Communal message being circulated using Vartha Bharati's name, mobile number; complaint filed
Mangaluru: A WhatsApp message with communally sensitive content was being circulated on social media by miscreants using the name of Vartha Bharati and the mobile number of VB’s in charge. Reacting to the development, a complaint to Mangaluru Police Commissioner was filed by Vartha Bharati citing miscreants were using the name of the organization to spread hatred and communal tension.
In the complaint, Vartha Bharati urged the police commissioner to identify the people behind the move and to initiate strict action against them.
In the message that is doing rounds across social media platforms, people have been urged to contact to conduct funeral rites of Muslim COVID fatalities. Apart from a leader of a political party, the message has contact details of VB’s CEO urging people to contact them for funeral rites of Muslims and not hand over Muslim bodies to Hindus.
The communal message has nothing to do with the VB newspaper. VB has no relationship with the person mentioned in the message. Neither the newspaper nor any of its representatives have made any such messages and VB strongly condemns messages like these.
The newspaper has filed a complaint with the Mangalore Police Commissioner on Monday, demanding that legal action be taken against the perpetrators of misleading and hate-provoking messages in the society by misusing the mobile number of those in a responsible position.
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UP Cong chief Ajay Rai hospitalised after fainting, stable
Lucknow (PTI): Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai was hospitalised here after he fell unconscious due to low sodium levels, party leaders said on Saturday.
They said he was admitted to Medanta Hospital on Friday evening and is stable.
"Ajay Rai was admitted to Medanta Hospital in Lucknow at around 6 pm on Friday after he fell unconscious as his sodium levels had dropped. He fell unconscious at his residence in Lucknow. For the entire day, he was engaged in party programmes and had also gone to the airport," Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson Anshu Awasthi told PTI.
Congress in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Avinash Pande told PTI, "Now, he (Ajay Rai) is stable and I am also reaching Lucknow."
Medanta Hospital Director Dr Rakesh Kapoor told PTI that Rai collapsed at his home on Friday evening and was subsequently admitted to the hospital's emergency ward.
Medical examinations revealed that Rai was suffering from a sodium deficiency and elevated blood pressure. Doctors administered immediate treatment and he is doing significantly better now, Kapoor said.
A team of doctors is monitoring his health. Rai is conversing with others and his condition is stable, he added.
In a post on X late Friday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Rai a speedy recovery.
Rai hails from Varanasi and had contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections against Modi from the parliamentary constituency. The Congress appointed him as the Uttar Pradesh unit chief in 2023.
