While Andhra CM
@ysjagan
plays the perfect underdog this election season, his party
@YSRCParty
has a lot going on the campaign front
Digital warfare in polls: Over 50,000 supporters, 90,000 WhatsApp groups, a comment army drive YSRCP online campaign
Delhi police travel to Bengaluru to arrest a young climate activist over support to farmers' protest, UP police travel to Tamil Nadu to arrest an old man for criticising PM Modi but UP police cannot find MoS Home's son accused of murdering farmers.
Scenes at almost every major junction in Chandigarh this evening. Children, women, students all on the roads standing in solidarity with
#FarmersProtests
. It's not just villages, definitely not just farmers protesting.
This poem came from d pen of a reluctant poet. I loved it so much that I had to share it after reading it.
His words, my voice coz for me, this is what being a
#Hindu
means- inclusive, loving. Will attach poem in thread.
#poetry
#MainSabKaHinduHoon
Kamal Haasan appeals to Tamilians living in New Delhi to join
#BharatJodoYatra
on 24 Dec. "
@RahulGandhi
referred to me as a fellow citizen & not a political party's chief in his invitation. This is a walk for the Country. It is beyond political parties,"
@ikamalhaasan
says.
BIG: Emergency exit unlocked on-board Indigo flight on 10 December 2022. For over a month, no action from DGCA.
Co-passenger, speaking to
@TheSouthfirst
, claims it was BJP MP Tejasvi Surya who "accidentally" unlocked it.
Haha.. Says a serial hate- monger, who has put so many lives in danger for his agenda. You disguising as a fact-checker is like Terrorists talking about peace.
Now post that you need money to survive and ask for donation for your website, no shame in living off by fooling…
A village in Chittapur of Kalburgi - deemed hotspot for
#COVID19
- violates lockdown restrictions to host Siddhalingeswara chariot festival as 100s gather. Kalburgi reported d first
#COVID19
death in d country. Death toll in district now at 3 with 18 active cases
@XpressBengaluru
Such a shame that instead of demanding an apology from a CM for abusing its staff
@ANI
chose to retract the abusive video & is helping the attempt to cover up what was clearly unacceptable behaviour by an elected representative.
As
@BJP4India
's young MP in d 17th Lok Sabha, debutant
@Tejasvi_Surya
says he has no aspirations of being in
@narendramodi
's cabinet but adds he has carried out every responsibility given to him by the party "earnestly, efficiently & has excelled in it"
Terror case-accused
@BJP4India
MP from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur calls for killing of Muslims during her speech in Karnataka on Sunday during Hindu Jagarana Vedike's event. "Keep weapons at home. Keep them sharp. If veggies can be cut well, so can the enemy's head," she says.
Indian men raping, assaulting, harassing women isn't disgraceful or shameful but saying Indian men rape, assault, harrass women is? This coming from Women's commission chief.
Address the problem ma'am instead of hoping it is brushed under the carpet.
Did you ever report the incident to Police? If not than you are totally an irresponsible person. Writing only on social media and defaming whole country is not good choice.
"Why should I speak in Hindi? You speak in Kannada. This is our land"
If you are in Karnataka, don't ask Kannadigas to speak in Hindi
If you can, learn Kannada
If you can't, speak English
Don't DEMAND that a Kannadiga speak to you in Hindi
HINDI IS NOT THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE
Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her residence
D very people campaigning today for 'FoE' of a journalist- whose rabid channel is a hate factory- either kept mum or celebrated her cold blooded murder
Many used her murder to threaten journalists of consequences. D very same ppl
"Muslims are giving us full cooperation. Nobody shud speak a word against Muslims. This is a warning. If someone accusing d entire community for a stray incident, action will be taken against them," says
@CMofKarnataka
@BSYBJP
. "Stop communalising
#Covid19
" he says.
"There should be no discrimination on the basis of religion while following the law,"
@siddaramaiah
.
"No moral policing anymore. We will put an end to it,"
@CMofKarnataka
@siddaramaiah
says.
Farmers are too naive to understand farm bills, women are too gullible in choosing their life partners, Minorities & Dalits are misled & confused, students are impulsive & ignorant, activists are a threat to society, anyone who disagrees is an anti-national. *Slow clap*
When a leader asks people to be "identified by their clothes", when minsters take pride in "goli maaro" slogans, when MPs dehumanise fellow citizens as "puncturewallas" & 'news' channels & whatsapp groups serve daily diet of hate & bigotry, you get Jaipur-Mumbai train firing.
Dear
@IndiGo6E
, is "slightly resting" one's hand on the emergency exit enough to open it up? Is that the quality of aircrafts you have?
Dear
@DGCAIndia
should aircrafts that have emergency exits opening up with "slight resting of hand" be allowed to fly. Are they safe?
Ohh the arrogance of
@RahulGandhi
! Imagine if PM Modi had responded to a journalist like this. The opposition, and the Media, would have been up in its arms, talking about insult to the press!
Hong Kong food regulators find cancer-causing ingredients in 4 MDH, Everest products, reports
@sumitjha__
.
CFS, has identified that 4 products from MDH & Everest, contain pesticide ethylene oxide, which is classified as a Group-1 carcinogen by IARC.
Police officials catch supporters of
@BJP4Karnataka
MLA Harish Poonja red-handed with cash allegedly meant to bribe voters in Dakshin Kannada. BJP Town Panchayat Vice President detained by police at Kellaguthu colony.
#ElectionsWithSouthFirst
@TheSouthfirst
Can't decide what's worse. An elected PM of a democratic country riling up one community against another during elections using deliberate misinformation or a posse of journalists going out of their way to legitimize what is clearly a communal dog whistle.
What nuisance is this
@mygovindia
@ViksitBharat
@PMOIndia
@airtelindia
@WhatsApp
?
Why are our phone being spammed with unsolicited messages? Why shouldn't this be seen as breach of trust & data compromise? How are phone numbers being shared without consent for this?
Add subtitles dammit. Or issue prior notice that the grand address is only for Hindi-speaking folk. It's not like the speech is impromptu. It's a written speech, displayed on a teleprompter. Adding subtitles is really not such a big challenge.
Gujarat also shares its border with Pakistan
@IndiaToday
. A man from Gujarat (near to (SIC) Pakistan) is our PM, a man from the same Pakistan-Bordering-State is also our Home Minister. So?
The humiliation young girls and women teachers from Muslim community are being subjected to while forcing them to remove their hijabs & abayas in full public view amid camera glare is deeply disturbing. The schools won't lose anything if hijabs are removed inside premises.
The line from
#KarnatatakaBudget2023
speech of
@siddaramaiah
that deserves a mention.
"Though the major share of GST collected comes from the bottom 60% people of society, most profits of the economic system go to top 10% people of society. Therefore, pro-people governments…
The cause of worry isn’t that a VHP worker claimed his “Hindu sentiments were hurt” & filed a complaint.
What should worry us is how quickly & spinelessly
@NetflixIndia
&
@ZeeStudios_
caved to pull
#Nayanthara
’s
#Annapoorani
down & apologised for it.
Porters in Bengaluru railway station give a befitting reply to bigoted hatemongers with this one gesture. One can try and kick up a communal row all one wants, they still stand united.
.
@KicchaSudeep
oh-so-subtly exposing the sense of entitlement oozing from the tone & tenor of Hindi supremacists with respect to other languages of India.
And sir
@ajaydevgn
,,
I did understand the txt you sent in hindi. Tats only coz we all have respected,loved and learnt hindi.
No offense sir,,,but was wondering what'd the situation be if my response was typed in kannada.!!
Don't we too belong to India sir.
🥂
Member of Youth Congress participating in the
#BharatJodaYatra
sporting a
#PayCM
T-Shirt forced to strip & paraded by police in full public view. Visuals also show cops hitting the young man.
An auto driver shouldn't speak English? What kind of classist mindset is that? Why shud he speak in Hindi in Karnataka? He spoke in English as a link language. That's d courtesy he is extending to those who dont speak kannada.
You tweet reeks of Hindi imperialist attitude.
An auto driver can speak English but not Hindi. Why is this Fear frm One Language? Hindi is the Fourth most spoken first language in the world.
Languages doesn't divide. It Brings Unity.
South Politics is only based on language so it's their propaganda to keep these fears alive.
On d day Karnataka assembly convenes, farmer organisations, dalit organisations,
@aicctukar
protest against
@BSYBJP
led
@BJP4Karnataka
govt over amendments made to labour, land and APMC acts via ordinances.
@_YogendraYadav
participates in protest.
The kind of vile abuses & insults being hurled at veterans for expressing dissappointment since last night by the self-appointed nationalists of twitter exposes where the latter's loyalty lies. & it lies neither with the country nor with the armed forces.
Kerala has sued the President over bills. Karnataka has gone to Supreme Court against Union govt for drought relief.
Tamil Nadu went to SC to get a minister inducted.
States are increasingly being compelled to take legal routes even for bare minimum!
55-yr-old Shantarama Budna Siddi, nominated to K'taka council by
@BJP4India
, is d first ever member of d Siddi community to become a legislator.
Siddis are a tribe who trace their ancestral origin to Africa. Live in parts of Uttara Kannada & still struggle for land rights
Why is the Prime Minister of a country that is primarily meat-eating shaming people for their food choices?
This is exactly the kind of remarks that embolden discrimination on the basis of food choices.
Last time it was "identifying people by clothes"... now it is food.
We are a country that harasses a BMTC bus conductor for wearing a skull cap which isn't prohibited but celebrate our space scientists from
@isro
vising a Hindu Temple to seek blessings before launch of
#Chandrayaan3
& yet cry hoarse about "Hindus being in danger".
Hypocrisy!
A team of
@isro
scientists visited the Sri Venkateswara temple in Tirumala, before the launch of
#Chandrayaan3
, which aims to achieve a soft landing on the moon's surface.
Watch :
"How to kill human being" is what this married temple priest in Hyderabad searched on google before murdering the woman he said he loved & dumped her body in a manhole.
Ayyagari Venkat Surya Sai Krishna's remand report reveals a lot.
Karnataka minister seen slapping a woman. Housing minister & senior
@BJP4Karnataka
leader V Somanna caught on camera slapping, on stage, a woman who was trying to voice her grievance at an event the minister was participating in on Saturday at Gundlupet.
After Karnataka dragged Modi govt to Supreme Court for failing to provide drought relief, Union Finance Ministry finally agrees to release calamity relief to Karnataka & Tamil Nadu.
After Supreme Court's intervention, Union govt agrees to release drought/flood/cyclone relief
"Before election
@JPNadda
had threatened voters of Karnataka that if
@BJP4India
doesn't come to power, state won't get support from Union. Let
@BJP4Karnataka
leaders reply to that," says DCM
@DKShivakumar
over centre stopping FCI from selling rice to States under OMSS
Horrific case of honour killing reported in Karnataka's Vijayapura. Dalit man & Muslim woman tortured & murdered by girls' family members for being in love. Accused currently absconding.
If
@NitishKumar
broke away from ally
@BJP4India
after alleged attempt to poach his MLAs, Telangana CM Chandrashekhar Rao has gone a step forward to "trap" people who attempted to poach his MLAs. KCR has now sent some 3-hour footage of 'proof' to media, judiciary & other parties.
A Pulitzer prize winner, a journalist who chronicled the reality of our times through his powerful lens & above all an Indian citizen who died in an attack by the Taliban. Not one word of condolence from
@MEAIndia
,
@DrSJaishankar
or
@narendramodi
so far.
Extremely petty.
At
@RahulGandhi
PC on Saturday,
@INCIndia
took conscious effort to prioritise Kannada journalists, make more time & allow more questions in Kannada.
@Jairam_Ramesh
went one step ahead to remind our Delhi counterparts that it is Kannada not Kannad, Karnataka & not Karnatak.
Actually, Dr Manmohan Singh did not mention "religion" during his speech in the parliament on refugees. PM
@narendramodi
must either be mistaken or is making misleading statements
Former PM Manmohan Singh said in the Parliament that we should provide citizenship to the refugees coming from Bangladesh who have been religiously persecuted: PM Modi
#DilliChaleModiKeSaath
While we debate on d financials of welfare schemes announced by
@INCKarnataka
govt, very little is spoken of socio-political & economic outcomes that could far outweigh costs.
For Vaishali Kammar in Belagavi, saving Rs 2000 means tuitions for her kids.
The only tall leader in
@BJP4Karnataka
so far to publicly condemn the hate campaigns against Muslims by Hindutva outfits. A far cry from majority of
@BJP4India
leaders so far.
Those who witnessed
#BharatJodoYatra
saw a
@RahulGandhi
listening to people, walking by their side, holding their hands, sharing kisses, hugs & chocolates, carrying children, tying his mother’s shoelace & playfully troubling his sister
@priyankagandhi
.
The longer
@DKShivakumar
waits outside the gates of this Mumbai hotel, the stronger he cements himself as the face of
@INCIndia
not just in Karnataka but across the country. Reiterating a point- the one winner emerging out of this crisis is undoubtedly
@DKShivakumar
Big
@INCIndia
win in
#KarnatakaElection2023
busts many myths & hypes around
@BJP4India
’s electoral prowess.
How an overconfident
@BJP4India
, high on what I call positive prejudice, erred from the beginning.
Their mistake began from 26 July 2021.
Reducing the commute time between Bengaluru & Mysuru from 3 hr to approximately 75 min, the access-controlled highway is a gift to the country, constructed under the outstanding and inspiring leadership of PM Shri
@narendramodi
Ji.
#Bengaluru_Mysuru_Highway
#PragatiKaHighway
Utterly shameful that people who benefit out of large tax breaks, incentives & reduced corporate tax - even below statutory concessional rates- that are funded by the poor of this country ever time they even buy a pack of salt have the audacity to shame the poor. It's their right
Police didn't "make him take off his shirt", they literally pulled it off of him themselves and repeatedly punched him - in full public view, with cameras recording it all.
Karnataka | FIR filed at Chamarajanagar Police Station against a Congress worker, Akshay Kumar who was wearing a t-shirt that featured 'PayCM' poster on it, during Bharat Jodo Yatra earlier today.
Police had made him take off his t-shirt.
FIR filed against
@aajtak
& its editor in Karnataka.
Complaint accuses channel of running communally inflammatory fake news over a scheme under Karnataka's minority welfare dept.
@sudhirchaudhary
named accused number 1.
It all started with
@Rajeev_GoI
&
@Tejasvi_Surya
's…
The offense a Hindi speakers take when a non-Hindi speaker speaks in their mother tongue is the crux of the language problem. Your language is not better/worse than mine. And mine is definitely a national/regional language only as much as yours.
A 'show cause' notice was issued to BJP MP Nalin Kumar Kateel ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls for justification of Pragya Thakur's remarks on Godse.
He was later made President of BJP Karnataka and continues to hold that post.
BJP issues show cause notice to party MP Ramesh Bidhuri on instruction of party president JP Nadda for his use of unparliamentary language against BSP MP Danish Ali: Sources
The audacity of this bank officer to say "Why should I talk in any other language. Hindi works in India" is everything that is wrong with Union govt's unfair & unjust bias to one regional language- Hindi. This is a common occurrence in rural banks.
The audacity of a person to even ask such a question. How dare someone ask another Indian to leave the country. Bullies who want to pass off as intellectual entertainers.
A question "India's smartest podcast" host asks a guest who goes on to name one senior journalist and two very senior historians. He's building an online mob as his guest list and content illustrates.
And you ask that we ignore this guy and his team's propaganda shenanigans?
When saying no to
#HindiImposition
costs you funds from Union govt
Union govt refuses to release funds to Kerala because State said no to renaming National Health Mission centres - ‘Janarogya Kendram’- as “Ayushman Arogya Mandirs”, says
@VeenaGeorge03
This coming from the Chief Minister of a State.
Please do give us more evasive lectures on democracy & claims of "no discrimination on the basis of Caste, creed and community".
Please gaslight those raising questions on rights of minorities in India.
There are many Hussain Obama in India itself. We should prioritize taking care of them before considering going to Washington. The Assam police will act according to our own priorities.
Adei! This is WhatsApp university pro max.
"None of the evidence presented said the sceptre was first symbolically given to Mountbatten & taken back before presenting to Nehru."
"The most ironic evidence presented in the docket was a blog post titled 'WhatsApp History' written…
"Wear a Bindi first. Your husband is alive, isn't he. You have no common sense" says this
@BJP4India
MP to a woman vendor.
The audacity of this MP from Karnataka, the misogyny in his tone & sexist behaviour while talking to a woman and shaming her is infuriating.
#Thread
A Dalit family from Karnataka's Kolar that was fined & banished by upper caste Hindus, earlier in September after their son touched a pole attached to a deity, was invited to participate in
#BharatJodoYatra
& walk alongside
@RahulGandhi
.
#WATCH
| Delhi: Wrestler Sakshi Malik breaks down as she leaves after addressing a press conference.
Former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's aide Sanjay Singh has been elected as the new president of the Wrestling Federation of India.
Representatives of farmers' unions from Karnataka led by Kodihalli Chandrashekhar arrive at Gazipur protest site, meet with
@RakeshTikaitBKU
. President of Hasiru Sene Chandrasekhar says 4000 farmers from Karnataka will join protest at Gazipur after February 6
@NewIndianXpress
India's home minister is either confused or is deliberately misleading people on the issue of reservation. Reservation for sub-sects & sub-castes among Muslims in Karnataka was based on socio-economic backwardness as per Havanur Commission report, not religious minority status.
Reservation provided to the minority was not as per Constitution. There is no provision in the Constitution to provide reservation on the basis of religion. Congress Govt, due to its polarisation politics, provided reservation to the minority. BJP scrapped that reservation &…
"Whether a skull cap or black scarf as part of Ayyappa mala, rules don’t prohibit practising religion"
Staff have to wear uniform but nothing prohibits them from wearing a holy thread on their wrist or a Cross on their chest.
Bigots can sit down now.
Want an example of majoritarianism?
A country that forced its school-going Muslim girls to approach courts to wear hijab over their uniforms, pushing them to choose between hijab & education is giving government employees half day leave to "participate in celebrations" of a…
"I am a Hindu but I oppose Hindutva. I oppose communal politics. All religions are equal before the Constitution. There are people of all faiths in India & everyone must be seen as human first, that's what the Constitution says too," says
@INCKarnataka
LP chief
@siddaramaiah
Initially thought this was unabashed quid pro quo & extortion/favour. This now increasingly feels like the largest money laundering scam that ever took place.
1. I recommended Jay Bista for captaincy not Iqbal but CAU officials favoured Iqbal.
2. I did not invite Maulavis
3. I resigned cos bias of selectors-secretary for non-deserving players
4. Team used to say a chant of Sikh community, I suggested we can say "Go Uttarakhand"
#Facts
Why r very senior journalists claiming PM
@narendramodi
"apologised to farmers"? No, he did not. He apologised to citizens for not being able to convince farmers about d farm laws. It definitely can't be the inability to understand Hindi given these are Hindi speaking journos
Union Minister
@DVSadanandGowda
put in a spot by reporters over shortage of vaccines. "Was the announcement of vaccine drive just for publicity," ask reporters when Gowda asked "If Courts order mass vaccination & enough vaccines aren't manufactured should we hang ourselves?"
It's not that
@ShefVaidya
doesn't understand English or is incapable of understanding what a quote means.
It's just that she is annoyed that her attempt to communalise a issue & rake up tensions by lying & exaggerating facts have been punctured by
@PoliceUdupi
.
Amazing how ANY woman could describe the despicable crime of hiding a camera in a ladies toilet and shooting intimate videos of a victim without her consent/knowledge as just a ‘fun prank’. I wonder if
@anusharavi10
would have the same views if SHE was a victim of such fun…
Karnataka govt's decision allowing free bus travel for migrants is a result of relentless media reportage, strong opposition led by
@DKShivakumar
forcing govt to take note & a mature leader
@BSYBJP
at d helm of affair willing to accept & amend wrongs
If only others cud take cue
"Education is a fundamental right. Is this not a violation of fundamental rights to prevent them from college. Girls of Muslim community should not be deprived of education," leader of the opposition &
@INCKarnataka
LP chief
@siddaramaiah
says.
It has taken centuries of awareness, activism & commitment to bring girl children to mainstream educational institutions. Now we have govts, law makers & educators turning them away from colleges as they plead to be allowed to attend classes over supposed dress code.
This picture is from 11 July 2019 outside a private hotel in Mumbai where turncoat MLAs of
@JanataDal_S
&
@INCIndia
coalition govt were holed up. In pouring rain,
@DKShivakumar
sat outside the hotel refusing to leave until MLAs came with him. He was eventually detained.
His commitment to be one of
@INCIndia
's crisis manager is what landed
@DKShivakumar
on the radar of central agencies.
Re-plugging a piece from September last year on the times
@DKShivakumar
went out of his way for
@INCIndia
, even taking on HM
@AmitShah
Don't recall the last movie that moved me so much.
#JaiBhim
is a hard pill of reality to swallow. That last scene is just pure genius filled with so much hope.
@Suriya_offl
, the world needs more cinema like
#JaiBhim
.
Saw video of a man from Bihar alleging abuse for being a Hindi speaker? Many handles shared it & claimed it was an example of "xenophobia" & "racism"
Here's what actually happened.
How argument over bad food, torn note led to Bihar youth alleging abuse
The audacity to call a State & its people demanding their rightful share - a state that is among the largest contributors to GDP - "separatists", "secessionists", "tukde gang"!
First victim comes forward to file a complaint against
@iPrajwalRevanna
& his father
@JanataDal_S
MLA HD Revanna.
The woman alleges she was sexually abused repeatedly between 2019 till 2022.
All complaints to be forwarded to SIT that has been formed to probe the videos. More…