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A Special Terrorism And Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (<keyword id="6446612" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="TADA">TADA</keyword>) Court has found deported mafia don <keyword id="29205" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="abu-salem">Abu Salem</keyword> guilty in the March 1993 Mumbai serials blasts which claimed 257 lives. <keyword id="6357470" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Salem">Salem</keyword>, who was extradited from <keyword id="6359079" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Portugal">Portugal</keyword> in 2005, was charged with supplying the arms and ammunition, including the deadly RDX, which were used in the blasts. Besides Salem, four others have also been found guilty under various charges in the same case, as the <keyword id="121350" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="special-court">Special Court</keyword> delivers its verdict on Friday. Mustafa Dossa, Abu Salem, Feroz Abdul Rashid Khan, Taher Merchant, Riyaz Siddiqui, Abdul Qayyum Shaikh and <keyword id="1238651" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Karimullah-Khan">Karimullah Khan</keyword> face multiple charges including criminal conspiracy, waging war against the Government of India and murder under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA).

Abu Salem and 4 others convicted in 1993 Mumbai blast case that killed 257; sentence awaited

India won’t let <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=1993+Mumbai+blasts">1993 Mumbai blasts</a> accused <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Dawood+Ibrahim+">Dawood Ibrahim</a> to rest in peace. The country will use all means at its disposal to nab the fugitive gangster, who has been based in <keyword id="3001" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Pakistan">Pakistan</keyword> for several years. 
 
In an interview, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Minister+of+state+for+Information+and+Broadcasting+">Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore</a> said all means — "saam, daam, dand, bhed" (all options from force to stealth) would be used to counter India's enemies.” 
 "India's enemies should not rest in peace. They should know every moment the <keyword id="6360789" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Modi-Government">Modi government</keyword> is thinking of ways of acting against them," Rathore said. 
 
On being asked whether the government would use covert tactics or special operations, Rathore said: "These things are not discussed on TV. Once the action has been taken then you will get to know about it." 
 
He added that the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Modi+government+">Modi government</a> would not keep exchanging dossiers with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Pakistan+">Pakistan</a> on Dawood. "This government is committed to doing what it takes to act against India's enemies," he said. 
 The Bombay bombings were a series of 13 bomb explosions that happened on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in over 350 fatalities and 1,200 injuries. It was coordinated by <keyword id="6357714" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dawood-Ibrahim">Dawood Ibrahim</keyword>, don of the Mumbai-based international organised crime syndicate named D-Company. 
 
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Indian government wants Dawood Ibrahim at any cost!

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a>, who was hanged in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=nagpur+jail">Nagpur jail</a> on Thursday, was buried alongside his father’s tomb. 
 
His body was handed over to his family members in Mumbai. 
 
Memon, 1993 <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=mumbai+blasts">Mumbai blasts</a> convict, was hanged at 6.35 am after the Supreme Court dismissed his curative petition and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=pranab+mukherjee">President Pranab Mukherjee</a> rejected his mercy petition on July 29. 
 
Hours before his hanging, Memon offered namaz and read the holy Quran and was provided with a fresh set of clothes. 
 
Nagpur’s Chief judicial magistrate M M Deshpande was present and she read out the operating part of the TADA court order which awarded capital punishment to Memon before he was made to stand on a stool and the lever pulled by the hangman. 
 
A team of doctors declared him dead and a post-mortem was conducted by a team from a Nagpur hospital. 
 
Ironically, Memon, who was a chartered accountant by profession, was hanged on his birthday. He turned 53 today. 
 
He had reacted with an angry outburst saying "innocent people are being called terrorists" when a TADA court here had pronounced him guilty on September 12, 2006. 
 
After hearing the verdict, he had said, "We do not want to engage lawyers to argue on quantum of sentence...13 years have passed and innocent people are being called terrorists." 
 
Blasts in Mumbai, then known as Bombay, in 1993 had killed 257 people and Memon was convicted as the "driving spirit" behind the serial blasts in India's financial capital. 
 
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Yakub Memon buried with Islamic rites

Just as the clock struck 12, <keyword id="383370" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Yakub-Memon">Yakub Memon</keyword>’s family sent him a cake by a jail authority. On July 30, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/BREAKING-NEWS-YAKUB-MEMON-HANGED/articleshow/48275886.cms">Yakub Memon</a> turned 53. 
Few people suffer the state of being hanged to death on the same day as he was born. Yakub Memon, one of the key accused in the 1993 serial <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/10-worst-terrorist-attacks-to-rock-India/articleshow/48237865.cms">Mumbai</a> blast case was hanged to death a little before 7 am at the <keyword id="4072" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nagpur">Nagpur</keyword> jail today. 
 
 
Yakub met his relatives on July 29 where he is said to have cried seeking forgiveness from his family. A moist eyed Yakub even bid farewell to his jailmates refusing the ceremonial health check-up meted out to a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Top-5-most-wanted-terrorists-in-India-that-still-roam-free/articleshow/48100097.cms">convict</a> who will be <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-worlds-mostinfamous-terrorists-and-the-ends-they-met/articleshow/48172442.cms">hanged</a>. 
 
 
A few weeks ago when Yakub met his daughter at Hawaii, he apparently told them that he was ready to meet his fate. He also told them that if he ever walked free his first wish as a free man would be to build a school. Yakub Memon ‘s fate at the galore was sealed for the last time at 5 am this morning when the Supreme Court, after an unprecedented 90-minute long hearing that began at 3 am, rejected his final mercy plea. 

	 
	 
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Yakub Memon: Hanged on the day he was born

The Indian government has advised President Pranab Mukherjee to reject Mumbai serial blasts convict <keyword id="383370" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Yakub-Memon">Yakub Memon</keyword>’s mercy petition. 
 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Secretary L C Goyal and a few other top official gathered at the PM’s residence, and came to the conclusion that the president should reject Memon’s plea. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a>, 1993 Mumbai blasts convict, is set be hanged after the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> on Wednesday rejected his curative petition and dismissed all the contention raised by him. 
 Special Public Prosecutor <keyword id="73359" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ujjwal-Nikam">Ujjwal Nikam</keyword> informed that the apex court said that the curative petition was rightly dismissed. 
 
“SC has clearly held that death warrant issued to Yakub is legal and valid,” said Nikam. 
 
Memon will be hanged on July 30 at 7am at Nagpur jail. He had filed mercy petitions with with Maharashtra Governor and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=pranab+mukherjee">President Pranab Mukherjee</a> also. 
 
However, Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao also rejected his mercy petition. Now, all eyes are set on Mukherjee, whose final decision would be binding. 
 
“There is no hurdle in the way of execution now,” said senior lawyer, KTS Tulsi. 
 
Memon had claimed he was suffering from schizophrenia since 1996 and has remained behind bars for nearly 20 years. 
 
He sought commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment. 
 
A series of blasts had rocked Mumbai on March 12, 1993, leaving 257 dead and over 700 injured. 
 
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Government advises President to reject Yakub Memon's plea

Ahead of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=independence+day">Independence Day</a>, the government has issued a detailed advisory, directing states and Union Territories to beef up the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=security">security</a>. 
 
The seven-page advisory, which is little different from every year, has details keeping in mind the execution of Mumbai blasts convict <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a>, who was hanged on July 30. 
 
The government has mentioned the possibility of attacks by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Pakistan+terror+groups">Pakistan-sponsored terror groups</a>. 
 
It states specific security threats including a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=lashkar">Lashker-e-Taiba</a> (LeT plan to hijack or blow up an Air India flight on the Kabul-Delhi-Kabul sector and <keyword id="44984" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</keyword>'s designs to hit Indian naval facilities including the Karwar <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=india+navy">naval base</a> (INS Kadamba), the Southern Naval Command in Kochi (INS Venduruthy) and Mumbai-based Western Naval Command. 
 "<keyword id="28240" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Independence-day">Independence Day</keyword> function ... provides an attractive target for various militant, terrorist outfits ... and rabid communal elements due to high publicity value and concentrated presence of dignitaries," the advisory stated. 
 
Security has been beefed up at <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=BJP">BJP</a> offices, commercial, aviation, tourist and railway facilities, as the advisory highlighted al-Qaida's plans to target these places. 
 
The Independence Day alert cites the continuous flow of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=intelligence+input">intelligence inputs</a> regarding specific threat of terror attacks by LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and even <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=al+qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>. 
 
It points out a LeT plot to target Mumbai or Gujarat around September or October, while a March alert speaks of possible fidayeen attacks in Delhi and J&amp;K. 
 
In view of the terror threats, the security agencies have asked the forces and state police to maintain "strict access control and anti-sabotage checks" besides intensifying patrolling and keeping strict vigil at railway stations and tracks, bus stands, airports and entry points. 
 
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Independence Day security: Hawk eye on Air India flights, naval bases

The proposed National Security Advisor-level talks between India and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Gurdaspurstrike-Militants-may-have-sneaked-in-from-Pakistan/articleshow/48239615.cms">Pakistan</a> later this month is likely to be dominated by talks of Gurdaspur terror attacks. India will submit to Pakistan evidence that the three terrorists who carried out <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Gurdaspur-terror-attack-Operation-over-all-terrorists-killed/articleshow/48238586.cms">attacks</a> in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Top-security-officials-fear-more-Gurdaspur-like-terror-attempts/articleshow/48250531.cms">Gurdaspur</a> had come from across the border. 
 
Sources privy to the development told PTI that the Indian side could also bring up <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/10-worst-terrorist-attacks-to-rock-India/articleshow/48237865.cms">terror cases</a> related to wanted gangster and mastermind of 1993 Mumbai blasts <keyword id="6357714" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dawood-Ibrahim">Dawood Ibrahim</keyword> during the meeting, which was agreed to at the meeting Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> and his Pakistani counterpart <keyword id="6576" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nawaz-Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</keyword> in <keyword id="271311" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ufa">Ufa</keyword> in Russia last month. 
 
"Everything will be on table. The agencies are collecting evidence in the case of the Gurdaspur terror attack. The soil samples found in the boots of the three killed terrorists have been sent for investigation," they said. 
 
Sources added the evidence in connection with the Gurdaspur attack is still being collected and collated by the agencies to prepare "solid proof" to prove the cross-border conspiracy that killed seven persons--three civilians, Superintendent of Police (Detective), Baljit Singh, a Punjab provincial service officer and three home guards. 
 They said a dossier will also be prepared and handed over to the other side during the meeting, like the Indian case against 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind and <keyword id="41305" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="LeT">LeT</keyword> commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi who is now out on bail. 
 Similar proof against terror mastermind <keyword id="44106" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Hafiz-Saeed">Hafiz Saeed</keyword>, who India has time and again said has been roaming freely in the neighbouring country, will be shared with Pakistan across the table, they said. 
 
They said all other matters pertaining to cross-border terror cases would be brought on the table, backed by "water-tight" evidence. 
 
The sources, however, said a firm proposal and agenda for the talks, proposed by India between August 23-24, has not been prepared. 
 
Despite the two Premiers agreeing to re-start talks on bilateral issues during their meeting in Ufa, the recent Gurdaspur terror attack and a spate of ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the border has escalated tension between the two countries. 
 
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Gurdaspur
terror attacks to be discussed in Indo-Pak NSA talks later this month

Mehjabeen Shaikh, Dawood Ibrahim's wife, inadvertantly let slip to an Indian TV channel that the gangster was indeed living in <keyword id="6587" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="karachi">Karachi</keyword>, peacefully though the Pakistani government had repeatedly denied reports of sheltering him 

	This is the conversation that the Times Now channel played out.
 

	"Am I speaking to Mehjabeen Sheikh?" the reporter asked.
 

	"Yes", the woman confirmed.
 

	"Are you talking from Karachi?"
 

	"Yes".
 

	"Can I speak to Dawood?"
 

	"He's sleeping," Shaikh said before hanging up.
 

	By the time a second reporter called the number, another woman who answered the phone was cautious and asked her to call back later without confirming if it was the residence of Dawood.
 

	Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it has sheltered the underworld don, wanted in India for orchestrating the 1993 bomb blasts that killed 257 people in Mumbai. Even in May this year, Pakistan High Commissioner, Abdul Basit, said the dreaded gangster "was not in Pakistan", when Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament that India knew about Dawood's whereabouts.
 

	Times Now reported that according to details of bills available with Indian security agencies, the phone was installed in 2006.
 

	An exclusive report in the Hindustan Times today exposed several discrepancies in the Pakistani narrative.
 

	The HT report, quoting intelligence inputs, stated that Dawood, his wife Mehjabeen Shaikh, son Moeen Nawaz and daughters Mahrukh, Mehreen and Mazia are living in the upscale Clifton neighborhood of Pakistan's Karachi. Dawood's daughter Mahrukh is married to Junaid, son of former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad.
 

	Indian intelligence agencies have an April 2015 telephone bill in the name of Dawood's wife Mehjabeen with D-13, Block-4, Karachi Development Authority, Sch-5, Clifton, as the address, according to the report. Dawood has three Pakistani passports and two more residential addresses in Karachi.
 

	Dawood's family members have travelled to Dubai in January this year. According to the image that HT published of Dawood's Pakistani passport photo, the 59-year-old crime syndicate chief is now cleanshaven, has a receding hairline and has not had plastic surgery done on his face.
 

	Sleuths also have his passport numbers, flight and passenger details.
 

	"Pakistan's Dawood lie is also nailed from the fact that the mafia don's close associates like Jabir Saddiq, Jawaid Chotani and Mumbai blasts accused Javed Patel a.k.a Chikna are also based in Pakistan and are frequent visitors to Dubai. There are flight details to show that Saddiq travelled to Dubai from Karachi on July 20, 2015 and returned four days later," Shishir Gupta wrote in the report for HT.
 Now, if they meet on Monday, Indian <keyword id="43858" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Security-Advisor">National Security Advisor</keyword> <keyword id="115253" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ajit-Doval">Ajit Doval</keyword> will confront his counterpart <keyword id="1679706" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sartaj-Aziz">Sartaj Aziz</keyword> with the documentary evidence, the report said. 
	 
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Dawood
Ibrahim’s wife let slip the secret of the world’s most wanted terrorist’s
whereabouts

When everyone had apprehended that he had vanished, that didn’t really happen. Mushtaq 'Tiger' Memon has returned to haunt Mumbai Police’s conscience yet again, not personally but through a phone call. Twenty two years since perpetrating one of India’s deadliest terrorist attacks, leading to the death of close to 300 people after a series of bomb blasts rocked India’s finacial capital, Mumbai, Tiger ranks as one of the most wanted criminals in Mumbai Police’s diary. 
 
Though there has been no direct connection with the police, phone calls tapped at Memon’s family residence in Mumbai informs that Tiger may be planning on taking revenge for his brother, Yakub’s hanging on 30th July. 
 
According to a leaked copy of the transcript of the purported conversation, between Tiger and his mother, on the morning Yakub was hanged at a jail in Nagpur, the conversation holds a sinister tone enougg to make the Mumbai Police go scurrying. 
 
 
 
Tiger made the call to his mother at 5:30 am in the morning, barely an hour before Yakub was to be hanged. His mother wasn’t in the state of conversing with his son when her other son was awaiting to face the gallows. The conversation shows that Tiger who has never repented for the blast in Mumbai that killed hundreds is not grieving for his brother’s impending fate, rather talks of revenge, to which his mother didn’t approve of. 
 
The officials from security agencies in Mumbai and Delhi have confirmed the call from Tiger. Tiger Memon and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim were the key conspirators behind the Mumbai blasts. The coordinated attacks across 13 locations in the city on March 12, 1993, claimed 257 lives. 
 
Here is the complete transcript of the conversation between Tiger Memon and his mothe: 
 
Landline phone at Memon’s Mumbai residence rings. 
 
An unidentified man (UM) from the Memon residence picks up the phone. The caller doesn't identify himself but quickly says, " Salam walikum, Hello" 
 
The unidentified male (UM) then replies: Walikum salam Bhai. 
 
Tiger: Ammi Jaggi hai kya. (Is mother awake) 
 
UM: Woh raat bhar soyi nahi hai. (She hasn't slept since last night) 
 
Tiger: Baat karao ( I want to speak to her) 
 
There is a pause of around 30 seconds as the cordless phone is being taken inside to the room where the mother is. While going to the room UM meets someone else who asks who is on the line, UM carrying the phone says, 'Bhaijaan ka phone hai,'. 
 
The Unidentified Male enters a room and tells his mother: "Bhaijaan baat karenge," He repeats it again: "Bhaijaan baat karenge." 
 
There is some murmuring which is not audible. Hanifa apparently doesn't want to talk to Tiger. So the UM insists, "Tum baat to karo." 
 
Hanifa Memon, the mother of Tiger Memon then takes the phone, there are a few moments of silence. In a feeble voice she says something to Tiger that is inaudible. 
 
Tiger: "Salam walikum Ammi khairiyat." 
 
In a feeble voice she says something the voice is inaudible. 
 
Tiger says: "Salam walikum ammi khairiyat?" 
 
Hearing this- the mother Hanifa starts crying. There is a pause for 35 seconds as she sobs. 
 
Tiger then says: "Zulm ki inteha ho gayi hai. Zaya nahi jayega," (This is the height of injustice, this will not go waste.) And repeats it one more time: "Yeh sab zaya nahi jayega," 
 
Yakub's mother starts sobbing more on the phone now. 
 
So Tiger promises: "Tum ro mat ammi iska inko izafa dena hoga." 
 
Hanfia says something which is inaudible- 
 
Tiger: "main unko chukwaonga" (I will make them pay) 
 
Tiger's mother says in a feeble voice: "Bas ho gaya, Pehle ke vajah se mera Yakub gaya ab aur nahin main dekh sakti. 
 
main nahi dekh sakti 
 
main nahi dekh sakti" 
 
And begins to cry again. 
 
The UM who answered the phone initially then takes the phone again from the mother and says: "Bhai..." 
 
Tiger says: "usko sambhalo, sabko sambhalo" 
 
UM replies: "Woh abhi baat nahi karengi woh ro rahi hai. sab ro rahe hain." 
 
Tiger: "Sabke asoo zaya nahi jayenge" (Everyone's tears will not go waste) 
 
"Sabka khayal rakho" (Take care of everyone) 
 
UM: "Dua pado bhai" (Recite some prayers) 
 
The phone gets disconnected then. The call made from a VOIP connection was bouncing from one Internet Protocol address to another, so the trace was not completed.

Tiger Memon, India’s second most wanted terrorist said this to his mother, the morning his brother Yakub was hanged!

Every year has its own share of controversies and interesting twists and turns play a crucial role in the events. The year 2015 was no exception either. This year too, the country had its incidents, incidences and things that cropped up as aftermath, making some of them hot cakes in terms of news this year. 
 
As we close in on wrapping up the year, here’s what made the headlines in 2015 and shaped the country’s opinion both, socially and politically, sometimes ushering in major change in perception about the country in the world’s eyes. 
 
<keyword id="3119826" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Award-Wapsi">Award Wapsi</keyword> This must have been the most significant event of the year and happened right before the <keyword id="175111" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bihar-elections">Bihar elections</keyword>. Award wapsi, a movement of sorts, was started a little while after murder of rationalist thinker and writer M M Kalburgi in Karnataka. Writers Nayantara Sehgal and Uday Prakash were among those who set the tone. This year, the biggest literary event was not a book release or something, but more like a writer standing up for his right to speak what he sees as truth. The writers were chided for siding with Congress party since most of them received awards during the tenure of Congress government. 
 
National Herald case 
Apart from Award Wapsi, this was another headline grabber which almost made demi gods out of Congress first line leaders. AICC Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi made an appearance in court over murky National Herald assets usurping case, which cost the country quite dearly since Congress stalled the discussions over some crucial issues such as GST in parliament, over ‘vendetta’ politics. 
 
Modi Pakistan-Afghan visit 
Towards the end of the year, the Prime Minister who has been jocularly targeted for his trips aboard sprang up a surprise and visited his counterpart in Pakistan absolutely out of turn, thus catching everyone by surprise. His move was both appreciated and criticized in equal measures by those who love him, and by those who simply didn’t like this approach. But, it looks like the White House seems to have welcomed this new found bonhomie between neighbours who have been sworn enemies over several issues. 
 
Shah Rukh, Aamir Khan’s (controversial) intolerance remarks 
This year when people spoke of social and cultural differences, they were targeted on social media and how! Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan who spoke against the rising incidents of ‘intolerance’ and the subsequent fear that has been the result of this, they were targeted badly for everything they said and did. Many from Bollywood including Raveena Tandon, Madhur Bhandarkar and Anupam Kher condemned these remarks made by the two Khans. The issue still simmers on. 
 
No women in temples, so what! 
It started with Ayyappan temple in Sabarimala, Kerala where a trustee said they would put scanners soon to keep menstruating women from visiting temples and angering the gods. Soon after, BJP leader Pankaja Munde in Mumbai seemed to have agreed with this line of thought. She asked, in all calm tone, yes women have not been allowed to visit temples in particular days. So what?! This irked feminists and people across the social media, who ensured their spoke their minds against this medieval stance against menstruating women. 
 
Meat ban during Paryushan Parva 
The BJP government in Maharashtra banned meat during the Jain fasting period called Paryushan Parva. This angered people from across social strata, who were sure that the BJP was driving a wedge between communities that ate meat and those that didn’t consume meat. This was called a social experiment of the worst kind, which would have repercussions on people’s food habits where forced opinions would mean democracy had ceased to exist even in people food habits. 
 
Sadhvi Prachi 
In keeping with the continued tradition of letting lose a volley of abuses and irrational statements, asking people to go to Pakistan if they were opposed to the ideologies of BJP government which predominantly upheld Hindu values and the way of life, that an alternate faith was next to impossible. Sadhvi Prachi being just a representative of all those medieval thoughts and barbaric mindset, kept the newspapers busy with her idiosyncrasies while BJP leadership failed to rein her in. 
 
Yakub Memon 
Hanging of 1997 Mumbai blast main accused Yakub Memon, who was held guilty by courts in 2007 the country witnessed some tense moments and swift working by the courts even on the previous night he was to be hanged on July 30. 
 
Though his death didn’t create a law and order situation, international media lost no opportunity to ensure this incident was bracketed under ‘intolerance’ towards Muslim brethren. 
 
Bihar elections 
This was the single most significant incident that probably indicated the image of BJP was on a journey downhill. Having doled out goodies in form of packages, and most engaging and intense campaigning by the who’s who of BJP including Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi, the MahagatBandhan with Nitish Kumar and Lalu at the helm held people’s hopes. That is where exactly their votes went too. But in the run up to event, there was a lot of bad blood that spilled forth. 
 
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