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Jun 24

#DroupadiMurmu as President would be a triumph for the Sangh Parivar – but not the Adivasi community

By nominating Murmu as its presidential candidate,the Sangh has completed its last leg of appropriating all of India’s major identities By Vivek Deshpande
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#PresidentialElections2022 | Should the nomination of a presidential nominee be beholden to considerations of caste, creed, tribe or even academic achievement? By Vivek Deshpande scroll.in/a/1026797

Wouldn’t this be to reduce the highest constitutional post in the country to a mere symbol? Yet, time and again, this is exactly what has happened under successive governments. By Vivek Deshpande

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Jun 24

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Nine years after Muzaffarnagar riots, the only woman who pursued rape charges still awaits justice

She stood her ground even as the other rape complainants withdrew their cases. Nearly a decade later, is a verdict anywhere in sight? @iyersaishwarya writes scroll.in/a/1026696

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In 2013, as communal riots spread across Muzaffarnagar in western UP, she had been beaten up and raped. Her son, then three months old, had been held hostage.

If she protested, her assailants had said, they would kill her son, @iyersaishwarya writes scroll.in/a/1026696

The 34-year-old said she knew the three men who had raped her – they lived in her village and were frequent customers of her husband, a tailor. scroll.in/a/1026696

She was scared and dizzy with fever on Feb 18, the day she had to go to the Muzaffarnagar district court.

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Jun 24

#MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil | 37 Shiv Sena MLAs proclaim Eknath Shinde as legislature party leader

A quick recap of the top developments from Thursday on the #PoliticalCrisisInMaharashtra⬇️

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#MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil | The rebel MLAs are demanding that the Shiv Sena should quit the ruling alliance formed with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party.

LIVE Updates on #MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis here: scroll.in/a/1026822

#MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis | 37 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs who are currently camping at a hotel in Guwahati on Thursday write to Maharashtra Dy Speaker Narhari Zirwal, proclaiming state minister Eknath Shinde as their leader in the legislature.

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Jun 23

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#DataCheck: In seven years, India has seen a 500% rise in cases filed under its hate-speech law

The country lacks exclusive legislation criminalising hate speech that does not incite violence. (Via @FactCheckIndia)

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#DataCheck: While there is no specific law that defines hate speech, there are select legal provisions or sections in the Indian Penal Code that prohibit certain forms of speech with the exception to free speech.

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#DataCheck: Cases filed under this section registered a sixfold or almost 500% increase in seven years – 323 cases in 2014 to 1,804 cases in 2020 – according to the National Crime Records Bureau.

(Via @FactCheckIndia)

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Jun 23

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduces a resolution about ‘worsening treatment’ of minorities in India

She urged the US Secretary of State to designate India as a ‘country of particular concern’ because of its human rights record. scroll.in/a/1026772

Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, expressed “grave concern about the worsening treatment of religious minorities in India”. scroll.in/a/1026772

The resolution by the congresswoman noted that the US Commission on International Religious Freedom has also recommended to the Joe Biden government that it designate India as a “country of particular concern” for three consecutive years. scroll.in/a/1026772

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Jun 23

Authorities in Ballia region were known to turn against reporters who wrote about exam paper leaks.

In 2018, a journalist was booked after he forwarded a leaked paper he had written about to the district inspector of schools, at the latter’s insistence.
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UP: Recently, three local reporters were arrested on charges of being complicit in the leaks of question papers for Class 10 and Class 12 board exams.

Their investigative report on the question-paper-leak landed them in trouble with district authorities. scroll.in/a/1026629

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Uttar Pradesh has acquired a reputation of being a state that persecutes journalists for reporting stories about misgovernance. Since 2017, when Adityanath became CM, nearly 70 journalists have been booked by the govt. scroll.in/a/1026629

#CommonGround report by @psychia90

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