"... a terrifyingly fascinating exercise that is right now underway in the election campaign is the trivialisation and normalisation of the Gujarat pogrom, to pave the way for the crowning of the emperor, the Vikas Purush..."
"For someone who speaks a lot, Narendra Modi reveals very little about his actual views. He has preferred not to be interviewed by the press to the extent that a leader of his position should be open to doing, though he isn’t alone here... This is why, an interview he gave to the editor of Urdu Nai Duniya around the same time is so important... The news from this interview centered around Modi’s dramatic statement that he should be hanged if found guilty of the riots (since when do the accused decide their own punishment?).
"Modi is sending out hundreds of officers, ministers to other states ‘with a view to make aware Gujarati community and local residents of respective State about progress achieved by Gujarat in various fields... Under this program, it has been decided by the State Government to depute delegation consisting of Hon’ble Members of Parliament/Hon’ble Members of Legislative Assembly / District Panchayat Presidents / Mayors of Municipal Corporation under Chairmanship of Hon’ble Deputy Speaker / Hon’ble Minister for dissemination of information on project of “Statue of Unity” ...
"Gujarat intelligence and anti-terrorist squad officers stalked and snooped on Madhuri beyond the boundaries of the state. Her would-be husband, parents, brothers and friends were under surveillance too. And this had nothing to do with her personal safety or national security. A Saheb in Gujarat was interested in knowing the details of her love life... It's no longer an internal matter of Gujarat.
"The footsteps of fascism can be heard – this time in the hallowed hallways of the national capital’s courts. A woman who filed an FIR against a man physically threatening her for her anti-Modi Facebook posts, found to her dismay that the Metropolitan Magistrate in the Tis Hazari courts let off the man accused of threatening her safety, while ordering an FIR against her instead! The media’s coverage of this outrageous incident has been, till now, biased and factually misleading. Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, a journalist and a Ph.D.
The Snoopgate story starts with the abduction and cold-blooded murder of an innocent young woman, who was framed as a terrorist by her killers [1]. One of them, G.L. Singhal, kept recordings of his telephone conversations with Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, in case he might need them to exonerate his own conduct. It is clips from these recorded conversations that were released by Gulail and Cobrapost.
"Adani Group was given 2008.41 hectare reserve forest land, which falls in Mundra and Dhrub villages in the Kutch east forest division, for Solar Salt Project & Salt Washery Plant on the condition that it would make compensatory afforestation over equivalent non-forest land and to bear the cost of raising and maintaining compensatory afforestation.
"...Once Reliance invested in the group, editors approached stories about their benefactor gingerly. In one instance in 2012, a possible story containing a reference about Reliance and TV18 bidding for Indian cricket rights was discussed by the channel’s core editors for two days. “People were saying, ‘Yeah, let’s play it up,’” a person involved in the story’s production told me. But the reference worried them, and they asked the reporter to confirm once more that Reliance had placed a bid. This was confirmed, but the story that ran contained only the names of other bidders...
"Ahead of general elections in six months, the snooping allegations have put Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime minister-designate Narendra Modi on the backfoot, especially when the saffron party's responses to the charges have been weak and unconvincing. Narendra Modi has topped several recent opinion polls, but the charges could tarnish his carefully crafted image as a pro-business and graft-free administrator..."
"Much before the controversy of snooping on a young architect and a senior IAS officer in Gujarat was exposed, the State Intelligence Bureau had drawn the attention of the Narendra Modi government to rampant state-sponsored phone tapping. The Bureau had apprehended "trouble and controversies in future" in an official letter and demanded a strict phone interception policy..."
