Peddling hate seems to have become Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary’s favorite thing to do. After attempting to give a earful to Delhi residents for only caring about free things and personal issues (supporting the Aam Aadmi Party) government and overlooking the national issues of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Balakot air strokes and the abrogation of Article 370 (the issues that BJP asked for votes on), he is back at it again, on his show Daily News and Analysis, coining a new term – “Zameen Jihad”.
#DNA : जम्मू, ज़मीन और जेहाद#ZameenJihad @sudhirchaudhary pic.twitter.com/lVqROQguga
— Zee News Hindi (@ZeeNewsHindi) March 11, 2020
While most of the responsible Indian and international media picked up issues related to Jyotiraditya Scindia’s exit from the Congress and the rapidly spreading Coronavirus respectively, Sudhir Chaudhary was looking to divert attention from the real issues to an anti-Muslim, communal hate peddling agenda.
‘At least 16 companies belonging to Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group made up Rs 8,400 crore worth of bad loans of Yes Bank’. Now you know why Starbhakt @sudhirchaudhary is busy diverting your attention to #ZameenJihad from #LoanJihad ??https://t.co/JUCESyTCbz
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) March 12, 2020
Showing his viewers a ‘Jihad ka diagram’ he went on to explain viewers the Roshni Act according to which he said, “25,000 people were rehabilitated on government land in Jammu, while 5,000 in Kashmir.”
Advocate Ankush Sharma who petitioned against the alleged land scam said that 1 million to 1.5 million kanals of forest land was given to the encroachers under the Act in Jammu and that 85-90%t of the beneficiaries were likely to be Muslims.
His basic intention of doing the program was to say that 90 percent of Muslims were dominated in a Hindu-dominated Jammu. This, he claimed was a conspiracy to capture government land and change the demography in terms of religion.
“Just like love jihad, our country is also witness to zameen jihad in Jammu and Kashmir, he said, adding, “Sarkari zameen par kabza kar ke aabadi ka dharam ke aadhaar par badal dene ki saajish ki jaa rahi hai.”
The unspeakable communal HATE being spread on a daily basis by this channel is shocking, shameful, dangerous. And it’s a channel owned by a govt supporting MP! Will anyone in power take note and stop this shit? Or indulge this further? @PrakashJavdekar @DelhiPolice pic.twitter.com/g9FZoCfEtB
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) March 12, 2020
He then went to explain how there were two types of Jihad – Hard Jihad and Soft Jihad further ‘educating’ his viewers by saying, “Hard Jihad includes Population Jihad, Love Jihad, Land Jihad, Education Jihad, Victim Jihad and Direct Jihad, while Soft Jihad includes Economic Jihad, History Jihad, Media Jihad, Movies and Songs Jihad and Secular Jihad.”
The program drew a lot of ire on Twitter, with journalists from other publications and the general Twitterati denounced Chaudhary’s views.
Sources tell me that Sudhir Chaudhary has hidden the third and most shocking category of Jihad from you.
It’s called #TihadiJihad – Where sold out media anchors spread communal hate to create chaos and destruction in the society. pic.twitter.com/FxQGd3emAP
— Dhruv Rathee (@dhruv_rathee) March 12, 2020
I’ve issued a notice to I&B Ministry flagging the violation of circular N-4101 5/1/2019-BC-III by Zee News/@sudhirchaudhary which would legally invite a ban on the channel (as was recently done with 2 Malyalam channels).
If the Ministry doesn’t act, we’ll approach the courts. pic.twitter.com/uaIILXwbB9
— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) March 12, 2020
Families are still looking for missing members, the tears of the victims have not dried up but this scum continues to brazenly peddle anti muslim hatred on his channel. This man and his masters enabled the anti muslim pogrom but who will seek accountability ? pic.twitter.com/BYQUuBcMaM
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) March 12, 2020
Major news:
– Coronavirus Pandemic
– Global markets crashing
– Yes Bank crisis
– Discussion in Parliament on Delhi Riots
– Home Minister’s response on Delhi Riots
– MP Govt crisisSudhir’s News:
– LOOK! TYPES OF JIHAD! SECULAR JIHAD! MEDIA JIHAD! LAND JIHAD! STRAIGHT-UP-JIHAAAD! pic.twitter.com/4yDggNkXeg— Meghnad (@Memeghnad) March 12, 2020
Muslim:-Breathing
Sudhir Tidhadi:-OXYGEN JihadMuslim:-Bathing
Sudhir:-Water JihadMuslim:-Grammar Mistake
Sudhir:-Grammatical JihadMuslim:-Eating NonVeg
Sudhir:-Biryani+BeefJihadMuslim:-Feeling Sick
Sudhir:-Medicinal JihadMuslim:-Speaking Urdu
Sudhir:-Language Jihad— Arhaan (@arhaan54) March 12, 2020
This man provokes innocent Indian’s day & night. When 52 people were killed in Delhi riots, he was holidaying in Dubai- (Muslim nation) & now back to India wd same HATE AGENDA. These shameless journos enjoy holidays in Muslim nations & spread hate in their own country for TRP! pic.twitter.com/Ct5wU9nfT2
— Salman Nizami (@SalmanNizami_) March 12, 2020
Throughout the program, he kept talking about #ZameenJihad, and how his was the only channel that would talk about this ‘real’ issue. The hashtag received more than 30,000 tweets mainly from the right-wing Hindu population who hailed Chaudhary’s programming and supported his claim.
Chaudhary did chest thump about his newly coined hashtag reaching the number 1 spot in India saying that the topic that he raised was close to people’s hearts, but the media ignored them.
It’s very heartening to see #ZameenJihad trending at No.1 in India. These subjects are close to people’s hearts but media ignores them. It’s a lesson for Lutyens media who only report about power struggles and inorganic news. pic.twitter.com/V6NOj2AGQI
— Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) March 11, 2020
However, it has come to light that Chaudhary’s diagram was nicked from a Facebook page called “Boycott Halal in India” – page that is aimed at spreading conspiracy theories.
The question now is, will Zee News be pulled up (censored) for its polarising content by the Central government? It must be noted that the Centre had banned news channels Asianet and Media One for their coverage of the Delhi violence saying it could ‘enhance communal disharmony’ across the country.
So, in the same vein, will Sudhir Chaudhary and his news channel be penalised forviolations of Cable TV Regulation rules and blatantly spreading hate against the minorities?
This is a perfect case of violation of programme code under Rule 6(1)(c) and 6(1)(e) of Cable TV Regulation Rules. Will the Govt dare to ban @ZeeNewsHindi like it did against Asianet and Media One?
— Manu Sebastian (@manuvichar) March 12, 2020
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