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RSS office in Kerala vandalized a day after its inauguration by alleged CPM goons

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RSS office in Kerala vandalized a day after its inauguration by alleged CPM goons

An RSS office in Perunthattil village falling under Kannur district in Kerala was reportedly vandalized by 10 goons on Monday morning. The goons smashed the windows, destroyed the equipment in the premises and also threatened women and children who were present inside.

Incidentally this vandalism comes only a day after the office was inaugurated. Following this attack, both the RSS and the BJP have placed the blame on CPM activists.

This has prompted Rajiv Tuli the Prant Prachar Pramukh of Delhi to issue a press release which put forth the RSS’s side to the whole incident.

The release claimed that in Perunthattil where the office or Keshav Smriti Sevalay is located is a CPM stronghold where no other organisations are allowed to undertake any political-cultural activity.

The office was inaugurated on Sunday

The Sevalay consisted of a help-desk, employment cell, library among others. The release also claimed that it was attacked a whopping 18 times since its foundation stone was laid. The attacks included removing the foundation stone, filling the excavated are and demolition of walls. The construction was finally completed by the Swayamsevaks with the help of local villagers who risked their lives.

The release further claimed that a day before the inauguration a prominent RSS member was surrounded by armed CPM workers and barely managed to save himself.

The release also claimed that posters were put out in the village which read “Welcome to CPM party village/This is an RSS-free zone/Here RSS is banned”. It also reiterated that violence especially in Kannur district has hugely intensified after the CPM-led LDF government came to power in 2016.

Here are a few images of the vandalized office as reported here[1][2]:

This above case might just be another instance of RSS establishments getting targeted by alleged CPM goons. We had previously reported an interview of an RSS leader wherein he had elaborated how the lives of RSS workers were at a risk in Kerala. Incidentally this plight of the RSS members has gone largely unheard by both the media and the BJP government at the center.

Amit Shah’s master-plan for BJP’s Mission 2019

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Amit Shah’s master-plan for BJP’s Mission 2019

Sangathan (organisation), Sangharsh (fight for the cause) and Samrachana (cohesiveness) – these are the three directional principles of the cadre-based Bharatiya Janata Party. Amit Shah, the master strategist, knows all too well how to carry them forward. His astute poll management has yielded results for the BJP in successive elections.

Presently the party rules 16 of 29 states, covering 70 per cent of India’s geographical area and 60 per cent of the population. But like Robert Frost’s poem, Amit Shah wants the BJP miles to go. That is precisely the reason, during his presidential address in the recently concluded National Executive Meet in Bhubaneswar, Shah had declared that the golden age of the BJP would dawn when the party would occupy every level of legislature – from Panchayat to Parliament.

Leading from the front, the BJP president is currently on a marathon 110-day-long whirlwind tour across the nation. The tour coincides with the Modi government’s celebration of three years in office. Shah’s voyage, which started on 25 April, will end on 25 September, the 101st birth anniversary of party ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay.

Amit Shah’s tour across the nation will focus on taking stock of the party’s organisational strength, further expansion of ideology and electoral appeal.

So far, the BJP president has covered two states – West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir. In West Bengal, Shah has given the clarion call to party workers for Ebar Bangla (Now Bengal) to “liberate” the state from Mamata Banerjee’s misrule and recreate a Sonar Bangla (Golden Bengal). At Jammu, Amit Shah has urged the party workers to spread and strengthen the spirit of nationalism in Kashmir.

Mission 2019 

The BJP president has already prepared a blue print for the party’s big win in the 2019 general elections. Amit Shah wants the victory should be bigger than that of the 2014. In the 2014 general elections, the BJP won 282 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats on its own. This time, Shah has set a target of winning 400+ seats. Apart from retaining every Lok Sabha seat the party won in 2014, the BJP president has identified 120 winnable seats where the party had lost in the last Lok Sabha elections. During the course of his nation-wide tour, Shah himself is seeking special feedback on these 120 Lok Sabha constituencies.

The Master Plan

For the purpose of election strategy, Amit Shah has earmarked all the 29 states and seven union territories into three categories – A, B and C – in accordance with their electoral significance. The BJP president is spending three days in category-A states, two days in category-B states and one day in category-C states. The category-C states are those being ruled by the BJP. The category-A states are those where the party had failed to win in 2014 Lok Sabha elections despite a groundswell of Modi wave and now, Shah senses the potential for a turnaround in 2019. There are four states in special focus in BJP’s scheme of things – West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana and Kerala. These four states contribute a total of 102 Lok Sabha seats.

In West Bengal, there are a galaxy of issues – Saradha chit fund scam, Narada sting, communal appeasement and anti-Hindu politics – plaguing the state. The BJP is going to use them as its trump card to checkmate Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress in 2019. In Odisha, Naveen Patnaik is staring at a strong anti-incumbency. In the last Pachayat elections, the BJP succeeded in making a giant stride in Odisha politics, leaving Patnaik’s BJD in a tailspin. With renewed hope and new vigour, the BJP is sanguine about riding a saffron surge in the land of Shree Jagannath. Similarly, the party wants to paint the Red bastion Kerala – where party workers and RSS swayamsevaks are repeatedly being targeted by the ruling CPM cadre – in saffron. In Telangana, the BJP is getting ready to contest the 2019 elections on its own.

Micro Management

The brief from Amit Shah to party’s organisation is clear: The preparation for 2019 elections has to be micromanaged. During the course of the ‘intensive outreach campaign’, the party will take the success story of Narendra Modi government to the people.

For the booth-level strengthening exercise in the run up to the 2019 elections, the BJP has already roped in around 3.52 lakh volunteers who would work full-time for the party for anywhere between 15 days and a year. Moreover, the party is also reaching out to its 11 crore primary members enrolled during the massive membership drive in 2015-16 and will involve them in booth-level activities.

Further, the party has enrolled another 600 full-timers. Of these 600 full timers, 543 will be assigned one Lok Sabha seat and are tasked to supervise strengthening of the party and creating a winnable environment in 2019 elections.  The remaining 57 will be tasked with overall electoral responsibility of a cluster of five constituencies each where the party has traditionally been week.

Pakistan Army mutilates bodies of 2 soldiers, Indian army vows ‘appropriate response’

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Pakistan Army mutilates bodies of 2 soldiers, Indian army vows ‘appropriate response’

It was today revealed by the Northern Command, Indian Army, that in a cowardly act, the Pakistan Army had mutilated the dead body of 2 martyred Indian soldiers. The incident was said to take place today, i.e. on 1st May 2017, in the Krishna Ghati sector. News of this dastardly act was broken on social media by the Northern Command, Indian Army’s official twitter account.

A short press release was tweeted out by the army elaborating the sequence of events:


As specified in the release, Paksitan is said to have carried out unprovoked rocket and mortar firing on Indian posts. This happened along the line of control in the Krishna Ghati sector. The release further stated that, simultaneously, a BAT action was launched on  a patrol  operating between  the two posts.

This is not the first time Pakistan had resorted to such unsoldierly conduct. In November last year, an Indian soldier was beheaded in Kashmir and two others killed by Pakistani commandos who crossed the Line of Control at Machil. Just three weeks before that, Sepoy Mandeep Singh was beheaded not far from the spot.

Back then too, the Indian army had promised “heavy retribution” for this event. It was reported that within hours of the above incident, the army launched an aggressive counter offensive on Pakistan. Brigadier, Northern Command, S Gotra had said tha India Army launched a counter offensive along the LoC. Indian Army posts are responding strongly and giving a befitting reply, Defence PRO Manish Mehta said.

On the very next day, news broke out that Pakistan had admitted that it lost three Army personnel, including a Captain after the Indian Army launched a fire assault against Pakistani posts at different points along the LoC. Some similar action can be expected this time too by the army, especially since they have promised an ‘appropriate response’.

Swedish embassy cancels event involving abusive journalist after social media protests

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Swedish embassy cancels event involving abusive journalist after social media protests

On Sunday, many people on Twitter expressed anger and disappointment with Embassy of Sweden in India and Maneka Gandhi, the Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development, for organising and attending an event respectively that linked “Press Freedom” with “Online Trolling”.

Following is the poster of the event that attracted this anger:

There were two main reasons why people were angry:

  1. Journalists, especially in India, often try to curb criticism by labeling anyone who disagrees with them as “troll” and this event was seen as giving legitimacy to that view by linking “press freedom” to “trolling”.
  2. One of the guests invited – a person named Swati Chaturvedi – is an abusive writer known for targeting BJP leaders and supporters through her fictitious writing. Presence of a BJP minister with such a person raised eyebrows.

Presence of Barkha Dutt, another controversial journalist alleged to be anti-BJP, was also one of the reasons some BJP supporters wanted Maneka Gandhi to not attend this event. People didn’t hide their anger against Maneka Gandhi and the BJP for gracing such an event:


Some users also called for the sacking of Maneka Gandhi by using the #sackmaneka hashtag:


Although many people thought that this was another Twitter outrage that will die down with time, earlier today it was revealed that the Embassy of Sweden had cancelled the event:


//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsOpIndia.com called up the Embassy of Sweden and we were informed that the event indeed has been called off. When we asked for official reason, we were told that there were “conflicts of schedule”.

However, the embassy confirmed that the event has been cancelled and not postponed. “An event on similar lines might be organised in future, but as of now, this event is cancelled,” an embassy official confirmed.

Boy gets education loan after writing to PM, bank had rejected due to father’s credit rating

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Boy gets education loan after writing to PM, bank had rejected due to father’s credit rating

During the global recession years of 2008-2009, Mr. S Thakur, an executive with an IT company in Gurgaon was finding it difficult to maintain his finances and support his family. He had to take a salary cut to save his job and ended up defaulting on a couple of credit card payments, which damaged his CIBIL rating.

Things became normal in coming years, but little did Mr. Thakur know that his credit card defaults could prove to be a stumbling block in the study plans of his younger son Sumit 8 years later. Sumit had completed his B. Com course from Kolkata in 2014 and was working in a local company and preparing for higher education at the same time. He wanted to get an MBA degree.

On 18th March this year, Sumit got an admission offer from Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Hyderabad to pursue the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) course, which is akin to getting an MBA degree. IMT on its website had suggested Punjab National Bank (PNB) as one of the banks to go for education loan. PNB’s website also listed IMT as an institute for which they do provide education loans.

24-year-old Sumit secured provision admission at IMT Hyderabad after paying the required 50,000 rupees and applied for an education loan of 12.6 lakh rupees at PNB in Kolkata on 24th March, so that he is able to pay the first installment of the course fee by 15th April. He thought that a nationalized bank will easily sanction the loan for an approved institute and course.

However, till 6th April, PNB didn’t sanction him the loan. He was getting worried and asked the bank officials the reason. His father’s poor credit history was one of the reasons why the bank refused to give him a loan, Sumit told OpIndia.com

Sumit tried to argue that the reputation of the college and the course where he was seeking admission to, and his own academic background should be the factors behind sectioning the loan, not his father’s financial history, but that didn’t help. Sumit didn’t know what to do next.

Around the same time, Sumit had read about an incident where a Muslim girl from Karnataka wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and had got her education loan sanctioned. The girl had reportedly referred to Prime Minister’s ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ scheme in her letter.

Though he didn’t exactly fit in the ‘Beti Padhao’ scheme, Sumit tried to test his luck. He googled how can one write to Prime Minister’s Office and discovered the website enabling grievance redressal by the Government of India.

He wrote about his plight on the above website and addressed it to the Prime Minister’s Office on 7th April. Meanwhile IMT had extended the last date of submission of first installment of the fees from 15th April to 29th April. Sumit decided to wait for a couple of weeks, and if no help comes, he’d have to forget his MBA plans and ask IMT to refund his 50,000 rupees.

On 20th April – little less than a couple of weeks since he wrote to the Prime Minister’s Office – Sumit received a call from the PNB officials who told him that his education loan will be sanctioned. The officials told him that they had received communication from higher ups inquiring about the incident.

A happy and a little confused Sumit then logged onto the aforementioned website to discover that the Prime Minister’s Office had forwarded his complaint to the PNB’s Kolkata Circle Office on 19th April i.e. just the previous day.

Sumit thanked the officials (and his stars) and he told the bank officials that there was nothing to worry about as there was no demand by him for any punitive action and that this was just a centralized grievance redressal system at work. His motive of using the grievance redressal system was to get clarity on the education loan process, not to extract some penalty from the bank or any employee.

Education loan letter to Sumit Thakur
The loan sanction letter by the PNB to Sumit Thakur

The first installment of the fees has now been submitted to IMT Hyderabad and Sumit is now all set to pursue his dreams of higher education starting next month. He and his family are happy to have experienced this grievance redressal first hand.

“Previously people would think thrice before even approaching their local councillor for any help. And now you can write straightaway to the PMO and get help sitting in your room. If this isn’t good governance, then I don’t know what is!” Sumit’s father told OpIndia.com reacting to the whole development.

Another ISIS terrorist from India killed, this time in Afghanistan

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Another ISIS terrorist from India killed, this time in Afghanistan

A 30 year old man from Kerala who was believed to have joined ISIS was reportedly killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan. The man named Bexin Vincent was a convert from Christianity and had married a girl called Nimisha. They both had slipped out of India when she was pregnant.

This piece of information was reportedly conveyed to his family which lives in Kasargod, North Kerala via the messaging app named Telegram on Saturday. The sender of the message is believed to be a youth named Ashfaq Majeed, who along with at least 19 others, had reportedly joined the Islamic State last year.

This news is in line with various reports which over time have shed light over the possible fate which has befallen the Indian citizens who have joined ISIS.

  • It was reported in March that a 24 year old man called Hafeezuiddin who hailed from the same place of Kasargod was killed in a similar drone strike in Afganisthan. His death was also conveyed to his family using the Telegram messaging app.
  • About 20 ISIS recruits from India were reportedly killed when the USA dropped the ‘Mother of all bombs’ in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on 13th April.
  • In November, 2016 it was reported that a 22-year-old youth from Kalyan named Aman Naeem Tandel who had left for Syria in 2014 was killed.
  • It was reported in April, 2015 that three ISIS fighters including one named Abdul Rahman from Maharashtra had so far died fighting in Syria. In November of that year, the Indian security agencies released the names of 6 Indian youths who had died after joining the ISIS.

Apart from getting killed there have also been cases about the fighters returning back to India after they were reportedly ‘disillusioned’ by the Islamic State:

  • Arif Majeed an engineering student who had joined the Islamic state in May, 2014 returned back to the country in November of the same year as he was completely ignored and had to clean toilets and fetch water for fellow terrorists.
  • A youth named Subahani Haja Moideen too returned to India in October 2016, five months after joining the terror group as he was reportedly disillusioned by the senseless violence the group was perpetrating.

Journalists or donkeys? When media thought potholes and donkeys are same thing

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Journalists or donkeys? When media thought potholes and donkeys are same thing

Uttar Pradesh is famous and infamous for many things, but donkeys are hardly one of those, at least in literal sense. Except for the former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s election speech about “Gujarat Ke Gadhe” where he referred to a tourism ad about Wild Asses of Gujarat by Amitabh Bachchan, you can hardly think of something that links Uttar Pradesh and donkeys in recent past.

But if the Indian mainstream media is to be believed, donkeys roaming on roads are one the of the biggest challenges in the biggest state of India. Sample these headlines from the mainstream media outlets that found their way into Google News today:

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Indian mainstream media reporting fake news

As per these media reports, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath has promised to make Uttar Pradesh roads donkey-free. Times of India was one of the earliest to report the same. They claimed that Yogi Adityanath said the following:

“UP came to be known as the place where donkeys crowd the streets and where it was completely dark after nightfall. We have now decided to ensure that by 15 June, UP’s streets are donkey-free.”

The report quoted news agency ANI as the source. But did ANI really report so?

Since the average reader these days is more aware, alert, and knowledgeable than an average journalist, very soon people found what ANI had actually reported:


So Yogi Adityanath meant potholes! This is what he actually said:

“UP came to known as the place from where potholes in roads start and where it was completely dark after nightfall.”

And then he went ahead to announce that by 15th June, potholes will be removed and electricity will be provided for 24 hours in district headquarters.

But for our journalists, he was apparently talking about donkeys (gadha) not potholes (gaddha). A person with basic knowledge of Hindi or a basic level of context could have understood what was being talked about, but not the media that confidently went out to report that Uttar Pradesh roads were to be made donkey-free!

Here was a Chief Minister who was promising something with a deadline, but the media thought he was cracking some joke. The original culprit it seems was the Times of India, after which other media organisations blindly copied their report adding their own take. People on Twitter slammed Times of India for this shoddy journalism:

Times of India deleted their report after this embarrassing incident, though other reports are still live (at the time of writing this report).

This incident also shows the perils of ‘chain news’ reporting by our media, where just one mainstream media outlet has to err (or lie deliberately) and that fake news will be repeated by other media organisations to an extent that people start believing the fake news as real incident. Just that this time it was too bray-zen.

While this incident is funny and we can discard it with a few laughs, do note that it demonstrates how dangerous media incompetence is. Thanks to this blind chain reporting by the mainstream media, a deliberate lie can also be circulated and people made to believe in something that never happened, as we had earlier seen in the case of EVM controversy in Bhind in Madhya Pradesh.

A touching gesture – IAS officers to adopt families of martyred soldiers

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A touching gesture – IAS officers to adopt families of martyred soldiers

At a time when the nation is mourning over the death of 25 CRPF personnel, killed in a Maoist ambush in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, a very touching gesture has come from the IAS Officers Association.

In a unique initiative, the country’s elite administrative service officers will adopt families of the martyred soldiers of the defence forces and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF). This is a first of its kind move from the IAS Officers Association. The association represents all members of Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

The official twitter handle of IAS Officers Association tweeted:

“It would be in the national interest that the civil servants proactively contribute in this endeavour,” Indian Civil and Administrative Service (Central) Association said in a statement.

“It is proposed that each member of the Indian Administrative Service adopts one family of a martyred soldier. The family may preferably from the state to which the officer belongs and will be serving for a large part of his or her career. It would be appropriate that the IAS officers adopt one family of a martyred soldier in their first place of posting as Subdivision magistrate,” the association said.

“Senior officers, or those from state civil services, can also adopt such families voluntarily,” it said.

The associations have further asked the officers to provide support and assistance to the families of the martyred soldiers in the following ways:

  • Oversee and ensure that all dues of the martyred soldiers be paid to the dependents.
  • Ensure that the children of the martyred soldier continue getting good education.
  • Mentor and guide the children of martyred soldiers so that they can pursue their career of their choice.
  • Provided benefits to the martyred families from various schemes being run by the government – Skill India, Start-up India, Digital India etc.
  • Provide adequate medical help when any member of the martyred family is seriously ill or injured.

“We are requesting state governments and the central government to issue the necessary instructions in this regard to all concerned so that this arrangement gets institutionalised at the earliest,” the IAS Officers Associations said.

Earlier, cricketer Gautam Gambhir had pledged to bear all the education related expenses of the children of the 25 CRPF jawans martyred in Sukma.

According to available data, the death toll of the Army soldiers stood at 64 in 2016. In the same year, 65 security personnel were killed by Maoists. This year so far, 54 security personnel have been killed in Maoist ambush.

Bahubali! A trick by the RSS?

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Bahubali! A trick by the RSS?

“WHY DID KATTAPPA KILL BAHUBALI?” This was a burning question in the year that went past us. Much more burning and invoking than ‘The Newshour’ by Arnab Goswami. I wonder why did Arnab not ask this question when he had the chance.

Anyways, I suggest Mr. S.S Rajamouli should be awarded with Nobel Peace Prize for finally revealing why did Kattappa kill Bahubali. There were instances of lovers breaking up, peddlers getting killed, muslims joining ISIS, all because they couldn’t find the key to the mystery. Some people believe that Salman Khan’s ‘Hit & Run’ case of 2002 was the aftermath of this question. It is said that Salman went into the future to see Bahubali that day. He did love the film but was so overwhelmed by the Kattappa suspense that he ran his car over the pedestrians (So sorry! I meant the driver).

Let’s leave it be because he got acquitted at the end of the day, giving us another chance to watch his super logical films, which probably surpasses the abilities of Christopher Nolan.

Yesterday, second installment of this epic movie by Rajamouli was released. Finally, the answer to the question was served for the price of a silver platter. But was this question the end of Bahubali? Isn’t there anymore question to this franchise? Is this all we get after 2 years? If you think yes, then I beg to differ! This answer gave birth to another question and that is “Was Bahubali a trick played by RSS?”

Before we get into this question, let me tell you something about the RSS. RSS is an institution which serves to the Indian people, teach them the Indian history, vedic ways of our culture and much more. RSS is often blamed for ‘Hindu Terrorism/Saffronisation/Communalism’ by the Left Liberals who support the students at JNU for chanting Anti-India slogans as Freedom of Expression.

Now you must be thinking how did it strike me that RSS can be involved in the making of Bahubali! No it didn’t! I overheard a conversation of two Left Liberals in the Delhi Metro (Don’t blame me of snooping and eavesdropping! They were too loud while exercising their right of FoE). I recall, I heard them say why wasn’t Bahubali a muslim character in the film? (afterall, all the Bahubalis around the world are Muslims like Baghdadi, Dawood, Al-Jawahiri, Owaisi, Mulayam Singh etc)

I wanted to stop them right there for spreading minority complex in the minority community but I didn’t (afterall they chant inclusiveness all day long). I wanted to know how Left Liberals looked and sounded like after they log off from their social media accounts. I kept to their conversation and it went as

A – Not only should he be a Muslim character but also the fact that he got betrayed by his countryman. It makes perfect sense.

B – Yes. You are absolutely right. You know I think that RSS was a part of this movie, both parts!

A – How? What did you notice? You must have analysed I am sure. These Sanghis leave clues everywhere.

B – Firstly, remember how Kattappa insults the Muslims(sic) by not accepting the sword they offered and then furthermore breaks it into two halves in a duel. Such disrespect I tell you..! Only Sanghis can think of such demeaning tricks.

A – Wow man! I never thought of it. We can use it on the social media to show their real colours. The degenerate communalists that they are.

B – This isn’t just it! Why was the queen called ‘Ma’ and not ‘Ammi’ ? Ammi means the same thing. They could have easily taken the word, but no, how can the RSS survive if Muslims prosper!

A – OMG! Dude you are a legend. How do you do this kind of in depth analysis? Pretty intense huh!

B – I haven’t seen Bahubali 2 yet. Just wait and watch. I will bring out the hypocrisy of these Sanghis.

A – I heard that in the second part, the role of Tammanna Bhatia has been decreased.

B – Why wouldn’t it be man? These saffron agents can’t see our women getting empowered. They are the owners of patriarchy.

A – I think you are right. RSS must have had an influence in the movie. After all they don’t like lovers roaming around and the Kattappa suspense was a reason for many breakups in our country like Arbaaz and Malaika, maybe.

B – See! Now you get it. Arbaaz and Malaika. Hindu Muslim pair, sanghis call it love jihad. They were the reason why this beautiful couple broke up.

Hearing this, an elderly man interrupted their ‘RSS analogy’ session and said, “You damned souls! Read the newspaper already! Stop acting like your stupid leaders. You have to bear the burden of this nation’s heritage and sovereignty. First you blamed Modi, then Yogi of being communal and intolerant towards the Muslims. Don’t you know about the Gorakhnath Temple operated by Yogi? Don’t you know who heads the cattle of Yogi? Such moronic youth this generation has become. How can you call someone names when you can’t even know little facts. If you will turn out to be this stupid then who will stop this nation from becoming another hotspot for terrorism to grow?”

My thoughts were hijacked by this man’s sheer words. I almost forgot the stupid things that I just heard from the two gentlemen standing next to me. I was happy for the moment. But then, happiness doesn’t last long. It was my stop to de-board. As I managed to pass through the crowd, I managed to hear a familiar voice say, “These RSS crooks……”

The Left liberals were off to analysis, again.

JNU prof pays tribute to Sukma martyrs, gets car pelted with stones

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JNU prof pays tribute to Sukma martyrs, gets car pelted with stones

JNU really has seen a lot. There was the surreal spectacle of card carrying Communists explaining why theirs is a politics of promoting free speech. Played on all channels, mind you. Video tweeted approvingly by several politicians who could even be India’s democratically elected Prime Minister(s) in the near future (as per the wishes of the Indian mainstream media).

Let’s see what happens when this is put to test.

Dr. Buddha Singh is a faculty member at JNU and an Associate Dean of students. He decided to exercise his free speech and organize a Tribute meeting for the martyrs of Sukma and Kupwara on the evening of April 28. Here is the poster for the event:

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Not surprisingly, some didn’t take kindly to the saffron, white and green.

The reaction was swift and unforgiving.

Today, Dr. Buddha Singh has tweeted out a picture of his car, which was vandalized by stone pelting:


Stone pelting? Wonder where they got that idea? Any guesses?

And yes, unlike some people who got invited to write against troll terror in the Hindustan Times, Dr. Buddha Singh has in fact complained to the police:


Will there be anguished editorials about the shrinking space for dissent in our universities? The last time they came out in full flow to defend the right to chant “Bharat ki barbaadi”. Will they come out and speak up for the right to pay tribute to our martyred soldiers?

Perhaps we all know the answer.

This is not the only or first time though that the left-dominated JNU has seen such violent or intolerant reactions from the leftists, who appear amenable only to a particular kind of events. Back in 2010, the leftist students had organized an event that was seen as celebrating the massacre of 76 CRPF jawans who were martyred in Dantewada that year. Last year everyone witnessed how an event to glorify Afzal Guru was held. Such events are routine, only that a few have now come under public scrutiny recently.

The intolerance and violence by leftists was on full display – despite the media trying its best to hide it – earlier this year at Ramjas College in Delhi. Before that, left leaning JNU students had forced the university to cancel invite to a speaker they didn’t agree with, and on another occasion the hooliganism of such students forced a helpless professor to touch their feet who pleaded to be allowed to enter his office.

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