on consequential matters. While the government abdicated its responsibilities, the Judiciary saw it as an opportunity to extend its own power. And as a result, the ‘tyranny of the unelected‘ became rampant in the country.

When the BJP was elected to power in 2014 with a resounding majority, it had the opportunity to thwart the devious schemes of the Judiciary. Initially, it even made efforts to disband the Collegium system through the NJAC. However, after the Judiciary unconstitutionally deemed it illegal despite the fact that it was passed by all necessary legislative bodies, the NDA government abandoned its efforts.

In 2019, the country has again reposed its faith on Narendra Modi and elected him to power with an even greater majority. Therefore, it’s of paramount importance that it bells the cat and puts the Judiciary in its place. The government should tell the Judiciary clearly that it has no business issuing it any orders in matters such as the UCC. One would have expected members of the party to realize the manner in which the Judiciary has been usurping the power of the elected. That a spokesperson of the party himself approached the Courts in the matter is concerning indeed.

Not only the UCC, the government should stamp its feet on Rohingyas, the Ram Mandir issue and Sabarimala as well. The government cannot afford to abdicate its responsibility any longer. When unelected tyrants who are not accountable to Indian citizens in any manner usurp the powers of the elected, the country suffers.

The government fiddled when the Judiciary sanctioned the desecration of the Sabarimala Temple. The government has been maintaining a stoic silence while the Supreme Court does everything it can to avoid issuing a verdict on the Ram Janambhoomi case. An argument can also be made that the Judiciary was interfering in the elections, either willingly or unwittingly, by prolonging its hearings on the Rafale Deal. Somehow, the matter has gone unusually quiet after the results were declared.

The Judiciary of the country has acquired tyrannical tendencies and is actively subverting the will of the people. Its judgments are often contradictory and fails to inspire the trust of citizens. In certain cases, it waxes eloquence on the freedom of expression of individuals while on others, it asks individuals to apologize for a meme. The Supreme Court allowed the desecration of the Sabarimala, however, it refused to even entertain a PIL that seeks to permit the entry of Muslim women in Mosques. While it takes up PILs filed by Rohingyas, it prevaricates when it comes to the Ram Janambhoomi case.

As such, the primary responsibility of the government is to put a leash on it. The members of the ruling party should not be inviting the Judiciary to further infringe upon the domain of the elected.

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee quoted MBA from unrecognised IIPM in election affidavit, summoned by Delhi court in fake degree case

OpIndia Staff
-
0
TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee quoted MBA from unrecognised IIPM in election affidavit, summoned by Delhi court in fake degree case

A special court in Delhi has issued summons to TMC MP and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, directing him to appear before the court before 25th July 2019 in a case related to the fake degree. The case was filed by a Supreme Court advocate Sarthak Chaturvedi against the TMC MP from Diamond Harbour in West Bengal.


According to the petitioner Sarthak Chaturvedi, the Abhishek Banerjee had furnished wrong details about his educational qualifications in the affidavit submitted by him during elections. Sarthak has alleged that in 2014 elections, Banerjee has submitted in the affidavit that he has completed his MBA degree from a particular university which is not recognised.

According to the affidavits submitted by Banerjee during 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he obtained an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) in the year 2009. The 2019 affidavit additionally mentions “as per affiliation degree received from I.M.I., Belgium”.

Abhishek Banerjee’s 2014 affidavit

It may be noted that the notorious institute IIPM was never accredited by UGC or AICTE, and in a landmark judgement in 2014, the Delhi High Court had categorically asked IIPM to stop offering any undergraduate or postgraduate degree, and also to not use words like BBA and MBA in its advertisements as it was not authorised to issue such degrees. The Court had also ordered the institute promoted by Arindam Chaudhuri to prominently display on its website that they are not recognized by any statutory body/authority.

Abhishek Banerjee’s 2019 affidavit

IIPM had said that its degrees are from International Management Institute (IMI) in Belgium, but during investigations, it was found that IMI was set up by Chaudhuri himself and his father Malay Chaudhuri, and it was not even recognized by the laws of Belgium.

In 2015 IIPM had announced that it is closing down all its educational institutes across the country. When IIPM was operating, both UGC and AICTE had issued numerous notices warning the student community that it was not recognised by them. A notice issued by UGC last year reiterates that IIPM is not a University as per laws and it is not allowed to offer any degree including BBA, MBA and MCA.

As Banerjee’s affidavits mention that he has an MBA degree from IIPM, it is clearly an unrecognised degree according to courts and statutory organisations.

In a separate case, Abhishek Banerjee’s wife is accused of carrying 2 kg gold at Kolkata airport while returning from Thailand, which she had not declared. She even allegedly opposed and refused to allow their baggage to be searched. Purportedly, West Bengal police had intervened in the matter and prevented the customs authorities to take further actions on the instructions of Abhishek Banerjee. The Calcutta HC asked his wife to appear before the authorities. Refuting the allegations, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee asserted that he would quit politics if any of the charges against her are proved.

Congress data analytics head takes a dig at Congress for making him a scapegoat by referring to cricket world cup

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Congress data analytics head takes a dig at Congress for making him a scapegoat by referring to cricket world cup

Praveen Chakravarty, the Congress party’s data analytics team head who allegedly ‘sold’ dubious data to Rahul Gandhi, has now taken a dig at critics for making him a ‘scapegoat’ for Congress’ performance in the elections. Praveen Chakravarty is also often blamed by political pundits for Congress’s disastrous performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

In a tweet, Praveen Chakravarty mocked the Congress leadership and critics by citing a reference to India’s defeat against New Zealand in the ICC Cricket World Cup. He claimed that despite India loss in the World Cup, nobody held the support staff responsible for it.


Chakravarty took a dig against the Congress leadership for blaming him for the loss and not the Congress President instead. With his remarks, Chakravarty has now kicked up a debate over absolving Rahul Gandhi from abdicating his responsibility. He has targetted the party leadership for intentionally making him a scapegoat for the failure of Congress leadership, particularly party president.

Shifting the blame

There has been a concerted campaign within the Congress to shield the Gandhi-scion from any criticism post-election defeat. Efforts are being done to put the blame of insignificant leaders for their disastrous performance. One of the scapegoats for Rahul Gandhi’s incompetence was Praveen Chakravarty, Congress’ Data Analytics Department’s head.

The Congress has blamed Praveen Chakravarty for misleading Rahul Gandhi by feeding him wrong information that led to the poll debacle in 2019. The Congress had suspected that Praveen Chakravarty was a mole planted by the Modi government to ensure that he fed misinformation in order to hand party a loss.

Further, the Congress leadership has found ways to insulate Rahul Gandhi from the blame game. Few of the party senior leadership has decided to resign from their party posts. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Milind Deora has already submitted their resignation by taking the bullet for Rahul Gandhi.

Crisis in Congress

After Rahul Gandhi abdicating his responsibility, Congress has started a frantic search for the party president. Even today, Rahul Gandhi signalled his intentions clear of being an opposition leader perpetually rather than taking up the mantle of leadership. This comes at a time when the party is sliding into irrelevance.

42 bonded labourers, including 16 children, rescued from two locations in Tamil Nadu

OpIndia Staff
-
0
42 bonded labourers, including 16 children, rescued from two locations in Tamil Nadu

On Wednesday, 42 bonded labourers including 16 children were rescued in the state of Tamil Nadu. They were rescued from two wood cutting units in Kancheepuram and Vellore. Acting on a tip-off, the sub-collectors of both the districts visited the site on the same day.

The rescued labourers had claimed that Nataraj of Olungavadi in Kancheepuram is the one who had held them captive. He and his family had kept them under bondage for more than five years. They have been working in wooductting units across the two districts.

The labourers were subject to inhuman conditions. They weren’t fed properly and their movements were restricted. The children were prevented from going to school, despite having aspirations to study.

The tip-off was received from an NGO. A simultaneous rescue operation was conducted to ensure that everyone was safely rescued. According to a source, the bonded labourers were close relatives. The simultaneous operation was conducted to prevent leakage of information.

The operation was conducted by sub collectors A Saravanan (Kancheepuram) and Elambahavath (Ranipet). In Kancheepuram, 27 people were rescued at a wood cutting unit in Konnerikuppam village. In Vellore, 14 were rescued from a wood cutting unit at Paruvamedu village.

A picture of Kasi, one of the rescued labourers, has been shared widely on social media today. Kasi is in his late 60s. On seeing the officials he fell at their feet pleading to be rescued from bondage. He has been working for Nataraj for nearly a decade.


Reportedly, they were forced into bondage in order to repay the money that they had borrowed. The families had borrowed money ranging between Rs 9,000 and 25,000.

Last year in December, 52 Dalits and Tribals were rescued from bonded labour in Karnataka.  One of the labourers had luckily managed to escape and informed the police. Following which the police had rescued the rest of them.

If ‘Jai Shree Ram’ is a murder cry, dear BBC, what would you call ‘Allah Hu Akbar’

K Bhattacharjee
-
0
If ‘Jai Shree Ram’ is a murder cry, dear BBC, what would you call ‘Allah Hu Akbar’

The Western Establishment, which BBC is a part of, loves Islam. They make very little effort to pretend otherwise. The ordinary citizen and the wayward politician might disagree but the establishment has an unholy fascination with Islam. When I say Western Establishment, I am, of course, referring to the alliance between the Global Tech Companies, multinational corporations, liberal politicians and the mainstream media.

The manner in which the mainstream media works overtime to shield Islam and Muslims from any criticism whatsoever is a dead giveaway. Consider, for example, Western media’s treatment of Hinduism in comparison with its coverage of Islamic terrorism. The BBC recently published an article where it called ‘Jai Shri Ram’ a murder cry.

BBC article

It is important to remember that Europe was ravaged by a wave of Islamic terrorism only a couple of years ago. The sword of Jihad looms large over their neck all the time. There have been numerous occasions when Jihadis have gone on a stabbing spree, killing and maiming people on the streets at will. Sometimes, they drove a truck over innocent people. On other occasions, there were mass shootings. But there was one thing that was common in all these attacks.

In every single act of such terror, the perpetrators yelled a slogan that has become the hallmark of modern terrorism. Before they committed mass murder, every single one of them screamed ‘Allah-hu-Akbar’, making it clear where their loyalties lie. Despite that, the BBC, or any other propaganda wing of the Western Establishment, has never associated that particular slogan with terrorism. And yet, the same media labels ‘Jai Shri Ram’ a murder cry.

It has become obvious in recent times that the Globalist establishment is in alliance with Radical Islam and the mainstream media is its propaganda wing. When the USA destabilized the entire Middle East, leading to the rise of ISIS, the mainstream media drummed up the delirium for war. When Barack Obama armed Radical Islamic terrorist outfits to overthrow Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the mainstream media maintained a stoic silence over it. In fact, they continued cheering for War.

When Islamic migrants rampaged through the streets of Europe sexually assaulting women, the mainstream media put in a lot of effort to suppress the matter. While Muslim grooming gangs were exploiting little girls sexually all over the West, subjecting them to inhuman torture, the media buried the matter for decades until they could no longer afford to.

The problem isn’t that the mainstream media is allying with Muslims, the problem is they are allying with the most toxic elements of Islamic society. When ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali expose the intolerance and cruelty that is integral to many Muslim countries around the world, the media brands them Islamophobes. When ordinary citizens give voice to their concerns regarding Islamic intolerance, the media brands them racist. It is the predominant theme in the conduct of the mainstream media over the years.

Instead, the mainstream media slanders the Hindu faith. They are aware that there will be no consequences for their bigotry. Hindus are peaceful people, by and large. The media pretends that it still has a moral spine left by kicking people who are not interested in a fight. They haven’t reported that doctors and the Police suspect that lynching was not the cause of Tabrez Ansari’s death, however, and it’s unlikely they will. Because reporting facts is not the primary objective of the mainstream media, creating narratives is.

Ever since Narendra Modi came to power, the BBC has been involved in a series of hit jobs against the government. Not too long ago, the BBC published research on Fake News that claimed Nationalism was the driving force behind the phenomenon. Ironically, the research itself was classic evidence of Fake News.

That the BBC calls ‘Jai Shri Ram’ a murder cry is not unexpected from an organization that is an ally of Radical Islam. It is only expected that such people would develop a rash on their skin when they hear chants praising Rama. If only they cared more about the little girls in their own country than what happens in India, perhaps those children wouldn’t have to suffer hell on Earth itself.

Suspended BJP MLA Pravin Singh ‘Champion’ asks for security even as state unit recommends permanent suspension for him

OpIndia Staff
-
0
Suspended BJP MLA Pravin Singh ‘Champion’ asks for security even as state unit recommends permanent suspension for him

The suspended BJP MLA Pranav Singh Champion has requested for security cover from Dehradun police alleging threat to him and his family. In a viral video, Singh could be seen dancing on ‘Mujhko Rana ji Maaf Karna’ while brandishing guns and assault rifles.


BJP had recently suspended Singh for 3 months after he allegedly misbehaved with a journalist. Following his viral video, the BJP Uttarakhand unit has now further requested the central leadership to permanently suspend him.

Singh, in his defence said that the viral video is an intrusion in his privacy. He stated that the guns were licensed, empty and unloaded and were not pointed at anybody. He added that there was nothing wrong in dancing with the guns.

This is not the first time that Singh has been seen in viral videos brandishing guns. In the past too, BJP MLA Kunwar Pranav Singh ‘Champion’ from Uttarakhand was seen dancing to popular Bollywood songs while brandishing guns. In 2015, another dancing video of the MLA had gone viral where Pranav Singh was again seen dancing with guns in his hand. However, he was then a Congress MLA.

Singh has been at the centre of controversies. Last month, Singh was suspended from the BJP for three months as a punishment for his rowdy behaviour after he purportedly misbehaved with a journalist. It was reported that Singh was asking for the BJP MP ticket for his wife from the Haridwar Lok Sabha seat.

1...6,2646,2656,266...7,665Page 6,265 of 7,665