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Time of India
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Dy CM Samrat Choudhary calls Lalu Yadav 'Gabbar of Bihar' in poll-bound state
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Monday launched a scathing attack on Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD ) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav , calling him the " Gabbar of Bihar " and accusing him of creating an atmosphere of fear during his rule. Choudhary asserted that the state must break free from the grip of caste-based and dynastic politics to move forward. Speaking at the public gathering, Dy CM Choudhary said, "1.5 crore people left Bihar because of the fear of Lalu Prasad Yadav. He is the Gabbar of Bihar, who did the work of scaring everyone. Be it any community, upper or backwards class, the one person who scared everyone was Lalu Prasad Yadav. Now we need to change this because Bihar needs to be taken forward." Taking a dig at the fodder scam case involving the RJD patriarch, Choudhary said, "You want to hand over power again to someone who was jailed for eating the fodder meant for cattle? That is not the Bihar we want anymore." by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 20 Pieces of Clothing Older Women should Avoid Learn More Undo Drawing a comparison between Bihar and Jharkhand, Choudhary noted that while Jharkhand has a budget of Rs 1.40 lakh crore, Bihar, under the leadership of the NDA, has a significantly higher budget of Rs 3.17 lakh crore. "Bihar is transforming under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi . Guided by the dream of Emperor Ashoka, we are moving towards the goal of an 'Akhand Bharat'," he said. Live Events He asserted that law and order in Bihar has significantly improved, with the police actively working to free the state from crime. "No matter what caste, religion or background -- a criminal is a criminal. Whether it's a land mafia or a local goon, they will not be spared," he added. The Dy CM added, "It's a clear message: if any criminal tries to harm you, then do not hold yourself because a criminal never belongs to any caste or religion. No one should escape because if he does, then after some time, the person will come asking for MLA MP tickets or will buy the ticket." Choudhary urged the people of Bihar to protect the state's political integrity and ensure that its future aligns with the development dream envisioned by Emperor Ashoka. "Let us not allow those who once looted Bihar to return. Bihar elections are expected to be held later this year in October or November; however, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has not announced an official date. While the NDA, consisting of the BJP, JD(U), and LJP, will once again be looking to continue their stint in Bihar, the INDIA bloc, consisting of the RJD, Congress, and left parties, will be looking to unseat Nitish Kumar . In the current Bihar Assembly of 243 members, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) consists of 131 with the BJP having 80 MLAs, JD(U)-45, HAM(S)-4, with the support of two Independent Candidates. The Opposition's INDIA Bloc has a strength of 111 members with RJD leading with 77 MLAs, Congress-19, CPI(ML)-11, CPI(M)-2 and CPI-2.
India Today
02-07-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Not Saqlain Mushtaq, Pakistan's all-time greatest spinner is Hamid Mir
With 208 wickets in just 49 Tests at an average of 29.83, many would call Saqlain Mushtaq Pakistan's greatest spinner. Traditionalists with white-kit nostalgia might still vouch for the legendary leggie Abdul Qadir. But that's all for on-field action. Off it, long after these men stopped turning the cherry, senior journalist Hamid Mir, of late, emerged as Pakistan's biggest spinner. Not of cricket balls, but of theories and facts, twisting and turning them at Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has a history of bold assertions. However, his statements and views on India and its leadership, particularly Prime Minister Narendra Modi, since May have drawn scrutiny for their inflammatory and outlandish accusing India of "state-sponsored terrorism" to alleging an "Akhand Bharat plan to forcibly convert minorities", to claims about New Delhi's Operation Sindoor strikes and a "Zionism-Hindutva alliance", the journalist, author, and columnist left no theory untouched. From challenging the establishment to towing its kingpin, Field Marshal Asim Munir's lines, Mir's shift is remarkable and hard to all the bizarre theories Hamid Mir spun, mostly shared on his X handle, the most recent one seemed all over the alleged that India and Israel were planning a joint attack on Pakistan. In his June 30 piece in Geo News, he claimed that Modi and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu were determined to carry out the strike before October. Why? Because, according to Mir, Modi needs to win the comments section was flooded with bewildered Indians, with some even schooling SINDOOR'S CIVILIAN CASUALTIES?On May 7, when Indian forces launched Operation Sindoor weeks after the Pahalgam terror attack, Mir alleged that India's military operation targeted civilians rather than terrorists, as India claimed."Indians have used stand-off weapons from their own territory and issued press releases that they attacked terrorists at nine points. In fact, Indians attacked civilians and civil casualties have occurred. Evidence of civilian casualties is available, Mir wrote on Pakistan's military reported 31 civilian deaths, India maintained the "precise" strikes targeted terror heavens of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba infrastructure, killing over 100 of fact-checkers and the Press Information Bureau (PIB) debunked the Pakistani claims. No independent verification, since, has confirmed Mir's claims of civilian casualties in BHARAT RHETORIC BY HAMID MIRThen on June 2, Mir escalated his rhetoric, calling for a united front for South Asian countries at the UN to oppose India's "Akhand Bharat plan", accusing the BJP and the RSS of aiming to "convert Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs to Hinduism".He claimed to have laid out "undeniable facts". But what he actually presented were a series of familiar allegations against the BJP-RSS combine, that routinely surface in India's political discourse to make headlines every other day as assertion lacked evidence, as no official Indian policy endorses forced conversions or the "Akhand Bharat" concept, an idea which goes against India's policy of respecting sovereign neighbours, a stance PM Modi has repeatedly emphasised on by advocating "peaceful coexistence and regional cooperation".MODI'S G7 APPEARANCE EXPOSED MIR'S FAKE-NEWS INDUSTRYThe very next day, Mir claimed on X that India was excluded from the G7 summit in Canada due to "state-sponsored terrorism" by the Modi days later Modi received and accepted an invitation from Canadian PM Mark Carney. Modi attended the G7 summit as an outreach guest and India participated in the Energy Security session. He met several world leaders, directly contradicting Mir's is from the summit where Modi over phone refuted US President Donald Trump's ceasefire mediation calls, after Trump had to rush back home to take care of the escalating crisis in the Middle CLAIM OF SECRET INDIA-ISRAEL ATTACK PLANMir's most provocative loose talk came on June 30 in a Geo News piece titled, 'Why are Israel and India planning to attack Pakistan before October 2025?'He alleged a secret India-Israel alliance, driven by "Zionism and Hindutva", was plotting to attack Pakistan's nuclear facilities before October 2025 ahead of the election in an X post by Israeli professor Meir Masri and a Modern Diplomacy article by Canadian geopolitical analyst Julian Spencer-Churchill, Mir suggested Israel and India aimed to "denuclearise" Pakistan, using Indian bases for drone and missile claimed India's purchase of Israeli drones, like the Hermes 900, and the Adani-Elbit joint venture signalled this intent. However, Mir's and Spencer-Churchill's pieces seem speculative. They lack concrete evidence of such plans, and no credible intelligence report corroborates an imminent India-Israel attack on the article, Mir seemed to cobble a narrative from fragments, conjectures, the Indian Opposition's rhetoric, and baseless claims, something uncharacteristic curious embrace of his stature and a curious embrace of the establishment's the end, it's almost poetic. The man, who was once the establishment's loud critic, and narrowly survived two assassination attempts, now spins theories that would make the GHQ and its master, who said Hindus and Muslims are different, nod in approval. Hamid Mir's deliveries have turned into half-volleys. Mir has emerged as Pakistan's biggest spinner, but at the cost of his credibility.- EndsMust Watch advertisement
Hans India
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Udupi in-charge minister calls Hindu activist Sulibele a ‘liar'
Udupi district is witnessing a political row after district in-charge minister Laxmi Hebbalkar on Friday accused Hindu activist and author Chakravarthy Sulibele of spreading 'lies' and warned against attempts to disturb communal harmony during his upcoming public events. Hebbalkar, addressing reporters in Udupi, said, 'Udupi is a district of peace lovers. No one should be allowed to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere.' She added that while the Congress supports freedom of expression and constitutional values, it does not condone hate speech. Her remarks came a day after Kundapur police served Sulibele a notice ahead of his three-day lecture series at Mogaveera Bhavana in Kundapur from June 20 to 22. The event, organised by Yuva Brigade, is themed 'Let us rest only after making a unified greater India' (Akhand Bharat). Sulibele is scheduled to speak at 6 pm on all three days. The police advisory instructs Sulibele to restrict his speech to the announced topic and avoid political commentary. Organisers have also been directed to provide details of guests and ensure compliance with Supreme Court guidelines regarding public gatherings. The responsibility for maintaining peace has been placed on the organisers. The police action follows a memorandum submitted by local leaders of the National Students' Union of India (NSUI), who urged officials not to grant permission for the event. Reacting to the notice, Sulibele described it as an attempt to curtail his freedom of expression. In a statement, he said, 'Is there a new law in Karnataka banning people from speaking about politics? By that logic, I cannot refer to Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi—or even Ghazni, Ghori and Aurangzeb.' He termed the development 'disturbing' and claimed it violated the constitutional right to free speech. Police have so far not indicated any formal restrictions on the event but reiterated that any deviation from approved topics or incitement to disharmony would invite legal action.
Hans India
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Trump has internationalised the Kashmir dispute: Tharoor
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on X wrote, 'Mr Trump's post is disappointing for India in four important ways: First, it implies a false equivalence between the victim and the perpetrator, and seemingly overlooks the US' own past unwavering stance against Pakistan's well-documented links to cross-border terrorism. Second, it offers Pakistan a negotiating framework which it certainly has not earned. India will never negotiate with a terrorist gun pointed at its head. Third, it 'internationalises' the Kashmir dispute, an obvious objective of the terrorists. India rejects the idea of a dispute and sees the problem as an internal affair of India's. India has never requested, not is likely to seek, any foreign country's mediation over its problems with Pakistan. And fourth, it 're-hyphenates' India and Pakistan in the global imagination. For decades now, world leaders had been encouraged not to club their visits to India with visits to Pakistan, and starting with President Clinton in 2000, no US President had done so. This is a major backward step.' On Saturday, US President Donald Trump took to social media to announce that India and Pakistan - after four tense days of cross-border clashes - had agreed to a 'full and immediate ceasefire', brokered by the US. Later, in another post he said: 'I will work with you both to see if, after a thousand years, a solution can be arrived at, concerning Kashmir.' Meanwhile, The Shiv Sena (UBT) said the Modi government wasted an opportunity to realise Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar's dream of 'Akhand Bharat' by agreeing to cease military action against Pakistan. The editorial in the party mouthpiece `Saamana' said had the fighting continued for four more days, the Indian armed forces would have seized Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), Karachi and Lahore, but US President Donald Trump played spoilsport. Before stopping the military action, India should have at least taken back PoK and separate Balochistan from Pakistan, the newspaper said. Savarkar dreamt of an undivided India extending from PoK to Rameswaram and the Indus to Assam, but 'Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government missed the opportunity to realize Savarkar's dream of Akhand Bharat,' the editorial said. PM Modi has no longer any right to 'do politics in Savarkar's name', the editorial added. Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are all proponents of Akhand Bharat but when the time came to make the dream true, they balked, it said. India and Pakistan on Saturday reached an understanding to stop all firings and military actions on land, air and sea after four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes that brought the two countries to the edge of full-scale war. Sena (UBT) MP and Saamana's executive editor Sanjay Raut told reporters on Tuesday that Modi, who addressed the nation on Monday evening, did not sound like the leader of a victorious side. In a swipe at Modi and Shah, Raut said they can only break political parties and not Pakistan.
Mint
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Mint
'Before stopping strikes, India should have taken PoK; Govt missed opportunity to realise Savarkar dream': UBT Sena
The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) said Tuesday, May 13, that had the military action against Pakistan continued for four more days, the Indian armed forces would have seized Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Karachi and Lahore. In their editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana', the party said the Modi government at the Centre wasted an opportunity to realise Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar's dream of 'Akhand Bharat' by agreeing to cease military action against Pakistan. According to PTI, the editorial said that before stopping the military action, India should have at least taken back PoK and separate Balochistan from Pakistan. Savarkar dreamt of an undivided India extending from PoK to Rameswaram and the Indus to Assam, but 'Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government missed the opportunity to realize Savarkar's dream of Akhand Bharat,' the editorial said. It said that the prime minister has no longer have any right to 'do politics in Savarkar's name'. It said PM Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are all proponents of Akhand Bharat but when the time came to make the dream true, they balked. India and Pakistan reached an understanding on Saturday to halt all military actions—by land, air, and sea—following four days of intense cross-border drone and missile strikes. The decision by India and Pakistan was first made public by US President Donald Trump in a surprise announcement in a social media post while claiming that the talks between the two sides were 'mediated' by the United States. Sena (UBT) MP and Saamana's executive editor Sanjay Raut told reporters on Tuesday that PM Modi, who addressed the nation on Monday evening, did not sound like the leader of a victorious side. In a swipe at PM Modi and Amit Shah, Sanjay Raut said they can only break political parties and not Pakistan.
