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17 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
TMC manifesto released by @MamataOfficial lacks any credibility whatsoever due to complete failure to fulfill promises of previous manifestos.

TMC has been in office for 10 years. Their promises must be judged on their past record of delivery and on that they come a cropper. 1/5
Promise in 2016: @AITCofficial promised to supply water to 2 Crore Households.

Delivery: West Bengal severely lags behind in Jal Jeevan Mission.

In 2020-21, only 11.37 lakh tap connections have been provided against a target of 55.58 lakhs - Just 20% delivery! 2/5
Promise in previous manifestos: @AITCofficial claimed to "bring in a new a new wave in the industrialization of Bengal".

Delivery: WB's ranking in EODB remains stagnant – 11 in 2015 and 9 in 2019. WB received less than 1% of total FDI inflows between Oct 19 and Dec 20. 3/5
Promise in 2011: @AITCofficial promised to "complete the process of APMC reforms-in key areas like direct farming, contract farming, setting up of private mandis etc."

Delivery: In 2021, TMC has forgotten farmers & wants to stop central farm laws that are doing exactly this! 4/5
India has raced ahead at much faster pace than what Bengal under TMC has been doing. This includes skills and education opportunities in polytechnics, ITIs and medical seats and jobs.

Look at water mission progress (graphic). That is why people of Bengal are seeking change. 5/5

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9 Dec 20
MyGov has released an excellent booklet "Putting Farmers First" which not only covers in detail the current #FarmLaws2020 but also lays out in structured summarized format the work done by the Modi government in the last 6 years.
Some snippets. 1/10

On the current #FarmLaws2020, there is much debate as to what may or may not happen.

WHAT WILL NOT HAPPEN
MSP will not go away; APMC Mandis will not close; Farmers land cannot be taken way

WHAT WILL HAPPEN
Farmers can sell in Mandis & outside; More income; More jobs. 2/10
So what was the need for #FarmLaws2020 reforms when as per Left groups all was well?

1) Fragmented markets
2) Insufficient markets
3) Inadequate Infra
4) Inadequate credit

While rest of the economy was opening up, farmers were restricted. Result - Huge Income Disparity. 3/10
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26 Nov 20
What has always baffled me is why did India not respond at all after #MumbaiTerrorAttack on 26/11 in 2008?

Even minor countries respond in at least some military way after a terror attack. But consider what India faced in just 2008 alone (attached chart) and yet no response? 1/5
More than 450 Indians had been murdered in terrorists attacks in 2008 alone. 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007 had not been any less brutal years.

And yet, despite all of this carnage kind of culminating into the #MumbaiTerrorAttacks on 26/11, the Congress government kept silent. Why? 2/5
One plausible explanation could be that the decision makers inside government were compromised.

For example, we now know, through his own views, that Shiv Shankar Menon (FS in 2008) feels that it is legitimate for USA to decide India's policies. Was he compromised then? 3/5
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10 Nov 20
Once-in-a-century global pandemic.
Economic dislocation across the country.
Migrant hardships.
15 years of anti-incumbency.
Entire media ecosystem aligned against you.

Yet, the NDA wins with complete majority in Bihar.
BJP performs phenomenally.
#BiharElectionResults2020 1/10
Comfortable reelection of BJP led NDA in Bihar and its sweeping victories in the by-polls, across the length and breadth of the country, is a testimony to the phenomenal popularity of PM Modi.
This popularity is not media or PR built but because of hard work on the ground. 2/10
The continued popularity of PM Modi also holds lessons. both for his detractors as well as his well wishers.

To the well wishers: Think about what did PM Modi get right in dealing with the COVID pandemic? Some of it may not sound sexy or set the pulse racing, but it works. 3/10
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26 Oct 20
Sonia Gandhi says in HT article "fundamental right to freedom of expression has been systematically suspended through suppression and intimidation."

I agree.

Where is this happening?

In Congress ruled Maharashtra where EVERY JOURNALIST of a media house has FIR against them.1/5
Sonia Gandhi says in HT article"institutions that are meant to uphold the rights of citizens and society at large have been co-opted or subverted."

I agree.

Where is this happening?

In Congress ruled Maharashtra where institutions are functioning as party office extensions.2/5
Sonia Gandhi says in HT article "system unleashes investigative agencies on dissenters"

I agree.

Where is this happening?

In Congress ruled Maharashtra where people have been arrested for mere social media posts and / or their homes razed for merely voicing opinion. 3/5
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24 Sep 20
Some salient features of the four labour codes passed by Parliament. #LabourReforms

There existed 44 central labour laws. 12 of them had been previously repealed.

Now 29 acts comprising 1232 sections subsumed into hugely simplified just 4 acts with 479 sections. 1/10
1) Code on Wages: Subsumes 4 acts into 1.

Features:
>Statutory right for minimum & timely wages for ALL workers - organised and unorganized
>542 different classifications of minimum wages standardized to just 12
>Skill to be a determinant in fixing wage.

#LabourReforms 2/10
2) Industrial Relations Code: Subsumes 3 acts into 1

Features:
>No prior permission needed for upto 300 workers for retrenchment (earlier limit 100)
>Fixed term employment. Workers can now be directly hired with all benefits without middlemen contractors.

#LabourReforms 3/10
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21 Sep 20
Answers to some of the questions being raised after the passage of the #FarmBill2020.

1) If MSP will stay why not write it in the bill?

Because MSP has always been an administrative mechanism and NOT legislative. This allows flexibility to increase it as and when needed. 1/10
Answers to some of the questions being raised after the passage of the #FarmBill2020.

2) How will MSP be ensured in private transactions?

Private trade will be ABOVE rate of MSP. That is the whole point. Farmer will go to private people when they get rates MORE than MSP. 2/10
Answers to some questions after the passage of the #FarmBill2020.

3) Modi govt has weakened MSP.

Let the numbers speak.
UPA in 2009-14 purchased 1.52 LMT pulses as MSP.
NDA in 2014-19 purchased 76.85 LMT at MSP.
For oil seeds numbers are 3.65 and 30.17 LMT respectively.

3/10
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