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CPM goons in Kerala caught on camera threatening to chop RSS workers into pieces

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CPM goons in Kerala caught on camera threatening to chop RSS workers into pieces

In what might be called a blatant show of bloodthirsty belligerence, CPM workers from Kerala’s Kannur district have been caught on camera making highly provocative statements against RSS and BJP personnel of the region.

As reported by Times Now, the CMP workers were heard chanting that, “We will ransack their homes and kill”, “We have a leadership…if it says just one word we will kill RSS leader Valsan Thillenkery”:


They are further heard threatening that they won’t spare a single man in RSS, enter their homes and chop them into pieces. The video ends with the CPM workers chanting Inqlab Zindabad. 

These slogans, as per reports, were raised on 26th December. The region of Kannur has reportedly been engulfed in violence for the past 10 days, which has resulted in 7 confrontations, where 6 RSS workers and 5 CPM workers have been injured.

Reports about this video have surfaced at a time when CPM and BJP leaders seem to have agreed to take concrete steps for bringing peace to the Kannur district. The measures include, leaders of both the parties refraining from making provocative speeches against their political rivals. Plus the party workers too have been asked to refrain from making inflammatory statements or comments on social media which may lead to tension or violence.

It remains to be seen whether the parties indeed pay heed to such an advisory, which might prevent such sloganeering against RSS workers and leaders in the future.

We have time and again reported how communists have turned the state into killing fields with at least 14 RSS workers getting killed in the state from July 2016 to August 2017. The killings have been so rampant, that they have even stretched to the hometown of current Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who it is alleged, has supported such killings in the past.

RSS leaders have also alleged that the communists get the support of Muslim fundamentalists in the state, which helped them cobble a majority in the last assembly elections.

While the opposition bickers over the bill, man gives triple talaq to wife because she overslept

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While the opposition bickers over the bill, man gives triple talaq to wife because she overslept

On Thursday, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad introduced the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2017, which criminalises the instant triple talaq practice. Even though this bill seeks to emancipate the Muslim women from being exploited by their husbands, it was met with resistance by AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi who claimed that the bill violated fundamental rights and lacked legal coherence.

Earlier in the day, Congress leader Salman Khurshid had created a sob story in order to defend the practice of triple talaq, and was ridiculed as a result.

But while opposition politicians are bickering over the bill and practice itself, Muslim women continue to suffer at the hands of this draconian practice.

It has been reported that a man has given triple talaq to his wife, simply because she overslept and got up late in the morning. The girl named Gul Afsha was later thrown out of the house. This incident has been reported from the Nagaliya Aqil village in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur district.

As per local reports, her husband first slapped her on the cheek and then gave her triple talaq following which he threw her out of her home and locked their house. She then as per the report, she went to the police station but her community members took her away by explaining that being a domestic matter it will be settled between the two parties.

The police station in charge, when asked about this matter claimed that Afsha had indeed come to the station to inform about the matter, but she didn’t want to file any case.

Afsha’s barely four months old marriage with Qasim, a truck driver, soured within months after he started assaulting her. Turns out that the husband and wife had a heated row on Monday night and Qasim proceeded to brutally beat her.

As a result of this beating, Afsha couldn’t properly sleep at night, and woke up late on Tuesday morning. This too angered Qasim, who then proceeded to give her triple talaq.

The girl as a result of this torture, has now taken refuge in her parent’s home. Her family members are in a state of shock due to the matter, and even Afsha continues to be very stressed.

Even though the practice of triple talaq has been outlawed by the Supreme Court, it hasn’t stopped Muslim men from giving instant talaq to their wives, over the most frivolous of reasons.

We had reported how a husband had given triple talaq to his wife after she tried to stop him from forcibly selling her land. In another case, a husband was accused of assaulting and giving triple talaq to his wife after she took food for her relative in hospital.

In one of the cases the local police had expressed a lack of knowledge regarding the course of action in such matters, as he claimed that they hadn’t yet received any instructions as to how they should proceed with the investigation.

This issue might be fixed the moment there’s a concrete law which criminalises the Islamic practice, thereby providing a clear road map for the law authorities to act in these matters.

AAP slammed for turning Kejriwal’s ‘metro invitation snub’ into an opportunity to seek donations

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AAP slammed for turning Kejriwal’s ‘metro invitation snub’ into an opportunity to seek donations

A few days ago, the Aam Aadmi Party had gone into outrage mode, after their supremo Arvind Kejriwal was not invited to the inauguration of Delhi metro’s Magenta line on Monday. This Delhi metro stretch from Kalkaji Mandir and Botanical Garden was inaugurated by PM Modi, and UP CM Yogi Adityanath too was present during the ceremony.

Deputy CM Sisodiya has since then called this invitation snub of Kejriwal as an insult to Delhites, and alleged that he (Kejriwal) wasn’t invited out of fear that he might publicly demand a rollback of metro price hike.

Since then the party has spun this whole ‘metro invitation snub’ into a potential donation drive by asking people to donate to the party if they were angry against Kejriwal’s invitation snub:


It was certainly amusing to note that the party decided to milk a slight to Kejriwal’s personal ego by asking people to enrich their treasury.

People too took noted the same and bemusedly slammed the party:


A few decided to crack jokes:


Now one wonders whether AAP’s renewed spur to take money from people, would also translate into making its donation process more transparent by reinstating the public list of donors, which it inexplicably decided to pull down from its website in June, 2016.

This famous twitter user has made exposing Rajdeep Sardesai’s hypocrisy an art form

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This famous twitter user has made exposing Rajdeep Sardesai’s hypocrisy an art form

When one paints a mental picture of a journalist, there are various qualities associated with the “ideal journalist” which come to the mind. They being, objectivity, integrity, tenacity, being outgoing, to name a few.

But when one pictures controversial journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, it seems that the quality which comes to the forefront, above everything else, is hypocrisy. And in order to prove so, scientist and well known columnist Anand Ranganathan has dedicated a whole thread to expose Rajdeep and his hypocrisy.

Going by Anand Ranganathan’s thread, the instances of Rajdeep’s hypocrisy may be so vast even a book might be written on the whole affair, but here are the choicest few which put Rajdeep in the dock to say the least.

Ranganathan who ‘fondly’ calls Rajdeep Michelangelo, had once famously exclaimed that, “if Hypocrisy were an art form, this man would be Michelangelo”, thanks to this:

But Sardesai wasn’t really concerned about, “Television ‘Respect’ Points” in the past:

And as Ranganathan described, Like clockwork, here comes Michelangelo of Hypocrisy brandishing his chisel. The Renaissance Man of Indian Journalism. Here’s another gem:

Rajdeep once proclaimed that, channels shouldn’t carry sponsored content of Godmen:

And again, almost like clockwork, Ranganathan was on Rajdeep’s case and uncovered that, IBN7 the channel where Rajdeep used to be the Editor-in-chief, used to run Nirmal baba episodes three times a day, everyday:

Rajdeep once let everyone know on twitter that, he wasn’t too fond of bullet trains:

But Ranganathan wasn’t letting him get away with that lie and uncovered this:

Rajdeep one day decided that India should become a mature nation and not mention Pakistan in UN speeches:

You won’t be surprised with which screenshots Ranganathan put up next:

Rajdeep once said, Indians should be citizens first and disregard ideology:

You can guess what Ranganathan did next:

Does Rajdeep like crackers or does he not like them?

Rajdeep wants the son to pay for his father’s sin but he doesn’t want a father to pay for his son’s sins. Interesting:

Religion shouldn’t matter in politics. Wait, religion does matter in politics:

The same goes with Caste:

All this makes one wonder as to why does Rajdeep not simply play smart and delete the contradictory tweets before tweeting out a viewpoint, after he has been repeatedly exposed so many times for his hypocrisy. But the fact remains that there’s only so much which you can cover-up, and Anand Ranganathan would be there, lurking around, waiting to pounce upon Rajdeep’s next folly.

Salman Khurshid conjures up a sob story to defend Triple Talaq, gets ridiculed

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Salman Khurshid conjures up a sob story to defend Triple Talaq, gets ridiculed

On Congress Foundation Day, one of the patron saints of liberal values, Salman Khurshid defended Triple Talaq giving one of the most feeble excuses ever, “who will take care of the family if the man who gives Triple Talaq is jailed for the same”?


This, of course, got twitterati riled up over the regressive, vote bank pleasing statement.


Some even thought it would be a good idea for Khurshid’s wife to give some basic lessons of decency to her husband.


One wonders whether the newly crowned Congress President Rahul Gandhi endorses these statements.

FIR filed against NCW member for taking suicide case diary in rape case

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FIR filed against NCW member for taking suicide case diary in rape case

A case has been registered against National Commission for Women member Sushma Sahu for allegedly taking away original documents related to Bolpur rape case from the investigating officers and threatening them with dire consequences. Last week, a 20 year old girl set herself ablaze in Bolpur, West Bengal, after being allegedly raped by a construction worker. The accused Sheikh Hafijul, who is a mason by profession, allegedly took photos of the victim and used them to blackmail and rape her. Unable to bear the trauma, the girl set herself ablaze on December 12 and succumbed to her injuries after 10 days.

As per reports, Sahu had visited the house of the victim and later asked the police to give her a photocopy of the case documents. As the police officer asked for some time to get the photocopy done, Sahu allegedly took off with the original documents, asking the investigating officer to collect them from her later.

Investigating officer, Sub-inspector Subir Chakraborty, further said that Sahu even threatened to throw away his uniform and threatened him with dire consequences.

Following this, a case has been registered against Sahu under IPC sections 379 (commitment of theft), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 355 (assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation).

Police arrest 12 Maoists accused of killing 11 tribals after branding them as police informants

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Police arrest 12 Maoists accused of killing 11 tribals after branding them as police informants

In a major breakthrough, the police in Odisha’s Malkangiri district have arrested 12 Maoists accused of killing 11 tribals, who they branded as police informants, a charge which the police have denied.

In 2017, the Malkangiri district has witnessed the deaths of 11 tribal, the latest being on 19th December, when a tribal farmer named Sadhu Khemundu was battered to death in the region by Maoists.

As per Jagmohan Meena, the SP of the region, after the killings, the police had intensified combing operations in Maoist infested areas of Kalimela, Tulsi and Nakakamudi in the district. As a result of which, they managed to arrest these 12 Maoists from their jungle dens or houses.

Meena described the Maoists as “hardcore militants” and claimed that the police was verifying whether they were involved in other cases as well.

Such a success comes a few months after as many as 18 Maoists were killed in a joint counter-insurgency operation in Tondamarka area of Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. The counter-insurgency operation named ‘Prahaar’ was conducted by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) and Special Task Force (STF) of Chhattisgarh Police and District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Chhattisgarh.

This practice of Maoists murdering civilians after branding them as informants, has been an almost regular affair over the years.

To named a few:

In 2016 it was reported that a man named Sanjeet Kumar Rathod from Sukma district in Chhattisgarh, was killed by left wing extremists over charges of him being a police informant. After his murder, the Maoists’ Jagargunda area committee issued a statement claiming that the deceased continued to provide the party’s information to the police despite being warned.

In 2014 too, Maoists had killed a headman of a tribal village in Koraput district of Odisha over similar charges of him being a police informant, though the police denied such a connection.

In the age of digitisation, Delhi CM Kejriwal bats for lengthy documentation for public services

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In the age of digitisation, Delhi CM Kejriwal bats for lengthy documentation for public services

At a time when offices are going paperless and even governance is going digital, boosting the Digital India call, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal wants to go back in time. A proposal sent to the lieutenant governor (LG), Anil Baijal, to bring doorstep delivery of already digitized public services, has been sent back for reconsideration citing safety concerns. A press release by the LG office, said that the doorstep delivery proposal had safety implications for women and senior citizens, possible increase in corruption, bad behaviour, breach of privacy and loss of documents amongst other things.

While the privacy concerns are valid, the Aam Aadmi Party today attacked the LG saying that since the LG is not an elected representative, unlike Chief Minister himself, shouldn’t Kejriwal have the final word.


Many voiced their concerns regarding the possibility of increase in corruption by the individuals who may come to verify documents.


AAP rebel leader, Kapil Mishra, too voiced his concerns regarding the human intervention.


He also said that this scheme proposed by Kejriwal would dilute and make the Service Guarantee Act irrelevant because service delivery would no longer be the responsibility of the Government officer.


Meanwhile, AAP warriors on Twitter came out in full force asking why should LG, who is not an elected representative, have a final say and not Delhi CM.


However, some pointed out how this step could turn out to be an expensive one on the pockets of Delhi residents.


Considering the implications of human intervention, perhaps it is a good time for Kejriwal to be answerable for once on why he wants to go back in time when the world is moving forward.

Tharoor, Hegde and the Constitution

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Tharoor, Hegde and the Constitution

Union minister of state Anantkumar Hegde’s remarks that “BJP had come to power to change the Constitution” and that it would “do so in the near future” made Shashi Tharoor quote RSS ideologues and their supposed hostility to the Indian Constitution. Shekhar Gupta, on whose website the article appeared yesterday, tweeted that ‘the cat is out of the bag.” These two oily characters, both literally and figuratively, have often been annoying with their selective truths.

Tharoor threshes out quotes from the works of former RSS supremo M.S. Golwalkar and Deen Dayal Upadhyay, to show their disapproval of Indian Constitution. The insinuation is that our holy grail, the Indian Constitution, is not safe under the present dispensation of BJP and its fountainhead, RSS.

Only if Tharoor could explain to us why in their decade-long years in government (1998-2004 and 2014 onwards), BJP has made no amendment whatsoever on the religious statutes of the Constitution? Surely, if this is their hidden agenda, they would’ve made a move to change the status-quo.

If Tharoor could explain to us why a political party with the so-called “Hindutva” agenda is seen as a pro-Capitalist party, swearing by “development” and being no activist, unfortunately, on the issues of cultural heritage? Or why all the BJP election manifestos since 1980 have asserted the right of legal equality regardless of religion? Perhaps Mr. Tharoor could answer why the introduction of a Uniform Civil Code would be such a bad thing to do, considering secularism should in essence mean equality under law?

While considering the Constitution as sacrosanct, maybe Mr. Tharoor should also explain why amendment in Article 30 is not desirable which allows minorities to set up schools, have religion-centric curriculum and get Government funds to boot while denying the same to Hindu majority? Or for that matter Article 25 which allows “propagation” of one’s religion, knowing fully well that Hinduism doesn’t have a tradition of proselytization while Islam and Christianity do. As Dr. Koenraad Elst says: “It’s like giving wolves and sheep the equal liberty to eat each other”. (Dr Koenraad Elst, Decolonizing the Hindu Mind, Page 230)

I wonder if Mr. Tharoor can explain why Article 370 must not be amended which doesn’t allow non-Kashmiri Indians from acquiring property and citizenship in Jammu and Kashmir state? Why such a measure, conceived and executed with the understanding that it was only temporary, be allowed to continue to damage the fabric of one nation? Or if the constitution is the paramount beacon of equality, why under Article 26 Hindus do not have the fundamental right to maintain institutions for religious or charitable purposes, as interpreted by the Supreme Court (Shri Adi Vishveshvara of the Kashi Vishvanath temple vs Uttar Pradesh case, Dr Koenraad Elst, Decolonizing the Hindu Mind, Page 241). Why Christians and Muslims can manage their own place of worship but the Hindus’ religious institutions have been taken-over by the state governments?

What about the discrimination against Hindus while Minorities Finance Corporation are functional in almost all the states of India? Or the 1992 Minorities Commission Act in a nation which is avowedly secular? Or the Hindu Code Bill while personal laws of a minority can’t be amended without their approval or initiative? Why religion-based personal laws which continue to flout the Article 44 of the Constitution which is for Uniform Civil Code?

In passing, let me also throw a Golwalkar quote to sober up Tharoor on his hysteria: “Let the Muslims evolve their own laws. I will be happy when they arrive at the conclusion that polygamy is not good for them, but I would not like to force my views on them,” said Golwalkar (Andersen and Damle: Brotherhood in Saffron, Page 83)

It is surprising, that critics like Tharoor can only go back to Gowalkar and Deen Dayal Upadhyay, every time they wish to critique the current dispensation. It is indeed amusing that he can’t find any other stick to beat the BJP and RSS with. And since they can’t, shouldn’t they for a moment concede that the current government concerns itself with ‘sabka saath sabka vikaas’, sometimes, much to the anguish of some of his own supporters?

Tharoor won’t tell that Golwalkar was a spiritual leader—who almost became a Shankaracharya—and was completely anti-political. Golwalkar never warmed up to Hindu Mahasabha’s political goals. As for Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Tharoor would’ve done well to point out the merit of former’s “Integral Humanism” which is BJP’s core philosophy.

Wish Tharoor someday would write and Gupta would publish the former’s views on 42nd Amendment which inserted the word “secular” in the Constitution when all the opposition was in jail and it’s clearance in Parliament was no better than a joke on democracy.

Samajwadi Party leader slammed for condoning Pakistan’s inhuman treatment of Kulbhushan Jadhav and kin

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Samajwadi Party leader slammed for condoning Pakistan’s inhuman treatment of Kulbhushan Jadhav and kin

On Tuesday it was reported how Pakistan had meted out an inhuman treatment to Kulbhushan Jadhav’s wife and mother while they tried to meet their kin, who is confined by Pakistan over allegations of him being an Indian spy. The Ministry of External Affairs in a press release detailed the inhuman treatment of Jadhav’s family members which included asking them to remove their bindi, sindoor and bangles.

As a result of this, many Indians were outraged by Pakistan’s antics, but appears Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agarwal was not one of them. Agarwal today stirred up a major controversy by condoning the inhuman treatment which was meted out to Jadhav and his kin by Pakistan:


In the ANI video, Agarwal when asked about the insult meted out to Kulbhushan Jadhav’s family, is heard saying that it is an internal policy matter of Pakistan. He further claimed that if Pakistan considers Jadhav to be a terrorist then they can treat him accordingly, and India should also treat terrorists in a similar way.

Such a statement about an Indian citizen, who by various accounts has been framed by Pakistan, angered a lot of people:


Even political leaders slammed Naresh Agarwal’s statement:


Naresh Agarwal in the past too has managed to create a controversy via his outspoken demeanour.

It was reported how he had in July linked various Hindu gods and goddesses like Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman with alcohol. He was also alleged to be involved in a sex racket and had condoned Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad’s assault of Air India official. During the run up to the Lok Sabha he had stated that a tea seller could never become a good Prime Minister.

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