Not the time to be neutral, time to pick a side: Journalist Rana Ayyub
New Delhi: Noted Journalist Rana Ayyub on Monday said India was going through a phase wherein people of the country need to pick a side and it was not a time to be neutral.
Taking to her Twitter account she called on the people of the country and said it was time to choose democracy over dictatorship.
“Hello India. This is not the time to be neutral. This is the time to pick a side. This is the time to chose democracy over dictatorship” (SIC) she wrote in the tweet.
Her tweet came on a day when Twitter India withheld several accounts that were reporting and commenting on farmer protest. The micro-blogging site added the accounts were withheld over "legal demand".
Hello India. This is not the time to be neutral. This is the time to pick a side. This is the time to chose democracy over dictatorship.
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) February 1, 2021
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UP: 90 Bangladeshis, including 28 children, held in Mathura for illegal stay
Mathura (UP), May 16 (PTI): As many as 90 Bangladeshi nationals, including many children, were apprehended from Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district on Friday for alleged illegal stay in India, officials said.
They were taken into custody from local brickyards at Khajpur village under the Naujheel police station limits, a senior officer said.
"Regular searches were being conducted throughout the district. During one such operation, police were searching some local brickyards when they came across Bangladeshi nationals working there," SSP Shlok Kumar said.
Giving a break-up, the officer said in all, 35 men, 27 women and 28 children have been taken into custody.
"During interrogation, all of them admitted to being Bangladeshi nationals living illegally in India. They moved to Mathura three to four months back from a neighbouring state. Police are trying to establish their links," the SSP said, adding that their job contractor and other associates are also being questioned.
The officer told PTI that police also recovered some Aadhaar cards from the Bangladeshi nationals, apparently issued on forged documents in some other state.
Further legal proceedings are underway, Kumar said.
