Dibakar Dutta (দিবাকর দত্ত) Profile picture
I write long threads on political affairs. Assistant Editor @OpIndia_com. Centre-Right. Alumnus @UnivofDelhi . Bengali from North East
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Feb 27 8 tweets 2 min read
Many people have forgotten that BJP won 16 out of 42 seats in West Bengal (the highest ever for the party from that State).

It was all due to the efforts of this man (@DilipGhoshBJP )

He would look the TMC in the eye and respond to them in the language they understand.

(1/n) Image If the @BJP4Bengal wants to retain these seats or better its tally, I strongly feel that Dilip da has to be brought to the centre-stage.

Since 2021, he has been sidelined and replaced with rather 'meek' leaders in West Bengal.

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Feb 13 5 tweets 2 min read
'Political farmers' who thought they can take the Indian State to ransom last time are finally getting the treatment they rightfully deserve. 🔥

(1/n) Some of these 'farmers' had even laid siege on the Red Fort in 2021 and had the audacity to desecrate the Indian tricolour.

If the State would have cracked down on these radicals in time, then, the farm laws would have been in force by now. Sady, they had to be repealed.

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Nov 3, 2023 15 tweets 7 min read
#Important 🧵

A 'regime change' operation by the US govt is currently underway in Bangladesh, ahead of the January 2024 elections.

Attempts are now being made to distort public perception of Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina and present her as an ‘autocratic leader.’

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Yesterday, @TIME put Sheikh Hasina on its front cover and accused her of comprising democratic values in the country.

It bore uncanny resemblance to the magazine’s hitjob against Indian PM @narendramodi in the run-up to the 2019 LS elections.



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Oct 27, 2023 14 tweets 6 min read
#Important 🧵

‘Journalist’ Mehdi Hasan has been invited as a speaker at the 14th edition of ‘Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest’.

He will share the stage with ‘journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai for a session titled 'Turn the Tide'.

Here is why Hasan is dangerous

(1/n) Image Hasan is infamous for his 2009 video where he was head equating non-Muslims with ‘cattle’ and homosexuals with ‘paedophiles.’

He was heard saying, “Once we lose the moral high ground we are no different from the rest, of the non-Muslims, from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfil any desire.”

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Sep 20, 2023 13 tweets 5 min read
#WomenReservationBill (Simplified with example)

According to this bill, 1/3rd (or 33%) of all seats in Lok Sabha, Delhi Vidhan Sabha and all State Assemblies will now be reserved for women.

To understand this more clearly, let's look at the numbers.

Delhi Vidhan Sabha has 70 seats in total. 12 of them are reserved for the SC Community. There are 58 unreserved/general/ open category seats.

Women Reservation Bill calls for 1/3rd reservation across both the reserved and unreserved seats.

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Image Total SC seats in Delhi Assembly = 12

1/3rd reservation for women in SC seats = 4

Remaining General Category seats = 58

1/3rd reservation for women in General Category seats = 19

Total reserved seats for women (SC + General)
= 4+19 = 23

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Jul 2, 2023 8 tweets 4 min read
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A Pakistani handle @SAHR_Watch has been instigating communal tension in India for some time now.

On June 28, it falsely claimed that an 'upper caste Hindu individual' has brutally assaulted a Dalit police officer and made his condition critical.

"The heart-wrenching assault… https://t.co/CaB6jUCpvNtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The Twitter handle also attached an extremely graphic video wherein a man was seen bludgeoning a victim with a shovel.

Watch it at your discretion here:

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Jun 25, 2023 25 tweets 9 min read
While we remember the #Emergency today, it is important to tell the story of an estimated 1.2 crore people who were forcibly sterilised by the Congress regime between 1975 and 1977

This is the story of how Indira & Sanjay Gandhi infringed upon people's right to life.

Thread🧵- After the Emergency came into effect, Sanjay Gandhi came up with a 5-point programme.

One of them was that of family planning and sterilisation (also called permanent birth control) in particular.

Listen to this speech from 1976 -

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Jun 24, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
You mean the 'bigot' Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, who was baying for the blood of Hindus...

"Our Mussalman brothers, the Pathans, would come out as a swarm of locusts from their mountain valleys, and make rivers of blood to flow from their frontier in the north to the extreme end of… https://t.co/ZyxINti50ttwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
More gems from the same bigot -

"Now, suppose that all English, and the whole English army, were to leave India, taking with them all their cannon and their splendid weapons and everything, then who would be rulers of India? Is it possible that under these circumstances two… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jun 22, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
🧵Schools in the UK are teaching pre-adolescent children about masturbation, orgasm & anal sex.

The pictures below are part of a lesson plan, which is meant for children as young as 9 years old (Class 4 students).

Via @ByChrisMatthews @MailOnline

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Colouring books, cartoon drawings & word searches are being used for peddling narratives about gender fluidity, transgenderism & scientifically false claims about biological sex.

All of this is being done in the name of ‘Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)’ in the UK

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May 3, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
The man managing the 'Congress war room' for Karnataka elections is a seasoned Hinduphobe who makes 'cow urine', 'gau mutra' jibes.

This is despite being well aware that the derogatory term was made & popularised by terrorist Adil Ahmed Dar prior to orchestrating the 2019… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImageImage Sasikanth Senthil had also tried to legitimise the idea of ‘Muslim veto’ & suggested that any administrative change in a Muslim-dominated UT such as Lakshwadeep is akin to ‘needling communal tensions.’

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Mar 4, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
On March 3, a mob of 500 extremists attacked the minority Ahmadiyya community after offering Jumma Namaz at local mosques.

Location: Ahmednagar village, Panchagarh district, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh
(1/n) First, they gathered at the Chowrangi roundabout and then attacked the police with bricks and stones.

They also set a traffic police box on fire & ransacked vehicles belonging to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

Source: bdnews24.com/bangladesh/6mz…
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Mar 3, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Good News: Extremist Mohammed Iqbal Hossain has been sentenced to 16 months imprisonment.

In October 2021, he orchestrated the anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh by placing a copy of the Quran at a Durga Puja Mandap.
(1/n) Image The verdict was delivered by Dhaka Cyber Tribunal Judge AM Zulfiker Hayet in the presence of the accused.

Source: thedailystar.net/news/banglades…
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Mar 2, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Tripura elections are over. @BJP4Tripura won 32 seats and its alliance IPFT won 1 seat in an Assembly of 60.

But the biggest loser in this election is the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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#NorthEastElections Image Compare it with the result of the 2018 Tripura Vidhan Sabha polls.

CPIM vote share in 2018: 42.22%
CPIM vote share in 2023 (above pie chart): 24.62%

Net decline: 17.26% (Highest for any party in this election) @cpimspeak

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Feb 20, 2023 11 tweets 6 min read
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address the ‘Judge Business School’ of the University of Cambridge, later in February this year.

The choice of Shruti Kapila as the host makes for an interesting case.
(1/n) Not until long ago, she was seen suggesting that the Congress leader should only do 'scripted interviews' for high-impact messaging.
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Feb 14, 2023 20 tweets 10 min read
The man in this picture is Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Adil Ahmad Dar.

4 years ago, he executed the Pulwama attack & killed 40 Indian jawans.

He also did another thing - dehumanise Hindus as 'idolators', 'cow piss drinkers' (slurs that are now normalised by Indian liberals)

1/n While India was still mourning the attack, a video of Adil went viral on social media.

It gave out a clear message that the Pulwama attack was not just limited to the Indian State but was also an act of vengeance against the Hindu majority.



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Jan 21, 2023 15 tweets 6 min read
Many of you are aware of a new documentary series, produced by the BBC on PM @narendramodi

In the first episode, @BBCTwo tried to give a clean chit to the extremists who set the Sabarmati Express on fire in Godhra & burnt 59 Hindu pilgrims alive.

Here is the truth (1/n): At about 9:12 minutes into the episode, it claimed,

"The final death toll was 59 and the cause of the fire was disputed. But at the time, Muslims were blamed."

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Jan 3, 2023 20 tweets 8 min read
The man in the picture is a German Youtuber named Christian Betzmann.

Recently, he drew public ire for abusing Indian street vendors & patronising his audience about social etiquette in the West.

It now turns out that he has also been a controversial figure in Pakistan. (1/n) "The audacity to drive through a street and scream to buy their freaking fruit.”

"How is this not banned? Every day 20 dudes scream in front of my Airbnb to sell their shit. I should buy all his pineapples and shove it up his a*s. Bi*ch.”

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Dec 10, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
US-based soccer journalist Grant Wahl dies in Qatar, a day after criticising Qatari World Cup organisers for their lack of empathy towards migrant labourers.

(1/n) “They just don’t care. Qatari World Cup organizers don’t even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one,” he had written on December 9.

Source: grantwahl.substack.com/p/world-cup-da…

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Nov 26, 2022 16 tweets 5 min read
One of the least known aspects of the #MumbaiTerrorAttack of 2008 was the religious profiling of victims & selective targeting of non-Muslims by Pakistani terrorists.

This reflects in the dossier sent by the then-UPA government to its Pakistani counterpart.

Thread (1/n): Here are the details of conversation between an LeT terrorist and his Pakistani handler:

Source:
independent.co.uk/news/world/asi…

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Nov 19, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
Yesterday, Aamir Khan's daughter Ira Khan got engaged to celebrity fitness trainer Nupur Shikhare.

The duo was in a relationship for over 2 years.

After the pictures of the event surfaced, extremists abused Aamir Khan for letting his daughter marry a non-Muslim.

Thread: 1/n “Aamir G*andu change your Muslim name” - Masab Khan.

One Mohammed Arshad Raza insinuated that Aamir Khan forgot (all rules of the Islamic Faith) after acting in the movie ‘Ghajini’ where the protagonist was shown to have short-term memory loss.

Not to forget the curses!

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Nov 15, 2022 10 tweets 5 min read
Did you know?

In 2015, 'Shraddha murder case' accused #AftabAminPoonawala targeted the BJP with a 'dubious claim' that one of its party workers supposedly dressed up in a burqa and tried to throw beef inside a temple.

(1/n) ImageImage At that time, the matter was reported by India news. However, they failed to conclude whether the claim was true or fake.

It said that the images were going viral on Facebook, based on a tweet (that was deleted at the time of reporting).

india.com/news/india/bur…
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