#BoycottTIME trending on Twitter as it lists Shaheen Bagh 'Dadi' in Most Influential People of 2020
New Delhi: Right-wing Twitter users on Wednesday evening started a campaign on the micro-blogging site, calling for a boycott of TIME magazine after it listed Shaheen Bagh ‘Dadi’ Bilkis among the 100 Most Influential People of the World in 2020.
The list also includes PM Narendra Modi, actor Ayushmann Khurrana, Google CEO Sundar Pichai are among others.
While PM Modi was listed in the "Leaders" category, Bilkis, a.k.a "Dadi of Shaheen Bagh", was featured under "Icons".
Bilkis is among those better known as the 'Dadis (Grandmothers) of Shaheen Bagh' and had led the protests from the front, shedding the comfort of their homes.
The profile of Bilkis in the TIME magazine list, written by journalist and writer Rana Ayyub, says she "became the voice of the marginalized in India".
Twitter users called for boycotting the magazine alleging that it was listing someone “Who prompted riots” in the list of “World’s Most Influential People in 2020”.
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One more proof of how western agencies and certain anarchist organizations are Propaganding a false narrative of India's political situations.
— Vinay Tendulkar (@TendulkarBJP) September 23, 2020
All they want is to defame the culture and values of Indic civilization so that they can pull us down to their level.
#BoycottTIME
It's really hard to understand why #Bilkis was considered in most influential persons.
— Monty Rana (@montyyrana) September 23, 2020
Did she influence a significant amount of mass towards something productive?
Saperatism is quite easy to propagate as it's destructive in nature. It looks more like biased media. #BoycottTIME pic.twitter.com/XbEjuLyRWF
#TIMEMagazine have placed Bilkis bano among "100 most influential people" in the world.
— प्रवीण चौहान ? 40k (@ChauhanSaabPC) September 23, 2020
How can they praise a woman who Face of Riots in New Delhi?
Time to #BoycottTIME pic.twitter.com/PzWLs7JXYQ
We don't need any certificate from these West ppl for our PM.. Ye hamesha se aise hi divide n rule game play karte h #BoycottTIME pic.twitter.com/9iHknJw5OQ
— Amit Sharma (@AmitsharmaGRENO) September 23, 2020
People who don’t know what they stand for are termed heroes. That is the vile power of left media. #boycottTime https://t.co/G0NO0rKTGM
— Ravi Gupta®️ (@RaviGuptaINDIAN) September 23, 2020
#BoycottTIME jai hind
— Kusum Tomar (@KusumTomar19) September 23, 2020
#BoycottTIME
— Sakshi Gupta (@sakshigupta76) September 23, 2020
That failed Shaheen bagh protester Bilkis featured on Time magazine..
Meanwhile Rahul Gandhi who is not featured...?? pic.twitter.com/kkHZKoyFeI
These rioters were there for Wages , Biryani and time rewarded them for being traitors.#BoycottTime#BoycottTIME pic.twitter.com/0p3SM0nDtW
— अहं भारतीयः (@Skylark_Indian) September 23, 2020
Suffering from Shortage of Toilet Paper ?
— Roshan singh (@Roshans82660478) September 23, 2020
No worries, we have a lot of it. ??#StandWithGilgitBaltistan#IndiaTrustModi #BoycottTIME pic.twitter.com/AfblBHsBd5#BoycottTIME pic.twitter.com/ZTt126t8KN
#BoycottTime
— Meet Patel (@MeetPat92472800) September 23, 2020
This magazine is utterly ridiculous because whichever It is praisefully prescribed, has to be whether an Anti-national or a communist. Boycott this basket case. ??????? pic.twitter.com/8Fb4yzczof
#BoycottTIME Actually Times Magazine does need to add our PM We all know him and how powerful is he? They are free to show their cheap mind set in their double standard Magazine.
— Akanksha Singh (@Akanksha101294) September 23, 2020
#BoycottTime Must Must Must
— AJIT SINGH (@ajits1072) September 23, 2020
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Curbs on movement, assembly remain in force in Kashmir after protests against Khamenei's killing
Srinagar (PTI): Normal life in Kashmir was affected for the fifth consecutive day as partial restrictions on movement of people remained in force as a precautionary measure.
The restrictions were imposed on Monday after spontaneous protests broke out across Kashmir a day earlier against the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israel joint strikes.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday held a meeting with civil society representatives and religious leaders as part of efforts to bring the situation back to normalcy.
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After the meeting, Abdullah appealed to people to maintain peace while expressing grief and anger in "mosques, shrines and Imambaras".
The government has shut educational institutions till Saturday, and reduced mobile internet speeds.
"Restrictions on the movement and assembly of the people continued in many parts of Kashmir on Thursday," the officials said.
A large number of police and paramilitary CRPF personnel were deployed across the city to prevent gatherings of protestors, the officials said.
They added that concertina wires and barricades were placed at important intersections leading into the city, while asserting that these were precautionary measures imposed to maintain law and order.
The iconic Ghanta Ghar in the city centre of Lal Chowk here continued to remain a no-go zone after the authorities sealed area with barricades erected all around it on late Sunday night.
The move to seal the Ghanta Ghar came after it witnessed massive protests on Sunday after Khamenei's assassination in the joint air strikes by the US and Israel.
This is the first time since August 2019 -- when Article 370 was revoked -- that protests on such a large scale have taken place in Kashmir.
