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India’s share of water going to Pakistan will be stopped and diverted for the farmers in India: PM Modi in Haryana

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India’s share of water going to Pakistan will be stopped and diverted for the farmers in India: PM Modi in Haryana

In his campaign trail in Haryana, PM Modi once again reiterated his government’s stance vis-a-vis rivers flowing towards Pakistan. PM Modi announced that the waters of the river flowing towards Pakistan will be diverted and utilised for the farmers in Haryana, Rajasthan and other states of India.


In reference to the Indus Water Treaty that allowed water distribution from 6 rivers between India and Pakistan, PM Modi said, “People of Haryana, trust me, Indian farmers’ legitimate share of water, Haryana farmers’ legitimate share of water, that was  going to Pakistan for the last 70 years will be stopped. I will stop the water and divert it to your houses. I have already initiated the work in this direction because Indian farmers have right over this water, framers of Haryana, Rajasthan have right over this water.”

PM Modi also lauded daughters of Haryana citing his recently concluded informal meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping. PM Modi said that in the informal summit held in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, Xi Jinping told him that he had watched the Aamir Khan-starrer “Dangal” “which showcased excellent performance of daughters of India”.

Also Read: Here is how the Narendra Modi doctrine has broken all psychological barriers and left Pakistan clueless

“During my recent informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he said to me that he had seen ‘Dangal’ which showcased excellent performance of daughters of India. I felt really proud of Haryana on hearing this,” he said.

Training the guns at Congress, PM Modi launched a blistering attack against the party asserting that the grand old party is indulging in rumour-mongering with regards to Article 370. “At a time when the country is hailing the decision to repeal Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, a few Congress leaders have gone against it and are spreading rumours in the country and across the world,” he said.

PM Modi also added that the abrogation of Article 370 will pave the way for successful and complete integration of the state of Jammu and Kashmir with the Indian Union and the region will now see fast-paced development and prosperity.

Scott Greer rants against India: Know who this white supremacist discarded by American conservatives is

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Scott Greer rants against India: Know who this white supremacist discarded by American conservatives is

Former Daily Caller editor Scott Greer has been engaging in racist rants against ‘Indian Twitter’ for the past few days. The author of the book ‘No Campus for White Men’, he was forced to delete a tweet that spoke of ‘owning’ Indian Twitter because it featured an image contained the Hindu Swastika.

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One Twitter user, who tweets under the username @Ritwik_Jha_, dug into his past and discovered rather interesting secrets about his past conduct. As it so happens, Greer has an extremely chequered past. It was first reported by The Atlantic. He was forced to sever all ties with the Daily Caller after it was revealed that he once wrote for the White Supremacist Radix Journal founded by Richard Spencer, universally acknowledged to be a racist clown. Spencer was accused last year by his wife of emotional and physical abuse, including choking her, dragging her by her hair and attempting to punch her while she was pregnant, according to divorce filings in the Flathead county district court in Montana.

Greer wrote under the pseudonym of  “Michael McGregor”. He was writing for the White Supremacist journal while working for the Daily Caller. He was forced to issue a statement over the matter. However, the statement showed no shame or regret. “In my early twenties when it appeared our only mainstream options were Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, I was attracted to more radical ideas and expressed them under the name Michael McGregor at Radix Journal,” Greer wrote.


“As the political situation has evolved in recent years, so have my views. That said, I do not apologize for honestly stating what I believed to be correct at the time, unless everyone must apologize every time they change their opinion. I stopped writing for Radix in 2015. My tweets and Daily Caller columns are my honest views. The Daily Caller was unaware of my outside writings. I already stepped down as an editor from The Daily Caller in June to focus on writing a book. I am now resigning any affiliation with The Caller. However, I will continue to promote my views without any shame or regret.”

In a racist post for Radix, Greer wrote, “Cops are now the preferred scapegoats for the sole reason that they are the symbols of a justice system Blacks hate, a justice system Blacks want undermined for their benefit. However, this justice system has to be harsh on Blacks in order to preserve stability and a measure of safety in a multiracial state. The current campaign against tough policing, if successful, would effectively turn any city with a large percentage of Blacks into a third world hellhole.”

In another post, he wrote, “Running backs, wide receivers, and most defensive roles are seemingly reserved for Blacks only. If you’re a White guy at any of those positions, the odds are stacked against you for getting noticed by the big college programs. No matter how talented you are, you aren’t Black.”

Greer has also blamed Jews for antisemitism. According to him antisemitism is a consequence of “the Jewish role in promoting the root causes of this problem through their support of mass immigration, multiculturalism, and hate speech laws that only go after Whites.” He sneered upon the Christian zionists for their “worship of Jews borders on fetishization and naturally incites hatred for the root cultures of European peoples.”

Denouncing gender equality, he claimed it “will make women more determined to pursue ambitions that will make them miserable, turn men into eunuchs, and allow for the continuing growth of non-White hordes in formerly White countries.” About sexual consent laws in California, he claimed: “while sex laws become more draconian for White men and they are further assaulted for trying to be men, the more virile Arabs, Blacks, and Hispanics that are swarming into our countries will continue to victimize our people.”

Greer also urged Whites to become ‘identitarians’. He wrote, “Whites have become the willing slaves of the system–and we must the break chains that bind us. We must become Identitarians. The primary purpose of Identitarianism must be the preservation of our identity–the cultural and genetic heritage that makes us who we are. […] Instead of wanting to restore America to some imagined version of itself, we should seek to create the Ethnostate. The Ethnostate, unlike America, would not be based on the trinity of values that leads white people to commit self-genocide. It would be a state that is explicitly for whites and by whites. It would carry on our tradition and foster our culture in the New World.”

Greer was exposed earlier in a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an often deranged far-left loony organization that considers everyone to the Left of Stalin to be ‘literally Hitler’. The SPLC chanced upon photos of Greer in the company of White Nationalists wearing a T-shirt of Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), a white nationalist organization. Owing to the discredited reputation of SPLC itself, it wasn’t taken too seriously at the time.

Ironically enough, one of the co-founders of the Daily Caller, where Scott Greer worked and earned his bread and butter from, is an American of Indian origin: Neil Patel. Following the report by The Atlantic, Patel said the Caller was skeptical of the SPLC report the previous year “because of their history of unfair attacks,” and had asked Greer about the group’s findings, which he denied. “We had two choices: Fire a young man because of some photos taken of him at metal shows in college, or take his word. We chose to trust him,” Patel said. “Now, if what you allege is accurate, we know that trust was a mistake, we know he lied to us. We won’t publish him, anyone in these circles, or anyone who thinks like them. People who associate with these losers have no business writing for our company.”

As has become evident from his conduct on Twitter the past few days, the opinions of Scott Greer haven’t really changed since the time he wrote for the White Supremacist journal. Despite being a White Supremacist, he surely didn’t have much objection on relying on a media outlet co-founded by an Indian-origin American for his bread and butter. As is obvious, Greer has since then been totally shunned by mainstream American conservatives and been relegated to the fringes of political discussion.

Illegal Rohingya immigrants pose serious threat to national security, India should never let them in

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Illegal Rohingya immigrants pose serious threat to national security, India should never let them in

In the past two years the Rohingyas – a minority Muslim ethnicity residing in the Rakhine state of Buddhist majority Myanmar – have dominated the world news. Global media, human rights organisations and Islamic ummah have poured their heart in support of Rohingyas; highlighted the ‘atrocities’ committed upon them and fired all kinds of demagoguery to make Myanmar’s Buddhist state look like authoritarian desuetude with no morality and filled with a plethora of ‘islamophobia’. Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace price laureate – was criticised across the globe for letting the military fight against Rohingya militants of Rakhine state.

Rohingyas for years are nationless ethnicity and have been called by UN as ‘among the world’s least wanted’. There are around 2 million Rohingyas around the world – 1.3 million and 400k of them being in Bangladesh and Myanmar respectively – hovering amidst the uncertainty of their citizenship. Myanmar, after August 25, 2017, started a brutal crackdown of the Rohingyas in their traditional backyard of the Rakhine state after a terrorist attack on police forces by a radical militant wing of the Rohingyas – the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). The crackdown resulted in the migration of more than 7,00,000 Rohingyas into neighbouring Bangladesh and India. The Rohingyas were subjected to ‘genocidal’ crimes, in words of UN. The crisis was termed as ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’.

The Rohingya crisis, for entire 2017 and 2018, had captured the global limelight and dominated international coverages. Termed as ‘crime against humanity,’ the issue stained Myanmar’s relations with the world. Intellectuals from every corner started schooling Myanmar government on morality and humanity. The world had its guns – of various forms depending on gunner – pointed at Myanmar’s head for pushing ‘innocent’, as they say, Rohingyas into crisis. UN held that Myanmar military must be tried for crimes committed against Rohingyas. Canada ripped Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship. Just months ago, US sanctioned or banned Myanmar’s military general. Collateral reputation damage reached even India and the UN, global human rights organisations and international media asked India to accept Rohingyas into its fold as refugees. And when India decided to deport 40,000 illegal Rohingyas to Bangladesh, the world got rattled and started bibbing their bits of moral superiority from the chalices of criticism.

Also Read: Illegal Rohingya immigrants reach as far as Ladakh, agencies suspect local support

Indeed, Rohingyas have been subjected to extreme brutality and hatred at the hands of Myanmar military. As per a report, 24,000 Rohingyas were killed, 18,000 Rohingya women were subjected to sexual violence and rape, 1,15,000 homes were burned down, and 36,000 Rohingyas were thrown into the fire as a result of Myanmar military’s crackdown. By various estimates, around 7,00,000 to 7,50,000 Rohingyas crossed into Bangladesh and India for refuge. Despite the shaggy reliability of the reports documenting casualties in Rohingya crisis – which were termed by Myanmar government as ‘false’ and ‘incorrect’ – it is no fallacy that the crisis has destroyed lives of many Rohingyas and has dented the human values.

But despite their sufferings there remains a fundamental aspect in Rohingyas spawning a proclivity of repulsion against them in India. Rohingyas have not been all innocent as proclaimed by the global stakeholders and harbingers of humanity. Being true to their banal nature, international media has, deliberately or ignorantly, veiled the other side of Rohingyas. For India – which is host to more than 40,000 illegal Rohingya immigrants – it’s of great importance to clear the smog and walk the path of clarity and reality.

Background to Rohingya Duplicitousness

Adding background to their nature, these are the same Rohingyas who approached Mohammad Ali Jinnah – the radical Islamist politician who divided India by instilling the religious extremism – with a request of merger of Rohingya dominated areas into Pakistan. Few townships of Rakhine were Rohingya Muslim dominated and Rohingya leaders had approached Jinnah with a hope of ‘liberation’ from Buddhist Myanmar and merger with Islamic Pakistan. Jinnah had rejected Rohingya plea avoiding possible British annoyance.

Few months after Pakistan’s godfather Jinnah’s rejection of Rohingya proposal, Rohingyas formed a militant organisation to wage jihad against peace-loving Buddhist population of Myanmar and pan-Islamise the entire Rakhine region. They committed atrocities and resorted to burning and looting. The militants targeted Rakhine Buddhist interests as well as the government, quickly seizing control of large parts of the north and expelling many Buddhist villagers. But the Buddhists rather than being cowed down, decided to retaliate and ensured that the Rohingya Muslims are unable to change the geography of the region. Having failed to realise their dream of a separate nation, Rohingya Muslims started seeking Burmese citizenship.

Also Read: ISI-backed JeM cadres training Rohingya Muslims to carry out terror attacks in India, reveals BSF

In 1974, inspired by the rise of pan-Islamist movements in the world and driven by the fundamentally radical ideology, Rohingyas formed the Rohingya Patriotic Front – an extremists armed group to wage war against Myanmar’s Buddhists and Hindus. Few years later it split into several factions, one of the more radical of which became the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) armed group in 1982. The RSO split in 1986, giving rise to the Arakan Rohingya Islamic Front (ARIF) fraction; in 1998, the two groups formed a loose alliance, the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the RSO had small bases in remote parts of Bangladesh near the Myanmar border but was not thought to have any inside Myanmar. In its highest-profile attack in April 1994, several dozen militants entered Maungdaw from Bangladesh, including a group landed by boat in Myin Hlut village-tract, south Maungdaw. On 28 April, bombs they planted in Maungdaw town caused damage and several civilian injuries, and Rohingya militants then followed up with attacks on the town’s outskirts.

Later in 1992, Rohingyas were declared non-nationals by Myanmar’s government, leading to a crackdown by the Myanmar military. The crackdown caused migration of many Rohingyas to other countries, majority of them resorting in Bangladesh’s Cox bazar; where they were easily radicalised on the basis of religion, they became cannon fodder for global jihadi groups. In a well-hatched conspiracy and masterly executed plan, they were also infiltrated illegally to India through porous border with Bangladesh. One of the destinations of the illegal Rohingya Muslim immigrants was Jammu, a sensitive Hindu-majority border town already facing the brunt of a demographic invasion from north of Pir Panjal and ISI-sponsored jihadi terror. The reason for selecting Jammu was in consonance with the earlier stated two-fold mission of the ISI.

The militancy and radicalisation only upsurged since then leading to recruitment of several Rohingyas into the extremist fold of jihadi ummah. Many researchers have highlighted the rise in the radicalisation of Rohingyas aided by foreign players mainly from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. In May 2015 a JSTOR research paper titled ‘Myanmar at the crossroads: Shadows of jihadi extremism’ informed about the upsurge flow of jihadi extremist ideology in Muslims of Myanmar aided by the network of terrorist organisations. The study mentioned the harsh sectarian conflict in Myanmar along with threats posed by local insurgent groups, including the probability that these groups might attempt to link up with jihadist terrorist groups like ISIS. JSTOR highlighted the emerging dangers deriving from the intensification of the use of social media networks by jihadist extremists to expand their influence and spread their caliphate ideology.

Along with this, in December 2016 a Crisis group paper had reported about the rise of ‘new Muslim insurgency in the Rakhine state’ citing on the basis of developments including militant attacks on Myanmar security forces on 9th October and 12th of November, 2016. The report called it a violence ‘qualitatively different from anything in recent decades’ which, it added, ‘seriously threatens the prospects of stability and development in the state and has serious implications for Myanmar as a whole.’  Since 9 October, several hundred young Rohingya men from Bangladesh have joined the fight. However, the main fighting force is made up of Muslim villagers in northern Rakhine State who have been given basic training and organised into village-level cells to limit risks of compromise. These are mostly led by young Islamic clerics (known as “Mullahs” or “Maulvis”) or scholars (“Hafiz”) from those villages.

Massacre of Myanmar’s Hindus at the hands of Rohingyas

The Rohingyas – who are revered in India by the liberal, commie, Islamist brigade as innocent and hapless – are just another group of veiled jihadis who, at the right opportunity, would massacre every non-Muslim in their path. The quintessential practical example of this vindictive nature of Rohingyas is the recent massacre of innocent Hindus of Myanmar in 2017. Amnesty international in 2018 reported that Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) – the militant terrorist wing of Rohingyas – massacred up to 99 Hindu women, men, and children as well as additional unlawful killings and abductions of Hindu villagers in August 2017.

Based on dozens of interviews conducted there and across the border in Bangladesh, as well as photographic evidence analysed by forensic pathologists, the organisation revealed how Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) fighters sowed fear among Hindus and other ethnic communities with these brutal attacks.

Also Read: Bangladesh arranges Rohingyas to live on an uninhabited remote island, 21 nautical miles off the coast

At around 8 am on 25 August 2017, ARSA attacked the Hindu community in the village of Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik, in a cluster of villages known as Kha Maung Seik in northern Maungdaw Township. Armed men dressed in black and local Rohingya villagers in plain clothes rounded up dozens of Hindu women, men and children. They robbed, bound, and blindfolded them before marching them to the outskirts of the village, where they separated the men from the women and young children. A few hours later, the ARSA fighters killed 53 of the Hindus, execution-style, starting with the men.

Eight Hindu women and eight of their children were abducted and spared, after ARSA fighters forced the women to agree to “convert” to Islam. The survivors were forced to flee with the fighters to Bangladesh several days later, before being repatriated to Myanmar in October 2017 with the support of the Bangladeshi and Myanmar authorities.

Bina Bala, a 22-year-old woman who survived the massacre, told Amnesty International:

“[The men] held knives and long iron rods. They tied our hands behind our backs and blindfolded us. I asked what they were doing. One of them replied, ‘You and Rakhine are the same, you have a different religion, you can’t live here. He spoke the [Rohingya] language. They asked what belongings we had, then they beat us. Eventually, I gave them my gold and money.”

According to a detailed list of the dead, given to Amnesty International, the victims from Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik include 20 men, 10 women, and 23 children, 14 of whom were under the age of eight. This is consistent with multiple testimonies the organisation gathered in both Bangladesh and Myanmar, from survivors and witnesses as well as Hindu community leaders.

The same day, all of the 46 Hindu men, women, and children in the neighbouring village of Ye Bauk Kyar disappeared. Members of the Hindu community in northern Rakhine State presume the community was killed by the same ARSA fighters. Combined with those from Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik, the total death toll is believed to be 99.

The bodies of 45 people from Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik were unearthed in four mass graves in late September 2017. The remains of the rest of the victims from that village, as well as all 46 from Ye Bauk Kyar, have not been found to date.

The bone-chilling report unearthed the dark hatred against Hindus in the minds of Rohingyas and gave voice to the dead. The dead man tells no tales as they say but they certainly tell about the killer who killed them. Dead Hindus of Rakhine are the testimony to the extent of extremism and terrorism Rohingyas can reach.

Rohingya links to Pakistani terror outfits

Rohingyas have a link with global jihadi outfits. Even Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, in an interview to a Karachi-based newspaper, Ummat, had referred to Burma where a strong jihadi force existed. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Rohingyas have the support of Kashmiri terrorists. Zakir Musa, the self- styled commander of Al Qaeda affiliate, Ansar Ghazwat-Ul-Hind, in a 10-minute audio message, released on YouTube channel Ansar Ghazwa, warned the Government against deporting Rohingya Muslims in Jammu.

Incidentally, Rohingyas are also affiliated to a Bangladesh-based outfit, the Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir (ICS), a militant arm of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, and are responsible for launching violent street demonstrations, attacking security forces, secular political rivals and secular individuals.

Also Read: Rohingya Muslims in India – from refugees to a security threat

In July 2018, Economic Times reported little-known Rohingya terror group Aqa Mul Mujahideen or HaY (Harakah al-Yaqin is called Aqa Mul Mujahideen by Myanmar government) blamed for the recent attacks on Myanmar border outposts by the country’s president not only maintains links with Hafiz Saeed’s Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) but is learnt to have developed ties with the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) cell in Jammu and Kashmir.

Aqa Mul Mujahideen (AMM) leaders were trained in Pakistan and they later recruited Rohingya youth in Rakhine region of Myanmar. AMM is a new armed group that originated from Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami Arakan (HUJI-A).  The current HUJI-A chief Abdus Qadoos Burmi, a Pakistani national of Rohingya origin, who it is claimed recruited one Hafiz Tohar from Maungdaw in Myanmar. Tohar is now said to be heading the AMM and Qadoos Burmi is reported to be close to Saeed. Saeed’s other terror group, Jamat ud Dawa (JuDD)’s humanitarian arm, Falah-e-Insaniat (FiF), was active in Rohingya relief camps in Rakhine State after the 2012 riots.

Their illegal migration to India and the decision to settle in any part of the country is being masterminded by a core group, created by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The ISI’s intention is two-fold: First, to spread fundamentalism in areas they settle and thereafter, use them for pan-Islamisation of the region. Second, to foment political and religious fights to force the exodus of Hindus to alter the regional demography. Rohingya connection with the global jihad network and Pakistan’s ISI are pellucid and unambiguously established, hence assuming the Rohingya possess a tenebrous anti-Hindu hatred and radical mentality won’t be wrong.

Rohingyas, apart from their hapless side, also possess a dark malevolent side. The fundamentals of Rohingyas are no different than those of terrorists in Pakistan fuelled by the common ideological fire of waging jihad and establishing an Islamic state. The influx of Rohingyas in India, from India’s national security point of view, is dangerous and calamitous. Their affiliation to Pakistani terror outfits, history of extremism and the recent massacre of innocent Hindus by them bears testimony to the vindictive side of Rohingyas. These are exactly sufficing reasons why India should never let the Rohingyas in.

Do you fly pollution-free planes? Fireworks company ‘thrashes’ SpiceJet’s ‘No-crackers Diwali’ banner

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Do you fly pollution-free planes? Fireworks company ‘thrashes’ SpiceJet’s ‘No-crackers Diwali’ banner

A SpiceJet banner pontificating about ‘cracker-free Diwali’ put up at the baggage screening counter of a particular airport has miffed the firework manufacturing company Sri Kaliswari Fireworks Private Limited which manufactures crackers under the trademark ‘Cock Brand’.

The company has shared an amusing Facebook post asking whether the airlines thinks their planes run on ‘green or white patrol’.

The Facebook post by Shri Kaliswari Fireworks

The fireworks company posted the picture of the SpiceJet banner which read: ‘No crackers, let’s celebrate a pollution-free Diwali’ and asked the airlines to thrash their planes to the garbage and then come to advise people. In the post, the firework company asked the airlines whether their planes run on white petrol or green petrol and whether they fly pollution-free planes?

“How dare you to talk about our fireworks industry? Why cannot you stop your business, thrash your planes to the garbage and then come to advise people? Do you know Co2 emission caused by air travel is 285 gms per passenger-km? compared to that of rail travel is just 14 gms? Shall we place such banners before your offices? Don’t spoil other industries for your promotion.”

In 2018, just before Diwali, the Supreme Court had banned manufacturing of polluting firecrackers and ruled that only green crackers with reduced emission will be allowed to be sold in the country in order to control the pollution level. The apex court had also restricted the time that crackers could be burst on Diwali and police officials were tasked with enforcement.

Now, a year after the ban, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Saturday launched eco-friendly ‘green firecrackers’, which have been manufactured in India, noting that the step will help control pollution as well as take care of people’s sentiments.

Addressing an event by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) where the crackers prepared by its labs were displayed, the Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan said: “I am very happy that on one hand, we would be using eco-friendly crackers this Diwali, and, on the other hand, our traditional festival celebrations with lights and firecrackers shall remain intact. Millions of homes which are dependent on the sale and manufacture of fireworks will also rejoice this festival, thanks to our scientists!”

Union Minister Harsh Vardhan also launched the green crackers manufactured by licensee-manufacturers. He also informed that a green logo as well as a Quick Response (QR) coding system has been developed for differentiation of green crackers from conventional crackers.

The Health Minister stated that due to the ban that had been imposed as per the orders of the Supreme Court, there was a threat of imminent closure of the entire fireworks industry. However, Science has once again come to the rescue of the common man and millions of jobs have been saved due to the interventions made by our scientists.

Praising the effort of CSIR in developing green crackers, the Minister informed that nearly 165 fireworks manufacture have been roped in and around 65 more manufacturers are in the process of coming on board.

The festival of lights, Diwali, will be celebrated in India on 27th October this year.

INX Media case: ED may arrest P Chidambaram tomorrow after interrogating in Tihar jail where he is currently lodged by CBI Court

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INX Media case: ED may arrest P Chidambaram tomorrow after interrogating in Tihar jail where he is currently lodged by CBI Court

A special CBI court has allowed the Enforcement Directorate to interrogate the Congress era Finance Minister P Chidambaram inside the Tihar jail where he is currently lodged. Chidambaram and his son Karti are under ED investigation for their alleged involvement in the INX Media scam.

As per reports, Delhi Court has allowed ED to arrest him with an option to interrogate P Chidambaram for 30 minutes tomorrow.


The ED had requested to interrogate Chidambaram in the court but the Court said that it would not be dignified if the ED first interrogates him and then arrests him in full public view.


ED is likely to interrogate the Congress minister tomorrow morning. The special judge has reportedly given ED the option to either interrogate Chidambaram inside Tihar, take him into their custody or interrogate him inside the court premises.

Yesterday, a Delhi court had reserved the order on the Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking to arrest and interrogate former finance minister P. Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case.

The Enforcement Directorate had sought Delhi court’s permission on Monday, October 14, to arrest former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case. He is currently lodged in Tihar after the CBI court extended the former Union Minister’s judicial custody till October 17, 2019.

Read: P Chidambaram to continue to stay in Tihar as Delhi HC rejects his bail plea in INX Media corruption case

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the agency, told special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar that there is a finding by the Supreme Court that custodial interrogation of Chidambaram is necessary.

Mehta said that money laundering is a separate offence and moved an application for Chidambaram’s arrest and remand.

The plea was vehemently opposed by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Chidambaram, who said that the CBI has already taken remand and ED has no ground since the offence is same. Sibal had also opposed interrogation inside court premises citing ‘dignity of court proceedings’.

The ED had on October 11, Friday moved a plea seeking production warrant of the senior Congress leader. The probe agency said in its plea that it requires custodial interrogation of Mr Chidambaram in the money laundering case related to INX Media.

P Chidambaram has been in custody since August 21 and is currently lodged in the Tihar jail. He is under the scanner of CBI and the Enforcement Directorate in the INX Media case in which he is accused of misusing his position as India’s finance minister and granting several clearances to the INX Media company.

Chidambaram has moved to the Supreme Court seeking bail in the INX Media case. The CBI has been objecting his bail on the ground that he might influence witnesses.

Karnataka HC slams police for action against FB page admin who posted against HD Kumaraswamy and others, orders inquiry

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Karnataka HC slams police for action against FB page admin who posted against HD Kumaraswamy and others, orders inquiry

Reprimanding the Bengaluru police for violation of Fundamental Rights, the Karnataka High Court quashed an FIR registered against one S Jaikanth, the admin of a Facebook page ‘Troll Maga’. Jaikanth was arrested earlier for posting against JD(S) party chief HD Deve Gowda, the then Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy and his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy.

Reportedly, the Karnataka HC has also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh that would be recovered from the police officers responsible for the arrest of the admin of the FB page. The Director-General of Police and Inspector General of Karnataka Police has been directed by the Karanataka HC to conduct an inquiry against the police officers responsible for the arrest of Jaikanth, the admin of the Facebook page. 

The High court also ordered departmental action against the Magistrate who remanded the accused in violation of SC guidelines. Jaikanth was remanded despite being granted anticipatory bail by a lower court. The court also directed that the compensation should be provided to petitioner S Jaikanth within a month.

“The police action against the petitioner was illegal. Liberty of a citizen in a civilized society is sacrosanct,” said Justice P S Dinesh Kumar in his order pronounced on Friday. 

A complaint was filed by a JDS party worker against S Jaikanth, the administrator of the Facebook page, ‘Troll Maga’ for allegedly posting abusive and insulting posts against former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda, the then Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and his son and leader from the party, Nikhil Kumaraswamy.

Soon, Jaikanth had obtained anticipatory bail from a lower court and had gone to Srirampuram police station to submit the bail. However, the Karnataka police had arrested Jaikanth, an engineer by profession, in the second complaint on the same set of facts as mentioned in the first complaint in May.

However, on June 28, 2019, the Karnataka High Court had directed immediate release of the administrator of the Facebook page ‘Troll Maga’ and has stayed the criminal proceeding against the admin till July 11. The HC had then termed the police act as ‘police-raj’ and stayed the proceedings.

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks irk Owaisi, says ‘will not let this country become Hindu Rashtra’

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RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks irk Owaisi, says ‘will not let this country become Hindu Rashtra’

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who has several times in the past exhibited his malevolence against Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), once again, reacting to RSS chief Mohan Bhagat’s last week’s comment said Bharat is “not a Hindu Rashtra” and they will also not let it become so.

This comment came after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat last week said the Sangh is firm on its vision that “Bharat is a Hindu Rashtra”.


Addressing an election rally on Monday night in Kalyan town of Maharashtra’s Thane district for party candidate Aiaz Moulavi, Owaisi said a section of society wants to paint the entire country in one colour, but “we see Hindustan in multiple colours, it is the beauty of Hindustan”. “Bharat is not a Hindu Rashtra, and Inshallah, we will not allow it to become so,” he said.

Alleging that the Shiv Sena was against Muslims, he said: “Change your spectacles and you will see the green colour in the national flag also.” He said Bharat is unique because of its secularism and pluralism. There is no other country in the world as Bharat and “we are proud of it”.

“I want to tell those in the RSS that we are not living here on your sympathy. If you want to measure the index of my happiness or sorrow, you and we should see what the Constitution has given to us,” Owaisi said.

Read: India, a land with Hindu consciousness, will forever remain a natural home for Hindus

Owaisi went on to also say that the AIMIM has established itself in Aurangabad because of its own efforts. “We will spread to other parts of the state also. You cannot stop us,” he said.

“NDA government was patting its own back by banning the practice of triple talaq, but was not aware of the woes of members of the Muslim community, exclaimed the AIMIM chief claiming that centre should provide the members of the minority community with the reservation for their progress and development.

Owaisi animosity for Hindu’s is not new. Not just Hindu Rashtra, Recently, in a public rally in Nanded, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi mocked the Hindu traditional ritual of using lemon and chilli for auspiciousness and warding off bad luck. Owaisi alluded that Hindus waste the lemons by crushing them whereas Muslims utilise them by offering lemon juice to others and using chillies in their meat dishes.

In fact, such deep is the hatred that Owaisi has also claimed that Muslims have been ignored and treated unjustly in the country. He even lamented the death sentence awarded to Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon. He claimed that Muslims were unable to save Yakub Memom from being hanged because they were not in power.

More so, Asaduddin Owaisi’s brother Akbaruddin Owaisi had earlier threatened to kill the Hindus and balance the population ratio if police forces are removed for 15 minutes.

Haryana: JJP’s Dushyant Chautala’s anti-Gujarat bigotry, tries to create regionalism within the Indian Army

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Haryana: JJP’s Dushyant Chautala’s anti-Gujarat bigotry, tries to create regionalism within the Indian Army

As the battleground heats up in the run-up to the Haryana state assembly elections, Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) chief Dushyant Chautala showed his anti-Gujarat bigotry. In a bid to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister and BJP President Amit Shah, both Gujaratis, Chautala taunted the entire community by questioning the number of Gujaratis in the Indian Army.


Chautala said that amongst those who have sacrificed their lives for India, maximum of those are from Haryana. “Number of people from Haryana who have been martyred at the border is higher than total number of Gujaratis in the Indian Army,” said Chautala. During the run-up to 2019 general elections, Dushyant Chautala’s JJP had extended support and forged an alliance with Aam Aadmi Party and Arvind Kejriwal.

Read: Dear Javed Akhtar, the Indian army does not keep a grudge against us Gujaratis, neither should you

Unfortunately, this is not the first time the hate opposition leaders have for PM Modi which has manifested into an bigotry towards Gujaratis. Chautala’s hate against Gujaratis echoes that of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s hatred for the otherwise peace-loving people from the land of Gandhi.


What is unfortunate here is that such bigotry is not limited only to politicians but even the legends one grew up admiring have fallen from grace ever since Prime Minister Modi won 2014 elections. Earlier this year, lyricist-turned-Internet troll Javed Akhtar displayed his hate for entire Gujarati community by implying that there are hardly any Gujaratis in the defence forces. “We have had so many regiments in the Army like the Sikhs, Marathas, Rajputs. But have we ever had a Gujarat regiment? Since our Prime Minister has great love and pride in the Indian Army of late, I would urge him to raise a Gujarat regiment so the swayamsevaks from the region can join the Army,” Akhtar reportedly said. He had said this way, the people from Ahmedabad and Surat should join such regiment.

Read: Forget ‘no Gujarati martyrs’ comment by Akhilesh, this is what he did to a Uttar Pradesh martyr

It is rather shameful to try and divide the army and their sacrifices including the martyrdom of soldiers on regional lines. But since we are speaking of numbers, as per reports, as of March 31 2017, Gujarat had 26,656 ex-servicemen, of which 6,233 are from Ahmedabad. There are 3,517 widows of servicemen and 39 soldiers have been awarded bravery awards for their service to the nation. A village named Kodiyavada in Sabarkantha has a population of 6,500 people. About 80% of the families in this village has at least one member in the armed forces. And while it may be true that Haryana has more soldiers serving the nation, every Gujarati is grateful for the sacrifices they make.

The irony is that while terrorism and terrorists have no region or religion, politicians want to show that the armed forces do.

Read details: Links emerge between UPA Minister Praful Patel and PMC Bank scam accused Wadhawans of HDIL

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Read details: Links emerge between UPA Minister Praful Patel and PMC Bank scam accused Wadhawans of HDIL

Former Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, who has been facing a lot of heat after his alleged business dealings with Dawood Ibrahim’s associate surfaced, has now been accused of having links with HDIL promoters Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan, who are currently embroiled in the PMC Bank scam.


According to the reports, new documents have surfaced which shows NCP leader and former UPA era minister Praful Patel’s name in numerous passenger manifests of an airline owned by the Wadhawans. The PMC scam accused Wadhawans had owned the private airliner Privilege Airways which was operating charter planes. It is currently attached by the ED for investigation. The Wadhawans are currently in judicial custody for the PMC Bank scam.

Recently, the Mumbai International Airport Limited had issued a notice cautioning potential buyers of Privilege Airways of dues owed by the airline to the airport.

Read: New documents with signatures of Praful Patel establish his undeniable links with Dawood Ibrahim

A series of documents reveals that the shareholding details of Wadhawans in a company named Privilege Airways.

Shareholding details of Privilege airways/ Image Source: Republic TV

The second document dated 10th March 2012, shows Praful Patel who was the then Civil Aviation Minister as a passenger in the same airline. Another document dated 31st March 2012, shows Praful Patel’s name again in the passenger manifest along with Rakesh Wadhawan among others. Several other documents show that Praful Patel has used the Wadhawans’ private jet a total number of 8 times during the time period of February 2012 to May 2012.

Passenger manifest of Privilege airways/ Image Source: Republic TV
Passenger manifest of Privilege airways/ Image Source: Republic TV

According to the reports, the documents reveal that former UPA minister Praful Patel had used private jets connected to PMC scam accused to travel to various destinations from Mumbai. On some trips, it is seen that Praful Patel has also traveled with the Wadhawans themselves.

It is notable here that Praful Patel is already under investigation for his alleged involvement in the illegal aviation deals case. The allegations had surfaced after the ED had grilled lobbyist Deepak Talwar in the aviation scam case for allegedly bribing politicians and senior officials in the UPA era to tweak the rules to benefit certain foreign aircraft manufacturers and airlines.

Read: ED summons Congress era Civil Aviation minister Praful Patel in connection with Deepak Talwar illegal aviation deals case

What is PMC crisis?

The Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank is one of the largest cooperative banks, which was put under scrutiny by the Reserve Bank for fraud and misreporting of bad loans. Later, the bank had admitted that one large account, HDIL was the main reason for the current crisis.

Following this, the Mumbai Police’s EOW had arrested HDIL directors Sarang Wadhawan and Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan in connection with a fraud of over Rs 4,355 crores. According to the reports, PMC Bank officials gave loans to HDIL between the year 2008 and August 2019 despite the Wadhwans defaulting on previous loans. The Wadhawans along with other promoters including Waryam Singh have been sent to judicial custody till October 16.

Former MD of PMC bank, Joy Thomas aka Junaid Khan was also arrested by a special investigation team (SIT) of the EOW of Mumbai Police on the 4th of October. He had been absconding until then. The EOW had filed an FIR on September 30 (Monday) against HDIL and PMC Bank officials in the PMC bank fraud case

Later, it was revealed that Joy Thomas, former MD of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank had converted to Islam, married his assistant at the bank as per Islamic rituals in 2012, changed his name to Junaid Khan and owned 10 properties in Pune with his second wife allegedly as part of the Rs 4,355 crore scam.

Praful Patel’s Dawood Ibrahim link:

Earlier yesterday, we had published a series of documents that had shown Praful Patel’s financial dealings with Dawood Ibrahim and his associates. The new documents accessed by us had revealed signatures of Praful Patel on documents that linked him to Iqbal Memon alias ‘Mirchi’, a key aide of Dawood Ibrahim.

The documents clearly showed the business links between Praful Patel and Asif Iqbal Memon, Hajra Iqbal Memon and Junaid Iqbal Memon, all linked to Iqbal Mirchi, who is a key aide of Dawood Ibrahim.

Read exclusive details: ED crackdown on Dawood’s India network, Praful Patel’s firm revealed to have links

Reportedly, a 15-story building in Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, named ‘Ceejay House’ was constructed as a JV between Mirchi and M/S Millenium Developers Pvt Ltd in 2006-07. In 2007, the third and fourth floors of the building were given to Mirchi’s family by Millenium Developers. Former Union Minister Praful Patel and his wife Varsha Patel own a significant number of shares in Millenium Developers Pvt Ltd.

The 12th floor of the same building has been listed as the address of Praful and Varsha Patel. The Patel family owns the Ceejay Group, a tobacco conglomerate.

Congress targets BJP for promising to demand Bharat Ratna for Veer Savarkar in Maharashtra election manifesto

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Congress targets BJP for promising to demand Bharat Ratna for Veer Savarkar in Maharashtra election manifesto

The Congress party has targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its manifesto promise of demanding a Bharat Ratna for Veer Savarkar for his stellar contribution to the Indian freedom movement.


Congress leaders say that they’re “expecting a Bharat Ratna for Godse also” after the manifesto promise was made. Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily said, “That is their culture. They are going totally against the Indian culture of pluralism. They are moving towards fanaticism. With that, the force to fight against terrorism will disappear from the culture of India. Most unfortunately, that kind of a culture is encouraged here in the land of Mahatma Gandhi.”

Read: They may throw ink on Savarkar’s statue, but it is the Congress who has a tainted face

The BJP working President JP Nadda and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis released the party’s manifesto earlier today for the upcoming state assembly polls. The manifesto stated the party’s demand to confer the Bharat Ratna award to Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Savitribai Phule and Veer Savarkar.

The Congress party harbours a virulent hatred against Veer Savarkar. On numerous occasions, they have called him a ‘traitor’ and worse. Recently, the students’ wing of the party had opposed the installation of Savarkar’s bust at Delhi University campus.

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