Rana Ayyub has hyperlinks with the foyer that’s working marketing campaign in opposition to Nirmala Sitharaman

On October 13, the DC version of the Wall Street Journal carried a full-page commercial that shocked India, because it urged the US authorities to impose sanctions on Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and 10 different Indians. Alleging that they’ve “decimated the rule of law by weaponising the institutions of the state to settle scores with political and business rivals, making India unsafe for investors,” the advert sought financial and visa sanctions in opposition to them underneath the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.

It has been already reported that the advert marketing campaign was run by Ramachandran Viswanathan, a US citizen of Indian origin, who has been dubbed a ‘fugitive economic offender‘ by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in India. He wants the US govt to impose sanctions on the Indian finance minister, supreme court judges, ED officials and other govt officials because, in 2011, the Indian government had terminated a deal between his Devas and ISRO’s industrial arm Antrix over corruption prices.

Since then, Devas has been preventing authorized circumstances in opposition to the Indian authorities in a number of international locations, and have gained beneficial judgments in a number of worldwide boards. But Indian authorities and courts preserve that Devas Multimedia Private Limited was established with fraudulent means, and final 12 months, the NCLT ordered the liquidation of the corporate. The Supreme Court of India upheld the order for liquidation in January 2022.

With Devas being liquidated in India, its founder Ramachandran Viswanathan has stepped up his assault on the Indian authorities, and the advert in Wall Street Journal was a part of it. The full-page commercial was run by Frontiers of Freedom, a US primarily based assume tank, based by Senator Malcolm Wallop.

The president of Frontiers of Freedom is George Landrith, and it’s clear that the marketing campaign was timed to coincide with the US go to of Nirmala Sitharaman. The finance minister is visiting the US to attend the annual conferences of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governor (FMCBG) Meetings.

George Landrith and his Frontiers of Freedom are campaigning in opposition to Sitharaman and different Indians for final a number of months, and in August this 12 months, that they had filed a petition with the US authorities in opposition to the identical 11 individuals named within the WSJ advert. Saying that the petition was filed on behalf of Ramachandran Viswanathan and in collaboration along with his legal professionals, the group known as for financial and visa sanctions in opposition to the Indians underneath  Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.

The petition stated that it was filed in response to “Modi regime’s campaign of transnational repression against Mr. Viswanathan.” 

On the day the commercial appeared, George Landrith posted it on Twitter, proudly asserting that his organisation has received the ‘newest ad’ printed on web page A8A of the DC version of the Wall Street Journal. He stated that the motion “exposes Nirmala Sitharaman’s actions that have decimated the rule of law & investment climate in India.”

Check out pg. A8A of the @WSJ DC version as we speak for @Fof_Liberty ‘s latest advert exposing #IndiasMagnitsky11 & @FinMinIndia @NirmalaSitharaman ‘s actions which have decimated the rule of regulation & funding local weather in India pic.twitter.com/6aiVHrq6A6

— George Landrith (@GLandrith) October 13, 2022

Landrith additionally tweeted that the advert will ship a transparent message to potential buyers in India, that India is a harmful place to speculate. Apart from Nirmala Sitharaman, the commercial named Antrix chairman Rakesh Sasibhushan, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta, supreme courtroom judges Hemant Gupta and V. Ramasubramanian, particular PC Act decide Chandra Shekhar, CBI official Ashish Pareek, ED director Sanjay Kumar Mishra, ED Asst. Director R. Rajesh, extra solicitor common N. Venkataraman, and ED Deputy director A. Sadiq Mohamed Naijnar.

On October 12, a day earlier than the advert appeared in WSJ, George Landrith ranted in opposition to Sitharaman, repeating the allegations talked about within the petition and calling her a human proper abuser.  He additionally requested for her and the Indian authorities’s response to his petition.

Yesterday, I attended “India’s economic prospects and role in the world economy” @BrookingsInst however was not known as upon to ask @FInMinIndia @NSitharaman the next query in regards to the impact our Magnitsky petition has on the funding local weather in India. pic.twitter.com/4GicyVcWlf

— George Landrith (@GLandrith) October 12, 2022

George Landrith stated that he posted the query to Sitharaman on Twitter as he was not invited to ask a query at “India’s economic prospects and role in the world economy” addressed by Nirmala Sitharaman in Washington DC on eleventh October which he had attended. He alleges that “the decline in rule of law & gross abuses of human rights affect India’s investment climate”, and sought the Indian authorities’s response to the accusation.

Things turned extra fascinating after that, as George Landrith posted extra tweets in the identical thread, and tagged a number of different individuals in these tweets.

In the primary tweet that included Twitter handles of others, he tagged Rana Ayyub and author-journalist RN Bhaskar. In one other tweet, he tagged creator Prem Prakash and Times of India group journalist Ishani Duttagupta.

The backside line is that this: If @NSitharaman, @BJP4India & @NarendraModi actually imagine that overseas buyers will proceed to disregard the abuse and harassment dedicated by the Indian gov’t, they’re mistaken…@RanaAyyub @rnbhaskar1.

— George Landrith (@GLandrith) October 12, 2022

Tagging Rana Ayyub, he wrote, “The bottom line is this: If @NSitharaman, @BJP4India & @NarendraModi really believe that foreign investors will continue to ignore the abuse and harassment committed by the Indian gov’t, they are mistaken…”

Now, like Ramachandran Viswanathan, Rana Ayyub can also be going through ED probe in a cash laundering case, as she had raised a big sum of money via the fundraising platform Ketto to assist victims of Covid-19, flood and so on, however used solely 10% for reduction work, and stored the remaining in her private financial institution accounts. Incidentally, on thirteenth October itself, the Enforcement Directorate filed a prosecution cost sheet in opposition to Ayyub within the case.

Like Viswanathan, Ayyub can also be claiming that this motion in opposition to her in a prison case is the Modi authorities’s focused assault in opposition to her.

Like the WSJ advert, a full-page advert had appeared in Washington Post additionally, supporting Rana Ayyub. She has efficiently used the anti-India, anti-Hindu and anti-Modi lobbies within the west to focus on the Modi authorities, and he or she has discovered mentions in even parliamentary debates and studies for instance of the Modi authorities’s alleged assault on freedom of speech.

Given the truth that George Landrith is making comparable allegations in opposition to PM Modi and Nirmala Sitharaman, after which tagged Rana Ayyub, it may be logically concluded that she can also be a part of the identical group lobbying in opposition to the Indian govt.