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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Ex-Minister Catherine West says she will launch a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer if the Cabinet do not remove him by Monday

[Kehkashan Bukhari 🇵🇸 @kehkashan_]

Born in Lucknow, India, Rahila Aunty got married in 1993 and moved to Karachi, Pakistan. She got her nationality in 1994. For her, India is still home but Karachiites never made her feel like she left Lucknow, mostly because of Urdu.

In 2023, she started her food cart and introduced Lucknow’s famous Tunday Kebabs. I was surprised to know that nearly 100 ingredients go into making them. Her kebabs, along with her story, are now going viral on social media.

Location: Gulshan Block 4, near Kebabjee’s Bakers.
Story link: https://t.co/JgHpLeLxCg

[Juned @junedkhan28]

@imMAK02 Congratulations bhai

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Long Read: Muslims in Assam are facing horrific circumstances.

(Dear Indian Muslims this is your real worry, so please pay attention.)

I've been reading numerous news sources to get a sense of the dreadful situation for Muslims in Assam.

According to recent reports, the situation for Indian Muslims in Assam, particularly those of Bengali descent, has worsened horribly in the last month.

The BJP government, led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, has increased eviction drives targeting alleged encroachments, disproportionately harming Muslim populations.

So let's go over key events and developments from the last month based on available sources:

1. Eviction Drives Targeting Muslim Communities:

A. Scale and Impact:

Over 3,500–4,000 Muslim families, primarily Bengali-origin, have been displaced across districts like Goalpara, Dhubri, Lakhimpur, and Nalbari.

This affects an estimated 20,000–24,000 individuals, with evictions involving the demolition of homes, schools, mosques, and other structures.

For instance, in Goalpara’s Paikan Reserve Forest, approximately 1,080–1,100 families were evicted on July 12, 2025, with 1,400 families displaced in Dhubri from over 450 hectares of land.

B. Conditions Post-Eviction:

Evicted families are living in dire conditions, often in makeshift camps with limited access to food, shelter, or sanitation. In Goalpara, 93 families are reportedly sheltering on a rented three-bigha plot.

Reports highlight a lack of proper rehabilitation, with some families receiving minimal compensation (e.g., ₹50,000 in Dhubri).

C. Resistance and Arrests:

Evictions have sparked protests, with tensions escalating in some areas. In Paikan village, Saminur Ali was arrested for allegedly inciting communal hatred during a protest, though locals claim he was questioning selective targeting of Muslims.

The All Assam Minority Students’ Union organized statewide protests on July 12, condemning the drives as “inhumane.”

D. Political Opposition:

The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and Congress have criticized the evictions as discriminatory, alleging violations of Gauhati High Court orders mandating temporary shelter and rehabilitation.

An AIUDF delegation was barred from visiting eviction sites in Goalpara, prompting further protests. Congress MP Rakibul Hussain has promised compensation for evicted Indian citizens if Congress gains power.

2. Forced Deportations to Bangladesh:

A. Pushbacks:

Since May 2025, over 300 Muslims from Assam have reportedly been “pushed back” to Bangladesh, with some sources claiming up to 1,200 individuals were forcibly sent across the border in May alone, including from other states.

These actions, often conducted by the Border Security Force (BSF), have been criticized for lacking due process.

For example, Shona Banu, a 58-year-old from Barpeta, was allegedly forced across the border on May 25 despite having lived in Assam her entire life and having an appeal pending in the Supreme Court.

B. Impact on Families:

Families report missing relatives, with at least 10 individuals unaccounted for after being pushed into no-man’s land. Some, like Bakkar Ali’s father, are reportedly in Bangladesh police custody.

The Bangladesh government has protested these actions diplomatically, noting the lack of legal process.

C. Indigenous Muslim Concerns:

Even Deshi Muslims, recognized as “indigenous” by the state, have been affected, challenging claims that only “illegal immigrants” are targeted.

CONT.

[Anas Tanwir (बुकरात वकील) @Vakeel_Sb]

Recvd credible information about a proposed illegal demolition of Noor Ilahi Mosque in Pitampura tomorrow, with police being assembled. Sent an urgent legal notice to the @LtGovDelhi ,@CPDelhi & authorities, citing SC directives on demolitions. This tweet serves as addl service

[Kamran Rehmat @kaamyabi]

This rarest of rare pictures shows former Indian prime minister #ManmohanSingh registered as a schoolboy in his village Gah, on the outskirts of Chakwal in Pakistan.

(Photo courtesy Danial Kublai Khan for a piece I commissioned for 'Pique' magazine in 2012):

Herewith that endearing story from the archives:

FROM MOHNA TO MANMOHAN

By Danial Kublai Khan
Chakwal

“If every man was as fortunate as my Mohna, the world would be a better place” saying this eighty one years old Muhammad Ashraf chuckles toothlessly, while he smokes his Hubble bubble (hookah), distantly looking at cars racing on the motorway, snaking along his ancestral village, Gah Begal, in the outskirts of Chakwal.
Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh was born in Gah in 1932.
Ashraf was his classmate and friend. A farmer, he maintains a small holding in the peripheries of Chakwal, he studied with Manmohan in the mid-1930s in the primary school in Gah.
He still has vague but valuable memories of their time together. He says even if Manmohan Singh has risen to become India’s prime minister, he still considers him a friend – he used to call him Mohna…
Sixty five years ago, a land was divided, families were divided… sixty five years ago the dream of India and Pakistan became reality.
Before the great partition, the village Gah Begal was predominantly inhibited by Hindus and Sikhs, but afterwards their homes, lands and cattle were allocated to the exodus of Muslim refugees flowing in from the other side of the border.
Gah lies about eighty kilometers south from the federal capital, Islamabad.
The village was unknown, only until eight years ago when Manmohan Singh became the prime minister of India.
My father came to me saying “oye apna mohna hindustan da wajeer ho gaya jay” (our Mohna has been elected India’s premier)
“We finally came on the map” says Muhammad Zaman, Ashraf’s son. “There were celebrations and everyone danced on the beats of dhol… when I was a kid, my father used to tell me tales about Mohna.”
Ashraf recalls, “We used to walk five miles to school, we were together till the fourth grade, I failed but he continued to study. He was a very hard working student, while I was not that intelligent. I couldn’t even write my name. He used to study in candlelight and prepare for exams, sometimes he used to do my homework too!
“I remember the day of our exam, we had left for school early, without having breakfast…and after the paper, when we were returning home we discovered a berry tree. Mohna picked up some stones and threw at the berries and I picked them from the ground and ate them all, he got so annoyed that he started beating me saying “wattay assi sut-dae nay, tay bairey tussi khanday ho” (I throw the stones and you eat all the berries). I want to tell Mohna that the tree is still in our village. They were going to cut it down to construct a road, but I told them that this tree belongs to Manmohan Singh.”
Zaman says “I recently read in the newspaper that our government and India have removed visa restriction for people over sixty years of age, I’m trying to convince my father to go and meet his friend but he simply says…I will only talk to him when he comes here since I am one year older to him…I know he is a big man now and I’m still a poor farmer, but I’m older and much stronger than little Mohna…”
Only a couple of Singh’s class fellows, Ghulam Muhammad Khan and Muhammad Ashraf live there now, the rest have either died or left the village during partition.
After moments of silence, in the echo of a distant tractor’s ploughing, Ashraf once again tries to recollect from his horrified memories of the days of partition, “we frequently heard gunfire, we did not even know what was happening until our village was attacked…Mohna and his family had to leave, we heard they had shifted to Lahore or maybe Amritsar, and then the bloody riots began, we heard that a Sikh family was killed, I cried for many days…!”
Raja Muhammad Ali, another friend of Manmohan and the deputy mayor of the village died two years ago, but he was fortunate to meet his childhood friend in 2008, after six decades, in Delhi.
Ashraf smiles…“He took presents for Mohna, shoes and shawls. I sent him the famous Chakwali “rawori”. He invited Mohna to come to Pakistan and visit Gah, but then we heard about some terrorist attacks in India which were blamed on Pakistan.”
The Mumbai attacks in November 2008 pushed the Indo-Pak relations to the back burner. Just months after raja visited India.
Despite sore relations, Mr. Singh had not forgotten his schoolmates and school.  He arranged funds for the school’s renovation.
And the school was to be named after him during President’s Musharraf’s time. Renovations were done but the school still retains the original name, for some unknown political reasons.
The school record of Manmohan Singh is still well preserved in the head master’s cabinet. It shows Mr. Singh was a promising student…
Ghulam Mustafa, the Head Master of the primary school says,” We tell our children that one of the students at this school became a prominent political personality, so if they work hard they too will achieve their objectives. We pray to God that he becomes the Prime Minister of India once again, and we want him to come to Pakistan.”
After being elected as Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh funded the construction of a road and also sent teams to install solar-powered lights, and a water geyser for the village mosque.
Mustafa says, Singh financed a development project worth Rupees Hundred million for this village, “they constructed a high school for boys and girls, a hospital and a new water supply system. These roads were also built under the same project. The work stopped after the PPP came to power, but then, what else can we expect? Atleast Manmohan has given us solar lights, and has brought his village out of darkness…you know, when there is load-shedding in Chakwal, our village glows like the moon!”
Even though times have changed, the lanes and the paths, and even the houses of Gah Begal are a reflection of the undivided India.
It has been over sixty years since his friends last saw him, but they still have vivid memories of their naughty and studious Mohna.
Manmohan Singh left his village when he was only ten years old. But ironically the democratic “Peoples” party leadership of Pakistan has not been able to do what he did for his village from across the border, after over six decades.
The people of this small community lie in peace and contentment at Gah, but they hope that one day their Mohna would return so that they may thank him for all his kindness and support to the people who were once his own…

@abbasnasir59 @xadeejourno @Razarumi @beenasarwar @AsadAToor @BDUTT @suhasinih @ShashiTharoor @MehrTarar

[Abhishek Baxi @baxiabhishek]

- Home of Dr. Manmohan Singh in Gah, now in Pakistan.
- His school, Govt. Primary School - Gah.
- School register, with details of Dr. Singh in Urdu.

2009 photos by Tariq Amir from Pakistan.

More here: https://t.co/rVBAkHII9Z

[Sharma Associate Legal Firm @sharmalegalfirm]

दिल्ली स्कूल आई.डी-1105020 की सी.आर.दास गोवेरमेंट सेकंडरी कन्या विद्यालय की प्रधानाचार्य श्रीमती भावना गुप्ता द्वारा बच्चो का मानसिक शोषण उत्पीडन कर उन्हें आत्महत्या के लिए उकसाना #delhigovernment @CMODelhi @cbseindia29 @Dir_Education @LtGovDelhi

[Manjeet Ghoshi @ghoshi_manjeet]

क्या ये सच में कांग्रेस पार्टी है 😂🙏

Note- president sharmila shows solidarity with workers at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) in Andhra Pradesh by visiting the site

[Afreen Fatima Ali @afreenfatimaali]

Tweet a picture of a mosque from your gallery ✨

[Sumedha Sharma @sumedhasharma86]

Bulldozer demolitions continue in #Nuh . Chemist stores labs and others shops outside Nalhar medical college razed. The stores had been operating since many years. #MewatiAntiHinduRiots #HaryanaBurning #Nuhclashes #NuhViolence #Bulldozercop Narender Birjania leads operations.

[saeed naqvi @saeed_naqvijour]

Shadab brother of Imam Saad is offering prayer at the qabr. Today, namaz-e-janaza has been performed at their residence in Sitamarhi, Bihar.
Photo: @GhulamUnison

#Gurugram #NuhRiots
#NuhConspiracy #BajrangDal #earthquake #MewatAttack

[Juned @junedkhan28]

RT @AhmedKhabeer_: This old Muslim man who ran a blanket and pillow shop out of Gurgaon’s Sector-66?

His shop was put on fire today. https…

[Millat Times @Millat_Times]

वीडियो दिल्ली से सटे गुड़गांव में 200 की भीड़ द्वारा शहीद के गए मस्जिद के इमाम हाफिज साद के घर की है जो बिहार, सीतामढ़ी जिला में पंडोल पंचायत के मनियादीह गांव में है।
बेटे की मौत का सदमा बर्दाश्त नहीं कर पा रही है मां।
#JusticeForHafizSaad

[Syed Ubaidur Rahman @syedurahman]

Begumpur Mosque is like a twin to its counterpart at Jama Masjid, similar in size but completely opposite in its present state to the Old Delhi mosque. There’s a debate as to whether the mosque was built during Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq’s or his successor, Firoz Shah's reign.

[Asad Rehman @asad1_rehman]

A painter, a meat scrap seller, a tailor & a garment shop worker. The men — Naseem Ahmad, Mehtab, Imran and Arshad — are among those granted bail but are in jail as families are too poor to afford sureties, amounting to Rs 6 lakh.
https://t.co/ijWsTjfXGE
I report @IndianExpress

[The 1947 Partition Archive @1947Partition]

Saeeda Khatoon remembers that Delhi had erupted into chaos and there were riots all around. She was eight or nine years old when her family migrated from Delhi to Karachi, during the #1947Partition.

[The 1947 Partition Archive @1947Partition]

JUST IN: Sakina Bibi’s father, Bhoray Khan, was in the railways in #Bathinda, #Punjab, so they migrated safely. However, after #1947Partition, upon hearing of the train massacres and deaths in their extended family, her mother passed away from the grief. By Muhammad Sarfraz.

[Minnat Rahmani @MRahmaniINC]

पटना का सुल्तान पैलेस -

महल में सबसे बेहतरीन इसका छत है जिसके सजावट में सोने की पाउडर का इस्तेमाल किया गया है I यह एक आलीशान महल है जिसकी खूबसूरती देखती ही बनती है I

लगभग 10 एकड़ में फैले इस पैलेस का निर्माण प्रसिद्ध वकील पटना हाईकोर्ट के पूर्व जज और पटना विश्वविद्यालय के पहले भारतीय कुलपति सर सुल्तान अहमद ने 1922 में कराया था।

पटना हाई कोर्ट ने लास्ट ईयर इसको जमीदोंज करने के फैसले पर स्टे लगा दिया था I

लेकिन अब बिहार सरकार ने आधारभूत संरचना विकास सामर्थ्यकारी ( इनबेलिंग ) ( संशोधन ) अधिनियम 2023 के प्रावधानों के तहत इस पर पांच सितारा होटल और संचालन की स्वीकृति दे दी है II

जिससे की अब इसे जल्द ही जमीदोंज कर दिया जायेगा II

पटना का एक और ऐतिहासिक इमारत अब इतिहास बनके रह जायेगा |
बिहार सरकार से आग्रह है कि इसे प्रयोग में लाया जाए न कि तोड़ कर फ़ाइव स्टार होटल बनाया जाए।

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Here is a thread we had done on Acharya Azad.

https://t.co/vmgFbbJG5n