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At a time when historical revisionists want to portray Mohammed Ali Jinnah as a ‘tolerant, secular individual’ who envisioned a Pakistan-for-all, the signs of religious bigotry were visible from the very start. One of the immediate aftermaths of the Partition of India was the sidelining of non-Muslims who contributed to the Pakistani cause. They were misled by Jinnah into believing that a society, based on the principles of ‘Islamic equality’, was waiting for them.

25 Farmer Unions out of 32 which had participated in the farmers’ protests as part of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) have decided to contest the upcoming elections in Punjab, according to reports. The Farmer Unions are most likely to forge an alliance with the Aam Aadmi property. The farmer unions joining politics are expected to make a formal announcement on Saturday.

The education department of Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh has slapped a notice to a private school of the district for asking the full name of Bollywood couple Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan in a question paper for the student of Class 6. The notice was served on the school after there was a massive outrage among parents and on social media after the question pater appeared, where the name of the celebrity kid was asked in the Current Affairs section of the question paper.

Ahead of the Goa Legislative Assembly polls that are scheduled to take place next year, Mamata Banerjee suffered a huge setback after 5 Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders deserted the party citing vote bank politics.

In one of her latest interviews, Indian television actress Urfi Javed has spoken at length about her take on Islam. Speaking to the media, the Bigg Boss OTT fame actress said that she does not believe in Islam and will never marry a Muslim man.

By now, it is very well known that Jawaharlal Nehru, Bharat’s first Prime Minister (PM) harbored a deep hatred for Hindu Dharma. Nehru made no bones about the fact that Hindu temples repelled him while he considered the Taj Mahal to be a “delight to the eye and spirit”.

On the 24th of December, one Meer Faisal, multimedia journalist with Islamist outfit Maktoob Media, took to Twitter to post a host of videos about a Bajrang Dal rally in Mewat to fear monger about Hindus outfits trying to create a “communal divide” between Hindus and Muslims of the area. After the videos, he shared an article of Maktoob Media that essentially said that Muslims of Mewat, popularly known as Mini Pakistan because of the rapes, abductions, Jihadi violence and forced conversions of Hindu women, were living in eternal fear of Hindu outfits.

Contemporary politics is highly polarised. Ours is the age of binaries and divisions of convenience. The Right-Left binary that originated in the times of the French Revolution when liberal deputies of the Third Estate would generally sit to the left of the presiding officer’s chair while the nobility (the Second Estate) would sit to the right, in a custom that began in the Estates General in 1789, has become the premise of delineating party politics and ideology the world over.

Jan Ki Baat has released the results of its latest survey ahead of the crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, scheduled in the month of February to March 2022, predicting the return of Yogi Adityanath as the CM of the state.