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Cong tweets video of Nadda’s remarks in Karnataka, accuses him of ‘threatening’ voters

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New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday tweeted a video clip of BJP chief J P Nadda’s remarks in Karnataka, and accused him of “threatening” the voters and calling his comments a “blatant attack on democracy”.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh tweeted a video clip of Nadda addressing an election gathering in Karnataka, to attack the BJP
“Karnataka mein vikas ki ganga behti rahe esliye main kamal ke nishan par vote maangne aaya hoon. Karnataka mein vikas chalta rahe, nirantar chalta rahe, ye chunav ka mudda hai. Jo Modi ji ka aashirvaad hai usse kahin Karnataka vanchit na ho jaye esliye mera aapse nivedan hai ki aapne kamal ko jitana hai aur Karnataka ke vikas ko aage badhana hai (Vote for the lotus symbol to ensure the river of development continues to flow in Karnataka. Development continues in a constant manner in the state is an issue in the elections. So that the state is not devoid of Modi ji’s blessings, I appeal to you to vote for the lotus symbol and take forward development),” Nadda is heard saying in the video clip.

Tagging the clip, Ramesh said in a tweet in Hindi, “There should be a limit to devotion too, Nadda ji. Why are you threatening and scaring the people of Karnataka?”
With the blessings of the people of Karnataka, a Congress government is going to be formed, Ramesh asserted.
The Congress from its official Twitter handle also tweeted a portion of the clip to hit out at the BJP.
“BJP President J P Nadda threatens to withhold constitutional rights from the people of Karnataka if they don’t vote for the corrupt 40% BJP government,” the Congress said in a tweet.
मोदी जी का आशीर्वाद?
ये क्या होता है @JPNadda जी?
देश के संसाधन क्या वो अपने नाना के यहाँ से लाये हैं?
जो किसी राज्य को किसी वर्ग को वांछित कर देंगें? pic.twitter.com/x22c0EeAwL
— Surendra Rajput ‏ (@ssrajputINC) April 19, 2023
“This is a blatant attack on democracy and shows how the BJP plans to treat the Kannadigas,” the party alleged.

“We are not subjects of a Raja but citizens of a federal country governed by the constitution,” the Congress said.
The assembly polls will be held on May 10 and the results will be announced on May 13. The Congress is seeking to oust the BJP from power in the southern state.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 19, 2023
Cong tweets video of Nadda’s remarks in Karnataka, accuses him of ‘threatening’ voters

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New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday tweeted a video clip of BJP chief J P Nadda’s remarks in Karnataka, and accused him of “threatening” the voters and calling his comments a “blatant attack on democracy”.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh tweeted a video clip of Nadda addressing an election gathering in Karnataka, to attack the BJP
“Karnataka mein vikas ki ganga behti rahe esliye main kamal ke nishan par vote maangne aaya hoon. Karnataka mein vikas chalta rahe, nirantar chalta rahe, ye chunav ka mudda hai. Jo Modi ji ka aashirvaad hai usse kahin Karnataka vanchit na ho jaye esliye mera aapse nivedan hai ki aapne kamal ko jitana hai aur Karnataka ke vikas ko aage badhana hai (Vote for the lotus symbol to ensure the river of development continues to flow in Karnataka. Development continues in a constant manner in the state is an issue in the elections. So that the state is not devoid of Modi ji’s blessings, I appeal to you to vote for the lotus symbol and take forward development),” Nadda is heard saying in the video clip.

Tagging the clip, Ramesh said in a tweet in Hindi, “There should be a limit to devotion too, Nadda ji. Why are you threatening and scaring the people of Karnataka?”
With the blessings of the people of Karnataka, a Congress government is going to be formed, Ramesh asserted.
The Congress from its official Twitter handle also tweeted a portion of the clip to hit out at the BJP.
“BJP President J P Nadda threatens to withhold constitutional rights from the people of Karnataka if they don’t vote for the corrupt 40% BJP government,” the Congress said in a tweet.
मोदी जी का आशीर्वाद?
ये क्या होता है @JPNadda जी?
देश के संसाधन क्या वो अपने नाना के यहाँ से लाये हैं?
जो किसी राज्य को किसी वर्ग को वांछित कर देंगें? pic.twitter.com/x22c0EeAwL
— Surendra Rajput ‏ (@ssrajputINC) April 19, 2023
“This is a blatant attack on democracy and shows how the BJP plans to treat the Kannadigas,” the party alleged.

“We are not subjects of a Raja but citizens of a federal country governed by the constitution,” the Congress said.
The assembly polls will be held on May 10 and the results will be announced on May 13. The Congress is seeking to oust the BJP from power in the southern state.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 19, 2023
Twitter will label ‘hateful’ tweets, make them less discoverable

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New Delhi; Twitter has announced to add publicly visible labels to tweets identified as potentially violating its policies, letting the users know the company has limited their visibility.
The company occasionally restricts tweets that violate its policies by making them harder to find or visible to fewer people.
The new labels will make those actions more clear, said the Elon Musk-run company.

“Restricting the reach of Tweets, also known as visibility filtering, is one of our existing enforcement actions that allows us to move beyond the binary aleave up versus take down’ approach to content moderation,” Twitter said in a blog post late on Monday.
“However, like other social platforms, we have not historically been transparent when we’ve taken this action,” it added.
The labels are only implemented at “tweet level” and won’t affect a user’s account.
Tweets with new labels will be made less discoverable on the platform.
“Additionally, we will not place ads adjacent to content that we label,” said the company.

While these labels will initially only apply to a set of Tweets that potentially violate our Hateful Conduct policy, the company plans to expand these to other applicable policy areas in the coming months.
“Our mission at Twitter 2.0 is to promote and protect the public conversation. We believe Twitter users have the right to express their opinions and ideas without fear of censorship,” said the micro-blogging platform.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 18, 2023
SP tweets list of criminals’, claims gangsters belonging to Yogi’s caste active in UP

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Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party on Friday came up with a list of alleged criminals claiming that they are “still alive, committing crime and running gangs” as they all belong to the same caste as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The SP also alleged that it was the BJP people who got Umesh Pal, a key witness in the 2005 killing of then Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Raju Pal, murdered.
In a tweet in Hindi, the media cell of the Samajwadi Party, said, “The murder of Umesh Pal has been done by the BJP people. The BJP may have got an immediate opportunity to polarise the votes in the (ongoing) urban local bodies’ elections and to (indulge in) communal frenzy, on the pretext of this murder. But, any BJP leader, no matter how big he is, will not be spared.”

The SP “list” comes a day after gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad’s son Asad and his accomplice, accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, were gunned down in a shootout with the Uttar Pradesh Police, which the party alleged was a fake encounter.
The list of alleged criminals with a claimed number of cases includes names of Kuldeep Singh Sengar (Unnao, 28 cases), Brijesh Singh (Varanasi, 106 cases), Dhananjay Singh (Jaunpur, 46 cases), Raja Bhaiyya (Raghuraj Pratap Singh) (Pratapgarh, 31 cases), among others.
Referring to the list, the media cell of the Samajwadi Party, in a tweet in Hindi, said, “Are they special to Yogi? Actually, they all belong to the same caste as that of Yogi, hence, they are still alive, committing crime, running the gangs and indulging in murder, rape, loot, dacoity and extortion.”
The party also added a note in the tweet saying “the list is old, but most of the criminals in it are BJP-supported and are active”
In another tweet, the SP’s media cell said that the alleged encounter will be probed one day and the truth will be revealed.

The party also referred to the allegation made by Atiq Ahmad’s sister Ayesha Noori last month that Prayagraj Mayor Abhilasha Gupta Nandi had conspired to kill Umesh Pal.
According to the allegation, this was done so that the gagster-politician’s wife Shaista Parveen would not be able to contest the next mayoral election.
Reacting to the allegations levelled on him, Nandi in a tweet in Hindi had said, “The baseless allegations are only an unsuccessful attempt to divert attention from the main issue and mislead….Linking this with the mayoral elections is not only irrelevant but also laughable,” he said in another tweet.
In another tweet, the SP said, “Yogi Adityanath was very happy with Atiq Ahmad in the Phulpur Lok Sabha by-election (in 2018). Atiq was helping the BJP and the party was helping him.
“A minister in the Yogi government borrowed money from Atiq’s family and to do away with him, Nand Gopal Gupta ‘Nandi’ took the support of the government in a bid to grab the borrowed money/partnership,” the tweet read.
Umesh Pal and his two police security guards were shot dead on February 24 outside his home in Prayagraj’s Dhoomanganj.
Based on a complaint lodged by Umesh Pal’s wife Jaya Pal, a case was registered on February 25 against Atiq Ahmad, his brother Ashraf, Parveen, two sons, aides Guddu Muslim and Ghulam, and nine others.
On March 28, an MP/MLA court held Atiq Ahmad and two others guilty in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case and sentenced them to life imprisonment. That was Ahmad’s first conviction even though more than 100 cases have been registered against him.
The 60-year-old former Samajwadi Party MP was brought from Sabarmati Jail in Gujarat by road for a hearing in the case in Prayagraj.
In 2006, Atiq Ahmad and his aides abducted Umesh Pal and forced him to give a statement in court in their favour. Umesh Pal had registered a complaint in this regard.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 14, 2023
Twitter introduces 10K character long tweets amid fight with Substack

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New Delhi: Before deleting all legacy Blue tick marks on April 20, Twitter on Friday introduced a feature that allows posts with 10,000 characters for paid Blue subscribers.
Twitter now supports tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, “with bold and italic text formatting,” the company informed.
In February, the micro-blogging platform introduced 4,000-character-long tweets for Blue subscribers.

“Sign up for Twitter Blue to access these new features, and apply to enable Subscriptions on your account to earn income directly on Twitter. Tap on ‘Monetization’ in settings,” said the Elon Musk-run company.
Musk on Thursday announced that ‘Subscriptions’ are now enabled on the platform — a way for people’s most engaged followers to help them earn money from Twitter for their contributions on the platform.
“We’re firing up creator subscriptions bigtime! Works for longform text, pics or video,” Musk posted.
The decision to introduce 10,000-character-long tweets comes as Twitter is embroiled in a fight with popular subscription newsletter platform Substack.
Substack hit back at Twitter for blocking the ability to like or retweet any posts containing the word ‘Substack’, saying the whole situation is “very frustrating.”

The company CEO Chris Best responded to Musk with a post on Substack Notes, saying Substack links have been obviously severely throttled on Twitter.
The Twitter move has become a huge problem for Substack writers, who use the Musk-run platform to promote their newsletters.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 14, 2023
Raja Singh hate speech: Twitter withholds tweets on Centre’s directions

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Social media giant Twitter has withheld suspended Bharatiya Janata Party and Goshmahal MLA T Raja Singh’s recent hate speech videos made across Maharashtra on the directions of the Narendra Modi-led Central government.
HindutvaWatch, a Twitter handle that posts videos and news of hate speech and crimes that take place across the country, received an email from Twitter that certain of its tweets had violated the Information Technology Act, 2000, and hence are withheld.
“Indian government is trying to bury the evidence of hate speeches delivered by suspended BJP legislator T Raja Singh from our Twitter handle by withholding five videos in India,” HindutvaWatch tweeted.
“Notably, the request comes 3 days after a contempt petition on hate speeches was filed in the Supreme Court. The petition extensively mentions Raja Singh’s hate speeches documented by Hindutva Watch as evidence,” HindutvaWatch added.
Indian government is trying to bury the evidence of hate speeches delivered by suspended BJP legislator T Raja Singh from our Twitter handle by withholding five videos in India.
Notably, the request comes 3 days after a contempt petition on hate speeches was filed in the… pic.twitter.com/CLKUQHNPDt
— HindutvaWatch (@HindutvaWatchIn) March 31, 2023
A journalist and researcher at the fact-checking media company AltNews, Kalim Ahmed was given the same notification from Twitter.
Expressing his displeasure, the journalist linked the stories in his Twitter head before pasting the social media giant’s email contents.
“My Twitter thread documenting BJP legislator Raja Singh delivering objectionable speeches across Maharashtra has been withheld in India. Mother of democracy is very angry with me You can still read those reports on AltNews’s website, I’ll link them below,” he tweeted.
My twitter thread documenting BJP legislator Raja Singh delivering objectionable speeches across Maharashtra has been withheld in India.
Mother of democracy is very angry with me 👍🏽
You can still read those reports on AltNews’s website, I’ll link them below. pic.twitter.com/6eGVRp3tc4
— kalim (@akhmxt) April 1, 2023
Raja Singh’s Maharashtra hate speech
Last year in August, Raja Singh posted a video where he used derogatory language against Prophet Muhammad which ultimately led to his arrest. Owing to massive pressure, BJP suspended Raja.

Raja Singh was booked under the Preventive Detention (PD) Act by the Telangana police. In November, the Telangana High Court granted him conditional bail forbidding him to participate in rallies or speak to the media as well as refrain from making any posting derogatory speeches.
On January 29, a massive Hindutva rally took off in the heart of the financial capital Mumbai. The rally – Jan Aakrosh Morcha – weaved several right-wing groups, including Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Sanatan Sangha, Vanvasi Kalyan, Rajput Youth Front, Karni Sena and All India Maheshwar Samaj to form the Sakal Hindu Samaj.
They demanded strict laws against ‘love jihad’, religious conversion, and alleged grabbing of land by Muslim organisations.
Raja Singh took part in these rallies where he made an open call for violence against the Muslim community.
On February 20, Raja Singh delivered another hate speech in Maharashtra’s Latur district where he called for Akhand Bharat.
“Hamare Maharashtra ke dharthi per koi bhi love jihadi zinda na bache. Aaj hamari bahu-beti ko behla-phuslakar Love Jihad ke naam per fasaya jaa raha hai. Bacha paida karne ki machine banaya jaa raha hai. Rape and unke tukde kiya jaa raha hai. (No love jihadi will survive on the soil of Maharashtra. They trap Hindu women and make them slaves by producing more and more children. They rape them and cut them into pieces),” Raja Singh said in the speech.
He made another speech in the Solapur district of Maharashtra demeaning communal harmony and brotherhood by stating Hindus and Muslims can never be brothers.
“Can (Chhatrapati) Shivaji and Afzal Khan (a general in the Adil Shahi dynasty) become one? Can Maharana Prathap (a Hindu Rajput king of Mewar) and Akbar (a Mughal emperor) be one? Can those who worship our mother cow and those who murder her be one?” he asked a cheering crowd.
Many notices served, none followed
In December last year, the Hyderabad police had served a showcase notice on Raja Singh for making derogatory comments on Facebook.
On January 26, another notice was issued to the Goshamahal MLA and then a third notice was sent following his controversial speeches in Maharashtra.
Reacting strongly, Raja Singh alleged that the ninth Nizam is ruling the state. He said that he was not afraid of being sent to jail again.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 1, 2023
Priyanka Chopra banned in Bollywood? See Kangana’s viral tweets

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Mumbai: Actress Priyanka Chopra who has earned fame across globe is currently focusing on Hollywood projects only. In an interview recently, the Fashion actress said that she was being ‘pushed into the corner’ and was ‘tired of the politics’ in the Hindi film industry. Just after listening to former Miss World‘s claims, Kangana Ranaut took to Twitter and alleged that Priyanka was banned by Karan Johar in Bollywood.
Reacting to Priyanka Chopra’s statement on why she left Bollywood, Kangana wrote, “This is what @priyankachopra has to say about Bollywood, people ganged up on her, bullied her and chased her out of film industry a self made woman was made to leave India. Everyone knows Karan Johar had banned her.”
“Media wrote extensively about her fall out with Karan Johar because of her friendship with SRK and movie mafia Cruella who is always looking for vulnerable outsiders saw a perfect punching bag in PC and went all out in harassing her to a point where she had to leave India,” she further wrote in another tweet.
“This obnoxious, jealous, mean and toxic person should be held accountable for ruining the culture and environment of film industry which was never hostile to outsiders in the days of AB or SRK. His gang and mafia PR should be raided and held accountable for harassing outsiders,” she added.
Priyanka Chopra in an interview with Dax Shepherd on his podcast Armchair Expert said that she wasn’t getting good roles because of industry politics. She said, “I was being pushed into a corner in the industry (Bollywood). I had people not casting me, I had beef with people, I am not good at playing that game so I kind of was tired of the politics and I said I needed a break.”
Talking about Priyanka’s journey in the West, she won two consecutive People’s Choice Awards for her role in ‘Quantico’, which was a hit TV show. She will be next seen in Russo Brothers’ show Citadel and the Hollywood film Love Again.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 28, 2023
US citizen sentenced to 19 years in Saudi over tweets criticizing govt released

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Riyadh: The authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have released a Saudi-United States (US) citizen sentenced to 19 years in prison for tweets criticizing the Saudi government.
72-year-old Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a retired project manager living in Florida, was arrested in November 2021, while visiting family in the kingdom and was sentenced in October 2022 to 16 years.
In February 2023, his prison sentence had risen to 19 years.
The Saudi court convicted him of attempting to destabilize the kingdom and supporting terrorism.
As per media reports, Saad Almadi had been detained over 14 tweets posted on Twitter over the past seven years, mostly criticizing government policies and accusing them of corruption. He was also banned from travelling for 16 years.
His son, Ibrahim, confirmed the news and said that Saad Ibrahim Almadi was released at 2 am local time on Tuesday and is currently in Riyadh under a travel ban. However, he noted that the family now needs to fight the travel ban.
“All charges have been dropped but we have to fight the travel ban now,” Ibrahim was quoted as saying by news agency Reuters.
It is not yet clear why Mohammed bin Salman’s government decided to release Almadi or whether it was part of a deal with the United States (US).

US President Joe Biden raised the issue of Almadi’s arrest when he visited Saudi Arabia in July 2022.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 23, 2023
As police quiz Rahul, Cong tweets ‘Savarkar samjha kya’

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New Delhi: As the Delhi Police questioned Rahul Gandhi over his “women still being sexually assaulted” remark, the Congress on Sunday took a jibe at the government, saying “Savarkar samjha kya… naam Rahul Gandhi hai”.
Law Minister and BJP leader Kiren Rijiju responded on Twitter urging not to “insult” the great personality (Veer Savarkar). “I request with folded hands,” the minister said.
The Congress tweeted a photo of the former party chief in the driver’s seat of a car, and said, “Savarkar samjha kya… naam- Rahul Gandhi hai (Have you considered him Savarkar?… the name is Rahul Gandhi).”
Reacting to it, Rijiju said, “Kripya mahan atma Veer Savarkar ka apmaan na karen. Haath jod kar vinti karta hun (Please don’t insult great personality Veer Savarkar. I request with folded hands)”.
A Delhi Police team on Sunday questioned Gandhi at his residence here over his remark made during the Bharat Jodo Yatra that “women are still being sexually assaulted and asked him to provide information about the “victims” to take up their complaints, officials said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 19, 2023
Twitter to soon let users post 10K character tweets

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San Francisco: Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the micro-blogging platform will “soon” extend “longform tweets” to 10,000 characters.
When YouTuberA@ThePrimeagen, who posts videos related to coding, asked Musk, “the dev community and I were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets?”
Musk replied: “As an attachment? How many chars? We are extending longform tweets to 10k soon.”
Several users expressed their thoughts on Twitter CEO’s post.
While one user said, “You’re a crazy man lmao,” another commented, “!! Wow! That’s really good news. Actual microblogging!”
Last month, the company had announced that Blue subscribers in the US can post long tweets of up to 4,000 characters on the platform.
Only Blue subscribers can post longer tweets, but non-subscribers can read, reply, retweet and quote tweet to them.
Earlier, tweets were limited to only 280 characters, which still applies to non-subscribers.

Meanwhile, Musk had said that the micro-blogging platform is “spinning up subscriptions” so that users can “charge” their followers for specific content.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 6, 2023