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BJP Leader Shiv Shankar Singh Launches 'Har Ghar Tiranga' Campaign

BJP leader Shiv Shankar Singh launched the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign at Bagunhatu Kali Temple, urging citizens to proudly hoist the national flag. BJP leader Shiv Shankar Singh, along with Baridih Mandal President Jeevanlal, kicked off the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign, encouraging people to participate enthusiastically. JAMSHEDPUR – BJP leader Shiv Shankar Singh inaugurated the ‘Har Ghar…

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The coronavirus pandemic intensifies Islamophobia in India

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The coronavirus pandemic intensifies Islamophobia in India

“Even a global pandemic cannot end religious hatred”

Muslim men in the streets of Lal Darwaja, in Ahmedabad, India. Image via Flickr by Juliana Cunha. CC BY-NC 2.0

Check out Global Voices’ special coverage of the global impact of COVID-19. Along with its more than 37,000 positive COVID-19 cases and over 1,200 deaths so far, India finds itself battling against another threat. Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a country-wide lockdown on March 25, 2020, instances of Islamophobia have intensified and many leading news channels stand accused of adding fuel to the fire. This sudden uptick in COVID-19-related Islamophobia is related to a gathering organised by the Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary group, which took place in India's capital a day ahead of the nationwide lockdown on March 24. The event was largely blamed for the increase in India's COVID-19 cases. While Islamophobia against India's Muslim population has increased slowly since Modi came to power in 2014 — with multiple lynchings, riots, and mob attacks recorded — troll armies used the Tablighi Jamaat meeting to target Muslims on social media and elsewhere. Leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) referred to the Jamaat meeting as a “Talibani crime” and “CoronaTerrorism”. The resulting #CoronaJihad hashtag soon went viral and fake news plagued social media spaces. Complicating matters were accusations that India's right-wing groups, including those linked to the BJP, spread rumors and harassed innocent people as part of an alleged campaign to blame the spread of COVID-19 on Muslims. The fallout is proving disastrous, as some Indian hospitals have already begun refusing to admit Muslims. On April 19, as coronavirus-related Islamophobia surged, local media reported the deaths of two newborn babies after hospitals in Jamshedpur refused to admit their Muslim mothers. Another Muslim woman, Rizwana Khatun, who showed up at a Jharkhand hospital pregnant and bleeding, miscarried after she was denied treatment. She was allegedly asked to clean up her own blood.

International outcry

Meanwhile, the tone of the anti-Muslim commentary caused many from the Gulf region, including the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Government of Kuwait, a royal princess of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and a number of Arab activists, to protest: Khaled Al-Suwaifan, Lawyer and Member of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Bar Association tweeted:

We call on international organizations, especially the United Nations, the Security Council, the Organization of islamic cooperation and all human rights organizations, to intervene immediately to stop the violations committed against our Muslim brothers in India #India — خالد السويفان (@alsuwaifan) April 20, 2020

Activist Afreen Fatima wrote:

Valentis Hospital in Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) has put out an advertisement in local Hindi newspaper stating that it will not treat Muslim patients. Religion discrimination is not just done here, it is celebrated and advertised! Please spread the word in global community. pic.twitter.com/gThIKq7iFQ — Afreen Fatima (@AfreenFatima136) April 18, 2020

The advertisement states that Muslims will not be admitted to the hospital unless they provide proof that they have tested negative for COVID-19. This particular hospital mentioned that Muslim patients will be charged for expensive COVID-19 tests. Test kits can cost as much as 4,500 Indian rupees (approximately 60 United States dollars), a huge sum for many who eke out a living by doing manual labour, which typically pays around a minimum wage of 176 Indian rupees ($2.3) for an eight-hour workday. According to a government order, testing in government facilities are free and the government will reimburse private labs for testing the 500 million people the fee of each test — 4,500 rupees covered by a flagship public health insurance scheme. Despite the initiation of police investigations, reports of discrimination against Muslims have also surfaced regularly across the northern and western parts of the country. News channels — including Times Now, Republic TV, and India TV — have run regular shows demonizing the wider Muslim community, by linking it to the Tablighi event:

Muslim Are Facing Worst Things In The Country No Muslims Vendor Can Enter Into Hindu Majority Area Different Wards For Hindu-Muslim in Gujarat Hospital Meerut Hospital Denied Treatment To Muslim By Issuing Notification #Islamophobia_In_India pic.twitter.com/VNUxUaJslA — Sanwar Ali (@AdvSanwar) April 21, 2020

Muslim response

Despite mounting ostracisation, ten Tablighi Jamaat members donated blood plasma in order to help doctors treat infected patients. Many others have also come forward to help:

Yesterday, hundreds of Tablighi Jamaat members, who were fasting donated plasma at Sultanpuri quarantine centre in Delhi. This is the very same Muslim group that is being vilified & scapegoated day in & day out by media and the ruling govt. pic.twitter.com/pYiIhi0q8i — IndianAmericanMuslimCouncil (@IAMCouncil) April 27, 2020

Jamaat chief Maulana Saad Khadavli, who faced legal charges over the event, recently appealed to COVID-19 survivors to donate blood plasma. He also urged all Muslims to stay home and pray during the holy month of Ramadan:

Despite Ramadan

, tablighi members are donating blood plasma for people infected with covid as hospitals are struggling for donors. These same Tablighis were accused of all kinds of nonsense by govt & the media. Prayers for all! pic.twitter.com/bjBseQJFKY — Salman Nizami (@SalmanNizami_) April 26, 2020

New Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has also asked that everyone who recovered from the virus — irrespective of their caste or religion — come forward and donate plasma.

Fake news constructs

After two Hindu holy men were killed by a mob in Maharashtra during the lockdown period in April, a video of the incident went viral. Tweets claiming they were murdered by Muslims gained prominence, with some of them even targeting Chief Minister Uddhav Thackerey, who — after breaking ties with BJP — formed a coalition government with the left-centrist groups Indian National Congres and Nationalist Congress Party. The communal polarisation people have been experiencing in the wake of COVID-19, is summed up by this tweet:

Modi Sarkar has always tried to #DivideAndRule Initial incidences of Covid19 were blamed on Jamat & given Muslim Twist Gujarat Hospitals seperated patients into Hindu & Muslim Lynching of Hindu Sadhu at Palghar was narrated as conspiracy against Hindus This madness must stop! — Koomar Shah (@KoomarShah) April 24, 2020

Some columnists have been trying to focus attention on the issue. Apoorvanand wrote in the Indian Express:

In the seven decades of Independent India, Muslims have systematically been forced into ghettoes. There were already two zones of sensibilities in India — Hindu and Muslim. The current crisis is being used to deepen the divide.

Sagarika Ghose wrote in the Times of India:

Scientists are working to find a vaccine for coronavirus, but who will cure the communal virus? It can only be cured if each of us journeys inwards to find humanity within, to treat fellow human beings as equals. After all, this is the teaching of every great religion, whether Hinduism or Islam. If even a global pandemic which knows no boundaries cannot end religious hatred, what can?

As India grapples with the prejudices the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light, it must confront its own complicated history — because even if political groups discriminate, this virus does not.

Mumbai-based writer Priyanka Malhotra contributed to this report.

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Delhi Assembly Elections: Prashant Kishor's swing management

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal waited for seven hours to file his nomination papers from the New Delhi Assembly constituency. That was a day after his roadshow pulled in a large number of cheer crowd to make him skip filing the nomination papers. The simple filing of nomination papers hogged the limelight for two days. The BJP played along, first by floating the strategy to surprise Kejriwal with a heavyweight challenger, only to spring a tame script in Sunil Yadav, who in his only electoral experience has lost councilor's elections. The discourse surrounding the Delhi Assembly elections have so far stayed around Kejriwal, portrayed as an indomitable and sometimes as a victim of the "dirty tricks" of the BJP, in line with Prashant Kishor's election management text book.

 THE BJP veteran in Jharkhand Saryu Rai had long been a critic of the party colleague and former chief minister Raghubar Das. Rai would often put down dissent note in the Cabinet decisions. He would even admit lapses in events of alleged hunger deaths in the state. Das had also long been nursing an opportunity to get rid of him and found emboldened with his Maharashtra counterpart Devendra Fadnavis, who had also purged his rivals within the party during ticket distribution. Rai knew his fate, yet patiently awaited the Central leadership to be wiser.

 The BJP Central leadership thought of paying a smart game by delaying Rai's candidature from Jamshedpur (West) Assembly seat. The party would have given the nomination by making him seen begging for the ticket, which, in turn, would have pleased Das. Rai didn't play along the script, and drifted away. 

 An old hand in politics, Rai had rubbed shoulders with the socialists, and counted on Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar as his pal. Over the years, he had cultivated an image of an intellectual within the BJP. He was popularly seen honest. In the face of his party insulting him, Rai took flight to an audacious course. He decided to challenge the chief minister Das in his Jamshedpur (West) constituency, which was among the only seven seats in the state in 2014 where the winning candidate had a margin of more than 50,000 votes.

 Rai hogged the limelight. He was a victim. People sympathised with an honest and educated man who was dumped by the BJP at the insistence of an arrogant chief minister. Das stayed in Ranchi. He was miser in mixing with the people in his constituency. He was seen distant and inaccessible. The stage was set for the script of a simple man taking on an arrogant drunk on power. 

 The script needed an able direction to stage the act on a large canvas. The director flew in from Patna with an army of 300 assistants. He was Prashant Kishor. His army brought in posters, leaflets and wrote slogans. They knocked at the doors to tell stories of an honest man fighting a lonely battle against an arrogant chief minister. In a matter of a few days, Rai was the only topic of discussion. The ripple effect soon electrified the whole state. Das had emerged a villain. Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to cut down the damage. He patted his Cabinet colleague Arjun Munda more frequently in his election rallies. But the damage was done beyond the limits of Modi. 

 IN 2015 the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar had turned a BJP foe in the state Assembly elections. The BJP brimmed with an all conquering passion to win elections. The saffron outfit was facing a grand alliance of Nitish Kumar in the company of the Congress and the RJD. Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav had become the best pals. Modi was on an error making spree. He sought to flow the river of funds from the Centre to Patna to turn Bihar into Gujarat. Worse, he hit out at Nitish Kumar, and Prashant Kishor grabbed that to run the campaign to send samples of hair for DNA testing. The BJP's well oiled electoral machinery slipped into the muddy waters of Bihar even before the people cast their votes in the first phase of elections. 

 Kishor now has perfected text book to turn the victims in politicians to giant killers. His company I-Pac is currently the best political slogan writers. He in the course of a few months can apply smart touches to the images of his pay masters to the liking of the people. Kejriwal is no more seen an anarchist. The Delhi chief minister in the course of a few months, Kishor came on board unofficially with Aam Admi Party (AAP) around August, last year, has been smiling from thousands of his pictures dotting the national capital. 

 Kishor has worked on the image makeover of Kejriwal. The I-Pac workers are knocking at the doors of the people to sell the story of governance. They are selling the dream that Delhi in another five years would become a place of their aspirations: free of toxic air, classrooms for all the children, and healthcare for patients.     

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Jharkhand mob lynching: 11 arrested for 'beating' 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari to loss of life, 2 cops suspended; SIT shaped to probe case

http://tinyurl.com/y6jfxe4v Seraikela-Kharsawan: Eleven folks had been arrested on Monday in reference to the loss of life of a 24-year-old man, who was thrashed by a mob right here for alleged theft and is seen in a purported video being compelled to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and “Jai Hanuman”, police mentioned. A particular investigation group (SIT) has been set as much as look into the loss of life of Tabrez Ansari, who was declared “introduced useless” by medical doctors on the Tata Principal Hospital in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on Saturday, the police mentioned. Two police personnel had been suspended in reference to the incident. They had been officers-in-charge of Kharaswan and Sini police stations, they mentioned. Representational picture. Reuters Seraikela-Kharsawan Superintendent of Police Karthik S mentioned on 17 June, Ansari and two others had entered a home in Seraikela village within the evening, allegedly with an intention to commit theft. Nonetheless, the occupants of the home wakened and raised an alarm, following which villagers caught maintain of Ansari and “manhandled” him, whereas his accomplices managed to flee, the SP instructed reporters. Ansari was discovered to be in possession of valuables, which he and his associates had allegedly stolen from different villages, the officer mentioned. The police reached the spot within the morning and took Ansari to jail on the idea of a grievance from villagers, after administering first help to him. Nonetheless, when his situation deteriorated in jail on the identical day, he was taken to the a hospital, the place he was identified with a number of accidents, the SP mentioned. He was subsequently referred to the Tata Principal Hospital in Jamshedpur. Earlier, the police had mentioned Ansari was tied to a pole and overwhelmed up with sticks by the evening. The video in query, circulated broadly on social media, was shared with the police by Ansari’s members of the family and it was being investigated, the SP mentioned. “We’re wanting into all angles. His members of the family talked about some unidentified miscreants of their grievance. Primarily based on that, now we have already arrested eleven folks, together with a person named Papu Mandal,” he added. He mentioned the state of affairs was regular, but a police posse had been deployed within the village. The SP mentioned the autopsy report had not been obtained but. Ansari’s spouse, Shaishta Ansari, has accused the police of taking him to jail first, as a substitute of a hospital. The opposition Congress mentioned it had shaped a seven-member group to probe the incident. “We demand Rs 25 lakh compensation for the household of the sufferer and a job for his spouse,” a state Congress chief mentioned. The incident has triggered indignant reactions from varied political events throughout the nation. Peoples Democratic Get together chief Mehbooba Mufti mentioned Ansari was lynched to loss of life in BJP-ruled Jharkhand. “A Hindu mob thrashed him ruthlessly as a result of he refused to chant ‘Jai Sri Ram’. Is that this NDA 2.0’s New India? Yeh kaunsa tareeka hai sabka vishwas jeetnay ka (what sort of a course of is that this to win everybody’s belief)?,” the previous Jammu and Kashmir chief minister tweeted. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi mentioned such incidents now adopted a well-recognized sample. “That is the sample with nearly all lynchings. First, a Muslim is murdered by cow lovers. Then essentially the most ridiculous excuses start: a ‘suspicion’ of beef possession, theft, smuggling & love jihad. A lot for ‘sabka vishwas’ after we might be killed over mere ‘suspicions’,” he mentioned in a tweet. 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Prime Minister to Launch Jharkhand Election Campaign in Jamshedpur

Modi to Unveil Rs 21,000 Crore Projects, Flag Off Vande Bharat Trains Key Points: • PM Modi to visit Jamshedpur on September 15 for campaign launch • Rs 21,000 crore projects to be inaugurated at Tatanagar station • BJP rally at Bistupur Gopal Maidan to showcase political strength JAMSHEDPUR – Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to kickstart the Jharkhand assembly election campaign with a visit…

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BJP Leader Rajkumar Singh Inaugurates 41st Ganesh Puja Utsav in Sopodera

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JMM Women's Wing Burns Effigies of PM Modi and CM Chouhan in Protest

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BJP Aims for Sweep in Jamshedpur Assembly Seats

Party leaders rally workers at organizational meeting, stress booth-level strategy BJP leaders urged workers to focus on booth-level organization to win all four assembly seats in Jamshedpur. JAMSHEDPUR – BJP held an organizational meeting at Devasthan Auditorium, rallying workers to secure all four assembly seats in Jamshedpur. Key party figures gathered at the Devasthan Auditorium in Burmamines…

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BJP Business Cell Distributes 650 Ayushman Cards in Jamshedpur

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Congress Welcomes New Members in Bhuiyandih Ceremony in Jamshedpur

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New Bengali Kitchen Restaurant Opens in Jamshedpur

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Ganesh Puja Pandal Groundbreaking Ceremony Held by Veer Bhagat Singh Boys Club in Golmuri

BJP Leader Dinesh Kumar officiated the ceremony for the annual Ganesh Puja event in Bajrang Nagar. The groundbreaking ceremony for the Ganesh Puja pandal, organized annually by the Veer Bhagat Singh Boys Club in Golmuri’s Bajrang Nagar, was held with much fanfare today, officiated by former BJP District President Dinesh Kumar. JAMSHEDPUR – The Veer Bhagat Singh Boys Club in Golmuri’s Bajrang…

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Army Camp Goes Green: Major Plantation Drive in Sonari

BJP leader Shiv Shankar Singh leads environmental initiative with army personnel A significant plantation drive at Sonari’s Army Camp marks a step forward in local environmental conservation efforts. JAMSHEDPUR – Shiv Shankar Singh, an emerging leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Thursday led a significant tree-planting initiative at the Army Camp in Sonari to encourage environmental…

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Rising Sun English School Celebrates "Green Day" with Students and Parents

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Dr. Ajoy Kumar Welcomed in Mukhi Basti by Local Residents

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Atal Vichar Vahini Pays Tribute to Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Jamshedpur

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