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‘Mosque is a den of adultery’: 23-year-old girl who left Islam to adopt Hinduism accuses her four uncles and a Maulana of gangraping her

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‘Mosque is a den of adultery’: 23-year-old girl who left Islam to adopt Hinduism accuses her four uncles and a Maulana of gangraping her

A 23-year-old girl who left Islam to adopt Hinduism recently filed a complaint of gang rape against her relatives and a Maulana (Muslim cleric) in Delhi. According to the victim, she had personally witnessed a Maulana raping girls inside a mosque after which she decided to leave Islam. The victim has alleged that her four maternal uncles and a Maulana were among those who gang-raped her. Later, four burqa-clad boys carrying weapons left her naked in Delhi. The incident took place on 13th March 2024. The police registered an FIR on 17th March at the Old Delhi police station regarding this matter. 

According to the complaint, the victim is originally from the Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh. For the past 3 years, she has been residing in Mumbai where she works as a makeup artist and fashion designer. Her father passed away in 2012 while her mother and twin sister continue to reside in their hometown. After the death of her father, the victim grew up in her maternal uncle’s village, Deeppur, in Moradabad district. During her childhood, she received her education at a Madrasa.

In the complaint, the victim has further stated that her maternal grandfather Anwar Hussain, and maternal uncle Mehboob Ali have around 350 bighas of land in Moradabad. After the death of her maternal grandfather and uncle, the victim’s mother is the heir to this land. 

However, her mother’s cousins Imtiyaz, Irfan, Afsar, and Asrar Hussain have been intending to have possession of the ancestral land. According to the complaint, they had kept her mother under their control for nearly 14 years. However, when she found a job in Mumbai, she took her mother with her, rescuing her from their influence nearly nine months ago.

According to the complaint, the victim came to Moradabad on 29th February to get the paperwork for her land. While she was en route to the courthouse, her maternal uncles Imtiyaz, Irfan, Afsar, and Asrar Hussain, kidnapped her. After abducting her, they took her to their village, where they physically assaulted her—kicking, slapping her, and hitting her with a belt. They later took turns to gang-rape the victim. 

The complaint further alleges that during the time of her captivity, acquaintances of the four accused uncles, Latif, Maulana Irfan, Haji Asif, Zakir, and others also gang-raped her several times for 2 days. 

As per the complaint, while raping her, the accused physically assaulted the victim and hit her where she had inked tattoos of Hindu deities. After gangraping the victim, the accused stripped her naked and made her sit naked on a train bound for Delhi. During her train journey, she was forced to sit naked as four burqa-clad boys accompanied her and they had weapons on them, the complaint alleges.

When the train stopped at Old Delhi, the victim somehow managed to escape from the perpetrators and save her life. On the complaint of the victim, the Delhi Police has taken action against all the accused under sections 376D, 342, 365, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). However, since the incident occurred in the jurisdiction of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, the case has been sent to the Shahzad Nagar police station in the Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh for further action.

The girl alleges that there was a conspiracy to kill her by throwing her off the train on the tracks. The victim thanked Lord Krishna for saving her life. OpIndia has accessed the FIR copy filed in this case. While talking to OpIndia, the victim’s lawyer Sangeeta Talwar said that no one has been arrested yet. All the accused are absconding.

Gharwapsi: The victim had adopted Hinduism a year ago

OpIndia has several videos containing the victim’s claims. In one video, the victim claimed that she did Gharwapsi and converted to Hinduism one year ago. She stated that she had personally witnessed the Imam of the Jamiya Masjid located in Naderbagh’s Madiya area supplying girls and raping them. The victim also claimed to have seen many condoms lying at the Imam’s place, and she had even recorded a video of it.

The victim also claims that in that village, instead of cremating the bodies of Hindus after their death, they are buried. In the video, the girl also mentioned that she has filed complaints against illegal activities taking place in the mosque. In one video, the Imam can be heard advocating severe punishment in Islam for those who convert to Hinduism. In another video, the Maulana can be heard urging the victim to repent.

Mass killings, rapes, and plunder in ‘East Pakistan’: Bangladesh commemorates anniversary of Pakistani General Tikka Khan’s genocidal ‘Operation Searchlight’

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Mass killings, rapes, and plunder in ‘East Pakistan’: Bangladesh commemorates anniversary of Pakistani General Tikka Khan’s genocidal ‘Operation Searchlight’

Bangladesh is solemnly marking the 52nd Genocide Remembrance Day today, 25th March 2024. The nation and its citizens have been constantly urging the Global community to mark the day as ‘International Genocide Day’. The tragic day highlights the Military excesses and brutalities carried out by Pakistan Army, including mass killings, rapes, and destruction in erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

The Pakistani army carried out ‘Operation Searchlight’ on the night of 25th March 1971. It was a brutal military manhunt to crush the surging nationalism among Bengali-speaking people in East Pakistan following the election mandate of 1970. The Pakistan Army resorted to mass massacre and genocide of Bengali Hindus and freedom-seeking Bengali Muslims to create a reign of terror and scare Bengalis into submission. 

The operation had a military objective to disarm the Bengali personnel in the military, paramilitary, and police forces, and capture key installations including armoury, radio station, and telephone exchange as well as arrest/kill intellectuals and Bengali politicians in East Pakistan. 

The operation was led by then-General Yahya Khan of Pakistan and put in action by General Tikka Khan, who was the then martial law administrator of East Pakistan.

During ‘Operation Searchlight’, the Pakistani forces brutally killed the Bengali members of the East Pakistan Rifles and police, students, and teachers of Dhaka University. They opened indiscriminate firing at unarmed civilians killing thousands, set houses and properties ablaze, and looted business establishments. 

Notably, it was the same night when Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made the proclamation of independence before he was arrested by the Pakistani troops and subsequently flown to West Pakistan.   

In his book ‘Witness to Surrender’, Pakistani Major Siddiq Salik had described ‘Operation Searchlight’ saying, “The gates of hell had been cast open.” Salik worked as the Pakistan military’s spokesman in the then East Pakistan. 

Destruction inside key cities with heavy military weaponry

On 25th March 1971 at around 11 PM, the Pakistani Army rolled tanks, armoured cars, and trucks as well as sent countless troops to Dhaka University, the Central Shaheed Minar, the Race Course (where the Kali Mandir was situated), Hotel Intercontinental, and Old Dhaka among other strategic locations. These units destroyed the Kali Mandir in the centre of the Race Course and the Central Shaheed Minar.

Throughout the city, Pakistani army personnel killed thousands of people including academics, students, and sleeping rickshaw pullers at close ranges. The eminent academicians killed on the fateful night included venerable GC Dev and the scholar Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta. As per official records, the Students of Dhaka University were lined up, shot, and then dumped into mass graves. 

A large contingent of Pakistan forces also made its way to Dhanmondi where its clear objective was to take Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman into custody. After arresting him, the Pakistan army took him to an under-construction national assembly building in the Second Capital area (today’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar). 

Subsequently, he was transferred to Adamjee College located in the cantonment, where he spent the night before being relocated to Flagstaff House. Three days later, he was transported to West Pakistan and confined in solitary in Mianwali jail.

The Chuknagar massacre

While the genocide continued for over next nine months, the Chuknagar massacre was one of the most horrifying incidents of mass killing as part of General Tikka Khan’s ‘Operation Searchlight’. Apart from destruction in cities and streets of erstwhile East Pakistan, even those who tried to flee repression were targeted. 

Facing an acute shortage of food and resources, as well as a brutal crackdown involving killings and mass rapes, thousands of Bengalis rushed towards the Indian border via Khulna from places like Barisal, Bagerhat, and Faridpur. Bengalis from all across East Pakistan attempted to converge at Chuknagar (in Bangladesh) and adjacent areas by crossing the Bhadra River to enter Indian territory.

However, the then chairman of Atlia Union Ghulam Hossain reported this mass influx to a Pakistani military platoon in Satkhira. Subsequently, a large contingent of troops, divided into three units, rushed to Chuknagar (lies in East Pakistan territory/Bangladesh). 

One unit marched for Malopara-Raipara, the second went after the Chuknagar bazaar, and another went for the Bhadra river bank to surround the Bengali civilians from all sides. There the three units opened indiscriminate firing, leading to one of the largest and most brutal pogroms. Men, women, and children who tried to hide behind trees, and in boats, were hunted down and shot dead from close ranges. From temples, playgrounds, school premises, and rivers, every place had witnessed horrifying scenes of mass dead bodies lying scattered everywhere. As per reports, the death count ran in several thousands, turning the Bhadra river red with the blood of unarmed Bengalis. 

The massacre ignited Bengali nationalism further and after getting assistance from Indian Army, the Mukhti Bhahini and Awami League managed to liberate Bangaldesh. 

In 2017, the Bangladeshi government officially recognised 25th March as Genocide Day to reflect on the horrific events of that fateful night in 1971 and has since been trying to press the international community to recognise the day as ‘International Genocide Day’. 

Bangladesh’s parliament noted, “It is Parliament’s opinion that March 25 be declared Genocide Day to commemorate the genocide conducted by the atrocious Pakistani forces on the black night of March 25, 1971, and necessary steps are taken to have the Day recognised internationally.” 

IPL 2024: Full schedule of the tournament released, entire tournament to take place in India amidst Lok Sabha elections, final in Chennai on 26th May

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IPL 2024: Full schedule of the tournament released, entire tournament to take place in India amidst Lok Sabha elections, final in Chennai on 26th May

On Monday, March 25, Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) released the complete schedule of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL). The tournament, which kicked off last week, will take place entirely in India even in light of the Lok Sabha elections taking place in the country at the same time.

The final of the tournament will be held in Chennai on May 26, while the eliminator and Qualifier 1 will be held in Ahmedabad on May 21 and May 22. The Qualifier 2 will also take place in Chennai on May 24.

Earlier, BCCI had announced the schedule for only the first two weeks of the tournament, till April 7. Now that the Election Commission has announced the polling dates for the elections, the BCCI has finalised the schedule for the remainder of the season keeping in view the polling dates in different states around the country.

The final match of phase 1 which was announced earlier, is scheduled to take place on April 7 between Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. The second phase will start without any delay next day on April 8 with KKR facing CSK at the Chepauk stadium in Chennai.

In the second phase, Delhi Capitals, who used Vishakhapatnam for their first 2 matches, will return to capital Delhi for the rest of their league matches. Meanwhile, Punjab will also be using the Dharamsala stadium for two of their matches along with their home stadium in Punjab. Rajasthan are another team using 2 states for their home matches, with Guwahati hosting two of their home games.

Notably, there were speculations that some of the matches may be held outside India this year due to Lok Sabha elections, and with security agencies stretched thin to ensure smooth elections. IPL has been held outside India during General Elections in 2009 and 2014 respectively, in light of the elections. However, in 2019, IPL was held in India despite coinciding with Lok Sabha elections.

The Lok Sabha elections start on April 19, and will be completed on June 1 through 7 phases of voting. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.

After Supriya Shrinate, another Congress leader says ‘someone from his team’ called Kangana a ‘r*ndi’: Why they make no sense

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After Supriya Shrinate, another Congress leader says ‘someone from his team’ called Kangana a ‘r*ndi’: Why they make no sense

After Congress leader Supriya Shrinate, another Congress leader, HS Ahir, who had posted an abusive remark against actor Kangana Ranaut, said that “someone from who had access to his X accounts had posted an absolutely disgusting and objectionable post, which has been taken down.”

Curiously, the language of his tweet was similar to what Congress national spokesperson Supriya Shrinate had posted as outrage swept over her Instagram post asking Kangana Ranaut what’s her ‘rate’.

“Someone who had access to my X accounts posted an absolutely disgusting and objectionable post, which has been taken down,” H.S Ahir tweeted.

Congress leader HS Asir comes up with a bizarre explanation over his abusive post targeting Kangana Ranaut

Congress leader Supriya Shrinate posted a video blaming one of her ‘team members’ for her sexist post against actor Kangana Ranaut. “Many people have access to my Facebook and Instagram accounts. One of these people had posted a very disgusting and objectionable post today,” Ms Shrinate said in a 1-minute 29-second long video posted by her on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“I am trying to identify the person who did this. Also, the parody account created by misusing my name has been reported in X,” Ms Shrinate further claimed.

The tedious explanation came over a now-deleted post on Instagram by Congress National Spokesperson Supriya Shrinate where she asked, “Kya bhav chal raha hai Mandi me koi batayega? (Will someone tell me what the rate system in Mandi is?)” with a particularly racy picture of Kangana Ranaut.

Other Congress supporters and leaders, too, resorted to abuses and vile innuendos to discredit the actor who has made the plunge into politics with her candidature from Mandi.

As outrage swept social media, Ms Shrinate deleted the post from her official Instagram account and tried washing her hands of the incident by claiming that the said post was “uploaded by someone who had access to her accounts.”

She also tried to project her blame on her parody account, claiming that the whole mischief was started by it. However, she did not explain how the mischief started by her parody account reflected on her official Instagram account where she had shared a picture of Kangana Ranaut with sexual innuendos.

The curiously similar language notwithstanding, the explanation does not hold water, given that everything that is posted on behalf of politicians and leaders by their team is done only after their consent. While most prominent personalities don’t grant access to their personal social media accounts to their ‘team’, even if they do, they keenly follow how their account is being managed in order to communicate with their followers. The Congress leaders want us to believe that their ‘team’ launched a coordinated attack against Kangana Ranaut against their information, but their carefully scripted explanation in the wake of outrage hints that the ‘teams’ responsible for such disgusting posts had the imprimatur of their leaders to do what they did.

Who are the ‘journalists’ from The Guardian hounding Kajal Hindustani for an interview: Anti-Hindu tropes, whitewashing of love jihad and more

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Who are the ‘journalists’ from The Guardian hounding Kajal Hindustani for an interview: Anti-Hindu tropes, whitewashing of love jihad and more

Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, leftist propaganda newspaper The Guardian had been hounding Hindu rights activist, Kajal Hindustani, for an interview.

On Sunday (24th March), it came to light that The Guardian wanted to interview her by the end of the month and had promised to fly a team of two ‘journalists’ from the United Kingdom for this purpose.

While the leftist propaganda newspaper downplayed the development as an extension of its ‘election coverage’, it must be mentioned that the choice of ‘journalists’ for the particular interview with Kajal Hindustani hints at a sinister agenda.

While responding to the South Asian correspondent of The Guardian Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Kajal Hindustani said, “Dear sis, Firstly, I have the chats where I was told the team is flying from UK. I was not told you’re in India.”

“Second, why so eager to interview me by march end only? Thirdly, I was cordial. But I sensed something was off going by your desperation (I have the chats since February). Now I know for sure after seeing your coverage of Hindus,” the Hindu rights activist pointed out.

It must be mentioned that Kajal Hindustani has been a vocal critic of ‘love jihad’, a concerted attempt by radical Muslim youths to deceitfully convert Hindu women to Islam under the pretext of romantic relationships.

The Guardian, on the other hand, had left no stone unturned to dismiss the phenomenon as a ‘conspiracy theory’, despite over 100 such documented cases across the country in one year alone.

Interestingly, the three ‘journalists’ chosen by the leftist British newspaper to interview Kajal Hindustani were Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Ahmer Khan, and Kyri Evangelou – all of whom have a history of downplaying love jihad and falsely associating alleged cases of ‘honour killings’ as consequences of the phenomenon.

During the anti-CAA protests in January 2020, Hannah Ellis-Petersen was busy presenting a distorted version of the Citizenship Amendment Act to the readers of The Guardian.

Screengrab of the tweets by Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Instead of highlighting how the law seeks to fast-track the citizenship of persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who have been staying illegally in India, the propaganda artist claimed that a women-led protest against the humanitarian law was somehow a counter-narrative of ‘toxic masculinity of Modi’s Hindutva politics.’

She also attempted to give a clean chit to the Islamists, who ran riots in the National Capital in February 2020, by labelling the anti-Hindu carnage as a ‘clash between Hindus and Muslims.’

Hannah Ellis-Petersen had also lamented how the riots did not affect the US-India ties and instead, the Modi government received praise for upholding religious freedom in the country from the President of the United States.

Screengrab of the tweets by Hannah Ellis-Petersen

The ‘journalist’ falsely presented restrictions on the wearing of religious clothing in Karnataka schools as ‘hijab ban’ in South India. She also claimed that the reclamation of disputed structures built on top of Hindu temple was ‘Hindu nationalists rewriting India’s history.’

Hannah Ellis-Petersen also wrote several provocative pieces for The Guardian where she tried to guilt-trip Hindus for the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict and the Pran Prathistha of the Ram Mandir. She also tried to dilute the significance of the events by referencing the disputed structure that once stood atop the grand Hindu temple.

Moreover, the propaganda artist linked the outbreak of violence in Leicester City of England in 2022 with ‘Hindu nationalism’, despite no evidence for the same.

In reality, the Centre for Democracy, Pluralism and Human Rights (CDPHR) in its fact-finding report pointed out that Islamists weaponised misinformation in Lecister, committed human rights violations against Hindus and attempted ethnic cleansing that resulted in the temporary displacement of Hindu families.

“Institutional Hinduphobia and bias was deduced through the analysis of the reporting of the Leicester unrest by the media houses BBC and the Guardian when compared to the verified police reports, witness accounts and corroborating reports from think tanks,” the report had said.

The propaganda of Hannah Ellis-Petersen is not limited to shaming the Hindu community or downplaying atrocities committed against them by Islamists. She has authored articles, wherein she dehumanised Hindus participating in Kumbh Mela as ‘Covid superspreaders’ despite no evidence to back her claims.

The ‘journalist’ had also given a clean chit to the actual superspreaders of Covid-19 aka the members of the Tablighi Jamaat, who at one time accounted for 30% of all cases of Coronavirus in the country.

Nonetheless, her grim presentation and eventual fearmongering about India’s Covid-19 situation in 2021 drew praise from ‘journalist’ turned ‘document cropper’ N Ram, infamous for peddling disinformation about the Rafael deal.

Islamist at the helm of discrediting ‘love jihad’

Another ‘journalist’ from The Guardian, who was hounding Kajal Hindustani for an interview, was Ahmer Khan.

He is known for rumour-mongering about CAA, painting the incumbent Modi government as anti-Muslim and expressing support for anti-India activists and Islamist apologists such as Harsh Mander.

Screengrab of the tweets by Ahmer Khan

Having said that, Ahmer Khan’s expertise lies in whitewashing Islamists involved in identity fraud, impersonation and forced conversions (the modus operandi that forms the core of the menace of love jihad).

Despite a plethora of documented cases of Muslim men assuming Hindu identity to entrap Hindu women and forcibly convert them to Islam, the controversial ‘journalist’ has taken it upon himself to create the false perception that love jihad is a ‘conspiracy theory.’

To that effect, he has directed 3 documentary films on the phenomenon. The Guardian’s sudden urge to send Ahmer Khan to interview Hindu activist Kajal Hindustani appears to be yet another ploy to discredit the menace of love jihad.

Some of the propaganda films shot by Ahmer Khan include ‘Love Jihad in India’s Uttar Pradesh’, ‘The Hindu extremists at War with InterFaith Love’, and ‘Love Jihad: India’s lethal religious conspiracy theory.’

“We spent months documenting Hindu extremists in India at war with interfaith love. These vigilantes “rescue” Hindu women from relationships with Muslims, and arrange them with Hindu grooms instead,” he tweeted in October 2021.

“The theory claims that Muslim men are seducing Hindu women and luring them into marriage in order to convert them to Islam. The claims are baseless, yet the consequences are real,” he claimed in another tweet.

Given that Ahmer Khan had gone to lengths to whitewash his radical co-religionists involved in ‘love jihad’, the official mouthpiece of the Congress party aka National Herald interviewed him in December 2021.

He used the opportunity to play the perpetual victim card and claimed, “What’s happening is unimaginable for the minority community, and for the greater good of the country as well.” 

Another ‘journalist’ at work

The Guardian had also roped in another ‘journalist’ named Kyri Evangelou to interview Hindu rights activist Kajal Hindustani. He has recently been involved in stirring anti-Israeli sentiment at the behest of the leftist propaganda outlet.

He had shot a dubious documentary film on ‘love jihad’ along with Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Ahmer Khan. Evangelou had also tried to pass off a case of ‘honour killing’ in Karnataka as the manifestation of ‘conspiracy theories of Hindutva forces’

The ‘journalist’ was also active during the politically motivated anti-farm law protests that were carried out in January 2021.

The hysteria peddled by Kyri Evangelou and Ahmer Khan during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic in India earned their propaganda documentary a nomination at the Emmy Awards.

With the 2024 elections just around the corner, The Guardian and other propaganda news outlets have upped their ante in amplifying disinformation in India.

We are likely to witness more attempts at gaslighting Hindus, dissemination of vicious fake news targeting India and tarnishing of the country’s image on a global scale.

The sudden ‘change of heart’ of The Guardian to reach out to individuals across all political spectrums is part of the same ploy.

Uttar Pradesh: Aamir, Faiz, Faraz gang-rape 20-year-old girl, lock her up at a tube well, arrested

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Uttar Pradesh: Aamir, Faiz, Faraz gang-rape 20-year-old girl, lock her up at a tube well, arrested

On Saturday (23rd March), a Hindu girl was brutally gang raped by three individuals identified as Aamir, Faiz and Mohammed Faraz in Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkarnagar district. The three accused persons have been arrested by the police and booked under several sections of the law.

As per the reports, the 20-year-old was held hostage in a tube well, and when she protested, she was assaulted. The victim was immediately rushed to the hospital in a bleeding condition.

This case is of Hanswar police station area of ​​Ambedkarnagar district. Here on Saturday, the victim’s father lodged a complaint with the police that on March 23, his daughter was going to Hirapur market on a bicycle for coaching. On the way, his daughter met Faiz and Faraz, residents of Mundera village of Hanswar. Both of them forcibly made the victim sit on their bike. After this, Faraz took the victim to his tube well at a deserted place. Aamir also reached there.

It is alleged that Aamir, Faraz, and Faiz gang-raped the victim one by one at the tube well. When the victim protested against this act, she was assaulted. Later, all three accused together beat up the victim. After the gangrape, Faraz and Faiz locked the victim inside a room built next to the tube well along with Aamir. Both of them locked the house from outside and ran away. Meanwhile, the victim’s family got to know about the incident and reached the spot to save the 20-year-old girl.

According to the complainant, the victim was lying inside in a bleeding condition. Aamir was also found naked inside the room. When the family members arrived, the victim tearfully narrated her ordeal. Police have registered a named FIR against Aamir, Faiz, and Faraz. Action has been taken against all of them under sections 376-D, 342, 323, 504, and 506 of IPC.

OpIndia has a copy of the complaint. The police arrested all three accused on 24th March 2024 (Sunday) on charges of gang rape of the B.Sc second-year student. The accused were arrested after they tried to escape near Hirapur market at 3:40 in the morning. Counseling and medical examination of the victim has been done. Further legal action is being taken in the incident.

‘One of my team members responsible’: Supriya Shrinate on backfoot following outrage over sexist post against Kangana Ranaut

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‘One of my team members responsible’: Supriya Shrinate on backfoot following outrage over sexist post against Kangana Ranaut

Congress leader Supriya Shrinate appears to have gotten into a defensive mode as she posted a video blaming one of her ‘team members’ for her sexist post against actor Kangana Ranaut.

“Many people have access to my Facebook and Instagram accounts. One of these people had posted a very disgusting and objectionable post today,” Ms Shrinate said in a 1-minute 29-second long video posted by her on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“I am trying to identify the person who did this. Also, the parody account created by misusing my name has been reported in X,” Ms Shrinate further claimed.

The tedious explanation came over a now-deleted post on Instagram by Congress National Spokesperson Supriya Shrinate where she asked, “Kya bhav chal raha hai Mandi me koi batayega? (Will someone tell me what the rate system in Mandi is?)” with a particularly racy picture of Kangana Ranaut.

Other Congress supporters and leaders, too, resorted to abuses and vile innuendos to discredit the actor who has made the plunge into politics with her candidature from Mandi.

As outrage swept social media, Ms Shrinate deleted the post from her official Instagram account and tried washing her hands of the incident by claiming that the said post was “uploaded by someone who had access to her accounts.”

She also tried to project her blame on her parody account, claiming that the whole mischief was started by it. However, she did not explain how the mischief started by her parody account reflected on her official Instagram account where she had shared a picture of Kangana Ranaut with sexual innuendos.

Kangana Ranaut hits back at Supriya Shrinate over her sexist post

Kangana Ranaut on Monday hit back at Congress national spokesperson Supriya Shrinate over a misogynist post directed at the actor after the announcement of her candidature from Mandi seat in Himachal Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

“In the last 20 years of my career as an artist, I have played all kinds of women. From a naive girl in Queen to a seductive spy in Dhaakad, from a goddess in Manikarnika to a demon in Chandramukhi, from a prostitute in Rajjo to a revolutionary leader in Thalaivii,” Kangana tweeted. 

“We must free our daughters from the shackles of prejudices, we must rise above the curiosity about their body parts and above all we must refrain from using sex workers’ challenging lives or circumstances as some kind of abuse or slur… every woman deserves her dignity…” she further added.

Stop being ‘stubborn’, seek dialogues with neigbours to overcome financial challenges: Ex-Maldives President Solih advises incumbent Mohamed Muizzu

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Stop being ‘stubborn’, seek dialogues with neigbours to overcome financial challenges: Ex-Maldives President Solih advises incumbent Mohamed Muizzu

Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu should stop being “stubborn” and seek dialogue with neighbours to overcome financial challenges, Former Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih said while advising him to improve ties with India, as reported by Maldives-based Adhadhu. President Solih’s remarks come days after President Muizzu, a pro-China leader who led the India-out campaign during Presidential elections last year, had urged India to provide debt relief measures for Maldives as the country is struggling financially to keep its economy afloat.

Notably, while campaigning for his party in Male, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih said he had seen media reports that indicate Muizzu wants to speak to India about debt restructuring.

According to the Adhadhu report, Solih emphasised that Maldives’ financial challenges have not been caused by Indian loans. He highlighted that the Maldives owes a debt of MVR 18 billion to China while it owes a debt of MVR 8 billion to India adding that the repayment period is 25 years.

Regarding Muizzu’s recent plea to India, Solih said, “However, I am confident that our neighbours will help. We must stop being stubborn and seek dialogue. There are many parties that can help us. But he [Muizzu] doesn’t want to compromise. I feel they [the government] are starting to understand the situation only now.” 

Solih said that neighbours and Islamic nations from the Middle East will help the Maldives. However, in a sarcastic tone, he slammed Muizzu’s government’s foreign policy stating that Maldives has “received only 50 tonnes of dates” from the Middle East due to the actions of the Muizzu-led government, Adhadhu reported.

The former Maldivian President accused the Muizzu government of deceiving people and relaunching projects started by the MDP government. 

After leading India-out campaign, Muizzu calls India the “closest ally”, and sought debt restructuring

During, and after the Presidential election campaign, Mohamed Muizzu peddled anti-India rhetoric and led a smear campaign against India, India-out campaign. The ties between the neighbours, have deteriorated ever since he assumed office in November. The social media row following Maldivian Ministers’ disparaging remarks about India, Indians, and PM Modi after he had visited Lakshadweep, had further strained diplomatic ties with several Indians announcing boycott of their trip to Maldives.

While the first overseas trip by Maldivian presidents had always been to their neighbour India, Muizzu visited China in January, making his first state visit. Seen as a pro-Chinese leader, Muizzu is yet to visit India even after four months of assuming power in Male.  

Additionally, Muizzu demanded the complete withdrawal of 88 Indian military personnel deployed at three aviation platforms used for humanitarian and medical evacuations in the Maldives by May 10th. As a result, the first batch of 26 Indian military personnel left the island nation and were replaced by civilians.

However, Muizzu recently made conciliatory comments towards India in the wake of the upcoming Parliament elections in Maldives on the 21st of April.

Last week, President Muizzu requested New Delhi for debt relief measures, stating that India will continue to remain Maldives’ “closest ally,” local media reported.

Despite leading the India-out campaign, Muizzu recently claimed that he has “not taken any action nor made any statements” that may strain the relationship between the two countries. 

In his first interview after assuming office in November last year, Muizzu told local media ‘Mihaaru’ that he hopes India will accommodate debt relief measures for the Maldives’. He sought India’s help in the repayment of the hefty loans taken from New Delhi over consecutive governments, Adhadhu reported.

He said, “The conditions we have inherited are such that there are very large loans taken from India. Hence, we are holding discussions to explore leniencies in the repayment structure of these loans. Instead of halting any ongoing projects, proceed with them at speed. So I see no reason for any adverse effects [on Maldives-India relations].” 

Taking a jibe at his changed stance, Former President Solih advised him not to be stubborn and understand that improving ties with India and seeking dialogue can help Maldives mitigate its financial troubles.

Meet Dr TN Sarasu, BJP candidate from Kerala’s Alathur: Professor hounded by SFI, attacked with symbolic ‘grave’ by Leftist goons when she retired after 27 years

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Meet Dr TN Sarasu, BJP candidate from Kerala’s Alathur: Professor hounded by SFI, attacked with symbolic ‘grave’ by Leftist goons when she retired after 27 years

On Sunday (24th March), the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) announced Dr. TN Sarasu as the party candidate from the Alathur constituency ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections in Kerala. Dr. TN Sarasu, the former principal of Government Victoria College in Pallakad, is well-known for her considerable contributions to the institution during her tenure.

Ramya Haridas, a sitting MP and UDF candidate, and K Radhakrishnan, the Kerala state Devaswom Minister and LDF candidate, are her opponents in the triangular fight.

Dr. TN Sarasu, who served as Principal of the Government Victoria campus in Pallakad, has received numerous threats from SFI officials within the campus for her efforts to build an educational environment in the past. These threats are said to have arisen from her efforts to foster a respectable academic environment, which were challenged and undermined by the SFI.

According to several students and professors, TN Sarasu, who loved the institution like it was her own home and cared for the students like they were her own children, worked diligently to maintain academic discipline. Her efforts however earned her the ire of SFI leaders. 

In the year 2016, the prestigious 127-year-old Government Victoria College attracted massive controversy after the Indian left-wing student organization, SFI, the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) prepared a symbolic grave for Dr. Sarasu as a gift of retirement for her.

Grave built by SFI

Following a complaint from the Principal, Dr. TN Sarasu, who retired on 31st March that year after serving for almost three decades, police filed complaints under various sections of the IPC against some SFI students. Sarasu said that the students acted at the behest of “some members” of the All Kerala Government College Teachers Union, which is affiliated with the left.

On her last working day, the SFI and other left-wing people burst crackers in celebration. “The organised unions were doing this in many institutions in Kerala. But I didn’t expect them to stoop to this level. I enforced some discipline to ensure smooth academic activities. I prevented the SFI activists from accommodating outsiders in hostels inconveniencing residents. They were targeting me ever since I started disciplining the campus,” Tarasu was quoted as saying.

Sarasu’s complaint to the police named at least eight SFI students who prepared the symbolic grave inside the college grounds, strewn it with flowers, and placed a wreath around it. 

The said incident was massively criticised by the BJP who slammed the SFI leaders for insulting Sarasu. Later in the year 2019, Sarasu joined the BJP.

Kangana Ranaut responds to Congress leader-cum-troll Supriya Shrinate over her sexist post asking her what her ‘rate’ is: What she said

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Kangana Ranaut responds to Congress leader-cum-troll Supriya Shrinate over her sexist post asking her what her ‘rate’ is: What she said

Kangana Ranaut on Monday hit back at Congress national spokesperson Supriya Shrinate over a misogynist post directed at the actor after the announcement of her candidature from Mandi seat in Himachal Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

“In the last 20 years of my career as an artist, I have played all kinds of women. From a naive girl in Queen to a seductive spy in Dhaakad, from a goddess in Manikarnika to a demon in Chandramukhi, from a prostitute in Rajjo to a revolutionary leader in Thalaivii,” Kangana tweeted.

“We must free our daughters from the shackles of prejudices, we must rise above the curiosity about their body parts and above all we must refrain from using sex workers’ challenging lives or circumstances as some kind of abuse or slur… every woman deserves her dignity…” she further added.

Kangana was responding to a now-deleted post on Instagram by Congress National Spokesperson Supriya Shrinate where she asked, “Kya bhav chal raha hai Mandi me koi batayega? (Will someone tell me what the rate system in Mandi is?)” with a particularly racy picture of Kangana Ranaut.

Other Congress supporters and leaders, too, resorted to abuses and vile innuendos to discredit the actor who has made the plunge into politics with her candidature from Mandi.

Amid the raging outrage, Ms Shrinate deleted the post from her official Instagram account and tried washing her hands of the incident by claiming that the said post was “uploaded by someone who had access to her accounts.”

She tried to project her blame on her parody account, claiming that the whole mischief was started by it. However, she did not explain how the mischief started by her parody account reflected on her official Instagram account where she had shared a picture of Kangana Ranaut with sexual innuendos.

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