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Veerappa Moily adds to the Rahul resignation drama, says no question of finding a person outside the family

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Veerappa Moily adds to the Rahul resignation drama, says no question of finding a person outside the family

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, despite his loud rhetoric on the concocted Rafale scam and yelling ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ slogans managed to bag only 52 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, while PM Modi-led BJP managed to bag a whopping 303 seats, and winning with an even larger mandate than 2014.

After the Lok Sabha debacle, the Congress President has reportedly been hell-bent on resigning as the party President.

Amidst all the ongoing theatrics, senior leader Veerappa Moily has, today, come out in support of Rahul Gandhi’s post as Congress chief.

Taking to Twitter, he said that it was Rahul Gandhi who made the party relevant after its defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. He further added that there is no question of finding a person outside the family.


In another major development, the multi-crore fodder scam convict, Lalu Prasad Yadav, also spoke in support of Rahul Gandhi’s post as Congress chief calling the resignation decision ‘suicidal’. He stated that as soon as a non-Nehru-Gandhi family member takes over the role, they would be painted as a ‘puppet’ by the BJP. Lalu Prasad also blamed regional parties for not projecting Rahul Gandhi as a Prime Ministerial face as it was required to take on the BJP and Narendra Modi irrespective of the Opposition’s seat-share bargaining.

Similar to the 2014 drama when after the poll drubbing, when the then party president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi had reportedly offered to resign from the post but the CWC had rejected their proposal, this year too, Rahul Gandhi came up with a similar proposal in the CWC meeting convened after the election results.

The Congress Working Committee (CWC), however, rejected his resignation. After a massive defeat like this, one would imagine that the Congress party would understand the underlying message in the mandate and make some changes. However, the Congress Working Committee has “unanimously” decided that Rahul Gandhi will not take any responsibility for the humiliating defeat. Interestingly, the President of the Congress Working Committee is Rahul Gandhi himself.

Amidst all this, there were reports that the Youth Congress workers have gone a step ahead in their dynasty worship. They have reportedly written letters in their own blood, urging Rahul Gandhi not to quit as the Party president.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had recently blamed the loss on other Congress leaders saying that the party lost because the leaders did not chant ‘Chowkidaar chor hai’ along with Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi, on his part, other than the drama of resignation, has asserted that there were other leaders of the party who put their sons above the party and hence, the party lost. Interestingly, the irony of this statement was lost on Rahul Gandhi.

However, if one is to believe the rumours, Rahul Gandhi is still adamant on resigning from the party president post and to further discuss the issue another meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) has been called for, later in the week.

Meanwhile, following the disaster Congress faced in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, many senior leaders like Madhya Pradesh’ Kamal Nath, Uttar Pradesh chief Raj Babbar, Niranjan Patnaik in Odisha, Assam’s Ripun Bora, Dr Ajoy Kumar from Jharkhand, and Punjab’s Sunil Jhakar have reportedly offered to resign from their posts.

Rahul Gandhi is not ‘coming of age’ and neither becoming the Prime Minister, even in 2024

Shweta Shalini
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Rahul Gandhi is not ‘coming of age’ and neither becoming the Prime Minister, even in 2024

The repetitive nature of media articles in a desperate bid to declare the coming of age of Rahul Gandhi reeks of a slave mentality.

It’s been a 15-year long wait for the Indian media. And the wait seems to be a perpetual and never-ending one – The declaration of coming of age of Rahul Gandhi. A man who will turn 49 next month is the subject matter of so many of these articles. That too a man who had it easy and got everything in a platter and presides over the destruction of his family firm – Congress.

While nobody would have cared less, what makes ignoring difficult is that his family firm is the second biggest political party in India which has to act like a credible opposition for a democracy to function. India has a lot at stake and this coming of age nonsense has been perpetrated far too long with hope and despair by sections of media. A mind of a man has an unlimited capacity for self-deception and nothing else proves it more than the indulgence of left-liberal media on Rahul Gandhi.

Sample this article from The Quint titled “Modi may win 2019 but Rahul Gandhi too has come of age as a neta”

As I went through this article, it prompted a google search.

What came up is an article from about a decade back (17-05-2009) in the Economic Times:- “Rahul Gandhi a coming of age”

As I scrolled back memory lanes and scrolled down on the search results, the prospect of having read so many “coming of age” articles of Rahul Gandhi made me worry. There are far too many of them hoping against hope of signs of maturity in a man who will touch 50-year-old mark next year.

OpIndia had even tracked the “coming of age” of Rahul Gandhi over a decade. 

The Indian Political system has changed massively over the period the leftist media waited for Rahul Gandhi to come up as a leader. BJP changed completely as does any other organization. We saw young blood coming up, new faces occupying positions of power, old timers making way for new ones. Many leaders emerging out of the electoral process, many getting irrelevant while some corrupt ones facing the heat in jail. The Congress party remained unchanged except their consistent decline all thanks to their wait for the only leader.

There is an infamous and historically false Macaulay speech which had caught the fancy of Indian minds and shared widely on social media. While Fake news and posts are not something new in Facebook, Whatsapp and other social media sites, this fake quote has sustained to influence thinking minds for a long time and made Macaulay a prominent name even among layman.

A fake quote attributed to Macaulay read

“I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation”

The immense popularity of the post in all social media platforms probably piqued interest and an article emerged stating that the quote attributed to Macaulay was never made and it is just another fake news doing the rounds. It is FAKE NEWS but a popular one which continues to linger around in conversations despite being called out. The reality of slave mentality probably made the fake news believable and the quote viral. However, Macaulay and his supposed statements still continue to hold sway over Indian minds while historians agree that racist supremacy was a defining feature of the English mindset. A parallel racist inferiority complex resulting out of it may be the reason for the popularity of this idea as well as many of our western emulations existing in the society.

However, After finding so many Rahul Gandhi coming of age article which is, I am tempted to concoct my version of fake Macaulay’s statement:-

I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one youth who can come up as a leader. Such lack of talent, energy or youth in this country that I don’t think that this country can be led by anyone but the Gandhi family. And therefore I propose that we wait for Rahul Gandhi to come of age, however long it may take for we have to gift the throne to someone from the family itself. For if the Indians think that all that is Gandhi family is good and greater than their own sons and daughters, they will lose their self-esteem, their native self-culture and they will become what they want, a truly dominated nation.

Sometimes I wonder if the above fake note gets passed down to media persons from generation to generation just like the fake news on Macaulay’s statement spread among the English reading masses in India. India has moved on from this dynasty politics mindset and decisively so. Irrespective of the results, Rahul Gandhi is surely not occupying the Prime Ministers chair and neither is the nation waiting for him to come of age. The media may publish articles like those on a daily basis looking for signs of sensibility or maturity but nothing is going to change.

The nation has ousted Rahul Gandhi. With the thumping victory of PM Modi and Rahul’s Congress being reduced to a paltry 52 seats, the country has given a strong message. This election was about who will lead the opposition and not the government. The message in that respect is clear – it won’t be Rahul Gandhi. Congress leaders better consider ousting him for people have already ousted Congress and will look out for better alternatives as opposition leader by 2024. Rahul Gandhi is not coming of age nor becoming the Prime Minister.

Congress’ AIPC member blames Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an incident of violence in Pakistan

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Congress’ AIPC member blames Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an incident of violence in Pakistan

Move aside, Divya Spandana, someone may soon dethrone you as Congress IT cell head. AIPC (All India Professionals’ Congress, a ‘professional wing of INC) member one Andria D’Souza has now blamed Prime Minister Modi for an incident of violence that took place in Pakistan.


AIPC member Andria D’Souza deleted her tweet asking PM Modi to take responsibility for an incident in Pakistan

Andria goes by the name ‘Ria’ on Twitter and quoted a tweet by Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat which reported communal tension in Pakistani town Phuladiyoon where a Hindu doctor was booked over alleged blasphemy charges. The Hindu doctor was accused of burning the Quran.

Ria, however, thought that Prime Minister Modi should be held accountable for this incident in Pakistan. Ria lashed out on PM Modi for the violence in Pakistan and wondered if this was the ‘sabka saath sabka vikas’ he had promised. She even wished the India which voted for Modi ‘good luck’. Again, the incident Ria is holding PM Modi accountable for did not really happen in India.

Twitterati, however, was thrilled that a Congress worker also harbours the same dream as his, the one that of ‘Akhand Bharat’ (undivided India).


Some helpful people even tried to explain to her the difference between the two countries.


While others didn’t mince words.


Andria D’Souza is an Indian Emirati actress who has acted in films like ‘Kamasutra 3D’ and ‘For Adults Only’ as well as Pakistani serial Maati. She is now associated with the Congress.

Update: Andria has deleted her tweet asking PM Modi to take responsibility for incident taking place in Pakistan but has not given any clarification either on the tweet or on deletion.

PM Modi is inching towards closing the Upper Caste-Dalit divide and some people just couldn’t be more upset

Ashish Shukla
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PM Modi is inching towards closing the Upper Caste-Dalit divide and some people just couldn’t be more upset

We are at a seminal moment in India’s history. The divide between Savarna and Dalits is closing.

These forces face existential danger. Hence, their attacks have grown sharper. I would place two articles in the Indian Express and The Hindu for readers’ attention. One is from the known-baiters Christophe Jaffrelot and Gilles Verniers. The other is a survey by The Hindu. Both articles work on the caste equations, fudging data to show only if Dalits had closed the ranks, BJP would’ve met its fate in 2019 General Elections. In essence, it’s a roadmap how to polarize Indian society in preparation for 2024 elections and beyond. Both articles have taken refuge under the umbrella of scientific surveys and peddled their agenda.

Jaffrelot-Verniers combine in Indian Express fire from the shoulders of SPINNER (Social Profile of the Indian National and Provincial Election Representatives) Project, undertaken by Trivedi Center for Political Data- Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). It concentrates on the “cow belt” or Hindi-belt which makes up nearly half of the MPs in our Parliament.

Jaffrelot and Verniers bemoan the erosion of Other Backward Classes (OBC) and consolidation of “suvaran” (Upper) caste. That the religious mobilization (read Hindus) has swamped OBC (read Dalits). The thrust of the article is:  BJP and its upper caste are weighing down heavily and that Dalits are being divided into “jaatis (sub-castes).”  The message: Dalits, watch out or you would be swallowed by Upper Castes. The agenda is the twain – Upper castes and Dalits—should never meet. INDIA MUST SINK.

The two sides are described thus: Upper caste (Brahmins, Rajputs) vs lower castes (Yadavs, Kurmis, Koeris, Jatavs).  BJP has upper caste in its fold. Jatavs are with Mayawati and Yadavs with Akhilesh-Tejaswi fold in UP-Bihar.  BJP has prevailed because it has worked on the layers of “jaatis” among the BSP-SP-RJD votebanks.

So BJP divided the Jatavs by working on the non-jatavs. It countered Yadavs by giving seats to “other OBCs”—non-Yadavs, non-Kurmis, non-Koeris, non-Lodhis, non-Gujjars–and still smaller OBC jaatis. I mean, is it some kind of video game?

Let me explain the absurdity of Jaffrelot-Verniers agenda. All political parties, including Left, have upper caste leaders. Haven’t they heard of Namboodripad and Jyoti Basu? Don’t they know that Narendra Modi himself is OBC? That Mamata Banerjee casts herself as a “Bengali-brahmin”? That Rahul Gandhi is a “Shiv-bhakt” what if he ran away to Wayanad in Kerala and sought a sanctuary among Muslim votes? Is BJP more communal than SP, BSP, RJD etc who harvest on the communal and casteist fields, hopefully no longer fertile? That Modi has been overwhelmingly voted for by Scheduled Castes (SC)  and Scheduled Tribes (ST) -46 out of 84 SC seats; 31 out of 47 ST seats.

Not a word on Modi’s connect with the masses, cutting across caste and communal lines (why even Muslims voted in larger number for BJP than in 2014). Not a word if GST, Demonetization, jobs and agrarian distress could have been drummed up issues. Not a word that Ujjawala, Ayushman, toilets, houses, loans, Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT) etc might have been massive factors. So much so that no less than 91 per cent of Jat votes went to BJP and not to Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), for instance.  But Jaffrelot-Verniers must stick to the agenda of looking at things from the Upper Caste vs Dalits prism.

The Hindu piece is termed as CSDS-Lok Niti-Post Poll Survey. It repeats more or less the same agenda. Their initial survey had highlighted the dissatisfaction with the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. That people are unhappy with its MPs and MLAs, that the stray-cattle issue is epidemic. Now the upper caste-“jaati” social engineering has worked for the BJP. Easy isn’t it.

The fact is these forces wouldn’t like the country to go back to pro-Mandal days or pre-1990s era. Mandal Commission brought job reservations into vogue in 1990. It shifted the power equations, a new crop of backward class netas—Lalu Prasad, Nitish Kumar, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Kanshi Ram etc—spawned all over the Hindi belt. The Hindu-Dalit rift was put on steroids, Bhimrao Ambedkar was dusted off the shelf, and these leaders and parties held the country on ransom.

Now Modi Magic has shattered the divide. A young and “New India”—most of them in their 20s—couldn’t care less on caste and communal lines. The mandate is as big as Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru’s (364 out of 489 seats) in the first General Elections in 1952! It should tell us all about the enormity of 2019 the results. Modi himself has given a new definition of caste identity: “There are only two castes: One of the poor and the other of those who want to alleviate poverty.”

That’s why it’s an existential crisis to a few. The Hindu gives its game away when it states in the last sentence: “The two parties (BSP-SP) need to rework their understanding of caste equations.” Shame that they are putting castes above the country.

(Post script: In the same edition, in its’ editorial page, The Hindu has a piece which berates Mulayam Singh Yadav and Lalu Prasad for concentrating on Yadav-centric politics which allowed lesser OBCs to fall in BJP’s lap. I mean these guys are something).

Former Congress leader Aplesh Thakore meets Gujarat Deputy CM, claims Congress leaders have ‘Chemical Locha’

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Former Congress leader Aplesh Thakore meets Gujarat Deputy CM, claims Congress leaders have ‘Chemical Locha’

Gujarat MLA from Radhanpur in Patan district, Alpesh Thakor triggered speculations of joining the BJP as he met the Gujarat deputy CM Nitin Patel. Thakor had quit Congress before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Thakor claimed that Congress was bound to lose as their leaders have “Chemical Locha”, Thakor claimed.


While speaking to the media, Thakor expressed his helplessness in serving his people while being in the Congress party. He alleged that there was no talk about the rights of the poor and backward in his party.


Alpesh Thakor revealed that more than 15 Congress MLAs are contemplating of leaving the party, asserting that they are distressed with the party. Thakor also claimed that more than half of the Congress MLAs in the state were upset. He said that he wants to work for the poor and the marginalised with the help of the current government in the state.

The OBC leader along with his associate and Bayad MLA Dhavalsinh Zala had yesterday met the deputy CM. However, unsure of the course of action taken up by Thakor, state BJP spokesperson claimed that the meeting might be for some other issue as they both are MLAs. Media reports of Thakore’s probabilities of joining the BJP have been doing rounds for a while now.

Though, speculations abound that Thakor and Zala might switch over to the saffron camp, though Aplesh has denied it. Thakor had resigned from the Congress party ahead of the Lok Sabha election in April 2019 over rejection by the Congress party for his candidature for the Lok Sabha seat from Patan. The Congress had also rejected Thakor’s demand for a ticket to a member of his outfit, the Thakor Sena, from the Banaskantha Lok Sabha seat.

In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won all 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat. The BJP got a stunning 303 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. Since then, speculations of Congress disintegrating in many states are doing the rounds.

Rahul Gandhi’s campaign was a disgrace, only slaves and assorted pen-pushers will see it as principled and passionate

Nupur J Sharma
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Rahul Gandhi’s campaign was a disgrace, only slaves and assorted pen-pushers will see it as principled and passionate

“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.” – Normal Bailer

2019 Lok Sabha election was considered a battle of the ideologies, far more than a simple democratic process where the citizens choose who they wish to be ruled by for the next half a decade. The Left vs The Right, for the want of better phraseology. The Left became this all-encompassing orgy of political parties, activists, lawyers, civil society snakes and the entire conglomeration put their faith in one clown prince, Rahul Gandhi. The Knight whose shining armour was purchased from the alleys of Bangkok was supposed to salvage the pen pushers and assorted thugs from political annihilation.

It didn’t work. Prime Minister Narendra Modi raced back to power with a majority, even larger and more decisive than the last. Rahul Gandhi then locked himself up in a room, apparently whining about how he wants to quit as the President of the Congress party. The CWC, whose president is Rahul Gandhi, rejected the resignation. Rahul Gandhi, who had offered to resign to a body whose president he is, insisted that he wants to resign and Congress, which is basically an ideologically bereft family fiefdom, should find a new President. One can almost imagine poor Ahmed Patel knocking on Baba’s door and telling him, in a honey-dripped comforting voice, “come out baba, nobody blames you. The others just didn’t work hard enough. At least talk to Mumma. She will tell you”.

With ‘Darinder Mudi’ back in the Prime Minister’s chair and Rahul Gandhi throwing a hissy fit in his bedroom, it really comes as no surprise that the assorted pen-pushers and bonded labourers who had pinned their hope on the 40-something-year-old youth icon are now trying to convince Rahul through their op-eds that he fought a worthy fight. A principled battle. A war, where nobody wins, one side just loses.

One of the advocates belonging to the coterie that had pinned their hopes on poor Rahul said even if he quits, he should do so with his head held high. Apparently, he fought hard, “from a place of love” and “for our founding fathers”.


Another poor soul who has been countered like a shuttlecock in a badminton match said PM Modi should accept the mandate. The mandate, however, in his mind is that 55% of people voted against him.


Shivam Vij in his article for The Print listed what Rahul should have done differently to win the elections because Modi is not invincible. He mouthed off inanities like the people did not trust that Congress would implement NYAY (which is a scheme that can ‘end poverty’, according to Vij), that after the infamous hug where he visually communicated the difference between love and hate abstract binaries, that campaign could not be made permanent and that Rahul did not raise issues like Demonetisation, unemployment, Lokpal etc.

The analysis by all of these mind-numbingly enslaved lot is akin to a mother consoling her son who failed in the exams. “It’s ok. There is always the next time”. “Your girlfriend distracted you, otherwise, you are brilliant”. “Sharma ji’s son must have cheated”. No over-protective, blinded-by-love mother is ever going to just sit her son down and tell him that he screwed up. It is always someone else’s fault. Someone else needs to be blamed.

Rahul Gandhi came out and said that senior leaders are to be blamed because they focussed on their sons and not the party. For the irony-impaired, let me spell this out: Rahul Gandhi is the party president, before him, it was his mother Sonia Gandhi and in the 2019 elections, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was given a large chunk of responsibility without proving herself. It is only in the Congress party that Baba’s and Baby’s get rewarded for being utterly useless. Rahul Gandhi got rewarded for losing 2014 and smiling like a blithering idiot, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra got rewarded for being the loser’s sister and of course, having a nose that resembles Indira Gandhi, their grandmother.

Rahul Gandhi fought the vilest, lie-laced battle in the run-up to 2019 elections. Priyanka and Rahul believe that they lost the elections because other leaders didn’t lie enough and didn’t chant ‘chowkidar chor hai’ enough. The fact remains that the Congress party and their band of monkeys had absolutely no proof that the Rafale deal was a scam. The Supreme Court said it wasn’t. Even Rahul Gandhi said he doesn’t have enough information on the deal. The lie was fuelled by a lying, soulless, unethical media that cropped documents just to undermine the government. The court jesters never asked Rahul about the Eurofighter connection or his own links to a Defence Dalal.

He lied about national security issues, lied about tribal laws, lied about farmer loan waiver, lied about Industrialists being given loan waiver, lied about the Rafale deal, never explained his own dubious land deals, lied about the figures of off-sets, lied about the French government, lied about meeting with Chinese delegates right after the Doklam standoff, lied about Modi’s handling of Doklam even though a committee which he was in appreciated the Modi government, questioned the Indian government on Balakot, questioned the government on surgical strikes, lied about the economy, lied about NYAY, the media never questioned him about the inflation tax he would impose or whether he endorsed Sam Pitroda calling the middle-class selfish, he supported Naxals, he supported ‘Bharat tere tukde honge, Inshallah Inshallah’, he wanted AFSPA removed in Kashmir, he accused the Indian Army of rape and torture, he cosied up to Pakistan, he and his men abused Modi and his family… what else is left? Plenty, I suppose. But for now, this list is an indication that Rahul Gandhi travelled to the abyss of hate and lost his soul there.

While Rahul Gandhi did everything to burn this country and walk away with the power that would rise from the ashes, the media played Nero’s guest. They kept shut, they never questioned, they supported everything that would break this country including secessionism, they demonised Hindus and shielded Islamist terrorists. Why? Because Rahul Gandhi had chosen to ally with radical Islamists and fundamentalists.

After all of this, the entitled slaves would like to believe that Rahul Gandhi should hold his head high even if he walks away from the trail of asininity that he left behind. Would they do this for the money? The fund that would buy their beef steaks and wine and crème brûlées? Or would they do this simply because, without an idiot to manipulate, nobody would really give the Khan Market intelligentsia the time of the day? The irrelevant band of buffoons who like to talk about poverty alleviation while eating their Rs. 2000 worth of salad with a dollop of fat-free-glutton-free something?

Rahul Gandhi’s campaign was not principled, it was not born out of passion and it was certainly not something to be proud of. It was when that swam against the very ethos of India. It was a disgrace. It was a prolonged rambling of a deranged mind. It was born of not out of effervescent love, but irrepressible hate, not only for Modi but for an India that would not lick the Dynasty’s boots any longer.

The Knight has been stripped off his made-in-Thailand shining armour, but the Château Lafite sipping entitled slave is too scared to tell the Knight that he is buck-naked. Who would pay for the damn wine if Baba doesn’t come out of his bedroom, get over his hissy fit and proceed to screw up again?

The cooked up Gurugram ‘hate crime’ incident: A nefarious tactic to pave the way for a revolution?

K Bhattacharjee
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The cooked up Gurugram ‘hate crime’ incident: A nefarious tactic to pave the way for a revolution?

The much talked about Gurugram ‘hate crime’ has turned out to be another instance where a crime was deliberately peddled to have been motivated by religious hatred without any basis in fact. Twitter was abuzz yesterday when newly elected BJP MP Gautam Gambhir preached secularism over the matter.

Now, according to CCTV footage accessed by the Police, nobody forced the alleged victim, Barkat Ali, to remove his skull cap as he had claimed. The facts were quite the opposite, the cap had fallen during a minor scuffle in a drunken frenzy and Ali had picked it up himself and stuffed it in his pocket. Moreover, his complaint makes no mention of him being forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ either.

Thus, it appears to be another case where a communal angle was deliberately cooked up to malign Hindus. Such incidents have happened in the past as well. An extremely similar series of events had transpired in March involving an incident in Gurugram itself.

A video had gone viral on social media which depicted a mob barging into the home of a Muslim family and thrashing its residents. The whole ‘minorities under threat’ narrative were cooked up and even Rahul Gandhi used the incident to attack the Narendra Modi government. Claims were also made that the victims were told to ‘Go to Pakistan’.

In the end, it was revealed by the Police that the violence actually occurred over a cricket match and such slogans involving Pakistan were never mentioned in the complaint itself. The actual fight began when a child was hit with a ball which in turn spiralled into a massive fight involving groups. Even the victim family had told the Police that it was not a communal hate crime at all and that they had been living in the area for a long time without facing any trouble.

In 2017, a Muslim boy called Junaid was murdered on a train. The mainstream media outlets, as usual, spun a yearn that he was murdered because he was suspected of carrying beef. The ‘liberal elite’ had even taken to the streets and initiated the “Not in my name” protests. But later it turned out that the entire narrative was based on a lie. The Punjab and Haryana High Court in its judgment the following year confirmed that the murder was a consequence of a seat dispute and there was no communal angle to it at all.

IndiaSpend runs a biased ‘hate-tracker’, the entire purpose of which is to paint Muslims as victims of hate crimes regardless of actual motivations. For instance, in September 2018, when one Azhar Khan was beaten up for fishing near a temple, it was considered a hate crime even though the motive were nowhere religious and IndiaSpend was not aware of the identity of the perpetrators as per their own data.

The timing of the current wave of Fake News regarding the Gurugram incident is also important. At a time when BJP workers are being murdered with impunity after the declaration the election results, it appears to be an extremely convenient way to deflect attention from the post-poll violence the victims of which are primarily BJP supporters. It appears to be an extremely nefarious tactic to bury the news of the deaths of numerous BJP karyakartas and thereby, give Opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee a free pass.

Moreover, the mainstream media appears to have made it its primary objective to keep the communal pot boiling. The Prime Minister hasn’t even taken oath yet and he is being blamed for every crime under the Sun. The entirety of the first term of the NDA government saw the mainstream media constantly feeding the fear psychosis of the Muslim community. Going forward, it appears New India will still have its old media holding it back.

For the Left, it’s extremely important to keep peddling this narrative. The ultimate goal here is to forge a Dalit-Muslim vote-bank. Therefore, we can expect fake narratives around crimes against Dalits as well.

The long term effects of this can obviously be devastating for the social fabric of the country. If Muslims are constantly fed the narrative, wrongly, that they are being targeted due to their religious identity by people who have the backing of the state, they will be that much more prone to radicalization by terrorist outfits.

The mainstream media, on repeated occasions, has displayed the inclination to whitewash the hate crimes committed by Muslims against Hindus. Thus, it appears the strategy of the Left cabal is threefold: Perpetuate the fear psychosis among Muslims thus making them more vulnerable to radicalization, whitewash the hate crimes of Muslims against Hindus by justifying the crime committed by blaming it on alienation and other myths, sustain this propaganda over a long period so that the country remains on a perpetual pot boil thus precipitating circumstances that could pave the way for a ‘revolution’.

The sustained barrage of fake news spanning more than five years cannot be blamed on mere incompetence alone. We have to accept the possibility that there is a certain sinister design behind the madness. Even as Hindus being attacked for their religious identity, as they have been all this while, the mainstream media maintains a stoic silence over them. While political violence is taking the lives of BJP karyakartas, a narrative based on fake news gathers primacy over it. There’as a certain method to this madness that reeks of malevolent intents.

MP: BSP MLA Ramabai Ahirwar who had threatened ‘Karnataka-like-situation’ if not made minister now says BJP is trying to poach her

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MP: BSP MLA Ramabai Ahirwar who had threatened ‘Karnataka-like-situation’ if not made minister now says BJP is trying to poach her

BSP MLA in Madhya Pradesh seems to have moved on from trying to hold the Kamal Nath government as a hostage to blackmail. BSP MLA Ramabai Ahirwar, who had threatened with a ‘Karnataka-like-situation‘ if she is not given a ministerial position in Madhya Pradesh government has now claimed that she has been offered Rs 50 crore and a ministerial position by the BJP to jump ships.

She has said that she has been receiving calls from the BJP but she said that she is supporting Kamal Nath. Ramabai has clarified that she is not with the Congress. However, she has been upset that the MLAs supporting the Madhya Pradesh government are ignored and that the sulking MLAs are not tended and catered to.

Ramabai’s statements come in the middle of the crisis in the state where the Madhya Pradesh government is staring at a collapse. The Congress-JD(S) led Karnataka Government is also facing turbulent times as Congress leaders in the state are claiming that the government may fall by June 10.

Earlier, Ramabai’s husband, Govind Singh, was arrested by Madhya Pradesh Police for his alleged involvement in Devendra Chourasia, a former BSP leader who had joined Congress three days before being killed. Her brother-in-law and two other relatives were also named in the FIR.

In the state elections that concluded in December 2018, Congress won 114 seats while the BJP got 109. With external support from the Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party, Congress had formed the government.

Leftist propaganda portal The Wire says that ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is a slogan of hooliganism

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Leftist propaganda portal The Wire says that ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is a slogan of hooliganism

The leftist propaganda portal, The Wire, published an article written by Delhi University professor, Apoorvanand on May 9 in which the author has called “Jai Shri Ram” slogan an expression of hooliganism.

Apporvanand, in his article, extended support to the bizarre incident when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had referred to ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants as abuses hurled at her.

He further went on to insult the Prime Minister of India by calling him an ‘instigator’. Such strong is the hate that Apporanand fails to remember that while insulting the PM he is also disregarding India’s most eminent position of authority.

Moreover, the professor in his hatred went a step ahead and referred to Veteran BJP leader LK Advani as a ‘bahurupiya’ (imposter). He opinioned that ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans were used as a political narrative by BJP to create Muslim hatred amongst the Hindus.

‘Jai Shri Ram’ is a cultural slogan. Since long, it has been a manner of greeting each other for Hindus, along with another variant ‘Jai Siya Ram’. Calling the slogan provocative or a sign of hooliganism just depicts the shallow ethos these so-called liberals adhere to.

However, Apoorvanand is not the only one peddling such spiteful hypothesis against Hindus and the right-wingers. Propagandist MK Venu, in his recent article for The Wire, had justified Mamata Banerjee’s reign of violence calling ‘aggressive’ chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ provocative.

Similarly, the founding editor of The Wire has also mongered a similar theory. He had opined that Prime Minister Modi greeting people with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at his rallies is a ‘corrupt practice’.

Though it would be utter naivete to expect anything else from The Wire’s founding editor and contributors, they are, however, not the only ones. The entire liberal circle are, in fact, troubled greatly by Hindus coming under one banner.

It is quite astounding that all the while as liberals sing paeans for unity and harmony, they try every trick under the sun to keep Hindus divided. If Hindus of all hues find common ground under Shri Rama, then its unity that is the problem according to liberals.

This Hinduphobia runs so deep that liberals consider the slightest overt display of Hinduism to be a corrupt practice, provocative and a sign of hooliganism.

Dear ‘Left’, news red lines have been drawn, adapt or perish

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Dear ‘Left’, news red lines have been drawn, adapt or perish

In any national discourse, there are certain things you can do, certain things you can’t. It’s unwritten but understood, not voted on, but decided by the will of the citizens.

The election results of 2019 General Election have just come out. There are over 10,000 articles giving their own explanations of why BJP won with such a staggering mandate. All of them wrong.

This reminds me of the fall of the Soviet Union. Even when the disintegration was staring right in their face, they couldn’t understand how this could possibly happen. After all Revolutionary Socialism was a foolproof theory designed to usher in a utopia of workers, wasn’t it? Their theory was sound, the only moral theory and the only option to counter oppressive Capitalism, right?

No Left individual or organization has ever been able to understand why the entire world has been dumping them like yesterday’s milk. The left, bound in complete conformity, restricted by the assumed infallibility of the theory, has never been able to adapt. Because adapting requires introspection, and introspection requires accepting a possibility that the theory might not be so great after all.

In its quest for dominance, Indian Left has sought to destroy all the things the people can rally around; civilisation, it’s history, religion, aspirations (what if they actually want a better life tomorrow? We can’t have that. So we tell them how there’s a virtue in poverty). To quote Tom Clancy, Marxism is a jealous God. It doesn’t like competition.

Well, today the Marxist God is destroyed. His temple razed to the ground, only to have dictators like Stalin, Mao, Lenin & Che staring at us from the frames on the debilitated walls.

To survive, the Left, not only electoral but the entire ideological spectrum: academic, activist, cultural will have to let go of everything dear. The jealous monotheistic God will have to learn to coexist will pagans. The left has to let go of its hostility to everything native.

The Left will have to stop glorifying invaders, their tactic to say, see, your Gods ain’t that great, you people are not that great and the only great deity is Marxism. Is it too much to expect for them to see the irony of supporting one exploitative ideology to supposedly save people from another?

The Left will have to stop standing with those who want the destruction of the union of India.

The Left still sees the Union of India as a temporary obstacle in the way of the Marxist state they will usher. Their biggest leader, EMS Namboodiripad famously said: “We are entering the parliament to destroy it from within”. Which is why they’re perfectly ok siding with terrorists. JNU had an ISI spy ring, run with the knowledge of the Left. Left parties have hosted events to commemorate Leftist terrorists, Islamic terrorists and more. It’s important to mention here that during the 1962 war, Communist Parties of India publicly sided with China.

It’s time for the Left to dump their hostility towards India and embrace the fact that their survival is conditional to the survival of the Union of India. Today, even the Chinese communists have embraced nationalism. To think of it, so have Indian Communists, just that it’s Chinese Nationalism.

And lastly, the Left will have to stop being hostile to the Hindu expression. World over, the Left has aligned with Islamism because it sees similarities in their belief structure and common enemies (if Islamism does win, the Left will be the first to go. Not very intelligent, are they?). And similarly, the Left in India has aligned itself to political Islam. At this point, it’s important to mention that the Left supported the Muslim League in its quest for partition as well. But when it comes to Hindu expression, the Left suddenly finds it communal, because every alternate identity is a threat to Communism. The Left, for decades, has sought to suppress Hindu expression in every arena.

Let us look at Ayodhya, Marxist historians have actively campaigned against and actually prevented the peaceful solution for the Ram Temple.

Suvira Jaiswal, Former Professor of JNU had testified in court:

“I have read nothing about Babri Mosque. I did not study thoroughly, therefore, I cannot say as to when Babri Mosque came into existence. I cannot say as to what was there at the site before coming into existence of Babri Mosque.

In my knowledge, no such evidence is found which may indicate that Babri mosque was constructed after demolishing Sri Rama’s temple.

Whatever knowledge I gained with respect to the disputed site, was on the basis on newspaper or what the others told, i.e., from the report of historians. By historians’ report, I mean ‘Historian’s Report to Nation’.”

SC Mishra, Satyawati College, Delhi University said this:

“I have heard of Jaziya tax. At present, I fail to recollect when and for what purpose it was levied. I do not remember that the Jaziya was levied only on Hindus.

It is wrong to say that Aurangzeb built the Gyanvapi mosque by demolishing half of the Kashi Vishwanath temple.”

It’s important to note that even a half blind person can see that an entire side of Gyanvapi mosque is made of the original temple wall.

The Left may think it’s a good idea to use history as a means to suppress the Hindu identity. But they don’t realize how far the civilizational memories go. They may have ‘purged’ the textbooks and public discourse of Chola Empire, Solanki dynasty of Gujarat, Chandragupta Maurya & the Holkars, but, to quote the Game of Thrones, ‘The North Remembers’. The more you try to deny history, the more we will hold on to it. you have failed and in the process, put yourselves on the side of some of the worst men in the history of mankind.

All I can say to the Left is this: The time has changed. This country has drawn new red lines. If you continue operating in the manner that you are, you will perish. And I for one, won’t miss you.

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