Chennai Man Who Makes Videos ‘Critical’ of Modi Arrested by UP Police for ‘Creating Panic’

The Uttar Pradesh Police on August 14 arrested a 62-year-old man from Chennai after he had allegedly made remarks criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi in one of the videos he posted on his YouTube channel, The News Minute has reported….

Mishra’s channel only has 700 subscribers, and most of his videos have less than 200 views. Only his latest video, posted on August 13, in which he allegedly made critical remarks about Modi, garnered over 1,100 views. The August 13 video refers to the 2002 Godhra riots of Gujarat, accusing Modi of using “deaths of those killed in that violence to ask for votes and became chief minister of state again”.

In several of his videos, Mishra slams Modi and the BJP government over its policies and its terrible failure in handling the second wave of COVID-19. Some of his videos put forward some conspiracy theories surrounding Modi, the US and India’s ties with its neighbours China and Pakistan. Mishra also described Modi as a “mafia head”, accusing him of destabilising the nation….

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