23th Feb(8PM): 'ProCAA' protestors gather & start chant slogans instigating violence. (Goli maaro saalo ko + India me rehna hai to JSR kehna hoga)
23rd Feb(11PM): Truck dumped stones at proCAA site. Slogans of 'Modiji Sangharsh Karo hum tumhare saath hai' can be heard in background.
24th Feb(Morning): Violence starts in Maujpur where KP addressed the rally + proCAA protestors made the slogans.
24th Feb: Violence spreads to neighbouring areas through the day. Religious place (mazar) is set on fire in Bhajanpura
24th Feb(5PM): Petrol Pump in Bhajanpura set on fire
24th Feb(10PM): Tyre market in neighbouring Gokulpuri with mostly Muslim businesses set on fire
25th Feb: Violence spreads further. Journalists beaten up shot & injured. Photojournalist's bike torched, phones snatched to delete photos/videos.
25th Feb(4PM): Mob tries to set Qureshi Tower on fire while taunting the mostly muslim inhabitants that they would be trapped &burnt
25th Feb(Afternoon): Mosque in Ashok Nagar set on fire. Mob shouting “Jai Shri Ram” & “Hinduon ka Hindustan” paraded around the burning mosque & a Hanuman flag was placed on the minaret of the masjid.
So far 4 mosques and 1 mazaar had been destructed.
25th Feb: Hospitals were not able to deal with the magnitude of injuries. Cops wouldn't allow ambulances to pass so people could get emergency treatment.
25th Feb(MidNight): Emergency hearing called at HC after a petition which enabled emergency services & fire tenders.
By 26th Feb the violence had come to an end. 50+ dead, 100s businesses destroyed, 1000s lives disrupted. Bodies recovered from nearby drains till recently.
Most suffering are muslims, yet those being persecuted in the name of the 'riots' too are mostly muslims.
Justice?
KM* not KP = Kapil Mishra
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A quick thread of all the inspiring Congress women MPs from 18th Lok Sabha:
1. @GenibenThakor - She is the first Congress MP from Gujarat in a decade. A 48 year old engineering professor with financial constraints, she crowdfunded her campaign.
Priyanka Jarkiholi - Youngest tribal to win an unreserved seat in Karnataka since independence. At 27, she’s also one of the youngest MPs in the parliament. She beat the incumbent MP from Chikkodi.
@DrPrabhaSSM - A 48 year old dentist and healthcare activist. She’s been elected from Devengere in Karnataka.
A quick thread of all the inspiring Congress women MPs from 18th Lok Sabha:
1. Geniben Thakor - She is the first Congress MP from Gujarat in a decade. A 48 year old engineering professor with financial constraints, she crowdfunded her campaign.
2. Priyanka Jarkiholi - Youngest tribal to win an unreserved seat in Karnataka since independence. At 27, she’s also one of the youngest MPs in the parliament. She beat the incumbent MP from Chikkodi.
3. Dr Prabha Mallikarjun - A 48 year old dentist and healthcare activist. She’s been elected from Devengere in Karnataka.
1. “It was fanatical wing of Hindu Mahasabha directly under Savarkar that (hatched) the conspiracy & saw it through."- From Sardar Patel’s letter to Nehru on Gandhi’s assassination. As HM, he was monitoring the case (Sardar Patel's Correspondence, Vol6, pg56)
2. Savarkar gave Godse an advance of Rs 15,000 in 1944 to start a newspaper called Agrani. Godse was its editor & the newspaper dutifully disseminated Savarkar's viciously anti-Gandhi propaganda.
3. There was a failed attempt on Gandhi's life on 20th Jan, 1948. Madanlal Pahwa was arrested. Godse, Apte were also present at the venue, but they escaped and he alone was arrested. Pahwa, told the police: "Woh phir ayega." And wo phir aaya - after meeting Savarkar in Mumbai.
.@RahulGandhi always understood the importance of vaccination, while PM prematurely declare victory over covid without vaccines. Had he been PM, he would ensure a free and fair universal vaccination program.
GoI first ridiculed/cast aspersions on @RahulGandhi for demanding to open India to all vaccines and then announced that they're opening up to foreign-made vaccines and celebrated it like it was their idea. Imagine, had he been PM, this would've been done much much earlier.
With @RahulGandhi, we would have humility, a clear vaccine strategy & income support to contain the virus and related damages.