Dictators and authoritarians don't issue arrival notices before they come on the scene. "Samajdhar ko Ishara hi kafi hai"
Lok Sabha passes Citizenship Bill amidst Opposition outcry
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Dictators and authoritarians don't issue arrival notices before they come on the scene. "Samajdhar ko Ishara hi kafi hai"
BJP-RSS agenda is simple - Kick out anyone who is not loyal to Bharat. It is not based on kicking out minorities. There is no need to explain to anyone why Muslims are to be kicked out. They asked for a separate nation, then they should go. End of story. Bharat is for the rest of the communities. The way it should be. Church also in some ways has to be reduced. Their control over funds should be taken away and should be made distributed like it is for Hindus. This will solve them once and for all, as with money gone, church won't be able to do their propaganda and influence media, and all the skeletons in the closet will be in the open, and they will fall on their own past deeds.
All problems solved.
BJP-RSS is now threatening to kick out a Kargil war veteran, sure he wasn't disloyal to Bharat. For Rabid Hindutva, the philosophy of loyalty and patriotism keeps changing as frequently as PM Modi changes his Kurta. Tomorrow Non Hindi speaking communities like malayalees, Tamils or bengalees will be deemed disloyal. Such shifty loyalty tests will not serve the people of this country, which is why we decided citizenship back when the constitution was being drafted and being promulgated. Hindus, Muslims or any community who chose to place their loyalties to foreign country after 1947 cannot and should not be given citizenship and must helped to go back and settle down in their country of origin.
This is my reward for serving country: Kargil war veteran declared foreigner, detained in Assam
32 Paramilitary Personnel, City Magistrate, a Reporter, and A Mob To Burn Them Alive: The Story From Meerut Protest You Missed
By Madhur Sharma
Dec 28
Journalist Rizwan Khan (Photo by Arihant Pawariya)
Meerut [UP]: Hapur Road and Lisadi Gate were the main centres of the violence that erupted last Friday (December 20), when large groups gathered to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens following Friday prayers across the city’s mosques.
At Hapur Road, the circle officer (CO) Dinseh Shukla, a city magistrate who has not been named so far, and a detachment of police, Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), and Rapid Action Force (RAF) were deployed. The PAC detachment largely comprised of young recruits, and most of them had lathis and only a few were armed. The press corps was also there to cover the protest. Amar Ujala’s Rizwan Khan, along with his photographer, was embedded with the detachment led by Dinesh Shukla and the city magistrate.
Rizwan Khan told The Dispatch that the protestors started to get aggressive and their numbers kept swelling. They greatly outnumbered the police-administrative detachment who pushed them back, constantly shouting slogans.
Khan said: “There was stone-pelting from their end and they pushed us back. CO Dinesh Shukla appealed to them not to pelt stones and to not shout aggressive slogans, but they kept getting more aggressive. A stone hit him [CO Dinesh Shukla] in the leg but he still kept on appealing to them to be peaceful.”
Protesters kept getting violent by the minute. The intensity of stone-pelting increased to the extent that the detachment had to retreat from there. They fled to nearby localities. PAC’s 30 recruits, two RAF personnel, the city magistrate, and Rizwan Khan were separated from the rest of the detachment as they fled. They took refuge on the ground floor of an empty building in Bhawani Nagar along the Hapur Road. They pulled down the shutter to prevent the mob from getting hold of them.
Khan said: “It was not even a proper shop. It was sort of a gateway to the roof where there was a marketplace of sorts. We went to the roof . There they [mob] surrounded us from all sides from surrounding buildings and began pelting us with stones. We were all unarmed except for two RAF personnel who had a rifle and a teargas shell launcher with them. We had to rush back to the ground floor. We shut the door to the roof. Large mobs were there outside on the road and on the roof. They locked the door from the outside and we were trapped. There was rioting going on outside, stones were being pelted, and there was frequent firing too that we heard from inside.”
The paramilitary personnel informed their superiors of the situation over the phone and a police relief column was dispatched to their aid, but it was beaten back by the mob. Khan said that tear gas shells that were being lobbed outside at the mob in an attempt to disperse them also worsened the situation.
He said: “Shells’ smoke was coming inside through the gap between the shutter and the floor and that was suffocating all of us. We were 34 people in a very cramped space with no source of fresh air. Some PAC recruits even fainted.”
The recruits were increasingly getting hopeless and were making calls to send their last words home. Khan attempted to calm those recruits.
When the mob showed no sign of dispersing and they heard them talking about bringing fuel to set the building to fire, Khan said that he realised that it was a do or die situation and that they had to act quickly.
He said: “To lock the door from inside so that the mob from outside could not get hold of us, I took cloth caps of the recruits and tore them to make a rope of sorts. We tied the shutter with the rope that we made in a way that even if they pull it up from outside, it would be held shut from inside.”
His fears soon proved to be true. The mob did try to open the shutter later but Khan’s plan worked. The rope held on. The stone pelting and firing continued outside.
Khan said that they were trapped there for more than two hours until CO Dinesh Shukla and came to their rescue with the RAF. As per him, a recruit who saw the size of the crowd outside told him that there could be as many as 10,000 people out there who were on the streets and who had surrounded them.
“I survived a very big disaster,” Khan told The Dispatch. “Anything could have happened with us, anything, had CO Dinesh Shukla not come to our rescue. The mob was going to burn us alive.”
Khan said that even as the paramilitary personnel informed their superior and even as he made calls, it was only CO Shukla who knew exactly where they were trapped and it was him who rescued them.
“If he would not have come, or if he would have also got caught somewhere like us, I wouldn’t be here talking to you,” Khan said.
Madhur Sharma is a student of journalism at IIMC Delhi. He tweets at @madhur_mrt.
This is his first story from Meerut on the agitation and violence that the city has witnessed with regard to the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens. Follow this space for more stories on the subject.
32 Paramilitary Personnel, City Magistrate, a Reporter, and A Mob To Burn Them Alive: The Story…
By Madhur Sharma
Dec 28
Meerut [UP]: Hapur Road and Lisadi Gate were the main centres of the violence that erupted last Friday (December 20), when large groups gathered to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens following Friday prayers across the city’s mosques.
At Hapur Road, the circle officer (CO) Dinseh Shukla, a city magistrate who has not been named so far, and a detachment of police, Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), and Rapid Action Force (RAF) were deployed. The PAC detachment largely comprised of young recruits, and most of them had lathis and only a few were armed. The press corps was also there to cover the protest. Amar Ujala’s Rizwan Khan, along with his photographer, was embedded with the detachment led by Dinesh Shukla and the city magistrate.
Rizwan Khan told The Dispatch that the protestors started to get aggressive and their numbers kept swelling. They greatly outnumbered the police-administrative detachment who pushed them back, constantly shouting slogans.
Khan said: “There was stone-pelting from their end and they pushed us back. CO Dinesh Shukla appealed to them not to pelt stones and to not shout aggressive slogans, but they kept getting more aggressive. A stone hit him [CO Dinesh Shukla] in the leg but he still kept on appealing to them to be peaceful.”
Protesters kept getting violent by the minute. The intensity of stone-pelting increased to the extent that the detachment had to retreat from there. They fled to nearby localities. PAC’s 30 recruits, two RAF personnel, the city magistrate, and Rizwan Khan were separated from the rest of the detachment as they fled. They took refuge on the ground floor of an empty building in Bhawani Nagar along the Hapur Road. They pulled down the shutter to prevent the mob from getting hold of them.
Khan said: “It was not even a proper shop. It was sort of a gateway to the roof where there was a marketplace of sorts. We went to the roof . There they [mob] surrounded us from all sides from surrounding buildings and began pelting us with stones. We were all unarmed except for two RAF personnel who had a rifle and a teargas shell launcher with them. We had to rush back to the ground floor. We shut the door to the roof. Large mobs were there outside on the road and on the roof. They locked the door from the outside and we were trapped. There was rioting going on outside, stones were being pelted, and there was frequent firing too that we heard from inside.”
The paramilitary personnel informed their superiors of the situation over the phone and a police relief column was dispatched to their aid, but it was beaten back by the mob. Khan said that tear gas shells that were being lobbed outside at the mob in an attempt to disperse them also worsened the situation.
He said: “Shells’ smoke was coming inside through the gap between the shutter and the floor and that was suffocating all of us. We were 34 people in a very cramped space with no source of fresh air. Some PAC recruits even fainted.”
The recruits were increasingly getting hopeless and were making calls to send their last words home. Khan attempted to calm those recruits.
When the mob showed no sign of dispersing and they heard them talking about bringing fuel to set the building to fire, Khan said that he realised that it was a do or die situation and that they had to act quickly.
He said: “To lock the door from inside so that the mob from outside could not get hold of us, I took cloth caps of the recruits and tore them to make a rope of sorts. We tied the shutter with the rope that we made in a way that even if they pull it up from outside, it would be held shut from inside.”
His fears soon proved to be true. The mob did try to open the shutter later but Khan’s plan worked. The rope held on. The stone pelting and firing continued outside.
Khan said that they were trapped there for more than two hours until CO Dinesh Shukla and came to their rescue with the RAF. As per him, a recruit who saw the size of the crowd outside told him that there could be as many as 10,000 people out there who were on the streets and who had surrounded them.
“I survived a very big disaster,” Khan told The Dispatch. “Anything could have happened with us, anything, had CO Dinesh Shukla not come to our rescue. The mob was going to burn us alive.”
Khan said that even as the paramilitary personnel informed their superior and even as he made calls, it was only CO Shukla who knew exactly where they were trapped and it was him who rescued them.
“If he would not have come, or if he would have also got caught somewhere like us, I wouldn’t be here talking to you,” Khan said.
Madhur Sharma is a student of journalism at IIMC Delhi. He tweets at @madhur_mrt.
This is his first story from Meerut on the agitation and violence that the city has witnessed with regard to the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens. Follow this space for more stories on the subject.
32 Paramilitary Personnel, City Magistrate, a Reporter, and A Mob To Burn Them Alive: The Story…
Yeah and people die in accident on road so stop traveling and start protest against roads.
Almost every single time argument is same, Hitler did this so Modi 'will' do this, fascism, please let us burn some buses and trains with passengers inside, how can you stop our right to silence your voice.
Bored.
Tribunal declared him foreigner not BJP-RSS Dear. NRC was started by Rajiv Gandhi, not BJP RSS again, today it's under strict monitoring of Supreme Court.
The tribunal that declared him foreigner is a judicial body.
But amazing how brought BJP RSS into this to peddle lies.
I challenge you to prove any relation to BJP RSS in this incident, delete your post or I will delete mine.
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In almost all of his posts , he cleverly tries to play regional divide. Equates North India(Hindi speaking = BJP RSS) RSS is pan India btw.
Swarajya (@SwarajyaMag) Tweeted:
"Timely action by the administration saved the day, otherwise, there could’ve been riots had the mobs succeeded in going into Hindu localities,” says a resident of Muzaffarnagar.
@haryannvi's ground report:
“If Yogi Wasn’t In Power, There Would’ve Been A Bloodbath”: Muzaffarnagar Residents Tell How The City Was Saved ( )
"Timely action by the administration saved the day, otherwise, there could’ve been riots had the mobs succeeded in going into Hindu localities,” says a resident of Muzaffarnagar.
@haryannvi's ground report:
“If Yogi Wasn’t In Power, There Would’ve Been A Bloodbath”: Muzaffarnagar Residents Tell How The City Was Saved ( )
Did it ever occur to you that CAA and NRC actually has wider support among Indian populace than what most of the foreign media would let us believe. Remember, India is actually a vast nation. Even if lakhs are protesting, they are not even 1% of the populace. From the looks of it, 60-65% of citizens are in favor of CAA and NRC and they are not going to go out and counter protest to show that.
Ergo, Modi or BJP or current regime is more democratic than you think it is. All I mean to say that if No means No, then Yes also means Yes.
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) Tweeted:
Only in India, will police not be given the authority to seize material evidence; what’s more the suspected Jihadi criminals (aka “students”) & the complicit Jihadi administration don’t want the evidence handed over... surprise surprise
Jamia University Administration, Delhi Police Wrangle over CCTV Footage of December 15 Incident ( )
Only in India, will police not be given the authority to seize material evidence; what’s more the suspected Jihadi criminals (aka “students”) & the complicit Jihadi administration don’t want the evidence handed over... surprise surprise
Jamia University Administration, Delhi Police Wrangle over CCTV Footage of December 15 Incident ( )
Sorry if i hurt your RSS indoctrinated heart. This is nothing but a RSS, wannabe Nazi agenda to divide the country and set fellow Indians against one another. If a war veteran , who served his country with distinction and was found eligible by the govt to be entrusted with highest of national responsibilities, is found to be a non citizen, i think that explains the depth to which the RSS subverted institutions in this country....
I post articles so that resident Nazis like you can your true reflection and come to terms to what you and your ilk are.
When Indira Gandhi imposed her emergency, there was widespread support for her from ordinary citizens who still swooning from her durga act in East Pakistan and the first nuclear test. Still students and citizens who cared for the constitution, democracy and rule of law and came out and protested with what they could. Because they believed the price of freedom was eternal vigilance and vigilant we always must be...
Roads don't kill people, but communally indoctrinated mobs baying for the blood of the people they hate, do kill people. I understand indoctrinated sanghis, like some in this very forum, are itching to mass murder innocent citizen, but that is not correct and must be stopped at any cost.