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Nov 10 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Last month, the #Assam Police detained and deported 10 foreign nationals.

On October 26, they held three Swedish nationals in Namrup, claiming they had violated their visa norms by addressing a religious meeting. scroll.in/article/103703…
The police heard “Christian missionaries were sending people to tea gardens and tribal areas” so they “alerted intelligence” and detained the Swedish visitors, Special Director General of Police (Law and Order) GP Singh said. scroll.in/article/103703…
The Europeans were detained and deported, with the police investigating whether they were conducting ‘mass conversions’ to Christianity. scroll.in/article/103703…
Assam does not have an anti-conversion law, unlike several other Indian states that criminalise what they describe as forced religious conversions.

Hindu rightwing groups have used the incidents to push for such a law. scroll.in/article/103703…

@ROKIBUZZAMAN2 reports
According to a Guwahati-based Christian organisation, there had never been a police crackdown – until now. scroll.in/article/103703…

The seven Germans deported last month were from the Lutheran Church who visit Assam every year. “They have so many humanitarian projects."
Guwahati-based Christian organisation spokesperson protested against allegations that they were attempting religious conversion.

“This is their time and reign, so they will do everything possible to make India a complete Hindu nation."
scroll.in/article/103703…

By @ROKIBUZZAMAN2
“Missionaries are not coming to Assam only now. They have been coming since 1600. Today, they are making a hue and cry about missionaries coming but are ignoring their contribution in the field of education and health.”

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🧵Mamta Kol has been eating chapati and salt at least two or three times a week ever since her husband lost his job two years ago following the #COVID19 lockdown in March 2020.

The 32-year-old mother of two weighs only 40 kg and often misses her menstrual period due to weakness.
The community health workers, who visit Kol’s village in Madhya Pradesh, have told her to include milk and fruits in her diet.

She finds it "tragically hilarious".

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THREAD: #CommonGround: When Tamil Indians were repatriated from Sri Lanka, many chose to settle in the hilly region of Gudalur in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district. Many bought land, and took up work on estates. scroll.in/article/1036907
Decades ago, lakhs of Tamils, mostly Dalits, taken to Sri Lanka during British rule, to work in the quickly expanding tea estates on the island.

After Independence, the Sri Lankan government refused to grant citizenship to the “upcountry Tamils”, as they were called.
On the other hand, the Indian government argued that since the Tamils had lived in Sri Lanka for over 100 years, they belonged to the island country. scroll.in/article/1036907
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THREAD #EWSQuota: On Monday, the SC delivered a three-two verdict upholding the validity of the 10% quota in educational institutions and government jobs for the economically weaker sections of the general quota introduced by the Modi government in 2019.
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While three judges held that the EWS reservation was constitutionally valid, two judges disagreed. They maintained that this reservation was discriminatory since it excluded members of the SC, ST and socially and educationally backward classes. scroll.in/article/103688… Image
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On June 14, two weeks after her vaccination, doctors declared 18-year-old Rithaika Sri Omtri brain dead. Her desperate parents first explored all medical options to save her.

She received her first dose of Covishield vaccine.
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Rithaika suffered vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia, a rare adverse event in which blood clots restrict the flow of blood into vital organs, and also result in a low platelet count. scroll.in/article/103636…

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It was only after her family filed an RTI application that they confirmed the link between the vaccination and her death. scroll.in/article/103636…

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More than two days after violence broke out at a rally organised by a tribal organisation in #Shillong on October 28, no arrests have been made even though Meghalaya deputy chief minister Prestone Tynsong had said the police would take “necessary steps”.

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#Shillong City Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem told @ROKIBUZZAMAN2 on Sunday that the police had registered two cases related to the violence, but no miscreants have been identified so far. scroll.in/article/103621…
The rally, in central #Shillong, had been organised by the Federation of Khasi, Jaintia and Garo People to draw attention to Meghalaya’s unemployment problem. scroll.in/article/103621… Image
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🧵#TheIndiaFix: On Oct 9, the New Indian Express reported a significant piece of news:

Amit Shah-led committee had recommended that the medium of instruction in higher educational institutions, including Central universities, should mandatorily be Hindi. scroll.in/article/103622… Image
Just as drastically, the Committee of Parliament on Official Language recommended that government entrance exams – which are now conducted in both Hindi and English – should drop English. scroll.in/article/103622…

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Like in the 1960s, today’s Hindi push from Delhi has angered the Southern states.

The chief minister of Tamil Nadu bluntly described the committee’s recommendation as the start of a “language war”.
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