'When BJP chief and Home Minister Amit Shah launched the party's door-to-door campaign to raise support for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act this week, it was expected to be an opportunity for pristine photo ops. However, on the first day of the campaign on January 5, Shah's visit to the Lajpat Nagar locality of Delhi was interrupted by two women shouting slogans from their apartment.
'If reality spoke for itself, Prasar Bharati would probably dispute it. On January 6, a day after mob violence in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, India's state broadcaster spun a blatantly false angle on it. This was fact-checked by AltNews, but Prasar Bharati would not back down... In short, the state broadcaster of India — itself borne out of the fears around autonomy following ruthless state propaganda during Indira Gandhi’s Emergency regime — is now peddling demonstrably false information online. Unsurprisingly, this information suits the position of the current establishment.
'Ghosh was addressing a rally in Nadia district of West Bengal when an ambulance came up against the crowd. “This ambulance was sent by the Trinamool Congress to disrupt the meeting,” Bharatiya Janata Party’s West Bengal President Dilip Ghosh said on Monday, telling the emergency vehicle to change its route instead of disturbing a BJP rally in Krishnanagar, Nadia. “Divert the route of the ambulance as hundreds of people are sitting here,” Ghosh was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. “They (TMC) are doing it purposely. It is their tactic to disrupt this rally.”...'
'A video, where two men can be seen attempting to take a girl hostage while an elderly woman tries to stop the duo, was shared by Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy on January 15, 2020. In the video, both the women are beaten and pushed around by the men. “A Hindu woman is being picked up by a Muslim in Pakistan in the front of his mother and child. And foolish Hindus are proud of the NRC opposition. There are 55 Islamic countries for 150 million Muslims, there are 69 Christian countries for 250 million Christians. And there is no country for 150 crore Hindus,” tweeted Roy...
'A video of a man in a red jacket beating up another person in green clothing is widely circulating on social media to espouse the claim that students associated with Left parties attacked members of RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). This triggered the violence in JNU on the intervening night of January 5-6, per the narrative. Journalist Sumit Kumar Singh the first to tweet the video. He wrote, “This triggered clashes in #JNU campus. Students associated with Left parties bashed up #ABVP members when they were facilitating admission process.
'In sanctioning the re-election of Dilip Ghosh as Bengal’s Bharatiya Janata Party president, the party high command has validated his rhetoric of violence and hate. Ghosh’s reappointment for the top job in Bengal comes hot on the heels of his intemperate comments and an open call to violence. Two days ago, at a public meeting in Nadia district, the BJP chief denounced chief minister Mamata Banerjee for not following in the footsteps of the BJP-led governments in UP and Assam and shooting anti-CAA/NRC protesters “like dogs“...'
'...The private event was part of a nationwide campaign by the BJP to create support for the planned National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act that was passed on December 11. Going by media reports, the only A-list names who attended were T-Series head Bhushan Kumar and Ritesh Sidhwani, who runs Excel Entertainment along with Farhan Akhtar. (According to Mumbai Mirror, Sidhwani “left in 20 minutes”.) Among the other guests were Kunal Kohli, Kailash Kher, Anu Malik, Ranvir Shorey, Shaan, Abhishek Kapoor and Rahul Rawail...
'BJP Delhi spokesperson Tajinder Bagga tweeted an 18-second clip of a protest at the Gateway of India, Mumbai on the intervening night of January 5-6. The protest was against the violence at JNU Delhi, where masked goons entered the campus with weapons and thrashed several students. The sloganeering at the Mumbai protest was led by former JNU student Umar Khalid. “Muslim and Leftists students in Mumbai again Raised Slogans “Hinduo se Aazadi” but this time not in Jamia or JNU , they raised Hinduo se Aazadi Slogans at Gateway of India Mumbai,” claimed Bagga.
'Addressing the meet, state Finance Minister Himanta Biswa said that three years ago there was only “one Ajmal”, referring to Lok Sabha MP and AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal, but today there are “lakhs and lakhs of Ajmals”. He said BJP karyakartas have to fight to “save Assam from those who write Miya poetry, from the likes of Ajmals, such ultra communal forces”. “Miya poetry” was a reference to works of poets and activists of Bengali-speaking Muslim community of Assam who write in a dialect colloquially called the ‘Miya’ dialect.
'Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi took to Twitter on Saturday, 4 January, to share a video claiming that NASA has recorded the sound of the Sun, and the sound it emits is ‘Om’. At the time of reporting, this video had over 72,000 views and had been re-shared 1,600 times... The Quint could verify that there is no truth to the claim stated in the video. NASA has not released any report which suggests anything remotely similar to what is said in the video...'
