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Bihar: Communists blow up BJP leader Anuj Kumar’s residence in Gaya, demand boycott of elections

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Bihar: Communists blow up BJP leader Anuj Kumar’s residence in Gaya, demand boycott of elections

In a shocking incident in Bihar’s Gaya, the BJP leader Anuj Kumar’s residence was blown up by dynamite on Wednesday. Naxals associated with CPI armed with weapons allegedly blew up the local BJP MLC’s house late in the night on Wednesday.


The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Gaya Rajeev Mishra said, “About 20-30 Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (CPI) blew up the house of BJP leader Anuj Kumar.” Gaya police have taken up the case and launched an investigation into the attack.

According to the local media reports, the Naxals attacked the BJP leader’s house at around 1 am on Wednesday. It is being told that Anuj Kumar Singh was already on the list of targets of the Naxals. The explosion at Singh’s house caused a commotion in the entire area. The blast has left the BJP leader’s house completely demolished and neighbouring villagers horribly scared. However, as per reports, there have been no casualties so far.

After blowing up the house, Naxals left with a poster asking to boycott the upcoming polls. This has been the modus operandi of Naxals for some time now. In Chhattisgarh assembly polls, similar threats of boycotting the elections were handed out to the people by the Naxals. However, the Communist Party of India has eagerly fielded candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections including one of the members of the Tukde Tukde Gang, Kanhaiya Kumar to fight from the Beguserai seat.

The Communist ideology finds its roots in violence and extremism. Throughout the country, the Communists have been purveying and manifesting their violent ideology. In Kerala, communists blatantly indulge in hacking people holding opposing ideologies to death. In India’s capital, New Delhi, communist goons unleashed violence on ABVP workers during the JNUSU elections.

Congress campaigner in Puducherry makes transphobic slur against Kiran Bedi

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Congress campaigner in Puducherry makes transphobic slur against Kiran Bedi

In a shocking new low, political orator, Nanjil Sampath, who was campaigning for Congress in Puducherry made egregious comments against the Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi.

While campaigning in Puducherry for former Chief Minister and Congress’ Lok Sabha candidate V Vaithilingam on Wednesday, Sampath resorted to derogatory remarks against Kiran Bedi, calling her a ‘BJP Governor’. He also mistakenly refers to Kiran Bedi as Nirav Modi. After being corrected, he went on to pass misogynistic and transphobic slurs against the Puducherry governor.

“There are 21 BJP governors in India. Here one woman, Nirav Modi, (promptly gets corrected by people behind him)…Kiran Bedi. She has been perpetrating atrocities here. Is she a constitutionally chosen authority? Should you be sent here after being castrated in Delhi?” Sampath said. The people standing behind Sampath smile as he continues making disparaging slurs against Kiran Bedi. Sampath also raised allegations of obstructing the Puducherry Chief Minister Narayanasamy’s welfare schemes against Bedi. “Is this how a democracy works?” he questioned.

The former AIADMK politician is currently campaigning for the DMK-Congress alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The shockingly appalling remarks from Nanjil Sampath come just days after the DMK suspended Radha Ravi for passing sexist comments against actor Nayantara. However, this is not the first time that Sampath finds himself in the eye of the storm. Last time, Sampath was sacked from the AIADMK after he made a scathing attack on Vaiko’s MDMK in an interview and also passed callous comments about the floods in Chennai during December 2015.

The Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Puducherry, V Vaithilingam, however, wasn’t present during the speech. He has worked as the Speaker of Puducherry Legislative Assembly and served as Chief Minister of Puducherry. He was selected by Congress as the candidate for Puducherry parliamentary seat and had filed his nomination for the elections on March 22.

Former Sonia’s man Jean Dreze holds meeting without permission despite Model Code of Conduct, released after being detained

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Former Sonia’s man Jean Dreze holds meeting without permission despite Model Code of Conduct, released after being detained

‘Eminent’ Economist and social activist Jean Dreze was released after being detained along with two other Right to Food activists by Jharkhand Police at Garhwa district. The three were arrested for holding a meeting at a public place without permission. The three activists were taken to Vishnupura police station.

According to the Police Jean was holding a meeting without permission and he had not been arrested. Since model of conduct is in place in wake of upcoming Lok Sabha elections, one is expected to take prior permissions from local administration for public meetings.

Jean is reported to have said, “Nothing serious in the matter. If they get a call, they may allow the meeting to proceed.”

Dreze was a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC) during the UPA era. Dreze is presently an honorary professor at the Delhi School of Economics and a visiting professor at the Ranchi University. He previously taught at the London School of Economics.

Meanwhile, ‘Eminent intellectuals’ are outraged that their comrade was detained by the Police for allegedly violating a law.


It betrays the sentiment that most ‘intellectuals’ harbour where they feel they are above the law and believe that routine laws, which apply to every mere mortal, should not apply to them. Further, Prashant Bhushan, whose relationship with the truth is tenuous at best, appears to be unaware that the Police has arrested people who were accused of being involved in the Gurugram incident, which was not borne out of any communal reasons.

Dreze and his friends were released by the Jharkhand Police after furnishing personal bonds.

Karnataka CM warns of adopting ‘Mamata Banerjee’s tactics’ against Income Tax raids in the state

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Karnataka CM warns of adopting ‘Mamata Banerjee’s tactics’ against Income Tax raids in the state

The Income Tax officials along with the CRPF raided residences of Karnataka’s Minor Irrigation Minister C S Puttaraju and his nephew in the wee hours of Thursday.

JD(S) leader Puttaraju, who is believed to be a close aide of Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Revanna, said three teams of Income Tax officials and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel carried out raids at his Chinnakurli residence in Mandya and his nephew’s house in Mysuru.

The raids were carried out a day after Karnataka CM, Kumaraswamy had raised fear of possible Income Tax raids on Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) functionaries ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

The CM had claimed that CRPF personnel have been brought in from various parts of the country to assist Income Tax officials in executing the raids which according to him were targeted at opposition leaders. “I have received specific information that 200-300 CRPF personnel have been brought in to conduct raids at 5 am on Thursday,” he said yesterday.

Kumaraswamy, however, cautioned that he would not shy away from pulling off a Mamata if the centre continued to indulge in “politics of vendetta” to weaken opponents ahead of the elections. “I know the game that Income Tax officials are playing in this final stage of the election. They should exercise caution. They will end up repenting if they continue to act as agents of a political party,” he had said. He also warned that he would use “Mamata Banerjee’s tactics” against any Income Tax official conducting raids on Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) functionaries.

Last month, a five-member CBI team that reached the residence of the Kolkata top cop to question him on the Rose Valley and Saradha ponzi scams were briefly detained on the orders of the West Bengal Chief Minister. Mamata later staged a dharna in Kolkata to protest the Narendra Modi government’s alleged vindictiveness towards opposition-ruled states.

Kumaraswamy had also accused that instead of taking the help of the Karnataka Police the CRPF has been used in the raids in order to maintain the mission’s secrecy.

Meanwhile, Karnataka’s Minor Irrigation Minister C S Puttaraju was quoted by a news channel as saying that, “Three teams of I-T officials and CRPF soldiers comprising eight soldiers carried out raids at my Chinnakurli residence in Mandya and my nephew’s residence in Mysuru.”

The minister said he was not afraid of the raids and instead, it had instilled confidence in him. “I’m not deterred by the raids, which are election-related. I would like to know which BJP leader’s house in Karnataka has been raided,” Puttaraju, who is an in-charge minister of Mandya district, said.

Alongside, the IT officials also began search operations at residences belonging to three contractors, Narayana Reddy, Ashwath Narayana and Raya Gowda in Channarayapatna town, said to be close associates of PWD minister HD Revanna, on Thursday morning.

They also conducted similar search operations in the office and residence of PWD executive engineer, CS Manju in Hassan. It is believed that these contractors got many road works from PWD in the coalition government. The local police, however, were not aware of any such operations.

Sources in the Karnataka Congress said raids have been carried out at least 10 to 15 places in the city and elsewhere, without giving details. They alleged that the Income Tax department, the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI now seemed to have the sole aim of propelling the BJP to victory. “This is the first time in the history of India that a Prime Minister has misused autonomous institutions with such flagrant disregard. The people will teach him a lesson,” they said.

SP leader makes sexist remark against BJP leader Jaya Prada, says people in Rampur will be ‘entertained’ by her presence

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SP leader makes sexist remark against BJP leader Jaya Prada, says people in Rampur will be ‘entertained’ by her presence

Samajwadi Party’s Sambhal District President, Firoz Khan has exhibited his mental sickness by passing an extremely outrageous remark against the BJP’s newly inducted member, veteran actor-turned-politician, Jaya Prada.

Firoz Khan, a close aide of SPs controversial leader Azam Khan, in a highly disgraceful remark said that people of Rampur, the constituency Jaya Prada would be representing against Azam Khan, will make full use of this one time opportunity granted to them.

In a lewd and sexist remark, Khan said that Jaya Prada would henceforth adorn the evenings of the people of Rampur. He said that residents of the district would stay entertained and their evenings will now be colourful as Jaya Prada would be visiting Rampur frequently to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections.


Continuing to deliver filth, Firoz Khan said that the people of Sambhal, an adjoining district, would also now like to spend their maximum time in Rampur since Jaya Prada would be present there.

Firoz Khan further added that people of Rampur are prudent enough to vote for the Samajwadi party but they are also smart enough to make full use of this God-sent opportunity.

His audacious words were nothing but a cheap display of his trivial thinking and his party’s ideologies. He further insulted Jaya Prada by saying that the people of Rampur would indulge in cheap thrills when Jaya Prada visits her constituency and sing songs like “mere pairon mein ghungroo bandhado aur Phir meri chaal dekhlo” referring to a Hindi song from the movie Sunghursh (1968).

Meanwhile, SP leader Azam Khan, who is representing the party from Rampur constituency has also shared a bitter relationship with Jaya Prada in the past. In fact, earlier Jaya Prada had revealed that Azam Khan had attempted an acid attack on her. She had also stated that due to Khan, she had once perceived a threat to her life and was under severe trauma.

Recently, Jaya Prada in a veiled attack said that Allauddin Khilji’s character reminded her of Azam Khan while the latter had taunted her with a similar sexist remark calling her a nachneganne wali (dancer-singer).

The war of words between the two candidates is expected to only intensify in the days to come as Jaya Prada and Azam Khan, continuing with their 10-year-old feud, are ready to battle it out at Rampur again.

Ironically, it was Azam Khan who initially brought Jaya Prada into Samajwadi Party fold and helped her win in Rampur parliamentary constituency on the party ticket. Jaya Prada had won the Lok Sabha election from Rampur in 2004 and 2009.

However, the relations turned sour as Jaya Prada sided with former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh. Things worsened to such an extent that Azam Khan supporters openly campaigned against her during 2009 Lok Sabha elections.

Azam Khan will be contesting Lok Sabha elections for the first time while Jaya Prada has won the Rampur seat twice before this.

Vinod Dua’s daughter indulges in victim shaming, raises questions on ‘past’ of the lady who accused her dad of molestation

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Vinod Dua’s daughter indulges in victim shaming, raises questions on ‘past’ of the lady who accused her dad of molestation

Vinod Dua’s daughter, Mallika Dua’s convenient feminism reached a new low when she indulged in victim shaming of the lady who had accused her own father, fake news peddler masquerading as a journalist Vinod Dua of stalking and molestation.


In a tweet on March 24, Mallika tweeted to singer Sona Mohapatra, who has also been very vocal about sexual harassment in the film industry, questioning her ‘silence’ over documentary filmmaker Arghya Basu’s suicide earlier this month. In 2017, Arghya was accused of sexual harassment by a filmmaker, Nishtha Jain who was his former batchmate. Jain had accused Basu of molesting her when they were both studying, but since Basu had now become a faculty, she had put his name in Raya Sarkar’s ‘cautionary list‘ which called out sexual offenders amongst professors.

Jain is the same lady who had accused Vinod Dua of stalking and molesting her in October last year. Mallika Dua immediately swung into action to get back on Sona Mohapatra, who in past has called her out for defending her father and question the victim when she has otherwise claimed she stands by the victims. Earlier, too, Mohapatra had called out Mallika for staunchly supporting her father and referring to those who accused him of harassment as ‘opportunists’.


Reacting to this, Mohapatra clarified that she did not know Basu but she had heard from common friends that he was perhaps battling alcoholism. She quipped whether Mohapatra was dragged into this mudslinging because the lady who had accused Basu had also accused her father and perhaps this was Mallika’s way of defending her father.


Mohapatra was also surprised that Mallika had ‘unblocked’ her on Twitter so she could taunt her and victim-shame Jain, who had accused her father of molestation. To this, Mallika trivialised it by accusing Mohapatra of having an agenda. When Mohapatra confronted Mallika Dua of her duality and hypocritical stand on sexual harassment cases, especially when one of the accused was her own father, Dua accused Sona of being a ‘toxic garbage’.


Mallika even tried to insinuate that Sona Mohapatra has lesser work because of her stand on the #MeToo movement. Which, as a feminist and a champion of women’s rights is a shocking thing to gloat about.

After this shoddy behaviour, Mallika blocked Sona again and then accused her of bullying.


This after it was Mallika who had ‘unblocked’ Sona, tweeted to her, called her names for siding with the lady who accused her father of sexual harassment. Mallika, after blocking Sona, proceeded to stalk Sona Mohapatra online and continued commenting on her tweets.


Clearly, Dua was hopping mad with rage when people questioned her meltdown.


This isn’t the first time Mallika Dua has shown double standards. Earlier, while defending her father, she had said that she stands by her father, Vinod Dua, and also supports the #MeToo movement. More recently, Mallika Dua was found making insensitive remarks over the Pulwama terror attack. “People die every day, do we keep mourning about them? This is bulls*&*,” she had said.

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Protecting violent terrorist groups at UN and abusing Muslims at home: US Secretary of State slams China for its “Shameful hypocrisy”

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Protecting violent terrorist groups at UN and abusing Muslims at home: US Secretary of State slams China for its “Shameful hypocrisy”

Taking a strong note over the increasing Human Rights abuse against minority Uighur Muslims by China, the United States of America on Wednesday issued a stern statement lashing out at China and accusing it of “abusing” Muslims in their country while protecting Islamic terrorist groups from sanctions at the United Nations.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned China’s “shameful hypocrisy” over its treatment of Muslims as he met survivors and family members who were abused in Chinese detention camps as part of a policy of Beijing to persecute Ughyur Muslims.


Secretary Pompeo also slammed the hypocrisy of China with respect to its policy towards Muslims by referring to China’s repeated attempts to block the proposal to designate Pakistani terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed’s chief Masood Azhar as a ‘global terrorist’ by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

“China must release all those arbitrarily detained and end its repression. The world cannot afford China’s shameful hypocrisy toward Muslims. On one hand, China abuses more than a million Muslims at home, but on the other hand, it protects violent Islamic terrorist groups from sanctions at the UN,” Pompeo tweeted.

Pompeo on Tuesday met Mihrigul Tursun, a Uighur who had publicly revealed about the nature of Chinese detention camps for Ughyur Muslims and the widespread torture that is being inflicted on them in these camps.

Reportedly, Pompeo has further asked China to release all ethnic groups that they have arbitrarily detained in those detention camps. “China has detained more than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in internment camps in Xinjiang since April 2017,” he said.

China was sharply criticized for its human rights violation over mass detention of members of the Muslim Uighur community at a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting recently. Western governments, including those in Europe, the United States, and Canada had taken a serious stand against China for its human rights abuse in Xinjiang province.

Even Islamic countries like Turkey are standing against China’s human rights abuse. The Turkish government issued a stern statement condemning China for violating the fundamental human rights of Uighur, Turks and other Muslim communities in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

Uighurs are a Turkish-Muslims ethnic group living in Xinjiang, the largest and most western of China’s administrative regions surrounded by Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. The Xinjiang autonomous region in China has had a long history of discord between the authorities and the indigenous ethnic Uighur population.

US circulates draft resolution, seeks to counter China and ban Masood Azhar globally

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US circulates draft resolution, seeks to counter China and ban Masood Azhar globally

Weeks after Pakistan’s all-weather ally China vetoed the motion to get Jaish-e-Muhammad terror group founder and leader Masood Azhar included on the list of global terrorists, the United States, along with Britain and France, has renewed the efforts to get him blacklisted by the UN Security Council.

The United States has circulated a draft resolution with the help of Britain and France to the 15-member UN security council that would blacklist JeM leader Masood Azhar which will subject him to an arms embargo, travel ban, and asset freeze.

The move comes after China put a “technical hold” on the designation of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, claiming it will provide time for thorough and in-depth assessment of the case.

The draft resolution by the United States, Britain, and France seeks to put Masood Azhar in the Security Council’s ISIS and Al Qaeda sanctions blacklist. However, it is unclear when the resolution to blacklist Masood Azhar will be put to vote.

There have been 4 attempts so far to designate Masood Azhar in the list of global terrorists. China has blocked 3 previous requests and put a technical hold on the latest one, which could last for about 9 months.

Earlier, France and Germany had moved proposals to blacklist him in the EU. France had frozen’s Azhar’s assets in the country.

JeM is a proscribed terror group which operated from Pakistan and Masood Azhar is the founder and leader of the group. It has been on the UN terror list since 2001. The group has been involved in numerous terrorist attacks against India. It also carries out training and recruitment of radical Islamists as terrorists in Kashmir. This year in February, the group was involved in a terror attack in Pulwama in which 40 Indian security personnel lost their lives.

Gandhi family’s arrogance: From matchbox to missiles, everything India has, is due to Congress, says Priyanka

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Gandhi family’s arrogance: From matchbox to missiles, everything India has, is due to Congress, says Priyanka

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been campaigning in UP for the upcoming general elections. As per reports, during her Amethi tour yesterday, when Priyanka was asked her opinion about Mission Shakti, she stated, “From matchbox to missiles, everything India has today, has been given by Congress”.

PM Modi had announced the success of India’s Mission Shakti yesterday, which saw India’s entry to the elite group of nations in the world after DRDO’s ASAT successfully destroyed a satellite in LEO.

After the news of the significant achievement, Congress leaders had been on a collective rant spree to claim that the credit for the achievement must go to Nehru.

Priyanka Vadra, speaking to the people in Amethi during her tour, claimed that PM Narendra Modi only does foreign tours and whatever India has achieved, it has been due to Congress. She stated that the expertise in manufacturing from matchboxes to missiles has come due to Congress.

On DRDO’s feat, Priyanka reportedly stated that she is proud of the DRDO and it has only become possible because Nehru had established the organisation.

Priyanka, when asked that poverty has not been eradicated from the country even after 60 years of Congress rule, stated that BJP leaders want to claim that poverty has not been eradicated at all. She added that poverty has been addressed to some extent.

Taking a dig on BJP’s Amethi candidate Smriti Irani, Priyanka stated that she comes to Amethi only for a picnic, while for the Gandhi family, Amethi is home.

UP: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asks Congress workers to prepare for 2022 elections. Has Congress given up on 2019?

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UP: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asks Congress workers to prepare for 2022 elections. Has Congress given up on 2019?

Perhaps sensing a defeat for the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Gandhi Parivar scion Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has now pushed her victory goal to a distant future as she gave a call to her party workers to prepare for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, reported ANI.

Congress General Secretary of Uttar Pradesh East, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday asked Congress workers to start preparing for Uttar Pradesh assembly elections that are scheduled to be held in 2022. Speaking to Congress workers in Amethi, Priyanka Vadra asked her party workers whether they were preparing for polls while also mentioning that the preparations were not for 2019 Lok Sabha elections instead for the one that is scheduled to take place in the year 2022.


Even though Priyanka Gandhi ordered her party workers to prepare for polls in 2022, it is not clear whether she was eyeing the 2022 Uttar Pradesh state elections or according to some speculation across social media that she may also have got confused about the fact that the next Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held in 2024. Social media users think Priyanka Gandhi may have wrongly mentioned 2022 as the year of next Lok Sabha elections. There are also speculations on whether Congress has already conceded 2019 sensing defeat in the upcoming 2019 General elections.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was appointed as the general secretary of Congress for UP-East by her brother Congress President Rahul Gandhi. Priyanka Gandhi has been making every effort from visiting temples to going on Ganga Yatra with a hope of helping her brother and Congress President Rahul Gandhi in the upcoming general elections. She has been holding rallies and public meetings to energise her party in Uttar Pradesh.

Recently, Priyanka Gandhi put herself in an embarrassing situation after she offered a used garland on the statue of Lal Bahadur Shastri. In a video shared by Union Minister Smriti Irani, Priyanka Gandhi was seen wearing two garlands, who then walked up to the statue of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and offered one of the used garlands to pay respect for Shastri’s statue without even realising that she had insulted Shastri Ji instead of respecting him by offering a used garland on his statue.

Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra is accused of money laundering case and dubious land deal cases. He was recently summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with these cases.  Cases against Robert Vadra has been filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against Skylight Hospitality firm owned by Vadra. The case is in relation to alleged financial irregularities in land deals in Gurgaon, Haryana in 2008. The ED had recently attached Vadra’s properties worth Rs 4.62 crores in the Bikaner land scam case.

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