#uttarpradesh — Public Fediverse posts
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'Earning even Rs 200-250 is getting difficult…': Ayodhya's e-rickshaw drivers blame Lok Sabha results for poor business
BJP lost the Faizabad seat even after having a gala celebration of the opening of Ram Mandir. Samajwadi Party's Awadesh Prasad Singh defeated BJP's Lallu Singh in the election.
#LokSabhaElection2024 #faizabad #ayodhya #UttarPradesh #RamTemple #RamTempleInauguration #BJP #communalism #hindutva #india
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Ten Years and Nearly Rs 40,000 Crore Later, The Ganga Still Runs Dirty, Its Water Undrinkable
Though the union government has pumped in almost Rs 40,000 crore into the flagship Namami Gange programme since 2014, several concerns – including dysfunctional sewage treatment plants and bad governance – abound.
#ganges #NamamiGange #NMCC #ganga #GovtSchemes #BJP #UttarPradesh #varanasi #environment #india
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Supreme Court extends stay on survey of Shahi Idgah Masjid in Mathura
The Supreme Court on Monday extended its stay on the Allahabad High Court’s order allowing for a court-monitored “scientific survey” of the Shahi Idgah mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura, reported PTI.
#SupremeCourt #ShahiIdgahMosque #mathura #UttarPradesh #AllahabadHC #communalism #hindutva #IndianMuslims #BJPStates #india
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An Allahabad HC judge is using morality norms to deny protection to live-in couples
Justice Renu Agarwal has remarked that such relationships ‘cannot be at the cost of social fabric of this country’.
#UttarPradesh #AllahabadHC #JusticeRenuAgarwal #LiveInRelationships #InterFaithRelationships #conversions #MoralPolicing #rights #india
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Supreme Court stays Allahabad High Court judgment declaring Madarsa Act unconstitutional
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court had on March 22 declared the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act unconstitutional. This verdict has been stayed by the top court.
#UttarPradesh #MadrasaAct #AllahabadHC #SupremeCourt #education #madrasas #hindutva #india
https://www.barandbench.com/news/supreme-court-stays-allahabad-high-court-judgment-madarsa-act
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Modi's Village Adoption Scheme in Varanasi: A Fact Check
The Bharatiya Janata Party's manifesto in 2019 included promises of 'gram swaraj' with pukka houses for all, tap water accessibility, digital connectivity, improved road infrastructure and sanitation initiatives. But in Modi's adopted villages, this hasn't happened.
#UttarPradesh #varanasi #NarendraModi #VillageAdoption #SAGY #BJP #GovtSchemes #india
https://thewire.in/rights/watch-modis-village-adoption-scheme-in-varanasi-a-fact-check
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Hapur Mob Lynching Conviction: Court Finds UP Police Guilty of Negligence in Investigation
Victim Qasim’s brother Saleem said he hopes that the conviction in the case would serve as “an example” in preventing “acts of mob lynching” in the country, especially in the name of the cow.
#UttarPradesh #hapur #HapurLynching #UPPolice #CowVigilantism #CowLynchings #HinduMobs #hindutva #communalism #india
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Banaras Hindu University researches Manusmriti ‘applicability’
Banaras Hindu University is researching the continuing “applicability” of the Manusmriti, which codified what became the caste system and gave women the status of family property, with government funds earmarked for worldclass academic projects.
#UttarPradesh #BHU #manusmiriti #education #brahminism #casteism #CasteSystem #sexism #misogyny #untouchability #CasteDiscrimination #hindutva #BJPStates #india
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UP Police Arrests Another Activist Couple for 'Naxal' Links, 5 Years After Seizing Electronic Devices
This is the second such event in less than five months when the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the police arrested an activist couple for alleged Naxal links merely on the basis of analysis of data extracted from their phones and laptops seized more than four years ago.
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‘After Muslims, It’s The Turn Of Christians:’ With Little Evidence, UP Govt Prosecutes 4 Christian Institutions, Arrests Employees
Four Christian-run institutions in the Uttar Pradesh town of Fatehpur face criminal cases for alleged forcible conversion of Hindus, with over 200 accused, many arrested and imprisoned, under UP’s three-year-old anti-conversion law. Article 14 investigation reveals similar statements in four FIRs over nine months, police cases or raids on Christian institutions, based on illegal third-party or anonymous complaints. Simultaneously, the union government acted against the finances of one of these four institutions.
#UttarPradesh #prayagraj #AntiConversionLaw #conversions #VHP #IndianChristians #HinduMobs #UnionGovt #EvangelicalChurch #ReligiousFreedom #ConspiracyTheories #india
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'Such Illegal Relations Need Not Be Protected': Allahabad HC Rejects Protection Plea Of Married Woman, Her Live-In Partner; Imposes ₹2K Cost
The Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a protection plea filed by a married woman and her live-in partner while observing that such type of 'illegal relationship' need not be protected by the court. A bench of Justice Renu Agarwal also imposed a cost of Rs. 2,000/- on the live-in couple (petitioners) as it observed that if it would indulge in "such type of cases" and grant protection to "illegal relationship", then it will create 'chaos' in the society.
#UttarPradesh #LiveInRelationships #AllahabadHC #MoralPolicing #rights #InterfaithLove #BJPStates #india
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Rajya Sabha Elections Wrap: Cross-Voting Defines Polls in Three States
The BJP registered a shock upset in the lone seat in Congress-ruled Himachal Pradesh. It lost out to cross voting in Karnataka, but gained in Uttar Pradesh, winning eight of 10 seats.
#RajyaSabha #BJP #congress #UttarPradesh #karnataka #HimachalPradesh #india
https://thewire.in/politics/rajya-sabha-elections-wrap-cross-voting-defines-polls-in-three-states
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Saffron Flags Hoisted, Slogans Raised in Agra Mosque on Ram Temple Ceremony Day
The police have filed an FIR and arrested 11 people so far.
#UttarPradesh #agra #RamTempleInauguration #communalism #HinduMobs #hindutva #BJPStates #india
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Ram Temple Consecration: Violent Incidents Occur In At Least 6 States
From a graveyard in Bihar to a mosque in Telangana, India saw multiple attacks and violent incidents on 22 January.
#RamTempleInauguration #RamTemple #CommunalViolence #BJP #bihar #telangana #maharashtra #gujarat #UttarPradesh #MadhyaPradesh #BJPStates #hindutva #india
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Temple Construction Meant Small Business Owners in Ayodhya Lost Money – and Hope
While construction and painting are still ongoing in Ayodhya’s three main roads now known as the ‘Ram Path’, ‘Ram Janmabhoomi Path’ and ‘Bhakti Path’, an estimate of between 4,000 and 4,500 shops and homes reportedly have been broken down or displaced.
#UttarPradesh #ayodhya #RamTemple #RamTempleInauguration #hindutva #livelihood #BJPStates #BJP #india
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What about Ayodhya’s mosque?
As the Ram Mandir is consecrated, the proposed Muhammed bin Abdullah mosque stares at red tape and cash crunch. It exists only as a blueprint. Ismat Ara writes.
#UttarPradesh #communalism #ayodhya #BJP #RamTempleInauguration #BabriMasjidDemolition #AyodhyaVerdict #hindutva #IndianMuslims #india
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Smile, You're On Camera: The AI Surveillance At Ram Mandir In Ayodhya
Speaking to Decode, Atul Rai, co-founder and CEO of Staqu Technologies, the company behind the AI-powered security system in Ayodhya, said, the company’s JARVIS platform is installed in every camera set up at multiple locations in and around Ayodhya Ram Mandir.
#UttarPradesh #ayodhya #communalism #RamTempleInauguration #FRT #AI #FacialRecognition #CCTV #StaquTechnologies #StateSurveillance #privacy #UnionGovt #BJP #india
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India's top court halts plans for survey of centuries-old mosque
The Supreme Court stayed a lower court order allowing the setting up of a commission to survey the Shahi Eidgah mosque in the city of Mathura in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
#SupremeCourt #UttarPradesh #mathura #ShahiIdgahMosque #BJP #hindutva #IndianMuslims #communalism #india
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Congress says it will decide at appropriate time on Sonia Gandhi attending Ram Mandir consecration
The issue of handling the invitation for the consecration of Ram Temple has become politically sensitive and has been discussed at the highest level in the party.
#UttarPradesh #ayodhya #RamTempleInauguration #RamTemple #SoniaGandhi #congress #INDIAAlliance #SoftHindutva #hindutva #BabriMasjidDemolition #INC #india
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Allahabad HC allows court-monitored inspection of Mathura’s Shahi Idgah mosque
Petitioners claim that the mosque was a temple.
#UttarPradesh #mathura #ShahiIdgahMosque #AllahabadHC #hindutva #ConspiracyTheories #BJPStates #india
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Allahabad HC calls live-in relationships timepass, says they lack sincerity
Live-in relationships are more about infatuation for the opposite sex, lack sincerity and often result in timepass, said the Allahabad High Court while refusing to grant police protection to an interfaith couple. The observations were made while the high court was hearing a petition filed jointly by a Hindu woman and her Muslim partner challenging an FIR lodged against the Muslim man by the woman's aunt.
#UttarPradesh #AllahabadHC #InterfaithLove #LiveInRelationships #india
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Two Years After Lakhimpur Kheri Killings, Three Issues from Rural India That Can't Be Ignored
A fact-finding report published by rights activists points out that unresolved agrarian questions, distortions of democracy, and the culture of impunity in rural India are the reasons why such violence took place in the UP town. A.R. Vasavi writes.
#UttarPradesh #LakhimpurKheri #LakhimpurKheriKillings #BJP #AshishMishra #AjayMishra #agriculture #farmers #SamyuktKisanMorcha #RuralIndia #india
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In UP, An FIR Citing ‘Negative News’ Reinforces Fears Of Embattled Journalists
A government circular about “negative news” and two FIRs in the month of August have reinforced the fears of embattled journalists in Uttar Pradesh, where dozens have been booked, arrested or threatened since the BJP came to power in 2017. An FIR, registered in Lakhimpur Kheri after it was suspected that school books were being sold for scrap, cited the “negative impression” made by a reporter’s video. A week later, an FIR against a fact checker was registered in Muzaffarnagar.
#UttarPradesh #PressFreedom #censorship #UPGovt #UPPolice #journalism #authoritarianism #hindutva #india
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‘Scared to Buy, Eat Meat’: Muslims in Mathura After Arrests on Suspicion of Cow Slaughter
After reviewing seven FIRs filed in 2022 across various police stations in Mathura, 'The Wire' found that these were mere copies of each other with names and dates changed.
#UttarPradesh #mathura #muslims #beef #CowSlaughter #communalism #UPPolice #hindutva #BJP #india
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'Vendetta': UP Police Files FIR Against Alt News Journalist for Tweet on Muslim Boy Slapped
Mohammed Zubair told The Wire that an FIR had been lodged against him even though he had later deleted the video and notified his followers on social media site X (formerly Twitter).
#UttarPradesh #muzaffarnagar #TraptiTyagi #UPPolice #MohammadZubair #AltNews #activism #twitter #ChildAbuse #HateCrime #x #hindutva #islamophobia #NCPCR #india
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Teacher did not have malicious intentions, say police on assault of Muslim boy in classroom
The case has been filed under non-cognisable charges which means the teacher who asked other students to slap the boy cannot be probed without a court’s order.
#UttarPradesh #muzaffarnagar #khubbapur #ChildAbuse #HateCrime #NehaPublicSchool #TriptaTyagi #BJP #UPPolice #hindutva #education #ChildRights #muslims #islamophobia #india
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UP Police to Use Hindu Lunar Calendar to Track Crime, Says Spurt in Crime on 'Darker Nights'
In a circular to the police force, UP police chief, Vijay Kumar, said that state-wide analysis of crime shows that there is a rise in crime a week before and after the new moon of the Hindu traditional calendar.
#UttarPradesh #UPPolice #superstitions #crime #policing #hindutva #BJP #india
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Chinese national allegedly cheats Indians of Rs 1400 crore, Congress lashes out at Modi
Narendra Modi could use central agencies to harass political rivals but not to catch frauds, says Congress spokesperson.
#gujarat #UttarPradesh #FinancialFraud #WooUyanbe #VijayMallya #MehulChoksi #LalitModi #NiravModi #DaniData #CBI #ED #NIA #GST #GujaratPolice #NarendraModi #BJP #PawanKhera #congress #INC #india
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Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah case: Hindu party moves Supreme Court for scientific survey of premises
A trial court in Uttar Pradesh and the Allahabad High Court had earlier rejected the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Mukti Nirman Trust's plea for a survey, leading to the appeal before the apex court.
#UttarPradesh #mathura #ShahiIdgahMosque #SupremeCourt #PlacesOfWorshipAct #ReligiousFreedom #muslims #hindutva #india
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1980 Moradabad anti-Muslim riots: Judicial commission report presented in UP Assembly, gives clean chit to BJP, RSS
On August 13, 1980, the Moradabad police fired on a gathering of Muslims at the Eidgah, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, including children. The report has justified police action saying that they fired in self-defence. It blamed Indian Union Muslim League leader Shamim Ahmed and a man named Hamid Hussain for inciting the riots.
#UttarPradesh #MoradabadMassacre #UPAssembly #BJP #RSS #muslims #SaxenaCommission #MuslimLeague #CommunalViolence #UPPolice #hindutva #india
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Imprisoning A Child is A ‘Flagrant Violation’ Of The Law, Yet Police Freely Violate The Law, 77% Of Detentions In UP
Despite the Supreme Court calling the detention of children ‘a flagrant violation of the law’, right-to-information data reveals at least 79 such detentions, 61 from Uttar Pradesh alone over five years. Juvenile justice law clearly says that no child in conflict with the law can be placed in a police lock-up or jail.
#ChildImprisonment #ChildRights #ChildAbuse #IllegalDetentions #prisons #policing #law #justice #UttarPradesh #haryana #delhi #CAA #JuvenileJusticeAct #NCPCR #NHRC #UNCRC #HumanRights #RTI #india
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Four Times More People Killed in 'Police Action' Under Adityanath Than Akhilesh Yadav
From the period 2017-18 to 2021-2022, Adityanath's first term, 162 persons were killed in "police action", while 41 persons were killed in that way from 2012 to 2017.
#UttarPradesh #AjayBisht #YogiAdityanath #AkhileshYadav #UPPolice #encounters #PoliceKillings #crime #BJP #UPAssembly #india
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‘Do you eat beef? Did you study at JNU’ — Kappan’s first-person account of his arrest
Speaking for the first time since he was released on bail, Siddique Kappan told a packed hall in Kolkata about how he feels like he is still in an open-air prison.
#SiddiqueKappan #HathrasRape #dalits #UAPA #PMLA #journalism #UttarPradesh #UPPolice #hindutva #muslims #india
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UP: Woman cop wishing to marry Muslim man transferred
A 34-year-old woman sub-inspector in UP, posted in Bareilly’s Subhash Nagar police station, was “transferred” to Sambhal district on Wednesday, purportedly after her family raised strong objections to her wish to marry a 31-year-old Muslim man.
#UttarPradesh #UPPolice #bareilly #InterfaithLove #InterfaithMarriage #SpecialMarriageAct #RightToLove #HumanRights #muslims #hindutva #india
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A Dalit Minor Was Gang Raped Twice, UP Police Ignored The First Time
A Dalit minor from Uttar Pradesh was allegedly gang-raped by the same men twice in 44 days, and a year later, the rapists set fire to her house in Laad Kheda village, causing burn injuries to her infant son born out of the rape. An examination of the case showed the UP police ignored vital evidence and registered an FIR for the first rape more than a year later, only after the minor went to the POCSO court in Unnao.
#UttarPradesh #LaadKheda #gangrape #dalits #rape #ViolenceAgainstWomen #CasteViolence #POCSO #UPPolice #unnao #india
TW: rape
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One of 42 #CompanyPaintings on 'Occupations' now at Victoria & Albert #Museum London.
'An #Elephant Carrying Fodder' is from that set.
This #EastIndiaCompany #CompanyPainting was made at #Benares, remaned #Varanasi in the #Indian State of present day #UttarPradesh #India in c1815 AD.
Shared on #MayDay #LabourDay #InternationalWorkersDay today.
#IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Art #IndianCulture #Paintings #MastoArt #IndianMiniaturePainting #Painting #History #Heritage #Celebration #Animals
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Hundreds booked as 6 FIRs lodged in UP over Eid namaz on streets
“The cases will be investigated. So far, no one has been identified. The cases were lodged for offering namaz in the open,” Kanpur Police Commissioner Bhagirath P Jogdand told The Indian Express on Friday.
#UttarPradesh #kanpur #aligarh #hapur #muslims #namaz #eid #ramzan #ramadan #ReligiousFreedom #BJP #UPpolice #hindutva #islamophobia #india
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Killing on Live TV Renews Alarm About India’s Slide Toward Extrajudicial Violence
The victim was a former politician, a notorious criminal and a Muslim. Afterward, two government officials described the killing as akin to divine justice.
#UttarPradesh #prayagraj #allahabad #AtiqAhmed #AtiqAhmedKilling #UPpolice #BJP #AjayBisht #YogiAdiyanath #crime #law #police #muslims #hindutva #india
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/world/asia/atiq-ahmed-shot-india.html
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Former Indian politician and brother shot dead live on TV
Atiq Ahmed, a former Indian politician convicted of kidnapping has been shot dead live on TV along with his brother. Ahmed, who was under police escort, was talking to reporters when a gun was pulled close to his head in Prayagraj, also known as Allahabad.
#UttarPradesh #prayagraj #crime #AtiqAhmed #SP #allahabad #EncounterKillings #law #UPpolice #AjayBisht #YogiAdityanath #BJP #india
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Hindu Mahasabha members slaughtered cow to frame Muslim men, say Uttar Pradesh Police
The police have named Sanjay Jat, a spokesperson for the Hindutva group, as the main conspirator in the case.
#UttarPradesh #HinduMahasabha #CowSlaughter #hindutva #muslims #CommunalViolence #communalism #minorities #UPpolice #india
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Uttar Pradesh: Bajrang Dal stops Muslims from praying in Moradabad warehouse
Following a complaint, the police asked Muslims to offer prayers at their homes or religious places only.
#UttarPradesh #moradabad #BajrangDal #namaz #ramzan #muslims #ReligiousFreedom #ReligiousViolence #HinduMobs #UPpolice #hindutva #VHP #BJP #minorities #india
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The Valmiki Family in Hathras Defied Caste Order. Their Dead Daughter Paid the Price.
The Hathras case, as it became known both in national and international media, played out in the exact same fashion as other cases of violence against Dalits, especially Dalit women, play out across the country.
#hathras #UttarPradesh #HathrasRape #valmikis #dalits #dalit #CasteViolence #rape #ViolenceAgainstWomen #thakurs #casteism #caste #UPPolice #BJP #opinion #YashicaDutt #india
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How ‘Vijay’ became ‘Usman’ after being killed in an Uttar Pradesh police encounter
Vijay Chaudhary’s wife claims that her dead husband is being portrayed as a Muslim and was killed in a fake encounter by the Uttar Pradesh police.
#UttarPradesh #FakeEncounter #UPpolice #BJP #RSS #BSP #law #police #communalism #hindutva #HumanRights #india
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Hathras rape-murder case: A doomed investigation to begin with
As time progressed, top police officials in UP made all efforts to establish that it was not a case of rape, as alleged by the victim’s family. It was seen as a way for the ruling BJP government to make every effort to dismiss the possibility of rape and deflect blame by opposition parties.
#HathrasRape #hathras #UttarPradesh #rape #ViolenceAgainstWomen #CasteViolence #casteism #BJP #thakurs #dalits #dalit #UPpolice #india
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U.P. cops serve notice to singer over song on deaths during Kanpur Dehat eviction drive
Her song, which critiqued the Yogi Adityanath government for the anti-encroachment drive resulting in the deaths of a mother and daughter, “created a situation of disharmony and tension”, the police said.
#UttarPradesh #kanpur #KanpurDehat #bulldozers #evictions #displacement #NehaSinghRathore ##UPGovt #AjayBisht #YogiAdityanath #UPPolice #BJP #law #HumanRights #hindutva #india
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U.P. cops serve notice to singer over song on deaths during Kanpur Dehat eviction drive
Her song, which critiqued the Yogi Adityanath government for the anti-encroachment drive resulting in the deaths of a mother and daughter, “created a situation of disharmony and tension”, the police said.
#UttarPradesh #kanpur #KanpurDehat #bulldozers #evictions #displacement #NehaSinghRathore ##UPGovt #AjayBisht #YogiAdityanath #UPPolice #BJP #law #HumanRights #hindutva #india
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U.P. cops serve notice to singer over song on deaths during Kanpur Dehat eviction drive
Her song, which critiqued the Yogi Adityanath government for the anti-encroachment drive resulting in the deaths of a mother and daughter, “created a situation of disharmony and tension”, the police said.
#UttarPradesh #kanpur #KanpurDehat #bulldozers #evictions #displacement #NehaSinghRathore ##UPGovt #AjayBisht #YogiAdityanath #UPPolice #BJP #law #HumanRights #hindutva #india
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U.P. cops serve notice to singer over song on deaths during Kanpur Dehat eviction drive
Her song, which critiqued the Yogi Adityanath government for the anti-encroachment drive resulting in the deaths of a mother and daughter, “created a situation of disharmony and tension”, the police said.
#UttarPradesh #kanpur #KanpurDehat #bulldozers #evictions #displacement #NehaSinghRathore ##UPGovt #AjayBisht #YogiAdityanath #UPPolice #BJP #law #HumanRights #hindutva #india
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I hear very disturbing news from #Varanasi , a city very dear to me and it's many people I have known for the last so many years.
So many people were arrested and booked under serious offenses. 69 of them. Many of them who I have spent quality time in #Banaras
#CAA_NRC #CAAProtests #VaranasiProtests #VaranasiAgainstCAA #VaranasiRejectsCAA #IndiaAgainstCAA #IndiaRejectsCAA #UttarPradesh