Thanks @YadavAkhilesh ji for introducing my bestseller book - ‘The Monk Who Became Chief Minister’ in the UP assembly
Btw as per dictionary, ‘Monk’ means member of a religious community living under vows of poverty, chastity & obedience
Thread for you Akhilesh Ji - 1/n
.@YadavAkhilesh Ji - This book & it’s sequel are available in 12 indian languages and they use the word - योगी, साधु, सन्यासी in title
It’s available in English, Hindi,Telegu, Tamil, Malyalam, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Bengali, Sanskrit & Urdu - 2/n
.@yadavakhilesh ji - I am sure you will be proud that an independent book on a leader of Uttarpradesh & by an author from UP reached the libraries of @Harvard, @Stanford, @UChicago, @Cornell, @UCBerkeley, US Congress library and many others globally 🌎 - 3/n
- Let’s don’t allow @yadavakhilesh to malign EVMs & the robust electioneering process by Election commission of India, @ECISVEEP
- Check at how many stages in the whole election process every party’s representatives sign, check & approve
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Step 1 : After every elections EVMs are re-calibrated (old data is cleaned) and kept in strong rooms in view of all party’s representatives
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Step 2: For a particular election, EVMs are brought & randomisation (randomly selection of which EVM will go to which polling both) is done & random checks of EVMs are also done in front of all party’s representatives. During randomisation, election observers are present
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Fresh prints of Ramcharit Manas, Bhagwat Geeta in binding machine, Hanuman Chalisa’s art work done, Shiv Puran ready for stacking.Had divine 4 hrs at Geeta Press, Gorakhpur
With 1800 active titles, 2.25 Cr annual prints, Geeta Press is doing a huge service to Sanatan Parampara
It was an enriching discussion with Lal Mani Tiwari ji at Geeta Press. He told us the history behind founding of Geeta Press, Why in Gorakhpur, How they operate, how people who don’t like their work, try to create problems and how Bhagwan give them power to fight back 🪔
Lal Mani ji told us that founder ‘Jaya Dayal Goyanka’ read the 68th Shloka of chapter 18 of Geeta, which says spreading the learnings of Geeta is the best way to reach God. And so he started printing Geetas & named it ‘Geeta Press’. GD Jalan ji helped in setting up press in GKP
How Indira Gandhi mishandled the Bangladesh issue (mark the dates)
1-Pak’s military ruler Yahya Khan declared polls in Dec 1970.
2-Sheikh Mujibur Rehman Won big time in East Pakistan and so Yahya Khan ordered a crackdown on 25th March 1970. Indira Gandhi did nothing
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3- On 25th May 1971, Atal Ji shook Indira Gandhi Govt in parliament & asked the Govt to intervene to end genocide in west Pak, to recognise B’desh, to awaken the world about what’s happening in west Pak
Indira Gandhi still did not do anything (2/n)
4- On 2nd July, 1971, Jana Sangh passed a resolution in Udaipur to mobilise public opinion on Pak’s barbarism,recognising Swadhin B’desh,release of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman & asked Govt for military action against Pak’s aggression on our borders
On Deen Dayal Upadhaya Ji’s Jyanti, I want to share excerpts frm my book-BJP: Past, Present & Future
- Dr Mukherjee said - If I get two deendayals, I can change the face of Indian politics
- Deen Dayal ji said - BJS is a party with a difference. amzn.to/2QrApll
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One of the prime agenda of BJS initially under Deen Dayal Upadhaya was - Stopping Religious Conversions, a Uniform Civil Code and Goa’s liberation (2/n)
- After the murder/death of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukjerjee, @INCIndia & Nehru ji tried to break BJS
- How BJS under Deen Dayal ji constantly denounced Nehru Ji’s opposition to Hindi & Hindus. (3/n)