Won’t budge to Shamanur’s autocracy: M.B. Patil
Vijayapura, October 20: “We will not budge to the autocracy of senior MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa who said he will complain against us to the party high command. Let him give complaint. We will see the next course of action”, said former minister M.B. Patil.
Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Patil said that Shamanur Shivashankarappa was a senior leader and he has respect towards him. But he said that Vinay Kulkarni had a humiliating defeat. What about his son S.S. Mallikarjun? First he should introspect about his son, he added.
It was not fair to raise the issue of separate Lingayat religion during by-elections. Shamanur Shivashankarappa had joined hands with the seers of Pancha Peethas who were responsible for the defeat of the Congress in the last Assembly election, he alleged.
“Shamanur Shivashankarappa was elected in a constituency which has more than 70,000 Muslim voters. Let him think about the defeat of his son. But in my constituency, I have won though Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally campaigned against me”, he said.
The school records of Shamanur Shivashankarappa, Yeddyurappa, Umesh Katti and Pancha Peetha seers have shown that they were Lingayats. Only 10,000 people have written as Veerashaivas. When S.M. Krishna was the chief minister, MP Prakash had included the word ‘Veerashaiva’ in the software, he said.
If the central government rejected the proposal submitted by the state government on separate Lingayat religion status, they would move the Supreme Court. Now, Shamanur Shivashankarappa has joined hands with Rambhapuri Swamiji. He would discuss all the issues with the high command after November 3, he said.
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Gurugram Police arrest BJP Yuva Morcha member for spreading fake murder story on social media
New Delhi: Gurugram Police have arrested BJP Yuva Morcha member Hariom Mishra, for allegedly spreading a fabricated and communally sensitive story on social media about the murder of a college student in Gurugram.
Mishra who is also known as Shaurya Mishra had shared a collage of four photographs on his X handle earlier this month. He claimed that a 24-year-old college student, identified as Nikita Agarwal, had been murdered by her classmate Arif Khan in Gurugram. In the post, he alleged that the woman was blackmailed, forced into prostitution, gangraped, and eventually killed. He also claimed that Arif dumped her body in a forest. The claims were presented as being based on police sources.
The post went viral and garnering over 1.5 lakh views, and was amplified by several right-wing social media handles across X, Facebook and Instagram. A verification of the claims revealed that no such incident had taken place in Gurugram. A search of credible news reports showed no record of any such murder. The police said this news would have inevitably attracted media attention if it were true.
On December 11, Gurugram Police publicly refuted the claims through their official X handle. They stated that the information which was being circulated was completely false. The police warned that legal action would be taken against those spreading misinformation. Despite the warning, Mishra neither deleted the post nor issued any clarification.
Police in Gurugram confirmed Mishra's arrest on December 16. The police said a FIR was filed after he continued to spread false information about the alleged murder of a Hindu woman by Muslim man. Police said Mishra, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district, is now being investigated.
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Singh told The Print that the accused had deliberately misrepresented facts and used objectionable content to spread hatred along religious lines. “Such posts can create serious disturbances in society, and the police take these matters very seriously,” he said.
A reverse image search conducted by fact-checkers at Alt News, revealed that the photographs used in the viral post were unrelated to the claims, while two of the images were traced to a Pinterest account belonging to influencer Maulik Chopra and another image was sourced from an Instagram post by influencer Shivam Thakur featuring a woman named Deepanshi Rawat. The fourth image was found on an unrelated Instagram page. The images depicted different individuals and had no connection to any crime.
Police said they are also investigating Mishra’s motive behind sharing the false and provocative content.
