The Updated List of India s Anti-Nationals (According to the Modi Government)
Anyone pointing out the Centreâs shortfalls â farmers, lawyers, journalists, comedians, activists, students â is branded not anti-government but anti-national.
Demonstrators shout slogans behind police barricades during a protest demanding the release of social activists who, according to them, were arrested by the police for supporting farmers protest against farm laws, in New Delhi, India, February 15, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
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Mumbai: It was anybodyâs guess that the Narendra Modi-led government would be intolerant of critical voices. Anyone pointing to the governmentâs shortfalls ought to have been branded anti-government. But the past years saw a decided shift from the âanti- governmentâ perspective to one where anyone critiquing the government was called âanti-nationalâ. And it is not just the usual activists or rational
"Mere ander ke andheron ko karne do shikayat. Hasa kar lakhon chehron ko roshan kiya hai maine (Let the darkness inside me complain. I've made lakhs of people laugh, lighting up their faces)."
Comedian Munawar Faruqui was released from a jail in Indore late on Saturday, a day after being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court, PTI reported. Faruqui had been in jail since January 1 for allegedly insulting Hindu deities during a show.
Earlier in the day, the authorities at Indore Central Jail had refused to release Faruqui, saying that they had not received any official order for the same,
The Indian Express reported.
“We had earlier not received the order, however, a judge from the Supreme Court called up the chief judicial magistrate of Indore and asked him to check the website for the uploaded orders and in case it was already uploaded, to comply by it,” Indore Central Jail Superintendent Rajesh Bangde told the newspaper. “We checked the site and it was uploaded and hence he was released at 11 pm.”
Munawar Faruqui released from Indore prison day after getting interim bail Eyewitnesses said that the comedian walked out of the jail silently and quietly, possibly to avoid a backlash in the wake of accusations made against him File photo of comedian Munawar Faruqui. Twitter screengrab/Munawar Faruqui
Indore: Stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui walked out of Indore central jail late on Saturday night, a day after the Supreme Court granted him bail in a case for allegedly hurting religious sentiments.
Faruqui was released from the jail after the prison authorities received the order of the Supreme Court, an official of the jail said.
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