NEW YORK (AP) – An Indian government official directed a plot to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday as they announced charges against a man they said was part of the thwarted murder conspiracy.
Unlike the Australian LNP Modi’s BJP unites the majority Hindu Nationalists in a fanatical rather than Democratic manner.
“Since May, Hindu nationalist militants have killed over 100 Christians in northeastern Manipur, destroying churches and displaying 50,000 people in a brutal campaign of terror.”
Oborne and his co-author do not shy away from warning that the Modi-Hindutva state is showing genocidal urges. “This is a moral emergency and thus far nobody seems to have noticed. US President Joe Biden, supposedly the leader of the free world, recently gave Modi a hero’s welcome in Washington.” Modi’s renaming of the stadium sent an ominous “message that the Indian cricket team represents his own political party – the Bharatiya Jana Party (BJP) – and not the nation as a whole.”
Source: Modi’s Cricket Ploy: Hindutva as Twelfth Man – » The Australian Independent Media Network
India has seen an “escalating trend” of anti-Muslim speech since Modi rose to power in 2014. The report found that more than half of the documented incidents this year were orchestrated by the ruling BJP and affiliates including the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Sakal Hindu Samaj. Those groups have ties to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, the ideological parent of the BJP.
Source: ‘Escalating trend’: Most hate speech in India linked to Modi’s party
After the brazen killing of a high-profile Canadian Sikh activist in June, FBI agents visited several Sikh activists in California this summer with an alarming message: Their lives were also at risk.
One such event might be questionable but several starts to be as suspicious as Russian Oligarchs accidentally falling out of hospital windows. PM Modi has a noted history when it comes to the blood spilled by Hindu Nationalists.
Of late, that lack of conspicuousness has been challenged. On September 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that there were “credible allegations” that agents in the pay of the Indian government had murdered Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a vocal supporter for an independent Sikh homeland known as Khalistan and deemed by Indian authorities since 2020 to be a terrorist. He was alone in his truck when he was shot to death on June 18 outside the Surrey temple, Guru Nanak Gurdwara.
The Indian response was predictably sharp, with New Delhi also expelling a “senior Canadian diplomat,” asking the individual to leave within five days. Prior to that, the Canadian high commissioner to India, Cameron MacKay, was summoned for a bit of an ear-bashing, while the Indian Ministry of External Affairs expressed the “Government of India’s growing concern at the interference of Canadian diplomats in our internal matters and their involvement in anti-India activities.”
TORONTO (AP) — Canada said it was expelling a top Indian diplomat Monday as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist.
Source: Canada Expels Top Indian Diplomat As It Probes Sikh Activist’s Killing | HuffPost Latest News
The poor of India always suffer when any International Circus arrives in town. Modi is no exception in criminalizing the poor at the expense of an International image
As it happens, the G20 Delhi summit was, as so many of these occasions are, much ado about nothing. The absence of China and Russia turned the occasion into a G18 gathering, removing a good deal of flavour that would otherwise have been present. At the very least it provided Modi an excellent excuse to rough up the slum dwellers, using beautification as a strategy to criminalise the poor.
Source: G20 Aesthetics: Modi’s Brutal Delhi Facelift – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Imran Khan was challenged by the current Pakistan government and thrown out of government. He’s been arrested on count after count,53 in fact, and imprisoned just before the nation’s current election. There is no “equivalence” in these cases to Donald Trump who actually should be wearing an orange jumpsuit but isn’t and is claiming martyrdom. There is, in the case of Russia’s Alexei Navalny who just received an extra 19 years imprisonment for his opposition to Putin who tried to have him killed. Strange even Australia’s Julian Assange is more dangerous than Donald Trump who still is walking about scot-free having been charged and is issuing threats publicly.
We recently celebrated the Indian President Narendra Modi declaring we share the same Ideology and do the same with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu who’s Religious dictatorships are the antithesis of our idea of Democracy
“If you’re watching this video,” Khalid said, “it means that I’ve been arrested.”
Source: Umar Khalid Challenged Modi’s Anti-Muslim Agenda. India Locked Him Up.
The pretense of Real Democracy in India has gone. Modi and the Hindutva have come out into the world where various forms of Nationalism are currently flourishing. The face of religious nationalism has been revealed publicly in America, Israel, Turkey, Hungary, and other places. Is Australia Center left or right today? The ALP is certainly paying its respect to Religious and other fascist leaders. If Trump wins in 2024 Albo will greet him as he does Netanyahu.
In 2023, Modi had little reason to fear either rebuke from the Biden administration, or censure from Congress. India is now seen as more useful than ever, and its canny leader does not need lecturing about his own band of dangerous religious authoritarianism. Best, then, to drop the democratic values act, a show that is becoming increasingly absurd.
Source: Hindutva Goes to Washington: Narendra Modi’s US Visit – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Modi has a history of bloodshed that nobody should be proud of
As a start, let’s look at two recent incidents, one in India and the other in the United States.
Too many upper-caste Indians and white Americans think of themselves as the only ones worthy of enjoying the spoils of the Earth. They want it all and are ready to get it by exploiting, not to say violating, non-upper-caste bodies in India and non-white ones in the U.S., along with cows and fetuses, using religion as a tool in both cases. The bodies of Dalits, Muslims, Christians, the people of occupied Kashmir, liberals, journalists, historians, climate and human rights activists, educators, Blacks, Indigenous people, women, LGBTQ people—all of them are fodder for the violent right-wing in both countries.
Source: The Grim Lesson India Offers the US | The Smirking Chimp
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for criminal defamation is the latest sign that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is moving toward Hindu nationalist authoritarianism.
Source: Who Can Stop Modi and His Authoritarian Vision for India?
“The metamorphosis of BJP’s vindictive politics into autocracy is happening at an alarming pace,” one Indian state’s chief minister said in response to the parliamentary expulsion and criminal sentencing of Rahul Gandhi.
Source: ‘Scorched-Earth Politics’: Indian MP Ousted, Sentenced to 2 Years Over Modi Insult
From a lack of investment in public health care to mishandling vaccine production, Narendra Modi’s right-wing government has failed the Indian people during the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands are dead as a result.
Source: Blame Modi and the BJP for India’s COVID-19 Catastrophe
In the months leading up to the assembly elections in West Bengal, I began to realise that there was every chance that the state where I live, once a left stronghold, would soon be under the rule of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP). The realisation came from talking to ordinary, working-class Bengalis. K, a man in his late 30s who had come to work for us, said tersely but firmly that he’d be voting BJP. The reason? “You need to throw out parties in power from time to time. It’s good for them.” He was invoking the Kerala model – in Kerala, voters periodically alternate between putting one of the two main parties in power. Electorates in all states – in fact, the whole country – would probably go Kerala’s way if they had a viable opposition to turn to.
The horrific COVID crisis in India isn’t just the result of rich countries’ criminal hoarding of vaccines and intellectual property — it’s the fault of Narendra Modi’s far-right government, which has prioritized private profits over public health.
Source: India Is In a Horrendous COVID Crisis. It’s Modi’s Fault.
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