The speech - Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary’s DNA test revealed - was a copy-paste from a Washington Monthly article written in January 2017.
Mahua Moitra has become the toast of the 'liberal' ecosystem since the banker-turned-politician’s impassioned speech in parliament which was hailed as the second coming.
The speech - Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary’s DNA test revealed - borrows liberally from a Washington Monthly article written in January 2017.
Read: TMC's Mahua Moitra's debut LS speech on 'early signs of fascism'
देखें, महुआ मोइत्रा के भाषण का DNA टेस्ट, भाषण को लेकर रिसर्च में सामने आई चौंकाने वाली बात @sudhirchaudhary #DNA pic.twitter.com/CULVX3BXWi
— Zee News Hindi (@ZeeNewsHindi) July 2, 2019
यही है अमेरिकी वेब्सायट का वो लेख जिसे तृणमूल कांग्रेस की सांसद महुआ मोइत्रा ने चुराकर लोक सभा में अपने भाषण में इस्तेमाल कर लिया।हुबहू बिलकुल वही शब्द लेख से सीधे उठा लिए और बोल दिए।संसद की गरिमा ख़तरे में है। https://t.co/4iP3YieHXA pic.twitter.com/HxaHqqdxKS
— Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) July 2, 2019
The speech appears to lift directly from a piece published in The Washington Monthly on 31 January 2017 called Warning Signs of Fascism.
1. 'Copy-paste job'
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Moitra did a copy-paste job and removed Trump’s name and replaced it with Modi. Sudhir Chaudhary’s DNA test revealed that Moitra picked six out of the 12 ‘signs of fascism’ from the article.
The Zee News editor-in-chief further said that it was wrong that she presented someone’s views in parliament and that the speaker ought to take action against Moitra for plagiarising her speech.
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देखें, महुआ मोइत्रा के भाषण का DNA टेस्ट, भाषण को लेकर रिसर्च में सामने आई चौंकाने वाली बात @sudhirchaudhary #DNA pic.twitter.com/CULVX3BXWi
— Zee News Hindi (@ZeeNewsHindi) July 2, 2019
2. 'Ringside view of fascism'
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Of course, as a TMC legislator Moitra has a ringside view on what constitutes fascism, given her party supremo Mamata Banerjee brooks no dissent. After we are talking about a state which doesn’t think twice before crushing anything resembling dissent.
It's a party, which till the national outrage forced its hand, was backing thugs who bashed in a doctor's skull, simply because the goons were from a particular religion. It's a regime which happily bans movies, plays and throws people in jail for memes. It even goes as far to suggest that the state is only for those who speak the language.
Opposing party members are killed with what would almost seem like state support while every voice of dissent is blamed on outsiders including those of doctors simply appealing for a fair hearing.
3. Can't show degrees - a jibe at Mamata?
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Incidentally, this isn’t TMC’s first brush with plagiarism. In 2016, West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee had been accused of plagiarising his PhD paper by Congress’ Arunava Ghosh.
Incidentally, Mitra also claimed ministers couldn’t produce degrees which could be seen as a jibe at Banerjee given it emerged that Banerjee’s much-flaunted doctorate degree from was from a non-existent university called East Georgia University.
