Rahul Gandhi’s speech in the Lok Sabha today in which he yet again invoked his family reminds us that he has learned nothing. It is this sense of entitlement and birthright that continues to make Modi our most credible leader.
Who else is as tired as I am about hearing of 22 political parties complaining to the Election Commission. We know we are talking about 22 families. Almost every party a family firm. So it’s 22 families trying to invalidate the Indian election. Wow!
I am no fan of the Dynasty. But, If Priyanka Gandhi was trying to help helpless people get home she needs praise not stupid debates on TV about her motivation.
Disappointing to hear senior Congress leaders continue to assert that Modi’s massive mandate came only because of marketing. Congress will not revive until it stops insulting the intelligence of Indian voters.
Compared to what Savarkar and other revolutionary freedom fighters endured in prison, Gandhi and Nehru’s prison terms were just rough boarding schools. Reading Savarkar’s two recent biographies I am constantly astounded that they survived.
Why was he in an Indian jail for five years? Why was he not tried and punished by a fast track terrorist court? Had this been done India would not have been forced to release him to save the passengers of IC814.
What is wrong with our opposition leaders that they put their interests above the interests of the country at this point? Did Indira Gandhi consult the opposition before the Bangladesh war?
Rahul Gandhi creates daily hysteria over Rafale without noticing that the difference between it and Bofors is that Bofors bribe money was found in the Swiss accounts of his Mummy’s best friends. Why did Bofors pay a fertilizer salesman?
Since Priyanka Gandhi entered politics she has barely made a speech in which she has not mentioned her family. So why should she object to the Prime Minister mentioning her family?
India has made it clear today that Kashmiri lives never really mattered. It was always that piece of land to fulfill its dream of Akhand bharat. It was the bloody real estate that will now be sold to the highest bidders while Kashmiri lives will be crushed.
There is no guarantee that these air strikes will stop Pakistan from future jihadist attacks on Indian soil. But, I would have been ashamed of India if we had just wrung our hands and whined as we did after 26/11.
We have to give Congress full marks for daring to attack the Election Commission for being partisan. Have they forgotten Election Commissioner M.S Gill who was rewarded with a seat in the Rajya Sabha and then made a minister?
Masood Azhar was kept in Indian jails for five years before we were forced to release him in exchange for the passengers of IC814. We need to ask why jihadist monsters spend so much time in Indian jails without trial and punishment.
Imran Khan’s speech at Islamabad airport yesterday was a call to ‘jehad’ in the name of Allah. His jehad he said was against the ‘fascist’ Modi government that ‘hates Muslims’. As irresponsible a speech by a political leader as ever made.
Really puzzled why no journalist at any of Rahul Gandhi’s press conferences asks him how Anil Ambani could be given ₹30,000 crores out of a contract that is totally less than ₹60,000 crores. Is this even possible???
The Campus Front of India (CFI) is the student wing of the Popular Front of India (PFI). The PFI is a jihadist organisation that in Kerala chopped off a professor’s hand. The CFI is behind the hijab protest. Just coincidence?
Can someone explain the point of Rahul Gandhi’s televised chats with international ‘experts’? They are in English so the purpose cannot be to impress Indian voters. What then are they for?
The ladies who assert that hijab is a matter of choice must explain why children were among those stopped outside schools today. Girls as young as ten were seen in hijab. Did they have a choice??
Opposition leaders trying to invalidate the Lok Sabha election in advance by complaining about EVMs should be ashamed. They know they work better than paper ballots. They wrong India by creating doubts about our democratic process.
Sunetra if I am so irrelevant why do you need to get so upset by what I write? I think you are a mediocre TV reporter but would never ask Prannoy to sack you. I just switch channels. Similarly just avoid reading my column.
The most shameful piece on
#Metoo
by Tavleen Singh- exposes her total ignorance. She is just so irrelevant and
@IndianExpress
should just stop her column because it peddles nonsense.
#TimesUp
As a Sikh who witnessed that pogrom let me say that expressing regret was useless. What should have happened was a full inquiry and after that punishment. This happened with Gujarat 2002. Not with 1984.
Both Sonia ji & Dr Manmohan Singh ji have expressed regret for 1984 riots.
@INCIndia
has also rehabilitated Sikhs who were displaced.
Has
@narendramodi
ever apologised for 2002? If anything, the
#BBCDocumentary
reveals that the only thing he regrets is not 'handling' the media!
Rahul Gandhi says that the RSS wants to take over the Supreme Court and the Election Commission and Congress does not. Disobedient judges were sacked by his Dadi and Election Commissioners became Congress ministers on retirement. Does he not know?
The Karnataka High Court is right when it says a school uniform is a reasonable restriction. This is no longer about ‘hijab’ but about radical Islamists trying to use Muslim students as pawns.
Asaduddin Owaisi is a Muslim leader who barely counts beyond municipal Hyderabad. The attention the media gives every new poisonous theory he spouts is dangerous. A whole community gets labeled because of his words.
Barkha Dutt has done more reporting on the Carona Emergency than all our news channels put together. Deepest respect Barkha from someone who knows how hard real reporting is.
No Ration Cards, No Food. From the village of Behrampur, Khatola in Haryana, an entire neighbourhood of migrant workers is unable to get atta, chawal or Dal. This is the story of Manish Kumar, not paid wages for March, bringing some food from a Gurudwara today after walking 8Kms
The arrogance of the Solicitor General of India is sickening. He told the Supreme Court that those speaking for our desperate migrant workers are ‘against the nation’. He forgets that the people are the nation and he is their servant.
Visited Jayapur village this morning that the Prime Minister adopted as one of his model villages. In the past five years have come two banks, a school, a new road, new facilities for drinking water and more. A mini-Modi wave here!
Just saw a group of veiled ‘students’ on India Today TV protesting outside a college gate. Why do they talk more like jihadi activists than students? What is really going on in Karnataka and who is behind it?
Hijab is not a matter of choice. Ever. It is an imposition by men who claim they know what Allah wants. So women on my timeline telling me that it’s different in India please stop.
Digvijay Singh just splattered the Bharat Jodo Yatra with garbage. When you question the army and our paramilitary forces you insult India not the Modi government.
Do you believe that the Indian justice system is so corrupted by politicians that major decisions can be influenced? Why then do you still practice law?
2007 : Samjhauta Express Bomb Blast
68 killed
NIA charged 8 accused
Verdict : No one knows who killed the 68 victims
Must be a proud day for our criminal justice system !
Sickening that instead of discussing catastrophic COVID mismanagement prime time anchors are banging on about a ‘toolkit’. The BJP used the same tactic to divert attention from the farmers protest. Why does the media get fooled?
New horror story: two young girls were threatened with eviction by their landlord from lodgings in Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar because they protested against the Home Minister’s walkabout. And, the BJP wonders why it is being seen as allergic to dissent?
People who worked in the PMO have named officials who carried government files to 10 Janpath. Former ministers admit taking orders from Sonia Gandhi. She was de facto PM then and will remain de facto Congress President now.
Yesterday, a senior journalist made a wild and outrageous allegation against Dr Manmohan Singh on an India Today TV show
She alleged that secret files of the PMO were taken to Congress President Mrs Sonia Gandhi in violation of the Official Secrets Act
Indians who believe there are two sides to what is going on in the Middle East must keep in mind that Hamas is a terrorist group. No different to ISIS. India had to stand by Israel. Well done Modi for doing this.
I believe that good news is also news so it saddened me to see that the Sanitation Conference in Delhi was ignored by the media. I met international experts there who said Swachch Bharat was the most successful sanitation program ever.
Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother won magnificently in the 1971 general election on the slogan of ‘ghareebi hatao’. If poverty still needs a ‘surgical strike’ fifty years later should Rahul not be asking why?
On Karan Thapar’s show yesterday academic Siddiq Wahid said the Modi government’s policy is to bring ‘civilizational’ change in Kashmir. If it is Hindutva versus Shariat then it must be done. There cannot be an Islamic state in Kashmir.
If MALLYA must be punished for running Kingfisher Airlines into the ground and not paying his loans back to the banks, what should be done to officials who did the same to Air India? Why has nobody ever been punished for this huge scam?
Rahul Gandhi says democracy is now just a memory in India forgetting that he was able to say this at a press conference. Would not have been possible if democracy had truly died.
Can anyone name Hindus arrested for inciting violence during the Delhi riots? For instance those who shouted ‘desh ke ghaddaron ko, goli maaro saalon ko’?
Disappointing to see the BBC report the latest tensions between India and Pakistan as being only about Kashmir. It is about jihadi terrorism that is in fact an undeclared war being waged against India. What did 26/11 have to do with Kashmir?
Soon after Faiz wrote the poem that is being examined by Indian academics for an anti-Hindu’ plot, I happened to meet his daughter. She gave me a tape recording. I played it for Jaswant Singh and Atalji and they loved it. How the BJP has changed!
Trolls launch mala fide campaign against India Today, use edited clips. This co-ordinated, vicious attack against
@indiatoday
journalists on social media for doing honest journalism is ill-informed and malicious. Story out on our website now:
I just met Pehlu Khan’s family and their story made me ashamed for India. They are unable to get justice because they got attacked on their way to court. And, not even the new Congress government in Rajasthan has offered any help.
Naveen Chawla was a loyal servant of the Dynasty before becoming Chief Election Commissioner. M.S Gill was made a member of the Rajya Sabha and a Congress minister after retirement from the Election Commission. And Congress has the nerve to talk!!
In Davos the Prime Minister is trying to project India as ‘open for business’ and in India his chief ministers cannot prevent goons from vandalizing cinemas just because they don’t like a movie. The rule of law is vital for investment. Right?
Never heard a politician as inarticulate as
@RahulGandhi
. It’s actually embarrassing to hear him get lost in the simplest of questions. “India’s foreign policy should reflect the nation transitioning from rural to urban” 🤣
Rahul Gandhi wins first prize for finding absurd reasons for the lynching epidemic. He tells a German audience that it is the fault of demonitization and GST which created mass unemployment. Really? Seriously?
Did the Prime Minister consult chief ministers before he announced his curfew? Did he warn them to make special arrangements for suddenly jobless and homeless migrant workers? If he did not the responsibility for mistakes is his alone.
@tavleen_singh
If everything should be done by the PM, then why do we have CMs ? The major responsibility for the migrant exodus is at the door steps of the CMs of respective States... Now, since CMs like Kejriwal are not able to handle it, the PM and his government will intervene...
Listening to P. Chidambaram at his first press conference after leaving Tihar Jail, felt a little like listening to an adult talk about the Indian economy after an aeon.
Does Yogi Adityanath know that it is only in totalitarian countries that private property is confiscated by the state arbitrarily? Does he know that India is a democracy and people have the right to protest? It is the duty of the state to prevent violence.
We journalists are supposed to write the first draft of history so let me put on record that I have never seen India in a worse moment. There have been bad times before but we always knew we could get through them. This time there is despair.
She tried to mock the Prime Minister with a fake laugh that sounded like a witch’s cackle. If you can dish it out Nidhi you have to be prepared to take the consequences. Whining later on is pathetic.
I salute Pradeep Bhandari whose poll was 90% right. He is the only psephologist who travels through the campaign personally to 400 constituencies. Well done Pradeep.
Hemanta Biswa Sarma at the India Today conclave said it was wrong of Sonia Gandhi to have said that she will not allow Narendra Modi to come back in 2019. This is feudalism he said it is not up to her but up to the people of India. Words of wisdom!
Having spent the morning in Shaheen Bagh I wish to report that the BJP spokesmen are lying when they say that the slogan is ‘Jinnah wali Azaadi’. Proof is in the video I uploaded earlier.
Does anyone remember that during the 1984 election campaign Rajiv Gandhi called all opposition leaders allied with the Akali Dal traitors? Does anyone remember that the entire Sikh community was demonised in campaign speeches?
Will someone explain why we need a National Register of Citizens? Do we not already have Aadhar cards and voter cards and PAN cards? So what really is the point of this NRC?
Much talk from ‘intellectuals’ these days about the destruction of democratic institutions under Modi. Do they remember that the Congress Party became a family firm, Parliament a club for political heirs and the PM’s office a joke in recent years?
Trying to understand the point of Rahul Gandhi’s protest outside CBI headquarters. Is there not a schoolboy’s juvenility about the Congress President’s efforts to protest on a daily basis about something or other?
I need to add that as a Sikh I know for sure that Guru Tegh Bahadur who the Prime Minister honours today would have stood with those who lost their homes and their dignity today.
Why are BJP spokespersons defending the Narcotics Control Bureau?? If it functions as an independent investigative arm of the Government of India why is a political defense needed??
Mr Gadkari needs to travel by road from Mumbai to Goa to see how his brand new highway has collapsed into a dirt trail. He needs to ask why India cannot build roads that survive rainy seasons.
So Kapil Sibal’s fascinating website that showed ‘huge corruption’ of the BJP during the campaign is now offering ‘erotic massages.’This is being revealed right now by India Today. Not even God can help the Congress Party!
Considering the protests and the damage they have done to India’s image why does the Prime Minister not consider tweaking CAA to make it non-discriminatory? Just say India welcomes all those persecuted for their faith as she always has.
There is a ‘concern’ now being shown by TV anchors for migrant workers that is obscene. Shame on them for shedding fake tears for people who have suffered because the media failed them when they really needed support.
Nupur Sharma is no heroine that needs support because she stood up against blasphemy or apostasy. She derided the Prophet knowing it would hurt Muslim sentiments. And, she did it as spokesperson of India’s ruling party. India is paying the price.
Gandhiji on Savarkar: ‘He is brave. He is clever. The evil, in its hideous form, of the present system of Government, he saw much earlier than I did’. This is from the second excellent biography of Savarkar I am reading, by Vaibhav Purandare.
Insulting me does not change the facts. Gujarat 2002 was the subject of two SITs, killers were identified and punished. There was a measure of justice. This never happened with 1984 which was not a riot but a pogrom. Not one Hindu was killed.