A Dalit farmer in Gujarat has alleged his family was tricked into donating Rs 11 crore to BJP (10 crore) & Shiv Sena (1 crore) in electoral bonds.
Under the scanner are officials of a firm with Adani links, a land deal, and a local BJP leader.
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11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of gangrape and murder of 7 members of
#BilkisBano
's family walked out of a Godhra sub-jail today. The Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy.
#2002GujaratRiots
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The fact that most of us have a personal SRK story — where he has taught us love, humility, wit or grace — despite never having met him speaks volumes about what
#ShahRukhKhan
is made of. Hoping and praying that this political witch-hunt doesn't break him or his family.
"Hum aisa koi naara nahi lagayenge jisse humaare Hindu-Muslim kisi bhai ko taqleef ho. (We won't raise any slogans which hurt religious sentiments Hindus, Muslims or people of any other faith)." — Protest against
#NupurSharma
in Navi Mumbai.
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@QuintHindi
#JigneshMevani
has been sentenced to a 3 month jail term for organising a rally w/o permission to oppose the flogging of Dalits in Una (2017).
Q. Are all Dharam Sansads across the country being organised with permission?
At a presser organised on 26 October -- when the bridge was re-inaugurated -- Oreva Group MD said, "The bridge won't need any major repair work for at least 8-10 years now."
The said bridge came crashing down 5 days later. 141 people have died. 100 still missing.
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It's funny and frustrating how the cheerleaders of encounter justice in rape cases are trying to explain the legality of remission to justify the release of
#BilkisBano
convicts.
Watched
#Animal
. At best, it's just a dishonest film. I don't have a problem with sex or violence in cinema but I have a problem with the fact that when I left the theatre, I felt violated as a woman. Flawed characters are okay and should be portrayed on screen ++
During the Bharat Bandh call, a faceoff occurred between farmers and commuters. When farmers blocked the road, the girl traveling in a car responded by showing them the middle finger. Alert ‼️ Abusive Language
Met a former AAP worker. Now supports BJP. Left AAP because he felt Kejriwal follows the Sangh. Against Hindutva. Thinks Indira Gandhi is Modi's guru. Says was let down when his Muslim friends did not write a letter to Pak PM on crimes against Hindus-- my head is still spinning.
Thread | So
#AryanKhan
will walk out of jail after 26 days of being held in a case which appeared fabricated since day 1. As much as I want to, I just can't get myself to celebrate this. Why?...(1/n)
Sorry for making light of a serious situation but the number of Indian experts on the
#IsraelPalestine
issue is heartwarming. Who'd have thought that Sonu from Ghaziabad who has never stepped outside Delhi-NCR felt so strongly in support of Israel.
Outrage over any issue in India (unfortunately) depends on the social position of the victim/survivor. It'll sound harsh but most people are enraged over the Kolkata case because the victim was a "doctor" — someone considered an "achiever" in the most conventional sense.
Most
Those comparing the poorly built T1 in 2009, just 15 years ago, to Taj Mahal, in order to establish accountability, should understand that Shahjahan didn’t compromise with the quality of workmanship. Corrupt Congress took kickbacks in every infra project, which reduced life of an
So we want other countries to ‘protect’ their minorities and look away from what’s happening in India.
This will be the legacy that the BJP and its current leadership will leave behind.
Also, all BJP alliance partners should be held accountable for being enablers of this crime.
Haji Ashraf Munyar from a village in Jalgaon District travelling in a train to Kalyan to meet his daughter was abused and badly beaten up by goons in a train near Igatpuri alleging him of carrying beef.
In photo: BJP MP and MLA from Gujarat on stage with Shailesh Bhatt, a convict in the Bilkis Bano case, at the launch of a group water supply scheme in the Dahod.
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The return of BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) government in Maharashtra has coincided with a rise in rallies/gatherings organised by a group called the 'Sakal Hindu Samaj'. These rallies are rife with communally charged hate speech. Stay w me. +
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I see a lot of commentary on the contributions of Dhruv Rathee and other political influencers in yesterday’s verdict. Yes, they were brilliant in how they countered BJP’s hateful information machinery (from television to social media). But the real heroes here are those who led
Union Health Minister, Shri
@JPNadda
met with the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (
@FordaIndia
) delegation today.
He welcomed their decision to call off the strike in the public interest and assured them that the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare will address all
The small cloth shop next to the green building is where
#BilkisBano
spent her childhood. She was visiting her parents in 2002 when 11 men raped her and murdered her family members. The convicts are back in the village. 'Will Bilkis ever come home," her neighbour asked me. (1/n)
This is Ehsan Jafri's house, before 2002 and now.
The fear is: this may soon be a motif for all of India. Or is it already?
Let's hope hatred stops at some point.
Let me help: what Kangana is factually and historically incorrect. What Vir said can be debated but there nothing false in it.And KANGANA HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH A PADMA SHRI. Jitni accountability "left-liberals" se maangte ho, uski 5% hi sarkar se maang lo, sir. Kaafi rahega.
Kangana & Vir: 2 entertainers, 2 remarks, 2 controversies but 2 different reactions. Kangana hounded but Vir shielded by left "liberals". It appears that free speech is subjected to different standards of scrutiny depending on the individual's political inclinations.
🚨I don't think we're talking about this enough.
A Muslim man in Maharashtra was jailed for 'inciting' people to oppose a rally by serial hate speech offender T Raja Singh. While the man was in custody, the rally went on as per plan. ++
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Four migrant workers in Gurugram on their way home to Budaun at 11 pm on Tuesday. “We didn’t want to wait till
morning. What if the situation worsens?” they said.
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#Gurugram
#Haryanaviolence
AAP on its silence on Bilkis Bano case, Dalit conversions et al: We are here to do politics of schools, hospitals & jobs. BJP wants to win elections on religious & caste polarisation.
Also AAP: Let's introduce Laxmi and Ganesh photos on Indian currency notes.
#ArvindKejriwal
This is house of Ehsaan Jafri ex MP of congress. 20 Years back hindutva terrorists vandalised the house and Ehsaan Jafri was killed mercilessly along with nearly 100 People.
the wife of Ehsaan Jafri is running court after court for Justice but not getting.
and the man who was...
Convicted rapist Ram Rahim has been granted parole 7 times in 2 years.
Recently, one of Bilkis Bano’s rapists was granted a 10-day parole to attend a wedding.
Earlier, one of them was also booked for outraging a woman’s modesty while he was out on bail in 2020.
“I couldn’t see my mother one last time before her death because I was denied parole. This is a denial of basic Human Rights. My mother passed away when I was in Prison. Being a disabled child since birth, my mother brought me up with utmost care. She used to take me to school in
Shameless is an understatement.
This is the worth of human life in India.
10 years of the NDA government and he still thinks it fit to blame the previous government for this.
Wrote about AAP's soft-hindutva politics after Punjab elections. People/trolls came after me saying I am reading too much into it. Today, I accept I read them wrong. It isn't soft-Hindutva but full blown Hindutva politics that AAP is banking on.++
In Assam’s Kokrajhar constituency, 12,40,306 votes were polled (as per EC). On the counting day, 12,29,546 EVM votes were counted. A deficit of 10,760 votes.
Almost all constituencies across states have registered either surplus or deficit votes. Story soon
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#NetaFactCheck
| While BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi in her Lok Sabha speech suggested that houses of only the majority community were destroyed, a visit to the ground paints a different picture. Here's my report.
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As per a trade portal, on 26 May
#TheKeralaStory
crossed Rs 200 crore at the box office.
The players behind this success are interesting — from PM Modi's endorsement, to BJP-ruled states making it tax free, and free screenings for women by ABVP. ++
"Initially I decided to stay back," a Muslim in Randhikpur told me. 3 days later, he left. What changed?
“I have 4 daughters. When I saw how convicts were welcomed, I couldn’t sleep. I kept asking myself, what if they do something to my daughters.” (1/n)
"
#ShahRukhKhan
is bigger than the film, he is already like a demigod for the audience, now he found the people who help his larger than life image, be larger than life on screen "
🚨On Thursday, the Maharashtra Police arrested a Muslim man in Nanded district on charges of inciting the youth to oppose a rally of suspended BJP leader T Raja Singh. He has been sent to 14 day judicial custody ++
Yesterday
@ravishndtv
led his programme with our report on how a Gujarat-based Dalit family was tricked into purchasing electoral bonds.
There's no greater joy for a reporter than their story being amplified and shared by senior editors and colleagues.
Thank you, sir :)
NYT has clarified saying this was a news report. Fact-checkers have explained how news syndication works. Also the the claim that the photo in the article is from a private school has been debunked. BJP still went ahead with this spoof. What does this mean?.. cont.
For all his claims that he doesn't care about the "snowflake feminist critics", Sandeep Vanga has made a film just to get a reaction from them basically to cash on the outrage. That itself says a lot and is exactly why I found the film dishonest.++
Because if it took 26 days with that battery of lawyers for SRK, one of the world's biggest celebrities, to get his son out of jail, imagine what happens to the poor and the marginalised. Okay, let's not leave it to your imagination....(2/n)
And this is just the financial and tangible bit of it. Add to this, the stigma, the psychological torture and the societal and media pressure. So yes, our criminal justice system is deeply flawed and the ones who suffer are the ones we barely know anything about. (n/n)
My mother has received this call twice from an unknown entity asking her which party is she planning to vote for in her Lok Sabha constituency (Gurugram).
@ECISVEEP
should look into who is collecting this data.
Something very weird happened today. I was interviewing a Muslim fisherman for a climate change story & somehow while criticising the govt for a development project which snatched his livelihood, he felt the need to assert that he is a "patriot" and a "nationalist". (1/n)
Rhetoric aside, the prime minister comparing Opposition’s INDIA alliance with Indian Mujahideen is straight out of a playbook.
In a 2018 book called ‘How Democracies Die’, scholars Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt detailed what they call a “litmus test for autocrats” ++
This person Mohit (Monu) Manesar has spoken to almost every news channel/publication in the last 3-4 days. How difficult is it for the Rajasthan Police to track him down? How is an absconding murder accused giving tv interviews?
#NuhViolence
Sidhu Moosewala shot dead a day after his security was withdrawn by the AAP government in Punjab. Complete law and order incompetence as they fail to assess threat perception of individuals.
#sidhumoosewala
#Punjab
But by the end of Animal, we hardly know anything about the characters to understand where they're coming from or why are they behaving the way they are. ++
People he's talking about are not journalists anymore. Those interviews could've been done by the Prime Minister's PA and uploaded on YouTube. No uncomfortable questions, no follow-ups. Also, calling journalists 'chamchas' and 'chamchis' is far less dangerous than calling them
It's unfortunate that the leader of the principal opposition party speaks about media with such disdain...repeatedly calling senior journalists 'chamchas' and 'chamchis'. Sir, the day you come to power you will have to deal with the same lot.
#RahulGandhi
Rest, I snoozed at least five times during the film and didn't find anything extraordinary about Ranbir Kapoor's acting. Songs are good when played on Spotify. In the film, the bgm gave me a headache. Also, can someone please write about the Islamophobia in the film?! Fin.
"I have a big bruise on my hand. This is what the officials have done to me. I am being taken to the Magistrates Court," says
#TeestaSetalvad
after her medical check up at an Ahmedabad Hospital.
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“And just like that our 18-year-long fight for justice has been reduced to nothing” — sat down for an interview with
#BilkisBano
's husband. "It's been a week and Bilkis is still in shock. She isn't speaking. She is heartbroken" he says.
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1.
#RahulGandhi
makes a suggestion.
2. Cabinet rank ministers call him a lobbyist.
3. IT cell trolls him.
4. Then they quietly implement his suggestion.
Now this lovely human here wants us to appreciate the government and think of Rahul as a fool.
I don't know if it was by design or just a coincidence but today I met Dr Farogh Makhdhoomi, a Unani doctor who was first accused and later acquitted from all charges in the 2006 Malegaon serial Blast Case....(3/n)
But in between the arrest and the acquittal were 5 years of torture spent in jail. 5 years of psychological, physical and financial torture for him and his family...(4/n)
“I am not able to come to terms with reality, even after 24 hours of release. I only looked at walls for 7 years. Perhaps, the entire world knew that the case was fabricated, even 10 years ago. But, there was no relief...”
— GN Saibaba at a press conference in Delhi.
To put things into perspective, in 2008 his family sold a plot of land to fight his case for Rs 6L. That plot today costs Rs 6cr. He earned close to 65K p/m in 2006, today, 11 years after being released, he still hasn't reached that mark, let alone making anything more...(5/n)
This is a bad idea. Both my grandparents were pre-partition kids and tho, they never said this in as many words, it took them forever to forget the horrors of August 1947. But they always kept trying. How? By telling us stories of their lives in undivided India. (1/2)
Fact checking is not an easy job by any stretch. Until a few years ago, every journalist was supposed to be a "fact-checker" but in a post-truth world, we should reward people like
#Zubair
for existing and not hound them.
#IStandWithZubair
Omg! Yeh bol kya rahe hain. So much hate for Indian Muslims. Yeh is desh ke PM hain 10 saal se. Shameful!
When you have nothing to show except hatred.
This line “mangalsootra bhi bech denge” 😖😖😖
Hindutva hardliner Kalicharan — previously jailed for abusing Mahatma Gandhi and hailing his assassin Nathuram Godse — advocated for violence against the Muslim community and claimed that they're all "traitors and terrorists." ++
I was speaking to a political analyst for an unrelated story a few months ago and they told me: "BJP is thoroughly confused about AAP. None of their playbook methods of attacking their opposition (dynasty, corruption, nationalism) seem to be working." The confusion is visible
MASSIVE TRIGGER WARNING!!
But, what kind of sick stuff is this?
@Clubhouse
how is this allowed and why are no content moderation policies in place? What is being done to check this? These perverts should be held immediately.
@AshwiniVaishnaw
@GoI_MeitY
.
In September last year, Mevani extended support to the Congress. If this vicious and blatant targeting, a few months before elections, doesn't mobilise their cadre on ground, I don't know what will.
The baseless controversy over names of the terrorists can be put to rest by referring to old MEA press releases. And it’s not like
@MIB_India
doesn’t know that. This summon is less about IC814 and more about deterring streaming platforms from taking up such projects.
Ground Report | In poll-bound UP, CM
#YogiAdityanath
thanked farmers for willingly giving their land for the Jewar Airport. The farmers, however, have a different story to tell as they await lawful compensation and rehabilitation. Watch!
#UPElection2022
"I saw them (rioters) burn to death five people, including a 10-year-old girl, in front of my eyes. You're telling me nobody killed those people?": Imtiaz Qureshi, 35 — survivor and witnesses in the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre.
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Previously criminals and fugitives, fearing that they might get caught, would look to escape the country. Now, they just have to somehow escape to UP.
#gosavi
#AryanKhan
Third dispatch from Godhra: Tracked down a couple — Latifa and Yusuf Giteli — who were with
#BilkisBano
in her first relief camp in 2002. Latifa had converted the basement of her house into a shelter for distressed pregnant women and new mothers (1/n)
#AliaBhatt
is the superstar of our times.
Correct me if wrong but teasers like these were so far mostly reserved for films with male celebs and hardly ever for a film headlined by a woman.