As the administration of Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh has issued an order asking hotels, dhabas, and carts selling food items to write the name of their proprietors and operators running the shop or cart during Kanwar Yatra, several Islamists are suffering a tremendous meltdown. Although the local administration did not even mention Muslims or any non-Hindu community, some Muslim …
An audio tape of Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule supposedly asking party officials to take journalists to dhabas and treat them well in order to avoid negative publicity ahead of elections has gone viral, prompting accusations that the BJP was attempting to control the media, news agency PTI reported. According to the recording, Bawankule says, "small-time video journalists running news …
