1. #Appease Muslims, Divide Hindus: This Is Why Mamata Banerjee Chooses To Lead The Continuing Anti-CAA Protests In Bengal : 2. #Bollywood, Please Spare Us Your Dumbness And Stupidity; 3. #The CAA protests have once again exposed their idiocy. Not more than 1,000 in number, prominent web series stars took to Instagram to declare Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler; 4. #No U-Turn: Modi Didn’t Contradict Shah On NRC; Leftist Media Is Misleading Again ....5. #OPINION :.

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#OPINION : 24/12/2019 : 1998.
MEDIA REPORTS : SWARAJYA

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1. #"Appease Muslims, Divide Hindus: This Is Why Mamata Banerjee Chooses To Lead The Continuing Anti-CAA Protests In Bengal : Dec 21, 2019 : Jaideep Mazumdar; ''

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
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#Snapshot :
*Trying desperately to retain the goodwill of Muslims, in the aftermath of Owaisi’s threatening entry into Bengal politics, Mamata Banerjee is further alienating the Hindus of the state.

*That is why she is supporting the anti-CAA protests, in the hope that Hindus will continue to remain a divided lot, and Muslims will continue to back her.

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Anti-CAA protests in Bengal started a week ago — on Friday, 13 December to be precise — and has been continuing since then.

The first two days, Muslim mobs wrecked railway properties and then police and private vehicles and well as private properties. No action has been taken against the vandals and rioteers till date, though extensive video footage exists of their crimes.

From the third day, Trinamool chief and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took over leadership of the protests, and has since been raving and ranting against the CAA while addressing ‘public’ meetings comprising mostly hired crowds or leading walkathons with her party faithfuls.

At her public meetings, she has been making outrageous statements like calling for a UN-monitored plebiscite to determine support for CAA.

Some of her statements, like likening herself to a rat that will nibble away at a rock (in reference to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assertion that the NDA government stands firm like a rock on implementation of CAA) bordered on the ridiculous.

But Mamata Banerjee’s exclusive focus on whipping up opposition to the CAA and leading the protests against the Act are a sign of her growing desperation and panic.

The desperation arises from two counts: the obvious consolidation of Hindus in the face of vandalism by Muslim mobs last week, and the immunity they have been accorded by the state government from prosecution, and the entry of Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in Bengal.

Mamata Banerjee realises that the consolidation of Hindus against her party, and consolidation of Muslims in favour of the AIMIM, is a sureshot recipe for disaster for the Trinamool.

If this becomes a reality, the Trinamool would be wiped off the political map of Bengal in the next Assembly polls due in 2021. She is, obviously, desperate to prevent that from happening.

The Trinamool chief also realises that the images of Muslim mobs attacking and burning trains and railway properties in various parts of the state last week have done incalculable damage to her party’s and government’s image.

Last weekend’s vandalism and rioting by Muslim mobs has angered and outraged Hindus and sharpened the communal divide in Bengal. Mamata Banerjee is well aware of that.

A simple way out for her would have been to go after the rioteers and put them behind bars. But she is handicapped and cannot do that. Any strong action against the Muslim rioteers, she knows, would turn the entire community against her.

The Muslims of Bengal now have a choice: the AIMIM. Police action against the vandals and rioteers who destroyed railway, government and private properties would lead to the inevitable feeling of victimhood and turn Muslims away from the Trinamool into the lap of the AIMIM.

The loss of her Muslim vote bank, even a portion of it, would upset the winning electoral mathematics that she has stitched together and be disastrous for her party at the next hustings.

Mamata Banerjee was thus faced with a tough choice last weekend: regain the trust of the Hindus by cracking down on the criminals who rioted, or keep Muslims happy through inaction.

She has clearly chosen the second of the two alternatives. And to retain her Muslim vote bank and ward off the challenge posed by the AIMIM, she is vociferously opposing the CAA.

The Trinamool chief’s political strategy is that she goes out to retain her Muslim vote bank now, and tackle the alienation among Hindus later.

Hindus form nearly 70 per cent of the state’s electorate and she banks on the fact that this chunk is not a homogenous lot and can be easily divided. Before her, the CPI(M) too had survived for 34 years by uniting the Muslims and dividing the Hindus.

Mamata Banerjee is hoping that despite the Hindu consolidation in Bengal, she will be successful in wooing a sizeable chunk of Hindus before the 2021 polls through sops and symbolism.

For now, her priority is to ensure that Muslims stay with her and continue to be the backbone of support for the Trinamool. Hence, she is going all out to project herself as a trenchant critic and opponent of the CAA, and of the BJP.

That is why Mamata Banerjee is leading rallies, addressing public meetings and giving angry and reckless speeches that even border on the ridiculous.

But all that may not keep her Muslim vote bank intact. And in the process, her blatant Muslim-appeasement and inaction against the criminals responsible for last weekend’s vandalism and riots has resulted in sharpening the communal divide and consolidating Hindus against her and the appeased.

What then remains to be seen is if this is the beginning of the end of Trinamool’s misrule over Bengal.
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2. #Bollywood, Please Spare Us Your Dumbness And Stupidity : Dec 20, 2019 : Tushar Gupta

#Bollywood actors during a CAA protest rally in Mumbai.'

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#Snapshot :
*Bollywood celebrities are free to express their beliefs. But much like their scripts, their opinions are void of facts and realities.
*They do not belong to the front pages of newspapers or prime time debates.

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First, they began by saying how the Citizenship Amendment Bill (now an Act) was going to threaten the citizenship of Muslims in India. They followed this by saying how the bill on the National Register of Citizens (NRC), a document that does not exist, combined with the CAA would take away the citizenship of Muslims.

When the above two lies could not be sustained, they took to witchcraft and wizardry and stated their delusions and assumptions about the CAA and proposed NRC as facts on social media before getting together for a protest, swiftly coordinated by their public relations agencies in Mumbai yesterday (19 December).

Now, one does not expect the Hindi film industry, or its digital extension, to be intelligent or be mildly intellectual.

This is an industry that celebrates biopics on terrorists (and their sister) that coordinated the Bombay blasts of 1993, that takes pride in insulting any and every Hindu tradition in the name of art, and one that puts the laws of physics to such miserable use that if Issac Newton were to somehow see it, he would have begged the church to strangle him to death.

However, in the last few years, social media has enabled them to go beyond the realm of newspapers and glossy magazines. Now, they communicate directly, to their audience, or their fan bases that host mindless trends on Twitter for a few hundred rupees, only to bring an opposite actor down on the day of a movie release.

This communication has allowed them to voice their opinion on every matter. It is essential for any healthy democracy to have enough room for everyone to voice their opinions, even if they come across as dumb as a David Dhawan drama.

Now, with the PR agency ecosystem, supplemented by the millions of followers these celebrities have on social media, they ensure that their opinion is the one heard more, covered more, and eventually, considered far more important than that of a common social media user, even if its intellectual value is far lesser than that of a Karan Johar ‘romcom’.

Thus, a condescending reply to a user who may point out real facts becomes a ‘befitting’ reply for the news websites. An artiste, blessed by nepotism, and who cannot put two and two together to call it four is portrayed as a thinker. With the PR agencies doing their thing in the background, these puppets for hire make out tweets void of any ground reality.

After all, it was a significant section of this industry that warmed up to the likes of Arvind Kejriwal before shutting shop because they turned a blind eye to women harassment in their own backyard.

After all, this is the same industry that has an elaborate documented history of having producers from Dubai for movies that starred the costliest actors to ensure that black money was converted into white.

After all, this is the same industry that sat in the lap of India’s most wanted, backed a TADA convict, that talks about animal rights but dances around an actor, begging for roles and recognition, infamous for his animal hunting habits and instances of domestic abuse.

From leading actors to comedians, and from web series stars to character artistes, they all cherish the idea of a protest, for that is that one event that ensures free media attention.

For an industry that is obsessed with the idea of having their airport departure and arrival fashion covered, these protests are not an occasion to impart knowledge or appeal for peace but to grab eyeballs because a release is soon due. They are here just to watch the world burn for an additional few crores in revenue from their next movie because that’s who they are.

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3. #The CAA protests have once again exposed their idiocy. Not more than 1,000 in number, prominent web series stars took to Instagram to declare Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler.

#Anurag Kashyap 

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For the ones unaware of the web series or the concept of it, these are 12-40 minute ads on YouTube, weaving a story around a product they try hard to sell. To put it simply, these are glorified digital advertisements.

These web stars, some as prominent as their Bollywood counterparts, ran all the rumours they could find on CAB, CAA and NRC. Some, in the garb of delusion, even declared the CAB to be same as CAA while some couldn’t tell the difference between CAA and NRC.

While memes do add to the much-needed humour online, memes peddled with baseless facts add to the misinformation and fear-mongering. A comedian lately recognised for getting a Congress minister as a stand-up comedian for a show on Amazon Prime mocked the concern of the citizens for a bus that was burned.

On finding themselves to be wrong after the government released a set of FAQs yesterday (19 December), the web stars then chose to quote their feelings as facts. One can expect their next set of actions to include liberating India from the tyranny of Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah using dog-filters on Instagram through the Chinese smartphones they are paid to endorse in the most desperate manner.

However, they were not alone.

Ironically, Bollywood has a significant chunk of artistes who like to compare India with the likes of North Korea and Syria. A metro station shut from them is equivalent to a state being shut, and a pocket of the city without telecom network for them is equivalent to India between 1975 and 1977.

Perhaps, their lack of commonsense stems from the lack of meaningful cinema they have created, and in these pointless protests, they find some validation for their existence.

Some Bollywood celebrities went ahead and shared graphics that not only got the facts wrong but even the map of India wrong. Some, who are animal rights activists on the night of Diwali and beef lovers for the rest of the year asked for soft handling of protesters who were burning buses for fun and threatening school kids to forward their communal agenda. Some merely tweeted what their PR agencies thought would be the best for them.

One could go on and on about the lies and digital deceits of these celebrities, but nepotism and Bollywood’s echo chambers have awarded them far more space than they actually deserve, and thus, naming them would almost be redundant.

Movie stars, anywhere in the world, hold immense importance in public life, for a lot of people look upto them. It is no different in India. Following their lead, ‘woke wannabe idealists’ on social media, some with post-graduation degrees, added to the spread of misinformation.

On being questioned by their counterparts about the lack of truth in the graphics they were sharing, some chose to snap ties, some chose to make the cow-urine jibe, and some simply realised that they were protesting against something that did not exist. As long as it sounds woke (slang for cool, acceptable in a society plagued by peer pressure) on social media, it finds a voice, irrespective of how dumb it is. While the CAA protests, the millennials confirmed this notion.

These celebrities, actors, artistes, and everyone in the entertainment ecosystem, have a right to voice their opinion, even if it means calling the surgical strikes fake, calling a constitutionally elected government a dictatorship, peddling fake news, or comparing their cliched masala movies with the work of Christopher Nolan.

They are not entitled to, however, shoving down their delusions in the form of PR agency generated opinions upon us, the masses, the voters, the regular people (in the words of an actress blessed by nepotism and glossy fashion magazines), for we have chosen the government.

They are free, and they must be free, to express what they believe in, but much like their scripts, their opinions void of facts and realities belong to the trash can, and not the front page of any publication or prime time debates.

Spare us your dumbness and idiocy, Bollywood. Spare us!

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4. #No U-Turn: Modi Didn’t Contradict Shah On NRC; Leftist Media Is Misleading Again : Dec 23, 2019 : Arihant Pawariya 

#Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP president Amit Shah. (Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

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#Snapshot :
*It seems that some have taken the assurance given by the PM to Indian Muslims as an assurance to illegals too. It’s not his problem that these worthies have a problem differentiating between the two.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his detractors to task in a marathon speech delivered at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan yesterday (22 December).

He dedicated a major portion of it to address lies, misinformation and propaganda being spread against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and fears being stoked about nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC) promised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its 2019 general election manifesto.

Strangely, his detractors on social media claimed moral victory saying that Modi has ‘contradicted’ Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who has reiterated his position of bringing in a nationwide NRC before 2024 multiple times, both in election rallies as well as in Parliament.

Today, many mainstream dailies have run headlines portraying as if the Prime Minister has made a ‘U-turn’ on his party manifesto’s promise.

“Pan-India NRC never on the table, says PM,” is the headline today in far-left newspaper The Hindu. In the subheading, it claims “Modi contradicts Amit Shah’s statement in Lok Sabha”.

The Indian Express, another left-leaning English daily, has run a reality check. “Before PM Modi’s distancing from Pan-India NRC, there was Amit Shah’s underlining”.

One wonders how a mainstream newspaper can run a reality check on an assumption it has itself cooked up?

Among major English newspapers, only Times of India cared to carry the factually correct headline: ‘No rules framed for All-India NRC”.

It is not surprising that even those who have run misleading headlines have no quotes in their story to corroborate their claims of ‘U-turn’ or ‘contradiction’.

Modi mentioned NRC three times in his speech. Here’s what he actually said.

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#1. “Second thing, about the NRC. What lies are being spread about it.. 

This was made during the Congress government time. Were they sleeping then? 

We didn’t make it. It hasn’t come to the Parliament, nor has it come before the Union Cabinet. Nor have its rules and regulations been formulated. Fear is being created.”

What Modi is saying is that NRC was brought in by the Congress government and not by him, as is being projected. The NRC proposal hasn’t come up for discussion in the Union Cabinet. And until that happens, there is no question of it coming to Parliament let alone any rules being framed. Unnecessary bogey of paranoia is being created about something that hasn’t even been discussed within the government.

How are the media and leftists taking this to mean that just because it hasn’t yet been discussed, it will not be discussed in future when the party has promised to implement it in its manifesto?

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#2. ‘First, at least see if anything has happened on NRC. Lies are being spread. 

Since the time my government came in 2014 to date, I want to tell 130 crore people of this country, there has been no discussion or talk on NRC. 

Even in Assam, we did it on the directions of the Supreme Court. What are they even talking about?”

Again, just because there has not been any talk on NRC so far, it doesn’t mean it won’t be on the government’s agenda in future. Abrogation of Article 370 may also not have been discussed in the first term, but it was still done as promised in the party manifesto. The same is with the NRC. Home Minister Amit Shah has said repeatedly that the government will bring it before 2024. The least one can do is wait before celebrating the so-called backtracking by the PM prematurely.

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#3. Those Muslims who are sons of India’s soil and whose forefathers were children of Mother India have nothing to do with both CAA and NRC. The Muslims of the country are neither being sent to detention centres.

This is absolutely correct. Not only CAA, but even NRC has nothing to do with Muslims who are Indians and whose forefathers were Indians. Of course, when it comes to those who have come here illegally, the issue is entirely different. But it seems that some have taken this assurance by the PM to Indian Muslims as an assurance to illegals too.

It’s not his problem that these worthies have a problem differentiating between the two.

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#4. “One gentleman even did calculations that how much NRC will cost, where will it be spent, how many schools could’ve been....why are you exercising your brain on something which doesn’t even exist.”

Now, the PM saying NRC doesn’t exist is being taken to mean that it won’t exist ever. Those indulging in such mental gymnastics are only fooling themselves.

They should rather focus on NRC being a promise made by the BJP in its manifesto. And by the way the Modi government is fulfilling these pledges one by one and striking them off from its ‘shapath patra’, the detractors are in for utter disappointment.

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5. #OPINION :
1. SOON AFTER PM ADDRESS FROM RAMLILA , CONGRESS STARTED  TWISTING  THE WHOLE SPEECH, AND COLONIAL SLAVES THE ANTI NATIONAL URBAN NAXALS, THE ENGLISH MEDIA POURED OIL IN FIRE IGNITED BY CONGRESS;

2. MUSLIMS POLITICS, THE DEMONIC INSTITUTIONS AND  LEADERS, TOOK THIS  OPPORTUNITY TO THEIR ADVATAGE AND STARTED FANNING THE FLAME EVEN MORE HIGH, SPREADING ALLOVER;

3. THIS IS TREASON, AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND MISUSING THE DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM TO DESTRUCTION AND  DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY;

4. THIS IS UNFORGIVABLE, MAIN STREAM IS WAKE, ALL  SPEECH AND ACTIONS ARE ON RECORD, THERE IS SUPREME COURT, IF NATION LOVING HONEST CITIZENS FILE PUBLIC INTEREST PETITION, THESE DRAMA BY MUSLIMS, CONGRESS, COMMUNISTS KEJARIWAL, MAMATA LIKES WILL BE TRAPPED; 

5. WAIT FOR OUR TURN TO TAKE ON YOU FOOLS, YOU WILL BE PUNISHED FOR LIFE TO REMEMBER YOUR GRANDMOTHER.

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JAY HIND

JAY BHARATHAM

VANDHE MATHARAM

BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.

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