Thread by @SaketGokhale

Expose:

The delegation of far-right EU MPs visiting Kashmir & meeting PM Modi was a PR exercise organized by a lobbyist named Madi Sharma.

BUT, it now appears that a major role might've been played by Canadian hate-monger @TarekFatah in organizing this visit.

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As we now know, the visit of select extremist European MPs to J&K was organized by lobbyist Madi Sharma & sponsored by a mysterious company called Srivastava Group.

Srivastava group runs business entities which are either bankrupt, in debt, or disbanded.

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Srivastava Group also runs a news website called “New Delhi Times” which mainly re-posts content from the Russian propaganda agency RT News.

The editor in chief is a man named Ankit Srivastava

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Now Ankit Srivastava (on behalf of his family’s Srivastava Group) also runn an NGO called the “Breast Milk Foundation” & “Amaara which is a bank for human breast milk in partnership with Fortis Hospitals.

Incidentally, Tarek Fatah was a guest at Amaara’s launch in 2016.

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Ankit Srivastava & Neha Srivastava are listed as directors/owners of the Srivastava Group which funded the visit of the European MPs to Kashmir.

They’re both based out of Canada which is where Tarek Fatah is based.

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Tarek Fatah also follows Ankit Srivastava on Twitter. Incidentally, Tarek Fatah is also a follower of lobbyist Madi Sharma on Twitter.

Fatah also routinely RTs Srivastava’s articles from the fake news rag “New Delhi Times”.

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Now lets look at the other co-organizers of the European MPs visit to J&K. They are Henri Malosse & Ryszard Czarnecki.

Malosse is a “think-tank” guy who is an associate of lobbyist Madi Sharma. Czarnecki is the former VP of the EU Parliament who was sacked for misconduct

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Here’s Tarek Fatah with Henri Malosse on a panel from March 2018 in Geneva where they focussed on Balochistan and its independence from Pakistan. Fatah runs an organization called “Balochistan House”.

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Also here’s Tarek Fatah with Ryszard Czarnecki where the latter spoke at an event organized by Fatah’s organization “Balochistan House” in Geneva.

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The visit of these far-right European MPs has massive fingerprints of Tarek Fatah over it who also happens to be very close to Modi’s PMO.

This visit was planned to silence any international criticism of the blockade imposed in J&K after Article 370 was abrogated.

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The fact that foreigners like Madi Sharma & Tarek Fatah are able to give access to the Indian PMO to foreign EU MPs is a matter of great concern.

How much of a role Tarek Fatah plays in Modi’s foreign policy & diplomacy is an important and worrying question.

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Moreover, Indian immigration laws specifically restrict foreigners frm engaging in “political activities” during their stay in India.

In that case, how are foreigners like Madi Sharma & Tarek Fatah allowed to take foreign MPs to Kashmir & organize meetings with PM Modi?

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PS: Ankit Srivastava, Tarek Fatah, & Madi Sharma also happen to be a part of an immense fake news ecosystem which includes shady outlets like EP Today, New Delhi Times, Niagara News TV & others.

More on that later.

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