April 2018 Activities of Hindutva Outfits Akhand Bharat Morcha 18-4- The Delhi police began investigating a motorbike rally organised by a Scroll.in 2018 Hindutva group called Akhand Bharat Morcha on April 1, ostensibly to mark Hanuman Jayanti. Several hundred of the group’s supporters had stopped by four mosques in East Delhi and, with the police watching, brandished swords and clubs, burst firecrackers, threw colour and raised saffron flags on the mosques, and shouted allegedly “threatening slogans” against the Muslim community. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Date News Source 6-4- Six shops belonging to Muslims burnt in Agastyamuni, Uttarakhand. National 2018 Members of rightwing groups including those belonging to ABVP Herald India targeted shops belonging to Muslims after false rumors spread that a Muslim youth had raped a minor girl in an Uttarakhand town. 11-4- ABVP protest at Sawai Maan Singh Stadium as Rajasthan Royals Financial 2018 remove student discount in IPL matches Express 11-4- ABVP members staged a protest at Delhi University's North Campus Millennium 2018 demanding suspension of Chemistry department's head who was post allegedly involved in sexual harassment of a teacher and a student. 12-4- Students associated with ABVP burnt the effigy of director of Indian Times of India 2018 Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R) over the institute’s decision to terminate services of 35 people appointed on ‘compassionate ground’ after the death of their kin CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH 2 April 2018 17-4- The Surat police has registered a case against three people for ‘spreading Ahmedabad 2018 false news’ by sharing a photo of the body of the 11-year-old girl, Mirror claiming that an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad linked person raped her. 18-4- Amid growing concerns that the Modi government is trying to pressure The Wire 2018 the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to “go soft” on cases related to Hindutva terror, it has been learnt that N. Harinath, the special prosecutor in the Mecca Masjid blast case was associated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. 21-4- Special public prosecutor N. Harinath who represented the National Deccan 2018 Investigation Agency in the Mecca Masjid blast case and is under a Chronicle cloud for his links with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has admitted that he was a member of the ABVP, the student’s wing of the BJP. 28-4- As JNUSU protested the screening of a movie on ‘love jihad ‘, ABVP National 2018 members allegedly damaged a car in which former JNUSU president Herald Mohit Pandey was travelling Bajrang Dal Date News Source 8-4- Three members of a WhatsApp group called Jai Shri Ram Bajrang Dal were Indian 2018 arrested from Dabra in Gwalior district for posting offensive comments Express against lower castes. Police have booked 19 people so far in connection with social media posts after violence during the April 2 protests by Dalits. 10-4- A fact-finding team’s report on the recent communal violence across Bihar The 2018 charged that these incidents in nine districts of the state were “not states spontaneous but pre-planned”, accusing the BJP and Bajrang Dal of man allegedly orchestrating them. 10-4- A case is filed against Bajrang Dar leader for attempting to disrupt the Deccan 2018 birthday Party of a student. Herald 14-4- Bajrang Dal leader arrested for moral policing during birthday party. Bhatk 2018 allys 24-4 After a Dalit youth converted to Islam for marriage in Shamli, Uttar Mumbai Pradesh, several Hindu groups including Bajrang Dal reached his residence mirror and forced him to do 'Ghar Wapsi' by becoming Hindu again. CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH 3 April 2018 Bharatiya Janata Party Date News Source 6-4- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah expressed the Business 2018 party's wish to remain in alliance with its estranged ally in Standard Maharashtra, Shiv Sena. 7-4- BJP has appropriated India’s bike culture and saffronised it as Men on Scroll in 2018 motorcycles have played a prominent role in recent communal clashes from Kasganj to Aurangabad. 8-4- BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh Gajraj Jatav arrested for inciting violence Business 2018 during the April 2 protests and strike, which left nine persons dead across Standard the country 8-4- With the elections to the state assembly announced, the Bharatiya Janata Deccan 2018 Party has gone into battle mode, roping in the Sangh Parivar, to help it Chronicle campaign and win as many seats as possible 8-4- An 18-year-old woman tried to immolate herself near Uttar Pradesh Chief Business 2018 Minister Yogi Adityanath's residence, after alleging that she had been Standard raped by a legislator of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 9-4- The police in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district arrested BJP MLA Outlook 2018 Shivaji Kardile for allegedly vandalising the office of the superintendent of India police. 10-4- BJP MLA Shivaji Kardile arrested in connection with double murder of Free Press 2018 Shiv Sena leaders Journal 11-4- Banwari Lal Singhal, BJP MLA from Alwar in Rajasthan says Hindu APN 2018 families shouldn’t let Muslims into their homes, accused them, Muslims of promoting love jihad 12-4- Banwari Lal Singhal, a BJP MLA from Alwar (Urban), in his latest The wire 2018 controversial statement during a community meeting in the city, charged Muslims of being criminals and urged Hindu families to not allow them inside their houses. 14-4- The Allahabad High Court directed the central agency to carry out the Hindustan 2018 investigation strictly in accordance with the law and consider filing an Times application for the cancellation of the bail granted to other accused in the CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH 4 April 2018 Unnao rape case. 15-4- Tension gripped Chirala town on as members of a minority community The Hindu 2018 ransacked the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party alleging that its supporters and some Sangh Parivar organisations unleashed an “anti- religious” campaign. 16-4- The posters prohibiting the entry of politicians and members of the DNA India 2018 Bharatiya Janata Party, which were put up by the residents of Allahabad's Shivkuti Colony outside their houses, were removed 17-4- BJP cadre vandalise Pavagada office over the possibility of veterans being The news 2018 denied tickets Minute 17-4- BJP leader Lal Singh, who had resigned from the state cabinet over the Economic 2018 Kathua rape and murder case, led a rally in support of CBI probe into the Times incident and called for the resignation of J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti for her "failure" to address the issue. 18-4- The verdict in the 11-year-old Mecca Masjid blast case by a National DailyO 2018 Investigation Agency court in Hyderabad on April 6, acquitting all five accused is on expected lines, though many have expressed outrage on social media. 18-4- Several took to the streets of London and chanted slogans against Indian GEO 2018 Prime Minister Narendar Modi as he arrived in United Kingdom for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to protest against the situation in occupied Kashmir, sexual abuse of women and violence against Dalits and religious minorities in India. 18-4- The CPI-M demanded that the National Investigation Agency file an appeal Vimo Cafe 2018 against the acquittal of the accused in the Mecca Masjid blast, which it termed as “latest mockery of justice”. 19-4- A BJP youth wing leader allegedly admitted on social media to burning NDTV 2018 down a Rohingya refugee camp in the Indian capital. 19-4- BJP leader claimed that internet was the ancient Indian invention. He Irish times 2018 further rejected the claims that internet is a western modern day invention 20-4- Unknown assailants opened fire at the residence of Bharatiya Janata Party ANI News 2018 leader Gaurav Chauhan in Meerut's Daurala. 20-4- The Bharatiya Janata Party plans to conduct a massive a campaign across Live Mint Andhra Pradesh to counter the charge that it is responsible for the state not CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC AND CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH 5 April 2018 2018 getting special category status. 20-4- BJP's Maya Kodnani cleared of charges in worst massacre in 2002 Gujarat NDTV 2018 riots. 20-4- The BJP in West Bengal is planning to rope in preacher Swami NDTV 2018 Aseemanand, who was acquitted in the Mecca Masjid blast case earlier this week, to strengthen its base in the state. 21-4- Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accused of snubbing British Dalits after The Hindu 2018 failing to visit Ambedkar House in London to unveil a statue of B.R. Ambedkar in the house’s garden. 21-4- The BJP in West Bengal is planning to rope in Hindutva preacher Swami The Hindu 2018 Aseemanand, who was acquitted in the Mecca Masjid blast case earlier this week, to strengthen its base. 21-4- BJP president Shwet Malik has alleged that there was a larger political Times of 2018 conspiracy to incite caste or section based clashes to polarize voters before India the next year Lok Sabha elections. 21-4- An Indian court acquitted an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who Dawn 2018 was the most senior figure convicted over the deadly 2002 Gujarat religious riots. 23-4- BJP leader Hari Manjhi's son arrested for violating prohibition in Bihar. First Post 2018 23-4- Indian activist and writer Amrit Wilson has said the rape culture under Geo 2018 Narendra Modi’s government is celebrated by ministers and activists of the extremist Bharati Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.