a man is lynched for sacrilege inside the Harmandir Sahib complex, indefensible. Claims of conspiracy to foment trouble before elections would have required the man be held alive and safe so the conjectured antecedents of the act could be determined.
ndtv.com/india-news/man… the lynching is a grotesque mockery of what believers claim the faith stands for, this didn't happen at a fringe nihang dera. this happened at the Golden Temple administered by the representative body of the faith. whataboutery now would be even more of a shame.

another bluestar anniversary:
1) The politics: R K Dhawan said Rajiv Gandhi, Arun Nehru & Arun Singh felt a successful army operation against Bhindranwale would help 'win elections hands down'. Asked if they told Indira Gandhi, he said, “definitely.”
caravanmagazine.in/reportage/shat… 2.) As with Bluestar, rajiv & arun nehru saw the same political benefit in their organised massacre of Sikhs in 84 Nov. The subsequent poll saw the first corporate campaign, stoking hindu sentiments against a sikh minority. the road from rajiv gandhi to narendra modi is direct.

agree with him or disagree, here is @ujjaldosanjh, as always, true to his word
straight.com/news/ujjal-dos… the conversation was to be on farm laws, some people, for reasons best known to themselves, chose this moment to rake up a 2017 article i had written on kps gill. This is the article in question

scroll.in/article/842699…

'...if somebody's hit on the...road or tractor...or anything, it won't be the same,” the expert said. “It won't have that beautifully explained inverted margins, it'd be a wide wound. They've not recorded grazed abrasions anywhere, which would suggest a sliding fall on the road.'

https://twitter.com/HartoshSinghBal/status/1356623098288562177

'“They shot at him from the side, from the grills … After he was shot, the tractor toppled, and he died on the spot.” Harmanjit added, “Then they tried to seize the body. They beat us with sticks and stones, but we did not let them take the body.'

Judges' accounts form much of the basis for judgment upholding Maharashtra state’s claim Loya died a natural death. Accounts do not hold up, employee at Ravi Bhawan contradict their claim in a statement to police. State conceals this from Supreme Court
caravanmagazine.in/crime/ravi-bha… Why is it important to persist with the Loya case? Because it goes to the heart of the malaise that afflicts the modi regime. This thread reexamines the sequence from the 2002 communal violence against Muslims to this death

Thread on jay shah (amit shah’s son) businesses
In 2017 @rohini_sgh did @thewire_in story which showed revenue at his temple enterprises jumped from Rs 50,000 to Rs 80.5 crores from 2014-15 to 2015-16. Company stopped business in 2016 after Rs 1.4 cr loss.
thewire.in/business/amit-… After wire story amit shah claimed temple enterprises hadn't conducted business of a single rupee with govt, had not acquired govt land worth a single rupee, had not taken any govt contract.
He forgot to mention jay shah’s other company – kusum finserve- for good reason.