Aam Aadmi Party repeats Tejasvi Surya tactics to slam Modi’s COVID vaccine mismanagement
Names only Muslim countries where vaccines have been sent ahead of vaccinating Indians
New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came under fire from Twitter users on Monday after it listed names of Muslim countries to slam Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his government’s mismanagement of COVID vaccine in the country.
On Monday morning, the official Twitter handle of AAP tweeted listed names of selective countries where the Indian government sent vaccine aid. The list of countries posted by AAP only had names of Muslim majority countries.
In the tweet, AAP added PM Modi bagged votes from India and sent vaccines to the listed countries.
After Twitter users including several journalists and activists, slammed AAP for ‘bigotry’ and compared their tactics to those of Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, the party’s handle, after about two hours later added names of all the countries where the vaccines were sent by the Indian government.
Here's AAP first tweet:
नरेन्द्र मोदी ने VOTE किससे लिया:
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) May 17, 2021
??India
नरेन्द्र मोदी ने VACCINE किसे दी:
?? Pakistan
?? Palestine
?? Iran
?? UAE
?? Syria
?? Egypt
?? Oman
?? Kuwait
?? Yemen
?? Nigeria
?? Bahrain
?? Somalia
?? Morocco
?? Tajikistan
?? Uzbekistan
?? Bangladesh
?? Afghanistan
?? Saudi Arabia
Yes, India should have vaccinated it’s own citizens first. There is no debate on that. But this selective list is nothing but bigotry. How is it different from Tejasvi Surya? https://t.co/uxSOybkbU3
— Rohini Singh (@rohini_sgh) May 17, 2021
Stop calling AAP as sanghi lite, they are true Sanghis
— پربھا ? (@deepsealioness) May 17, 2021
Sanghi Lite AAP carefully picked names of muslim majority nations and conveniently skipped
— Azaad. (@Syaahkaar) May 17, 2021
?? Nepal
?? Bhutan
?? Maldives
?? Sri Lanka
?? South Africa
?? Barbados
?? Mongolia
?? Canada
Morehttps://t.co/HEDXLLfJdI
As citizens of the world we should be proud of this gesture of caring for all of humanity.
— वरुण ?? (@varungrover) May 17, 2021
The right question to be asked is why didn't they care equally for Indians too.
(And your selective list is soft bigotry. Am sure you guys know that, unfortunately.)
What's the difference between you and Tejasvi Surya?
— Siddharth (@DearthOfSid) May 17, 2021
Saudi,iran,bahrain people voted for thier leaders why the hell they are giving us OIL?? Samaj rahe ho??
— Harish Reddy (@Harishreddy229) May 17, 2021
Out of the 95 countries to which vaccines were imported, you cunningly pick up only Muslim countries, how very convenient!!
— K (@drkouser_) May 17, 2021
India has sent vaccine to Myanmar, Nepal, Srilanka, Mongolia, Philippines,, Maldives and Mauritius and many more
— Nehr_who? (@Nher_who) May 17, 2021
Why you include only muslim nation?
And then you ppl get angry when everyone calls you CLOSET SANGHI
I dare you not to delete the tweet after your call out for islamophobia!!
— أمينة Amina (@AminaaKausar) May 17, 2021
Hey sanghi packet! Why you have mentioned only Muslim nations? Because you know you can provoke people on Hindu-Muslim!
— Shaharyar Khan (@Shaharyar__Alam) May 17, 2021
Modi Ji have also sent vaccines to Barbados, Brazil, Sheychelles, Bhutan, Mongolia and in Latin American countries.
Who is TeJasvi Surya in your party? @ArvindKejriwal or someone else?
— Orphan of Bengal (@tamashbeen_) May 17, 2021
You clubbed most Muslim nations first. And on getting called out, updated non-Muslim nations 2 hours later?
— Chandrahaas Uniyal (@taru_uniyal) May 17, 2021
Is there any reason you’ve left out the dozens of non Muslim majority countries we’ve sent vaccines to?
— Sarayu Pani (@sarayupani) May 17, 2021
SL, SA, Nepal, Barbados, Seychelles, Botswana?
Just merge with the BJP and be done with it na? Besharam log.
Why is this tweet sounding like
— Abhinav Baad (@BaadAbhinav) May 17, 2021
Hindus have elected Modi as PM of India
But he is supplying vaccine to muslim nation.
Nagpur Me Bethe Log Chala Rahe He Is Twitter Handle Ko Kya ?
— #IndiaStandsWithPalestine ?? ?? (@RoyalAzam) May 17, 2021
This list is not complete list and why only a religion specific list? Few days back I have seen ("Thank You India & PM Modi" hoardings in Canada) type tweets too. It's not the in the list. And see where the list starts from?
— ???????? (@shaileshqa) May 17, 2021
ये धर्म के नाम पर tweet कम से कम "आप" को शोभा नही देता
India has sent vaccine to 95 countries but sanghi AAP cherry picked Muslim majority countries and everyone knows the reason https://t.co/5vYbuZcuzl
— Humor Detected (@HumorDetected) May 17, 2021
??Myanmar
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) May 17, 2021
??Bhutan
??Maldives
??Nepal
??Seychelles
??Sri Lanka
??Brazil
??South Africa
??Barbados
??Dominica
??Mexico
??Dominican Republic
??El Salvador
??Argentina
??Serbia
??Mongolia
??Ukraine
??Ghana
??Ivory Coast
??St. Lucia
??St. Kitts & Nevis
??St.Vincent & Grenadines
??Suriname
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) May 17, 2021
??Antigua & Barbuda
??Democratic Republic of the Congo
??Angola
??Gambia
??Cambodia
??Kenya
??Lesotho
??Rwanda
??São Tomé and Príncipe
??Senegal
??Guatemala
??Canada
??Mali
??Sudan
??Liberia
??Malawi
??Uganda
??Nicaragua
??Guyana
??Jamaica
??UKTogo
??Togo
??Djibouti
??Sierra Leone
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) May 17, 2021
??Belize
??Botswana
??Mozambique
??Ethiopia
??Benin
??Bahamas
??Cape Verde
??Solomon Islands
??Laos
??Namibia
??Bolivia
??South Sudan
??Paraguay
??Fiji
??Zimbabwe
??Niger
??Nauru
??Trinidad & Tobago
??Guinea
??Papua New Guinea
??Guinea Bissau
??Zambia
??Comoros
??Cameroon
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) May 17, 2021
??Mauritania
??Albania
?️Eswatini
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SC seeks ED's response on journalist's bail plea in money laundering case
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file its response within three days on a bail plea of journalist Mahesh Langa in a money laundering case linked to an alleged financial fraud.
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi also asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the jailed journalist, to file rejoinder, if needed, to the ED's response within two days of it being filed.
The top court fixed the case for further hearing on December 15.
During the brief hearing on Monday, Sibal said a journalist has been facing as many as six cases.
"The journalist is accused of extortion," the counsel for the ED said and sought a short adjournment on the ground that Solicitor General Tuhar Mehta was unavailable at the moment.
The top court on September 8 sought responses from the Gujarat government and the ED on Langa's bail plea.
While issuing the notices on Langa's bail plea, the bench asked, "What kind of a journalist is he?"
"With due respect, there are some very genuine journalists. But there are also people who on their scooter say we are 'patrakar' (journalists) and what they actually do everybody knows," the bench told Sibal.
Sibal replied that these are all allegations.
"In one FIR, he gets anticipatory bail, then a second FIR is lodged and again anticipatory bail is granted but now he is booked under a third FIR for income tax evasion. There are other things also against him," Sibal submitted.
He added that there is a background to the case also.
On July 31, the Gujarat High Court rejected Langa's bail plea in the money laundering case on the grounds that if released on bail, prejudice would be caused to the prosecution case.
On February 25, the ED said it arrested Langa in a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged financial fraud.
He was first arrested in October 2024 in a GST fraud case.
The money laundering case against Langa stems from two FIRs filed by Ahmedabad police on charges of fraud, criminal misappropriation, criminal breach of trust, cheating and causing wrongful loss of lakhs of rupees to certain people.
