On November 21 (local time), Elon Musk said in a tweet that the relaunch of Blue Verified, which was expected to start on November 29, has been postponed. Furthermore, he said Twitter might come up with colour-coded verified checks to differentiate between organisations and individuals.
Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation.
Will probably use different color check for organizations than individuals.
He said, “Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation. Will probably use different color check for organisations than individuals.” Notably, when Twitter Blue subscriptions were started after Elon Musk took over Twitter, it included a verified badge. Though the description of the verified badge is different for those who got verified by following the due process and for those who got the badge by paying $8, one has to click on the badge to know what type of account they are visiting.
The Blue Subscription opened floodgates for impersonators to get verified badges and post unauthorised posts while posing and celebrities and official accounts. It led to a kind of chaos on the social media platform, so much so, that wealth worth $15 billion got wiped off after an account belonging to an individual impersonating Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals published a post suggesting insulin would be free. Eli Lilly is one of the largest insulin manufacturers in the world.
About the newly rolled out Twitter Blue
On November 5, Twitter began offering Twitter Blue for $8 per month. Initially, the feature is only available to iOS users in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Twitter Blue is available for $7.99 per month. It comes with a verification badge or a blue checkmark on the profile, limited advertisements and much more.
On Saturday (November 19), Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the ‘Kashi Tamil Sangamam’ in Varanasi as part of the government’s vision of ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.’
Kashi and Tamil Nadu share cultural ties since ancient times, and the month-long programme is aimed at preserving them. During the event, PM Modi said, “Embracing the entire India, Kashi is the cultural capital of India whereas Tamil Nadu and Tamil culture is the centre of India’s antiquity and glory.”
“In Kashi, we have Baba Vishwanath, while in Tamil Nadu we have the blessings of Lord Rameshwaram. Both Kashi and Tamil Nadu are immersed in Shiva,” he highlighted their importance in the Indic civilisation.
In Varanasi, addressing the ‘Kashi-Tamil Sangamam.’ It is a wonderful confluence of India’s culture and heritage. https://t.co/ZX3WRhrxm9
The Indian Prime Minister also used the opportunity to call for an end to linguistic barriers and unite ourselves in the spirit of diversity. “This is the responsibility of 130 crore Indians to preserve the legacy of Tamil and enrich it,” he said during his address in Varanasi.
“If we ignore Tamil we do a great disservice to the nation and if we keep Tamil confined in restrictions we will do great harm to it. We have to remember to remove linguistic differences and establish emotional unity”, he further outlined.
He added, “In Amrit Kaal, our resolutions will be fulfilled by the unity of the whole country. Kashi-Tamil Sangamam will become a platform for this resolution today while making us realise our duties, and being a source of energy to strengthen national unity.”
Rahul Gandhi busy pitting one state against the other
PM Modi’s resolve to use cultural events as a way to unite the entire nation comes at a time when his political opponent Rahul Gandhi is pitting one State against the other under the garb of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra.’
On November 9 this year, the Congress scion attempted to create animosity between the States of Gujarat and Maharashtra by falsely claiming that projects meant for the latter were being moved to favour the former.
He alleged that projects such as the Tata-Airbus military aircraft partnership and the Vendanta-Foxconn semiconductor plant were stolen from Maharashtra and handed to Gujarat ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the neighbouring state.
#WATCH | Maharashtra: Your projects are going to Gujarat as Airbus project went from Maharashtra because elections are there in Gujarat. Even the Foxconn project went. Apart from money, jobs & future of state’s youth are also being snatched: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Nanded pic.twitter.com/1NDyEkEyNZ
DMK, linguistic chauvinism and its hate for North Indians
On September 7 this year, the Congress party led by Rahul Gandhi kickstarted its 3,570-km march from Kanniyakumari in Tamil Nadu. The march will last over 5 months and will cover 12 States before terminating at Srinagar.
One of the leaders who were present at the start of the ambitious ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was MK Stalin, DMK supremo and ally of the Congress in the State of Tamil Nadu. His party, in particular, has been at the forefront of widening the linguistic divide and directing hate against North Indians in particular.
Tamil Nadu CM Sh. MK Stalin hands over Khadi Tiranga to Congress leader Sh. Rahul Gandhi in Kanyakumari before the beginning of Bharat Jodo Padyatra.
Rajasthan CM Sh. Ashok Gehlot and Chhatisgarh CM Sh. Bhupesh Baghel and senior leaders remained present. pic.twitter.com/AMb4Xrq3nY
In June this year, DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Health Minister blamed ‘North Indian students’ for spreading Covid-19 in the State.
“North Indian students are spreading Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu. Students from Kelambakkam VIT College and Sathyasai college have got affected by Covid in hostels and classes. In some North Indian states, Covid cases are still increasing,” he was quoted as saying.
Tamil Nadu | North Indian students are spreading Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu. Students from Kelambakkam VIT College and Sathyasai college have got affected by Covid in hostels and classes. In some North Indian states, Covid cases are still increasing: State Health Min Ma Subramanian pic.twitter.com/ekATYHgMaM
In February this year, DMK leader Dr DNV Senthilkumar S mocked the BJP-ruled States in the North by making the ‘gaumutra’ jibe on the floor of the parliament.
“According to NEP, gross enrollment ratio has to be 50 per cent which Tamil Nadu has achieved long ago. If they want to implement this policy, they should implement the Dravidian model for the development of the country,” he had remarked.
“Why is their policy being thrust upon us? We reject it. If they want to implement it, they should do it in their gau-mutra States”, he said in his 6 minute long speech.
* சங்கி நீதிபதி சாமிநாதனை மிதி மிதினு மிதிச்சுருக்கார் 🔥
* இரண்டு உயர்நீதிமன்ற நீதிபதிகள் சாதிய மாநாடுகளில் கலந்துக்கிறாங்க…
Recently, another DMK leader shared a snippet from a web series wherein several elite, snobbish ‘South Indians’ were shown reprimanding a rustic, Maharashtrian woman for assuming that ‘Hindi is India’s national language.’
The disturbing scenes drew the ire of netizens for fomenting the North-South divide. While Rahul Gandhi is attacking the BJP for supposedly dividing India, he and his allies are busy creating internal conflict between States, ethnicities and languages.
While Rahul Gandhi exploits existing faultlines and fuels new ones in the name of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, it is India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who has emerged as a statesman pitching for a united country and bridging cultural differences.
England had a comfortable first game of their World Cup campaign in Qatar as they dispatched Iran 6-2, and the 6th and last English goal saw an unusual celebration. Substitute Jack Grealish who scored that final goal did the celebrations that his young superfan asked him to do next time he scores a goal.
11 years old Finlay, who has cerebral palsy, had written to Manchester City star Grealish and told the midfielder that he was his hero. Grealish then surprised Finlay by turning up at a training session where he promised the youngster he would use his celebration the next time he scored a goal. Grealish lived up to that promise after netting the goal against Iran at the World Cup.
Jack Grealish made a promise to Manchester City fan Finlay that he would do his celebration the next time he scored a goal.
He has kept his word and done exactly that, on the biggest stage in world football.
Grealish’s sister, Holly, also has cerebral palsy and the fan Finlay’s original letter touched Grealish’s heart. He met Finlay at the Manchester City Football Academy earlier this month, where Finlay plays every Monday as part of the disability football team. That was when Grealish promised to perform the celebrations asked by Finlay the next time he scored a goal.
Jack Grealish’s goal completed a superb performance from England who dominated Iran from the first whistle to the last. England put 6 past Iran with Bukayo Saka scoring twice and Jude Bellingham, Raheem Sterling, and Marcus Rashford scoring once each apart from Jack Grealish.
Iran did manage to get two goals in response but the result was never in doubt once England took the lead through Bellingham in the 35th minute.
The other two teams in the group, USA and Wales will meet later tonight in the other game in the group.
The Mathura police on Monday, November 21, said that they had solved the murder of a girl whose body was found stuffed in a trolley bag near Yamuna Expressway last week. The body was identified as that of 21-year-old girl Ayushi Yadav, a resident of Delhi’s Badarpur. The deceased reportedly had bloodstains on the face and injuries, besides the mark of a gunshot to the chest. As per reports, Nitesh Yadav, father of the deceased shot her dead.
The Mathura police in a video byte revealed that the girl had gone somewhere a few days ago without informing her father. The girl had reportedly married someone against her family’s wishes. On Friday, November 18, when she returned home, an argument ensued between the girl and her family members, following which the father, who hails from UP’s Gorakhpur, fired two shots at the girl, leaving her dead.
लाल ट्राली बैग में अज्ञात बालिका की जघन्य हत्याकाण्ड (आनर किलिंग) का सफल अनावरण करते हुये बालिका के माता पिता को मय आलाकत्ल व घटना मे प्रयुक्त कार सहित गिरफ्तार करने के सम्बन्ध में अपर पुलिस अधीक्षक नगर,मथुरा द्वारा दी गयी बाइट । pic.twitter.com/nmHnbLuUHX
The parents then wrapped their daughter’s body in a plastic bag and packed it into a suitcase. Around 3 am, the mother and father drove down to Yamuna Expressway with the suitcase containing their daughter’s dead body and dumped it in the bushes near the Agricultural Research Centre on the Yamuna Expressway service road.
The police stated that when they investigated the mother and father, they discovered several discrepancies in their statements. After additional questioning, the duo admitted to the crime. They disclosed that the father shot the girl before the mother and the brother of the girl.
Mathura police instituted 14 teams to crack the case
The police formed as many as 14 teams for the identification of the deceased. Two days later, manual surveillance helped the cops trace the girl’s identity as Ayushi Yadav.
Nitesh, however, went missing. He was later found, taken into custody and brought along with the mother and brother to Mathura to identify Ayushi’s body. Soon after the body was identified, UP police filed an FIR under Indian Penal Code Section 302 (murder).
On November 18, the police acquired information about the dead body, and the blind murder investigation began. When they reached the spot, they discovered a red stroller bag, inside which there was a dead body wrapped in plastic. The body had a bullet wound in the chest and several injury marks.
Apart from the victim’s damaged body, which the police were unable to identify at first, a ‘kalawa’ and a black thread, as well as a saree, were recovered from the trolley bag. The investigation was expanded to include the victim’s relatives in order to find the accused, who turned out to be her own father.
The police said that they became suspicious on discovering Ayushi’s family had not filed any missing complaint with the police.
Days after the central government filed a review petition contesting the Supreme Court’s decision to free all convicts in the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, one of the six convicts, RP Ravichandran, stated that he will fight the review petition legally.
Ravichandran’s statement came after he visited the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) party headquarters on Monday. Speaking to reporters, Ravichandran, who was serving life sentences for almost thirty years for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, said, “Today I came to meet VCK chief Thirumavalavan at his Chennai office. I thanked him as they (VCK) were with us for our freedom.” He added that he would be pursuing a legal fight against the centre.
Centre files a review petition challenging the Supreme Court order to release the killers of Rajiv Gandhi
On 17th November 2022, in opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision to release all convicts in the killing of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Center filed a review petition with the top court.
The centre has asked for this review petition on the grounds that the centre wasn’t heard on the matter by the Supreme Court despite this being the case of the murder of a former Prime Minister of India. The centre is contending as to why it was not made a party in this case when its top office bearer was the victim in this incident that took place on 21st May 1991.
On November 11, the court released Nalini Sriharan and the five other remaining prisoners who were serving life sentences for almost thirty years, stating that the previous decision freeing AG Perarivalan also applied to them.
It is notable that, on May 18, a panel of Justices B R Gavai and B V Nagarathna, exercising its exceptional authority under Article 142 of the Constitution, ruled in favour of Perarivalan, who had spent more than 30 years in prison.
Iran started their 2022 World Cup campaign in Qatar against England today, however, there was one distinctly noticeable thing about it. None of the Iranian players sang the national anthem of Iran when it was played before the match. Iranian footballers apparently did it in support of the protestors back home who have been protesting against the oppressive Iranian regime since the murder of Mahsa Amini.
To extend support to the protestors, the entire starting line-up of Iran was silent as Iran’s national anthem was played at the Khalifa International Stadium. The hardline Islamic leadership of Iran has been facing its biggest challenge since the revolution of 1979 that put them in power.
Iranian footballers are not the first celebrities to protest against the Iranian regime for their brutal dictatorship, just yesterday, 2 famous Iranian actresses were arrested for protesting against the ruling Ayatollah regime. Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, the two actresses, are accused of collusion and acting against Iran’s authorities. Both women earlier appeared in public without their headscarves – a gesture of solidarity with demonstrators.
Mahsa Amini murder in Iran
A 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was beaten to death by the ‘Morality Police’ in Iran for wearing hijab improperly. Iranian media reported that Amini died in hospital after suffering a heart attack after she was arrested for her improper hijab but her death ignited a series of protests that the Iranian regime is struggling to control.
Since Mahsa Amini’s death, protests have been raging across Iran with women showing up in public without a hijab and challenging the Iranian regime. Despite the brutal suppression of the protests by the government, the protests have only grown bigger and bigger during the past couple of months. Interestingly, most of these protests have been led by Iranian women who have had enough of the mandatory hijab imposed by the Iranian regime.
Under these circumstances, it is really brave of the Iranian football team to register their protest against the regime by refusing to sing the national anthem. However, it will be interesting to see how the Ayatollah regime in Iran deals with them upon their return to Iran.
Left-leaning liberals and intellectuals had a meltdown after the Times of India reported PM Modi’s factual comments against ‘activist’ Medha Patkar after she participated in Congress party’s PR stunt ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
Rohini Mohan, an Indian journalist and writer, who is currently working independently, took to Twitter to object to the Times of India’s report on PM Modi’s remarks against ‘activist’ Medha Patkar.
“I’m sure TOI journalists & editors know that Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar is not an anti-state actor. (for 30yrs NBA works with people displaced by Sardar Sarovar canals, a dam, and a statue of unity there). Why carry PM’s inaccurate, defamatory political statements?” tweeted Mohan, implying that TOI must stop being a news organisation that reported incidents as they happened and counter the factual statements made by politicians with their partisan opinions.
Source: Twitter
Mohan found support from her ilk, who rushed to the Times of India’s Twitter timeline to condemn the organisation for publishing a report that carried statements made by the Prime Minister.
Lending his support to Mohan’s misbegotten outrage, a Twitter user named Uttam Sengupta tweeted that he had banned reporting on VHP when he was in TOI Lucknow, an illustration of how personal prejudices shaped the newsroom policies that claimed to be neutral and objective.
Source: Twitter
Uttam Sengupta is currently employed with Congress mouthpiece National Herald as a Consulting Editor. He worked for the Times of India in various capacities for over 12 years, from February 1991 to May 2003. During his time at the TOI, Sengupta worked as Resident Editor for the organisation for two and a half years. After leaving TOI, he hopped on to many other publications, including Anand Bazar Patrika, Dainik Bhaskar, and The Tribune, before joining Congress mouthpiece, National Herald.
Netizens slam Rohini Mohan over her tweet criticising TOI for covering PM Modi’s comments
Nevertheless, many social media users called out Mohan for her tweet criticising the Times of India for reporting an event attended by the country’s Prime Minister.
A Twitter user criticised Mohan for her tweet, saying TOI simply reported whatever PM spoke in the rally, adding that reporting as it is not unethical as Mohan seemed to suggest.
I'm sure TOI is only reporting a factual news story. PM held a rally? Yes. Said something? Yes. Political? Yes. Factual? May be or may be not. As a news publication, TOI reported whatever PM has said. TOI may write an editorial if it disagrees. Simply reporting is not unethical.
Another Twitter user replied to Mohan’s tweet stating that Medha Patkar is a paid activist whose intervention caused the cost of the Sardar Sarovar Dam to bloat manifold.
She was paid activist then she is paid activist now. Only due to her cost of Sardar Sarowar increased manifolds. So मोदी will definitely question मेधा पाटकर Only and he must. There was nothing logical in her protest then at all. She just wanted to stall the project that's it
Yet another Twitter user highlighted how Medha Patkar delayed a project that has helped scores of people across different states, adding that all Patkar wanted was anarchy.
And how many people, in more than one state is Sardar Sarovar helping? Instead of finding an amicable solution for people she seems so dearly to care for, she made then dig their heels to not let a critical development project happen. She wanted anarchy & not a solution.
PM Modi hauls Congress over the coals after Medha Patkar joins ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’
PM Modi on Sunday launched a blistering attack against Congress after ‘activist’ Medha Patkar, infamous for her role in delaying the Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada, joined Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
PM Modi lashed out at the Congress leaders and so-called social workers who delayed the Narmada project that has brought water to the households in the drought-hit areas of Kutch and Kathiawad in Gujarat.
In his 30-minute speech, PM Modi spoke at length about the water revolution that took place in Gujarat during his tenure as the chief minister first and the prime minister later and how it was achieved with the spirit of people’s power. At the same time, PM Modi did not forget to slam those responsible for delaying the projects related to this revolution for more than three decades.
PM Modi said, “There has been so much delay in the Narmada project. Pandit Nehru laid the foundation stone of the Sardar Sarovar Dam and it took so much time to complete that Narendra Modi had to come for the inauguration of the same. Just imagine how much time and money was wasted by this delay. And so many people came in between to resist this project for their own reasons.”
“Recently, a photograph was published. A Congress leader is seen in that photograph. Ask him, with what face would he come to you to seek votes. This Narmada was the only way to provide drinking water to our people living in the Kutch and Kathiawad regions. The water of this Narmada river was stopped from reaching your homes for more than three decades. Decades went into courts and procedures. Problems were created. Dirty agitation movements were started to ensure that the water does not reach here. Gujarat was being defamed in order to ensure that no one in the world including the world bank invests money in or gives money to Gujarat,” he further added.
Medha Patkar and her role in delaying Sardar Sarovar Dam
Medha Patkar is best known for her ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’ against the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river. The protest contributed to the years-long postponement of the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on the Narmada River. So-called social activists and environmentalists like Medha Patkar expressed concern as soon as the construction of the project started. When Medha Patkar visited the project site in 1985, she accused that the dam had fallen short of the social and environmental requirements set forth by the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
For suspected money laundering during the “Narmada Bachao Andolan,” the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed an FIR against activist Medha Patkar on April 5 this year. In addition to the ED, investigations into Patkar’s shady dealings have also been initiated by the Department of Revenue Intelligence and the Income Tax Department.
According to a Pioneer report, Patkar’s NGO received a donation of roughly Rs 1.2 crores within a year of its foundation in 2004 but managed to elude authorities for almost 17 years.
The investigation raised a number of concerns regarding the payments. According to records obtained by Pioneer, the NGO received the funds on June 18, 2005, from 20 different sources in a single day. Surprisingly, the amount of all 20 donations was the same, which was Rs 5,96,294. Pallavi Prabhaar Bhalekar, one of the donors, was a minor at the time the donations were transferred.
According to Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, the advocate for the Hindu side in the Gyanvapi case, a Live Law report on the Gyanvapi case hearing in the Allahabad High Court is inaccurate and erroneous. He accused Live Law of unfairness in its reporting, claiming that its coverage on today’s hearing before the Allahabad High Court was incorrect. Advocate Jain alleged that the report ignored several aspects and observations by the court and that his arguments in the court were not reported.
Advocate Jain took to Twitter and wrote, “The report of live law are not correct with regards to todays hearing before allahabad high court. Many aspects and observations by the court have been missed. Also the submissions made by me have not been reported and incomplete reporting has been done.”
Screenshot of Advocate Jain’s tweetScreenshot of Advocate Jain’s tweet
The report of live law are not correct with regards to todays hearing before allahabad high court. Many aspects and observations by the court have been missed. Also the submissions made by me have not been reported and incomplete reporting has been done
The Allahabad High Court heard a petition today contesting a Varanasi court’s decision to refuse Hindu devotees’ request for a scientific study of the Shivling unearthed inside the Gyanvapi structure.
OpIndia reached out to Advocate Jain on the issue, who stated that the Live Law report contains inaccurate details. He said that the report by Live Law contains factual errors and several important observations have been missed. An archived version of the report can be found here.
“Live Law reported that the ASI has submitted that carbon dating of the Shivling cannot be done as it can damage it, but these remarks were not made by ASI in the court. Instead, the ASI asked 3 months time to assess what can be done to determine the age of the Shivling,” Advocate Jain said.
He further added, “The observation of the court that there is a need for such scientific investigation otherwise how will plaintiffs prove the case has been cleverly omitted from the reporting.” He added that the court also observed that the district judge is wrong when he recorded a finding that the Shivling will be damaged. “How can this be presumed without even asking the ASI,” the court observed according to Advocate Vishnu Jain.
The ASI, represented by Manoj Kumar Singh, stated that relative carbon dating can be done to assess the age of the Shivling. Advocate Jain submitted in the court that it was essential to determine the age of the Shivling without damaging it.
During the hearing, the court questioned Advocate Jain if the Shivling and fountain question was contested, to which Jain responded by referring to the affidavit of the Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee, which disputed that the structure is a fountain and not a Shivling. The court listed the matter for further hearing on November 30.
Today ASI has sought time to file a report with regard to the age of shivlingam. Prima facie the asi is of the view that there are modern techniques by which the age and character can be ascertained. The next date of hearing is 30.11.22 before hc
Earlier, on October 14, the Varanasi district court turned down the petition of the Hindu side, which demanded a scientific evaluation of the Shivling found inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex.
The Shivling was discovered inside the Wuzukhana of the Gyanvapi complex on May 16, 2022, during a survey by the court-appointed panel. The Hindu side has maintained that this is major proof that the mosque was erected by razing Lord Vishweshwar’s temple in Kashi.
A series of brutal murders and abuse centred around forced conversion has been reported in recent times, highlighting the growing menace of love jihad and forced religious conversion of Hindu women to Islam in name of ‘love’. When clearly asked about his views on this phenomenon, Rajasthan CM and Congress senior leader Ashok Gehlot Monday went on to dismiss cases of Love Jihad by calling it ‘Jumla.’
It’s an unfortunate incident. It has been given a name & ‘jumla’ has been made. Inter-caste & interfaith marriages have been taking place for a long time now. But politics is being done on basis of the manner in which one community has been targetted: Rajasthan CM on ‘love jihad’ pic.twitter.com/gs1WNe5ma9
In a video clip posted by news agency ANI on Monday, November 21, the reporter is heard explicitly asking Gehlot what he thinks of ‘Love Jihad.’ Gehlot casually suggested, citing Shraddha Walkar’s horrific death as a mere context, that “love jihad” is a “Jumla” devised to attack and defame a particular community.
The question posed to Gehlot was about the Love Jihad cases, however, the Rajasthan CM brought in Shraddha’s case, which is not a case of Love Jihad, and used it as an excuse to dismiss all Love jihad cases as ‘Jumla’.
Rajasthan’s chief minister stated, “Shraddha’s death was an unfortunate incident. Inter-caste and interfaith marriages have been common for a long time. However, by linking the ‘Jumla’ to the tragedy, politics is being done in a way that targets one specific community.”
#WATCH यह एक दुर्घटना है, इसे नाम दे दिया गया है, जुमले कह दिए गए हैं। सदियों से अंतरधार्मिक शादियां हो रही हैं यह नई बात तो नहीं है। लेकिन आपने एक कौम को एक धर्म को टारगेट बना दिया है, उसके आधार पर राजनीति हो रही है: लव जिहाद पर राजस्थान CM अशोक गहलोत pic.twitter.com/oZ8eq1waaF
The Rajasthan Chief Minister’s reaction is consistent with the left ecosystem and mainstream media, which have consistently turned a blind eye to Hindu (and even Sikh and Christian) victims. So much so, that even forceful and rampant religious conversions plaguing the country have been termed as a Hindu right-wing conspiracy.
Cases of Grooming Jihad, more commonly known as ‘love jihad’ fly in from every part of the country. From Islamists luring Hindu women by disguising themselves as Hindu men, bribing Hindu men of jobs and marriage on conversion to converting deaf and mute kids to push them into terrorism. There’s no dearth of cases to indicate how the forced religious conversion industry works like well-oiled and planned machinery.
Whether the widespread liberals and the left-controlled education system believe it or not, it is now a well-established fact that the menace of Grooming Jihad or Love Jihad exists and a well-organised syndicate, sponsored by many radical Islamic organisations has been working towards it in an attempt to push the Islamist political goals of demography change and eventual establishment of a caliphate in non-Islamic regions.
We at OpIndia have, over the years, reported multiple such incidents where susceptible and vulnerable Hindu women are being targeted by Muslim men, lured and brainwashed, forcefully converted to Islam, tortured, raped and then either killed or abandoned.
Gehlot had earlier claimed that the murder of Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, where 2 self-confessed Islamic jihadis beheaded a poor tailor and proclaimed it as a punishment for ‘insulting Islam and Islam’s prophet’, is not communal. He had called it an act of terror and had tried to insinuate that religion had nothing to do with it.
On Monday, the Delhi High Court ordered news channels to follow the standards that govern them and to assure that all broadcasts covering the liquor scam case are predicated on official press releases issued by the investigative agencies. The court ordered television news channels to affirm that all telecasts on the excise fraud case are “in tune with the official press releases.”
The directives were issued in response to a plea brought by AAP communication in-charge Vijay Nair, an accused in the Delhi liquor scam case, who claimed that the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate had released sensitive material to news channels. Nair said that the purported disclosure jeopardised his legal rights.
Five television news networks received notices from a single-judge panel chaired by Justice Yashwant Varma, and the National Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) was given instructions to “duly examine the broadcasts and tell the court whether they have complied with their guidelines.”
During the hearing, the high court directed the CBI and the ED to document their official press releases and communications, and stated that it would assess the statements issued to the media to ascertain whether the TV channels reported the case on the basis of the official statements or on “a figment of their imagination.”
Following a review of the press releases, the court concluded that there is no correlation between the news broadcasts and the information supplied by the agency. However, the court noted that “…it is not a case where information was collectively leaked by investigative agencies.”
The court was surprised by the News Broadcaster and Digital Standard Authority (NBDSA)’s claim that it lacked the authority to restrict the channels. According to Advocate Nisha Bhambhani, counsel for the NBDSA, some of the broadcasters were not their partners. After taking note of the submission, the bench directed to Implead NBDSA and investigate what had been broadcast. The case has been adjourned until February 7, 2023.
On September 27, Vijay Nair was arrested and held in CBI custody for five days. In court, the CBI alleged that Nair was actively involved in the formulation of the Delhi government’s liquor policy for 2021-22 and that he met with the co-accused, liquor manufacturers, and distributors in various hotels in Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Delhi to arrange illicit money through hawala operators.
Vijay Nair was the former CEO of Only Much Louder, a Mumbai-based entertainment and event management organisation (OML). He served as a ‘part-time volunteer’ for the Aam Aadmi Party in the run-up to the 2020 Delhi State Legislative Assembly elections. OpIndia published a detailed report on Vijay Nair and his association with the Aam Aadmi Party.
