Vinod Do you know who is the real Tukde Tukde gang?
An RTI request was filed in the Ministry of Home Affairs, headed by Amit Shah, seeking details of the “Tukde Tukde Gang” and whether it was banned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The ministry, in its reply dated 20 January 2020, said it had “no information about the tukde-tukde gang”.
Yashwant Sinha, former finance and external affairs minister under the leadership of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said the real tukde-tukde gang is what Modi and Shah are pointing out in the BJP.
Historian Ramachandra Guha said that the real tukde-tukde gang are those who are sitting in Delhi, who want to divide the country on the basis of religion and languages, while they were detained by the police during anti-CAA-NRC protests.
P Chidambaram, former finance minister under PM Manmohan Singh, said the “real tukde-tukde gang” is the ruling party which is determined to divide the country on religious lines.
He criticized the remarks of India’s current Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for calling the protesters part of the Tukde Tukde gang.
There is no mention of ‘Tukde-Tukde Gang’ (TTG) in any of the intelligence or law enforcement agencies’ reports. He said, “During the 2016 JNU protests, the Delhi Police was informed by students raising anti-India slogans but they were not part of any gang or group. Neither the government nor any of its agencies have any records so far.
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Gokhale said in a tweet that since Amit Shah had said at a rally that Delhi’s Tukde Tukde gang needs to be punished, people have a right to know who are the members of this ‘gang’. The Ministry of Home Affairs deals with the banning of unlawful organizations and individuals under UAPA.
The Right to Information (RTI) application has asked what is the origin of the Tukde Tukde gang? Why is it not banned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and who are its members?” Union Home Ministry officials have been confused. RTI filed by activist and former foreign correspondent Saket Gokhale. Respondents The officials requested anonymity and said that the term ‘Tukde Tukde Gang’ (TTG) has not been mentioned in any report by intelligence or law enforcement agencies.
Gokhale in his RTI asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to please tell what punitive action/punishment (and specifically under which sections of the IPC and/or other Acts) the Ministry of Home Affairs is planning against the members of the ‘Tukde-Tukde’ gang. Has been, as declared by the Union Home Minister in his speech. Gokhale said in a tweet, “PS: Now I hope they don’t say it was just an “election jumla” of Manyavar. That won’t sound very comfortable.
This incident of Home Minister bullying people must stop completely and cannot be unquestionable. He said, ‘During the 2016 JNU protests, the Delhi Police was informed by students raising anti-India slogans, but they were not part of any gang or group. Neither the government nor any of its agencies have any records so far,” an official was quoted as saying by The Economic Times.
The term was used to label JNU students after the 2016 incident, but has recently been used by BJP leaders to refer to political opponents. PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have referred to it in their speeches during rallies to target the opposition, including Rahul Gandhi of the Congress. Home Minister Amit Shah had said at an event last month that the people of Delhi should punish the Tukde Tukde gang responsible for the violence in Delhi.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, a JNU alumnus, recently said that when he was studying, there was no Tukde-Tukde gang.
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