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CBI seeks custodial interrogation of P Chidambaram in INX Media case, opposes anticipatory bail plea

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CBI seeks custodial interrogation of P Chidambaram in INX Media case, opposes anticipatory bail plea

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the custody of former union minister P Chidambaram in the INX media, according to reports. The CBI told the Delhi High Court today that it needs custodial interrogation of the Congress leader in its probe into the case, and opposed the anticipatory bail plea filed by Chidambaram.


CBI made this request during the hearing of anticipatory bail plea by P Chidambaram in the Delhi High Court. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the High Court that custodial interrogation of P Chidambaram is necessary as he was not cooperating in the probe and had given false information during his questioning by the agency.

The High Court reserved its order on the anticipatory bail plea.

Both CBI and ED are investigating P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram in the INX Media scam. Karti was arrested by CBI in February last in connection with the case, who was released on bail later.

It is alleged that INX Media received FDI in excess of what was allowed and when a probe was launched against the illegal investment, it was manipulated to save the company. P Chidambaram was the Finance Minister in the UPA government at that time. The chargesheet filed by CBI in the case said that while the company was granted clearance to receive foreign investment of only ₹4.62 crore, the company violated the norms and raised ₹305 crores as FDI. On the other hand, INX Media had made payments to Advantage Strategic Consultancy Pvt Ltd, a company owned by Karti Chidambaram through his close associates.

It is alleged that Karti had received ₹3.5 crore from INX Media and used his influence to manipulate the investigation against the company.

INX Media was later known as NewsX, it was owned by Peter and Indrani Mukherjea of the sensational Sheena Bora murder case. Indrani had also alleged that P Chidambaram had asked her to pay a bribe of $1 million to Karti Chidambaram.

CBI had sought custodial interrogation of P Chidambaram in the case earlier also, but it was not granted. The agency has got the government’s permission to prosecute the former union minister in the Aircel-Maxis case also.

After Chau, another Christian missionary risks the existence of an isolated tribe in Brazil, could be tried for genocide

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After Chau, another Christian missionary risks the existence of an isolated tribe in Brazil, could be tried for genocide

After John Allen Chau risked the lives of the isolated Sentinelese tribe in the Andamans, another American Christian missionary has now risked the lives of people from an isolated tribe in Brazil.

Brazil’s Indigenous Affairs Department (FUNAI) has accused Steve Campbell, a missionary of Greene Baptist Church at Greene, Maine, of exposing the isolated tribe to possible disease or foreign health risks. It is being alleged that Campbell entered the territory of the Hi-Merimã tribe last month.

Although it is unclear what penalties Campbell will face, Survival International, an organization advocating for tribal peoples’ rights, has claimed that he could even be tried for genocide.

“It’s a case of rights violation and exposure to the risk of death to the isolated indigenous population,” a FUNAI spokesman said in a written statement to Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Even if direct contact has not occurred, the probability of transmission of diseases to the isolated is high.” The department stated that Campbell camped at one of the tribe’s recently abandoned camping grounds.

The missionary may have been emboldened by Brazil’s newly elected Far-Right Christian President, Jair Bolosonaro’s statements during his campaign where he stated that “not one centimetre” would be left for indigenous people and vowed to open up demarcated lands. Bolsonaro also appointed an evangelical preacher as the new minister in charge of indigenous affairs.

As we have reported earlier, Christian missionary organizations zealously believe that every group under the Sun must have a Christian representation for Judgment Day to arrive. We have also documented instances where evangelical organizations were aware that their missionaries were risking their lives but took no action.

As the fate of Chau proved quite evidently and now Campbell’s actions suggest that the fanaticism of Christian missionaries often prove to be as much of a threat to others as it is to themselves.

Haryana land scam: CBI registers another case against former CM Hooda, raids 30 locations

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Haryana land scam: CBI registers another case against former CM Hooda, raids 30 locations

The CBI on Friday registered a new case against former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in connection with alleged land allocation irregularities case. The agency also carried out searches at 30 locations in Delhi-NCR.


Search operations are also being carried out at CM Hooda’s residential premises in Rohtak in Haryana in connection with the ongoing case.


The agency is tight-lipped about the details of the case as the search operation is underway.

The case is understood to be related to alleged irregularities in land allotment, sources said. The CBI last year had filed a case against BS Hooda in a 1500 crore land scam.

The senior Congress leader and former CM was named in a major land deal scam. The charge sheet also involved 33 other names alongside Hooda. During the tenure of the Hooda led Congress government in Haryana it was alleged that he and the other accused had acquired over 900 acres of land in Manesar and nearby areas. The land acquisition scam is believed to have caused the farmers a loss of around 1500 crores.

In September 2016, the Enforcement Directorate had registered an FIR against Hooda and several others, including IAS officers and builders in connections with the same allegations. Following that in May last year, the ED had conducted raids in 10 different locations in Delhi and Haryana under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Based on that the ED proceeded to file a criminal complaint against Hooda and his associates in the scam.

Last month, the government had allowed Gurugram police to proceed against Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Robert Vadra in the alleged Gurugram land grab case.

Hooda government in 2008 had granted licences to Robert Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality for building a colony in Gurgaon simply on the ground that the director of the firm was a VIP and the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

In an FIR filed against Robert Vadra, BS Hooda and others in September 2018, by a resident of Gurugram named Surendra Sharma of the Rathiwas village it was alleged that Vadra’s firm, Skylight Hospitality had bought 3.5 acres of land in Shikohpur village (Now Sector 83) in Gurugram from one Omkareswar Property for 7.5 crores in 2008 and sold the land to DLF for a massive 58 crores in the same year costing the exchequer huge losses.

Robert Vadra apart from facing probe in land grab cases in Rajasthan has also been alleged of having close links with arms dealers. One of his close associates, Sanjay Bhandari had tried to partner with Dassault Aviation. But Dassault had refused his offer after learning about Bhandari’s association with Vadra.

Recently it was reported that the Enforcement Directorate had filed a fresh money laundering case against Vadra’s firm, Skylight Hospitality in connection with financial and other irregularities in land deals in Haryana’s Gurgaon in 2008.

Meanwhile, in another case, the Central Bureau of Investigation on December 1, had charge-sheeted former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, senior Congress leader Motilal Vora and Associated Journals Limited (AJL) in a case pertaining to re-allotment of an institution plot in Panchkula, Haryana.

According to the accusations, a plot of land in Panchkula was illegally re-allotted to AJL, which is controlled by senior members of the Gandhi family, including Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, through Young India Ltd.

Madhya Pradesh: Farmers in Damoh protest against Kamal Nath led Congress govt over unsold paddy

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Madhya Pradesh: Farmers in Damoh protest against Kamal Nath led Congress govt over unsold paddy

Farmers in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh have taken to the streets to protest over unsold paddy, ANI has reported. They have blocked roads and threatened to go on hunger strikes.


One farmer was quoted by the news agency as saying, “My paddy has been lying at the centre for last 20 days. Nobody is doing anything, my wife and kids are starving. Govt isn’t listening, how am I supposed to survive?”

It was also alleged that the managers of the Cooperative Council gave jute bags to big traders fraudulently whereas the farmers were not given bags for the purchase of material.

On the previous Friday as well, Farmers in Madhya Pradesh had blocked the Damoh-Sagar highway protesting over the absence of bags for the purchase of urad dal, bringing traffic on the highway to a standstill. The farmers were upset with the surveyors and council managers for the chaos.

It has been more than a month since Kamal Nath-led Congress government was formed in Madhya Pradesh, making huge promises to the farmers. However, in the last several weeks, the problems of farmers only seem to be increasing. As many as three farmers have committed suicide in the state due to the debt burden. In December, farmers were lathicharged as well as severe mismanagement of urea rocked the state.

There are also allegations of a scam brewing in the state as it was recently reported that Rs 120 crore non-existent farm loans were ‘waived off’ in Madhya Pradesh. The Congress after assuming power in Madhya Pradesh had cleverly altered the conditions to waive-off farms loans in contrast to their earlier stand.

Rahul Gandhi accidentally reveals he had a secret meeting with Chinese ministers during his Kailash visit

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Rahul Gandhi accidentally reveals he had a secret meeting with Chinese ministers during his Kailash visit

During the much-published visit of Rahul Gandhi to Kailash Mansarovar in September last year, he had a meeting with a couple of Chinese ministers. And this sensational revelation has come from Rahul Gandhi himself, not from any other source.

While talking about job loss due to automation, Rahul Gandhi said that he had met Chinese ministers during his visit to Kailash Mansarovar. Rahul Gandhi made these comments while addressing a town hall meet titled Reimagining India in Bhubaneswar today.

While answering a question on concerns of automation in job creation, Rahul Gandhi said that a couple of Chinese ministers told him during his Kailash visit that China is facing no problem in job creation due to automation. He said “how can China, in a world which is automated, is producing 50,000 new jobs in every 24 hours. Why? Why is it that automation is a problem in Europe, automation is a problem in India, but automation does not seem to bother the Chinese. When I had gone to Kailash, I met a couple of their ministers, and they said no job creation is not a problem in China at all. We have plenty of jobs.”

There was no report of Rahul Gandhi meeting Chinese ministers during his pilgrimage to the holy lake, this means the meeting was kept a secret, and Rahul Gandhi accidentally revealed it while talking about an unrelated matter in Odisha today. Rahul Gandhi is a member of parliament, and the president of the largest opposition party. Moreover, China is not a friendly country, it is hostile towards India. China claims Arunachal Pradesh to be their territory, their forces regularly intrude into the Indian side of the border. Therefore, any unpublished meeting with the Chinese government by Indian politicians is a serious issue.

It is not known whether the government of India is aware of this meeting.

This is not the first time the Congress president had secret meetings with foreign dignitaries to be revealed later. On 8th July 2017, Rahul Gandhi had a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to India Luo Zhaohui which was not made public. When some media houses reported the meeting, the Congress party termed it fake news. But later the meeting was confirmed by the Chinese embassy on its website.

The meeting between Rahul Gandhi and the Chinese Ambassador had happened when both the countries were engaged in the Doklam Standoff, which lasted till August 2017.

Nidhi Razdan of NDTV twists Piyush Goyal’s statement to claim Railways failed in fulfilling jobs creation promise

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Nidhi Razdan of NDTV twists Piyush Goyal’s statement to claim Railways failed in fulfilling jobs creation promise

By now everyone is quite familiar with NDTV’s reporting standards or the lack of them. NDTV’s Nidhi Razdan last night conducted a debate claiming government’s jobs promises remain unfulfilled, especially, with a focus on a statement by Piyush Goyal regarding Railway ‘ecosystem’.


She had claimed that last year Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal had said that the railways could create 10 lakh jobs in one year whereas he now puts the figure at 2.5 lakhs. Prima facie this appears as if the railways have been able to create only 25% of the jobs it had set out to promise a year back.

However, what Nidhi has conveniently chosen to not tell her viewers is that her claims on Piyush Goyal’s statement from a year back are partial. Piyush Goyal in his October 2017 statement had said that the ‘Rail ecosystem’ can create 10 lakh jobs a year and even that, was twisted by Nidhi.

Piyush Goyal in October 2017 had claimed ‘Rail ecosystem’ can create as many as 10 lakh jobs

That means not the Indian Railways directly, but other ancillary industries associated with the railways, which build the ecosystem, including contractual labour forces, can create as many as 10 lakh jobs.

On Wednesday, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal had declared 2.5 lakh fresh jobs in Indian Railways.


In the above clip from the press briefing, Goyal is heard saying about 2.5 lakh jobs will be created in Railways alone. “Even now process for about 1.5 lakh vacancies is under process. Over and above that, if we try and calculate estimates for the next two years, then about 1 lakh people will retire in the next two years. That way, approximately 2.25 – 2.5 lakh employment opportunities over and above the 1 lakh which is already under process, leading to an estimated 4 lakh job creation in Railways alone,” Goyal had informed.

Nidhi, however, chose not to disclose the fact that when Goyal spoke of Railways creating 10 lakh jobs, he meant the ecosystem and not Indian Railways on a standalone basis.

NDTV claims on Piyush Goyal’s job promises


As seen in the above video, Piyush Goyal in October 2017 had said (emphasis added), “My own sense is that may not be directly in a job in the railways which then gets reflected in the numbers but certainly through engaging people in working in variety of different areas across the system, not less than a million jobs can be created in less than twelve months. Only in the Railways alone and the ecosystem around the Railways.”

Nidhi, very cleverly skipped the part that Goyal, when he talked about creating a million jobs in October 2017, he meant the ecosystem, which includes direct and indirect jobs associated with the Railways. Whereas in his January 23 press briefing, Goyal is talking about creating 2.5 lakh jobs in Indian Railways alone.

This is not the first time Nidhi has indulged in spreading misinformation. In April 2017, Razdan had conducted an entire debate based on fake news. Prior to that, Nidhi was again spotted parroting a lie. It was a debate in which the focus was a “book” written by noted abusive social media troll turned lying journalist Swati Chaturvedi.

As usual, at the time of this report, neither NDTV nor Nidhi have issued any clarification on the lie peddled on the debate last night.

Supreme Court refuses to stay 10% reservation to EWS, agrees to hear the petitions challenging quota

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Supreme Court refuses to stay 10% reservation to EWS, agrees to hear the petitions challenging quota

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear petitions challenging the 103rd Constitution Amendment Act, 2019 but refused to put a stay on new reservation policy which intends to provide 10 per cent reservation for Economically weaker sections of the society, reported ANI.

According to reports, a bench comprising of CJI Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna today issued a notice to the centre after it agreed to hear pleas challenging the Constitution(103rd) Amendment. The apex court said that they are examining the issue and issued a notice to the centre to reply within four weeks.

However, the Supreme Court refused to stay the implementation of 10 per cent reservation to the economically weaker section of the general category. The petition is filed by an NGO named “Youth For Equality”, which contends that the new law violates the “basic structure” of the Constitution.

Citing the Supreme Court’s judgement in 1992 Indira Sawhney’s case, the NGO through its petition claimed that granting reservation solely based on the economic criteria violates both the Constitution and Supreme Court’s 1992 observation.

The NGO further adds that the amendment, which intends to provide 10% reservation to the economically weaker sections in addition to the existing reservations, breaches the 50% cap set by Supreme Court in the Indira Sawhney case.

Youth For Equality (YFE) is an NGO that claims to have been formed in the aftermath of the 27% OBC quota bill in educational institutions mooted by the UPA government in 2006. ‘Casteless Society’, ‘Education for All’ and ‘Good Governance’ are some of the ideas that the NGO claims to aim at.

The Narendra Modi government had announced its historic decision to provide an additional 10% to Economically Weaker Sections from the general category apart from the existing 50% reservation. The move by the NDA government gathers special significance as it was widely speculated that Upper Caste anger over the SC/ST Act amendment bill led to BJP’s downfall in recent state elections.

The Narendra Modi government has also bypassed the Indira Sawhney judgment through its Constitutional Amendment by adding provisions for an entirely new class of reservations that the Court will have to review independently without considering caste and the 50% cap on reservations.

Pro-Congress troll Abhishek Mishra posted communally charged posts on Internet to earn money

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Pro-Congress troll Abhishek Mishra posted communally charged posts on Internet to earn money

Pro-Congress troll Abhishek Mishra, who has been recently arrested by Delhi Police for offensive posts which hurt religious sentiments has reportedly revealed that he used to earn money by posting communally sensitive posts to earn money. However, he has claimed that he does not know the source of such income.


As reported by The Times of India, Mishra has been thrown out of his house by his parents following which he took to making communally charged posts to earn money. 10 laptops have been seized from him and police believe more people could be involved in it. The police are also verifying the IDs with which he took the Internet connections as well as the SIM cards for his phone which was used to run his profile. Reportedly, both the IDs were found to be of someone else’s.

Abhishek Mishra is a self-styled YouTuber who was earlier an Aam Aadmi Party supporter and got his pictures clicked with Arvind Kejriwal before shifting his loyalties towards Congress and getting his pictures clicked with various Congress leaders like Digvijaya Singh, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Chaturvedi. He has earlier been called out for spreading fake news and images.

Mishra also runs a website ‘viralinIndia.net’ where he spreads pro-Islamist propaganda and fake news. The website not only posts anti-Modi and pro-Islam propaganda but also absolute rubbish, like a post on how one hen gave birth to puppies in Bihar. Over and above that, there are many sexually explicit articles with clickbait-y headlines perhaps to get traffic to the website.

Mishra’s propaganda is not just confined to the website. He runs various Facebook pages where he regularly shares unverified and fake quotes, attributing them to politicians and the same get a lot of traction because they are anti-Modi.

During the run-up to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, Mishra had ‘temporarily shut down‘ viralinIndia.net as the team was busy ‘covering elections’. As soon as the elections were over, Mishra was back to running fake news website again, making outlandish claims such as PM Modi being the prime suspect for a stolen watch from Priyanka Chopra-Nick Jonas’ wedding reception.

This is not the first time Mishra has got into trouble with the law. In November 2016, Mishra was arrested by Madhya Pradesh Police for attacking Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the BJP on demonetisation.

Rahul Gandhi lies: This time about hate mongering

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Rahul Gandhi lies: This time about hate mongering

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has lied again. This time, however, it is not about his favourite topic, Rafale, but about another one of Congress legacies: hate mongering. While addressing a public gathering in Amethi yesterday, Rahul Gandhi said that Prime Minister Modi indulges in spreading hatred. He insinuated that PM Modi has been directly responsible for making different sections of people fight each other.


Since Congress President seems to be suffering from memory loss, here is a friendly reminder on who actually is spreading hate. In September 2018, Gujarat Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor was caught on camera inciting mob to take to violence against non-Gujaratis, especially the ones from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.


In a video which is believed to be from Becharaji, Gujarat, from September 2018, Alpesh could be heard saying, “all these outsiders who come here, they commit crimes here which has led to the increase in ‘goondagardi’. Villagers are beaten up and run off to their own hometown in other states after committing the crime. Is our Gujarat for such people?” Inciting people present there to take to violence, he said, “The trucks of these companies will be stopped and their doors will be broken.”

He then asks people how many are in a mood to fight? “Containers will be stopped, trucks will be stopped, and if needed, we will burn tyres,” Thakor says.

That is not all. In another video, Thakor can be heard saying “If these companies (which invest in Gujarat) do not give 85% of the jobs to Gujaratis, then tyres will burn, trucks will be stopped and trucks will be broken. I believe we should fight aggressively and now that same Alpesh Thakore is getting into the field to play his cards. We will then see how these ‘lions’ are dragged on to the roads.”

In fact, prior to that, it was Alpesh Thakor led Thakor Sena members who had allegedly led a mob and attacked two a factory near Vadnagar town of Mehsana.

It was not just Aplesh Thakor, but another Congress MLA Geniben Thakor was also caught on camera instigating violence in Gujarat. “The Indian laws should be followed but at the time of the incident … 500, 100, 50 or 150 people are there… they should have used petrol and set them (rapists) on fire, nothing would have happened. They (rapists) should not have been handed over to police and should have been finished instead,” Geniben is heard saying in the video. Prior to that, she was caught making other violent statements against BJP leaders.

More recently, days after swearing in as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader Kamal Nath was found spewing hatred against migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.


“People from other states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh come here & local people don’t get jobs,” Nath said while addressing the media after taking the oath. Not too surprising coming from someone who is accused of leading a mob and setting Gurudwara Rakabganj on fire during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots which took place following former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination. That man is now chief minister of a state and openly shows his dislike for the people of UP and Bihar.

It is not the first time that Rahul Gandhi has tried to make insinuations against Prime Minister Modi without proof while doing exactly the same thing himself. The Rafale “scam” allegation is the perfect example. While in the Congress tenure, corruption in defence deals and the existence of middlemen close to Robert Vadra was rampant, no such element exists in the Rafale case. Also, with the AgustaWestland scam, it is evident that the corruption in the Congress party and possibly in the Gandhi family itself is deep-rooted. Rahul Gandhi is also currently out on bail.

Amidst all this, it is a bit rich for Rahul Gandhi to try to pin the blame of hate mongering on Prime Minister Modi while it is his own party leaders, the MLAs and chief ministers, who are busy playing divisive politics.

‘The movie is not stuck, the makers are’: CBFC member Vivek Agnihotri explains how The Wire twisted facts around ‘No fathers in Kashmir’

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‘The movie is not stuck, the makers are’: CBFC member Vivek Agnihotri explains how The Wire twisted facts around ‘No fathers in Kashmir’

The movie industry has seen some interesting movies being released recently. Movies like Uri: The surgical strike and The Accidental Prime Minister saw the Left cabal scampering for cover. The rhetoric against the movies was at its shrillest when the Left deemed necessary to come out with their own narrative. It is no surprise that the movie ‘No Fathers In Kashmir’ has been embroiled in controversies because that is the only way they promote their agenda.

There are several such movies like Udta Punjab where an impending flop was promoted by creating a controversy around it. The movie was a culmination of several bouts of abuses and elaborate scenes of substance abuse. The movie was released right before the Punjab elections and soon after the elections, all the chatter around substance abuse in Punjab disappeared. It seems the leftists have found the latest candidate to further their propaganda in the movie ‘No Fathers In Kashmir’.

Leftist propaganda website, The Wire, in a story, headlined “This Film on Kashmir Sought CBFC Clearance 6 Months Ago – and Is Still Waiting” asserted that while the censor board, CBFC, has claimed that it has accorded the movie ‘No fathers in Kashmir’ with an A certification, the director of the movie claims that the CBFC has, in essence, banned the movie. The Wire story read, “The film, according to Kumar, has “no gore, no violence, no sex, no nudity, no abusive language, no substance abuse”. He was looking forward to a “U/A” (parental guidance for children below the age of 12) certificate, which would have made it eligible for a TV release”. 

Essentially, the Director claims that the movie deserved to be released with a U/A certificate because there was no violence or abusive language in the movie and hence, there should have been no cuts. It also insinuates that the CBFC was deliberately delaying the release of the movie. However, if one goes by what Vivek Agnihotri said, this seems far from the truth.

OpIndia, after much debate on Twitter between several people and Vivek Agnihotri, who is the Chairman of the revision committee the movie was referred to, reached out to Agnihotri to understand what trouble was the movie running into.

Vivek said that the movie has substantial Jihadi propaganda and anti-Army, anti-India rhetoric and several people throughout the certification of the movie wanted several cuts. Vivek, however, took a liberal view by overriding most of the objections, save one. Vivek Agnihotri said that the movie had several statistics like the number of women who were raped in Kashmir, the number of went who went missing etc, all with the insinuation that the Indian Army was responsible for the indiscriminate torture of Kashmiris. One of the “statistics” mentioned in the movie was something to the effect of 100,000 people going missing from Kashmir in the longest war the world has seen. It made unsubstantiated and wild assertions like the lives claimed have been far more than the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Agnihotri says that he was of the opinion that he wouldn’t even have to remove that if only he could provide an authentic source for the data they had used in the movie. This, he said, the team of the movie did not comply with.

This is the only modification that the revision committee has asked the film director to make for its release. They have to remove the statistics or provide authentic sources for the numbers and facts claimed. Agnihotri says that only if the director was willing to comply with this one modification, he could release the movie today with the A certification.

Agnihotri said that if the director wanted, he could release the movie even tonight with the A certification. However, when the representative of the movie wanted a U/A certificate. Agnihotri explained that the movie had extremely abusive language, gore and violence and hence, according to the movie an A certification was justified. When the actor present at the discussion raised an objection, Agnihotri asked him to justify why he might want his younger brother to watch a movie with the kind of abuses and violence that this movie had. According to Agnihotri, he had no logical answer to that question either.

It is obvious that a movie that is based on the Kashmir violence will have material which would not be suitable for children and hence, the A certification, logically, makes perfect sense.

Essentially, it does appear that the filmmaker being stubborn is the main issue here. If only he was willing to provide proof of the statistics displayed in the movie, he could have released the movie immediately with the A certification. His insistence of U/A certificate also seems to make little sense and terming the A certification as good as a ban on the movie makes no sense at all.

Amidst all this, on 24th January 2019, a journalist from the leftist propaganda website, The Wire, reached out to Agnihotri claiming that he wanted to do a follow-up story on the matter. The journalist said that he wanted to do a story on the previous Wire story that Agnihotri thought was ‘fake news’. Vivek Agnihotri says that when the journalist called him up for his version, Ahnohotri told him categorically that he should run his statement verbatim without twisting his words. To that, Vivek claims, the journalist said that he couldn’t do that since it was his story. Agnihotri then told The Wire journalist that he could take whatever line of argument in his article, but since the committee represents the Government of India, his quote cannot be twisted.

Surprisingly, The Wire journalist took a strange line. He said that he would then have to confirm (whether he can run Vivek Agnihotri’s statement verbatim) with his editor. One has to wonder why a journalist has to confirm with his Editor whether a direct quote can be printed without twists and changes, verbatim. However, because of this editorial roadblock, the ‘follow-up’ story by The Wire has not been published or explored yet.

It would appear that the movie makers and the entire leftist ecosystem is drumming up the rhetoric of “freedom of speech being curtailed” where no such thing exists. The left basically wants the freedom to twist facts to suit their narrative and especially in a sensitive issue like the Kashmir conflict, it could prove extremely detrimental.

Essentially, according to left cabal, the movie needs the freedom to twist facts around Kashmir and its supporters need the freedom to twist Vivek’s statement.

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