Mahua Moitra's speech in parliament had gone viral.
Mahua Moitra, the toast of ‘liberal’ ecosystem after her viral speech on ‘early signs of fascism’ which were met with charges of plagiarism is likely to face more controversy over her recent comments.
In an interview to a news channel, the TMC MP appeared to confuse Pulwama and Balakot and called the suicide bomber terrorist who took the lives of 40 jawans a '20-year-old boy'.
She claimed that the government didn’t provide security forces in Balakot with ‘air cover’ and didn’t ‘airlift them’. She went on to say that govt didn’t shut the road which led to a ’20-year-old boy driving an SUV into a bus full of jawans’.
Read: Who is Mahua Moitra?
She said: “You had the Uri incident which happened in November 2016 where you clearly had an intelligence failure. the same thing in Balakot. You didn't airlift them, you didn't shut the right side of the road so you had a 20-year-old boy drive an SUV into the cavalcade.”
SHOCKING!!!!
— Preen (@PreenIndiastic) July 3, 2019
TMC's Mahua Moitra calls Pulwama ''terrorist'' a 20 yrs old ''BOY'' on Karan Thapar's show yesterday.@Iamnot_immortal @AdvancedMaushi @ARanganathan72@AdityaRajKaul#Shame #PulwamaTerrorist #TMC pic.twitter.com/WY1tTFUlEY
Read: DNA test on Mahua Moitra's Lok Sabha speech
For the uninitiated, including our honourable MPs, Balakot is a place in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which housed a terror camp masquerading as madrassa. Meanwhile, Pulwama is a place in Jammu and Kashmir in India where a terror attack took the lives of 40 CRPF jawans.
Reacting to the video, outspoken Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy wrote: “Is anyone surprised?” Other Twitter users also expressed their disdain.
1. Shocking
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Her "Supremo" doubts #Pakistan's complicity in #Pulwama, has not condemned #JaisheMohammed & has derisively referred to IAF's airstrike at #Balakote.
— Dr. Anirban Ganguly (@anirbanganguly) July 3, 2019
Mollycoddling terrorists, hurling disdain on the martyrdom of our soldiers are all advanced signs of being a certified #fascist https://t.co/PLy9vzmDfG
Is anyone surprised?
— Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) July 3, 2019
This is what happens when those who have no idea about counter terrorism give out interviews criticising the same https://t.co/QksLrqVOJ0
— Saikiran Kannan (@saikirankannan) July 3, 2019
The "boy" exploded his car in Balakot, Pakistan, and not Pulwama, according to the latest heroine of the left liberalati. When folks w/a faux accent, mediocre foreign degree and real/hi quality ill-mannered mien r mistaken for Joans of Arc circa 21st century https://t.co/QK5SuhiU5n
— Somnath Mukherjee (@somnath1978) July 3, 2019
Liberal and secular pop sensations invariably will turn out to be terror apologists.. https://t.co/9gifmUXypS
— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) July 3, 2019
the rise of new face of red bindi brigade and its promotion by media#byebyebrindakarat https://t.co/XVu2BmGNHV
— swapneel (@mantrisv) July 3, 2019
New "Intellectual" Darling of Indian Pseudo Liberals:
— Anonymous (@Anonymo29688167) July 3, 2019
1. Confuses Pulwama Terror Attack with Balakot Air Strikes.
2. Wants "Air Cover" for SF Convoys travelling on Highways.
3. Calls Adil Dar ( who invokes Jihad against Cow Piss Drinkers) a BOY.
https://t.co/UrECLfQucj
20year old boy... Wow @SuPriyoBabul https://t.co/NyW01rZNu6
— Abhishek roy (@smartabhi1989) July 3, 2019
This is the same female who had assaulted a lady cop on duty at Silchar airport. What else can one expect from a plagiarizing, terror apologist who is a fascist by conduct. https://t.co/NAPcU3YwlM
— Smita (@DikshitSmita) July 3, 2019
2. No citations?
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Of course, as a TMC legislator Moitra has a ringside view of what she calls fascism and subjugation but what was particularly ironic was that the Lok Sabha MP appeared to have plagiarised her speech from a 2017 Washington Monthly article without giving any citations.
The speech - Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary’s DNA test revealed - borrows liberally from a Washington Monthly article written in January 2017.
Moitra, during her feisty speech didn’t think it important to give citations. The speech appears to lift directly from a piece published in The Washington Monthly on 31 January 2017 called Warning Signs of Fascism.
3. No fascism in Bengal?
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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.
