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BJP and Congress Manifestos
🧶BJP mentions Modi 67 times, Jobs 2 times and Social Justice 0 times in 76 pages
🖌️Congress mentions Jobs 36 times, Equality 3 times, Muslims 0 times in 48 pages
@frontline_india
To stand up, speak out and protest whenever necessary is essential to living in a democracy. It is vital for all citizens to be ready to speak up and speak out.
Not a single bomb blast in the country in last 6 years. This has not happened just like that, but due to strong measures taken by PM Narendra Modi: Union minister Prakash Javadekar
After Julio Ribeiro, eight former senior IPS officers raise serious questions about the Delhi Police investigation into the violence in the capital. “Such investigation will only make people lose faith in democracy, justice, fairness and the Constitution”.
What a joke. Citizens must give aadhaar, PAN, link aadhaar with PAN, then PAN with aadhaar, give proof of address, photo and what not. But SBI has no idea of KYC of those pumping crores into political parties?? File under
#ElectoralBonds
Comedian
#MunawarFaruqui
will not be released from Jail Today: His Lawyer Anshuman Shrivastav
Jail Authorities insist that there should be more clarity on pending warrants in cases registered in UP
Delhi Police Conducts Early Morning Raids at Houses of Journalists, Satirists, Writers, Scientists.
Devices taken away and some people too - to Special cell premises for "questioning"
Fun-Fact:India's rank in World Press Freedom Index is in the bottom 20
The ₹35,000 crore BUDGETED this year for vaccinating all. We need to know what happened to that budgetary allocation
#HamaraPaisaHamaraHisaab
#हमारपैसाहमारहिसाब
Lakshadweep BJP chief too joins protests against new regulations. The issue has snowballed into a major political controversy with all parties closing ranks.
Prime Time with Ravish
@ndtvindia
: On the systematic attack on anti-CAA/NRC protestors and demonstrations. The attempts to scare them and enforce full subjugation by the UP state government and its police. Also, a summary of the protests elsewhere
VERY POWERFUL. Hume itni education isliye toh nahi mili ke hum ghar pe baithe aur uska koi upyog he na kare.. Education kya sirf machine chalane ke liye milti hai? Isliye bhi milti hai ke agar mere sath walo k sath galat hoga toh khade rohu unke sath mai.
“India is the epicentre of hate and misinformation against Palestinians.”
“Disinformation and jingoism against Palestinians is becoming widespread on Indian media and social media.”
What
@harsh_mander
said - the full speech - “ye ladai sansad mein nahi jeeti jayegi ye ladai supreme court mein nahi jeeti jayegi , ye ladai jeeti jayegi sadkon pe ahimsa se, aur sabse zyada hamare dil mein, mohabbat se” at JNU on December 16, 2019.
#IndiaRejectsCAA
Since
@harsh_mander
is trending on Twitter and the honourable Supreme Court has shown interest in this speech, here it is for all to hear.
And be inspired by.
This Lok Sabha has nearly come to an end, there is no deputy speaker.
155 MPs suspended at various points since 2014.
PM has answered 0 questions
76% of bills passed minus any legislative scrutiny.
11 ordinances issued annually (on an average)
This coronation nonsense must be called out.
Took centuries to get rid of crowns, kings and divine right to rule.
No one has this right in India.
Only its people do.
It is a hard-earned one - to be a proud, free and equal citizen.
After ten years in office, a PM alleges that its top two biggest billionaire industrialists, entrusted with major infrastructure, contracts, projects and much more are supplying “chori ka maal” in “tempos” to the opposition
Extraordinary meltdown.
Indian ‘Mutual Funds’ have mostly avoided investing in Adani. But govt owned LIC has Rs 80,000 Crore or more of policy holders’ money invested.
So, important for Indians to know what the allegations against Adani are - important column by
@Aakar__Patel
Romila Thapar, 90, "has a claim to be India’s greatest living historian. An authority on thousands of years of India’s past, she has a rare and special perspective on the country it was and the country it is becoming"
#WATCH
Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat: Leaders are not those who lead ppl in inappropriate direction. As we are witnessing in large number of universities&colleges,students the way they are leading masses&crowds to carry out arson&violence in cities & towns. This is not leadership.
#Kashmir
. 32-year old son of a Political prisoner (in a UP jail) was called and told his father is unwell, so are PSA charges have been quashed. Come to see him. Son arrives to get his dead body. Basharat Masood reports
Akal Takht, highest temporal seat of Sikhism, issued a statement critical of Modi. Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh, in his strongly-worded statement, reminded people that Guru Tegh Bahadur had martyred himself for freedom of all religions & not just Hindus
Cricketer Irfan Pathan makes a very important point: If he could puff his chest out and speak up in Pakistan, why should he not speak his mind in his own country?
Finally, the end of the nightmare of members of the Tablighi Jamaat who had come to India - after months of villification, demonisation and a punishing process. 1 died here but the remaining 35 who pleaded not guilty can go home now. (1/n)
A top leader of the ruling party is openly spewing the worst kind of filth and venom against Muslims but there is hardly any OUTRAGE and nobody is talking about this. WHY?
What is the
@DelhiPolice
and
@CPDelhi
doing about this?
Manini Chatterjee (who knows a thing or two about the Press) speaks about what a “chilling moment” this is for Press freedom. “Why have journalists who have written 1-2 pieces for a network, been picked up?”
This is no ordinary moment in India and its democracy
For Your Eyes Only: The 15-point note senior journos received on WhatsApp on how to interpret the India-China “mutual disengagement” for their audience.
Javed Akhtar
@Javedakhtarjadu
on Richard Dawkins Award: "I am thrilled for this one because it is the first time I have been awarded for my views, my thought process, my rationality, my thoughts on religion..”
BREAKING: 'Unhappy With Data,' Modi Govt Suspends Director of Institute Which Prepares NFHS.
@Banjotkaur
with this important news-break and the adversarial relationship this govt has with data.
No Census or Consumption Exp - Unemployment data?
Postponed
The CCTV being smashed by the police inside the Jamia library at the end of the clip here. Why has an FIR not been filed so far? This is the national capital. Central Library. In a national University. More than two months now.
Massive pushback to repression against journalists. 9 journalists charged nationwide since January 28, 2021. Statement of Indian Women's Press Corps, Press Club of India and Press Association against the unconscionable behaviour against journalists.
#Article19
👇
Dismantling the Planning Commission, Demonetisation, GST ‘midnight session’ and now three Farm bills in a din by voice vote, muted microphones. Long list of disasters.
What kind of govt or Police hits unarmed students on the head like this?
#Lathicharge
#CitizensMarch
for removal of VC and reversing fee hike in India’s premier University in the Indian capital.
Car Used to Abduct Junaid, Nasir is Listed as a Haryana Govt Vehicle.
@alishan_jafri
tracks the car, an object of interest now. It could be linked to more vigilante violence.
"मैं जब किसानों के मामले में प्रधानमंत्री जी से मिलने गया तो मेरी पांच मिनट में लड़ाई हो गई उनसे। वो बहुत घमंड में थे। जब मैंने उनसे कहा कि हमारे 500 लोग मर गए तो उसने कहा कि मेरे लिए मरे हैं?"
~सत्यपाल मलिक, राज्यपाल, मेघालय
Covid: India research community asks Modi to release data on patterns and severity of infections amid concerns that the Centre had withheld information that could guide effective responses to the epidemic.
The 'Last Press Conference by an Indian PM in India' Was 10 Years Ago on This Day.
#OTD
in 2014, Dr Manmohan Singh fielded over 62 questions from 100 journalists in what was the last presser by an Indian PM in India.
Marking an important anniversary
JNU Alumni - whether Ministers, teachers, actors, civil servants or businesspersons, owe it to our alma mater to speak up. If attacks by masked goons will not bring forth a response, what will?
Most important visuals. The lathi-carrying goons being escorted to safety by the Delhi Police. 1. Who runs Delhi Police? Which Militia practises with lathis, publicly & preaches hate? Who has been threatening & abusing JNU? This is a whodunit that does not need Hercule Poirot. 👇🏾