US, EU, and Britain spent tens of millions of {dollars} to defame Modi and Hindu faith by interfering in India’s Lok Sabha Elections 2024

Focusing on India’s Lok Sabha Elections 2024, the US, Britain and European Union started well-orchestrated propaganda alongside handing over tens of millions of {dollars} to a specific political get together with the goal of defeating Bharatiya Janata Get together (BNP) and establishing their unique dominance by putting in their loyal components in energy. Such actions started nearly 5 years earlier than the election schedule, whereas a lot of anti-BJP media retailers joined palms on this conspiracy in alternate for hefty quantities of money.

In French media, agenda-based articles, stories and analyses have been revealed with unusually excessive curiosity concentrating on Indian elections. A plethora of articles have been revealed in dozens of newspapers and media retailers, together with Le Monde, Le Soir, La Croix (Worldwide), Le Temps, Reporterre, and Radio France Internationale (RFI) to form a story and in flip, tamper with opinion-shaping on Indian elections – principally with the goal of defaming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demonizing Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) and projecting Rahul Gandhi and Indian Nationwide Congress (INC) as savior of the democracy. Most annoying truth is – all of these media retailers competed in branding Narendra Modi as “dictator” and making claims of India being dominated by an “authoritarian regime”.

The Disinformation Lab, a analysis group has documented among the outstanding newspapers and media retailers desperately pushing their very own narratives and agenda with the goal of deceptive worldwide neighborhood in addition to voters in India. This time, surprisingly, French media retailers, together with France’s oldest, influential and broadly circulated newspaper – Le Monde has additionally joined this anti-BJP and anti-Modi propaganda mission.

In response to The Disinformation Lab, French newspaper Le Monde alone revealed enormous quantity of articles with unfair narratives revolving round manufactured themes starting from rising ‘Islamophobia in India’ to ‘undemocratic nature’ of India, to ‘stigmatization of Muslims’ to ‘rising authoritarianism’.

All of such agenda-based propaganda have been manufactured by intelligence businesses in the US – a rustic which boasts of being the “democratic heaven” regardless of the very fact, a political opponent of the sitting president is being wrongly convicted on trump-up prices. Equally, spy businesses in the UK have additionally performed a big position in manufacturing, distributing and publishing propaganda supplies concentrating on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP).

In France, anti-Modi and anti-BJP propaganda contents and even interviews have been revealed creating narratives and micro-narratives on the Indian Lok Sabha elections, which was led by a French political scientist and Indologist named Christophe Jaffrelot, who additionally is named ‘CJ’.

Narratives and micro-narrative unfold by Christophe Jaffrelot have been backed by enormous quantities of money from the US, UK and EU nations, whereas it is also rumored that CJ was having fun with patronization from China. Every of his contents have been enthusiastically revealed by the French media, as a result of these have been “valued-added contents”. As CJ performed a number one position on this propaganda in France that he was being ceaselessly quoted not simply by French media portals, but in addition by Indian media retailers together with – The Indian Categorical, The Wire and different leftist and pseudo-Islamist propaganda machines. All the worldwide and Indian media retailers portrayed Christophe Jaffrelot as a political commentator and skilled on Indian elections.

The vicious net of anti-India forces

Christophe Jaffrelot and a band of anti-India propagandists closely promoted – Caste and Caste census. George Soros and some extra infamous people have spent tens of millions of {dollars} in selling the “Caste and Caste census” whereas, one of many entities which has been main this agenda is – Equality Labs, promoted by Jamaat-e-Islami and anti-India lobbying teams.

In response to data, Equality Labs, which claims to be a progressive group to fight caste discrimination, was based by a Dalit techie and activist named Thenmonzhi Soundararajan, born and introduced up in the US. Whereas this group has been working since 2016, it was registered solely in 2022 as Equality Labs LLC., in Delaware (March 2022, registration quantity 202251715748) and in California in July 2022. Founding father of Equality Labs, Thenmonzhi Soundararajan was working on grants from Open Society Institute – a company funded by George Soros.

It could be talked about right here that Equality Labs has members with questionable backgrounds and affiliations, which embody Sharmin Hossain, a Bangladeshi American who served because the Political Director of the group. Sharmin is the daughter of Mohamed Hossain, a Bangladesh nationwide and a former socialist pupil organizer with Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD). She is also the 2015 Open Society Youth Change Fellow underneath which she based the Bangladeshi Historic Reminiscence Venture.

One other key determine in Equality Labs is Aruna Lohitakshi Sanghapali – who additionally is named Sanghapali Aruna Kornana, is an anti-caste activist and Govt Director of Venture Mukti. She has been one of many key individuals who organized

a placard holding with the previous Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and former common counsel and the top of authorized, coverage, and belief at Twitter, Vijaya Gadde for selling ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’ and ‘Finish Caste Apartheid’ posters in 2018.

Equality Labs one other cofounder is Maari Zwick Maitreyi also referred to as Valli Karunakaran. She is also the Director and Govt Editor of the US-based information portal, TwoCircles.internet which is a necessary a part of the US-based Jamaat and anti-India lobbying nexus together with Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA).

Two extra outstanding figures within the Equality Labs are – Huma Dar, Pakistani origin provocateur of Khalistan-Kashmir agenda and Natasha Dar, granddaughter of Pakistani military Colonel Bashiruddin, who actively took half in genocide throughout 1971 struggle of independence of Bangladesh. Underneath the direct command of Bashiruddin, Hindus have been brutally murdered, their houses set on hearth and Hindu women and females raped.

Huma Dar holds a BA and MA from Stanford College and has labored because the Worldwide Advocacy Officer at Musawah International Imaginative and prescient, a world motion for equality and justice within the Muslim household. She has been a key protagonist of the Kashmir-Khalistan desk conceived by Pakistani spy company Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) and a vital supporter of Pakistan and Jamaat-e-Islami’s operations in the US. On June 11, 2017, Huma Dar attended a rally of Khalistanis in San Francisco. She was named as an skilled in an group named Stand with Kashmir, which is funded by Pakistani ISI.

In 2019, Dar started calling for the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Motion in opposition to India, which is collectively sponsored by Muslim Brotherhood and Pakistani ISI.

In 2022, Nalin Mehta, (political scientist, journalist, and author) deconstructed the report and highlighted the factors that present obvious proof of how a twisted model of the bottom actuality has been introduced on the subject by them.

From churning out improper information to misinterpretation and misrepresentation of castes to producing deceptive information, Mehta factors out how the report raises skepticism over such supposedly educational analysis. Mehta accuses them of selective reporting to swimsuit a specific narrative of the ruling get together selling the higher caste, and when introduced with information opposite to their declare, (of Members of Parliament) the dup declares that the variety of MPs doesn’t matter. This even supposing Jaffrelot and Verniers have revealed complete peer-reviewed articles in world educational journals to make the declare of upper-caste dominance rising in BJP buildings, basically primarily based solely on information factors and charts from the identical analysis on MPs alone.

In response to Disinformation Labs, whereas their report is deconstructed on a number of counts, the funniest half is their basic misunderstanding of the Indian caste construction (for which as foreigners they’ll’t be blamed a lot). They mischaracterized the castes of their report. And but, they felt entitled sufficient to prescribe what ought to be carried out on caste points in India. And he will get ample media house to hold forth. Nevertheless, his narrative doesn’t come solely from ignorance however is a part of deliberate propaganda, as seen in his argument of ‘non-dominant’ OBCs. The Duo dilutes the ruling get together’s efforts to achieve out to different non-dominant OBCs, which ought to be thought-about probably the most significant engagements if the general goal is empowering all sections of society with participation. To not acknowledge, not to mention respect this, smells of inherent bias if not deliberate manipulation.

Musawah International Imaginative and prescient receives funds from a number of “philanthropic” organizations together with Ford Basis and Open Society Basis.

In 2021 Christophe Jaffrelot revealed a analysis report on the necessity for a caste census in India, and subsequently wrote articles in Indian media. And surprisingly, in a rustic of 1.4 billion, he single-handedly managed to place this subject into public discourse, which was additionally helped by election season. This was a exceptional feat by any academician. His caste census narrative was surprisingly timed with a fund from a US-based ‘philanthropic basis’ – Henry Luce Basis (HLF). CJ had acquired HLF funding for 3 years in 2021 – three years, ending in 2024. Once more, many different fronts and organizations had acquired related funding from HLF – all in 2020/21, all for 3 years – all specializing in India with a set of predefined narratives.

Jaffrelot was talked about and re-mentioned in hundreds of tweets between 2016 and Might 2024, totaling the quantity at 23,449. Key matters of those tweets have been – Elections and Voting in India, Caste Points in India, Muslims and Faith, Modi/BJP, and India-Pakistan Relations.

Different funders or cohorts of anti-India and anti-Modi propaganda rant are Henry Luce Basis, Council on International Relations (CFR), Middle for Strategic and Worldwide Research, Asia Basis (established by CIA), Berkeley Middle for Faith, Peace and World Affairs (BCRPWA), Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace (CEIP) etcetera.

Srishti Jaiswal can be a member of the Digital Witness Lab (DWL) which is housed contained in the Princeton College and has written for The Caravan journal, Hindustan Instances, Newslaundry, Vice World Information, and Al Jazeera amongst others. In June 2020, Srishti was caught making Hinduphobic statements on the microblogging platform ‘X’ (previously Twitter). Following the incident, Srishti’s then-employer, Hindustan Instances (HT) confirmed on X that it had suspended her over the feedback she made through her X account.

In March 2020, Human Rights Watch (HRW) acquired US$ 300,000 from Henry Luce Basis (HLF), for ‘Renewed help for analysis about and documentation of spiritual intolerance and violence in three international locations in Asia’. Of these three Asian international locations, it was neither specified by HLF nor HRW. Nevertheless, because the saying goes, the satan lies within the particulars. The URL of the grant-making hyperlink gave away the names of these international locations, namely- Myanmar, Indonesia, and India.

The HRW has revealed stories in 2023, which have been extremely crucial of human rights points in India for years. Whereas HRW publishes annual stories for international locations, it’s supported by grants from the Ford Basis, and over US$ 6.4 million from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) since 2016. HRW has been a recipient of Henry Luce Basis funding since 1992, and in 2020, it acquired a US$ 300,000 grant from the muse to doc non secular intolerance and violence in three Asian international locations, together with India. Taking that into consideration, HRW’s stories have been discovered to be publishing stories crucial of India, on pretexts of COVID-19 influence in India, Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, plights of Dalits, Tribal Teams & Spiritual Minorities Clampdown on Civil Societies, and even the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA).

Meenakshi Ganguly, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), Asia Division, who earlier labored because the correspondent for Time Journal and likewise labored for the Press Belief of India, is linked to PCRes-CRG which has organized a number of occasions/webinars on topics together with violence in Nuh (Haryana), Islamophobia, and violence in Manipur, Casteline, Hindu Nationalism, and Indian elections 2024.

One of many newest inclusions in PCRes is Raqib Hameed Naid, the founding father of the banned web site ‘Hindutva Watch’. In January 2024, this web site was banned in India for violating the Data Know-how Act of 2000. Naik has been serving as a key determine in main the narratives of Islamophobia and even the caste rhetoric, as evidenced by his articles on Al Jazeera. It could be talked about right here that, for the previous a number of years, Al Jazeera English has additionally been working vile propaganda concentrating on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and ruling Awami League.

The makes an attempt to re-legitimize Raqib and his two tasks Hindutva Watch and India Hate Lab (IHL) have been happening, each domestically and internationally. Not stunning that IHL has been proactive months forward of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

The portal revealed two stories, purportedly documenting hate speeches in opposition to Muslims in India, fanning the narrative of Islamophobia. These stories have been the premise of a number of articles by nationwide and worldwide media to focus on the rhetoric of Islamophobia in India, particularly in the course of the run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

Following the suspension of each his portals in India, a New Delhi-based Web Freedom Basis (IFF) is now representing Raqib to problem the ban on his portals. Not surprisingly, the people engaged with IFF in Raqib’s case have additionally been a part of the identical nexus – Soros and Thakur Basis.

Most lately, India Hate Lab’s report was promoted by one Washington DC-based ‘Harmful Speech Venture’, which rated India as a ‘violent Islamophobic’ nation forward of the overall elections by citing the IHL report. As per its web site, it receives its operational funding solely from personal foundations, together with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Basis, the Ford Basis, and the Open Society Foundations.

Shaped in July 2021, the South Asia Scholar Activist Collective (SASAC) describes itself as a bunch of students, activists, and college students of South Asian research and adjoining fields primarily based in North America. The group claims to sort out and struggle what it states as Hindutva ideology, in any other case often called Hindu nationalism. After its formation, SASAC established its social media primarily on Fb on July 17, 2021.

In Might 2023, SASAC member Dheepa Sundaram was granted as much as USD 5000 for the mission, “Hindutva Defined: Creating public-facing digital supplies for instructing about Hindu Nationalism.

Consequently, in February 2024, SASAC revealed a report titled, “Reporting Information on Hindu Nationalism” co-authored by Manan Ahmed, Ananya Chakravarti, Ken Chitwood, Rohit Chopra, Dheepa Sundaram, and Audrey Truschke. 134 The report is predicated on sources and stories together with Freedom Home Reviews, Hindutva Watch, Amnesty Worldwide’s India report, EU Disinfolab’s EU Chronicles report, and Equality Labs’s Caste survey report. Price noting that Freedom Home, Hindutva Watch, and Equality Labs – all have been repeatedly uncovered for fabrication and propaganda.

The group additionally supported Seattle’s Proposed Ordinance to ban caste discrimination, and the group additionally supported Equality Labs’ marketing campaign on caste within the US, primarily based on a single rigged Caste survey revealed in 2018 (and duly funded by philanthropic fronts like Open Society Foundations, Luminate Group, New Media Ventures, and Ford Basis).

The important thing members of SASAC are:

Manan Ahmed, Columbia College; Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown College; Rohit Chopra, Santa Clara College; Purnima Dhavan, College of Washington; Supriya Gandhi, Yale College; Simran Jeet Singh, Aspen Institute; Davesh Soneji, College of Pennsylvania; Dheepa Sundaram, College of Denver; and Audrey Truschke, Rutgers College-Newark.

In March 2023, a brand new area named Pals of Democracy was registered and the portal was dwell within the subsequent months. Primarily based in New York, Pals of Democracy claims to struggle in opposition to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) of India to ‘save’ the Indian democracy, calling India a rustic whose democracy is hanging on a ‘thread’ because of massive techs and Hindu ‘extremism’.

After its formation, SASAC established its social media primarily on Fb on July 17, 2021. SASAC can be behind the initiative Hindutva Harassment Area Guide. Up to now, SASAC has been one of many key forces behind quite a few tasks within the US together with supporting the Dismantling International Hindutva (DGH) occasion, to indicate help for implementing caste within the US college anti-discrimination insurance policies.

On September 5, 2023, Pals of Democracy (FoD) revealed a weblog titled, ‘India spent US$61.2 billion on Russian fossil fuels for the reason that begin of the Ukraine struggle’. The admin of the article was Respublica.

Whereas the elections have been underway in India, on Might 6, 2024, Pals of Democracy sponsored a report titled, “The Modi Mirage: New research signifies decline in India’s world status underneath BJP”. The report has been curated and co-authored by Professor Irfan Nooruddin from Georgetown College, US, Dr Subir Sinha from London College’s Faculty of Oriental and African Research, UK, and Dr Ritumbra Manuvie from Groningen College, The Netherlands. “Modi Mirage” depends on a synthesis of current analysis by the Pew Analysis Middle within the US, V-Dem, Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace in Washington, Canadian consultancy GlobeScan, US ballot agency GQY, and UK’s YouGov.

Widespread objectives of all of those people and organizations have been spreading lies concentrating on Hindu nationalists, Hindu faith, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP). As a result of, key-policymakers within the West imagine – till BJP is in energy, India shall stay a robust nation and proceed its progress and prosperity. The results of Lok Sabha 2024 elections has been a grand victory for the enemies of India.