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#Kashmir “disinformation buster” Thread 2 continuing from here
51n juicy juicy exposé. You remember notorious fakenewsist & terror normaliser @MuzamilJALEEL at @IndianExpress we’ve him here exposed before? His baccha at IE Basharat Masood is now at it...
52n 2 days back Basharat claimed he was reporting from the ground in Sopore. Yet in his “heart rending” fabrication today, Basharat a Sopore resident, claims he hasn’t been back in 7 days and is missing his kids. Which piece is a lie? Both? Cc @rajkamaljha factchecking please?
53n oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, we shouldn’t sell porkie pies should we? Via @detresfa_
.54 As can be seen from this video clip these protesters are 1) violent 2) joyful ... so much for being “upset” over #Article370Scrapped this looks like some country fair a la the running of the bulls at Pamplona

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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
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Thread on #Kashmir .. I’ll be using this as a news aggregator & comments thread. If some mistakes are made will acknowledge but won’t delete.
1n. Earlier @NicolaCareem tweeted a video, suggesting that the protestors were peaceful & that violence was one sided from the police
2n nothing can be further from the truth. Thanks to some great analysis by @detresfa_ , @Natsecjeff & @KashmirSource (the same 2 guys some of you idiots want banned) we can see:
a) heavy stone pelting
b) protestors carrying sticks
This means the protests were NOT peaceful
3n this same video at the end shows a genuinely peaceful protest being allowed to pass off with full police protection. Note police are not intervening, even though these protestors earlier were walking down a street & could have been intercepted
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
@Iyervval
2n what will PROBABLY happen TOMORROW
1) Cabinet will ask governor to request termination of article 370
2) as per previous tweet GOVERNOR is now the CONSTITUTIONALLY authorised SUBSTITUTE FOR THE STATE ASSEMBLY
3) Parliament consent NOT REQUIRED
4) PRESIDENTIAL NOTIFICATION...
2n will be issued terminating both 35A & 370
5) State will be trifurcated:
Jammu to become a state
Kashmir & Ladakh to become UT
Kashmir possibly WITHOUT an assembly (Chandigarh & Andaman anyway don’t have assemblies)
6) Supreme Court has no locus standi on this, they DARE not
7) at any rate as pointed out here the Supreme Court has ALREADY HELD that the governor is a competent substitute for the assembly
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
@Iyervval
Thread on the #Zomatoindia controversy
1n as pointed out Food preference is socially acceptable (rightly so) but Human Discrimination is fundamentally bigotry (rightly so). However why does this not apply to Akshay Patra who faced a campaign to force “secular” food preferences?
2n for example the Waqf too gets government funding why not impose pork on them? These same chaps When Air India which was government funded, switched to vegetarian for economic reasons there was an uproar nytimes.com/2017/07/10/wor…
3n so on the one hand they have no issues with Waqf’s receiving government money and sticking to their religious beliefs, but AkshayaPatra which does the same must not. Neither should air india despite the economics of a simplified Lowest Common Denominator meal.
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