It all began with a portal called "Dool News". that has a clear-cut Islamist agenda and has well established expertise in peddling Anti-Modi fake news. They claimed Praful Khoda Patel, the Administrator of Lakshadweep was pushing the Sangh Pariwar agenda to spoil the peaceful atmosphere of Lakshadweep. It also claimed Patel came to Lakshadweep by ignoring all Covid-19 norms and holds him responsible for the pandemic spreading to the islands. The report also says, "Lakshadweep being 99% Muslim, has no crimes and alcohol is banned by public demand". According to the report, Patel is legitimizing alcohol in Lakshadweep and has enforced "Goonda Act" in a place that has "zero crimes".
It is true that Lakshadweep has very low crime rates. The reasons aren't exactly due to any specific qualities of the population. It's rather a geographic reality. Transport is premium. There is 24x7 patrolling of all islands by the Indian Navy and Coast Guard. The population is small. Everyone knows everyone in these small islands. People cannot escape after committing crimes there. Most importantly, the Mosque committees sort out law and order issues by settling for compromise to keep the police out. The jail in Lakshadweep has been closed for years because of these reasons. It's also true that most of the people are peace-loving lower middle class people.
Ecosystem media has taken over from Dool News. Malayalam moviedom, too, has taken up the responsibility of "Saving Lakshadweep" with actor-director Prithwiraj Sukumaran going bombastic with a Facebook post. Most of the English media has based their research on the actor's Facebook post and Dool News.
Of all the claims made by Dool News, the only thing close to the truth is the new Administrator removing anti-CAA posters and hoardings. He is within his powers to do that because CAA is now a law passed by the Indian Parliament. All the other claims are bogus. But there is a greater truth the Ecosystem is trying to bury under all the noise. That happened two months ago, between the 5th and the 18th of Mar 2021.
Joint operations of the Indian Navy and Coast Guard caught fleets of boats carrying narcotics and illegal arms. High grade 300 kg heroin and 5 AK-47 rifles with 1,000 live rounds were recovered from Sri Lankan fishing boat Ravihansi on 18 Mar. The estimated value of narcotics in the international market is approximately Rs.3,000 crores. A smaller catch was made from another boat on 05 Mar, earlier.
Our media has tried to brush this news under the carpet, simply because it goes "secularism". There were news reports in the national media but very well buried under the noise of the elections and other routine anti-Modi stuff.
Why did the Administrator invoke Goonda act in Lakshadweep? Such enormous collection of narcotics and illegal arms reaching the islands would have been extremely difficult with zero insider involvement. Hence, the law and order had to be tightened. Narcotics and Arms smuggling comes under terrorist activities. In simple words, Lakshadweep now is under observation for terrorism. NIA and NCB, among other agencies are in action. THAT is the whole truth.
Strangely, the Ecosystem's own fact-check website 'Alt-News' did a fact check on some What'sApp messages. These messages claimed the Navy had caught drugs and arms headed towards Kerala during elections. Alt-News fact check claimed the photos shared were fake. They also claimed the boats were not headed to Kerala and thus trashed the entire incident as BJP trying to create panic ahead of Kerala elections.
With Sri Lanka using sledgehammer on Islamic terror networks, there are efforts to use Lakshadweep islands as safe havens for terror modules. The administrative changes happening in Lakshadweep are nothing but tightening of screws around terror networks trying to destabilise the region. All the "Save Lakshadweep" outrage is nothing but the Islamist-Marxist alliance trying to derail the investigation into narcotics and arms catch. They are painting the entire population of the island as victims before some of them are caught for acts of terrorism. They are buying anticipatory bail for terrorists.
In short, "Save Lakshadweep" noise is another link in the Toolkit journalism. India cannot afford to allow vested interests to derail our democracy with such insidious and subversive movements.
Tailpiece.
Got up by 6, opened up the house and put on the music - the devotional music was soothing. Thankfully, today was a bright sunny day and most of the clothes washed were retrieved dry by the end of the day.
It was a comparatively quiet day today though much was accomplished online and through telephonic conversations. Spoke to quite a few friends and relatives.
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