This government never intended to discharge what millions of us regard as its duties. It simply took the pandemic as an extremely useful tool gifted to it by the gods to further its agenda — to stifle dissent, to topple Opposition state governments, to ‘win’ elections. (1/n)
In any democracy worth the name, just one of these two botch-ups — the demonetization fiasco and the floundering response to Chinese aggression and the ensuing cover-up — would have led to the fall of a government. (2/n)
Even as Modi's ‘brand expansion’ has grown to mind-boggling levels, his promises have crashed and burned. Under this regime, corruption has been rocketed into another dimension, so much so that the word itself becomes inadequate to describe it (3/n)
For the survival of our country, Narendra Modi needs to go. Amit Shah needs to go. Ajay Mohan Bisht aka Yogi Adityanath needs to go. The bunch of integrity-free incompetents Modi has gathered around him as his ministers all need to go. (4/4) telegraphindia.com/opinion/breaki…
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1. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare report submitted on November 25 last year clearly predicted a second wave and highlighted shortages of medical oxygen and hospital beds.
The govt slept over that report for 5 long months newslaundry.com/2021/04/28/mps…
2. The report said: "spikes in Covid cases are still being seen in affected regions and India is yet to reach its peak. India must also be prepared to combat a possible second wave of Corona..." and "inadequate healthcare spending with no focused budget for Covid”
3. It said “The committee is of the view that Districts and States with poor public health sectors need to be identified on priority and provided the required infrastructure for tracing, testing and treatment by providing the required financial aid.”
Nothing happened
“In a pandemic vaccines are a public good . Public goods should be paid through pooled resources by the government. That’s what’s happening around the world." (1/n) ft.com/content/617aeb…
By giving a free hand to manufacturers to determine the price is a situation which puts everybody at a disadvantage. (2/n)
The government is making states compete with the private sector on a differential pricing basis. The younger rich can go and buy vaccines from the private sector and the poor lose out. (3/n)
Thread on important revelations of @Mediapart
expose 3 on Rafale 36 deal. 1. Sushen Gupta accessed the details of the bench marking price of Rafale deal calculated by the INT and complete revised proposal submitted by the EADS consortium from MoD. mediapart.fr/en/journal/int…
2. one of the spread sheet (dated 20 January 2016) Enforcement Directorate recovered shows that Sushen Gupta suggested an overall deal value of 7.87 billion euros - the exact amount Dassault proposed and Indian govt accepted, overruling the benchmark price decided by experts.
3. Dev Mohan Gupta's sons Sushen and Sushant are on good terms with (then) BJP Chief Amit Shah, (then) Finance minister Arun Jaitley and (then) IAF Chief Arup Raha.
For all those who are saying children should not be used for politics:
Haven’t seen such comments on videos when young kids are wearing khakhi knickers and marching with lathis or not when people are trained in lethal weapons in the name of RW politics
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No such outrage heard on when the khakhi knickerdhaaris flouted every Indian and international law on child right to traffic 31 young tribal girls from Assam to Punjab and Gujarat to ‘Hinduise’ them. magazine.outlookindia.com/story/operatio…
“The behaviour and conduct of members of the higher judiciary must reaffirm the people’s faith in the impartiality of the judiciary. Any act of a Judge of the SC or a HC, whether in official or personal capacity, which erodes the credibility of this perception has to be avoided.”
Quoted from “Restatement of Values of Judicial Life (1999) – CODE OF JUDICIAL ETHICS”
Clause 8 reads: “A judge shall not enter into public debate or express his views in public on political matters....”
Arun Mishra publicity praised PM Narendra Modi
Four senior most judges of the Indian Supreme Court held an press conference - a first in Indian Judicial history. One of the major contentions was that the then CJI was allocating politically sensitive cases involving BJP leaders only to benches led by Arun Mishra