Chai Wallah Chor Hai, Says Chandrashekhar Azad in Mega Rally in Gwalior

October 25, 2018

Yesterday, October 24 saw a mammoth 35,000 strong (Ekta Mahapanchayat) rally of OBCs, STs and SCs at the historic Phool Baug Maidan at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.

Addressed by fiery Dalit leader and Icon Chandrashekhar Azad, the crowd was mesmerized by his scathing attack on the Modi regime in Delhi. Madhya Pradesh goes to the elections on November 28, 2018, the same day as Mizoram.

“Chai Wallah Chor Hai,” said Chandrashekhar referring to the epithet used to describe Narendra Modi. “There are 35 lakh people in the country who earn less than Rs 20 a day, there are 30 lakh Indians who have only one meal each day, and this government is tell us things are hunky dory?” he demanded. He warned against making a (second) mistake of allowing the BJP to come to power. He also announced that the Bhim Army would host a historic rally at the Ram Lila Maidan in Delhi in December this year.

Azad, flanked by other leaders of the Bhim Army, warned of the proto-fascist agenda of the RSS and BJP. “They want to change the Constitution, they want to bring the Manu Smriti back. It is the Constitution that gives us Equality, Non-Discrimination and Fraternity,” he warned. “What will the oppressed and marginalised sections do if the Constitutional Edifice is removed and replaced by a Theocracy? Changing the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj is part of this wider game, to change the Constitution, “ warned Azad. He also called for an egalitarian politics where women and men walk in every endeavour together.

A video of the speech may be heard here:

On September 13, over a month ago, the Uttar Pradesh govt had, suddenly, ordered the release of Bhim Army chief from jail. Azad obtained bail in 27 criminal cases heaped on him, after which the draconian NSA was imposed on him, first in November 2017. The most significant was the re-promulgation of the order on Republic Day this year, reported exclusively by Sabrangindia. At 2 a.m. on September 13, Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan returned to his village. As news of his release spread, thousands thronging to meet him today in his village near Shabbirpur.
Chandrashekhar, the founder of Bhim Army — a group of Dalit youth — has been a leader with mass appeal threatening the established political leadership. In his village and neighbourhood in Saharanpur (especially Shabbirpur) where many consider him to be a crusader for social justice. His and his group’s growing influence in the region was seen to have been a part of a stronger Dalit voice that has risen in the last couple of years. His electrifying speech, where he stated that “India is Threatened by Brahmanism Not Muslims” (May 2017) had clearly threatened the saffron establishment.

On May 13, 2017 days after he was incarcerated by the current regime Justice PB Sawant, retired Supreme Court judge and others through Sabrangindia had strongly petitioned for his release. Even after the Uttar Pradesh administration had started hounding him, this fire brand leader took the battle to Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. In a flash protest that drew at least 20,000 persons he proclaimed, “Brahmanaism not Muslims are the enemies of India”

Since his release, Chandrashekhar Azad has vowed to tour the country to ensure a vibrant social movement of Dalit-Bahujans. Though reactions to this firebrand leader from BSP party chief Mayawati have been premature, Chandrashekhar has, a few days back maturely proclaimed that ‘BSP and BSP alone is the natural political choice for the Bahujan.’ “Our party of choice is the BSP and it would be great for the country to have a Dalit prime minister.”

Unshackle the CBI from political control: Teesta Setalvad

October 25, 2018

Noted journalist, human rights defender and CJP secretary, Teesta Setalvad draws our attention to the steady erosion of CBI’s independence under the Narendra Modi government and how this has finally led to the crisis that it faces right now. She calls for unshackling the CBI from political control. Listen to her speak to know more about the insidious links between Gujarat, Godhra, Rakesh Asthana and Narendra Modi.

In the age of fake news

October 25, 2018

In this day and age, the truth is relative

You know what they want you to know BIGSTOCK

Oswald Spengler, in his book Decline of the West, said that capitalism created the media to promote its universal political ideology of liberal democracy. Capitalism is what political governments are promoting globally, and the media largely remains the ally of the political government in this regard.

The collaboration of the media and the government to pursue the same objective goes back a long time. England, in the 18th century, managed both the parliamentary election and the elected commons through money, and the press worked as the catalyst.

The claim that the media is free and seeks the truth is now under question. It is believed that the media no longer generates free opinion, rather, it manipulates news. The idea of a free press is not a fact but an abstraction, and it serves those who own it.

Today, companies like ABC, CBS, and NBC and print media like The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times are all owned by major media powerhouses.

In the 21st century, the power of the press lies not in the hand of the viewers and readers but in the hands of those who provide the most commercials, the oxygen of the press. Spangler said: “Press is today an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers and readers as soldiers. In this army, soldiers obey blindly, and operation plans and war aims change without knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is allowed to know the purpose for which he is used, nor the role he has to play.”

This implication is clear: Media reports are not benign, always carrying some agenda beneath the news. The news it publishes can bear the truth on the surface but there are who knows what lies underneath? The views the press covers are not the views of a tiny few but the views of the many.

But what choice do readers have in this regard?

If that was the backdrop on the foreground of which the mainstream media was founded, how can it generate news based on truth? The history of so-called “fake news” can be traced right back to the foundations of mainstream media.

Whatever is happening right now in this post-Trump landscape, is not new. Both the media and the governments are working in tandem for a common objective: To control the public’s mind and distract them when necessary.

They take it for granted that only they possess the licence to furnish truth or lies as part of protecting the capitalistic political order. Any other ideologies or views are rejected.

The fight about truth and lies is a fight between the mighty political machinery and the mainstream media and people on social media. The current concerns of fake news largely stem from the rise of social media, which can be barely controlled.
It is difficult to find a media company or group which isn’t biased towards some political or business ideology or objective.

Who does the media serve by duping its audience? At the end of the day, they serve capitalism — in other words, the free market economy, the multi-national business houses, and the elite population class rather than the general masses.

When the government and their media partners collaborate to project information with bias under the veil of some hidden objective, it doesn’t turn out to be the truth.

As such, the information published on social media is often deemed to be being fake since the that is the platform on which these various powerhouses are attacked.

What is present in social media is not all fake. Rather, there, one can find many truths.

The digital space in the 21st century is flooded with enormous amounts of information. The current generation of youth, having unlimited access to this digital space, does not deem truth to be what is determined by any conventional authority.

The youth defines truth as what transpires from independent search or based on what their allies say on Facebook or Twitter.

To the youth, the truth is Google, Facebook, and Twitter, but to the government and the mainstream media, truth is what they believe and project with or without bias.

What Trump says is not always fake — it is often deemed to be so by CNN or BBC, the bearers of truth being attacked by Trump.

In this day and age, what is truth and what isn’t has become relative. The fight between them can end only when the mainstream media can cross all ideological barriers and publish or broadcast anything they feel right, unbound by the conditions of capitalism.

Brig Gen AF Jaglul Ahmed is a regular contributor to the Dhaka Tribune.

First published on Dhaka Tribune

Jamiat to launch nationwide movement for enlisting missing names in voter’s lists

October 25, 2018

A daylong meeting of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind’s working committee under the presidentship of Maulana Usman Mansoorpuri, JUH National President was hel yesterday at its central office in New Delhi. The members of the apex body i.e. Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind Working Committee (JUHWC) has decided to launch a nationwide movement for enlisting missing names of Muslims in the voter’s lists. The members of (JUHWC) also took stock of Uttrakhand’s High Court decision for banning fatawa and prevailing situation in Islamic world especially in Saudi Arabia.

working committee of Jamait

Jamiat took decision to launch voter’s list movement in the wake of revelation made by Centre for Research and Debates in Development Policy (CRDDP) that names of several lakhs Muslims have been missing from the voter’s lists that is affecting electoral and social strength of community. In order to rectify the anomaly, The National Working Committee has issued advisory to all its local branches in various states to take up this work on war footing. They have also been advised for creating mass awareness about the same.

The members of (JUHWC) also expressed their deep concern over the decision of Uttrakhand’s High Court for banning issuance of fatawa by Islamic institutions. However they expressed satisfaction over stay intervention by the Apex Court.

The members of (JUHWC) also reviewed Jamiat’s committee report about ongoing reform measures undertaken by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They have asked the committee members to submit exclusive resolution in the next meeting of (JUHWC).
The JUHWC has decided to hold its concluding centenary conference in November, 2019 at Deoband which was earlier scheduled to take place in the Month of February 2019.

In the meeting of (JUHWC) a detailed report on Jamiat’s relief and rehabilitation efforts in Kerala was also presented. The members of (JUHWC) expressed their satisfaction over this report. It is to be noted that till now Jamiat has spent more than five crore rupees on relief and rehabilitation work in Kerala. At present, Jamiat is engaged in construction of 100 houses and repairing 100 damaged houses after flood devastation.

The meeting was attended by nearly 40 members and special invitees representing across the country.

Courtesy: Two Circles

A Peek into CBI Interim Chief, Rao’s ‘Murky Past Record”

October 25, 2018

While claiming to “clean up” the country’s premier probe agency, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has shunted out two top officials facing charges of corruption and appointed Nageswar Rao — a relatively junior 1986-batch bureaucrat — as the interim chief of the CBI.

At the time when Mr Rao joined the CBI in 2015 (during the Modi regime), the agency was headed by Anil Sinha. Objections had been raised about his elevation. It was Amitabh Singh Dhillon, the head of the agency’s counter-intelligence unit or Special Unit, had then tabled an adverse report on Mr Rao — saying that he should not be inducted on the grounds of corruption charges levelled against him and his alleged proximity to political parties. Inexplicably, for a government that claims the moral high ground on corruption, this assessment was ignored by Mr Sinha as well as the government.

The slew of corruption charges are many and need to be recalled.

It was senior advocate Prashant Bhushan who posted some of these allegations on Twitter, but the CBI has simply refused to react. An article on savukkuonline.com titled “ Nageshwar Rao: CBI’s black sheep” was also posted by Bhushan. This article details the many questionable deals, transactions and investigations that Nageshwar Rao is allegedly involved in.

Some related to the purchase of State Bank of India land by VGN Developers, a Chennai-based firm. According to the complaint, Mr Rao — who was the then Chennai Zone head — had not hauled up the accused despite the land being sold at a loss to the exchequer. This was one of the reasons for DMK leader MK Stalin criticising his elevation to the post of CBI Director.

This, however, is not the only complaint filed against Mr Rao.

Then, while Mr Rao was serving as a joint director in the CBI earlier in 2018, a file titled “Premature repatriation of Shri Nageswar Rao, IPS” (File no 202/01/2015) was sent to the Cabinet Committee on Security. It suggested that the official must be sent back to Odisha in the light of several complaints, one of which he allegedly closed down in connivance with a senior Delhi official. According to the complaint, Mr Rao had allegedly tried to stall the probe against over 70 Income Tax (I-T) officers listed in arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari’s diaries.

The police had arrested Mr Bhandari along with I-T Joint Commissioner Sallong Yaden in January 2015, and incriminating evidence against several officials was allegedly recovered from his possession. Incidentally, the ruling BJP has accused Mr Bhandari of being close to Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.

Mr Rao is also accused of misrepresenting facts in his own annual tax returns. All his assets filings post-2010 show a Rs. 20-lakh property owned by his wife and her cousin in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. The cousin — Dr Ratna Babu — was later revealed to be the brother of his wife, Chinnam Sandhya.

Speaking to Sabrangindia, Prashant Bhushan said, “It is a shame that a man with such a record has been appointed to as Interim Director. He is a goon or goonda in police robes”.

Allegations against Nageshwar Rao:

1. Nageshwar Rao was appointed in the year 2015- Amitabh Singh Dhillon, the head of the agency’s counter-intelligence unit or Special Unit, had then tabled an adverse report on Mr Rao — saying that he should not be inducted on the grounds of corruption charges levelled against him and his alleged proximity to political parties.
However, the assessment was ignored by the then head of CBI- Anil Sinha and the government.

2. Corruption charges against him-
a. Purchase of SBI land by VGN developers (Chennai-based firm)- Mr. Rao (Chennai Zone Head then) did not haul up the accused despite land being sold at a loss to the exchequer.
Savukku’s article details this fraud as to how SBI sold the land to VGN developers for lesser price and to the disadvantage of the government.

The documents of the above fraud were sent to CBI, but it was only after 18 months and continuous follow-up the FIR was registered. However, the CBI failed to conduct any searches in its regard. “According to highly placed sources in CBI, Nageswara Rao was the one who took the decision not to conduct any searches.”

A detailed complaint of the above against Rao was then sent to the CBI Director (Anil Sinha).

Abstracts from the complaint:
“Though the FIR (VGN) was registered on 28.12.2016, Shri.Nageswara Rao, failed to instruct the I.O. to conduct any search operations in connection with the case. Due to this serious lapse, sources say, some serious evidence of bribery by the VGN Developers to various state and central government officials was lost and the said evidence was published in media last week. Instead of allotting this case for investigation to an I.O. of police / investigation background, Shri.Rao, assisgned the investigation of this sensitive case to one Shri.Velayutham, who is a deputee from Indian Bank for reasons best known to him.

Shri.Nageswara Rao, failed to issue any clear instructions with regard to the investigation of this case or monitor the progress of this investigation. However, he had ensured that he is always kept in the loop with regard to any developments. Though the allegation as per the FIR is that the land in dispute which was purchased by VGN developers was purchased below market price, there are widespread allegations of the involvement of two senior IAS officers of TN cadre who facilitated issuance of NOC for the sale. Sources also claim that one Ram Mohana Rao, who was a former Chief Secretary of TN government had also received sizeable money from VGN promoters.

However, no investigation whatsoever has been conducted in this regard. Further, as per sources, VGN Developers sent part of the bribe amount of Rs.2 crores intended for the SBI officials through one Ganesh Raj, retired Assistant General Manager of SBI. Rs.80 lakhs of the bribe amount was sent by VGN Developers to HTL account. From the HTL account, the above mentioned Ganesh Raj transferred the amount to his account, later encashed the same and handed over the bribe amounts in cash to A.1 Leon Therattil and A.2 Ramadoss. A simple verification of the bank accounts of Ganesh Raj and HTL would have revealed evidence of bribery. But, Shri.Nageswara Rao, chose not to touch any crucial area of investigation.

Now, according to sources, Shri.Nageswara Rao had instructed the I.O Shri.Velayutham to give a closure report in the above RC and accordingly a report stating that the Bank has not suffered any loss, the amount due is recovered and no further action is required has been given and the same has been approved and sent to Delhi by Shri.Nageswara Rao. Sources also reveal that Shri.Nageswara Rao, is strongly connected with the Telugu officers in Tamil Nadu and is in the habit of passing on several sensitive information to the officers. One such officer who is regularly in touch with Shri.Nageswara Rao, is former Chief Secretary of TN, Shri.Ram Mohana Rao.”

Rao, it is alleged. supressed this complaint with the help of KV Chaudhary. CBI Director, after making due verification tried to repatriate Rao, KV.Chaudry, shot down his proposal, say sources.

b. As CBI Joint Director- “Premature repatriation of Shri Nageswar Rao, IPS” (File no 202/01/2015) was sent to the Cabinet Committee on Security. The file suggested that he be sent back to Odisha in light of several complaints against him. According to it

i. He tried to stall the probe against over 70 Income Tax (I-T) officers listed in arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari’s diaries.

ii. Accused of misrepresenting facts in his annual tax returns- All his assets filings post-2010 show a Rs. 20-lakh property owned by his wife and her cousin in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. Loans for this purchase were acquired from The firm Angela Mercantiles Private Limited (shell company belonging to the same set of accused).

Rao’s wife, M Sandhya has also reportedly given a loan of Rs.38,27,141/- to this company, which was outstanding as of 31.03.2013. She has reportedly suppressed her husband’s name from RoC records and has instead used her father’s name – Chinnam Vishnu Narayana in all the records.
Rao’s wife has invested to the extent of more than 60 lakhs in the company, it is alleged, and obtained 25 lakhs as loan (which could be a case of money-laundering).
Rao’s wife- shareholder of the company- in the details of shareholders filed by the company- her address is that of another shell company and not the address of the shareholder.

3. During his tenure in his parent cadre, Odisha, Nageswara Rao had in the year 2011, reportedly purchased a plot of government land, allegedly using forged documents at Khurda, Odisha, from a lady. Due to reasons that remain unclear, the deal fell through and litigation in this regard is pending in 14th Additional Civil Court, Khurda in Civil Suit No. 9211/2015.

4. A detailed source report was sent to CBI Director, Alok Kumar Verma, following which he had ordered a discreet enquiry into allegations on Nageswara Rao. Alarmingly, the discreet enquiry had thrown up enough material to not only create grounds for the repatriation of Nageswara Rao out of CBI, but to also launch prosecution against him, add sources. However, reportedly due to the backing of (CVC) KV Chaudhary, nothing could be done.

5. CBI Director, Alok Verma decided to save the cases, at least, from going down the drain. Alok Verma, ordered the transfer of the investigation of important cases from the Chennai Zone of CBI to the Banking and Securities Fraud Cell (BSFC) of Bengaluru. Nageswara Rao’s jurisdiction did not extend to BSFC and it works under the direct supervision of a separate Joint Director, meant exclusively for BSFC.

Today as “Interim Director” Rao has complete control. It is a matter of deep concern that a high level political intervention has resulted in such a quetionable appointment.

DU plans removal of three books by Dalit writer Kancha Ilaiah

October 25, 2018

The Standing Committee on Academic Matters found the content insulting to Hinduism. It also recommended discontinuing the use of the word ‘Dalit’ in academic discourse.

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New Delhi: The Delhi University is planning to remove three books written by Dalit writer-activist and professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd from the political science syllable for Master’s courses.

DU’s Standing Committee on Academic Matters recommended this move on Wednesday and said that they found the content insulting to Hinduism. The decision has to be approved by the Academic Council and a meeting will be held before November 15. It also recommended discontinuing the use of the word ‘Dalit’ in academic discourse.

Committee member Professor Hansraj Suman said there was a discussion on the syllabus of nine Master’s courses. “We decided to remove the books ‘Why I am not a Hindu’, ‘Buffalo Nationalism’ and ‘Post-Hindu India’ because they are insulting to Hinduism. We felt it would not be appropriate for students to read it,” he said in a report by Indian Express.

Professor Geeta Bhatt, member of Delhi University (DU) academic council, told News18 that Ilaiah’s books were his understanding of Hindu faith and “there is no empirical data to establish his understanding”.

The report suggested one more book that was to be removed besides the three listed above. Apparently, the book ‘God as Political Philosopher: Buddha’s Challenge to Brahminism’ besides ‘Post-Hindu India: A Discourse in Dalit-Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution’ and ‘Why Am I Not a Hindu is also being reconsidered.

“The political science department should look into its syllabus. These books by Kancha Ilaiah are vitriolic towards Hindu faith,” Bhatt said, terming the author’s writing as unsubstantiated by facts. She added that Ilaiah wrote about how “Hindutva school wants me to treat my Christian and Muslim brothers as enemies” and how “the very sight of saffron tilak harasses him”. “He has problems with a word like ‘tapasya’. It is all about his mind and his understanding of a faith. As an academic piece, there is no content in it and no reason to teach it. His every book has this vitriol,” Bhatt said,” the report added.

Speaking to News18, the political science head of department, professor Veena Kukreja, said: “There were some objections raised that considered the work of Kancha Ilaiah controversial. We were told that if we want to teach it, then there should be a counter-narrative as well. However, some wanted its removal. We are a democratic body, and the teachers and experts concerned will sit, decide and justify why we teach Ilaiah. It will be pursued democratically.”

According to the report, the teachers had objected to two more books and asked for their removal. The books were professor Nandini Sundar’s ‘Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar’ and professor Archana Prasad’s ‘Against Ecological Romanticism: Verrier Elwin and the Making of an Anti-Modern Tribal Identity (2003)’.

In 2017, The Supreme Court refused to entertain a PIL by an advocate of Delhi seeking to impose a ban on the book ‘Komatlu Samajika Smugglerlu’ (Komatlu Social Smugglers) published by Prof. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd.

An extract from his book ‘Untouchable God’ can be read here.

Ever since BJP came to power, textbooks across the country have seen a sea change in syllabus. Mughals are slowly disappearing from school textbooks and history is being rewritten by distorting facts. Rajasthan is notorious for changing history and removed important material on Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru from school textbooks. School textbooks in Madhya Pradesh lie and say that India won the Sino-Indian war in 1962. Even the mention of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination by Nathuram Godse has been removed.

“New school textbooks in India promoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship policies have prompted fresh criticism that the government is using the education system to further his political agenda. An analysis of 25 textbooks by the Indian Express newspaper found examples of newly inserted paragraphs casting Modi’s policies in a positive light, including programs like “demonetization” that wiped out more than 85 percent of India’s cash or one to educate girls, which has been criticized for underfunding,” reported Washington Post.

M’tra Govt moves SC against Bombay HC order, hearing tomorrow: Bhima-Koregaon case

October 25, 2018

The Maharashtra government today moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court order that set aside a Pune court order granting an extension of 90 days for investigation into the alleged Maoist links of five arrested activists by the state police. The supreme court will hear the matter on October 26.

Calling the order of the lower court granting extension of time to the Pune police to file a charge sheet against Surendra Gadling as ‘illegal’, Justice Mridula Bhatkar of the Bombay High Court had, yesterday, October 23, quashed the Pune court order. The HC order had paved the way for Gadling and other activists to be released on bail. However the Judge stayed her own order from becoming operational till November 1, following a request from the Maharashtra government, thus giving time to the state to appeal.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi considered the submissions of lawyer Nishant Katneshwar, appearing for the Maharashtra government, and acknowledged that the appeal needed to be heard on an urgent basis, PTI reported.

Appearing before the court, Katneshwar said if the Bombay High Court order is not stayed, then the accused in the case would become entitled for grant of statutory bail for want of non-filing of chargesheet within the stipulated period.

Earlier, after extending the house arrest of the five other activists (who had been attempted to be arrested on August 28) till October 28, the Supreme Court refused to interfere with the arrest of these activists and declined the demand of appointing a SIT to investigate the matter. A strong dissenting judgement by Justice Chandrachud had however taken a different view of the case.

In a sensational crackdown, the Maharashtra Police had arrested five activists — Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bharadwaj and Gautam Navlakha –for alleged Maoist links in the aftermath of violence that occurred at Bhima Koregaon near Pune last year. The first bout of arrests took place in June 2018 (after raids had been conducted in April 2018). The second round was attempted on August 28.

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Kanhaiya Kumar takes a dig at the ruling party, shows huge turnout at Patna Unity Rally

October 25, 2018

Kanhaiya Kumar, a CPI candidate said that the politicians who have buried the issues of jobs, education and farmers under scams and riots need to be ousted from power.

Patna: A huge turnout was witnessed in Gandhi Maidan at Patna on Thursday in the ongoing mega unity rally organised by the Opposition parties. Kanhaiya Kumar, a CPI candidate being fielded from Begusarai, tweeted about the mass turnout and how the farmers and students alike were going to blow the lid off the corruption of the ruling NDA dispensation.

In his tweets, he said that the people will tell the ruling party that it is going to be ruled by the constitution and not by the greed of a handful of rich people and their agents. “The politicians who have buried the issues of jobs, education and farmers under scams and riots need to be ousted from power,” he tweeted.

CPI had alleged on Wednesday that there was a plot to kill Kanhaiya at Thursday’s rally.

“We are saying with full responsibility that the BJP and other fascist forces are conspiring to murder Kanhaiya. The attack on him and his supporters at Bhagwanpur in Begusarai was pre-planned, at the behest of a BJP MLC,” CPI state secretary Satya Narayan Singh said. Singh said the reason behind it is that the BJP is unnerved by Kanhaiya’s rising popularity among the masses,” reported Telegraph.

“The Grand Alliance leaders — from the Congress, the RJD and the HAM(S) — vowed to uproot the NDA governments at the Centre and in the state. They came down heavily on the two governments, alleging that both the dispensations failed on all fronts, especially in taming price rise, corruption and crime,” reported Economic Times on Sunday where an event was organised by the grand alliance to show their unity against NDA and BJP.

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Chai Wallah Chor Hai, Says Chandrashekhar Azad in Mega Rally in Gwalior

Yesterday, October 24 saw a mammoth 35,000 strong (Ekta Mahapanchayat) rally of OBCs, STs and SCs at the historic Phool Baug Maidan at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.

Unshackle the CBI from political control: Teesta Setalvad

In the age of fake news

In this day and age, the truth is relative

Jamiat to launch nationwide movement for enlisting missing names in voter’s lists

A Peek into CBI Interim Chief, Rao’s ‘Murky Past Record”

DU plans removal of three books by Dalit writer Kancha Ilaiah

The Standing Committee on Academic Matters found the content insulting to Hinduism. It also recommended discontinuing the use of the word ‘Dalit’ in academic discourse.

M’tra Govt moves SC against Bombay HC order, hearing tomorrow: Bhima-Koregaon case

Kanhaiya Kumar takes a dig at the ruling party, shows huge turnout at Patna Unity Rally

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