In his 2012 book Pax Indica, @ShashiTharoor said there are some 20 million illegal Bangladeshis in India. He wrote about them disparagingly, as though they were termites that had "disappeared into the Indian woodwork". Now he remembers Tagore.
In 2005, it was Tharoor's govt, the UPA, that proposed urgency in the drafting and the updating of the NRC in Assam.
The UPA Home Minister said he feared Assam could one day have a Bangladeshi chief minister. PM Manmohan Singh chaired the meeting. timesnownews.com/india/article/…
Also in 2005, Mamata Banerjee, outraging today, threw papers at the speaker, demanding a discussion on the scourge of illegal Bangladeshi migration.
She even resigned but her resignation was poorly drafted and misdirected and therefore wasn't accepted. indiatoday.in/india/story/wh…
For the agenda-driven journalists:
The #NRC is a Supreme Court-mandated and strictly monitored exercise.
As many as 300 tribunals have been set up and the 1.9 million whose names are missing can approach these in the next 4 months, after which they can appeal to the High Court.
For all its bluster & tough-talk on illegal immigration, the @narendramodi govt found only 1822 illegal Bangladeshi nationals to deport in the last four years, LESS than what the UPA managed in a single year.
While I approve of, and applaud, both, the CAB and the NRC - and believe them to be disconnected exercises, here I explain on @TimesNow, a scenario where they are used in combination. Do watch.
Enough is enough. India, open your eyes and see through this vile game being played by the gangrenous, feeding on crumbs, fake-news peddling, agenda-driven anti-CAA lobby.
Understand the Congress psyche. They can go to ANY length. For them the CAA has become the proverbial Big Tree, and they want to make it fall; they want the earth to shake again.
The Congress thrust the religious on to the roads and now they are openly asserting their identity through supremacist chants, and abusing the nervous Congress.
The journalists & activists who incited the poor and the impressionable Muslims to brave biting cold on the roads, are busy frolicking now in Paris & New York. Ye hai inke rishte ki asliyat!
The anti-CAA protests are politically and religiously motivated and bereft of any logic or rationale. The people of India have seen through this charade.
Hinduphobic chants; kids being incited; census women being attacked; livelihoods of pro-CAA people being threatened - it is almost as though Direct Action Day 2.0 has been unleashed.
Didn't know donning a burkha, for going undercover or simply wanting to feel safe in a mainly burkha-clad gathering, was a crime. Esp as one has witnessed in Shaheen Bagh mobs chasing female reporters from channels the protestors hate.
Stay safe, @gunjakapoor. We are with you.
Shaheen Bagh. What started as a small illegal sit-in has turned into a small island nation, with its own economy, its own defence, and its own ethno-ideological immigration policy.
Disappointed with the hon'ble Supreme court order for mediation, for something that the court itself considers illegal. The right to protest is NOT the right to prevent.
The Shaheen bagh mediation process has turned into a complete farce, especially after the involvement of Teesta Setalvad - the Magna Carta of lies and fraud.
The protesters of Shaheen Bagh are least bothered about kudrati corona. They are not bound by any man-made law. And their handlers, the useful idiots, don't get this.
To battle an epidemic you need sanity more than sanitiser. It is insane that Shaheen Bagh is being allowed and thousands of lives are being put at risk.
On the arrests of Shaheen bagh and Jamia activists under the UAPA, and the shameless hypocrisy of the Congress and the Left outraging against this charge.
Hate pays, but only for the shepherds; the lambs proceed to the slaughter house.
My views on @TimesNow with @RShivshankar, on the Shaheen Bagh protests leading to the Delhi riots, for which the court has admitted the charges.
Delay in CAA implementation is unacceptable. Hope the Centre is not thinking of dropping the CAA altogether just because bigots and Islamists pushed it into a corner.
CAA, as I explain here, is our MORAL OBLIGATION. My views on @TimesNow, on #CAADelay.
In wanting to resurrect and stir massive Shaheen Bagh-like protests in UP, Owaisi has picked the wrong man. One can almost imagine Yogi Adityanath calling him up and whispering: Tu aayega na, darega toh nahin?
The first quanta of royalties from Hindus in Hindu Rashtra [] has arrived - ₹ 51,000. Thanks, @BluOneInk.
As promised, and in gratitude, donating the entire sum, first up, to Sewa Nyaya run for Hindu Refugees by @swati_gs & @SanjeevSanskrit. Thank you. amzn.eu/d/8xKNucg
2. The second instalment of the royalties from Hindus in Hindu Rashtra is here from @BluOneInk - ₹ 1,35,000. In gratitude, donating the entire sum to Nimittekam, an organisation run for Hindu refugees by @JaiAahuja and @satyanveshan. Thank you.
3. Third instalment of the royalties from Hindus in Hindu Rashtra is here from @BluOneInk - ₹ 1,05,000. In gratitude, donating the entire sum to Kashmiri Medical Emergency & Charitable Trust that works for Kashmiri Hindus living in camps. Thanks.
Hindus in Hindu Rashtra: Victims of State-sanctioned Apartheid.
My talk expounding on eight reasons why Hindus have been reduced to not just second-class citizens but, rather, eighth-class citizens in their own country.
Reason 1: State control of Hindu temples
Hindus in Hindu Rashtra: Victims of State-sanctioned Apartheid. Eight reasons why Hindus have been reduced to not just second-class citizens but, rather, eighth-class citizens in their own country.
Reason 2: The injustice towards Kashmiri Hindus
Eight reasons why Hindus have been reduced to not just second-class citizens but, rather, eighth-class citizens in their own country.
How can a 1500-year-old Tamil Nadu temple be adjudged by Waqf to be on Islamic land when Islam is only 1300 years old?
The only way stubble burning can be banned is if we call it Parali Dahan, a Hindu festival wherein according to the Atharva veda, lord Vishnu burnt demon king Paralisura when he enslaved Maruts and storm king Rudra. Only then will it be banned.
My views:
For those blaming Diwali for the state of Delhi air, here's some perspective: An area of 17,900 sqkm, or 12 times the size of Delhi, is on fire, right now, right next to Delhi. 35 million tonnes of stubble is being burnt.
This is the current situation in Punjab. Absolute MURDER.
We are outraging only because Delhi is affected by farm fires. 98 million tonnes of stubble is burnt every year in India, ALL YEAR round.
Punjab recorded a crazy 1842 farm fires yesterday. Forget politicians, there ought to be a class action suit against Supreme court judges.
“Old and SENILE men like Periyar deserve a place more in a lunatic asylum than in public life. It is HIGH time Periyar and his followers were BANISHED from this land.” - Jawaharlal Nehru
Dare you to say Pt Nehru was an idiot to have said this for Periyar. Don’t run away. WDTT
Shifting goalposts and slinking away from answering straight can work on twitter but I’m afraid the ED and CBI won’t fall for such tricks. Was about to suggest you get some interrogation training but then I remembered you’ve been home-schooled at this.
Ha ha, If only you were able to shift your wealth as smoothly as you do goalposts, you’d be safe. Now pay attention, double O six. Fascism was when you went crying to your dad in 2012 and got a man arrested for his harmless tweet. It is you who pines for that past. Bye now. WDTT
This is unacceptable and OUTRAGEOUS. @Twitter has indefinitely blocked journalist @AartiTikoo for this tweet, where she is looking out for her brother @TikooSahil_ whose life is being threatened by terrorists. Twitter are you mad? Unblock Aarti. RIGHT NOW.
Bravo, @AartiTikoo. BRAVO. Never bow down to these terror apologists at @Twitter.
Dear @Rajeev_GoI. Please take note of this ridiculous and bizarre situation. A sister is being punished for protecting her brother. Never seen anything like it.
Laton ke bhoot baton se nahin mante. Aarti takes @Twitter to court for acting against her when all she was trying to do was protect her brother @TikooSahil_ from terrorists.
More power to you, @AartiTikoo. Sahil must be so proud to have a sis like you. And shame on you, @paraga.
Exact opposite happened. Govt provided choice on APMC, gave option on contract farming, amended ECA promised by INC, even decriminalised farm fires; while the other side pillaged, raped, murdered, blocked highways.
Do you hire cartoonists or propagandists, @timesofindia? WDTT
UNREAL blend of Hindu hatred and Scientific ignorance: 1. Suggesting that evolution is incomplete if you don't convert into Abrahamic religions; 2. Claiming that religions that contradict evolution complete evolution.
Do you hire cartoonists or propagandists, @News9Tweets? WDTT
@timesofindia Crazy. Trying to project Elon Musk stifling free speech like the tinpot dictator Idi Amin when he is the exact opposite and trying to rid twitter of Idi Amins, this is not propaganda anymore, this is psychopathy.
No one has ruined Laxman's legacy like the newspaper he drew for.