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Tamil Nadu: IT raids on Congress ally DMK leader, huge cash recovered allegedly belongs to DMK treasurer

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Tamil Nadu: IT raids on Congress ally DMK leader, huge cash recovered allegedly belongs to DMK treasurer

In a midnight operation, Income Tax (IT) department officials along with the Election Commission officials carried out a raid on the premises of senior leader Duraimurugan of the DMK, the Congress party ally in Tamil Nadu. Congress and DMK have joined hands and formed an alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

According to the reports, Income Tax sleuths conducted raids in Vellore despite opposition from the DMK legal cell functionaries, who refused to allow teams of the tax department’s election surveillance and monitoring and district static surveillance and flying squads to hold searches without a warrant.

The IT officers carried out raids till 10 AM on Saturday morning at the Vellore residence of Durai Murugan, whose son DM Kathir Anand is contesting in Vellore Lok Sabha constituency. Along with his residence, Kingston Engineering College and Durai Murugan B.Ed College, both owned by Murugan’s son Kathir Anand have also been raided.

The IT department stated that Rs. 10 lakh unaccounted cash was seized during the search. “The search in the residence is over where about Rs. 19 lakh cash was found. After allowing cash declared in election affidavit of about Rs. 6 lakh etc., cash of Rs. 10 lakh determined as excess is being seized,” a statement issued by the IT department on Saturday said.


The Income Tax department has also recovered a huge amount of cash from a cement godown in Vellore. The cash was shifted here from Duraimurugan college on March 29-30 midnight, said an I-T official, according to the Times of India report.

Meanwhile, Durai Murugan has termed the IT raids as ‘purely political’ with a motive to ‘snatch his son’s victory prospects’ by hampering electioneering. Speaking to the media, he said, “It is purely political. If the IT wanted to hold a search, they should have done it last month. Why should they come now? We will face it legally.”

However, the IT department has clarified that it had conducted the search ‘on being called by District Election Officer, Vellore,’ and after receiving the official memorandum issued by the State Police Chief.

Watch: You can’t find solution if you ask wrong questions, Rivaldo explains why Kashmir issue is ‘unsolved’

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Watch: You can’t find solution if you ask wrong questions, Rivaldo explains why Kashmir issue is ‘unsolved’

The Kashmir conundrum has bled India for decades and often, the ‘liberal’ coterie has offered myriad excuses for the terrorism that has emanated from Kashmir. The reasons have varied from how Kashmiri youth have taken to arms because of the lack of economic opportunities, to how the Indian Army is responsible for it. Finally, the media has tried its best to whitewash Jihad and humanise the terrorists who bleed India with a thousand cuts.

Comedian Nitin Gupta aka Rivaldo, in this three-part video, has exposed how the discourse around the Kashmir issue is flawed mostly due to the excuses provided by the ‘liberals’.

In his first video, Nitin Gupta ‘Rivaldo’ talks about how why ‘education and jobs’ cannot solve the Kashmir problem. This is incidentally an excuse given by several people in the media and the ‘liberal’ ecosystem for why Kashmiris become terrorists.

You can watch Episode 1 on Youtube too.

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In the second video, Nitin Gupta ‘Rivaldo’ exposes the sheer lies of the ‘liberals’ when they say that Indian Army’s “brutality” in the valley is one of the reasons why Kashmiris take to terrorism.

Episode 2 can be watched on YouTube too.

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Finally, in the 3rd and final Episode, Nitin Gupta ‘Rivaldo’ talks about how the Media whitewashes terrorists and makes shoddy excuses for Jihad in Kashmir.

The 3rd and final Episode can be watched on YouTube too.

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Shashi Tharoor welcomes Rahul Gandhi to Wayanad, Twitterati join him

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Shashi Tharoor welcomes Rahul Gandhi to Wayanad, Twitterati join him

Congress leader and Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor welcomed Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s decision to contest from Wayanad, Kerala in quite an artistic way.


In a tweet, he posted a superimposed picture of Rahul Gandhi on an image of a forest, welcoming him to Wayanad. Twitter users, donning their creativity and humour caps, too, joined in.


Some even took tourist tips from Tharoor on when would be the best time to visit Wayanad to see the ‘special attraction’.


2019 Lok Sabha Election is just weeks away and Congress’ Prince, Rahul Gandhi, has now decided to fight from Wayanad, Kerala, in addition to his ‘bastion’ Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. While the popular consensus seems to be that Rahul Gandhi was looking for a safe seat to contest from due to fear of losing to Union Minister and BJP’s firebrand contestant Smriti Irani, there is a deeper malaise to Rahul choosing Wayanad that cannot be ignored.

A sting operation conducted by Times Now had thrown up some startling admissions by a Congress MLA regarding why Rahul Gandhi would be choosing Wayanad as his safe seat. In the sting video, a senior Congress Party leader could be seen saying Congress President Rahul Gandhi is facing pressure in Amethi and has to find a safe seat, implying that he should contest from Wayanad as Hindus form a minority in Wayanad constituency which will ensure an easy victory for Rahul Gandhi.

RLD leader threatens to demolish BJP office, calls BJP the biggest ‘jutiya’ party

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RLD leader threatens to demolish BJP office, calls BJP the biggest ‘jutiya’ party

RLD (Rashtriya Lok Dal) leader Jayant Chaudhary, crossing lines of basic civility, threatened to ‘demolish’ the BJP office in the national capital. On March 30, the RLD leader while addressing a public gathering, Chaudhary said that if Ajit Singh (Party President and son of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh) gives us orders, we will go and demolish the BJP party headquarters in Delhi.


“They have built a Rs 1,500 crore palatial central headquarter in Delhi. We didn’t do any harm last time but if they do it again, Ajit Singh will give us orders and we will march and remove bricks of the headquarters,” Chaudhary reportedly said. He further said that while he does not wish to use abusive terms for the BJP leaders, who call us ‘Sharab’ and ‘milavat’, he would still like to call them ‘Jutiya’, which sounds similar to the abusive word ‘ch*t*y*’


He was referring to the ‘Sarab’ dig PM Modi had taken at the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh where he had said that the ‘sarab – Samajwadi Party (Sa), Rashtriya Lok Dal (Ra) and Bahujan Samaj Party (B)’ are harmful for the society. Chaudhary’s loss of basic civility shows his frustration and lack of linguistic skills that the best comeback he could come for the ‘Sarab’ dig is a word which sounds like an abusive term, and even there he did not have the courage to say it openly.

2019 poll arithmetic indicates formidable risk for Congress of Rahul Gandhi losing Amethi

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2019 poll arithmetic indicates formidable risk for Congress of Rahul Gandhi losing Amethi

In the history of Indian elections, Amethi has been the ‘safe’ seat for the Gandhi family and the Congress party. Since the 1960s, it has always been won by a Congress candidate, except on two brief occasions. It has been the constituency that sent Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to the Parliament.

However, things look different in 2019 Lok Sabha elections as Rahul Gandhi faces a stiff challenge from BJP’s Smriti Irani.

Voter situation in Amethi Constituency

Rahul Gandhi has contested from Amethi since 2004 and has always won comfortably. He never faced any stiff competition in Amethi except in 2014 from BJP’s Smriti Irani.

Rahul got close to 4 lakh votes in every election but in 2014, his vote percentage fell sharply to 46%.

Data Source: Election Commission of India report for 2004, 2009, 2014

Before 2014, BJP was always stuck at single digit vote percentages. However, in 2014, BJP made a remarkable foray into the Gandhi bastion and Smriti Irani ended up getting 34% of the votes.

In 2014, Rahul secured 4 lakh votes again but Smriti Irani also reached close at 3 lakh votes. The loss margin for a non-Congress government had been substantially reduced to only about 1 Lac. This was unprecedented in the constituency of Amethi.

Data Source:Election Commission of India report for 2004, 2009, 2014

With the above numbers as baseline reference from 2014, the following changes are expected to impact voting in 2019.

Factors that may reduce Rahul Gandhi’s votes

Haroon Rasheed, son of a longtime Congress member Sultan Khan has reportedly abandoned Congress and is contesting as an independent candidate from Amethi. His father was reported to be a strong influencer in Amethi. He was also the proposer for Rajiv Gandhi’s and Sonia Gandhi’s nominations in earlier elections.

A large section of his supporters who would have voted for Rahul would now vote for Haroon Rasheed, thus bringing down Rahul’s votes. The moving away of a Congress strongman may as well push Congress from the edge of defeat to the abyss of loss.

Factors that may increase Smriti Irani’s votes

Mayawati’s BSP has declared to not field any candidate from Amethi, apparently to support Congress.

BSP traditionally secures about 90 thousand votes in Amethi in every election. In 2014, BSP secured lower votes at 60 thousand but Dr Kumar Vishwas of AAP also got 25 thousand votes.

Data Source: Election Commission of India report for 2004, 2009, 2014

In 2019, AAP is not expected to get many votes and BSP is not fielding any candidates. These 90 thousand votes would shift to Congress or BJP.

It must be noted that these are the voters who have never supported Rahul Gandhi and have always voted against him even in his home turf.

Hence, it might be reasonable to believe that a good part of these 90 thousand votes may get transferred to Smriti Irani, thus bringing up her vote count.

Other than the arithmetic, the fact that Minister Smriti Irani has worked tirelessly in the constituency is bound to play a massive role in how the chips fall on 23rd May 2019. While Rahul Gandhi has hardly returned to Amethi after his victory in 2014, Smriti Irani, despite her loss, went back to Amethi several times to work for the people of the constituency. The track record of what Rahul Gandhi did in Amethi for the past 10 years compared to what Smriti Irani did in the constituency only in the last 4 years speak for themselves.

Possible outcomes

Indian voters can be completely unpredictable. Hence actual outcome cannot be predicted with certainty. However, based on the above numbers, it is reasonable to believe that in 2019, Rahul Gandhi may end up securing less than 4 lakh votes and Smriti Irani may end up securing more than 3 lakh votes.

Depending on the quantum of that difference, either it would be a close win for Rahul Gandhi (not a facile victory as it has always been) or Smriti Irani may go down in history as the politician who ousted Congress’s party President and Prime Minister candidate from his home constituency.

‘Chop off the limbs of forest officials’: Former judge and NC leader says to people in Kashmir, FIR registered

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‘Chop off the limbs of forest officials’: Former judge and NC leader says to people in Kashmir, FIR registered

Former Sessions Judge in Anantnag and National Conference (NC) in charge of Kokernag Assembly constituency in Jammu and Kashmir Syed Tauqeer has been charged by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for inciting violence against Forest Officials while addressing locals in Kokernag area.

A video has been doing rounds recently in which Tauqeer is reportedly seen telling people to chop off the limbs of forest officials if they come to block a road there. “Somebody was whispering in my ear that forest people are blocking a road here. You have my go-ahead that if anybody approaches, you chop-off their limbs and then I will manage the rest. You start (using your) rights over the forest from now on. There are few months to government formation, tell them that NC’s nominated candidate has given us the permission,” said Tauqeer.

An FIR has been lodged again Tauqeer by the police under sections 116, 506 and 153 of the Ranbir Penal Code at Police Station Larnoo. Tauqeer had taken voluntary retirement and had joined the National Conference on March 17. The NC has distanced itself from Tauqeer’s statements which are absolutely shocking coming from a former judge. The Party posted a statement on Twitter saying that it does not endorse Tauqeer’s remarks.


The statement said that Tauqeer has been advised to exercise more care when choosing words and that this was a momentary lapse which happened in the heat of the moment. A few of days ago another NC leader Javed Ahmed Rana had threatened to put PM Modi behind the bars if he came to power calling the Prime Minister a murderer of humanity.

Punjab: Police arrests close aide of rape accused Franco Mulakkal with 9.6 crores in unaccounted cash

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Punjab: Police arrests close aide of rape accused Franco Mulakkal with 9.6 crores in unaccounted cash

Father Anthony, a close aide of Kerala nun rape case accused Franco Mulakkal, was arrested by the Punjab Police after unaccounted cash was recovered from his residence in Partappura near Jalandhar, reported Mirror Now.

According to reports, the Punjab police on Friday had arrested Father Anthony and 5 others after they found Rs.9.66 crores of unauthorized cash. Father Anthony has not produced any proof accounting for the seized cash.

SSP, Khanna, Dhruv Dahiya, had stated that the money is unaccounted and no documents were there to show how it was collected. Father Anthony belongs to the Diocese of Jalandhar.

However, two days after police recovered Rs 9.66 crore in alleged ‘hawala’ money from six men, Father Anthony Madassery of Jalandhar has accused the Punjab police of misappropriation of Rs 6.65 crore. The priest also demanded that an FIR is lodged against the “erring officers” and the case is handed over to the CBI.

Father Anthony claims that the police on Friday had recovered Rs 16.65 crore, while South Indian Bank Officials who were present at the spot had counted the money using a counting machine as it was to be deposited in the bank. But the police disclosed to the media that Rs 9.66 crore has been found in my possession, thereby misappropriating an amount of over Rs 6.65 crore, he claimed.

Meanwhile, the police have rejected these allegations and called them “concocted”. Khanna police replied there was no question of misappropriation as the recovered amount had been counted by the income tax department and certificates have been issued.

Franco Mulakkal, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar, is accused of raping a 44-year-old nun at a guest house in Kuravilangad in May 2014 and subsequent sexual exploitations afterward. The nun had registered a complaint in June 2018 and has also claimed that despite her complaints, the church took no action on the bishop. The congregation had also stood by the rape accused and referred to him as an “innocent soul”.

Despite the initial delay in the arrest of the Bishop, Kerala police acted subsequently upon the incriminating pieces of evidence present against Bishop Franco Mulakkal of the Archdiocese of Jalandhar, Punjab, for allegedly raping a nun from Kerala on multiple occasions. Rape accused Bishop Franco was granted conditional bail in the case on October 15 in the case.

After his release, Bishop Franco was given a grand welcome in Jalandhar where people had arrived in large numbers. Since his release, Missionaries of Jesus has attempted to silence those four nuns for supporting the victim nun who had accused Bishop Franco of rape.  the four out of the five nuns who had supported the rape survivor nun were asked to leave the Kuravilangad convent, and go to convents, previously assigned to them. Shockingly, apart from threats and intimidation, Father Kuriakose who had testified against Bishop Franco was found dead under mysterious circumstances.

Modi’s Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana ‘un-Islamic’ as per Sharia, 200 Islamic scholars pass a fatwa against it

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Modi’s Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana ‘un-Islamic’ as per Sharia, 200 Islamic scholars pass a fatwa against it

As many as 200 Islamic scholars (mufti) have declared Centre’s Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, where a bank account is opened by parents of a girl child in her name, as ‘un-Islamic’ as per Sharia. According to Ajimullah Siddiqui, media in-charge Jamiyat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH), the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana has an interest element which is ‘un-Islamic’ as per Sharia and hence the yojana is also considered un-Islamic.

Launched in 2015 by Modi government as part of the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ initiative, Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana let parents of the girl child with less than 10 years of age open a bank account in her name. The banks were to provide 9% interest on the deposited amount. The interest element makes the yojana ‘un-Islamic’ say the ‘Islamic scholars’. However, financial transactions through different mobile apps, like PayTM or even booking a taxi through a mobile app is allowed as per Sharia. Amusingly, using Google AdSense for advertising ‘lawful goods’ is allowed. Promoting movies and illegal programs through Google AdSense is not allowed, though.

As per the statement by the JUH 200 Islamic scholars and jurists from Darul Uloom Deoband, Nadawatul Ulema, Lucknow Jamia Qasmia Shahi, Muradabad and other different Islamic institutions participated in a three-day conference held in Delhi which concluded recently. All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s Kamal Faruqui said that Islam calls for earning through business and participatory transaction. Earning interest through capital lying with a bank is ‘un-Islamic’.

Darul Uloom Deoband’s ‘fatwa department’ is often in the news for declaring things ‘un-Islamic’. Last year, it had declared CCTV cameras ‘un-Islamic’. Before that, dancing and marrying bank employees was also declared ‘un-Islamic’. Darul Uloom Deoband had also issued fatwa against Muslim women taking shopkeepers’ help to wear bangles since it was ‘wrong and a big sin’ (to have strange men touch arms).

Deoband clerics had once issued a fatwa against life insurance, as they claimed that Life and death are in the hands of Allah and no insurance company can guarantee a man’s longevity.

Also a few days ago a cleric associated with the Darul Uloom Deoband university issued a fatwa against women watching football games, as watching men playing with bare knees is forbidden for women.

In the past fatwas were issued against posting photos of self and family on social media websites like Facebook and WhatsApp. New Year Celebrations and designer burqas, too have met with the same treatment.

A fatwa was also issued against a 15-year-old Muslim girl for dressing up as Lord Krishna and reciting Gita. A Deoband Ulema had reportedly expressed his displeasure at the girl dressing up as Lord Krishna and termed it as anti-Islamic.

Former BSF Constable Tej Bahadur Yadav, who had complained about poor quality food, to contest against PM Modi from Varanasi

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Former BSF Constable Tej Bahadur Yadav, who had complained about poor quality food, to contest against PM Modi from Varanasi

BSF Constable Tej Bahadur Singh, who had made headlines by posting a video on Facebook complaining about the poor quality of food served to the BSF soldiers, will be contesting as an independent candidate against PM Narendra Modi in Varanasi.


Yadav, who was dismissed from the service on disciplinary grounds, questioned the PM about his promise of giving the status of martyrs to soldiers of paramilitary forces and giving them pension. Calling himself “asli chowkidar” and the PM as “nakli chowkidar”, Yadav said that it is an equal fight as both are chowkidars one is real and the other is fake.


Yadav’s video had created outrage on social media as he had alleged that the government was sending all the necessary supplies but the senior officials have been misappropriating the funds. An inquiry was subsequently ordered into the matter. The PMO had also sought a report on the incident and new guidelines were issued regarding the food supplied to the jawans.

In an affidavit submitted to the Delhi High Court by Defence Ministry had clarified that this is a misconception that army, navy and air force personnel are granted the ‘martyr’ or ‘shaheed’ status while the same is not granted to Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) like CRPF, BSF, Assam Riffles etc. The government had said that no such status is accorded to the defence forces, hence the question of according an equal status to CAPF does not arise. Responding to a petition, the affidavit had mentioned that “the prayer of the petitioner that the status of ‘martyr’ or ‘shaheed’ be given to the deceased Paramilitary Armed Forces personnel at par with army, navy and air force is misconceived and unfounded”. The government had clarified that paramilitary forces were not denied any due status as alleged.

Despite the clarification from the government in the court, opposition parties, including Rahul Gandhi continues to spread the lie that the government is depriving the paramilitary forces the status. The Congress president has even promised to accord the status if his party comes to power, which is a misleading statement. It is unfortunate to note that even people who have worked in BSF believe in the misconception.

Your journalists with anti-Modi hatred in their blood can continue with their hatred: PM Modi to CEO at channel launch

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Your journalists with anti-Modi hatred in their blood can continue with their hatred: PM Modi to CEO at channel launch

On 30th March, a new Hindi News channel named TV9 Bharatvarsh was launched. This is the latest addition to the TV9 network under the Associated Broadcasting Company Pvt Ltd, which currently has the TV9 Telugu channel. A national conference was organised on the occasion of launch of the channel, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited to it. Modi delivered the keynote address at the TV9 Bharatvarsh Conclave.

Now, a video has emerged showing PM Modi talking with executives of the network, where he made such a comment which was totally unexpected for people present there. Talking to TV9 founder and CEO Ravi Prakash, 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”. The response of the CEO shows that what Modi said was true, that the channel is indeed filled with people who hate Narendra Modi.

Now the video has gone viral on social media, with various reaction of people. Some people are pointing out how despite knowing that the channel is filled with his haters, PM Modi accepted the invitation. Those people call Modi Hitler, fascist, abuse him daily, and still he went to attend the launch event.


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.

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