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An FIR has been filed against the Karnataka BJP over a controversial social media post that likened former PM Indira Gandhi to Adolf Hitler, featuring her image with his signature moustache. Though the post was later deleted, a Congress leader’s complaint prompted legal action, fuelling renewed debate over the Emergency and sparking political clashes.
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00:00With that, we are beginning The Bulletin with breaking news now coming in.
00:04Explosive turn that we are now witnessing to the emergency day row.
00:09FIR against Karnataka BJP for Hitler Indira Jive.
00:14BJP posted and deleted the Indira Hitler post.
00:18BJP in fact posted Indira's picture with Hitler's moustache on it.
00:23Complaint of Congress office bearer led to the FIR.
00:27In fact, the very post that we are speaking of, which has now been deleted, is on your screens.
00:33With that, we have Nagarjun Dwarkana joining us on the broadcast to bring us more details.
00:39Nagarjun, a very good morning.
00:40We are learning that an FIR has been registered against this very particular post in the emergency day row.
00:48What details are we picking up at this point?
00:52Police campaign was filed by one of the office pairs of the Congress Party in Highlands Police Station
00:56in Bengal City.
00:58Subsequently, the police have filed a FIR under the BNS sections 192 and 350
01:03against BJP Karnataka's Twitter account and Twitter account handlers
01:07comparing Indira Ghan to Hitler.
01:10The post has been deleted is what we are told.
01:13The previous video that they had uploaded had shown how Indira Ghan's dictator
01:19put a moustache on her face through comparisons between Hitler in Germany and Indira in India
01:26and the Congress filed a complaint saying that this would be provocative in nature
01:31between communities, religion, as well as families.
01:36Hence, the FIR has to be filed.
01:39The police have filed a FIR as of now.
01:41Absolutely.
01:44Nagarjun, just to rejog our memory into what exactly the entire row that developed on June 25th
01:51on this very 50th anniversary of the emergency,
01:54if we could just take us through some of the details of the back and forth,
01:59the war of words that's developed so far between the BJP and the Congress.
02:03While since yesterday, even in Karnataka, both Congress and BJP have been fighting
02:09over the emergency days that had happened many decades back,
02:13BJP has been accusing the Congress, say, that up into the Constitution,
02:18did you forget the ethos of the Constitution when Indira Gandhi was there,
02:20and she was a true dictator in all sins, and she has to be compared to Hitler,
02:24is what Karnataka BJP had tweeted.
02:26And Chief Minister Sidhara Maya, as well as many Congress leaders,
02:29hit back at BJP, putting posts on Arendra Modi,
02:33comparing him to being a dictator in the last 24 hours.
02:36There was political fight in terms of emergency as well.
02:40And now it has ended up in a FIR against the BJP Karnataka post
02:43for comparing Indira Gandhi to Hitler, but not just that,
02:47but morphing Indira's face and putting out a moustache on a face
02:51and then comparing him to Hitler.
02:53That would provoke people of Karnataka, and hence an FIR has to be filed.
02:58Subsequently, the police have acted.
03:00Absolutely, it's indeed taken an ugly turn at this given point
03:04with such posts coming to the fore,
03:06and now it also has, the entire post also has an FIR being registered against it.
03:11Nagarjan, also, if we were to give in to understand at this point,
03:16you know, any given reaction that's come in from the BJP so far
03:22in terms of the FIR that's been registered,
03:24because we know that they've already deleted the post
03:26where they likened Indira Gandhi to Hitler.
03:30As of now, no action has been initiated yet.
03:34The FIR has been lodged or filed this last evening, late last evening,
03:38and most likely they would be summoning whoever's hand is handling the social media
03:42of Karnataka, BJP, to come record a statement or to come give an explanation
03:47and post that they would make arrests, is what we are told.
03:50They are also seeking permission from the higher-ups to go about it,
03:53because it is also political.
03:54It should not look like the government is targeting the opposition,
03:57and hence the police will take an opinion from the legal department as well
04:00Right, Nagarjan, I'm very sorry to interrupt you there.
04:05Let me quickly bring in Manakam Tagore,
04:08who's joining us at this point of the broadcast.
04:11Mr. Tagore, thank you so much for speaking to us at India Today.
04:14My question to you first would be your reaction to this very post
04:18and the FIR that has been now registered against the Karnataka BJP
04:22for this very post to be put up.
04:25Yeah, BJP always wants to insult the national heroes and former prime ministers.
04:35The BJP has been doing these kind of things for the past
04:38and who are no more, who don't have any, who are not,
04:43who have been celebrated by India, they wanted to insult all of them
04:48and Indira Gandhiji has been one of the prime ministers
04:51who have been very popular and who have stood for India's interest all along
04:56and portraying her to be in a different, like comparing her to
05:05some authority in June is unacceptable,
05:08before the police has acted in a right way,
05:13the compliant, whomever has complied in Karnataka,
05:16they have done it in a correct way because BJP's IT wing
05:20has been doing these kind of stupid things all along
05:24and now it has gone to this level
05:27and we condemn this kind of acts for the BJP.
05:30Is there more that you in fact are demanding,
05:34the party, Congress party is demanding,
05:36aside from the FIR that has been registered already?
05:39Yes, always BJP and their wings have been
05:44misinterrupting the facts and they have been spreading lies
05:49on Prime Minister Nehru as well as now it has come to Prime Minister
05:54Indira Gandhiji, they have been the leaders for the country
05:58and they have taken decisions which have been for the country
06:03and there were decisions which they would have repented later also.
06:13The emergency was such a decision and Indira Gandhiji herself has said
06:17that that was the wrong thing and she has said
06:19that the decision was a wrong decision from her part.
06:25Therefore, it is the political leadership in that time
06:28she has taken some decisions and she has repented about it
06:31and to make her, to compare her with somebody else
06:34who was in authority is unacceptable
06:36and Karnataka police has acted in the right place.
06:40Right, Mr. Tagore, do stay with us.
06:42We also have BJP's Ashok Gora joining us on the broadcast.
06:45Mr. Gora, thank you so much for speaking to us in India today.
06:47Very good morning to you.
06:49We have Mr. Manikam Tagore as well with us on the broadcast
06:52and he was just putting forward his party stance
06:55in terms of how it is unacceptable for a former Prime Minister
06:58of the country to be likened to an authoritative leader like Hitler.
07:04What is your take, firstly, on the post that had gone out
07:07and also the FIR that has now been registered against the Karnataka BJP?
07:13There are three aspects to this.
07:15First aspect is comparing Indira Gandhi to an Hitler.
07:19Yes, she was very authoritative and the kind of the statement
07:23what she made on 26th of June 1975 clearly shows
07:28that she wanted to centralize the power and the amendment what she did
07:31during the entire emergency time, whether it was Amendment 39,
07:35Amendment 42 and 43, clearly indicates that she wanted to be
07:41an authoritative Prime Minister.
07:42That is why Judiciary Review was removed and she centralized the power.
07:46Even states, some of the powers which were with the states
07:50were put in a concurrent list and a state list.
07:53And these are all apart.
07:55And now Karnataka state government in the last,
07:59beginning of this week has passed two bills.
08:02One is the fake, if somebody propagates a fake news,
08:05they will be put behind the bus.
08:07And somebody puts a C-8 speech, they will put behind the bus.
08:09Fine.
08:10We accept this.
08:11But what kind of statements they have made against Narendra Motiji
08:16and against all the BJP senior leaders,
08:19let them also be put behind the bus.
08:21This is the part two of the saga.
08:23Part three of the saga is Rahul Gandhi himself celebrated the emergency.
08:28He said, we were so proud that we implemented emergency.
08:31Please check the Rahul Gandhi statements.
08:34This is probably in 2022, year 21.
08:36We still remember it was all part of the news,
08:39but it was not propagated very well by some of the people.
08:44And that is why it went down the drain.
08:47But Rahul Gandhi had propagated and declared emergency
08:50was one of their achievements.
08:52And when these are the cases,
08:54and I was just hearing, I think it was Rajvod,
08:56somebody saying that like, you know,
08:58it was an emergency was declared by the political leadership.
09:03Apparently, what was, which, who were the political leaders?
09:07It was decided even the cabinet ministers were not knowing
09:09when the emergency was declared.
09:12When Indira Gandhi came on the radio at 8 a.m.,
09:15only then people realized that there is an emergency in India.
09:19And what was necessary for emergency
09:21when there was no external insurgencies or external problems?
09:25And only because Navnirman Vedike was protesting
09:30against Indira Gandhi's atrocities
09:32because of the inflation and other things.
09:36And as well, the court decision which came from Allahabad
09:39clearly said Indira Gandhi cannot continue as a MP.
09:43And that is why Indira Gandhi wanted to centralize the power.
09:47That is not so Indira Gandhi's authoritativeness.
09:50We get the BJP stance here at this given point.
09:53Mr. Tagore, Mr. Gowda, thank you so much for joining us on India Today.
09:56Those are the respective parties' stance at this given point
10:00on the emergency day row.
10:02And specifically, the Indira Gandhi likened to Hitler,
10:06Donald Hitler's post that had in fact been put out by the Karnataka BJP.
10:11With that, let's also take you through some of the details of this very row.
10:14It has been 50 years since Indira Gandhi declared emergency,
10:19unveiling the dark era in India's democracy.
10:22The BJP today marked the day by holding some Vedan Hathya Divas.
10:27This was yesterday.
10:28And Prime Minister Modi said that no Indian will ever forget
10:32the manner in which the spirit of the constitution was violated
10:37and his cabinet passed a resolution commemorating the sacrifices
10:41of individuals who resisted it.
10:43India Today reports. Take a look.
10:45Fifty years later, the ghosts of emergency still haunt Indian politics.
10:58The union cabinet on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning the emergency
11:03and observed a two-minute silence in memory of the emergency victims.
11:08The union cabinet reaffirmed that the people of India continue to repose
11:14unflinching faith in the Indian constitution
11:18and the resilience of the country's democratic ethos.
11:25As India marked 50th anniversary of emergency,
11:29proclamation by Indira Gandhi,
11:32the BJP observed the day as a Midhan Hathya Divas.
11:35Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the attack,
11:39launching a blistering attack on the Congress,
11:42setting the tone for his party colleagues.
11:44Prime Minister Narendra Modi
12:14Whom Minister Amit Shah, calling emergency the darkest chapter in India's history,
12:23flagged off the BJP's democracy yatra.
12:26Prime Minister Narendra Modi
12:56The emergency diaries and account of Prime Minister Modi's experiences during the emergency
13:02was also unveiled.
13:05The Congress hit back at the BJP,
13:07accusing them of attempts to rewrite the constitution.
13:10During the emergency, over one lakh people were detained by an authoritarian government.
13:40which misused internal security for its own political agenda and jailed opposition leaders and voices of dissent.
13:49Thousands were forced police sterilised.
13:51The press censored and slums demolished.
13:56The emergency, a blot on Indian democracy, still casts a cloud on the Congress.
14:05Even after 50 years, the BJP uses it to corner the Grand Old Party,
14:11which accuses the Modi government of misusing institutions to suppress opposition.
14:16There are lessons to be learned from the dark period of emergency that lasted 21 months.
14:23But have we?
14:25Bureau Report, India Today.
14:27With that, we have more breaking news coming in at this point.
14:41This is coming in again from the state of Karnataka.
14:43Sirta government's excise policy sparking business exodus.
14:48This is a question that's being raised.
14:50Why?
14:50Because Mysuru Brewery eyes exit from Karnataka.
14:54Steep 50% hike in the license fee triggers panic.
14:58Breweries have to say that is this Congress's ease of doing business?
15:03The Huli Brewery may in fact move to Goa or Maharashtra at this given point.
15:09These are the details that have come to the fore so far.
15:12With that, let me cut across to Sagay Raj, who's joining us on the broadcast to bring us more details.
15:18Sagay, this is the question that we see at this given point,
15:21whether the Siddha government's excise policy is indeed sparking a business exodus.
15:26Will the brewery, the Huli Brewery, move out to Goa or Maharashtra amid such steep hikes in the license fee?
15:34If you notice that the Karnataka government of late is increasing the prices on license as well as the liquor in the state of Karnataka.
15:43And if you notice that the steep is not up to 10% or 15%.
15:48It has crossed more than 50% in the state, especially when it comes to the brewery companies.
15:54There was a hike of licensing up to 100%.
15:57And after the delegation which has met, now they have reduced to 50%.
16:01And Huli, which is a local manufacturing company here in Mysore,
16:07has said that there is immense pressure where the government has compared a small handmade handicraft brewery company
16:17to big companies like Diageo, where they pay the same licensing fees.
16:22And even a small company is also paying the same license fee.
16:25So there is no incentive from the government.
16:27And they are contemplating to move out of the state.
16:30And they also claim that there are multiple offers that they are getting from the other governments,
16:35including Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Goa.
16:38Absolutely, Sagar.
16:40So if we look at the current situation, let's also take a look at the reasons behind such a steep hike,
16:47a 50% hike in the license fee, and also the overall ramifications of this hike in the license fee,
16:54not just from the Huli Brewery, but also others in terms of what exactly might it translate to,
17:00even for the customers out there, for the consumers out there.
17:03Absolutely, they feel that the government doesn't have any kind of leverage given to these kind of companies.
17:15And they have also hit out saying that these hikes are happening due to guarantee schemes.
17:22And especially Aruna Aras, who spoke to India today, has categorically mentioned that
17:26these kind of hikes are happening because the government doesn't have money
17:31due to the money which has been spent on the guarantee schemes in the state of Karnataka.
17:36And they have to milk the money from the investors and the businessmen.
17:41And this is how they are trying to do by increasing the price on brewery companies
17:47as well as the liquor consumption in the state.
17:49And if you notice that there is a huge hike which has happened on liquor consumption,
17:54especially if you are buying a liquor, the taxes which before the Karnataka Congress government
17:58was lesser than how it is now.
18:01And now, apart from the liquor, now even the brewery companies are also facing the brunt of this.
18:06All right, Sagay, thank you so much for bringing us all those details
18:10and putting the story into perspective for our viewers.
18:16With that, we are now shifting our focus to a story that's gaining momentum in the national arena,
18:22especially in the world of politics.
18:24Is the exit of Shashi Tharoor from Congress all but final?
18:29Congress MP Shashi Tharoor shared a cryptic message on social media
18:32hinting at a change amid differences with the Congress.
18:36Just minutes after Malik Arjun Kargay, the Congress President,
18:39took a swipe at him for his repeated praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
18:44The veteran Congress leader in the past, in fact, shared a quote,
18:47in this very post, shared a quote, and I quoted,
18:50Don't ask permission to fly.
18:52The wings are yours and the sky belongs to no one.
18:56He shared the post on social media just minutes after the Congress President
19:00took a dig at him saying that for some,
19:03Modi comes first and the nation comes later.
19:05While for Congress, it is always nation first.
19:11With that, as we speak of this very story,
19:14let's also take a look at the time in which this attack has come in from Kargay.
19:18This attack has come in days after Tharoor, in an editorial,
19:22praised Prime Minister Modi as the prime asset for India,
19:26lauding his energy, his dynamism and global engagement,
19:29and even urged greater backing for Modi's diplomacy.
19:33Let's take a look at these past instances in the recent past
19:36where Shashi Tharoor has hailed Prime Minister Modi.
19:39But what has changed in recent years is that the terrorists have also realized
19:48they will have a price to pay.
19:51On that, let there be no doubt.
19:55When, for the first time, India breached the line of control between India and Pakistan
20:01to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base, a launch pad,
20:08the Uri strike in September 2015,
20:11that was already something we had not done before.
20:15Even during the Kargil war, we had not crossed the line of control.
20:19In Uri we did.
20:20Then came the attack in Pulwama in January 2019.
20:26This time we crossed not only the line of control,
20:28we crossed the international border
20:30and we struck the terrorist headquarters in Balakot.
20:34I'm still wiping the egg off my face
20:36because I was the one person in the parliamentary debate
20:40who actually criticized the Indian position at the time,
20:43back in February 22,
20:45on the well-worn grounds that Espen will understand
20:48because he and I talked about all this in my UN days,
20:50that there was a violation of the UN Charter,
20:53that there had been a violation of the principle of inviolability of borders,
20:58of the sovereignty of an understate, namely Ukraine,
21:01and we had always stood for the inadmissibility of the use of force
21:04to settle international disputes.
21:05And all of those principles, I said,
21:07had been violated by one party and we should have condemned it.
21:10Well, a couple of years later, three years later,
21:13it does look like I'm the one with the egg on my face
21:16because clearly the policy has meant that India has actually a prime minister
21:20who can hug both the president of Ukraine and the president of Moscow two weeks apart
21:25and be accepted in both places.
21:27So far, I must say that what we've seen from the press statements
21:31by both the prime minister and by President Trump
21:33are very encouraging
21:35because it looks like some of the big concerns we all had have been addressed.
21:39For example, on the question of trade and tariffs,
21:42they've decided to sit down together and do a serious negotiation
21:46that will conclude by the fall, which is the autumn, September, October of this year.
21:51I think that's a very good outcome because otherwise the fear was
21:54there might be some hasty decisions made in Washington
21:56which would have affected our exports.
21:59This way, there is time to discuss and negotiate.
22:01With that, Amit Bhardwa joins us live on the broadcast to bring us more details
22:07and set things into context.
22:09Amit, you know what the interesting part is?
22:11While we have seen this conundrum, in fact, continue for quite some time now,
22:16the rift continued for quite some time now,
22:18there hasn't been any clear indication with regards to whether Tharoor
22:22will be continuing in the Congress party or not,
22:25especially in the recent past,
22:27the praises only mounting for Prime Minister Modi
22:30and more and more Congress leaders
22:32and also the High Command now coming in
22:34to express the fact that they're not very happy with it.
22:44Right, Shia, you know, that's a big question right now.
22:46Whether Mr. Sheshit Haru wants to be in the Congress party or not
22:49or the other way around, whether the Congress party wants to keep
22:53the Thiruvananthapuram MP with the party anymore or not,
22:57that is a big question right now.
22:59That's also stemming from the fact that, you know,
23:02when Sheshit Haru was part of the multi-party delegation
23:05that was on the diplomatic mission in order to expose Pakistan
23:08as well as put forward India's perspective on Operation Sindhu to the world,
23:13back then there was a defense that one could have given
23:17for the kind of praises or the defense that he had taken
23:20for the, you know, BJP-led central government in India.
23:24But after he's back or, you know, after those diplomatic missions,
23:30his continuous praising of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
23:34or the present regime is something that has been bothering
23:37the Congress party and it is out in open.
23:39Earlier it was leaders like Kodit Raj who were being endorsed
23:43by Pawan Khera, you know, Jairam Ramesh
23:47over their aggressive, over Udhid Raal's aggressive attack on Sheshit Haru.
23:53But now Mr. Malikarjan Karge himself, the Congress party president,
23:56has pointed out as to how he has been praising Prime Minister Modi
24:00and it could be his priority for the Congress party,
24:04the priority is country.
24:05This question will become even more bigger, Shreya,
24:08because the Kerala assembly elections are almost around the corner.
24:12And hence, again and again, there will be questions as to whether
24:16Sheshit Haru would want to continue with the Congress party
24:20or is he going to join the BJP?
24:22But that question, you know, there are further decoding that needs to be done
24:27as to whether the BJP is also in a position to win the Thiruvananthapuram seat
24:31on its own, the assembly constituency if they would want,
24:34if at all Sheshit Haru would switch and what are the caste dynamics,
24:38the, you know, religion dynamics or the demography of the constituency
24:42he might be eyeing for.
24:44Having said that, he is currently a Lok Sabha MP who was elected merely a year back.
24:50So would he want to switch sides?
24:52That would be also a pertinent question out here.
24:55So all cards are secret as of now.
24:58We'll have to also watch out as to whether in the next CWC meeting
25:03any explanation is sought from Sheshit Haru by the top Congress leadership.
25:07Back to you.
25:08Welcome back viewers, you're watching The Burning Question here on India Today
25:12and at the top of this very segment we bring to you breaking news coming in
25:16and this is from the SCO Summit.
25:19This is from sources who said that Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh
25:24firmly stood ground on India's stand on terrorism and belgam.
25:29It resulted into no joint statement or protocol that can be issued.
25:34And Park and China were trying to divert the attention from terrorism.
25:39Raksha Mantri refused to sign the document which would have diluted India's stand.
25:44No pleasantry exchanged with the Pakistani defence minister at the SCO meeting.
25:50This is the big breaking that's coming in at this given point from the SCO Summit.
25:55We were all in fact looking at how the interaction might be between the two defence ministers
26:02given that this is the first global platform they are meeting at
26:05post the Poyalgam terror attack and Operation Sindur which still continues
26:09and India's strong hardline stance against terrorism, cross-border terrorism
26:15and their policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism which happens to be India's focus,
26:21India's key agenda at this very SCO Summit.
26:24So this is the breaking news that we are bringing to you.
26:33There is very crucial points that have been made by Rajnath Singh
26:37where he has in fact spoken up about the Poyalgam terror attack as well.
26:41He has said that innocent lives were claimed, 26 innocent lives claimed by terrorists.
26:47He's hit out with Pakistan quite directly.
26:50He has spoken about how there is no dialogue possible with nations that nurture terrorism
26:56and that India has been working all out to in fact lead the world against terrorism of this kind,
27:08lead the world into acting, taking action against such terrorism at global platforms.
27:14India has been vocal in the previous global platforms as well that Mahindra Modi has also gone in.
27:19Today we see Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the SCO Summit reiterating India's stance.
27:25With that, we have Pranay Upadhyay joining us on the broadcast to bring us more details on these very comments that's coming in.
27:33Pranay, as we had in fact discussed earlier, we see that there is no interaction whatsoever that's taken place
27:41between Gwaja Yusuf and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh as was, I mean, would you say at this given point, as was expected?
27:49And more importantly, the point that both Pakistan and China are trying to dilute India's agenda of no tolerance towards terrorism.
28:01You know that perpetrators and victims cannot exchange pleasantry.
28:06And that is the red line which has been drawn by Operation Sindur, in Operation Sindur, by India.
28:12And this clearly was visible during the SCO Summit in Chengdao, China.
28:17Because the Pakistani Defence Minister, Khwaza Asif, though, shared the dais with the Indian Foreign Minister,
28:23Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who attended the meeting, but there was no exchange of pleasantry.
28:27But having said that, Pakistan and China tried to have a joint statement without reflecting India's core concern that is on the terrorism.
28:35You heard Defence Minister Rajnath Singh clearly stating that that remains a core concern for India.
28:40And even that is important for the wider regional cooperation and the success of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
28:47And that's why Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has refused to sign any document, any joint statement,
28:53which does not reflect India's core concern, and that is the terrorism.
28:57And because India has been saying that terrorism remains an important issue as far as the regional cooperation is concerned.
29:04That is a core issue as far as the safety and security of the member states are concerned.
29:08And that's why there has to be a reflection.
29:11And in fact, terrorism remains an important pillar of the SCO mechanism,
29:16because SCO has RAD's regional anti-terrorism mechanism.
29:19But the Defence Minister's meeting should also, and any joint statement should also reflect on this issue.
29:27And there has to be a mention about cross-border terrorism, because India has suffered the Pahlkam terror attack.
29:33And this is another terror attack which India has suffered.
29:36But there have been series of, you know, terror attacks suffered by India.
29:40And that's why India has been very emphatic as far as the terrorism issue is concerned.
29:44And we wanted, the Indian delegation led by the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh wanted, there should be a reflection.
29:51And that's why he mentioned during his speech, and when Chinese and Pakistanis were trying to build a consensus,
29:56like, you know, trying to convince that they should go mild on this issue,
30:00that the bilateral differences should not, you know, be reflected in the joint statement.
30:05But the Indian side clearly refused, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh clearly refused this issue.
30:10And that's why he did not sign on any joint document, which does not reflect the terrorism,
30:16or India's key concern as far as the issue of terrorism is concerned.
30:19Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is currently meeting the Russian Defence Minister on the sidelines of the SCO summit.
30:25And there would, there could also be a likely meeting between the host Defence Minister,
30:30which is the Chinese Defence Minister there in Qingdao, China.
30:34Right, Panay, Panay, do stay with us.
30:36Let's, before proceeding with our conversation here,
30:39also take our viewers through the very remarks that were made by the Defence Minister
30:44in his opening address at the SCO summit.
30:472nd April 2025, the terror group, the resistance front, carried out a dastardly
30:58and a heinous attack on the innocent tourists in Pahlagam,
31:04in the Indian state of the Jammu encarcered.
31:0826 innocent civilians, including a Nepali national, were killed.
31:1227 innocent civilians, were shot after they were profiled based on the religious identity.
31:23The resistance front, which is a proxy of UN-designated terror group Laskare Toiva,
31:29claimed the responsibility for the attack.
31:32The pattern of the Pahlagam terror attack matches with ELIT's previous terror attacks in India.
31:39In exercising its right to defend against terrorism
31:44and pre-imp as well as data further cross-border terrorist attacks,
31:49India on 7th May 2025 successfully launched Operation Shindu
31:55to dismantle cross-border terrorist infrastructure.
31:59We reiterate the need to hold the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of
32:09reprehensible acts of terrorism, including cross-border terrorism, accountable and bring them to justice.
32:19Any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation,
32:27whenever, wherever and by whom so ever committed.
32:34Yeshua members must condemn this evil unequivocally.
32:39Pranay, coming back to you, you know, I would also want to understand this.
32:45There is a bilateral meeting that's also to take place between the Chinese counterpart and Rajnath Singh
32:52later at this very SCO summit, at the sidelines of this SCO summit.
32:56Would you say at this given point, with the kind of comments or the dilution,
33:02the attempts to dilute India's agenda against terrorism that we've already witnessed at the SCO summit so far,
33:09would you say that also comes up as an important point of discussion aside from Indochina relationship as well?
33:18No doubt about it, Shreya.
33:19Because we have our own concern as far as the Chinese policy in protecting Pakistan.
33:24We have heard that after, like we have seen, not heard, we have seen how China and Pakistan collaborated,
33:30they cooperated on the United Nations Security Council resolution against condemning the Pahalgam terror attack
33:38and how they tried stalling that resolution, which was brought by the United States post Pahalgam terror attack.
33:47So this clearly shows, and this was not the first instance,
33:49we have seen how the designation of Masood Azhar,
33:52how the designation of many other terror, you know, terror heads in the United Nations sanctions list
33:58was stalled by the Chinese side being the permanent member of the Security Council.
34:04And therefore, not only Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has raised this issue,
34:08he is likely to raise this issue in the bilateral meeting as well,
34:11because this becomes important for the regional security,
34:15this becomes important for the regional cooperation,
34:19if the SCO has to be taken into account.
34:21As far as the Charter of SCO is concerned, yes, it is there in it that the member state
34:26and the political differences cannot be, cannot stall the process.
34:31And that's why we made the point that we do not have any issue to share the dais,
34:36to attend the meeting where the Pakistani Defense Minister is also there.
34:39But the question of, there cannot be any question of diluting our core concern,
34:44which remains the terrorism.
34:45And you have heard Defense Minister Rajnath Singh clearly saying that,
34:49like, you know, how cross-border terrorism not only remains a core issue for India,
34:52because India has been a victim of terror attacks,
34:55and the duplicity of policy, like, you know, is shedding that duplicity of policy
35:00is very important as far as the regional cooperation is concerned.
35:03If China is serious in taking forward that regional cooperation,
35:06if the member states want this SCO to work in a more efficient way,
35:10then it is important to condemn the, and isolate as well,
35:14the perpetrators of terror attacks, those who finance it,
35:17those who harbor terror outfits.
35:19And that puts Pakistan in a dock, though he did not name Pakistan from the SCO forum in India.
35:26That is a kind of, like, you know, a courtesy.
35:30And as far as the protocol of SCO is concerned.
35:33But yes, he did mention about the Pahlkham terror attack.
35:36He mentioned about the TRF, because even during the United Nations Security Council's resolution,
35:43India tried bringing the name of TRF,
35:46and which could have probably led to the banning or the sanctioning of TRF as a terror outfit,
35:52though the process is still on in that regard.
35:55But India wanted that, and that process was stalled by the Pakistanis and Chinese,
36:01though, because Pakistan is also a member of United Nations Security Council currently,
36:05as a non-permanent member, and China remains a permanent member.
36:09So that's why this remains a core issue.
36:11We can, like, you know, get more details after that meeting happens,
36:15because the timing of Defence Minister Raj Nhat Singh's meeting with his Chinese counterpart is not confirmed as yet.
36:22So we are hoping to get more information on that.
36:24Absolutely, Pranay.
36:25Thank you so much for bringing us all those details.
36:27And yes, we will keep a close track as the day proceeds and the meetings continue at the SCO Summit.
36:33With that, viewers, we are now shifting our focus with more breaking news coming in.
36:38Now, news in from the state of Chhattisgarh, an anti-Naxal encounter breaks out in Chhattisgarh,
36:51where forces say that Naxals are in a gun battle with the forces there.
36:56First images of the Chhattisgarh encounter have also come to light as we bring that to you on your screens.
37:02Security personnel air dash to the encounter spot is what we are learning.
37:08Army chopper ferrying forces to the gun battle here in Chhattisgarh.
37:12These are the preliminary details that we are picking up on this very anti-Naxal encounter
37:17that has currently erupted in Chhattisgarh, in this very area of Chhattisgarh.
37:22First images having now come in.
37:25This is, in fact, to be more specific, Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh, from where these visuals are.
37:30The encounter spot happens to be Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh.
37:33Security personnel air dashed to the encounter spot.
37:36They are being brought in.
37:37The forces are being brought in helicopters, in choppers, to the very gun battle that we are currently seeing.
37:46These are the first details that we are, in fact, receiving from the Chhattisgarh-Naxal fight.
37:51They are still, as we are given to understand, the forces and the Naxalites there are still engaged in a gun battle.
37:58These are the visuals that are coming in.
38:00Remember, such encounter operations have come in, have surfaced from time to time at regular intervals in this very area,
38:09which still heavily has Naxal presence in Chhattisgarh, in the state of Chhattisgarh, that is.
38:15And currently, one such encounter that's broken out in Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh.
38:20We will, in fact, be bringing you more details as we keep a track of this very story.
38:25But right now, these are the preliminary details of the encounter that's erupted.
38:29With that, in fact, we have Summi Rajupan joining us on the broadcast to bring us more details.
38:37Summi, do help us understand at this given point, what more are we picking up from the ground of this very encounter
38:43that's continuing between the forces and the Naxals there?
38:45And again, many crucial things about Chhattisgarh, in fact, is known as state seven of all the Naxalites.
38:58In fact, this operation, which is Y式ther, Knight, is a joint operation by KSTN, CIT, CRPF and the central security forces as well.
39:08And in fact, two of the employees of two females have also been recovered and huge cash also has also been recovered in this.
39:17And in fact, remember that Amritsar has already given the security forces a deadline for past 2026.
39:23And he was recently, until a week back, taking crucial high-level security means in which a review was also done.
39:31And in fact, it is interesting how in these operations, constantly, there are dead bodies of female nuptials that are being eliminated and are being covered.
39:42Because the number of female nuptials have also got absent from these nuptials are already profitable.
39:47The female nuptials participation can be increased by each part of the day.
39:51And in fact, we need to see how the elimination of the CBI and the General Secretary Bhaskararaj have taken place.
39:57Again, this has motivated the security forces.
40:00And again, on the basis of the inputs of the presence of higher commandos and higher nuptials in these regions of Abuja-Bad,
40:08these dense forests and treacherous terrain of Abuja-Bad, the security forces are right now, in fact,
40:15implementing this particular very high, very important and significant operation at the moment.
40:21And in fact, what we are picking up is that the security forces are involved in the dead bodies of two female nuptials.
40:27However, it is still ongoing and more updates will follow.
40:31Right, Sami, thank you so much for bringing us all those details that we are picking up at this given point
40:36from this anti-nuptial encounter that is continuing in Narayanpur, Chhattasgarh.
40:40These are the first images on your screens, viewers, that we bring to you from the very encounter spot
40:46where the forces were brought in, in this helicopter.