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Sep 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/5. पंतप्रधान मोदी वारंवार सांगतायत अ) ते किमान हमीभाव संपुष्टात येऊ देणार नाहीत आणि ब) २०२२ पर्यंत शेतकऱ्यांचं उत्पन्न ते दुप्पट करतील. उत्तम. मग ही हमी देणारं ५ मुद्द्यांचं विधेयक ते का आणत नाहीत? आधीसारखा विरोध न होता ते विधेयक बिनविरोध पारित होईल.
#FarmBill2020
2/5. या विधेयकात - किमान हमीभावाची (स्वामीनाथन सूत्राप्रमाणे – ज्याचं वचन भाजपने २०१४ साली दिलंय) हमी असेल. कोणताही बडा व्यापारी, कंपनी किंवा ‘नव ग्राहक’ हमीभावाहून कमी किंमतीत शेतमाल उचलणार नाही. तसंच खरेदीची हमी असेल, जेणेकरून हमीभावाची थट्टा होणार नाही.
#FarmBill2020
3/5. आणि, हे विधेयक शेतकरी आणि शेतमजुरांवरचं कर्ज रद्द करेल. कर्जाचा बोजा असताना त्यांचं उत्पन्न २०२२ काय, २०३२ मध्येही दुप्पट होणं शक्य नाही. किमान हमीभाव व शेतकऱ्यांचं उत्पन्न दुप्पट करणं पंतप्रधानांचं स्वतःचं वचन असताना विरोध कोण करेल?
#FarmBill2020
4/5. आधीची तीन विधेयकं बळाने रेटली तरी किमान हमीभाव आणि शेतकरी कर्ज रद्द करण्याचं हे विधेयक (दोन्ही स्वतःचीच वचनं असल्याने) पंतप्रधान मोदी स्वतःच लावून धरतील. धाकदपटशाने संसदेतली टीका-टिप्पणीही चिरडून टाकण्याची वेळच येणार नाही – कारण फारसा विरोध नसेलच.
#FarmBill2020
5/5. तसंही या सरकारने राज्याच्या अखत्यारीत असणाऱ्या कृषी विषयात ढवळाढवळ केलीये मग असं विधेयक आणायला त्यांचे हात कुणी बांधलेत? संघराज्य प्रणाली आणि राज्यांच्या अधिकारांची तमा आहे हे कारण यामागे नक्कीच नाही. तसंही यासाठी लागणारा पैसाही केवळ केंद्राकडेच आहे.
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1/8. Most Indians see the Big Fat Indian Wedding as a national achievement and are not put off by it, according to TV commentary, including on BBC. Really? Did BBC, anyone, do a poll/survey of most Indians? People hit the streets for what they see as a national achievement – like to greet the returning T20 world cup winning team. Anyone seen Mumbaikars dancing on the streets to celebrate the Ambani wedding? #ambaniwedding #psainathPhoto: Ritayan Mukherjee
2/8. In our decades-old ongoing agrarian crisis, lakhs of weddings in farming communities have collapsed. In one year, Maharashtra officially recorded more than 3 lakh families in just six districts with daughters whose marriages they could not afford. That was a factor in some farmer suicides – followed in some cases by the suicides of the daughters, feeling responsible for their fathers’ deaths. I doubt the countryside sees the BFIW as a national achievement. #ambaniwedding #psainath
3/8. Sure, there’s celebration in some media. You know who India’s biggest media baron is. Those media Mukesh Ambani does not own – he’s likely the biggest advertiser. And this is the era of Editor/ Anchor as Event Manager. There may be dancing in some TV studios, and breathless prose in print. What stands out is the absence of an iota of embarrassment in the wedding’s hosts and their celebrity guests both national and global – only the arrogance of excess, and a scarcity of shame. This crowd manages to give vulgarity a bad name. On this occasion, though, there was some stout scepticism on social media. #ambaniwedding #psainath
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1/5. And so the BJP lost the Faizabad (Ayodhya) Lok Sabha seat. Has Lord Ram fought his last electoral battle for them? Or did he resent being politicized for cheap partisan gain? Or maybe he figured out who the ten-headed monster really was?
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2/5. Truth: the seat has never been all that favourable to the BJP. In 1989, even as the mandir agitation raged, the Faizabad LS seat went to Mitrasen Yadav of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He faced more than one assassination attempt.
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1/6. Tata Institute of Social Sciences suspension of Dalit scholar P. S. Ramadas for alleged ‘anti-national’ activity is appalling. This must mark the lowest point TISS has seen in its distinguished history in both leadership and action.#TISS #DALIT
2/6. To one who has been part of and later followed student activity on Indian university campuses for 50 years, Ramadas signifies the finest trend – that of the conscious, informed, student who always connects to the society around him with sensitivity and empathy. #TISS #DALIT
3/6. The peculiarly vicious and vindictive action of the present TISS authorities damages an otherwise highly respected institution more than it does Ramadas. Their claims of what are ‘anti-national’ activities are a dead giveaway. #TISS #DALIT
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1/6. ‘Tipu Sultan was the only prince who died fighting the British… With (his death) Indian Independence was extinguished for a century and a half.’ Not quotes from Karnataka’s new government but from a BJP founder-member. Story link at end of thread.
#Karnataka #TipuSultan
2/6. BJP founder-member and foremost RSS journalist K.R. Malkani wrote decades ago: ‘The more I read about Tipu, the more I am impressed with his rich personality.’ His heartfelt praise of Tipu appears in his book ‘India First’ (Ocean Books 2002).
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3/6. K. R. Malkani was Vice President of BJP from 1991-94. And editor of the RSS weekly Organiser for 35 years, while also editor of its Hindi counterpart Panchjanya. No other RSS man ever climbed such heights. L.K. Advani wrote the foreword to his book.
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1/8. Was Independence the gift of a few Oxbridge elites? As Gandhi put it, not great men, but ‘the people themselves are the cause’ of revolutions. My book The Last Heroes: Footsoldiers of Indian Freedom (Penguin) out in November, looks at 16 such people.
#IndependenceDay2022
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#IndependenceDay2022
3/8. The youngest freedom fighter in this book is 92, the oldest 104. Ordinary people who stood up to the British, unsure if they would ever see the freedom they fought for. They never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high office.
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1/7. Home Minister Amit Shah recently declared that “No one can stop us from writing history anew” (ToI June 11). The outrageous arrest of Teesta Setalvad shows we’re not just rewriting the past. But our contemporary era and present as well.
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