September, 2018

Activities of Outfits

Bajrang Dal Date News Source 03-09- 42 priests from a seminary in Madhya Pradesh were assaulted by Bajrang 2018 Dal workers last December and then humiliated by police. Scroll.in

Bharatiya Janata Party

Date News Source

04- Ruling (BJP) MLA Ram Kadam from ’s 09- Ghatkopar west constituency landed in a controversy on Monday night The Hindu 2018 after he allegedly promised young men attending his dahi handi celebration that he would kidnap the girl they liked, even if she said no to the proposal of marriage.

13- Former Tripura CM Manik Sarkar accuses BJP for rising violence in The New 09- state. Sarkar alleged that both BJP and IPFT have been destroying Indian 2018 democratic ambiance by resorting to violence. Express

21- The Trinamool Congress blamed the RSS and BJP for the clash between NDTV 09- students and the police in Islampur district of West Bengal. The ruling

2018 party also vowed to strongly oppose the shutdown called by the BJP against the violence.

24- The systematic attack on academia reflects the anti-intellectualism of the DAWN 09- saffron right wing 2018

24- The BJP has hit out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over the latter ZeeNews 09- offering prayers at a temple of lord Shiva in Amethi. 2018

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September, 2018

25-09- Prime Minister has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize The 2018 2019 by BJP Tamil Nadu president Tamilisai Soundarajan. Economic Times

26-09- Confronted by the bandh call to protest the alleged police firing in The 2018 Islampur that killed two youths, the state government has drawn up Hindustan elaborate plans to marshal its resources to foil the plan Times BJP workers clashed with Trinamool activists and fought pitched battles 26-09- with police at some places during the shutdown, which the saffron party Times of 2018 claimed was a success due to "people’s support’. India

Hindu Yuva Vahini Date News Source

03-09- Vigilantes in UP Thrash 70-Year-Old Man Taking His Cow to the Vet. The 2018 According to the Telegraph, all four have been linked by police sources to Wire the Hindu Yuva Vahini, which was founded by Chief Minister Yogiadityanath a decade ago when he was an MP.

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September, 2018

Ma Ba Tha

Date News Source The Buddha Dhamma Charity Foundation, formerly called the 03- Association for Protection of Race and Religion, which was better known The 09- by its Burmese acronym Ma Ba Tha, will fade away without government Irrawaddy 2018 intervention, said Union religious affairs minister U Aung Ko, reaffirming its illegitimacy.

Rashtriya Janata Dal

Date News Source The RJD accused NDA government of "masterminding" recent nationwide 11-09- protests against amendment to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and 2018 otherwise Backward Classes to fulfill the RSS agenda of reinforcing the Varna News System. 18

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

04-09-2018 RSS is wooing Bollywood with an event aimed at 'tutoring' them Huffington on its ideology. An RSS-backed organization is holding a seminar Post in Mumbai to discuss Kumbh with Bollywood stars.

16-09-2018 Violence marred the Jawaharlal Nehru University students' union The Week polls, as the RSS-affiliated ABVP and the left parties accused India each other of fomenting trouble.

17-09-2018 The CPI (M) district committee has accused RSS workers of The Hindu issuing a death threat to DYFI leader Navaneeth by placing a wreath in front of his house in Prassala

19-09-2018 RSS chief pitches for cow protection, The disapproves violence Hindustan Times

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19-09-2018 The Communist Party of India (Marxist) alleged that the The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh continues to be a violent and Deccan obscurantist organisation opposed to the tenets of the Herald Constitution.

19-09-2018 In the midst of a raging controversy over lynchings by cow The Free vigilantes, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that there were Express “double standards” over violence in the name of cow. Journal

20-09-2018 Violence in the name of Gau raksha completely unacceptable: Zee News Mohan Bhagwat; RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said violence is completely unacceptable and strict action should be taken

21-09-2018 The Trinamool Congress blamed the RSS and BJP for the clash between students and the police in Islampur district of West Bengal. The NDTV ruling party also vowed to strongly oppose the shutdown called by the BJP against the violence.

24-09-2018 The snarer of RSS is out on the spree to catch. Meri News

Vishwa Hindu Parishad Date News Source 05-09- The VHP has released pamphlets to spread awareness against 'love Timesnow News 2018 jehad' among Hindu girls in West Bengal.

25-09- The woman and her Muslim friend, both medical students in their 2018 twenties, were targeted by a group of men, allegedly from the Express Tribune right-wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).

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September, 2018

Individual Case(s)

Date News Source

03-09- Hindu extremists Vaibhav Raut and Sudhanva Gondhalekar have told the 2018 anti-terror police that they aborted their plan to bomb Sunburn Festival in India.com Pune last year owing to the extensive CCTV surveillance there

Multiple Hindu Outfits Date News Source 04- Malegaon blast 2008: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has The Indian 09- claimed that the men associated with Hindutva groups and arrested on Express 2018 terror charges were using a “lost” SIM card as a secret number to ensure that their locations could not be traced.. 05- Bhavesh Patel - one of the two men sentenced to life imprisonment for The 09- alleged involvement in the 2007 Ajmer dargah blast, returned home to Financial 2018 Bharuch on September 3 and was given a grand welcome by the Express crowd which included office bearers from BJP and VHP.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and Bharatiya Hindu Sena activists beat up and tore the clothes of two Christian priests in Uttar Telegraph 10-09- Pradesh on Saturday evening, alleging they were trying to convert India 2018 Hindus.

20-09- The Trinamool Congress blamed the RSS and BJP for the clash 2018 between students and the police in Islampur district of West Bengal. NDTV The ruling party also vowed to strongly oppose the shutdown called by the BJP against the violence.

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