'Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Binay Tamang faction) has taken offence to comments made by Dilip Ghosh about Gorkhas who died in the 2017 statehood agitation. He has threatened to come out in protest if Ghosh does not retract his statement. Tamang said, “In a television interview, Ghosh had dubbed the 11 martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the 2017 agitation as antisocial elements, who were rightly shot by the police for vandalising government property.
'A video of BJP workers purportedly raising provocative slogans alluding to the 2002 Gujarat riots while taking out a rally in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, has gone viral, prompting police to register a case. The rally was taken out at nearby Kuttiyadi on Monday, police said. In the video some BJP workers, carrying party flags are seen allegedly raising provocative slogans...'
'Union Minister and BJP leader Giriraj Singh urged scientists to conduct more research on cow dung, suggesting that this could make it financially viable for farmers to keep their cows even after they have stopped producing milk...'
'West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, while addressing a science and engineering fair in Kolkata on Tuesday, said that mythological character Arjuna’s arrows had nuclear power and chariots mentioned in the Mahabharata actually flew. He immediately drew flak from scientists and scholars. “In Mahabharata, we had a situation where Sanjay narrated everything and not from the field (the battle between the Pandavas and Kauravas).
'BJP state president Dilip Ghosh courted controversy on Sunday by threatening to shoot and kill those involved in damaging public property “like the same way in Uttar Pradesh“. Addressing a public meeting in West Bengal’s Nadia district, Ghosh came down heavily on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “for not opening fire and ordering lathicharge” on those destroying railway property and public transport during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in the state in December last year...
'Doyeeta Majumder, an English professor at Jadavpur University, was assaulted by members of a pro-Citizenship Amendment Act rally organised by a right wing group. She was surrounded by men and women and manhandled when she objected to an anti-Muslim speech delivered by one of the attendees. Speaking exclusively to SabrangIndia, Majumder narrated the incident and what followed thereafter...'
'Launching a blistering attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, BJP president and Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that those who had raised "anti-national" slogans at the JNU deserved to be put behind bars. Questioning whether Gandhi and Kejriwal are "cousin brothers" of the "tukde tukde sloganeers", Shah told a public meeting that whosoever speaks against the country will be jailed. "In JNU, some boys had raised anti-national slogans.
'Stung by criticism over its attempt to rally support for the CAA through a campaign in Mumbai schools, the BJP has taken a step back. An office-bearer who had launched the exercise last week has now postponed a similar programme scheduled for Monday at a Kandivali school. At Shree Dayanand School in Matunga last Friday, many BJP leaders called anti-CAA protesters traitors and asked the 1,000-odd students aged 9-17 and 40 teachers to “protect the country from them”.
'In a statement, a group of human and civil rights lawyers of South Asian descent have expressed grave concerns about “ongoing legal abuses and human rights atrocities” in India. Their statement covers the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens, and the way protests against the two have been cracked down on by the government, as well as the Central governments actions in Kashmir.
'A minister in the Uttar Pradesh government threatened, saying that he will bury alive those people who raise anti-Yogi Adityanath and anti- Narendra Modi slogans. Uttar pradesh minister Raghuraj Singh said, " I will bury all such people alive who make objectionable comments against prime minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath." He was referring to those students who had raised slogans against the prime minister and chief minister during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest in the Aligarh Muslim University campus.'
