National Foundation for India (NFI) paid news media personnel for anti-national propaganda to topple the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections. From mainstream media personalities to freelancers, many became part of a covert ‘fellowship’ paid news project, reported Janmabhumi recently.
Now, journalist Regimon Kuttappan has admitted to being part of this paid news scheme under the guise of a fellowship. (Kuttappan is a self-proclaimed migrant rights defender. He was a reporter in Oman until he was deported back to Bharat in 2017.) The paid news scheme targeted Kerala, Kashmir, UP, Maharashtra and North Eastern states.
Kuttappan wrote on Facebook that he had received a fellowship from the National Foundation for India (NFI) in 2021. Kuttappan points out that the NFI is an organization founded in 1990 by C Subramanian, a former Union Minister awarded the Bharat Ratna, and MS Swaminathan, the father of the Green Revolution.
What matters is not who started the NFI but what it does. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation purportedly backs it, and the Ford Foundation of the United States directs the NFI Fellowship.
Kuttappan was paid to write about the ‘Gulf return workers not getting jobs due to Covid’. Several Keralites in the Gulf countries lost their jobs and returned to Kerala. Kuttappan wrote reams and appeared on evening talk shows to highlight their plight.
According to a survey conducted in the last three years, 50% of local Keralites are jobless. Kerala has the highest unemployment rate among individuals aged 15 to 29, at 28.7%, compared to the national average of 10%.
Interestingly, Kerala is now home to over 30 lakh migrant workers (including Rohingyas and Bangladeshis). In Kerala, young people are rarely seen working manual labour, which heavily relies on illegal immigrants to run the show. Such factors made Kuttappan’s job pretty easy.
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