#MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil | The rebel MLAs are demanding that the Shiv Sena should quit the ruling alliance formed with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party.
#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.
#MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis | Maharashtra minister #EknathShinde is seen in a video telling MLAs camping in Guwahati that a “national party” has described their rebellion as historic and has assured all help to them, PTI reports.
#MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis | Rebel MLA Sanjay Shirsat claims that legislators sought time to meet Chief Minister #UddhavThackeray on numerous occasions, but he never met them, according to ANI.
#MaharashtraCrisis | “If you look at the constituency of any Shiv Sena MLA, from the Tehsildar to the revenue officer,no official is appointed in consultation with the MLA,” he says.“We told this to Uddhav ji many times but he never responded to it”
#MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil | #EknathShinde in a series of tweets says the party cannot not scare them with this move and asserts that the faction led by him is “the true Shiv Sena of Balasaheb Thackeray”.
#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 scroll.in/a/1026797
#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
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
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.
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.
Tuesday saw a repeat of a now-familiar sight in Indian politics: MLAs being herded to a secure holiday resort to prepare the ground for a government to be brought down. By @ShoaibDaniyal ✍️
#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.
#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.
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
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. scroll.in/a/1026629
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
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