On December 8, a military chopper carrying Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and other senior army officials crashed near Ooty in Tamil Nadu. The moment the news of the crash had surfaced, Islamists had started rejoicing the crash and several Leftists too celebrated the death of CDS General Bipin Rawat. To whitewash their shameful behaviour, the Liberal Jamaat has now come up with new propaganda – that the daughter of Brigadier Lidder, Aashna Lidder, was “abused” and “threatened with rape” by the right-wing, and therefore, she had to deactivate her Twitter account.
Aashna Lidder, the daughter of Brigadier Lidder, who lost his life during the helicopter crash celebrated by liberals, recently deactivated her Twitter account. As soon as she did, sans proof, the liberals started alleging that it was because the “right-wing” (essentially, Hindus, Modi supporters, anyone who is not a rabid Leftists and/or Islamist) issued threats (even rape threats) to her.
NDTV journalist, sharing a screenshot of her deactivated account said that this is what “these right wing / hate groups achieved today. Aashna Lidder has deactivated her account”. He then asked her to stay strong and return soon.
This is what these right wing / hate groups achieved today.
— Arvind Gunasekar (@arvindgunasekar) December 10, 2021
Aashna Lidder has deactivated her account.
More power to you @AashnaLidder.
Stay strong. Return soon ! pic.twitter.com/5gWqCbBUxJ
Another journalist claimed that “right wing louts” had attacked her.
Shameful. The right wing louts have attacked her for her tweets because they were not favourable for them. https://t.co/a6UcvxgW28
— Man Aman Singh Chhina (@manaman_chhina) December 10, 2021
He was quoting another Liberal who said, “A 16 year old child who just cremated her father, a hero who once took a bullet for the country and just died in the chopper crash is under scrutiny and attack for her tweets. Can you believe it?”.
Retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh went as far as to say that “andhbhakts” had given her rape threats, due to which she deactivated her account.
AltNews co-founder Zubai, who spreads fake news and is accused under POCSO for doxxing a minor girl on social media, also chimed in and said that Aashna had to deactivate her account due to “attacks”. He claims to be a fact-checker.
God! And because of the attacks, She had no other choice but to deactivate her twitter account now. https://t.co/lbCZ0bHTOe pic.twitter.com/GMmayBNZFs
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) December 10, 2021
Were rape threats given to Aashna Lidder as claimed by retired IAS officer?
As mentioned, Retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh said that “andhbhakts” had given her rape threats, due to which she deactivated her account.
However, when questioned, Singh did a prompt u-turn and deleted his tweet.
This claim originated from an account called “Sandeep Choudhury” who, after claiming that she got rape threats, did a u-turn and claimed that she did not get rape threats. It seems that it is this account that started the rumour of Lidder getting threats and being attacked by the right-wing.
Without crosschecking you just mention that RSS & Modi bhakts gave rape threats to Aashna Lidder & then comfortably delete tweet when got exposed. Period pic.twitter.com/pTdrOM7pFz
— Avinash Srivastava 🇮🇳 (@go4avinash) December 10, 2021
Was she threatened, attacked by “right wing goons”?
The narrative that was spun by the liberals was that Aashna Lidder deactivated her account because she was attacked and threatened by “right-wing goons”, however, there is very little evidence to prove that there was any threat or attack against her.
One Twitter user said that before the NDTV journalist tweeted about her deactivating her account, there were only 17 tweets to her and none of them was threats or attacks.
Before First tweet of @AashnaLidder‘s deactivation by NDTV’s @arvindgunasekar
— Prakash (@Gujju_Er) December 10, 2021
Only 17 Replies & Mentions to her since 8 Dec
Link: https://t.co/ryI01HhzOh
No threats or Hate tweets mentioning her except only 1 qoute tweet calling woke
And they are blaming RW for deactivation https://t.co/t3k14223CT pic.twitter.com/DgeYZDKyDY
Another user took a video of the mentions and questioned the NDTV journalist to point to any threats or attacks that Aashna had received before she deactivated.
Here is the all the mentions to AashnaLidder. Can’t find any hate for her. @arvindgunasekar @vinodkapri must share screenshot where she received. https://t.co/GqDTXgHj43 pic.twitter.com/SSQWr5np0U
— Facts (@BefittingFacts) December 10, 2021
Another Twitter user had questioned the NDTV journalist for amplifying the tweet where claims of “rape threats” were made. It is pertinent to note that it was the same handle that had later done a u-turn to claim that no rape threat was given to Lidder.
Mofo is actually collecting RTs in the name of a grieving child. Thoo hai teri zindagi pe.
— Reah (@PoisonOfChoice) December 10, 2021
Let cops of whichever city he’s from contact him to provide some proof for the claims that he’s making and which @arvindgunasekar is amplifying. https://t.co/oBnRXlzKhd
When the demand for proof grew, the liberals could not come up with anything other than an innocuous conversation that branded Lidder a “woke”.
NDTV journalist shared two screenshots where Aashna Lidder was being called “woke”. There was no abuse or threat in the two tweets he shared.
How do you justify these ? https://t.co/asX6e4rE1C pic.twitter.com/uX1BNf3qiU
— Arvind Gunasekar (@arvindgunasekar) December 10, 2021
The Altnews “fact-checker” also shared screenshots where he attached an innocuous conversation about Lidder potentially being “woke” and how this generation could be far from salvage from the toxic woke culture. There was, again, no threats, abuse or attack in the attached screenshots.
Here. @BefittingFacts 👋👋 https://t.co/BbpMXNtqSV pic.twitter.com/bArhmmHqDe
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) December 10, 2021
Interestingly, one of the tweets shared by the NDTV journalist Arvind Gunaseker and Zubair was cropped. After speculating that Aashna Lidder might a “woke”, the user had specifically said that Lidder was 17 and we had to keep that in mind. Arvind and Zubair seem to have cropped that portion to ensure that they can peddle speculations about Lidder being hounded.
It is therefore evident that other than an innocuous conversation about her being “woke” and a tweet or two about the same subject, no threats were given to Aashna Lidder and nobody from the “right-wing” attacked her.
So why was this propaganda launched?
The very people who are now trying to concoct the story of imagined threats to the daughter of Brigadier Lidder are those who either directly celebrated the death of General Rawat, laughed at the helicopter crash, defended those who celebrated the death or, at followers of those who did.
AltNews co-founder Zubair, for example. While today he is shedding crocodile tears and blaming the “right-wing” for imaginary threats received by Aashna Lidder, Mona Abegaokar, someone who follows the same ideology as Zubair had refused to mourn the death of General Rawat by saying that he was a “Nazi”.
You should have checked the time in tweet of ‘Radical Left’, she had deactivated before it. And before respecting daughter of martyrs, learn to respect martyrs. Here is one example of millions of such tweets. Can show 1000s such from your followers and financers. https://t.co/dBtk7sVOiG pic.twitter.com/g60fhhZifq
— Facts (@BefittingFacts) December 10, 2021
It would appear that the propaganda was launched exclusive to whitewash those celebrating the death of General Bipin Rawat and celebrating the chopper crash. The liberal Jamaat seems to have realised that the hate that was being showered upon a decorated officer like General Rawat while the nation mourned his death was not going in their favour. It is purely to whitewash that they seem to have resorted to a time tested tactic of showing the “others” being more hateful than then.
If they create an enemy that is attacking a 17-year-old girl who is a martyrs daughter, their hate from General Bipin Rawat gets whitewashed, even if the threats they talk about are imaginary and concocted.
One recalls how the Leftists and Liberals had used this tactic even after the Indian cricket team’s humiliating loss to Pakistan and them taking the knee that had infuriated the nation. Just as people were expressing their anger at the Indian team and especially Virat Kohli for their bad performance and for “taking the knee” at the T20 World Cup, Liberals had started to claim that “right-wing goons” were targeted cricket Mohammad Shami for being a Muslim.
As it turned out, the accounts that were attacking Shami were Pakistani troll accounts and not “right-wing goons” as alleged by Liberals and their media. However, the truth hardly mattered. What they had achieved is skirted the real criticism by the “right-wing” against the Left propaganda of “taking the knee”, the criticism for their bad performance and turned it into a narrative where the ultimate villains were those the Left disagree with politically.
The Left’s hate for the Armed Forces is no secret. We saw that when they alleged that Pulwama was an ‘inside job’ and we have seen it innumerable times in the past 7 years when they attacked, abused and insulted the Army. The sudden love for General Lidder’s daughter certainly does not come from a place where they wish to protect and respect a martyr’s daughter. They are essentially using her to spread their own propaganda and lie through their teeth to paint the “right-wing” as anti-army, so their Islamist and Left brethren who abused General Rawat can be spared scrutiny.
In reality, the political affiliations of the family of martyrs have never mattered. They wanted people to believe that Aashna Lidder was being “attacked” because she had once spoken against Yogi Adityanath, however, the reality was that before the liberal jamaat started their propaganda, nobody knew or cared about her political affiliations and the nation mourned the loss with her, hailed her for her bravery.
From Hindustan Times that covered this propaganda without proof to Congress politicians, Liberal coolies, Islamists and fact-checkers – all of them seem to have used Brigadier Lidder’s daughter to peddle concocted stories and their agenda – with no care about the fact that the 17-year-old may have deactivated her account simply to mourn her father in peace – away from the vultures using her for cheap propaganda.
