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Congress lies about Wayanad seat not being Hindu-minority to hide consequence of their historic Hinduphobia

K Bhattacharjee
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Congress lies about Wayanad seat not being Hindu-minority to hide consequence of their historic Hinduphobia

Rahul Gandhi was on the hunt for a safe seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections after Smriti Irani laid siege to the Nehru-Gandhi Parivar bastion of Amethi. To that end, he chose Wayanad in Kerala as his preferred second seat.

Many have commented on the significance that the Congress President had chosen to compete from a constituency where Hindus are in the minority. Even a party leader had made the admission on a sting tape that the great share of the Christian-Muslim vote in the electorate made the constituency very much a safe bet for Rahul.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, too, was flummoxed by Rahul’s candidature from the constituency and suggested that he should have contested from a constituency where the BJP had a serious chance of winning. Other Communist leaders have expressed similar sentiments and remarked that by contesting from Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi is fighting the Left and not the BJP.

On social media, many people have made the same observation. That Rahul Gandhi was contesting from a constituency where Hindus are in the minority, especially since his party is infamous for inventing the myth of Hindu Terror, was the subject of endless discussion and debate.

Priyanka Chaturvedi, the spokesperson of the Congress party, intervened on her party’s behalf to defend her party President’s choice for a safe seat. In her reply to the Executive Editor of News18, who had asserted that Hindus are in the minority in Wayanad, Chaturvedi accused him of lying.


As it turns out, Chaturvedi was obviously either misinformed or completely ignorant of the actual demography of the Wayanad Lok Sabha Constituency. The data she mentions in her tweet states the demography of the Wayanad District which is different from the Wayanad Parliamentary constituency.

The Wayanad Parliamentary constituency is comprised of 7 Assembly constituencies drawn from three districts: Thiruvambady from Kozhikode, Mananthavadi, Sulthan Bathery and Kalpetta from Wayanad, Eranad, Nilambur and Wandoor from Malappuram. Therefore, quite clearly, the demography of the Wayanad constituency is different from the demography of Wanayad district as mentioned by Priyanka Chaturvedi.

The actual demography of the Constituency has Muslims as the majority making up 56% of the electorate while Hindus are only 34%. The Christian community is 9% of the electorate. Therefore, it’s factually correct to assert that the Congress President has chosen to contest from a constituency where Hindus in the minority after his party peddled the Hindu Terror narrative for years.

Source: TOI

Thus, we have a situation where a Congress leader admits during a sting that the high share of the minority vote in the constituency made it a safe bet for Rahul Gandhi. People realize that the demography is heavily skewed in favour of Congress by virtue of its composition. The party spokesperson then attempts to peddle a false narrative by twisting facts.

The Islamization of the Congress party has been happening for a while now, over the course of a couple of decades perhaps, and with the Congress President choosing a Muslim majority constituency as a safe seat marks the completion of the process. As is to be expected, the ‘Pliant Media’ will try very hard to shield the Congress President and deny the obvious by twisting facts on the matter. However, Rahul’s candidature from Wayanad is as significant a moment as the crossing of the Rubicon.

The path for Rahul Gandhi towards contesting from a Hindu minority constituency was obviously laid when the Hindu Terror narrative was invented by the Congress for political gains. It’s a natural consequence of the Hinduphobia that Congress and its ecosystem generated that the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has been relegated to contesting from a Hindu minority constituency. Not long back, it was even reported that Rahul Gandhi had claimed that Congress was a Muslim party.

The troubling part of the matter is the Congress has always sided with the fundamentalist sections of the Muslim community that is a significant threat to communal harmony. Senior leader Kapil Sibal represented one of the Muslim petitioners in the Ram Janambhoomi dispute and actively tried to delay judgment on the matter. They are often seeing toeing the Pakistani line. When in power, the Congress party tried to pass the Communal Violence Bill which maintained that members of the Hindu community could not be victims of communal violence. They passed the 93rd amendment which puts Hindu-run schools at a serious disadvantage.

Digvijay Singh, another extremely senior party leader, attended the launch of a book that blamed the RSS for the Mumbai Terror attack. They framed Hindus for terror attacks which were most probably committed by Islamic terrorists. They opposed the Triple Talaq Bill which seeks to liberate Muslim women from a terrible tradition. They opposed the Citizenship Amendment Bill which would give the horribly oppressed Hindus from Pakistan the opportunity to lead their lives with their dignity intact in India. A toxic combination of Hinduphobia and Islamic fundamentalism has become the identifying feature of the Congress party despite its shrieks of allegiance to Secularism.

The Kerala unit of the Congress party is even more extraordinary in its opposition to respecting Hindu sentiments. Who could ever forget that members of the Youth Congress slaughtered a calf in the middle of the street and ate its flesh? They claimed to have the approval of the state President! Merely days later, a Congress MLA from the state posted a video of himself eating beef for the sake of mere politics.

The toxic and radical mixture of Hinduphobia and Islamic fundamentalism, the brand of politics which the Congress party has adopted over the years, finds its natural culmination with their party president contesting from a constituency where Hindus are in the minority. Rahul Gandhi’s candidature from a Hindu Minority constituency is only testament to that fact.

PM Modi told a channel’s CEO that his journalists have Modi hate in their blood. Here is how he was right

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PM Modi told a channel’s CEO that his journalists have Modi hate in their blood. Here is how he was right

A day after PM Modi called out a CEO of a news channel for having deep-rooted hatred towards him, a journalist with the same news channel was caught parroting Congress’ campaign line live on television. A journalist with TV9 Bharatvarsh, the Hindi channel of TV9, was caught referring to the ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign as ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ campaign.


As can be seen in the above clip, the said journalist referred to ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign as ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ campaign not once, but twice. Group Editor with TV9 Bharatvarsh claimed that it was a slip of tongue on the journalist’s part and apologised for the same.


However, Twitter users then questioned Kapri on how it could be a slip of the tongue when usually the lines which the reporter reads out are fed on a teleprompter.


This is not the first time Kapri has been caught on the wrong foot. Earlier during the Kumbh Mela, Kapri had posted a picture of Jawaharlal Nehru claiming that Nehru had taken a dip during the 1954 Kumbh Mela. However, the image was actually of the time Nehru took a dip in the river after the immersion of the ashes of his father in 1931. Kapri was so adamant that he refused to believe a book which was in fact written by a Congress leader. Prior to that, Kapri was caught spreading fake news about Bulandshahr. When caught, he unapologetically went on to attack Uttar Pradesh Police.

Yesterday, at an event of the same news channel, TV9 Bharatvarsh, a video had emerged showing PM Modi talking to TV9 founder and CEO Ravi Prakash. In the video, Modi says, “You have filled your new channel with such people who have abuses for me in their blood”. Shocked, Ravi Prakash replies, “We are bringing change in that”. To that, Modi laughs and says “Don’t do this, let the poor people live, let it continue as it is. If their soul dies, it will not be fun”.

Alert social media users also noted that when PM Modi was making the comment, the channel’s editor Vinod Kapri was present right there, who is known for his hatred for Modi. It has been speculated that PM Modi’s comments were directed at Kapri, who is a known fan of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, and whose hatred for Modi is out in open through his social media posts.

Accused of domestic violence and rape, the controversial ‘activist’ Talib Hussain joins Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP

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Accused of domestic violence and rape, the controversial ‘activist’ Talib Hussain joins Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP

Known for making contentious statements, Mehbooba Mufti, the chief of PDP, has stirred yet another furor by inducting controversial ‘activist’ Talib Hussain into the fold of PDP. Taking it to Twitter, the former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir posted a tweet welcoming Hussain into the party and hailing him as an upright tribal activist who fought for rape victims in the state.


However, the man hailed as a conscientious rights activist by Mehbooba Mufti has a chequered history of grave allegations leveled against him. Talib Hussain, who came into the limelight after spearheading an agitation seeking justice for the eight-year-old girl, brutally gang-raped and murdered in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir in 2018, was himself booked for alleged domestic violence and attempt to kill his wife over dowry.

Talib’s wife, Nusrat Begum, with her two little daughters, went with a written complaint along with court orders to the police station along with her father, Mohammad Tahir and nearly a dozen neighbours last year alleging that her husband used to physically assault her for dowry.

However, this is not the only incident where Talib is accused of a serious crime. Talib was arrested by the police last year in August on the charges of rape by his own cousin. He is accused of raping the woman while she was grazing her cattle in the forests of Chawda. According to the complainant, armed with a knife, Hussain had intercepted her, thrashed and raped her in the forest.

After almost a month and a half, she shared her ordeal with her husband following which a complaint was lodged in the police station. Talib was arrested from Tral in Jammu and Kashmir and a case had been registered against him under section 376 (rape) of Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) and 4/25 Arms Act.

Talib was arrested by the police and had been lodged in the Samba jail for a time. He was later released on bail.

In another incident, a student of JNU had alleged that “The hero of Kathua protests” had brutally raped her in Delhi on 27th April 2018. The victim states that ‘the activist’ insisted on the victim coming to meet him and when she did, (after 40 phone calls), took her to an apartment in the Batla house area where he raped her brutally, despite her repeated attempts to fight him off. The victim had alleged, without taking Talib’s name, that he had not only caused her great physical harm but also profound mental trauma.

With such grave allegations levelled against the so-called ‘rights activist’, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti’s encouraging welcome for such an allegedly notorious miscreant into her party displays that she has little sympathy for the victims of domestic violence and rapes who have raised their voice against the injustice meted out to them by this so-called ‘activist’.

‘Journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai shamelessly twists PM Modi’s comment on Congress’ ‘Hindu terror’ bogey

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‘Journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai shamelessly twists PM Modi’s comment on Congress’ ‘Hindu terror’ bogey

The left-leaning Media and its ‘journalists’ like Rajdeep Sardesai, have been openly and pathologically biased against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ever since he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. The unabashed hatred is such that senior “journalists” shamelessly twist his statements and words to further a narrative that per them, goes against Narendra Modi and favours their agenda.

Today, Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress party and its scion Rahul Gandhi. The PM said that the very people who coined the term ‘Hindu terror’ and branded a peace-loving people as terrorists are today running away from a Hindu majority seat (Amethi) and contesting from a Hindu-minority seat (Wayanad).

This attack was as scathing as one could have expected from PM Modi in the run-up to 2019 elections. However, staying true to their pathological anti-Modi hatred, some “journalists” couldn’t digest the full-frontal assault on their favourite dynasty.

Rajdeep Sardesai, the “journalist” who had once said that the Parliament attack back in 2000 actually “excited him” took to Twitter to shamelessly twist PM Narendra Modi’s statement.

Rajdeep Sardesai’s tweet

Rajdeep Sardesai said that the Prime Minister was playing “us vs them” politics by saying that “Rahul Gandhi did not dare contest from a seat where WE are in majority but where WE are in minority”. He specifically wrote that this was PM Modi’s statement and even put the word ‘we’ under single quotes to emphasise the use of the word.

He then said that he thought the Prime Minister represents “all of us” and hinted that perhaps this statement of the Prime Minister is an attempt to divide people on the basis of ‘us vs them’.

However, the word that Rajdeep Sardesai laid so much emphasis on was never used by the Prime Minister in his speech while making these statements.


If one listens to the speech by Prime Minister Modi, he mentions how the Congress demonised Hindus by blaming them for terrorism and coining the phrase “Hindu terror”. He says that this narrative was demolished by the courts and thus, Congress does not have the courage to fight from a constituency where Hindus are in majority.

This is not something that the Prime Minister has concocted either. In a sting video that was put out by Times Now, Congress leader had himself admitted that Rahul Gandhi was choosing Wayanad as a second “safe seat” because it was a constituency with a minority Hindu population.

It is thus intriguing why Rajdeep would so blatantly twist the Prime Minister’s statements when a video of his speech is available. Rajdeep not only twisted his statements but even highlighted the erroneous part by putting the word ‘we’ in single quotes.

Perhaps Rajdeep assumes that the handful of people who still consider him a credible voice are so uneducated and uninformed that they would lap up the garbage he regurgitates every now and then, or, his Modi hate is so deafening that he fails to paraphrase a statement correctly. Either way, Rajdeep has done what he does best: Brush away the concerns and sentiments of Hindus to play his politics and ensure that he scores a brownie point with the Dynasty he loves to revere.

Rajdeep’s shamelessness is rather legendary, to put it mildly, as is his love for the Gandhi family. Earlier, he had muddled up the meaning of ‘benami property’ in order to exonerate the Gandhi son-in-law Robert Vadra. He had even lied about Goa tourism being on the decline when actually, the numbers indicated otherwise. In his illustrious career that we had tracked, Rajdeep Sardesai can easily be awarded for being a serial fake news disseminater and shoddy journalist. One also recalls how he had shamelessly lied about the Supreme Court’s judgement about Rafale. 

Through the years, Rajdeep Sardesai has worked extra hard to demonised Narendra Modi and pander to the Gandhi family. This latest example is just another addition to the long list of a saga called the Sardesai Shenanigans.

Update: After his misrepresentation was pointed out, Rajdeep first quote tweeted his incorrect tweet with the correct statement of the Prime Minister.


However, he maintained his narrative twist. Later, he deleted his old tweet where he had maliciously twisted the PM’s words.

With Wayanad, Congress prepares for a future India where Hindus are a minority

Abhishek Banerjee
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With Wayanad, Congress prepares for a future India where Hindus are a minority

Rahul Gandhi is going to contest from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, in addition to Amethi. There’s more to the decision than meets the eye. Much has been written about the reasons behind this. Decades of backwardness in the Nehru-Gandhi bastion of Amethi. A spirited campaign by Smriti Irani, who remained committed to the area for the last five years, despite losing in 2014. The BJP picking up four of the five Assembly seats in Amethi in the Vidhan Sabha polls. All these factors came together to make Amethi a very slippery seat for Rahul Gandhi this time.

But why Wayanad?

Even a lot of journalists and intellectuals considered sympathetic to Congress have expressed surprise at the choice. Why would Rahul Gandhi go up against a Left candidate in Kerala, against a party that is basically an ally? Was Wayanad really the only possible “safe seat” for Rahul Gandhi? Even if Rahul wanted to move south and was looking for an easy victory, could he not have picked a seat, say in the Old Mysuru Region of Karnataka, the part of the state where BJP is extremely weak? Because BJP is a big, even the dominant force in Karnataka overall, it would not have looked so embarrassing for him.

Because there appears to be a second, deeper layer to the Congress Party’s decision.

With Wayanad, a Lok Sabha seat where Muslims make up 56% of the population, the Congress Party is preparing for a future India where Hindus are a minority.

First, I must put in a small remark debunking certain misinformation being circulated about the demographics of Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency.


As the Economic Times explains here, Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency consists of 3 Assembly seats from Wayanad District, 3 Assembly Seats from Malappuram District and 1 Assembly Seat from Kozhikode.

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As such, Muslims account for 56% of the population of Wayanad seat.

Why is the misinformation that Hindus account for 49% of Wayanad seat, using the demographics of Wayanad District instead of Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, being spread all around social and mainstream media? Why are ‘reputed’ media outlets and ‘journalists’ carrying this incorrect information? Is it a mistake or is it deliberate? I leave it to you to guess.

Let’s get back to the main point. By contesting from Wayanad, Congress is preparing ground for electoral politics in a future India where Hindus will be the minority.

Political parties are more like corporations than we realize. The world’s largest corporations are always on the lookout for the next big thing: it could be renewable energy or artificial intelligence. Without constant innovation and adaptation, any corporation would collapse. For example, the Kodak Corporation led almost every advance in photography for almost one hundred years since it was founded in 1888. But then Kodak failed to anticipate the digital camera and smartphone revolution in photography. They filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

The Congress is India’s most successful political party. It has ruled 58 out of 72 years since independence, a strike rate that could arguably make it the most successful party in a democratic system anywhere in the world.

But then they were pushed to their lowest ebb in 2014, down to 44 seats. To recover, the Congress needed a completely new idea, something that would keep the party going into the future.

In this respect, does Wayanad reflect the Congress’ astute observation that Hindus will be a minority in a future India? The Congress enjoys a lot of goodwill from the Indian Muslim community. By shifting to a Muslim majority constituency, is the Congress deciding to make the Muslim votebank the bedrock of its future?

Surely the Congress would have known that they would have to endure taunts from the BJP about “running away” to a constituency where Hindus are a minority. They must have known that the move would cause depression among their cadres in the Hindi heartland. But is the Congress taking a long term view of India’s electoral future?

Sure, the move may not make sense right now, but how about a time 15 years from now when Hindus have become minorities in a host of other states: Kerala, Assam, Bengal, possibly even Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. In large parts of Western Uttar Pradesh, Hindu population is barely above the 50% mark. In large parts of Bihar’s Seemanchal, Hindus are already a minority. What happens 15 years from now?

Remember that Hindus do not need to be an minority in absolute terms all across India for this long term Muslim votebank strategy to work. The regions that I mentioned above account for nearly 200 Lok Sabha seats. The Congress managed to form a government in 2004 with less than 150.

For Congress, Rahul’s move to Wayanad could be bit like investing in the electric car. Sure, electric cars might be more inconvenient than traditional petrol or diesel cars today, but we know that clean, electric vehicles will keep getting better and better. They are the future. Is Congress looking for ‘first mover advantage’ in preparing for an India where Hindu votes no longer matter?

It might be a mere toilet for you but for me it is about upholding the dignity of women: PM Modi in Wardha

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It might be a mere toilet for you but for me it is about upholding the dignity of women: PM Modi in Wardha

In a blazing attack on the opposition, PM Modi came down hard on the rival parties in his rally in Wardha. Attacking the NCP, Modi asserted that the party is currently racked by a fratricidal conflict with its control rapidly ceding from Sharad Pawar. Modi also slammed Congress for coining the term ‘Hindu Terrorism’ and branding an entire community as a villain. PM Modi was in Wardha to continue his poll campaigning on Monday.

Hitting out at the NCP chief, Sharad Pawar, Modi alleged that there’s an ongoing fight within the Pawar family for wresting the command of the party and Sharad Pawar is visibly losing it to his nephews. Taking a dig at him, Modi said there was a time when Sharad Pawar use to dream about becoming the Prime Minister but suddenly, a few days back, he said he is happy with the Rajya Sabha and doesn’t intend to fight the elections.

Modi asserted that it was because Pawar had realised which way the wind is flowing. Modi also attacked Ajit Pawar for his offensive remark about the receding water levels in the dams in Maharashtra.


PM strongly denounced the NCP-Congress alliance in the state for being insensitive and negligent towards the demands of the farmers, forcing many of them to commit suicide. PM Modi said, ” The Congress and the NCP alliance in Maharashtra are like Kumbhkaran. When they were in power, each took turns to sleep for 6 months. When one of them wakes up in 6 months, the other one goes to sleep after eating the public money.”

He also blamed the alliance for stalling dozens of projects benefitting the farmers for years. Modi alleged that those who looted poor for 70 years can never think of the welfare of the poor. Modi also declared that it was NCP-Congress alliance which had given free access to the frenzied crowd in the Azad Maidan to trample upon the martyrs’ memorial.


Modi alleged that a couple of days back when a senior Congress leader mocked him that he has done ‘Chowkidari’ of toilets only, it has insulted the lakhs of Cleaners across the country who shoulder the responsibility of ensuring that the country remains clean.

Modi further added that he has no qualms with the Congress leaders calling him a Chowkidar of toilets because with it he also becomes a guardian of the honour of the women in this country. “This must be a mere toilet for you but for me, it is a mark of honour and dignity for the women in this country who earlier had to go out in open for defecation even after 65 years of India’s independence,” PM Modi said.


Excoriating Congress for coining the bogus term of ‘Hindu Terrorism’ Modi asserted that the Congress party has attempted to tarnish and defame Hindus in its attempt to vilify them. “1000s of years of history bears testimony to the fact that the Hindus have never resorted to Terrorism,” Modi affirmed.


Taking a swipe at Rahul Gandhi’s election candidature from Wayanad, a seemingly minority dominated seat, Modi said that it is because of this Congress betrayal to Hindus that has forced him to scamper away from the majority dominated seat and lay refuge in a minority-dominated seat in Wayanad.

PM Modi also talked about the achievements of the BJP government in the state. He said work on the Lower Wardha Irrigation scheme is in full flow which will benefit numerous adjoining villages. He also said that under BJP, MSP of Cotton, Soybean and other crops have risen by 1.5 times.

In Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi in bad company of extremist Muslims, says CPI(M): How would this impact 2019 Elections?

Ashish Shukla
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In Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi in bad company of extremist Muslims, says CPI(M): How would this impact 2019 Elections?

Congress President Rahul Gandhi, choosing to contest from Wayanad in Kerala, has opened itself to the charge of siding with allegedly Muslim extremist organizations which could lead a Hindu backlash against him and his party in 2019 General Elections.

One of Congress support in Wayanad emanates from Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) which in turn is tied up with Jammat-e-Islami and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), both accused by National Investigation Agency (NIA) in conducting arms training camps across the state under the pretence of health awareness camps. In several police raids in the offices of PFI and SDPI in Kerala, weapons and arms-stockpiling came to light in 2014. As many as 24 accused arrested belonged to these two parties.

Four SDPI activists claimed responsibility for hacking two CPI (M) members at Mangalam, Tirur on January 29, 2014. SDPI’s district president had then justified it as an emotional reaction from its members to an attack the CPM effected against one of its members the same morning.

In 2014, SDPI made a private school in South Kerala submit to their demand of removing Vande Mataram from their Independence day programme. It also made the school drop the Namaste gesture. The SDPI had then claimed that a number of parents had complained against some words in Vande Mataram and the gesture Namaste against their religious beliefs.

CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said on Sunday: “Gandhi is contesting as the candidate of Congress-IUML-Jammat-SDPI. Congress should think whether seeking the support of Muslim extremist organizations would benefit Congress at the national level.”

All this trouble of being in league with Muslim extremist organizations looks a still far worse decision given that the Congress victory margin in 2014 in Wayanad was only 20,000 compared to the over-a-lakh margin in 2009. In the 2016 assembly elections, four of the seven assembly segments in Wayanad were won by the CPI (M). Of the remaining three, only two are in Congress control and one by its ally, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).

Rahul Gandhi clearly wants to ride on the 68% share between Muslim (48%) and Christian (20%) voters in Wayanad which became a Lok Sabha constituency only in 2009—a tacit admission that Hindus en bloc are not going to vote for Congress.

But the ground reality today is markedly different as dissatisfaction against Congress is growing by the day, as reflected in a drop in support on the following counts:

  • The rural agrarian crisis in Wayanad has reached an alarming proportion. Six farmers have so far committed suicide, the last one a mere four days ago. Farmers find themselves unable to pay loans; imports have crashed farm-produce prices (pepper once sold at Rs 1200 per kg is now Rs 350 per kg);
  • Wild animals overrun the farms often. Several farmers no longer farm due to it. Wild elephants also often kill farmers. Since 2008, Wayanad has seen 67 deaths due to attacks by animals. Over 150 have been seriously injured.
  • Wayanad has the largest share of the tribal population in Kerala—and they are angry. They launched several agitations in recent past owing to their landless status. They have been pushed to stay in forests where there is no drinking water. Every election, Congress promises land to construct homes. But it never materializes once the elections are over.
  • There is no hospital despite the UDF government had sanctioned one in the past. The nearest one is 72km away in Kozhikode.

It is certain though Rahul Gandhi must have weighed the pros and cons of his decision.

For one, it could reignite the flagging spirit of Congress workers in Kerala, a state where Congress senses a sizeable share in the 2019 General Elections.

Together with Kerala, and hopefully in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Chattisgarh, Congress hopes to cobble up enough seats of its own to be the front runner in case of the anti-Modi gang muster enough numerical numbers to form a government in the Centre.

The theatrical Congress mouthing fire against Mamata Banerjee or being rubbished by Commies in public; the spurn of Arvind Kejriwal, the disenchantment with Chandrababu Naidu or squabbles with Lalu Yadav/Tejashwi Yadav would be flushed away in a jiffy if and when the feast of power presents itself to these set of opportunists.

The reverse is equally true: perhaps starker than these fair-weather friends have taken into account and Lutyens Media has done its best to hide it.

So much for those who chest-thump in front of cameras as the true defenders of secular and non-communal Nehruvian ideology.

Delhi High Court dismisses PIL seeking stay on release of the film ‘PM Narendra Modi’

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Delhi High Court dismisses PIL seeking stay on release of the film ‘PM Narendra Modi’

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition seeking a stay on the release of the film ‘PM Narendra Modi’. A petition was filed in the court alleging that the movie violates the model code of conduct and it should not be allowed to be released. The model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha election is in force at present, and the movie is slated to release on 5th April, just one week ahead of the first phase of the polls.


Although the Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition against the movie, several other petitions filed against the release of the movie are still to be decided by other courts in the country. Mumbai High Court has issued a notice to Election Commission seeking its reply to the petition, and EC has to be present in the court during the next hearing in the case with its response.

A similar petition is being heard by Allahabad High Court also, and the High Court has adjourned the hearing till Friday, citing that EC has already issued a notice to the makers of the movie.

On March 20, The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer had issued a suo moto notice to the producers of PM Narendra Modi. The producers have already responded to the notice, saying the biopic has no link with BJP. The film’s producer Sandeep Ssingh, actor Vivek Oberoi and with his lawyer Hitesh Jain appeared before the EC, and they submitted that they have no political agenda behind the movie.


‘PM Narendra Modi’ is a biographical film based on the life of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and many opposition parties allege that the movie has the potential to influence voters. Actor Vivek Oberoi plays the role of Modi in the movie.

Congress branded Hindus as terrorists and now Rahul Gandhi runs to Hindu-minority seat: PM Modi

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Congress branded Hindus as terrorists and now Rahul Gandhi runs to Hindu-minority seat: PM Modi

With 2019 Lok Sabha Elections only weeks away, Prime Minister Modi has been on a blitzkrieg against the opposition and especially Congress. Today, while delivering a speech at a public rally in Wardha, Prime Minister Modi launched a scathing attack against the Congress for its coinage of the shameful term “Hindu terrorism”.


Prime Minister Modi, while speaking in Wardha said that Congress had tried its best to blame the crores of Hindus of this country by coining the term “Hindu terror”. He asked if there is even one incident where a Hindu had been involved in an act of terrorism. Prime Minister Modi took the attack further and said that even British Historians never said that Hindus could be terrorists and indulge in such violence.

Prime Minister Modi’s scathing attack didn’t stop there. He then spoke about Rahul Gandhi contesting from a Hindu minority constituency like Wayanad.


He said the people who were branded as terrorists by Congress (Hindus) have now woken up to reality. In a tone of exasperation, Prime Minister Modi said that Congress branded the very people as terrorists who consider the entire world as their own family.

The Prime Minister said that it is because of this that Congress had to run away from a ‘majority’ seat and seek shelter in a ‘minority’ seat, hinting at Rahul Gandhi fighting from the Hindu-minority seat Wayanad in addition to Amethi, the Gandhi bastion, which has a Hindu majority.

Interestingly, a sting video had surfaced where Times Now had revealed that a senior Congress leader had himself admitted on tape that Rahul Gandhi’s chances of winning Wayanad is higher because of the non-Hindu majority of the constituency and also because Amethi is not looking like a dicey bet.

The people of Amethi themselves have shown extreme displeasure with the Congress party and especially, the Nehru-Gandhi family. In a report that had surfaced earlier, Rashid, whose father had proposed Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi’s candidatures back in 1991 and 1999 respectively, has decided to fight as an independent candidate against Congress scion. “What is the point? That they just want our votes? They are scaring us and the BJP? They should focus on development,” said Rashid.

Another local said that the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family do not wish to empower the Muslims in the region because Muslims are more in number. “They know that if we become strong, in future we could become a threat to them that a Muslim from here could become an MP,” said an Amethi resident. Another local, voicing his resentment, said that they have given 70 years to Congress and they didn’t do anything. What will they do now?

As we had opined earlier, Rahul Gandhi choosing Wayanad has a deeper civilisational message for the voters of India. It shows, that the Congress party would much rather prefer an India where non-Hindus form a majority as compared to the Prime Minister, who chose Varanasi as his second seat, as a civilisational message for his voters. The Congress party had tried its best to concoct the “Hindu Terror” narrative that had fallen flat on its face. Now, with the Prime Minister mounting this scathing attack on Congress and its anti-Hindu legacy, it remains to be seen what effect this would have on 2019 Lok Sabha Polls.

Ex-DRDO chief clarifies on former NSA’s statement, says Congress govt neither responded, nor gave financial assistance for ASAT programme

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Ex-DRDO chief clarifies on former NSA’s statement, says Congress govt neither responded, nor gave financial assistance for ASAT programme

VK Saraswat, the former chief of DRDO and now a NITI Ayog member, has stated that the statement of the ex-NSA Shivshankar Menon claiming that DRDO had never sought permission regarding the ASAT tests are ‘erroneous’. Saraswat has clarified yesterday that as he has stated before, the DRDO had made an informal presentation before the government and not a written request.

Leftist propaganda site The Wire had published a report quoting UPA-era NSA Shivshankar Menon as saying that the ex-DRDO chief is lying and DRDO had never sought any permission regarding the ASAT tests.

The article in The Wire

However, VK Saraswat, speaking to media, has stated that the DRDO had made an informal presentation to the government and as there was no response from the government and no necessary financial resources were provided, they did not go ahead with the programme.

Saraswat, speaking to ANI, stated that Menon’s comments were erroneous and a ‘flight of imagination’.

Saraswat has further clarified that at that time, the DRDO had stated that they were planning two experiments, one with an electronically stimulated satellite trajectory and launching an interceptor to hit it, so as to avoid space debris, and after its success, another test with the real satellite.

Saraswat had earlier stated that though he had informed the then UPA government about the need for such a programme, he had received only silence over the issue.

He further stated that it was during Manohar Parrikar’s tenure as defence minister that an official proposal was put forth by G Satheesh Reddy, the current DRDO chief. Reddy had also stated recently that NSA Ajit Doval had shared the proposal with PM Modi and the PM had given the go-ahead for the project in 2016.

After PM Modi announced to the world that India has successfully completed the ASAT missile test and is now one a space power among the elite group of nations that have this capability, Congress and its supportive ecosystem, however, have been going on an overdrive trying to establish that India had achieved the capability under the UPA government but it is the NDA government which is taking the credit.

Even the articles and news reports which were being used to claim this had mentioned that the program had not received the go-ahead from the then Manmohan Singh-led government. Even the article in the Wire that quotes Menon, mentions him saying that Saraswat had given an informal presentation regarding ASAT capabilities, making it evident that the programme had never got a green signal from the UPA government.

However, former defence minister AK Anthony had stated to media that he was not even aware of any such programme.

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