Gupta confirmed the development to ThePrint, but refused to comment further. These Congress Party group links are from all over the World. Log In. The Act (CAA) seeks to provide citizenship to the persecuted minorities of neighbouring Islamic countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Violent Muslim mobs ran amuck ransacking and vandalising property. “Earlier being a Congress-person imbued an identity strongly correlated to our national identity… This identity has been lost. Copyright © 2020 Printline Media Pvt. Reetam Singh’s message revealed a sinister plot. Simranjit Twitter account. While in Bengal we already face a high density of population. Another element that came across was information that Harsh Mander, member of Sonia Gandhi’s planning commission who had drafted the anti-Hindu communal violence bill had reached the police station at midnight to ensure that the Jamia rioters were saved. As you know important organisational changes … Choose a group in your interest. WhatsApp Group Invite. NSUI is the National Students Union of India which is a Congress Students arm. NSUI chief Ruchi Gupta resigns, ‘blames’ KC Venugopal for delay in state... Ruchi Gupta, the national in-charge of the Congress’ student wing, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), resigned from her post, on a day party interim president Sonia Gandhi is holding a meeting with “dissenting” leaders. We have made whatsapp … This group was specifically made for coordinating protests in law colleges. WhatsApp group chats are now a common feature for WhatsApp users who want to organise a holiday, a meal or just keep in touch with friends who are miles apart. In fact, one response to my query was from Reetam Singh himself who on his Instagram had confirmed that he is NSUI functionary. Two interesting names that cropped up, who were willing to offer help to goons screaming ‘Hinduon se azaadi’ were AAP leader Amanatullah Khan, NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar and another The Quint journalist Manvi. Read: Citizenship Amendment Bill – Myths and lies propagated against it, and the facts. From the chat, it is evident that the participants knew that the admins of the group were NSUI representatives. There are several other protests, not just in law schools, that are being coordinated and spearheaded from such WhatsApp groups that are headed by NSUI, Congress functionaries. I am grateful to Rahul ji and Sonia ji for giving me this opportunity. The situation has thus become untenable.”, Gupta’s resignation comes as Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi held a meeting Saturday with several top leaders of the party, including multiple members of the ‘G-23’ or the signatories to the. “At present, this leadership can only be provided by Rahul Gandhi. The Assam protests were very different from the reasons for protests by the rest of the Congress functionaries and Islamists. As you know important organisational changes have remained pending for very long. “I am writing to announce that I have resigned. There was stone-pelting, some news of petrol bombs being hurled by the ‘students’, and sloganeering that would put the stone-pelters of Kashmir to shame. First thing first, you need to mobilise your faculty teachers to take a stand. The … ... who was a part of NSUI, said that he joined the group only to get a sense of what was happening and was later removed. doesn’t speak of her resignation, it does mention what she believes ails the party, and what needs to be done to revive it. NSUI is the National Students Union of India which is a Congress Students arm. I regret to announce that I have resigned. NSUI’s national in-charge Ruchi Gupta resigns News Desk | 2020-12-19 13:40:08 IST New Delhi, Dec 19 : In A Major Setback To The Congress, The National Students Union Of India's (NSUI) National In-charge Ruchi Gupta Resigned From The Party On Saturday, Accusing Party's General Secretary (Organisation) K. Second, we need to draft a letter. While Gupta could not be contacted, she put out a message on the WhatsApp group of the NSUI’s national office-bearers. It perhaps seems ‘widespread’ because the news is everywhere on Social Media and rightly so. The group that I was a part of was clearly coordinating protests on 19th December across law colleges of India. There have been brutal layoffs and pay-cuts. Gupta further wrote the party must work to make its organisational politics better and more robust. From these messages, it is evident that the coordination is focussed at inciting needless violence for the sake of violence. POLITICS. Rishav Ranjan is also one of the admins of the WhatsApp group where these protests are being planned. “I regret to announce that I have resigned. The best of journalism is shrinking, yielding to crude prime-time spectacle. I am grateful to Rahul. Reportedly, Gupta was upset over the delay in the approval of state unit appointments. The WhatsApp video was posted by Ingle on November 2 after which Youth Congress activists on Monday lodged a complaint against her to the … or. He was called a “right-wing bigot” and is being told that he wants to derail the entire thing (December 19th protests). The situation has thus become untenable.”. Then, we saw violent protests at several Universities. They are clearly coordinated by Congress while trying their best to ensure that the Congress, NSUI connect does not get revealed so these protests can then be used by Congress politically to say that the “Nation is against CAA and Modi”. However, as Ranjan admits, this was about how the narrative needed to be set and hence, the line that thousands of students from law schools all over the country were protesting against CAA was adopted. EDITOR’S PICK. Read: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan spotted leading the protests which turned violent in Delhi: Reports. Ltd. All rights reserved. This may not go in the annals of history in the reasons for the downfall of the Congress but the internal forces of machinery in any system of government can be manipulated by incentives to engineer a downfall, a reality recognized by a few original thinkers. This is today’s plan of action. Then he says that the West Bengal protests were “wrongly” projected as Muslim protests (which is incorrect). In a message posted by her on the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) office bearers' WhatsApp group, Gupta said, "I am writing to you to announce that I have resigned. I am using a conservative estimate. Mumbai: The National Student Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress, has filed a complaint against Republic TV's Arnab Goswami in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur in connection with the leaked WhatsApp conversations between the Republic TV editor-in-chief and former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta. Journalists Union Cries Foul as Times Group Decides to Shut Down Mirror Editions. Log In. How are all of them saying the same thing at the same time so effectively and efficiently? However, while the bill has received widespread support, it becomes essential to analyse where the violent opposition (anti-CAA protests) to it has emanated from, why, and most importantly, who might be instigating it. It is evident that these “students” who are running riot aren’t really scared about how they would get out of trouble should the police arrest them. New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS): In a major setback to the Congress, the National Students Union of India's (NSUI) national in-charge Ruchi Gupta resigned from the party on Saturday, accusing party's General Secretary (Organisation) K. C. Venugopal of delaying the reorganisation of several units and damaging the party. WhatsApp Groups Allegedly Behind JNU Violence Reveal ABVP Identity. A tweet surfaced on Twitter that said that Law students from all major law schools of India were rallying against CAA. In the internal national office bearers WhatsApp group, Gupta said: “I have resigned. LOTS OF non consequential appointees whose anti HINDU activities endured congrass and where given position of power are abandoning congrass as it shows lack of ability to return to POWER. While they are trying to project the December 19th protests and their protest in general against CAA as an organic protest, every dissenting voice was threatened by NSUI goons and made to keep quiet in the process. Hi, Friends Welcome back again. Reetam Singh, the NSUI representative charted out the entire plan of the protests that are being planned on 19th December. Contact your professors. Perhaps the reason that I was shouted down by several people and asked to not bring up NSUI connection, was that while the coordination of the protest is clearly being spearheaded by Congress, they would want to conceal that information to make it appear indigenous protest. Why it bothers Northeast? In a message posted by her on the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) office bearers' WhatsApp group, Gupta said, ''I am writing to you to announce that I have resigned. In the internal national office bearers WhatsApp group, Gupta said: "I have resigned. This is not a sycophantic statement — if any other leader had to emerge in the party, he would have done so over the last year,” she wrote. RSS' local spokesman Sagar Chouksey claimed that the accused is a worker of NSUI, the student wing of the Congress. They are not settling in Ladakh or Rajasthan or Tamil Nadu. An individual who was threatened by NSUI representatives shared the conversation with me. While Gupta’s article published in The Hindu doesn’t speak of her resignation, it does mention what she believes ails the party, and what needs to be done to revive it. Whether you live in India or overseas, you can do it here. Following are the protests the group is thinking about. But NSUI sources said Gupta, in her message on the NSUI WhatsApp group Saturday, blamed Congress General Secretary (organisation) K.C. In a message posted by her on the National Students'' Union of India (NSUI) office bearers'' WhatsApp group, Gupta said, "I am writing to you to announce that I have resigned. They need to write letters to their Chancellors and then to Justices of Supreme Court. The message clearly calls for “confronting” people from BJP, RSS and ABVP. Venugopal for the delay in approving appointments in NSUI state units. Create New Account. Incidentally, it must be mentioned that Rishav Ranjan is from Yogendra Yadav’s Swarajya Abhiyaan and was also the lawyer against the Aarey Metro shed. NSUI in-charge Ruchi Gupta resigns from Cong, blames KC Venugopal for delays. They were also immediately kicked out of the WhatsApp group and specific instructions to not hold any discussion was issued. In fact, this poster, the ‘solidarily statement’ and the Google form were formulated on that group itself in which the admins are from NSUI, Congress. NSUI RAHUL CONGRESS. One can only imagine how many more groups are being spearheaded by Congress and NSUI coordinating attacks and protests in other places and universities. WhatsApp advises users as Google removes group chat links,New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Concerned at private group chat links being available on Google Search, WhatsApp on Monday said that they have asked Google not to index such chats and advised users not to share group chat links on publicly accessible websites. বাংলা হান্ট ডেস্কঃ নাগরিকতা সংশোধন আইন ২০১৯ (CAA 2019) এর বিরুদ্ধে গোটা দেশ জুড়ে বিক্ষোভ প্রদর্শন চলছে। জামিয়া … Evidently, the protests are not organic. Of course, the fact that he is from Congress is a fact that has been pushed under the rug. I am grateful to Rahul ji and Sonia ji for giving me this opportunity,” she wrote. But Northeast due to proximity and availability of vacant forest land. To get a confirmation, I tried to prod whether the admins of this group were, in fact, NSUI representatives. One of the first violent ‘protests’ that we heard of was from the state of West Bengal. Hey guys, we all have heard about WhatsApp’s New Feature i.e., Group admins can now invite people to join a whatsapp groups by sharing WhatsApp group links So, here in this post, we’re providing you all 500+ WhatsApp Groups List. But many state unit appointments had been pending for very long, and that has slowed down the work,” a source said. In a message posted by her on the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) office-bearers' WhatsApp group, Gupta said, "I am writing to you to announce that I have resigned. A sinister plan seems to be afoot to promote anarchy and bloodshed. Read: ‘Just because they are students, they can’t take law into their hands,’ CJI Bobde tells petitioners seeking judicial inquiry in Jamia incident. I proceeded to check the admins of the Whatsapp group. Google had indexed invite links to private The following message was sent by him on WhatsApp (screenshot of it with the reporter). Also read: Congress forms panels to ‘speak in one voice’, writers of ‘leadership change’ letter find space, Subscribe to our channels on YouTube & Telegram, Why news media is in crisis & How you can fix it. These messages pertained to Islamists coordinating to launch attacks and protests targeted at police personnel and Hindus of India. On Whatsapp, this is Reetam’s profile information. Further, what is even more dangerous is that the NSUI is now comparing the protests against CAA to the Arab Spring. Gupta’s resignation comes as Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi held a meeting Saturday with several top leaders of the party, including multiple members of the ‘G-23’ or the signatories to the controversial letter written in August, demanding a full-time and active leadership. When searched on Instagram, this is what it threw up. Congress has a crucial role in the Indian polity today but… My views in the Hindu today (jpg) https://t.co/urmBBdLNcl & Express last year https://t.co/RwlSSW7lo7 pic.twitter.com/rHYsCKxlDQ, — Ruchi Gupta (@guptar) December 19, 2020, Gupta wrote in the NSUI WhatsApp group: “These continuing delays by the general secretary (organisation) are damaging the organisation, but in the present circumstances it is not possible to escalate repeatedly to the Congress president. Another admin was one Simranjit. In the internal national office bearers WhatsApp group, Gupta said: "I have resigned. Gupta said that to achieve all this, the Congress needs a “strong and interventionist Congress president”. “These continuing delays by the general secretary (organisation) are damaging the organisation, but in the present circumstances it is not possible to escalate repeatedly to the Congress president. While speaking to several students and trying to find the answers to these questions, I was sworn to secrecy and added to a Whatsapp group that was called “Anti-CAA Protest (Law St)”. The whole burden of resettlement comes to Northeast. While the later is protesting against the exclusion of Pakistani, Bangladeshi etc Muslims in CAB, Assam is protesting not against the exclusion of Muslims but the fact that they want Clause 6 of the Assam Accord implemented. POLITICS. Further, he says that the movement needs to be projected as a non-partisan movement to gain public faith. The violent protests were mainly limited to Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia University. It turns out, Reetam Singh is the NSUI National RTI Cell Coordinator. The purported WhatsApp conversations between the two, which are a part of the charge sheet submitted by the police in the court, reveal blatant misuse of official position by Partho Dasgupta to help his “friend” Arnab Goswami. Once the statement was formulated, it was time to set the narrative. Reetam Singh also reveals that the aim is “mass appeal”. Both Gupta as well as Venugopal are considered to be close aides of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. In the article, Gupta wrote the Congress is “the only party which can provide a coherent national framework for a viable Opposition formation. Follow this link to join my WhatsApp group: WhatsApp Group Invite. Running riots and damaging public property. Once I was added to the Whatsapp group, the messages were severely anti-CAA and even bordering on some messages sounding completely Leftist. The message above was sent by NSUI Reetam Singh who is the admin of this group. He was immediately asked to clarify in the group and asked not to raise the NSUI connection in the group again. Next is a ceremonial reading of Preamble together. Hence the aggressive protest. There were several other messages that came to the fore from sources that have not yet been verified personally. Assam officially some say 12 lakh, initial NRC was 19 lakh. The first admin that I noticed was one Reetam Singh. One had to wonder, how is this well-oiled machinery coordinating? So that we can post it out to media. Reetam Singh Instagram post. Some of them used figures as 50 lakh in Assam only. See more of NSUI India on Facebook. This Act doesn’t concern Indian Muslims and it certainly has no power to ‘discriminate’ against Muslims who are a majority in Islamic nations. In essence, the protests in Assam actually fuels the need for NRC since Assam wants no immigrants to be settled in their state. The other admins were also affiliated to NSUI. So they won’t go there. "As you know, important organisational changes have remained pending for very long: the national committee took 1 year 3 months; state president orders have remained pending for months." Some of these were shared on social media and have gone viral since then. The ban on a student group by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras provoked a new clash between Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Union Minister Smriti Irani today. You have estimated over 50 lakh illegal migrants in Northeast. See to it if they can ask faculty members to write a common letter of protest invoking conscience of the Judiciary. When searched, we found one Simranjit who clearly had Congress affiliations. WhatsApp Group Invite. He even says that he was a part of the ‘Occupy London’ movement. The group was essentially made to ensure that protests break out on the 19th of December across Law Universities and the protests appear as though these were organic ones without any political involvement. The opposition to this Act has come from very specific quarters. HOME; POLITICS. To confirm that the plan was to project these protests as organic protests and hide the clear NSUI affiliation, I asked my source in the WhatsApp group to ask if the protests were supposed to presented as an NSUI protest or an organic one. The videos are several, but the message is the same – even a perceived injustice against the majority Muslims of Pakistan is going to strike a chord with Islamists in India. “She had been wanting to revamp the organisation, get new, fresh faces into it. But the news media is in a crisis of its own. 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Also read: Sonia Gandhi to meet party leaders, including those who wrote letter of dissent, Saturday. New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) In a major setback to the Congress, the National Students Union of India’s (NSUI) national in-charge Ruchi Gupta resigned from the party on Saturday, accusing party’s General Secretary (Organisation) K. C. Venugopal of delaying the reorganisation of several units and damaging the party.. Gupta took to Twitter announcing her resignation from the party. Times Now had accessed WhatsApp messages, emails and letters by the disgruntled Congress youth cadre in which the youth leaders expressed their concern and claimed that there is no democratic process for the selection of candidates. Create New Account. In a tweet, Gupta said she has resigned from her post, and shared her article published in. ThePrint has the finest young reporters, columnists and editors working for it. It was also evident that scores of people left the group when the clearly partisan agenda was revealed. I saw ‘perceived’ because, in actual terms, there has been absolutely no injustice meted out to them by India as far as the Citizenship Amendment Act is concerned. Aaron Mirza, Karnataka Youth Congress spokesperson was also part of the group. In his messages, wrote: The first thing we could do in our capacity is to write letters to Chief Justice of Local High Courts to invoke their conscience. Then he charts out the plan. New Delhi: Ruchi Gupta, the national in-charge of the Congress’ student wing, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), resigned from her post, on a day party interim president Sonia Gandhi is holding a meeting with “dissenting” leaders. Modi Govt Bigger Trader than East India Company: Congress. The violent protests were mainly limited to Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia University. Forgot account? We heard slogans of ‘Hinduon se Azaadi’ and posters of “Khilafat 2.0”. Further, another admin of the Whatsapp group was one of the people who spearheaded the Aarey Metro protests. One of the most dangerous parts of the plan was a tacit incitement of violence against those who support the Citizenship Amendment Act. Join the New Congress Party WhatsApp Groups. Another post on Instagram proves Reetam Singh’s Congress association. The truth is that they do not have “thousands” of people from law schools. The Opposition parties, including, Congress, … The Display Picture of the group clearly states that this group was for coordination and planning of protests against CAA in Law Universities. Further, Reetam threatened several others too who did not agree with what the group was spreading about CAA. In fact, the source who asked the question later got threatened by NSUI functionary Reetam Singh. With the same profile picture, there was one post where Reetam was wearing a Congress scarf. These youth leaders shared their concerns on a WhatsApp group titled ‘NSUI National Office Bearers’, reported Times Now. Unfortunately, the Congress party is failing to do justice to this moment, and to its own deeply inspiring legacy.”. See more of NSUI India on Facebook. Sustaining journalism of this quality needs smart and thinking people like you to pay for it. As soon as the question was asked, the obvious answer that was presented was that these were supposed to be packaged as genuine protests. In fact, at a point of time, the NSUI goons started bad-mouthing veteran lawyer Harish Salve and calling him a stooge, at that point of time, several had quit the group. What remains to be seen is how law enforcement tackles the situation. When searched, we found one Simranjit who clearly had Congress affiliations. In an internal NSUI Whatsapp group, Gupta is learnt to have announced her decision to quit, writing that important organisational changes have remained pending for very long. As you know important organisational changes have remained pending for very long." India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises. Further, another admin of the Whatsapp group was one of the people who spearheaded the Aarey Metro protests. “I regret to announce that I have resigned. We all law students have to read the Preamble together in chorus and post videos here. Gupta took to Twitter announcing her resignation from the party. Who is instigating violence in colleges: Congress, NSUI, a sinister WhatsApp group and anti-CAA protests. Finding their links merely with their names was not enough for confirmation that this group coordinating protests against CAA was spearheaded by Congress and NSUI representatives. That these journalists and the AAP leader were directly involved in aiding the Jamia rioters, makes it obvious that these protests might be coordinated by the Left, Islamists, Congress and with the active help of such elements. He asked people to “learn from the protests in Assam” and rudely asked that NSUI affiliation not be brought up. The Citizenship Amendment Bill after being passed in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha got the President’s assent and has now become a law. That would be the 1st job. However, with this group and messages, it is evident that protests are being planned and coordinated by Congress. Soon, a dangerous narrative was being spun with several elements inciting violence, lying to make rioting “students” appear as victims of police brutality and calls for more colleges to join in. Consequently, we lack political programmes to give supporters an accessible and respectful sense of belonging,” she wrote. 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