A thread on @vivekagnihotri’s visit to cambridge. He and his PR team have been continuously painting the image that they were invited by @Cambridge_Uni and by @FitzwilliamColl to speak on #Kashmirfiles. This is simply not true and has been communicated to him multiple times. 
On arrival @vivekagnihotri threw a tantrum and started rudely arguing with his own supporters, many of whom were #KashmiriPandits. He was upset as the venue decided to disallow video recording of his event to protect the identities of its students asking critical questions
@vivekagnihotri is seen patronising elderly members, and even goes on to rudely interrupt and challenge an elderly lady making an honest point. So much for his ‘honour and dignity’ humanity tour. Just shows how the pain of #KashmiriPandits is only a ladder and commodity for him
He then goes on to further patronise and insult #kashmiripandits by saying ‘you are behaving desperately’, ‘how will you get your honour and dignity back’? This is how he talks to members of a community who’s cause he’s apparently championing. #fraud
The event however wasn’t cancelled as at the @OxfordUnion. The talk went on without it being video recorded. They even rightfully platformed a Kashmiri pandit from the diaspora here. However she was given the least time to speak and was invisible from all promotional material.
As expected @vivekagnihotri used his template ‘facts are not facts’ line of narrative and did not have anything to say to critical questions by students other than the usual ‘Hindu Khatrein mein hai’ propaganda.
It was amply clear that @vivekagnihotri does not really give two hoots about #KashmiriPandits. Furthermore he was NOT invitd by @Cambridge_Uni as he claims in all his PR videos and promo material. He was invitd by the diaspora here who made a commercial booking at a cambridge col
We then realised that his foundation members were asking the audience to fill out this form before entering the venue. Check point 3 carefully- "have the right to edit, modify, crop, add, subtract any photograph or video". Glad @FitzwilliamColl ensured there was no video rec
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