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Youths in Iran hit and strike turbans of Islamic clerics in protest against hijab, videos viral

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Youths in Iran hit and strike turbans of Islamic clerics in protest against hijab, videos viral

Visuals of young Iranians knocking clerics’ turbans off their heads have gone viral on social media as protests over the execution of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in Iran intensify. As part of the ongoing protests against the authoritarian government that makes hijabs obligatory, many videos of schoolboys and girls striking clerics’ turbans and running away have gone extremely viral on social media.

In one video that has gone viral, a young lady can be seen approaching a man wearing a traditional robe from behind and striking his white turban hard enough to cause it to fall to the ground. The Muslim preacher bends down to pick up his headpiece as the woman departs without turning around.

International anxiety over Iran’s response to the protests has increased, prompting a new form of protest. Iran’s authorities warned demonstrators to leave the streets, yet demonstrations nonetheless took place. Social media users posted videos demonstrating that the protests are still going strong.

The public’s worries about Iran’s response to the demonstrations are growing as a result of this unique display of contempt for the nation’s religious establishment. According to reports, hundreds of people were killed by Iranian security forces during the protests that broke out when Mahsa Amini, 22, died while being held by Iran’s morality police after being arrested for improperly donning her headscarf.

Iran saw a wave of protests following her killing, with many women taking to the streets to take a stand. In support of the victims, a number of women, including schoolgirls, burnt their hijabs, and women everywhere chopped their hair in protest. Protests broke out in hundreds of places around the nation after her death.

Mahsa Amini, 22, was detained by the ‘morality police’ in Tehran for failing to comply with the country’s required hijab requirements. Amini, who was on a pleasure trip to Tehran, had not properly covered her hair in the hijab. She was detained by police and then assaulted in the police vehicle while being driven to a detention centre for a “re-education class” for failing to wear the country’s mandated head covering.

It is worth emphasising that women in Iran are forced to wear a hijab, which covers the head and neck and hides the hair, under Islamic law, which has been in place since the 1979 revolution. While Iranian women battle to be emancipated from the restrictions of headscarves, the hijab is used to further the Islamic agenda across the world.

Tamil Nadu: Video of goons harassing women outside a govt college in Madurai goes viral, 6 arrested

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Tamil Nadu: Video of goons harassing women outside a govt college in Madurai goes viral, 6 arrested

On Wednesday (November 2) a group of six miscreants assaulted a 50-year-old man P. Senthamil Pandian who came to pick up his daughter from the college. The incident took place outside Sri Meenakshi Government Arts College for Women, Madurai, Tamil Nadu where the victim’s daughter studies. The victim is reported to be from Aruldosspuram.

It was reportedly around 3:30 PM while the college girls were coming out of the college, a funeral procession was passing near the college entrance, and it was seen that a group of young men riding bikes as part of the procession began to cause a commotion. They appeared to be inebriated as well.

Even as the girls passed by, many miscreants danced and shouted. When Pandian confronted the miscreants about their behavior and attitude, six of them assaulted him and even pushed him down. Pandian was also hit with a helmet by the accused miscreants as seen in the video.

As the accused attempted to surround Senthamil, college staffers pushed the college students back onto campus and closed the main gate. Some men were also seen trying to pacify the attackers.

S G Suryah, the State Secretary of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) took to Twitter and condemn the lawlessness in the state and even call CM MK Stalin the weakest ever chief minister of Tamil Nadu. “Madurai violence against College girls & their parents is horrific. Like we repeatedly say Mr. MK Stalin is the weakest ever Chief Minister Tamil Nadu has ever had. Law & Order plummets because he neither inspires nor is vigilant against troublemakers,” he tweeted.

Tallakulam police launched an investigation after Senthamil Pandian filed a complaint on Friday. So far, six people have been arrested under the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act and other sections of the Indian Penal Code. Ramamurthy, Somasundaram, Shivanyanam, Nagapriyan, Satish Kumar, and Ajith Kumar have been named as the accused.

‘India wrongly portrayed as a fascist state’, ‘India’s intellectual class is anti-India’: Australian sociologist Dr Salvatore Babones at India Today conclave

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‘India wrongly portrayed as a fascist state’, ‘India’s intellectual class is anti-India’: Australian sociologist Dr Salvatore Babones at India Today conclave

On Saturday, Australian sociologist Dr Salvatore Babones participated in the India Today Conclave in Mumbai, Maharashtra to opine that India is being wrongly portrayed as a fascist state by the global media, which is affecting its image internationally. He also cornered the left-liberal ecosystem in India who usually keeps on targeting the BJP-led government and called them ‘anti-India.

In conversation with ‘journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai, Babones, who is an associate professor at the University of Sydney, stated that the organizations and the so-called ‘liberal’ intellectuals who build their opinions against the government are ‘anti-India’. “India’s intellectual class is anti-India. There is also a class of society who is anti-Modi and anti-BJP, as a class, not as an individual,” he said.

He added that the left-liberal intellectuals base their criticism on the aspect which probably is never going to change. “Suppose that the UPA government comes into power. Is it going to take down the Ram Mandir, is it going to get rid of the UAPA? So the basis on which the criticisms are made, that basis will probably remain in place. If they do, the same criticisms will apply to them”, he noted.

Sardesai, who meanwhile seemed upset during the conversation, tried defending the anti-India brigade, saying questioning the government is an act of patriotism. “Patriotism, as separated from nationalism, is questioning your government. So the intellectuals you are demonizing are the intellectuals we should be celebrating because, unlike others, they are at least raising a few red flags. This is India’s greatness. Why not celebrate these instead of calling them anti-India?” he asked.

To this, Dr Salvatore Babones said that these ‘intellectuals’ need to analyze first that are they questioning the government or the BJP-led government only. “The issue is, is this tied to the BJP government or will it continue inevitably to any other government who will come to power at some point in time? Will there be a recalibration of opinions then?” he responded.

“India has problems. And activists, journalists, and intellectuals absolutely have a role to call out the problems. But the problem is that they allow internationally to colour the overall evaluation of this system,” he said. He reiterated that India is not a fascist country and that it is being wrongly portrayed as a fascist state by the global media.

The Wire withdraws report claiming that Tek Fog was used by BJP to target Mohammed Zubair leading to his arrest

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The Wire withdraws report claiming that Tek Fog was used by BJP to target Mohammed Zubair leading to his arrest

After retracting the Meta and Tek Fog stories after they were proved to be fake and fictitious, left-wing propaganda portal The Wire has taken down another report where it had claimed that Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair was targeted by people linked with BJP using the Tek Fog app. The report was published on July 2, after Zubair was arrested on allegations of hurting religious sentiments.

This report was written by Devesh Kumar, Ayushman Kaul and Naomi Barton, the first two being the men behind the Tek Fog fiction published by The Wire, and the portal has also accused Devesh of supplying the fake documents they used in the Meta story. In the report, The Wire claimed Zubair was targeted by people linked with the BJP using thousands of Twitter bots managed by the Tek Fog app.

However, the story was taken down from the website on October 27. The webpage now displays a message that says, “This story has been removed from public view pending the outcome of an internal review by The Wire, as one of its authors was part of the technical team involved in our now retracted Meta coverage.”

Reportedly Mohammed Zubair was arrested on the complaint of an anonymous Twitter account who had complained about a 2018 tweet posted by him. A week after Zubair’s arrest, The Wire had published a report titled ‘10 Things You Need To Know About The Network Targeting Mohammed Zubair’, where it had doxed the person behind the annon Twitter account with the handle @balajikijaiin, and revealed that one Vikash Ahir of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha and Hindu Yuva Vahini in Gujarat was behind the account.

In the Tek Fog story published in January, The Wire had claimed that it is an app created by the BJP which has superpowers over social media, as it can manipulate major social media platforms by bypassing their inbuilt security measures. Relying on some ‘source’, Wire claimed that the so-called Tek Fog app allowed BJP to ‘hijack’ the Twitter trends, allowed managing multiple WhatsApp accounts and direct online harassment of anti-BJP journalists. The portal had claimed that hacking top global apps like Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp etc are child’s play using the app, and all security features of those platforms vanish with this magical piece of software.

After making these tall claims about the app, the Wire found its ‘application’ against Zubair after he was arrested. They had claimed that just because a large number of Twitter users were targeting Zubair and his colleague Pratik Sinha, and many accounts were linked to Vikash Ahir through Twitter lists, many of them were not real humans but bots managed by Tek Fog.

The Wire had claimed that these bots were used to trend hashtags demanding the arrest of Zubair, despite the fact that there was massive outrage against the dubious fact-checker after he triggered nationwide riots against Nupur Sharma that claimed several lives. In its now-removed report, the portal claimed that out of 18,364 accounts which were trending such hashtags, as many as 61% of them, or 11,380, were part of the Tek Fog network.

They had claimed that this was the first time the app was activated after their stories on it. However, there was no explanation on how they determined that 61% of the accounts that posted those hashtags were bots managed by Tek Fog. There was no specific data to back that claim, just a vague argument that they displayed ‘bot-like behaviour’.

The Wire report included an image which looks similar to images used by Hollywood movies to represent technical mumbo-jumbo, without explaining what it means. It had listed some names, including OpIndia, and showed a large number of neuron-like links among them.

Graphics published by The Wire claiming the use of Tek Fog to target Md Zubair

While OpIndia has extensively exposed propaganda and fake news spread by Alt News and Md Zubair, the portal was never any part of any organised online campaign against him that The Wire seemed to suggest through this image. It is possible that Twitter users were tagging OpIndia or replying to the portal while criticising Zubair, but that does not mean the portal was part of any campaign.

In conclusion, The Wire had categorically claimed that “Zubair was simultaneously targeted by thousands of TekFog accounts.” They had also alleged that Zubair was targeted by “hundreds of bot accounts affiliated with a man who has extensive links to the BJP.”

The portal had then claimed that it has “proved unequivocally that this was a malicious campaign conducted over several years by accounts displaying inauthentic behaviour.”

However, now that The Wire has been forced to take down the Tek Fog story after it has been found to be fake, the article that claimed Tek Fog to target Zubair has also been taken down. Along with the story, they also removed a video from YouTube where they had made the same claim. The video was still available till a few days ago, even after other videos on Tek Fog and Meta were removed.

Women officers sexually and mentally harassed on submarines in British Royal Navy, probe ordered: Details

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Women officers sexually and mentally harassed on submarines in British Royal Navy, probe ordered: Details

Female British Royal Navy submariners reportedly experienced sexual harassment and intimidation. Adm Sir Ben Key, the head of the Royal Navy, ordered an investigation into “abhorrent” allegations in the submarine service in response to troubling information from whistleblowers.

According to the Daily Mail, former Navy Lt. Sophie Brook said that she was subjected to physical assaults as well as a “constant campaign of sexual bullying.” When a new female crew joined, she described the male submarine crew as “vultures.”

Male submariners allegedly created a “crush depth rape list” where women were sequenced in the order they should be raped in the event of a catastrophic event, among other allegations of physical and psychological abuse.

On her journey to become the first female submarine captain, the 30-year-old created history by becoming the first female combat officer. She spent most of her time aboard nuclear-armed submarines of the Vanguard class. The fleet, which is comprised of nuclear-powered submarines, according to the former lieutenant, is a “no place for women,” and two additional whistleblowers have largely confirmed the disturbing details of the former lieutenant’s account. They also concur that the branch, which is predominately male, has failed to provide a friendly workplace for women.

After the branch’s long-standing ban on female recruiting ended in 2011, abuse is alleged to have been prevalent for more than ten years.

The navy’s commander, Adm. Ben Key, labelled the claims horrifying. “I am deeply disturbed to hear of allegations of inappropriate behaviour in the Submarine Service and I want to reassure our people, and anyone who is reading this, that any activity which falls short of the highest of standards the Royal Navy sets itself is totally unacceptable and not a true reflection of what service life should be,” he said.

“These allegations are abhorrent. Sexual assault and harassment have no place in the Royal Navy and will not be tolerated. I have directed my senior team to investigate these allegations thoroughly. Anyone who is found culpable will be held accountable for their actions regardless of their rank or status,” Key further added.

The British Ministry of Defence did not respond to specific charges but did acknowledge that more needed to be done to address inappropriate behaviour. It stated that it is working to improve reporting methods for sexual crimes.

Notably, Brook departed the Navy after being probed and court-martialed for sending secret information about her submarine’s location to her married boyfriend in an email. She quit in January but was legally fired in June and sentenced to four months in prison with suspension.

Kerala: T’puram mayor participates in parliament march against unemployment after perpetuating nepotism and favouritism in govt jobs

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Kerala: T’puram mayor participates in parliament march against unemployment after perpetuating nepotism and favouritism in govt jobs

On 5th November 2022, Thiruvananthapuram mayor Arya Rajendran was seen in the middle of a controversy as she herself exposed the double standards and hypocrisy of her party CPM by participating in the parliament march against unemployment in Delhi just after she favoured CPM workers to get a job in the Thiruvananthapuram corporation.

On November 5, a letter written by the mayor of the capital city of the southern state came to light. The letter is written on the official letter pad of the mayor of the Thiruvananthapuram municipal corporation. In the letter addressed to the CPM district secretary Anavoor Nagappan, mayor Arya Rajendran demanded a priority list for appointing members of her party to 295 temporary posts in the Thiruvananthapuram municipal corporation.

The letter mentions that there are 295 vacant posts in the health department of the corporation and they are to be filled on a daily wage basis. The letter was written on November 1. It came to light as enthusiast CPM workers started sharing it in various WhatsApp groups.

Just four days after signing this letter, mayor Arya Rajendran went to Delhi where she participated in the parliament march against unemployment in the country. This protest march was organized by DYFI (Democratic Youth Federation of India) which is the youth wing of the left party.

In this way, Arya Rajendran exposed the true face of her party as she wrote a letter to inquire about the list of CPM members applying for jobs in the Thiruvananthapuram corporation and later raised her voice along with the protesters in the name of unemployment in Delhi. It is notable that Arya Rajendran is known to be the youngest mayor, but she has demonstrated that she is no less than experienced CPM leaders in exhibiting hypocrisy.

‘It was preplanned’: Son of Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader Sudhir Suri alleges his father got threat call a day before he was shot dead

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‘It was preplanned’: Son of Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader Sudhir Suri alleges his father got threat call a day before he was shot dead

Sudhir Suri, the slain Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader, had received a threat call from the United Kingdom (UK) the night before his murder, and his family continued to receive such calls, his son Manik Suri revealed on Saturday. The Hindu leader was shot dead in broad daylight in Amritsar, Punjab on Friday (November 4). Following the incident, a pro-Khalistani group Justice League India claimed responsibility for the killing. 

The caller, Manik Suri added, introduced himself as Amritpal Singh and stated his intention to send some men over. Manik added that the attack on his father was a “planned” one.

“There was a threat call the night before the incident. My father received a call from the UK. The caller introduced himself as Amritpal Singh and said he was sending some men and that his ‘deal is done’… It was planned, four bullets hit him,” Manik was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Deceased Sudhir Suri’s son also demanded martyrdom for his father and the suspension of negligent cops, among other things. He said that his family has refused to cremate Sudhir Suri’s body in case the government failed to announce him a martyr.

They also asked the government to ensure security for the family.

“We’re (Suri’s family) receiving threatening calls from outside. We’ve told the DGP and given it in writing too. We’re demanding the status of a martyr for my father, suspension of negligent officers and security and another accommodation for us. Won’t cremate him until our demands are met,” he added.

Notably, many eyewitnesses to the crime have spoken to the media, accusing the Punjab police of gross negligence in handling the incident of the attack on the Hindu leader. Rahul Sharma, the general secretary of Shiv Sena Taksali who was present there when the incident occurred, told Aaj Tak that when Suri was shot at with point blank range, two SHOs and an ACP were present at the site but they did nothing.

Republic TV also quoted an eyewitness as stating that multiple rounds were fired. “All the police were standing and watching. They ran away in front of them. All were watching and stunned,” he said.

Prior to this, OpIndia reported that a pro-Khalistani group named Justice League India claimed responsibility for the killing. Along with it, a video has emerged in which Pakistan-based pro-Khalistan leader Gopal Singh Chawla is seen celebrating the execution of the Hindu leader while also warning those in Punjab who follow similar ideologies that they will be killed as well.

Meanwhile, Sandeep Singh, the prime suspect in the murder of Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader Sudhir Suri, appeared in court on Saturday and was sentenced to seven days in police custody.

‘Turn Muslim, no matter what you do in life, you go to heaven’: Old video of Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shehzad persuading TM Dilshan to embrace Islam goes viral

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‘Turn Muslim, no matter what you do in life, you go to heaven’: Old video of Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shehzad persuading TM Dilshan to embrace Islam goes viral

On Friday (November 4), a video of Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shehzad attempting to convert Sri Lankan cricketing legend TM Dilshan to Islam went viral on social media.

A 21-second long video clip of the incident was shared on Twitter by a user named Incognito X (@Incognito_jkl). “If you are a non-Muslim and you turn Muslim, no matter whatever you do in your life, straight to heaven,” Shehzad was heard as saying.

Dilshan did not seem to pay any heed to the comments of the Pakistani cricketer. However, when the Sri Lankan legend finally responded (which was not captured by the microphone), Ahmed Shehzad warned, “Then be ready for the (Hell) fire.”

While reflecting on the on-field proselytization by the Pakistani cricketer, the Twitter user wrote, “Pakistan Cricket Team has 11 maulvis (clerics), not 11 cricketers.”

The Origins of the viral video

The viral video, dating back to August 30, 2014, was shot during the 3rd ODI match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The match was hosted at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium by the island nation.

During the 50-over encounter, Sri Lanka dismissed Pakistan for a paltry score of 102. TM Dilshan went on to score an unbeaten half-century and the hosts went on to win the match by 7 wickets (in accordance with the Duckworth-Lewis method).

Although Dilshan did not register a formal complaint, an official inquiry was initiated by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). As per reports, TM Dilshan was born to a Muslim father and a Buddhist mother.

Following his international debut in 1999, he dropped his Muslim name ‘Tuwan Mohamed Dilshan.’ Thereafter, the Sri Lankan legend adopted his mother’s Sinhalese-Buddhist identity under the name Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan.

Similarly, many other Pakistani cricketers, mostly former players such as Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saeed Anwar, Muhammad Yusuf, Saqlain Mushtaq, and other have taken to Islamic preaching after announcing their retirement. Some of them have continued being connected with cricket in some or the other capacity, but that has not stopped them from routinely conducting sessions to preach Islamic religious scriptures.

Mohammad Rizwan invokes Allah in a match against the Netherlands

Being overtly religious and becoming an Islamic scholar is not just an exclusive preserve of the former Pakistani cricketers, for whom there are scarce economic opportunities after hanging up their booths in a country starkly polarised by Islamic extremism. Even the current crop of cricketers has displayed an evangelical zeal to proselytise the infidels and propagate their religion.

For instance, Mohammad Rizwan, the prolific run-scorer for Pakistan, has been one of the most ardent proponents of spreading Islam. Former Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden, who was appointed as the Batting Coach of the Pakistan cricket team for the 2021 T20 World Cup, had in November 2021 made a startling revelation when he said that Mohammad Rizwan gifted him an English version of a copy of Quran.

Talking about the moment when he was given the book, Hayden said, “It was Rizzy (Mohammad Rizwan) and I have to say it was a beautiful moment I will never forget. I am curious about Islam even though I am a Christian. One follows Christ and the other Muhammad and in a sense never shall meet but he presented me with an English version of the Quran. We sat on the floor for half an hour and talked through it. I am reading a bit of it each day. Rizzy is one of my favourite individuals, a champion human being.”

More recently, Rizwan was caught on stump mic telling a Dutch player that he believed in Allah and not in the game situation. Rizwan reportedly made the comments during Pakistan vs Netherlands match, played on October 30 in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Australia. Pakistan is currently third on the points table and is all but certain of going back home without qualifying for the semis.

Not just this, Rizwan is also known for taking time out of his busy cricket schedule and preaching Islam in mosques and madarsas. Several videos of the cricketer preaching Islam and its teachings distilled from the Quran have gone viral on the internet.

In fact, not just in Pakistan, Rizwan also finds time to preach Islam on international tours to foreign countries. Recently, social media websites were awash with a video of him preaching Islam in a mosque in Melbourne amid the Pakistan cricket team’s world cup campaign.

‘Sympathy-seeking jilted lover being scorned by SC’: Ex-Live Law staffer denigrates Law Min Kiren Rijiju over his criticism of the collegium system

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‘Sympathy-seeking jilted lover being scorned by SC’: Ex-Live Law staffer denigrates Law Min Kiren Rijiju over his criticism of the collegium system

Radhika Roy, the former associate editor with Live Law, recently had a meltdown on Twitter after Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju continued his relentless attack against the collegium system for the appointment of judges in the Supreme Court and high courts.

“These speeches by Kiren Rijiju are unbecoming of the Law Minister of the country. He sounds like a sympathy-seeking jilted lover being scorned by the Supreme Court,” Roy tweeted.

Source: Twitter

Roy’s vituperation came in the wake of Rijiju’s acerbic comment against the Collegium system, which he said was “opaque” and reflected the thoughts of lawyers and judges.

“No system can be 100% perfect. But we need to strive for a better system. When Parliament passed the National Judicial Commission Act in 2015, the SC struck it down. They should have told us which system would be better,” Rijiju said.

Speaking at the India Today Conclave this week, Rijiju said he was not satisfied with the collegium system, adding that a majority of judges agreed with him.

“Judges are not happy with the collegium system today. The high court collegium comprises the Chief Justice of India and two senior-most judges who decide [on the appointment of judges]. For the Supreme Court, there are five members,” he explained.

Highlighting flaws in the system, Rijiju said the Collegium system by design would lead to the appointment of judges that are known to the consultee judge. “A consultee judge will recommend only those whom he knows. They won’t recommend someone they don’t know even if s/he is qualified and fit enough to be a judge of the SC or HC,” he said.

The Union Law Minister further added that he is opposed to this selection from private circles. “The fittest of the candidates should be elevated as judges; not the person whom the consultees know,” he said.

Even so, this is not the first time that Kiren Rijiju has spoken his heart out on his views on the Collegium system. He has persistently criticised the system he says is not transparent.

Earlier in October 2022, Rijiju had said that judges spend half their time spent in deciding who to appoint as judges instead of delivering justice, as he termed the collegium system “opaque” and described the Indian selection system as the only one where judges appoint judges.

“The primary task of a judge is to deliver justice to the people. What I see as a law minister (is that) half the time of the judges is spent on deciding who would become the next judge rather than giving justice,” Rijiju had said.

Gujarat AAP leader Indranil Rajguru leaves the party to join Congress, claims a large amount of money comes to AAP office

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Gujarat AAP leader Indranil Rajguru leaves the party to join Congress, claims a large amount of money comes to AAP office

Former Gujarat MLA Indranil Rajguru deserted the Aam Aadmi Party and joined the Congress party on Friday, claiming that the party is corrupt and that a lot of money comes to its office. Rajguru, in a strange allegation, also said that the Bharatiya Janata Party chose the Aam Aadmi Party’s chief ministerial candidate. This follows after AAP announced Isudan Gadhvi as its face for CM in the Gujarat elections.

In a press conference, Indranil Rajguru stated, “After I returned to Congress, AAP alleged I wanted to be CM face & demanded tickets for 15 people. CM face was pre-decided… I was told not to insist & that list comes from Kamalam (Gujarat BJP HQ) & they’ve to go with it.”

“I also saw a lot of money coming and asked where is it from. Both CMs (Kejriwal & Mann) had come to Rajkot and it was then that I asked about it, they signaled (shows an airborne aircraft) and said that’s how. It’s a party that befools people. So, I returned to Congress,” Rajguru further said.

One of the few AAP leaders in Gujarat who has run for and won an assembly election before is Rajguru, a builder from Rajkot. In 2012, Rajguru won a seat in the Rajkot-East assembly. He received the Congress’ nomination to challenge Vijay Rupani, the previous chief minister, for the Rajkot-West seat in 2017. Rupani, who received 61% of the vote, ultimately beat Rajguru in the campaign.

Rajguru left Congress a year later due to his displeasure with the party’s leadership, but he returned in 2019 and pushed for Congress candidates in the Lok Sabha elections. In order to join AAP, he again resigned in April 2022. Rajguru then commended Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the AAP, stating he stands up for the common man.

Rajguru joined the Congress in the presence of key leaders such as Sukhram Rathava, Jagdish Thakor, Raghu Sharma, the AICC’s Gujarat representative, and others.

Notably, the competition for Gujarat has heated up, with the BJP and the AAP emerging as the frontrunners. The BJP won 99 of the 182 seats in 2017, while the Congress won 77. In the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the ruling party is vying for a sixth consecutive term.

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