Data Suggest The Congress Is Not Doing As Badly As It Seems

March 25, 2017

The Indian National Congress’s humiliating defeat in the recent assembly elections, particularly in its home state of Uttar Pradesh and the assembly constituency of its vice-president Rahul Gandhi, are symbolic of the party’s present condition. The Congress is going through one of its worst slumps in its post-Independence history, and many digital bytes have suggested a surgical strike on its leadership and a complete overhaul of the party machinery.

The data, however, suggest a more nuanced picture. In various assembly elections since its defeat in the 2014 general elections, the Congress has actually improved its strike rate in terms of number of seats won per seats contested, although it has contested fewer seats. Not only that, it has also improved its vote share.

What the statistics say

The most appropriate metric for evaluating the performance of a political party and its “CEO” is its win percentage and vote share. Ten states–Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, Delhi, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, UP and Punjab–have had a state election since the 2014 general election, not including the smaller ones such as Goa and Manipur.

These 10 states account for nearly 60% (317/543) of all Lok Sabha seats.

During the 2014 general election, the Congress party effectively contested in 1,544 assembly segments–parts of Lok Sabha constituencies equivalent to assembly constituencies–across these 10 states and won a mere 194, a winning percentage of 13%.

In subsequent state elections in these 10 states, the Congress party contested in 1,032 assembly constituencies across these states and won 258–a winning percentage of 25%.

Put simply, the Congress doubled its win rate between the 2014 general election and the subsequent state elections.

In the 2014 election, 20 of every 100 voters (weighted by size of the state) in these 10 states voted for the Congress. Post-2014, 30 out of every 100 voters voted for the Congress, an increase of 10 percentage points in vote share.

Congress’ Electoral Performance
Assembly Constituencies	2014 General Elections	State Elections
Contested	1544	1032
Won	194	258
Win %	13%	25%
Vote Share*	20%	30%

Source: IndiaSpend analysis of Election Commission of India data
*Weighted average vote share by size of state

In eight out of these 10 states, the Congress has won more assembly segments post-2014 than it did in the 2014 elections (when considering parliamentary performance in assembly segments to break down voting patterns). Its vote share increased in six out of these 10.

The charts below show the Congress’ vote share and seats won in the 2014 general election and the subsequent assembly election in each state. A triangle inside the box indicates that the Congress improved its performance post-2014 in that state.

Source: IndiaSpend analysis of Election Commission of India data

Arithmetically, it is hard to make the case that the Congress is in worse shape today than it was in 2014. The numbers clearly show that the Congress has doubled its win percentage and improved its vote share by 50% since 2014.

To be sure, the Congress’ improved electoral performance is largely on the back of opportune alliances. But a decision to swallow pride and ally with another party is also a political strategy.

It can also be argued that the party’s performance in 2014 was so miserable that the only way from there was up.

Either way, only time will tell if the Congress needs a new life or a coffin, but arguments on either side should not lose sight of the data.

Delhi Union of Journalists Demand Apology from TOI

March 25, 2017

The Delhi Union of Journalists has brought out a press release asking Times of India for an apology. TOI had published a false story about the missing JNU student Najeeb. The DUJ release says that ‘it is apparent that the story was meant to discredit Najeeb and find an alibi for the Delhi Police’s inability to trace the missing boy.’

Najeeb TOI
Apologize for False Najeeb Story

Here is the DUJ's Press Release:

Press Release

TOI MUST APOLOGISE FOR FALSE NAJEEB STORY

The Delhi Union of Journalists is shocked that a leading daily like the Times of India should have discredited itself by publishing a malicious and misleading report on the missing JNU student Najeeb. The DUJ demands that the TOI issue an immediate apology for maligning a boy who is missing and unable to defend his reputation.

The TOI report alleged that Najeeb had been surfing the Internet for information on the Islamic State and ways to join it. It claimed that he had watched many videos on the Islamic State and was “watching a video of the speech of an IS leader on the night of October 14, just before he had a scuffle with ABVP members…” The story by TOI reporter Rajshekhar Jha was published both on the front page and page three on March 21, 2017.

This kite flying story was attributed to unnamed police sources and claimed the police had received “a report on the browsing history of Najeeb’s laptop from Google and YouTube”. The following day Deputy Police Commissioner Madhur Verma denied that any report had been received from Google and YouTube and said “investigation conducted so far has not revealed anything to suggest that Najeeb had accessed any site relating to IS”. Special Commissioner of Police and Delhi police spokesperson Dependra Pathak also rubbished the TOI story in his statement to Hindustan Times.

It is apparent that the story was meant to discredit Najeeb and find an alibi for the Delhi Police’s inability to trace the missing boy. The story went into great detail on reported Police moves to search for him.

Jha’s clearly motivated story also went into allegations about Najeeb’s medical history, claiming he had been on drugs for obsessive compulsive disorder, sleeplessness, depression, fits, panic attacks and agoraphobia. Najeeb’s family has previously denied that he was on such medication but the TOI chose to repeat all this in great detail.

The TOI published the false story on its front page with the heading “Najeeb saw IS videos, websites” on March 21, 2017 and another report on page three with a three-column bold headline “Najeeb searched for information on IS”. However, the retraction it was forced to publish after criticism on social media was carried as a single column item on page 5 with the neutral headline, “Police deny Najeeb report” on March 22, 2017. This was merely a verbatim report of a statement by DCP Verma.

The Delhi Union of Journalists demands an apology by the TOI for its irresponsible and false reports. It also demands that the story be removed from its website immediately.

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2017 JNU Admissions – Over 80% Seat Cut for Researchers

March 25, 2017

In the beginning of February, the JNUSU had gone on an indefinite strike against the same UGC gazette.

Image Courtesy: Samim Asgor Ali

M.Phil and Ph.D seats in JNU have been drastically cut down by 84%. The seats have been reduced from 1,234 last year to 194 this year. The new prospectus is out and the admission process for the year 2017-18 is on.

The high court has given a verdict upholding the UGC guidelines. The JNUTA brought out a press release after the high court gave the verdict. Even as we respect the judgement of the Hon. Delhi High Court, our view is that the ruling has been given on an issue that was not before the court in the first place – the mandatory/binding nature of UGC Regulations.

They have demanded for an Academic Council meeting to be called. If the UGC Regulations are mandatory “without any deviation”, the JNUTA expects that the JNU administration shall, in service to the oath of fealty to the UGC that it has sworn repeatedly over the past few months, call an Academic Council meeting immediately.

The TA says that Instead of addressing the ill-intentioned deviation from statutory procedure by the JNU administration, the judgement has undermined the JNU Act, and has grave implications for the autonomy of educational institutions. Are university statutory bodies to be reduced to mere rubber stamps and is the observance of due process a mere empty formality? JNUTA does not agree with this as a necessary reading of the UGC’s powers, as the very Regulations under consideration themselves assert the importance of adoption into the statutes of each university.

They added The JNUTA considers the first responsibility of teachers in this scenario is to ensure supervisory arrangements for the nearly 1000 students who took admission in the academic year of 2016 at once. While the JNU administration was forced to agree in Court that the Regulations would not apply to students enrolled in years preceding 2016, the batch of students currently doing M.Phil./PhD coursework or in the first year of Direct PhD is directly affected. It is essential that all students admitted into the M.Phil//PhD and Direct PhD programmes be assigned supervisors first, before the intake for 2017-18 is addressed.

Professor Ayesha Kidwai, the JNUTA President, wrote “total Intake Approved by AC: 1025 + 287 + 94 = 1406 (including Direct PhD seats). Total Intake as per e-prospectus dated 21 March 2017: 194”, “…And this too by a process that is in UTTER violation of their beloved UGC Regulations 2016, which says the number of seats for admission has to be determined by the "academic bodies" of the university. The Centres of JNU were never even shown these figures, let alone consulted. UGC should immediately take action against the JNU VC!”

JNU is primarily a research university. It is an institute of higher learning which is known to encourage critical thinking and research. 62% of its current strength is that of students pursuing MPhil and PhD programmes. It is interesting to note that the average of the students enrolled for MPhil and PhD in the 42 Central Universities is a mere 3.5%.

In the beginning of February, the JNUSU had gone on an indefinite strike against the same UGC gazette. The students had raised their voices against it.

The students had foreseen the seat cuts. They had made the following point. The UGC notification lays down strict rules regarding the eligibility of “research supervision”. It says: “A Research Supervisor/Co-supervisor who is a Professor, at any given point of time, cannot guide more than three (3) M.Phil. and Eight (8) Ph.D. scholars. An Associate Professor as Research Supervisor can guide up to a maximum of two (2) M.Phil. and six (6) Ph.D. scholars and an Assistant Professor as Research Supervisor can guide up to a maximum of one (1) M.Phil. and four (4) Ph.D. scholars.” This implies cutting seats for M.Phil./Ph.D. admissions.

With the new prospectus, there would be no admissions for research this year in centres like Centre for Sociology, Centre for Pol. Science, Centre for History, Centre for Indian Languages and many more. The seats have been slashed in many other important centres as well. JNU’s oldest School, School of International Studies, will offer MPhil/PhD seats in only 3 out of 13 centres.
Three schools –School of physical sciences, School of computational and School of integrative sciences, and biotechnology – and two special Centres – Centre for law and governance and Special Centre for Sanskrit studies – have no seats for the integrated MPhil-PhD programme.

The students called for a university strike against the seat cuts today.

Courtesy: Newsclick.in

Why Ajmer Blast Terror Attack Convicts Weren’t Mentioned as Terrorists in Media

March 24, 2017

Ajmer, Rajasthan : A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Monday (22 MAR 2017) sentenced Bhavesh Patel and Devendra Gupta both RSS members to life imprisonment for their conviction in the Ajmer Dargah blast case.

The blast which took place on 11 October 2007, at the Shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti at the time of Roza Iftaar, had left three pilgrims dead and 17 others injured.

On 8 March 2017, the NIA court had convicted Patel, Gupta and Sunil Joshi in the case while acquitting others including Swami Aseemanand. Sunil Joshi murdered soon after the blast. This case has come to special court on 16 march but after hearing from both the parties court had postponed the judgement to 23rd March .

Judge Dinesh Gupta ruled out a death sentence citing mitigating circumstances, including the fact that the two had not been involved in any criminal activity prior to the blasts; they hadn’t been shown to be a constant menace to society; and they had been found guilty by drawing inferences from circumstantial evidence.

The case was handed over to the ATS Rajasthan and was later transferred to NIA which re-registered the case with the NIA police station in New Delhi on 6 April 2011.

In this case there were 12 accused, There were as many as 149 witnesses in the case and 451 documents were examined and the NIA filed three supplementary charge sheets in the case.

At the same time, the court questioned the NIA on its clean chit to two other accused, Ramesh Gohil and Amit, as well as “suspicious persons” such as senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar, Pragya Singh, Rajenda Chaudhary and Jayant, stating that it could not be done without invoking appropriate sections of the CrPC. It ordered the NIA DGP to do so by March 28. Ramesh Gohil died recently.

Has Media being biased?
Invoking ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family)’, Sharma sought appropriate sentences for the guilty, adding that “apart from Muslims, Hindus also come in large numbers to pay obeisance at the (Ajmer) shrine and the aim of the bomb blast in the holy month of Ramzan was to spread terror between the two communities and to prevent Hindus from going to the shrine.”

But none in the media mentioned these convicted terrorists as ‘Terrorist’ which applies on a particular community for even lesser crime. Has media being under control or they have taken charge to label accordingly?

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With PTI inputs

Courtesy: Irony of India

UP, Karnataka Police Book Persons for Criticisms of Adityanath: Curbs on Free Expression

March 24, 2017

The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested a man from Noida for allegedly posting an “objectionable” picture of the newly elected Chief Minister Adityanath on his Facebook wall, PTI reported. The vigilante group formed by the Yogi himself, Hindu Yuva Vahini, registered a complaint on the basis of which the UP police was prompt to act.

Rahat Khan, 22, was accused of posting the image and adding objectionable comments to it. The picture in question had a morphed image of the chief minister with a caption saying “Yogi hai, ya bhogi hai”, reported Hindustan Times.

Khan was arrested under Sections 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Khan’s mother said her son was being framed by the land mafia who had hacked into his Facebook account and posted the content. She added that the Khan family has been involved in many social service activities. “We [the family] won applauds from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for raising the issue of triple talaq,” she told the English daily.The Supreme Court has struck down this controversial section of the IT Law.

The incident comes days after a woman in Bengaluru was booked for “objectionable” Facebook posts against Adityanath. A complaint had been filed by the Yuva Morcha members of the Bharatiya Janata Party under various sections of the IT Act.
Clearly, sections of the Indian police, regardless of whether the states are ruled by the BJP like in UP or Congress as in Karnataka treat some persons as special, and the long arm of the law is used to stifle critical comments or satire.

Govt of India deactivated 86 lakh aadhaar cards “without human intervention”: Majority of them are children

March 24, 2017

Amidst Government of India seeking to make aadhaar mandatory for filing income tax returns, Right to Information (RTI) queries have revealed that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) has deactivated a whopping 85,67,177 aadhaar cards for “biometric update”, and yet another 408 for “demographic update” between September 2010 and August 2016.

Interesting though it may seem, one of the RTI replies, given to a plea made by senior journalist Anumeha Yadav of left-of-centre site, scroll.in, says that aadhaar numbers requiring deactivation are “identified by enrolment processing systems” and the deactivation is done “without human intervention”.

Yet another reply says that the UIAI does not maintain “data on deactivations according to the enrolment agency or the registrar that carried out the enrolment, or the authorised official who carried out the deactivation”. In all, Yadav received five separate replies to her queries, which she had made last year.

Bringing this to light, Yadav write, “The Authority’s Data Update Policy states that the fingerprints and iris scans of infants and children enrolled in Aadhaar must be updated within two years of their attaining the age of five, and then again at the age of 15.”

“If they fail to do so within this stipulated two-year period, their aadhaar numbers will be automatically deactivated”, Yadav says, adding, as for the demographic updates – which are surprisingly extremely few (just about 408 in seven years) – these “pertain to changes such as death, change of address, or to correct errors in demographic data during enrolment.”

Yet another RTI reply says that UIAI does not maintain data on month-wise deactivations, nor does it maintain state-wise and district-wise deactivation data, which may be necessary to monitor if some states showed more enrolment or fingerprint errors and subsequent deactivations.

One of the RTI replies

Though Yadav is also told that “those whose numbers are deactivated are informed via text message on their mobile phones”, she is also informed that individuals are “not communicated the deactivation in printed mode or by post.

Yadav quotes Vikash Shukla, senior manager, communications and public outreach, UIAI, as saying, “Most deactivations occur as children are required to update their biometrics when they turn five or 15 years old, and if their data is not updated, their Aadhaar numbers get deactivated.”
As for the grievances redressal system, the UIAI says in RTI reply, it does not have information on officials, within it or outside, who are authorised to carry out deactivation on receiving complaints, nor does it share information on the policy and procedure followed with respect to officials responsible for grievance redressal.

Pointing out that UIAI does receive complaints both through a portal of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, an online platform used by various ministries, and through post, one of the RTI replies shares year-wise and state-wise grievances received between 2010 and 2016 on the “PG portal”, but adds it does not maintain “any record for offline grievances submitted on paper.”

The reply further states that grievance redressal through the 1947 call centre services have been “outsourced” to Tata Business Service Solutions and M/S SMPL. “These firms have their own policies to recruit customer care executives [voice and non-voice], and it is their internal matter. These are contractual partners of UIDAl and UIDAI has no role in recruitments of staffing in these firms.”

According to Yadav, the replies are significant, as these also come following government notification that aadhaar, or at least proof of enrolment in Aadhaar, was mandatory for several vulnerable groups – including women rescued from trafficking, workers engaged in forced labour, schoolchildren between six and 14 years of age, and people with disabilities – to continue to receive government benefits.

In the case of the schoolchildren, for instance, they will not be served mid-day meals from June if they cannot present their Aadhaar credentials.

Courtesy: Counter View

‘Sadhus as Inventors Brings Disrepute to India : Nobel Laureate & Ex-student to MSU, Vadodara

March 24, 2017

Aluminum of MSU, Vadodara & Nobel Laureate Venkataraman Ramakrishman has in a strongly worded letter assailed the university's move to trivialise the curriculum.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Image: Indian Express

On the university’s move, he wrote: “Instead of giving prominence to these real contributions [by people like (C V) Raman, S N Bose, J C Bose and (Meghnad) Saha and the invention of zero and the positional number system in the past], it is disappointing that the university chose to print an official diary that ascribes to figures from religious scriptures discoveries that belong to modern science, such as nuclear technology, airplanes and cosmetic surgery. The people who did this may think they are being patriotic, but in fact they are bringing disrepute to the university and to India generally. I urge the university to renounce these features in the official diary and consider reprinting the diary.”

The Indian Express today reported
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/msu-diary-with-sadhus-as-inventors-brings-disrepute-to-india-ex-student-nobel-laureate-venkatraman-ramakrishnan-4583018/ that a MSU diary with such content drew this criticism.

Ex-student, Nobel Laureate

According to Ramakrishnan, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009, such depictions bring “disrepute” to the university and the country.

Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who is an alumnus of Vadodara’s Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU), has urged its administration to consider reprinting its diary and planner, which credited sages from ancient India for their “contribution to science” — from “developing nuclear technology” to “discovering rockets and aeroplanes”. According to Ramakrishnan, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009, such depictions bring “disrepute” to the university and the country.

The Indian Express had reported on March 9 that the MSU’s annual diary and planner for this year, which was released recently, hailed nine Indian sages for work ranging from “discovering rockets and aeroplanes” to pioneering cosmetic surgery.

The paper reports that in an email sent Thursday to The Indian Express, Ramakrishnan wrote:
“India has produced many great discoveries in the past. ***The most striking example is the invention of zero and the positional number system, which transformed arithmetic and mathematics in general. There were also many great discoveries made in the 20th century by people like (C V) Raman, S N Bose, J C Bose and (Meghnad) Saha.*** [Emphasis added.] In fact, the Science Museum in London is planning a special exhibition on Indian contributions to science and mathematics in connection with the 70th anniversary of Indian independence.”

On the university’s move, he wrote: “Instead of giving prominence to these real contributions, it is disappointing that the university chose to print an official diary that ascribes to figures from religious scriptures discoveries that belong to modern science, such as nuclear technology, airplanes and cosmetic surgery. The people who did this may think they are being patriotic, but in fact they are bringing disrepute to the university and to India generally. I urge the university to renounce these features in the official diary and consider reprinting the diary.”

Ramakrishnan was responding to a request seeking comment from this newspaper. The request was sent after Professor A C Sharma, dean, Faculty of Science, MSU, told the university senate during an ongoing debate on the diary that he had received an email from Ramakrishnan on the issue.

As The Indian Express reported, the diary hails Sushrut as the “father of cosmetic surgery”; Acharya Kanad as the one who “developed nuclear technology”; Kapil Muni as the “father of cosmology”; Maharshi Bhardwaj as the one who “discovered rockets and aeroplanes”; Charak Rishi as the “father of medicine”; and, Garga Muni, as the “scientist of stars”. The sages share space with eminent scientists like J C Bose, Vikram Sarabhai and C V Raman.

With the issue being raised at a senate meeting Thursday — the diary was not on the agenda — Prof Sharma told the gathering: “We know that this university has great alumni and many people who are associated with us. All of them don’t agree with our activity. Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has made a comment in this regard.”

Sharma, quoting Ramakrishnan, said, “Though I fully agree with all those who have sentiments for our history but before making anything public, we should have concrete evidence and whatever we are writing should be scientifically proven facts.”

During the debate, professors of the Faculty of Science contested the claims of senate member Jigar Inamdar, who referred to the Constitution to defend the representation of sages in the diary.

Inamdar produced pages from a reproduction of the Constitution, which depicted illustrations from Ramayana and Mahabharata, asked why an issue was being made about attributing the scientific inventions to sages.

“The Congress party has been objecting to the presence of sages in our diary saying that we are insulting the sages and our Constitution. But on Page 6 of the Constitution, we have a picture depicting the Ramayana and on Page 18, a picture of Mahabharat. So what is wrong with paying a tribute to the sages through the diary?” he asked.

Inamdar holds various positions in the university, including honorary executive director of the Institute of Leadership and Governance; Gujarat government-nominated syndicate member; elected senate member from the donor’s constituency, and, regional director of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR).

When contacted, Inamdar told The Indian Express that he did not agree with Ramakrishnan’s suggestion. “I personally respect Venki (as Ramakrishnan is popularly known). But just because he is a Nobel Laureate, whatever he says does not become true. He has the right to object. It is my right to say that the MSU diary should have these details about the sages, and it is his right to object to it. But just because he is a Nobel Laureate, we cannot accept whatever he says as truth,” he said.

“It is India’s misfortune that the British introduced the education system in India through (Thomas Babington) Macaulay. They destroyed our existing education system and kept the Western culture in mind. They taught the wrong history to all of us for all these years. Our Hansa Mehta library (in MSU) has several books related to astronomy that prove Indian scientific research. I am proud to be a BJP member and an RSS worker as the party is working hard to bring to light the actual Indian culture. The Congress regime has only pushed forward the Western education agenda.”

According to Inamdar, the debate should only be about whether the sages had been able to prove their research or not. “Who can prove that these Indian researches were not proven in their own time. I staunchly believe that Lord Ram travelled in the Pushpak Viman. There were no Wright brothers at that time. But the Pushpak Viman existed.

We need to prove this now."

Rahul Kanwal’s views on Donald Trump vs Yogi Adityanath – A textbook case of hypocrisy

March 24, 2017

Trump says “When you’re a star, you can do anything, grab them by the p*ssy”. Yogi Adityanath while referring to inter-religious marriages talks about how if ‘they’ take one Hindu girl, then we’ll take away 100 Muslims girls. Trump mocks a reporter for his disability because the reporter is critical of him. Yogi Adityanath warns that if ‘they’ kill one Hindu, we won’t file an FIR but will get 10 ‘such people’ murdered. Trump labels Mexicans as rapists and criminals while Yogi Adityanath labels Muslims as Jehadis. Now, how does one choose between these two forms of extreme bigotry? Well, apparently some people can and Rahul Kanwal, the managing editor of India Today, is one of those who has this unique ability to choose between these two forms of bigotry.

Let us first look at Rahul Kanwal’s views vis-a-vis Donald Trump as expressed via his tweets about the American President.

So, Rahul Kanwal thinks that it says a lot about ‘US Politics’ that a person like Trump is taken seriously. He’s essentially trying to point out at the degradation in US politics because a person like Trump was taken seriously. These were his views before Trump was elected as the President. In the last month, after Trump officially took over the charge as the US President, many people of Indian origin in the United States have faced racial attacks. In one incident, an Indian citizen, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, was shot down after being asked to go back to India by an American military veteran. This happened in a bar in the state of Kansas. What does Rahul Kanwal think about that?

He thinks that the bigotry that Trump has brought with him is a dangerous landmine, an opinion influenced by the fact that his brother felt rattled because of his ‘fancy beard’. In fact, Rahul Kanwal’s dislike for Donald Trump is such that he even recommends an application that will block anything related to Donald Trump.

So, if bigotry is a dangerous landmine as Rahul Kanwal claims in reference to Donald Trump, something which Yogi Aditynath has in abundance, you’d think that Rahul Kanwal would have a problem with Yogi Adityanath becoming the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh? If bigotry is a landmine, and you’re opposed to it because your brother is ‘rattled’ because of the consequences of that bigotry, surely you wouldn’t want your fellow citizens to be a victim of such bigotry? So, what does Rahul Kanwal think about Yogi Adityanath?

Oops! Apparently, not. Rahul Kanwal thinks that Yogi Adityanath’s version of bigotry deserves ‘a chance’. Rahul Kanwal thinks that a man who has given speeches in which he’s warned that “If they kill one Hindu, we will kill 100 of theirs” deserves a chance. Rahul Kanwal thinks that a man who thinks that inter-religious marriages are a case of Love-Jihad deserves a chance. Rahul Kanwal thinks that a man who offers Guns to Hindus in Dadri after the murder of Mohammad Akhlaq deserves a chance. Rahul Kanwal thinks that a man who demanded for the release of all the accused in the Dadri case deserves a chance. “Give him a chance, See what he does. And judge him for his work as UP CM”.

If only Rahul Kanwal’s brother with his ‘fancy beard’ was in Mau district during the 2005 riots when Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu Yuva Vahini reined terror, he probably would have used the adjective ‘bigoted’ at least once in reference to Yogi Adityanath.

Courtesy: Alt News

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Data Suggest The Congress Is Not Doing As Badly As It Seems

Delhi Union of Journalists Demand Apology from TOI

2017 JNU Admissions – Over 80% Seat Cut for Researchers

In the beginning of February, the JNUSU had gone on an indefinite strike against the same UGC gazette.

Why Ajmer Blast Terror Attack Convicts Weren’t Mentioned as Terrorists in Media

Govt of India deactivated 86 lakh aadhaar cards “without human intervention”: Majority of them are children

‘Sadhus as Inventors Brings Disrepute to India : Nobel Laureate & Ex-student to MSU, Vadodara

Rahul Kanwal’s views on Donald Trump vs Yogi Adityanath – A textbook case of hypocrisy

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