Targeting India’s Lok Sabha Elections 2024, the United States, Britain and European Union began well-orchestrated propaganda alongside handing over millions of dollars to a particular political party with the target of defeating Bharatiya Janata Party (BNP) and establishing their exclusive dominance by installing their loyal elements in power. Such activities began almost five years before the election schedule, while a large number of anti-BJP media outlets joined hands in this conspiracy in exchange for hefty amounts of cash.

In French media, agenda-based articles, reports and analyses were published with unusually high interest targeting Indian elections. A plethora of articles have been published in dozens of newspapers and media outlets, including Le Monde, Le Soir, La Croix (International), Le Temps, Reporterre, and Radio France Internationale (RFI) to shape a narrative and in turn, tamper with opinion-shaping on Indian elections – mostly with the target of defaming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demonizing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and projecting Rahul Gandhi and Indian National Congress (INC) as savior of the democracy. Most disturbing fact is – all of those media outlets competed in branding Narendra Modi as “dictator” and making claims of India being ruled by an “authoritarian regime”.

The Disinformation Lab, a research group has documented some of the prominent newspapers and media outlets desperately pushing their own narratives and agenda with the target of misleading international community as well as voters in India. This time, surprisingly, French media outlets, including France’s oldest, influential and widely circulated newspaper – Le Monde has also joined this anti-BJP and anti-Modi propaganda project.

According to The Disinformation Lab, French newspaper Le Monde alone published huge number of articles with unfair narratives revolving around manufactured themes ranging from rising ‘Islamophobia in India’ to ‘undemocratic nature’ of India, to ‘stigmatization of Muslims’ to ‘growing authoritarianism’.

All of such agenda-based propaganda were manufactured by intelligence agencies in the United States – a country which boasts of being the “democratic heaven” despite the fact, a political opponent of the sitting president is being wrongly convicted on trump-up charges. Similarly, spy agencies in the United Kingdom have also played a significant role in manufacturing, distributing and publishing propaganda materials targeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

In France, anti-Modi and anti-BJP propaganda contents and even interviews were published creating narratives and micro-narratives on the Indian Lok Sabha elections, which was led by a French political scientist and Indologist named Christophe Jaffrelot, who also is known as ‘CJ’.

Narratives and micro-narrative spread by Christophe Jaffrelot were backed by huge amounts of cash from the United States, UK and EU nations, while it also is rumored that CJ was enjoying patronization from China. Each of his contents were enthusiastically published by the French media, because those were “valued-added contents”. As CJ played a leading role in this propaganda in France that he was being frequently quoted not just by French media portals, but also by Indian media outlets including – The Indian Express, The Wire and other leftist and pseudo-Islamist propaganda machines. All of the international and Indian media outlets portrayed Christophe Jaffrelot as a political commentator and expert on Indian elections.

The vicious web of anti-India forces

Christophe Jaffrelot and a band of anti-India propagandists heavily promoted – Caste and Caste census. George Soros and a few more notorious individuals have spent millions of dollars in promoting the “Caste and Caste census” while, one of the entities which has been leading this agenda is – Equality Labs, promoted by Jamaat-e-Islami and anti-India lobbying groups.

According to information, Equality Labs, which claims to be a progressive organization to combat caste discrimination, was founded by a Dalit techie and activist named Thenmonzhi Soundararajan, born and brought up in the United States. While this organization has been operating since 2016, it was registered only in 2022 as Equality Labs LLC., in Delaware (March 2022, registration number 202251715748) and in California in July 2022. Founder of Equality Labs, Thenmonzhi Soundararajan was working on grants from Open Society Institute........

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