BREAKING: Unprecedented!! ALL 77 BJP MLAs of Bengal to be provided central security, with immediate effect.
61 X category, 4 Y category, remaining HAD central security.
Reasoning: ALL of them have very real security threat to their life.
#WestBengalViolence
BREAKING: Violence breaks out in Bengal soon after the
#WestBengalElections
results were clear. BJP party office in Arambagh is set on fire. Allegation against TMC, TMC denies charge.
"Before you leave, tell us what shall we do. Else, we can't survive here," says these BJP's women supporters with folded hands to
@HMOIndia
team in Diamond Harbour, that has seen violence like many other places in the state.
#WestBengalViolence
JUST IN: BJP officially takes up
#Justiceforlavanaya
as a campaign at national level, demanding CBI probe. Lavanya wa a 17 year old girl who committed suicide alleging her school forced her to convert. Her version caught in viral dying declaration.
BREAKING:
@TwitterIndia
is being summoned by the Parliamentary committee on IT to explain allegations of bias against it. They will present their case on 11th at 3 PM.
As Kavita Krishnan was spewing venom against Indian government in UK for axing
#Article370
, LGBTQ activists there, barged in to protest against her and for the abrogation of 370 as it now gives gay community in
#Kashmir
right to live with dignity.
Interesting exchanges in SC today during
#ShaheenBagh
hearing
Justice K M Joseph cited police action in US and UK to the Centre
Solicitor General rebutts, the minute police start acting like US and UK police then court will be the first to intervene.
Ouch!
#DelhiRiots
In last 10 days ALONE, in North Bengal:
Alipurduar: 35-yr-old tribal woman paraded naked by village 'elders'.
Moynaguri: A Rajbanshi woman thrashed and her head forcibly shaved by locals.
Dhupguri: A women made naked & video circulated
Women's Safety, anyone?
It's been nearly 1.5 years since his father Kanhaiyalal - a tailor was beheaded by Ghaus Mohammed and Md Riyaz for supporting now-suspended Nupur Sharma.
His son Yash continues to walk barefoot ever since. A PSO accompanies him to work. Story soon.
#RajasthanElection2023
Personal Opinion:
#KanganaRanaut
or anyone else: The fact that K Kaur was allowed to roam around without being detained shows
@CISFHQrs
doesn't have a SOP for such instances. It's not the slap, it's the defiance.
CISF DG should wake up and smell the coffee.
BIG BREAKING: Modi promises to enforce all central farmer schemes in
#WestBengal
in the very first cabinet meeting, if voted to power. Also, promises arrears.
BREAKING: Calcutta HC dismisses plea to stop BJP's
#PoribortonYatra
. Judge said, "This is a politically motivated plea. This can't be a PIL."
#WestBengalElections
BREAKING: Vishwa Hindu Parishad's Secy Gen Milind Parande says, "...the Hindu society also has the full right of self defense, which it will use". The VHP 's full statement on
#WestBengalViolence
is below.
"We can't return to our homes for 4-5 months... We want President Rule in
#WestBengal
", says a participant in today's March in Delhi to my colleague
@96dff4f19808441
. Families of victims of post poll violence took out a candle light March in Delhi today demanding justice.
Patient shifted like this in the heart of Kolkata! No ambulance! It's intermittently raining or drizzling since morning today. Solid break by colleague Sourav Datta, the best health reporter in Bengal.
BREAKING: This is huge and will have massive political ripples.
Justice Kaushik Chanda, against whom, CM Mamata Banerjee had written and demanded the Nandigram case be reassigned from him, has been appointed as a permanent judge of Calcutta HC by SC Collegium.
Supreme Court unhappy with Calcutta High Court's blanket ban on
#crackers
, sets aside the judgement. Warns state govts, if SC order (permitting an array of crackers) isn't followed, strong action will be taken. Oh boy!
In other words, SC abolishes total
#CrackerBan
BIG BREAKING: CJI receives complaint on
#BengalViolence
. A representation signed by 2093 women advocates from 28 States & 8 UTs given to CJI. He is urged to take cognizance of the scenario & call it "erosion of rule of law and institutional breakdown" in
#WestBengal
.
Unprecedented anger among Bengal BJP cadres, jr leaders including district presidents. Many started to speak up openly on SM. They belive, the state leadership went into hiding when they were needed to stand by the cadres. Particular angst against an union min.
#BengalViolence
If a simple handshake can send a message to the entire organisation or sangathan as they call it, it's this. None less than the Prime Minister
@narendramodi
himself met the 2 BJP supporters who chanted 'Jai Shri Ram' at Mamata Banerjee.
Amit Shah's message to
#Bengal
unit of BJP: Start from scratch at booth level. Don't look up to Central BJP. It's your fight. You have to fight and win it just the way Mamata fought against left and won her battle.
Shocking! They are JNU 'students'. They have gheraoed the Vice Chancellor
@mamidala90
s residence. Chanting 'come out JNU VC', they lay a seige. As VC's wife is alone at home, terrified. It doesn't matter which ideology you belong to for outrightly calling for their arrest.
BREAKING:
#ArpitaMukherjee
isn't the end of it. At least 4 women including an IAS officer are under ED lens who are believed to be as close to
#ParthaChatterjee
as Arpita is.
The golgappawalas and carpenters will leave. They will be able to sell it in Mahoba, Arra, Patna. But have you thought, the amount of hotel booking cancellations that are taking place even as I type? I am glad, Ladakh is hyphenated, which is no longer just bikers dream.
These long lines of citizen who say they are victims of
#BengalViolence
, out there since morning to talk to visiting NHRC teams, made the rights body extend its visit. WBSLSA, in its report to the Calcutta HC, said 3,243 reported suffering till 12 noon of June 10, 2021.
A while ago, TMC MP Santanu Sen reportedly snatched IT Min
@AshwiniVaishnaw
papers and tore up. I won't use adjectives like 'shocking'. Why?
Sept, '20: TMC's Derek O Brien yanked RS Chairs mic
Aug, '05: TMC Boss Mamata Banerjee had threw a sheaf of papers at Speakers Chair
Delhi BJP spokesperson
@TajinderBagga
, who was earlier once detained in Bengal, has set a target of sending 1 lakh postcards to Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee with '
#JaiSriRam
' written on it.
#BengalNetajiClash
BREAKING: If BJP's allegation is anything to go by, violence in Bengal continues, after more than a week of poll result.
Now, BJP cadre Manoj Jaisawal of Nalhati assembly constituency under Birbhum district has been found murdered.
#BengalViolence
BREAKING: BJP moves body of its Mograhat West Assembly constituency candidate, who died yesterday allegedly because of
#postpollviolence
to CM Mamata Banerjee’s residence in
#Bhawanipur
Sukanto Majumdar, BJP president, Arjun Singh, several MPs, MLAs are in attendance.
Bengal BJP unit facing revolt district after district. Slowly disintegrating. What a year it has been! From the black horse during New Year to this by year end!
BREAKING: Violence breaks out in Beleghata, Kolkata. It's barely 7 km from the icons Park Street. Media isn't allowed anywhere near there. BJP cadres are targeted.
#WestBengalElections2021
"What happened to Suvendu Adhikari? He also received money from me. It was recorded. And handed over to CBI. Justice has to go everywhere, in the same manner."
~ Mathew Samuel, Man behind
#NaradaScam
JUST IN: CPIM has decided that it will unfurl the national flag 🇮🇳 this 15th Aug in their Bengal HQ, reports colleague Pradipta.
CPIM stayed away from unfurling the tricolour, so far, in Bengal.
Pro-BJP supporters raise slogan inside Kolkata's iconic Coffee House, after they were stopped from pasting political posters. Their argument was, if
#NoVoteToBJP
posters can be allowed inside Coffee House, why not theirs.
#WestBengalElections2021
JUST IN: BJP sweeps entire Lakhimpur Kheri. BJP wins all 8 seats there. Lakhimpur Kheri witnessed farmers agitation followed by incident where farmers were allegedly been ran over by sitting Union Ministers son.
For the first time, ever, in last 72 years, someone could offer prayers at Sharda Perth, under Pakistan occupied
#Kashmir
. Mr & Mrs Venkataraman could make it as they are Hong Kong citizen. Video through friend
@AdityaRajKaul
.
#HappyDussehra
He is Ashish Pathak. When Congressmen chanted
#ChowkidarChorHai
, he objected. In return he was beaten black and blue by Cong goons in Rae Bareli, the Gandhi bastion. Specs of Pathak, a heart patient has been broken.
Cong slogan: Nafrat Se Nahi, Pyar Se Jitenge
Union minister
@smritiirani
at Amethi when a village caught fire. If politics is about messaging, she has sent all the right messages today. Amethi goes to polls on May 6.
The 94 page affidavit by
#SudarshanNews
has made some serious and pointed allegations against Zakat Foundation, in the Supreme Court. Very interesting!
BREAKING: Inderjeet Singh, grand son of ex Prez Gyani Zail Singh joins BJP and immediately drops a bomb shell. Says, "We don't know whether my grand father met with an accident or an accident was orchestrated".
Just In: India's retired top guns from the Forces Vs Rahul Gandhi. They have demanded an apology from him over his recent comment saying, India can do without Army, IAF & Navy.
CAUTION: Expletives used in Bengali
That is Howrah. This is a
#COVID
ー19 Hotspot. This is
#WestBengal
. Leaving at that. (BTW, the person being attacked is a Cop)
People may say Narendra Modi's legacy will be abrogation of 370. Some may say, 35A. Nay sayers would claim, alleged mishandling of pandemic.
None.
PM
@narendramodi
s legacy will be Yemen to Kabul. Toughest evacuations where each Indian lives mattered. Go and ask those rescued.
Ending the day with these 2 images from the streets of Kolkata. Their political leanings aside, all these youngsters demanded were jobs, a life of self respect.
Mamata Banerjee's comment on gheraoing para military forces in Bengal has put the ball in realm of nationalism, a pitch BJP knows way too well.
#WestBengalPolls
Prime Minister Modi's pet project Jal Jeevan Mission had started a corporate challenge to address rural water woes. It has received a whopping 213 proposals so far.
Credit where it's due. The govt is focussed on areas, very few govts thought it worthy to focus on.
BREAKING: Bengal Guv
@jdhankhar1
gives sanction to CBI for prosecution of
(1) Firhad Hakim
(2) Subrata Mukherjee
(3) Madan
Mitra and
(4) Sovan Chatterjee
in an alleged Scam.
#WestBengal
CM Mamata Banerjee's plan tomorrow:
1. Durgapur Jansabha at 11:00AM
2. Jamuria Jansabha at 12:00 PM
3. Asansol Dakshin Jansabha at 1:00 PM &
4. Nanoor Jansabha at 2:00 PM.
Meanwhile, PM has cancelled all his 4 rallies tom to focus on
#COVIDEmergency2021
.
#WestBengalPolls
ALERT: VHP claims, more than 3500 villages & 40K+ people being affected by
#BengalViolence
. It has urged the judiciary to take cognizance of the "sutuation" in the state.
A photo of the 'mortal remains' of BJP cadre Joy Prakash Yadav who BJP claims is bombed to death in Bhatpara, is basically a pound of flesh.
I strongly believe that truth, however harsh, needs to b shown. But even I dread to see that photo, late alone share.
#BengalViolence
Chavan Vikrant, a Congress Corporator of Thane, near Mumbai, hits The Indian Express Journalist -
@tabassum_b
, a woman, in Mumbai.
The silence from Congress is baffling!
In 2014: 'S**le (Narendra Modi) ki boti kat denge, chhoti chhoti', said Congress's Imran Masood
In 2018: 'Nafrat se nahin, pyar se jitenge', slogan released by Congress
In 2019: Imran Masood gets Congress ticket, IN FIRST LIST.
BREAKING: It's BJP vs BJP! With the central leadership for not notifying
#CAA
rules (yday was last day for that),
#Bengal
BJP's refugee cell put BJP govt at center, at dock. What's more? Bengal BJP sought the help of other political parties to put pressure on its own government
JUST IN: Bengal Guv tears into the Bengal govt: "Administration is busy with feel good factor...CS, DGP came to me without any info... Unprecedented post result violence in West Bengal."
#BengalViolence
Maulana Karim
Maulana Yaseen
Maulana Basiruddin
Abu Siddique
Saidul
Jawed
Mozidul
Faruk
Saiyad
Arman
Nadim
Khandakar
Mujib
Mortuza
What's common in them? They all are
#TalibanSympathisers
. But not in
@himantabiswa
s
#Assam
. They all stand arrested.
JUST IN:
#RSS
passed resolution in its Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal, against attacks on rel minorities in
#Bangladesh
. Calling it "systematic effort to exterminate & uproot Hindu minorities", RSS also mentioned "deafening silence" of human rights watchdogs and UN bodies.
A mother consoling his son by running her finger through his hair. A father holding the blood soaked hand of the son who is visibly in acute pain.
I don't care what is the politics of TMC or BJP or Congress. No parents deserve to go through this. Today, Bengal is THIS. Not a GN.
BJP claims,
@ShahnawazBJP
, its CEC Member & Minister, has been attacked at Howrah. He went to Golabari Police Station to file an FIR. He even showed stones, that he claims, were thrown at him.
#WestBengalPolls
#Hadiya
s former husband
#shafinJahan
refused an interview to
@IndiaToday
. When my colleague asked him the reason, he said because we did a sting on PFI showing PFI accepting on camera they get funds to convert. Do I need to say any more about
#HadiyaCase
?
It's midnight. PM
@narendramodi
is still out in Varanasi. He is inspecting the Khidkiya Ghat in Kashi. Earlier in the evening he went to visit a railway station.
"These attacks were pre planned. It is very evident that foreign players are trying to conspire against us, sitting there. But, we have to be vigilant".
Dipu Moni, most powerful minister of Hasina govt hints at Pakistan hand without taking name.
#Bangladesh