The Wire publishes article by founding father of Kashmiri separatist ‘Polis Project’ citing doubtful Soros-funded V-Dem institute

On March 7, The Wire revealed a report calling India ‘one of the worst autocracies in the last ten years’. It was authored by Vasundhara Sirnate and based mostly on V-Dem’s newest report on democracies worldwide. Notably, V-Dem, which is a George Soros-funded institute, has revealed a number of doubtful stories claiming democracy has been downgraded in India.

Who is Vasundhara Sirnate?

Vasundhara Sirnate, a journalist based mostly out of Ireland, goes by the Twitter deal with @vsirnate. She has written for a number of publications, together with The Wire, The Hindu, Washington Post, Frontline India, The Telegraph, and extra.

In September 2022, Sirnate tried guilty Hindus in Leicester for the violence. A thread revealed by her propagating disinformation continues to be accessible on Twitter. In her thread, she claimed to have accessed footage of 200-strong Hindutva supporters chanting Jai Shri Ram in a “Muslim area” in Leicester.

Vasundhara claimed Hindus did a march in Muslim dominating space in Leicester. Source: Twitter

In one other tweet, she quoted a doubtful former Guardian reporter Aina Khan who she claimed to have interviewed one Hindu man who was carrying a motorcycle helmet and held an India flag. Without naming the “Hindu man”, she claimed that the person within the helmet claimed he was an RSS supporter. She then provides one disclaimer: Italian dictator Mussolini impressed the RSS. This is shocking as a result of it’s normally claimed that Hitler’s Nazism impressed RSS and is finished to dehumanise these related to the Sangh. OpIndia’s report on Khan’s thread might be seen right here. OpIndia’s detailed protection of Leicester might be seen right here.

Vasundhara supported faux information peddler Aina J Khan. Source: Twitter

Sirnate was one of many founding members of the Hinduphobic Kashmiri separatist organisation The Polis Project. In October 2022, Stop Hindu Hate Advocacy Network (SHHAN) revealed an in depth thread on Sirnate’s hyperlinks to the Polis Project and the way she persistently propagated anti-Hindu content material in media and on social media platforms.

Vasundhara Sirnate together with Suchitra Vijayan based The Polis Project. 2/9 pic.twitter.com/d2ZZeE8F9Y

— Stop Hindu Hate Advocacy Network (SHHAN) (@HinduHate) October 2, 2022

The Polis Project extensively revealed content material claiming Muslims had been going through atrocities in India. The organisation’s stories described the anti-Hindu riots in Delhi in 2020 as a “pogrom against the Muslim community”. Upon easy search on Twitter, we discovered that the organisation referred to as it “Pogrom” towards Muslims a number of instances. The organisation additionally propagated separatist views on Kashmir and revealed content material favouring terrorists like Burhan Wani, Yasin Malik and others.

The Polis Project referred to as anti-Hindu Delhi riots as “anti-Muslim pogrom” and went to the extent to say Delhi Police was complicit within the violence. 3/9 pic.twitter.com/OiGtk0sWLM

— Stop Hindu Hate Advocacy Network (SHHAN) (@HinduHate) October 2, 2022

The Polis Project persistently referred to as Kashmir “Indian-administered” and referred to as India a “settler-colonialist”. It additional claimed that “genocide” was underway in Kashmir.

The Polis Project calls Kashmir “Indian-administered”, calls India a “settler-colonialist”, and declare a “genocide” is underway in Kashmir. 5/9 pic.twitter.com/Llbh9v6Ban

— Stop Hindu Hate Advocacy Network (SHHAN) (@HinduHate) October 2, 2022

They furthered their propaganda and gave a clear chit to Pakistan within the Pulwama assault and referred to as Indian media a “BJP’s propaganda machine”. Banned organisation Jamaat-e-Islami additionally makes use of their content material of their course materials on “Stand With Kashmir”. In November 2020, Sirnate stepped down from the Polis Project.

George Soros funds V-Dem

The V-Dem institute is an unbiased analysis group funded by many different establishments and governments. Fund contributors to the institute vary from Canadian International Development Agency to the World Bank Group.

The Open Society Foundation, which George Soros leads, additionally funds the institute. Soros is a self-proclaimed philanthropist and Hungarian-American investor who has sworn to ‘fight nationalists’ and conservative governments all through the world, which he generally refers to as ‘authoritarian governments.’

George Soros’ sponsorship of the V-Dem Institute reveals loads in regards to the group’s intentions towards India. Soros has publicly expressed his hatred for India and has typically denounced the Indian authorities led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His help for a corporation that ranks India as a dying democracy highlights the hollowness of the institute’s findings.

The Wire’s propaganda

The Wire, a far-Left propaganda web site, is thought for publishing deceptive, typically utterly false stories to color India as a dictatorship. In the final quarter of 2022, The Wire needed to drop two of its allegedly “well-researched” stories towards the ruling social gathering Bharatiya Janata Party after they had been proved to be fabricated. In the Meta Vs The Wire saga, The Wire claimed BJP’s IT Cell Chief Amit Malviya had the ability to get any content material faraway from Instagram.

The researcher who labored on the report fabricated the proofs a number of specialists debunked. Earlier, the identical “expert” had labored on the stories revolving round an imaginary app “, Tek Fog”. The Wire’s stories claimed folks related to BJP had the ability to govern social media traits and affect folks utilizing the appliance.

OpIndia’s protection of The Wire’s propaganda stories might be seen right here.

Foreign meddling in India’s affair

Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi got here to energy in 2014, worldwide actors have tried their degree finest to meddle with India’s affairs. Sadly, Indian leaders, together with Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, have urged Western international locations to intrude in India’s issues. Apart from him, Congress chief Mani Shankar Aiyer and others have made comparable calls previously. Rahul Gandhi throughout his latest go to has been complaining that India’s all establishments are biased in direction of Modi and that’s the reason he wants assist to save lots of India’s democracy.