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My dear countrymen,
Let's marvel at the eloquence of our journalist
@smitaprakash
who is valiantly batting for the ruling party's communal agenda. History will surely mark this era as the pinnacle of India's “enlightenment.”
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The Washington Post full-page in solidarity with Rana Ayyub on 20 Feb.
So much for the freedom of journalists in Mother of democracy India. Indian democracy, with no free media, is of unique breed. Some say there is still freedom of speech but no freedom after the speech.
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You can do it
@shahid_siddiqui
Bhai 👏👏👏. I find Muslim community now increasingly agile to this need. They need a bit of constant prodding. Please do such campaigns with them regularly touching their emotions.
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@FayrouzSharqawi
@nousheen_irfan
This is so true. Go to British Museum London or Louvre in Paris, you will be astonished to see the Egyptian section. As if they had full ownership rights over Egypt & carried everything which they could.
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उनका जो काम है वो अहले सियासत जानें
मेरा पैगाम मुहब्बत है जहां तक पहुंचे
Like Moses raised in Pharaoh palace, Mr. Saxena has unfurled flag of love in the era of Sanghi hatred
@priyapyadav18
@googly69
@shashirajjj
@sanjayuvacha
@deepsealioness
@SeemaAlam
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Few days back I happened to meet a group of Jordanian professionals. They were totally ignorant about Modi’s India. Their image of India was still that of Nehru’s secular India where different communities lived peacefully.
World needs to know the reality.
@RanaAyyub
to
@mehdirhasan
: Americans have a “comfortable and convenient ignorance about what’s happening” in
#Modi
’s India.
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Bravo Rana. You stand for truth and Justice with huge risk to your safety. World has recognized your courage and contribution. The battle is not lost till there are protagonists like you in the fight between truth & lies. My best wishes.
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Difficult to believe. But it is fact that 23,872 shares (2%) of OpIndia & SwarajMag is held by Catamaran Ventures, whose promoter is Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy.
Today, I lose my respect for him.
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@The__Merynism
@SirPareshRawal
Savarkar wrote his own biography by a fictitious name “Chitragupta” and gave the title of veer to himself.😂😂
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@ShekharGupta
He magnifies an error as strategic seeding. Doesn’t
@ShekharGupta
know Congress ruled for more than 6 decades after 1947. So all things good or bad can be attributed to Congress alone.
Why not evaluate in totality rather than doing this cherry picking?
This guy has an agenda.
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@zoo_bear
@Kumail_AbbasZ
Priti Gandhi
@MrsGandhi
has till not deleted the tweet about a YouTube video which has clearly been made to spread hate against Muslims. Vikas Kumar, under the strategic design of hate, calls himself Rashid Khan.
Arrest Priti Gandhi for being a serial hate spreader.
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@UnSubtleDesi
Which vital function on earth will stop without your co-religionists or for that matter without any religion?
Very poor upbringing Madam. Grow up & shut your mouth.
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Scandinavian Countries are mostly atheists. Japan is another country with very low religious influence. But they all are more prosperous & peaceful with very low crime rates.
Is religion decisively a destructive force? On the face of it, it looks like this. Am I mistaken?
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Did you imagine 15 years back that the stable of
@aroonpurie
will one day become den of advocates of the fascism? I never dreamt such a disfigured India!
"But... But what about their intentions.. but surely intentions.. but intention matters.." 🤡
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So why did you carry out this big fuss for the whole population of Assam? You should have told in the beginning that only Muslims needed to be covered under NRC exclusion project.
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@anushakunmittal
@tjoseph0010
@kunalpurohit
I find such uncles in all families in India who think that what ails India is becoz of Nehru and everything good is becoz of Modi. I know a doctor uncle whose entire professional life was spent in Saudi Arabia & UAE minting money, now pours out venom on Muslims.
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“Thank you for making me feel less alone & isolated.”
~ Rana Ayyub on receiving John Aubuchon Press Freedom award, highest honour conferred by US National Press Club
Thank u
@RanaAyyub
for making us feel that fight against injustice remains on.
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To me, Hijab is slavery. Period.
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@dmuthuk
@narendramodi
Ethics? I have serious doubts on your ethics when you promise to vote him despite what is happening and despite his dismal human rights records. It is becoz of ppl like you that he would rule India till it splinters.
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@RShivshankar
No m0ron you are misleading. There is no co-education in school in Saudi Arabia. In all female schools, this order fits well with the requirements of Hijab.
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@madhukishwar
@RSSorg
@HMOIndia
@zoo_bear
Madam trìckstress,
have some shame. Your sense of truth & false are weird. In the name of asking questions, you are spreading falsehood. If you are asking a question, send them email directly rather than spreading your stink in public.
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@_amitbehere
In my assessment, u seem observant & truthful. People have ceased to be truthful about observing the hate content within their families, let alone speaking about it. If I frame a hypothesis that per capita hate in UC Indians is the highest in the world, what will be your take?
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@AdvAshutoshBJP
@ReallySwara
The difference between Zubair & Arnab is like difference between Hero & villain.
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This is Leo, 2 months old German shepherd,my friend Sonali bought for ₹20,000/- as surprise gift to her husband.But her husband Gaurav turned out to be allergic to dogs.
Sonali is now looking for a new home for him. Gaurav is 29 year old, drives a bike, can cook & is handsome.
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@AdnanSamiLive
Come on
@zoo_bear
. You are discussing with a person who is under compulsion to do certain act or say certain thing. Good discussion is possible only amongst free people.
Unki apni kuch majboori hai. Leave him.
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It is worth your 1 min 29 seconds. You will thank me for bringing this to your notice.
We should not be obsessed with perfection. Sustained incremental changes will do wonders.
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@ShefVaidya
Cute disinformation Shefali..!! Rana only stood for free choice. If some one wants to observe Hijab, no one should stop.If some one doesn’t observe Hijab, no one should impose.
Now return 2 rupee troll fee. Ask
@TVMohandasPai
also to return.
@RanaAyyub
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I have not shown this video to my wife. 😂
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An estranged friend of mine called today.We had not talked for more than a year becoz I had called him all sorts of things - fascist, racist & Hindutva supremacist - for his blind support of divisive & hateful policies of Modi.
First sentence he told was “Aftab you were right.”
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@mrjethwani_
Don’t absolve Vajpayee ji. Vajpayee ji first ensnared the liberal class by sweet talking then Advani gave them potion and we got what we see today. To me, these two destroyed India forever.
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This common kingfisher's legs were stuck on the frozen pipe. It was released by a kind soul just by the warmth of his hands.
Small random acts of kindness do count.
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@himantabiswa
This statement is from the c.m. of a state in secular India..!!
To me it looks like 24 carat racist comment. If the same comment is made about a Sarma, Talukdar or Khataniar in Dubai by the ruler of Dubai, would it be considered civil?
His comments prove Obama being right.
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Fundraiser by Pieter Friedrich : Declare RSS a Terrorist Group
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@sonaliranade
A moderate Sanghi is a deceptive Sanghi. He wears smile on his face, pays lip service to pluralism but uses convoluted “nationalism” to sugarcoat his racism. He is more dangerous than hardcore Sanghi. My friends are equally divided between hard Sanghis & moderate Sanghis.
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@kaushikcbasu
That he has not succeeded so far in Indian politics is a commentary on the nature of Indian politics which has decided to admit populists now. If Rahul was Indian PM, our moral stature globally would have been many notches higher.
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“He understands that the ideological rather than tactical defeat of majoritarian forces is long-term and sustainable for the country.”
Every passing day, I see him becoming more of Gandhi & less of Rahul. He is Gandhi of our time which India needed.
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BBC documentary on Gujarat genocide was banned becoz of “Bias & lack of objectivity” in the words of Arindam Bagchi, foreign affairs ministry spokesperson.
But Kashmir files & Kerala Story were clapped & celebrated by the establishment for “Artistic creativity” & “truth”!!👏👏
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Dear Experts in Urdu,
Please read it for me.
@Bashirbagdadi
@chashmEnumm
@nousheen_irfan
@RiazurRahman
@OmarHayat_Auth
@shariqqidwai
@shahalam13
@umairs440
@indscribe
@yusufpore
@ZarinKhanz
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@HassanSaaD
@kaushikcbasu
A funny anecdote. I met a Syrian fellow (Alumnus of Lieden University) who asked me if Gandhi was an engineer? When I said no then he asked again why he added title of an engineer with his name. He was referring to (Mohandas - मोहंदस) which in Arabic meant Engineer. 😂😂
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हमको पता नहीं था, हमें अब पता चला
इस मुल्क में हमारी हुकूमत नहीं रही ।
This slavery is worse than Britishers slavery. Then we knew we were slaves & tried to break free. Today we don’t even know we are slaves under काले अंग्रेज़ ।Pills of nationalism has sedated us.
चुनावी खर्च के बहस पर कुछ मुद्दे।फुरसत में सुनें।जय हिंद
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There ought to be a threshold to shamelessness, beyond which lies only moral bankruptcy. Deve Gowda should ensure that his grandson surrenders to police. He should chuck him out from party. Modi should say sorry for promoting a rapist as MP candidate.
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@TVMohandasPai
Wah wah. What a determination to stay an ostrich with head firmly buried in sandy quagmire..!!
Mr. Pai when you invite FDI, be ready to answer concerns from foreign land. FDI is not part of dowry. It comes with the right of seeking accountability.
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@ashoswai
Our beloved PM has divorced truth from his life. He creates his own truth which if contested, quickly acquires the label of deshdroh.
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@TrulyMonica
Madam Liberal,
Did Rakhi Sawant tell you that she was forced to convert? Liberalism is to allow people take their own decision & not impose yours on them which you clearly are trying to do.
Now think if you want to, else stay in ur majoritarian world.
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@Voice_For_India
Very distinguished alumni of WhatsApp university. 😂😂
In Mahabharat war, Australia was used to keep our arms. Its present name is distorted form of its old name Astralay. But unfortunately both the war and arms storage are from mythology.
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@stats_feed
Adani is richer than Warren Buffet. This single observation is enough to drive home the point about wealth made unethically though on paper legally. Is Adani an inventor? Is he an entrepreneur par excellence? If yes, where this excellence was hidden before 2014?
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ऐ काश अपने मुल्क में ऐसी फ़िज़ा बने
मंदिर जले तो रंज मुसलमां को भी हो
पामाल होने पाए न मस्जिद की आबरू
यह फिक्र मंदिरों के निगहबान को भी हो
Muslims performing Friday Prayers in Marina and Hindus form a human chain.
This is why BJP failed to communalized
#Jallikattuprotest
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@madhukishwar
enjoy this extract frm anthology of Jumlas.Constitution to set limit on hyperboles?😄
@sanjayuvacha
By God.. Listen to his scheme 4 medals.. India failed this year .. He Won
#GoldMedalForJumla
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@GarudaPrakashan
@madhukishwar
@GeneralBakshi
@sonal_mansingh
@sankrant
I am saddened to see
@sonal_mansingh
in the group of Hindutva thugs. I have however become used to finding seemingly good people turning out dyed in the wool Hindutva proponents.
I wish once this phase passes, all sectarian thugs are put to trial. This will happen one day.
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@khushsundar
@BJP4India
I am not bothered whatever religion you follow. I am however bothered for your inconsistent & unprincipled approach. You have freedom to do whatever you want to do except helping the hate proliferate.
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You are inspiration & reason of hope for conscientious citizens. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. Ur sense of pride & uprightness is worth billions whose minute fraction can buy 90% of India’s journalists. You are in my prayers.
Not sure how I should feel about being on this list. But here I am. Among the ten journalists facing the most urgent threats to Press Freedom around the world
@TIME
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@ShekharGupta
Stand in front of mirror
@ShekharGupta
. You will be horrified to see the man there consistently justifying all the atrocities of Sanghi fascism in the name of realpolitik. Shame on you.
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My brother’s son giving his expert views on vegetable biryani.
I want to have his opinion on many pressing problems of the time.
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This is called governance.
बोल की लब आज़ाद नहीं अब
@sanjayuvacha
@sonu1mohanty
@priyapyadav18
@googly69
@SeemaAlam
Eight arrested after they ‘waved’ black flags at PM
@narendramodi
, Rajasthan CM’s rally
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@Martina
The exuberance of the crowd makes it obvious that radicalism has crossed all limits.
Hitler’s Germany saw state atrocity. Modi’s India is witnessing state-people partnership.
Expatriate Indians are exporting this hate internationally too. Leicester & New Jersey saw the trailer.
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Conversation is with an Indian doctor in gulf (for 30 yrs)who I know from decades & is the best of human beings.Context was
@sonaliranade
article in Wire on Modi’s civilizational Hindutva project.
Even the most gentle ppl stand sold to Modi’s lies in the”name of nation.”
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Do read the venerated Khushwant Singh who smelled it two decades back.
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@taslimanasreen
You are no one to decide “what should be”. It is individual’s choice. All I advocate is that nothing should be forced upon people. If Rakhi Sawant has not been forced, it is perfectly ok. It could as well have been ok if they married sticking to their respective religions.
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Call it Karma or poetic Justice as you wish. It is silent whisper of true desires of common people. The long arc of moral universe has indeed turned towards Justice.
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@Profdilipmandal
Too simplistic. At this kind of logic, Sambit Patra will score over you. If i don’t know about capital market, safer option will be to keep mum. Why don’t u read some reportage by publications expert in this domain.
Becoz of ur baseless argument in this case, I feel sad for u.
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You got it right. There is difference between देखना & पढ़ना ।
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@rakesh_shrouti
@ArunSFan
@zbr_amd
@BaisVikrant
Nehru was surrounded by his bitterest critique, Mr. Nehru. When ppl were overawed & kept silent, he wrote his own criticism in newspaper under a pseudonym.
Contrast this with Sarvarkar who wrote a book with pseudonym praising himself and according himself the title of Veer.
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Logical extension of NRC will be only Dravidians staying in India. Aryans can however stay if they could show Permanent Residence visa granted to their forefathers in 1500 BC.
Shah -> Not originally from India. Probably from Afghanistan.
Amit Shah will have to deport himself first
Centre will identify, deport illegal immigrants 'from every inch' of country as per international law, Amit Shah tells Rajya Sabha - Firstpost
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@ashajadeja325
1. Govt failed miserably twice - not being able to prevent Godhra & orchestrating 2002 genocide. Responsible electorate should have taken the party to task for both.
2. Justice was not done in either case becoz of active biased role played by the prosecutors. - contd.
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@Malcolm_Returnz
@nousheen_irfan
Looks so charming & innocent like all my friends. Daily curating of hate at drawing table & its chiseling at work place & society made him a heinous criminal.
If one of my friend turns out to become next Vishal, I will not be surprised. They all brim with hate.
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Interviewer Ramesh & translator enacted the script perfectly but PM forgot his lines mid way. Misuse of NTU platform with active consent of Ramesh is bizarre. NTU should interrogate Ramesh for collusion
@priyapyadav18
@sanjayuvacha
@googly69
@shashirajjj
Never in my 34 yrs as diplomat saw an interpreter not only render words spoken but ( skill from Vedic times?) what was in PM’s mind.
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@sonaliranade
@aayeff1
@arunjaitley
@arunjaitley
famously told US Ambassador that bigotry of BJP was merely for votes & it would never cross the LINE. Did he not know that taste of blood to tiger will continuously keep it on prowl. May he RIP but I hold both (Vajpayee & Jaitley Ji) equally responsible for hate.
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These are some of the best institutes- e.g. Ashoka Univ being the best in liberal arts education which India lacks. Uneducated mind is best ground for bigotry to grow which suits this government.
They first came for JNU. Others follow.
#shameful
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@_amitbehere
I too used to think so. But now I have changed my mind. Their love for the country is mere facade for their hate for Muslims. I find no exception.
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@UnSubtleDesi
The hate is again at work. No self respecting conscientious person can continue in the new Avtar of NDTV. Wish you the best
@SreenivasanJain
. You are bold & conscientious like your father.
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Message from a friend:
“I never discussed politics with xyz, my neighbour, who heads a Norwegian shipping co. in Mumbai, as he is a die-hard Hindutva man. Yesterday, over tea, he blurted out angrily, "All ports sold to Adani. Half of India sold to Adani & other half to Ambanis."
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@PoonamJoshi_
I am happy that he wrote. World should know the involvement of our top leadership in such issues. Let them know how this rot has spread outside India & its implicit backing by high & mighty.
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Cricket transformed into Dhandho in Ahmedabad..!!
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@Javedakhtarjadu
Not condemning doesn’t mean supporting. U could have requested them to condemn without attaching motives. You too are condemning after more than a month. Does it mean till now u were supportive of the action?
Please do not adopt Sanghi strategy of “where were liberals …” type.
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@TheDeshBhakt
explains the demonetization beautifully. He however does not talk of chauraha resolve.
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I guess
@PrannoyRoyNDTV
would be a happy man in commercial terms. Adani bought his 27.26% stake in
@ndtv
@₹342.65 per share which is at the premium of 64% of presently prevailing price of ₹208 per share.
Poetic Justice…!!!
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@RanaAyyub
To my shaken belief, India was the same always. Our hate for minorities was lying inside which BJP merely mined out.We were a country of silent haters then. We r a country of noisy haters now.
We do have some excellent human beings. Alas they r too less to make any difference.
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@sonaliranade
My problem is acute. Vast majority of the best & the brightest of my school/college batch mates & office colleague are from upper caste. Almost all of them are Bhakts. Modi has divided India along such divisive concepts of identities. My friends stink now unbearably.
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EC refuses to merge with BJP but continues its support from outside.
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@RShivshankar
Don’t distort it Rahul. Why the temple invited extremist hate spewing Sadhvi Rithambara to speak and make U.K. the land of hate like India. The local Muslim community wants cancellation of invitation to haters. Thank God the state there is not backing the haters.
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