Instagrammer shares post celebrating Nejaru murder, heroize accused as ‘world record breaker'
Udupi: A viral social media post shared in the instant image sharing platform, Instagram, celebrating the chilling quadruple murder in Nejaru has garnered widespread outrage from netizens. The viral Instagram story is seen portraying the accused as a ‘world-record breaker.’
The story in circulation was shared from an Instagram account identified as (Hindu_Mantra_) with a caption which stated "He killed 4 Muslims within 15 minutes and created a world record". In the post, the accused Praveen Chowgale was seen glorified with his photos being edited with a crown placed on his head. The malicious account holder, justifying his/her actions also mentioned that “No one has come to the issue of Udupi girls, therefore, we will not come to this issue either.''
At a time when the society is recovering from the brutal killing of four of the same family that has sent shockwaves across the entire state, this malicious post has now triggered massive outrage.
Upon running a scan on the platform, we found that this is not the first such malicious attempt, the account with around 1,585 followers has around 54 posts uploaded and most of them were found to be having hateful content, especially loathing and denigrating the Muslim community.
Meanwhile a case has been lodged against the Instagram user at the Udupi CEN (Cyber, Economics and Narcotics) station.
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Maharashtra Congress chief Patole meets Kharge, dismisses resignation talk as 'rumours'
New Delhi, Nov 25: Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday dismissed as "rumours" talk of his resignation following the assembly polls debacle and stressed on "collective accountability" for the defeat.
Patole made the remarks after meeting Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge during which he conveyed that the result had not reflected the sentiments of the people of Maharashtra.
"Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other national and state leaders were leading Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) from the forefront during the assembly polls. So, we were sure that the trends were in favour of Maha Vikas Aghadi, even the citizens believed that," the Maharashtra Congress chief said.
"If I talk about Nanded, the Lok Sabha bypolls and assembly elections were held on the same day. In Lok Sabha bypolls, our candidate was winning in six assembly seats, whereas, in the assembly elections, we are not winning even a single seat," he said, adding that there cannot be such a "huge difference".
This is the sentiment among the people also and they have stated that this government in Maharashtra was not being formed on their votes, he claimed.
"So, I spoke to Mallikarjun Kharge on this," he added.
Asked whether he had offered to resign or the party had asked for his resignation after the Maharashtra assembly polls defeat, Patole said, "These are all rumours and there is no truth in them. There is collective accountability."
Patole also said he will meet Rahul Gandhi in a day or two and discuss all issues.
"Democracy is being finished. We have discussed that... there was no talk of resignation," he said.
The MVA alliance, comprising the Congress, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Shiv Sena (UBT), was restrained to 46 seats by the Mahayuti that reaped a rich harvest of 230 seats in the 288-member House.
