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Curious case of Rahul Gandhi’s nationality: Congress’ ‘explanation’ opens a pandora’s box, raises more questions than answers

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Curious case of Rahul Gandhi’s nationality: Congress’ ‘explanation’ opens a pandora’s box, raises more questions than answers

Rahul Gandhi’s nationality gets curiouser and curiouser. After the Home Ministry sent a notice asking for clarifications on the basis of the British company documents where the Congress President has declared his nationality as ‘British’, Congress released a document to prove that in a British company where Rahul Gandhi was listed as a director, he had declared himself as an Indian national. Congress-friendly journalist Pallavi Ghosh was among those who shared the document.


OpIndia tried to dig more into this and here is what we found.

To begin with, while the MHA based the notice on the company BACKOPS Limited, it is curious that Congress should choose a document of another UK based company ‘Bristol Legal Services Limited’ where Rahul Gandhi was a director as a counter. Instead of putting the doubts to rest, it has opened a whole new can of worms.

We looked up ‘Bristol Legal Services Limited’ on companieshouse.gov.uk the online database of Registrar of Companies of the United Kingdom.

Company overview of Bristol Legal Services Limited
‘Thomas Paul Russell’ is officer-in-charge of Bristol Legal Services Limited

On CompaniesHouse, we tried to find the 21 August 2003 resolution which Pallavi Ghosh had posted. The Annual Return filed on 26 April 2003 (date prior to the date mentioned in the document shared by Ghosh), does not mention Rahul Gandhi as a director.

Return details on April 2003

We then looked up the company ‘Bristol Legal Services Limited’ on nexok.co.uk, an online database of companies and directors for the UK. Surprisingly, it directed us to ‘BACKOPS Limited’.

Bristol Legal Services Limited made ‘company secretary’ for a day before Rahul Gandhi was made one.

One name that stands out in the document Ghosh shared was of one Ulrik McKnight, another director of Bristol Legal Services Limited. McKnight name did not appear as a director when we looked for in the company profile of Bristol Legal Services Limited (just like Rahul Gandhi’s name did not appear). However, when we searched for his name, two Ulrik McKnights appeared.

Ulrik McKnight details on Companies House

Both are American citizens, both are born in 1974, both have the same middle name. Except, one is born in August and one in October. Since the document Pallavi had shared mentioned birthdate of Ulrik McKnight as 19th August, 1974, we went with the first option.

Ulrik McKnight born in August 1974

The company details of Ulrik do not mention Bristol Legal Services Limited. Also, his nationality is Swedish.

Ulrik McKnight, who was born on October 1974

Ulrik McKnight born in October 1974, too, did not hold directorship of Bristol Legal Services Limited. So, who exactly is this mysterious Ulrik McKnight whose details are also missing from the details of Bristol Legal Services Limited like that of Rahul Gandhi?

Ulrik McKnight is journalist and NYT columnist Sonia Faleiro’s husband. And who is Sonia Faleiro? She is the daughter of Eduardo Faleiro, who has been a Congress politician all his life, and has even been a Union Minister for 5 years. Nothing illegal here, but now we know how Rahul Gandhi might have met Ulrik McKnight.

Twitter user ‘WrongDoc’ pointed out one more discrepancy. There is one mysterious ‘Brian Lovegrove’ who appears as a company secretary for a day. While Companies House does not throw many results, companycheck.co.uk and duedil.com (another companies data aggregator websites) list him as a company secretary for one day.

Companycheck.co.uk data on BACKOPS Limited

Brian Lovegrove has retired as a director from as many as 1,056 companies and has active directorship in as many as 21 companies as of now.

Moving on, we look at the address Bristol Legal Services Limited is registered at. 6 Lower Park Row, Bristol BS1 5BJ is the address which is also the address for correspondence for ‘Thomas Paul Russell’. It is also the address of one company called ‘Bourse Company Services’ which helps individuals in registering companies. The company shares its address with over 70 other companies. Hardly anything is available on who Thomas Paul Russell is. Brian Lovegrove mentioned above also has his address set up as 6, Lower Park Row, Bristol.

Coming back to Rahul Gandhi’s address found in the document Pallavi Ghosh shared. 2, Frognal Way, London, UK NW3 6XE. At least five companies are registered at 2, Frognal Way, London at the address Rahul Gandhi has given as ‘proof’ of his Indian nationality.

According to companieshousedata.co.uk, Amgi Limited, Oligopoly Enterprises Limited and Tapnow Limited are registered at 2 Frognal Way. As per endole.co.uk, Hoxton Securities Limited and Deltaxy Ltd. are also registered at the same address. 2, Frognal Way, London is also the address of Asia TV Limited, a company incorporated by Amitabh Bachchan’s brother, Ajitabh Bachchan.

Ajitabh Bachchan at 2, Frognal Way

And surprise, surprise, 2 Frognal Way, London is also the address Rahul Gandhi has given for BACKOPS Limited registration.

Details of Rahul Gandhi as Director of BACKOPS

Rahul Gandhi himself has not been consistent in declaring his nationality. While in the above letter, he is ‘British’, in the letter shared by Congress through the friendly media, he is ‘Indian’. And again there is a 2004 document where his nationality is first typed as ‘British’ but it is corrected manually to “Indian”.

Rahul Gandhi’s nationality manually changed to ‘Indian’ from ‘British’ (image: IndianExpress)

Amidst all this, Congress’ ‘clarification’ has only opened a pandora box of discrepancies. These documents raise more questions than they answer. Congress and Rahul Gandhi both must come clean on the following points:

  1. What is Rahul Gandhi’s nationality?
  2. If it is Indian, why do these documents identify him as a British national?
  3. What is BACKOPS Limited? What was your role in the company? How is BACKOPS Limited and Bristol Legal Services Limited related?
  4. Why is the address in your filing with the companies registrar in the UK same as of so many other companies?

Article 9 of the Constitution of India bars every Indian citizen from acquiring voluntary acquiring citizenship of a foreign state. Article 19 of the Constitution of India also bars Indian citizen from accepting foreign titles.

Earlier today it was reported that the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a notice to Congress President Rahul Gandhi over the citizenship controversy that erupted a few weeks ago. The Home Ministry has cited documents of the British company BACKOPS where Rahul Gandhi filed returns are a British citizen and sought a response from him within 10 days.

The matter of citizenship had also arisen when representation was made to the Election Commission about Rahul Gandhi’s election affidavit from Amethi. That complaint was however disposed off saying that this is the domain of the Home Ministry and not of the Election Commission.

“If Hemant Karkare’s role as a police officer was not correct, we will say it was not correct”: Sumitra Mahajan

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“If Hemant Karkare’s role as a police officer was not correct, we will say it was not correct”: Sumitra Mahajan

Speaking about former Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Late Hemant Karkare, the outgoing speaker of Lok Sabha and Member of Parliament from Indore, Sumitra Mahajan said that Karkare became a martyr because he died in the line of duty but he should be called out if his role as a police officer was not correct, as reported by Indian Express.

“There are two aspects to Hemant Karkare. He became a martyr because he died in the line of duty, but if his role as a police officer was not correct, we will say it was not correct,’’ she said.

She added that though she did not have any proof to back it, she had heard that senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh was a friend of Karkare. She also alleged that when Digvijay Singh was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, he used to level accusations on the RSS of making bombs and being a terror outfit. Mahajan said that the Maharashtra ATS had made arrests from her constituency Indore at the behest of Singh.

Mahajan cited the example of Dilip Patidar who had disappeared in police custody and never returned after he was picked up by Maharashtra ATS for questioning from Indore in November 2008 and said that Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur was not the only one to be subjected to custodial torture. Alleging that Patidar was killed in police custody, Mahajan said that the issue of his disappearance was raised in Parliament as well as in courts. “These are the facts, someone should give the answers,” she added.

Responding to the allegations made by Mahajan against Digvijay Singh, he took to Twitter and said he was honoured to be associated with Ashok Chakra awardee Hemant Karkare and that he has always supported people who talk about national interest, national unity, and integrity.


He also said that he has always been against those creating religious disharmony. Singh added that he was proud that he recommended banning both Bajrang Dal and SIMI.


Digvijay Singh is the Congress candidate from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency against Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur who is contesting on BJP ticket. Sadhvi, after her candidature was announced from Bhopal had levelled the allegations of extreme custodial torture on Late Hemant Karkare.

It may be noted the Digvijay Singh is one of the prominent proponents of the Hindu Terror theory. He had even blamed RSS for the Mumbai terror attacks.

Congress leaders and Congress-friendly journalists see conspiracy in fire at Shastri Bhavan which burnt waste material

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Congress leaders and Congress-friendly journalists see conspiracy in fire at Shastri Bhavan which burnt waste material

Congress President Rahul Gandhi last night accused PM Modi of ‘burning files’ after a fire broke out in Delhi’s Shastri Bhavan building. Congress president Rahul Gandhi was quick to use the unfortunate incident to peddle his political propaganda of making unsubstantiated claims against PM Modi.


Shastri Bhavan houses many ministries such as Ministries of Law, Information and Broadcasting, Corporate Affairs, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, and Human Resources Development. However, the fire department has refuted such claims of ‘burning files’ and said that the fire actually broke out on the sixth floor where only waste material, old furniture and discarded computers were kept.

Seven fire tenders rushed to spot to douse the flames. Rahul Gandhi insinuated that PM Modi got the Shastri Bhawan burnt down with the aim of getting the important government files destroyed.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi wasn’t the only one to float such conspiracy. His band of loyal courtiers also weighed in in fanning the theory.


There were no government records in the waste material of cooler and electrical wires.


Congress’ national media coordinater also joined in to fan the rumours.


He further added fuel to the fire (no pun intended) by casting aspersions that this government ‘could do anything’.


Other Congress supporters also chimed in.


Lately, Rahul Gandhi and his supporters have repeatedly trotted out a slew of unverified claims to portray the Modi government as corrupt. They have been trying really hard to discredit PM Modi by levelling sensational allegations against him and trying to cast a dent in his popularity among public perception.

However, the courts have not been generous in helping Rahul Gandhi to perpetuate his unfounded lies. Today, Supreme Court pulled up Rahul Gandhi for falsely attributing ‘Chowkidar Chor hai’ jibe to Supreme Court after which his advocate AM Singhvi tendered an apology to the Court. Gandhi has also been nailed for his unabated lies on the Rafale deal.

Clearly, with just 3 phases of Lok Sabha elections remaining, a certain panic has set in the Congress president which is compelling him to go overboard in his accusations against the Modi government. It seems like Rahul Gandhi has already foreseen the outcome of the Lok Sabha assembly polls.

“Do not take his (Babul Supriyo) name else you have no idea what I will do with the camera”: Moon Moon Sen to journalist

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“Do not take his (Babul Supriyo) name else you have no idea what I will do with the camera”: Moon Moon Sen to journalist

A new video of TMC’s Asansol candidate Moon Moon Sen has surfaced in social media wherein she is threatening a journalist for mentioning Babul Supriyo. Supriyo is the Union Minister and BJP candidate for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections from Asansol.

In a shocking video, Sen is seen verbally abusing and threatening to break the camera of ABP News journalist for asking about Supriyo. She was also insensitive in her remarks about victims of poll violence. She said that the journalist should capture photographs of people dying due to violence in West Bengal instead.

“Do not take his name else you have no idea what I will do with the camera. People are dying, go take photographs of them,” Sen remarked angrily.


Sen had embroiled herself in a massive controversy just yesterday for advertising her insensitivity and arrogance. She had responded ignorantly to a question by casually saying she was unaware of the violence as her bed tea was delivered late and so she woke up late. West Bengal is among the three states where the elections are spread over all seven phases, wide-scale violence and rigging have been observed in four phases that have concluded so far.

She had also targetted Ajit Anjum, a journalist with TV9 Bharatvarsh for seeking answers on vandalism caused by TMC workers during the elections in her home state West Bengal. Sen took the allegations personally and lost her cool. That’s when she started threatening the TV anchor and said she would file a defamation case against the channel and sue the anchor.

She skipped the interview midway and started abusing the reporter present on the spot. She was also heard accusing the TV anchor of being a BJP supporter. She did not end at that and continued her onslaught by passing a derogatory comment “let him lick BJP ass.”

TMC is notorious for its poll violence. We had reported a few days ago about how the party cadre had indulged in polling malpractices. BJP has alleged that their agents were threatened the previous night and their homes were attacked. A BJP camp office was attacked as well.

SC issues notice to EC on plea seeking action against PM Modi and Amit Shah, says EC has liberty to pass order as it sees fit

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SC issues notice to EC on plea seeking action against PM Modi and Amit Shah, says EC has liberty to pass order as it sees fit

Hearing a petition filed by Congress MP Sushmita Dev against the alleged violation of Model Code of Conduct by PM Modi and Amit Shah, the apex court directed the Election Commission to take appropriate action that it deems fit. The plea against alleged poll code violation and EC’s supposed inaction was filed yesterday in the Supreme Court by the Congress legislator.


The bench comprising of CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice KM Joseph heard the plea filed by Congress legislator and issued a notice to the Election commission. In the notice, the Court mentioned that the poll panel will have full liberty to pass any appropriate orders that it deems fit. The Court has also listed the hearing of the matter on Thursday.

Representing the petitioner Dev, counsel Sunil Fernandes requested the Court to instruct the Election Commission to expeditiously take action against the MCC violators. According to advocate Fernandes, the poll panel has been slow to act on multiple complaints of ‘frequent and habitual’ MCC violations by Modi and Shah. The petitioner in her plea has contended multiple violations of the Representation of People’s Act, 1951 and the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 by Modi and Shah. She has alleged that the Election Commission hasn’t responded to her grievances.

Asserting that the Election Commission’s lack of action and selective censure when it comes to complaints filed against PM Modi and Amit Shah, the petitioner insinuated that such behaviour by the poll panel betrays its tacit endorsement of Modi’s and Shah’s conduct, in effect giving them a clean chit despite alleged MCC violations. The petitioner mentioned in her plea that the Election Commission has two sets of rules-one applies to the PM and the BJP President while the other governs all the other candidates contesting the elections.

Watch: Congress makes kids abuse Narendra Modi in presence of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

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Watch: Congress makes kids abuse Narendra Modi in presence of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

The Gandhi family has been showing signs of immense frustration as the 2019 Lok Sabha election progresses. With out-on-bail Rahul Gandhi being forced to apologise by the Supreme Court for attributing the ‘chowkidaar chor hai’ slogan to the SC and its judgement on Rafale, the Congress campaign has just as well come to a halt.

Even with the Supreme Court bringing Congress down to its knees, the arrogance of the Congress party has not been diminished. A video surfaced on Social Media where Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who chickened out of battling PM Modi in Varanasi, was seen watching in amusement as little kids, coached by Congress workers, were abusing Prime Minister Modi.


The kids, who were seemingly coached by Congress functionaries chanted ‘chowkidaar chor hai’ as Priyanka Gandhi watched on in amusement.

It is rather shocking that while parents at home generally teach children basics of respect for the highest chair of the country, Congress has stopped to the level of using children for their own unsubstantiated lies and propaganda. The Rafale got a clean chit in the highest court of the country and Rahul Gandhi today was forced to apologise to the Supreme Court because he lied about the SC endorsing the ‘chowkidaar chor hai’ sentiment. Essentially, Rahul Gandhi has had to admit that the Court never mentioned any wrongdoing by the Modi government in the Rafale deal at all. Yet, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is seen using little children to further the Gandhi family agenda. Interestingly, while Priyanka Gandhi Vadra watches children chant ‘chowkidaar chor hai’, her husband, Robert Vadra and her brother, Rahul Gandhi are both out-on-bail on charges of corruption.

Further in the video, one can see the children abuse further. The kinds in unison chant, ‘neem ka patta kadvah hai, Narendra Modi bha**wa hai”. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra smiles sheepishly and reluctantly, as a token gesture tells the children that this is a bad slogan and they should focus on the good slogans. After this, the kids go back to chanting ‘chowkidaar chor hai’ and ‘Rahul Gandhi zindabad’.

The kids are wearing Congress caps and one can, in the video, see people who seem like Congress functionaries with cameras clicking photos and videos of the interaction. It is unfathomable that the children reached that spot on their own, thought of these abusive slogans on their own and chanted the same to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in unison. Obviously, the Congress party got those children there and hence, Congress must own the blame for these slogans as well.

From the courtiers and dynasts of Jawaharlal Nehru who concocted an elaborate lie around the myth of ‘Children’s day’ to glorify Nehru, to Congress workers now who teach little children to abuse Modi just to score political points with the dynasty, while Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stood there, watching the children repeat the lies ad nauseum, Congress seems to have a way of exploiting children to please their dynastic masters.

Eight Core Industries grew by 4.3% in 2018-19, the growth rate for March 2019 was 4.7%

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Eight Core Industries grew by 4.3% in 2018-19, the growth rate for March 2019 was 4.7%

Ministry of Commerce of Industry has released data on eight core industries as on March 2019. The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27% of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP). The combined Index of Eight Core Industries stood at 145.0 in March, 2019, which was 4.7% higher as compared to the index of March, 2018. Its cumulative growth during April to March, 2018-19 was 4.3%.

In the eight sectors, only crude oil production declined, all other seven sectors saw positive growth in March 2019.

Coal production (weight: 10.33%) increased by 9.1% in March, 2019 over March, 2018. Its cumulative index increased by 7.3% during April to March, 2018-19over corresponding period of the previous year.

Crude Oil production (weight: 8.98%) declined by 6.2% in March, 2019 over March, 2018. Its cumulative index declined by 4.1% during April to March, 2018-19 over the corresponding period of previous year.

The Natural Gas production (weight: 6.88%) increased by 1.4% in March, 2019 over March, 2018. Its cumulative index increased by 0.8% during April to March, 2018-19 over the corresponding period of previous year.

Petroleum Refinery production (weight: 28.04%) increased by 4.3% in March, 2019 over March, 2018. Its cumulative index increased by 3.1% during April to March, 2018-19 over the corresponding period of previous year.

Fertilizers production (weight: 2.63%) increased by 4.3% in March, 2019 over March, 2018. Its cumulative index increased by 0.3% during April to March, 2018-19 over the corresponding period of previous year.

Steel production (weight: 17.92%) increased by 6.7% in March, 2019 over March, 2018. Its cumulative index increased by 4.7% during April to March, 2018-19 over the corresponding period of previous year.

Cement production (weight: 5.37%) increased by 15.7% in March, 2019 over March, 2018. Its cumulative index increased by 13.3% during April to March, 2018-19 over the corresponding period of previous year.

Electricity generation (weight: 19.85%) increased by 1.4% in March, 2019 over March, 2018. Its cumulative index increased by5.1% during April to March, 2018-19over the corresponding period of previous year.

Sri Lanka receives intelligence inputs of attacks planned on Buddhist temples by female bombers posing as devotees

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Sri Lanka receives intelligence inputs of attacks planned on Buddhist temples by female bombers posing as devotees

According to media reports, Sri Lanka’s Intelligence agency has received inputs of possible attacks on Buddhist temples by female bombers of the banned local terror outfit National Thawheeth Jamath (NTJ) posing as devotees.

Such shocking revelations came in the forefront after police found white pairs of skirts and blouses from the house which was raided after the explosion in Sainthamuruthu area in the Eastern province, raising doubts that the attackers might pose as Buddhist devotees.

According to reports, the Muslim women had on April 29th, spent 29,000 Sri Lankan Rupees which is approximately Rs 11496 in Indian currency, to purchase nine sets of such dresses from a textile shop in Giriulla. The CCTV camera in the shop captured visuals of these women who purchased clothes from the shop.

Five sets of such clothes have been recovered from the house raided so far. The intelligence agencies are trying to find the remaining sets of clothes.

Sri Lankan authorities confirmed that amongst the nine bombers who executed the dastardly Easter Sunday attack, there was a female suicide bomber too.

As a security measure in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings that rocked the island country, the Sri Lankan government has introduced a ban on all types of face coverings including Burqas.

As per reports, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena had used his emergency powers and approved the ban and issued a presidential decree stating that all forms of face covering, including the Burqa, will be completely prohibited from April 29th.

Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency after the deadly attacks on Easter Sunday by an ISIS supported organisation. Wide-scale crackdown on radical groups is going on in the country. It was reported that the local terrorist group National Thowheed Jama’ath had carried out the attacks that primarily targeted Churches and hotels. Later, ISIS had claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Previously, a prominent Muslim organisation All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama had issued a directive to all Muslims, especially women to stop covering their faces so the security forces are not hindered “in their efforts to maintain national security”.

The Sri Lankan government had admitted that there was major security failure on the part of the government and they had received prior warnings from foreign intelligence agencies that such attacked would take place. Reports have stated that the Indian agencies had warned of possible terrorist attacks to the Sri Lankan government.

A total of 106 suspects, including a Tamil medium teacher and a school principal, have been arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday blasts.

BJP delegation approaches Election Commission over poll violence in West Bengal

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BJP delegation approaches Election Commission over poll violence in West Bengal

A BJP delegation led by Kailash Vijayvargiya and Babul Supriyo has approached the Election Commission to register their complaint against the violence allegedly unleashed by the TMC goons in West Bengal during the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections that concluded yesterday.


The BJP delegation in its complaint against the TMC has asserted that several booths were captured by its workers and violence was perpetrated against Babul Supriyo and stones pelted on his car. The TMC in its defence had yesterday stated that Babul Supriyo had manhandled some of its workers at poll booths which led to clashes between the workers of the two parties.

BJP MP and Asansol candidate Babul Supriyo had visited a polling booth in Asansol constituency after villagers had threatened to boycott polls following the non-deployment of central forces in some polling booths. Clashes took place between TMC workers and BJP workers over a disagreement on the deployment of Central forces to man the booths. In the ensuing scuffle, Babul Supriyo’s car was vandalised by the TMC goons.

The BJP had also registered a complaint against the violence purportedly carried out by the TMC workers and alleged booth capturing by them in the first three phases of the elections as well. However, an FIR was also filed against Supriyo by TMC for trespassing polling booths.

The BJP in its complaint had asked the Election Commission to deploy more Central Forces at each polling booth to ensure smooth functioning of the electoral process and not rely on the local police to guard the booths.

TMC leader Moon Moon Sen asks journalists to ‘go lick BJP’s a$$’ when asked about poll violence in West Bengal

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TMC leader Moon Moon Sen asks journalists to ‘go lick BJP’s a$$’ when asked about poll violence in West Bengal

As Trinamool Congress is facing a serious challenge from the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal, the Trinamool party leaders have begun to express their frustration out in public either through vandalism or by making slanderous statements against people who question them.

The violence and intimidation are not limited to opposition party cadres alone but also against journalists, who are questioning Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress for unchecked violence in the state during the Lok Sabha elections.

Actor-turned-politician Moon Moon Sen who had advertised her insensitivity and arrogance by saying that she was unaware of the violence as she got up very late because she got her bed tea late, targetted TV9 Bharatvarsh journalist Ajit Anjum for seeking answers for vandalism that TMC had inflicted during the fourth phase of elections in West Bengal.


Moon Moon Sen after taking allegations personally, lost her cool and started threatening the TV Anchor saying she would file a defamation case against the channel and sue the anchor.

She ran away from the interview and began abusing the reporter present at the spot. She was also heard accusing the TV anchor of being a BJP supporter while making a cheap comment “let him lick BJP ass”.

The arrogance of TMC leaders is not just limited to Moon Moon Sen. Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha leader and close aide of Mamata Banerjee has a history of abusing and intimidating journalists and social media users. Soon after 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he had called a journalist as “a** licker right-wing” journalist.


Mahua Moitra, a TMC MLA had shown journalist Arnab Goswami her middle finger when she was questioned after TMC workers had beat up the 25-year-old for slapping Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee.

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Like TMC leaders, the cadres of the TMC are notoriously known for vandalism and political violence against opposition party workers and journalists. It has also been widely reported in the media on how workers allegedly belonging to TMC were hurling bombs and indulging in proxy voting at polling booths during the Lok Sabha elections.

The TMC workers did not limit their attack to their opponents but also targetted journalists and reporters who were covering their electoral malpractices. Shantashree, a journalist from Republic TV who was reporting from Asansol along with their video journalist were travelling when TMC goons allegedly attacked the car with lathis and broke the window.

India Today’s crew was also allegedly attacked by TMC goons and their journalist Manogya Loiwal manhandled.

West Bengal under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee has been one of the most intolerant states in the country in the last five years. It continues to remain one of the most violent states when it comes to poll violence under Mamata Banerjee led TMC government.

With TMC’s hegemony taking a huge hit a with the entry of BJP in the state, Mamata Banerjee led TMC will try asserting more power in the state by indulging in furthermore direct violent attacks not only on the opposition camp, especially the BJP but also on others who attempt to hold Mamata Banerjee responsible for actions.

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