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Busy Promoting Films: Rahul Gandhi hits BJP post another targeted killing in Kashmir

June 2, 2022 Editor

Rahul Gandhi’s tweet comes just a day after Union home minister Amit Shah watched the Akshay Kumar-starrer ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ movie at a special screening. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for “neglecting the security issues” in Kashmir and alleged that those supposed to protect Kashmiri Pandits are “busy promoting films”. The attack from the Congress leader comes in the wake of the killing of a bank employee from Rajasthan by terrorists inside the bank premises in Kashmir’s Kulgam district earlier on Thursday.…

Civilians being killed in Kashmir, BJP busy celebrating 8 years of Modi Govt: Rahul Gandhi

June 2, 2022 Editor

A day after a school teacher was killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a jibe at the Centre saying 15 security personnel and 18 civilians were killed in the last 5 months and Kashmiri Pandits have been protesting for the past 18 days but the BJP is ‘busy’ celebrating 8 years of the Modi government. The Congress leader’s statement came after a Hindu school teacher Rajni Bala was fired at by terrorists in the Kulgam district of the Kashmir region on Tuesday. “In…

Kunal Merchant Indian designer refused to make a table for the PM citing GoI’s silence over ‘Atrocities Against Muslims’

April 16, 2022 Editor

Citing the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government of India’s silence over the rising violence against Muslims in the country, designer Kunal Merchant has refused to make a table for the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. Merchant has emerged as one of those rare voices of dissent against Modi and his government’s “prejudiced, racist, and hateful” India, a Hyderabad-based daily Siasat reported. As per the report, screenshots that Kunal Merchant shared on his Instagram stories (which disappear after 24 hours) on Friday showed that he received an email from Vivek Kumar,…

Modi Selling Kashmiri Pandit’s Suffering; Arvind Kejriwal Rips into BJP For promoting ‘The Kashmir Files’

March 26, 2022 Editor

Amidst loud cheers and table-thumping from the MLAs present in the assembly, Kejriwal slammed the BJP for helping “some people” make crores off of the suffering of Kashmiri Pandits. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday, March 24, launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Delhi assembly. Kejriwal criticised both Modi and the BJP for promoting Vivek Agnihotri’s controversial film, The Kashmir Files; alleged failures on the part of the BJP in providing education, healthcare, and the like to the…

Amid soaring temperatures over his ‘Kashmir’ remarks at OIC, Chinese FM Wang Yi arrives in India

March 25, 2022 Editor

Amid speculations and uncertainty surrounding his visit, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in India on Thursday. He is likely to meet NSA Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Friday. The visit comes just days after India slammed Yi for his Kashmir remarks at OIC. In response to his remarks on Kashmir, India had reiterated that the reference to India was ‘uncalled for’ and underlined that Kashmir was India’s ‘internal matter’. “On Kashmir, we have heard again today the calls of many of our Islamic friends.…

India slams China Minister’s Kashmir remark during OIC in Pakistan

March 24, 2022 Editor

India on Wednesday reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir is an internal matter and said it rejects the “uncalled reference” to it by the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his speech at a function in Pakistan. “Matters related to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir are entirely the internal affairs of India. Other countries including China have no locus standi to comment. They should note that India refrains from the public judgment of their internal issues,” ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi told reporters today in response to queries on the…

The Kashmir Files ‘BJP Propaganda’, Congress should throw away the ‘Hijab’ of fake secularism: Saamana Editorial

March 17, 2022 Editor

In the latest Saamana editorial, the Shiv Sena has asked its alliance partner Congress Party to throw away its pseudo-secularism as an ideology and create counter-narratives against the BJP instead. The party in its mouthpiece Saamana has lashed out at the Congress asking how much more it is going to lose. It has also alleged that the BJP is doing propaganda by fuelling issues over the hijab controversy and with movies like The Kashmir Files. After Congress’ brutal loss in the assembly elections, its Maha Vikas Aghadi ally in Maharashtra…

PM and GoI must rise above ‘Petty politics and Propaganda films’: Asaduddin Owaisi

March 17, 2022 Editor

AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said PM Modi and the government must rise about their petty politics and propaganda films, criticising defence minister Rajnath Singh’s statement in the Rajya Sabha concerning the accidental missile-firing which landed in Pakistan. Citing the Bloomberg report that has claimed that India’s accidental missile-firing prompted Pakistan to prepare a retaliatory strike, Owaisi said the defense ministry’s statement told nothing. “Is its true that there were more missiles on the launcher which had to be stopped from taking off after the first one did? Do…

Election 2022 – Early Trends: BJP leading in UP, Uttarakhand & Manipur; AAP in Punjab; Cong in Goa

March 10, 2022 Editor

As per the early trends in Uttar Pradesh, the saffron party was leading on 155 seats while Samajwadi Party was ahead on 97. As the counting of the votes began on Thursday morning, the Bharatiya Janata Party was seen leading in the early trends in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Manipur while the Aam Aadmi Party made an early headway in Punjab. As per the early trends in Uttar Pradesh, the saffron party was leading on 155 seats while Samajwadi Party was ahead on 97. The Bahujan Samaj…

Hate Speeches: India likely to witness massacres of Muslims, say Genocide Watch

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Editor

‘Modi has not spoken about genocidal calls despite his obligation to denounce such threat calls’ As Muslims in India continue to face threat calls by Hindu-right wing members, Dr. Gregroy Stanton, the President of Genocide Watch has warned that something similar to the inhumane Rwandan genocide could happen in India if stern action isn’t taken by the Government of India. “A gathering of saffron-robed Hindu monks held last month at the north Indian Hardiwar city was exactly aimed at inciting the genocide of Muslims,” said Dr. Gregory Stanton, President of…