Crazy scenes from Rajya Sabha emerging this afternoon where division vote was denied for MPs.
Yet another day, when it's proven that, this govt is not interested in debate or discussion. Now it's not even interested in voting tbh.
BJP supporters will have a predictable reaction to this whole thing:
1) Opposition should be dealt with like this only. (Those unruly elements!) 2) Historic day, Historic bill, jai Modiji. 3) UPA did the same thing during Telangana formation. (So we will do it too yay!)
Don't fall for it.
Going by the visuals emerging from Rajya Sabha, it's clear the Farm Bill was bulldozed through because they knew there is more opposition to it than support.
Now only chest beating and screaming "WE DID IT! FOR THE FARMERS!" loudly is the plan.
Wrote this in 2018:
"Our Parliament is standing at the edge of a cliff right now. It’s up to the Modi government whether it wants to push it over the edge or pull it back to safety."
was going through the ethics committee report on Mahua Moitra's expulsion and found that stuff like THIS is being used as "evidence".
See no. 6. It's a question about allowing free and efficient trade between India & Bangladesh.
The reason given is Hiranandani has invested in Bangladesh so he wants free movement. 🤯
This evidence was given by Jai Anant Dehadrai to the committee and there are a lot more hastily scanned instances in the report of this.
"They (Mahua Moitra & Darshan Hiranandani) would talk secretly on the phone... she would take calls on the speaker. So I would end up hearing these conversations."
ok then.
Nishikant Dubey was asked how sharing of login credentials of an MP's NIC portal to a third person amounts to compromising national security.
This was his response.
(If someone can make sense of this, please let me know because I have no idea what this means.)
The ruling party (BJP) has received more than 5000 cr in donations through electoral bonds. The permissible limit for spending on elections in Lok Sabha is about 1 crore per candidate.
If BJP fields candidates in all constituencies, it will be max 545 crore that can be spent overall on Lok Sabha elections.
BJP has already received more than 10x of the permissible spending limit through electoral bonds in these 5 years. How is this allowed?
(I'm paraphrasing an argument made by Prashant Bhushan in SC)
The govt claimed during demonetization that they want to reduce the use of cash and turn India into a cashless society. But that doesn't seem to apply to political parties.
Parties and candidates standing for elections spend more than the permissible amount, but in cash or via proxies. The EC has admitted that it can't catch such candidates because they spend in cash.
If you want to reduce cash in politics and elections, just make a simple amendment saying 'cash spending by candidates during elections amounts to corruption'.
Instead of doing that, they have brought electoral bonds to donate to parties anonymously.
(I'm paraphrasing Prashant Bhushan's arguments in SC)
There is nothing in the Electoral Bonds scheme which says that the donation money is to be used only for election purposes. Political parties can spend their money any way they like.
Example: Party can use it to build swanky HQs, give advertisement to media houses in order to push their ideology, can be used to buy land, it can be used for anything.
The money coming through electoral bond is not tied to or restricted to only election expenses.
(I'm paraphrasing an argument made by Kapil Sibal in SC)
ok frenz, the electoral bonds hearing is coming up in Supreme Court tomorrow and it is going to be one of THE most crucial judgments that the SC has ever delivered.
If you are someone who doesn't know why, this is an oversimplified thread for you. 👀
👉 Electoral Bonds what?
it's a piece of paper that anyone can buy from a bank and give it to a political party. the political party can then go to the bank and get money in return for that piece of paper.
simply put, it's a currency that only political parties can use.
👉 Electoral Bonds why?
why this roundabout way of giving monies to political parties?
because parties don't want YOU to know WHO is giving money to them, and what they are doing for that donor in return.
by keeping the bank as a middleman, they hide their donors from YOU.