THREAD: What is Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle and how it impacts India?
Golden Crescent region of South Asia - comprises of Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan - which is a principal global site for opium production and distribution.
Golden Triangle is the area where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet at the confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers. The Golden Triangle is called so because of the triangular shape formed by the locations of New Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan on a map.
India is wedged bw world’s 2 largest areas of illicit opium production, Golden Crescent & Golden Triangle, that has made Indian borders vulnerable to drug trafficking. It flows from 2 fronts, NW & NE, that possesses dual concern - violation of border & threat to national security
- Golden Crescent is world’s leading opium and cannabis producing region since 1983.
- Its proximity to Indo-Pak border has worsened the trafficking of hashish and heroin into Indian soil
- Trafficking happens through the border states of J&K, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
- Golden Triangle is leading opium producing region of the South-east Asia, also an ancient narcotics supply route to North America & Europe.
- Myanmar-Northeast nexus is recognized by NCB as the root of heroin & chemical drugs
- Myanmar produces 80% of heroin produced in world
- After production, its trafficked mainly to US & European countries through China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos & India
- Due to increased surveillance & frequent crackdowns on cartels in various part of SE Asian countries, India has been chosen by drug smugglers as the exit gateway
- Dimapur Nagaland, Champai Mizoram, Moreh Manipur, Guwahati Assam have become hubs for trafficking in North East.
- Diverse topography, high mountains, rivers, dense rainforests provides numerous hideouts to the smugglers, and security forces cannot respond to criminal
attempts expeditiously due to inefficient connectivity and transport.
- Also, rising nexus between the local ethnic insurgent groups & criminals across the border have developed into a potent threat of narco-terrorism that challenges India’s national security.
- Funds raised from drug trafficking is used for smuggling of arms.
Narco-terrorism has not only developed a social security threat for India, but also dragged attentions of global communities, since trade happens in hard cash, & it becomes very difficult for security agencies
to collect evidences against criminal, due to lack of paper work. Further, dark web, crypto currency are also used for trafficking
- Influx of narco-trade money leads to laundering, inflation, corruption, which not only causes terr0rism, political instability but also deter FDI.
In 2019, PM Modi said, “When our neighbor could not succeed in its nefarious designs by sending terrorists and weapons, it hatched a conspiracy to smuggle drugs into our country to destroy our youth.”
In 2018, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh, said, “Pakistan has a long-term plan of destroying our youth. They are trying to demolish youth along the border.” He was referring to seizures of hundreds of kgs of drugs in Gujarat, and J&K that, according to him, were intended for Punjab
- Most recently, massive anti-drugs operation happened in Assam, where NCB and Central agencies seized narcotic substances worth ₹170 crore. It is Southeast Asia’s main opium-producing region and one of the oldest narcotics supply routes to Europe and North America.
- As several NE states share borders Myanmar, it is easy to smuggle drugs from the region to India through these states.
- Assam CM @himantabiswa drove a road roller on 1000s of bottles of illegal cough syrups. The CM also set fire to seized drugs worth crores in an event.
As per AIIMS 2019 study on Magnitude of Substance Use in India:
- About 2.8% of Indians aged 10-75 years (3.1 crore individuals) are current users of any cannabis product, which is predominantly men.
Drug usage variations across the states:
- In eastern & NE states, illegal cannabis products (ganja/charas) are used by a larger proportion of people as compared to bhang.
- States with higher than national prevalence of cannabis use are UP, Punjab, Sikkim, Chhattisgarh & Delhi.
The epidemic of substance abuse in young generation has assumed alarming dimensions. Changing cultural values, increasing economic stress & dwindling supportive bonds are leading to initiation into substance use.
THREAD - Real Congress (G23) vs Gandhi Vadra Congress
A political turmoil began within the @INCIndia, when a group of 23 (G-23) "dissenting" Congress leaders, including Ghulam Nabi Azad & Kapil Sibal wrote a letter to Interim party Chief Sonia Gandhi..
expressing grave concerns & displeasure over party's higher command, thus demanding comprehensive changes amongst the party and its leadership, in view of frequent failures at the elections.
The leader of the G-23 party of congress, is @ghulamnazad and members are many others who have been union ministers, chief ministers or the party's state unit chiefs.
- PFI recently organized a PFI Unity March where the General Sec, Anees Ahmed made irresponsible statements asking Musl!ms not to offer donations for the construction of the Ram Mandir, and claimed it as RSS Mandir.
A recent PFI rally was held in Kerela, to ‘celebrate’ the centenary of the ‘1921 Malabar Hindu Genocide’ or Moplah massacre, which is better known in history as the Malabar Rebellion of 1921, that tantamounted to 10,000 deaths of Hindus and forcing 100,000 Hindus to leave Kerala.
The questions asked in the RTI application were as follows:
- Who are Urban Naxals? Where are they active?
- How many Urban Naxals have been arrested and how - many of them have been convicted?
- Has the government of India ever tried to ban Urban Naxals? If yes, when?
In response to the RTI query the Left Wing Extremism Division in the home ministry said:
"In so far as the undersigned CPIO is concerned, the information may be treated as Nil." The answer to the query was sent under the signature of Yogesh Mohan Dixit.
1. Disha expressed fear of being charged under the anti-terror law, UAPA in her chat with Greta. 2. After Greta leaked the anti-India toolkit on SM, Disha said, “Can we just not say anything at all for a while. I am going to talk to lawyers.”
3. Disha had made several false claims to the Delhi police to ward off the charges against her. However, when she was confronted with incriminating evidence from her devices and Whatsapp chats with Greta, Disha admitted to having been in touch with several such people.
4. Reportedly, she also tried to conceal details about her acquaintance with accused Nikita Jacob, who has been on the run from law enforcement authorities. 5. ED will soon begin the investigation into any possible overseas transactions made by Disha through her organization..
Thread on HALAL and the threat it poses to Hindus:
📍The Indian constitution calls for equality for all, however Hindu temples have been taken over by the govt., while liberally funding Hajj & other pilgrimages. Hindu suffers silently and continues to dutifully pay his taxes.
📍Halal is a pre-Islamic Arabic word that means ‘that which is permissible. The opposite word is Haram ‘that which is forbidden.
📍In simple words, Halal means nothing but the complete supply chain for the product being Muslim. Right from from raw materials producer, procurer,
manufacturer, wholesale agents, the product exchanges hands only with Muslims.
📍The animals are slaughtered by Halal System under the strict vigilance of recognized & registered Islamic body as per the tenets of Islamic Shariyat.
Thread: Who runs & funds Hinduphobic, Bharat-bashing media like ‘The Wire’?
Founded in 2015 by editors:
💡Siddharth Varadarajan-An American citizen of Indian descent, was earlier editor of The Hindu newspaper, a publication known for its Marxist/Maoist ideology anti-Hindu slant
He is a known Modi-baiter in the Lutyens Delhi media ecosystem. His brother Tunku Varadarajan, a US-based writer and journalist,has also been called out for his vitriolic Hindu-bashing.His wife Nandini Sundar is a DU prof who has been accused of deep links with Maoist terrorists.
💡Sidharth Bhatia - Journalist & writer based in Mumbai. He frequently disses the ‘Sanghi mind’ on twitter & cheers when history textbooks in California denigrate Hindu Dharma, or when our ex-colonial masters in UK plan to introduce a dangerous law against ‘caste discrimination’