2 stunning changes AAP made to its constitution in January

1. Removed term limits to make Kejriwal party boss indefinitely

2. Removed ban on family members contesting (road clear for Kejri's son/daughter)

BJP still has term limits and is not family firm

AAP changed in 9 yrs
The reason I mention AAP is because it's based in Delhi.

We all still remember how AAP started, it's early idealism and rhetoric.

It took just 9 years for AAP to become a copy of Lalu's RJD.

This is how most parties in India work ... BJP is a huge exception.
This is not to say BJP is wonderful.

This is to show just how dirty politics is.

See how quickly AAP became RJD.

The fact that BJP is still not RJD is exceptional.
And I am also not criticizing AAP here.

This is what politics is.

Kejriwal made one compromise...then another ... then another...he did not even realize when he became Lalu Yadav.

This is the lure of power. If you got it tomorrow, chances are you would become like him too!

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14 May
Delhi Sultanate/Mughal rule was actually worst time for India.

Does anyone know of a big scientific advance from India during that time?

When this period began, India was at same point as Europe.

When it ended, India was hundreds of years behind.
Due to their fanaticism, Mughals destroyed religious centers of knowledge all across India.

All across Europe, religious centers gradually evolved into the world's greatest universities.
Mughals lacked all vision. They never even understood the importance of a navy.

Unlike the Cholas for instance.

India was rich during Mughal time, but as technologically backward, with no navy, it was only a matter of time before European navies arrived and snatched the wealth
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28 Apr
People don't realize how differently the pandemic would have been covered if a liberal was PM right now.

In New York, 6000 Covid deaths were covered up in nursing homes.

Liberal NY governor got so much praise that news anchors said they are feeling sexually attracted to him.
Now imagine: if media can hide thousands of bodies in a place like New York, do you see how easily they would have covered up things in India?

The liberal governor got so much positive coverage he made millions selling his book on how to fight the pandemic!
In India as well, have you seen a single story of mismanagement from liberal ruled Maharashtra?

Four deadly hospital fires in about a month, but according to media, every single thing is working perfectly.
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26 Apr
In this entire second wave, the only party other than BJP that got any criticism was AAP.

You know why?

Because AAP made some deft soft Hindutva moves.

Ecosystem took away their protective umbrella.

Sena, Cong, TMC, CPM, etc have not got even 1 line of criticism.
Now you can say Kejriwal was "opportunistic" in his soft Hindutva, but in politics, 99% is opportunism.

Ecosystem can forgive everything, but they cannot forgive even a slight pro-Hindu tilt.
This is the reason India has 100s of "secular" parties but just one Hindutva party.

Being in secular camp is shield that protects against all criticism.

Nobody dares leave the shield.

Kejriwal is a risk taker. He thought why not try copying BJP a little? He is paying a price.
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Headline from The Hindu on Feb 15, 2021:

"Mahapanchayats giving timely impetus to farmers’ protest"

Ecosystem was gleefully sharing pictures of crowded mahapanchayats held all across Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and UP.

Who gave people the message to stop worrying about Covid?
See Wire senior editor Arfa Khanum reporting without a mask from "mahapanchayats"

Who gave the message to people to stop worrying about Covid?
See coverage of "mahapanchayats" from NDTV to Times of India to Indian Express.

Who gave the message to people to forget the pandemic?
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Few months ago, ecosystem was proudly showing the whole world that "world's largest protest" happening in India, by farmers

For 3 months, people saw saturation coverage on TV screen that told them not to worry about pandemic

But now it's Modi's fault that everyone became casual
See CNN on March 6, 2021

What message was this sending to people all over India?
See Slate on Dec 9, 2020
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Upshot of the US election is this.

Extreme left thought whole country was with them as a reaction to Trump.

This turned out to be totally wrong. (1/n)

In retrospect, the left was looking at "mahaul" over data.
From the beginning of the Democrat nomination, the far left thought Bernie would sweep.

But Iowa itself rejected Bernie and moderate Pete Buttigieg won.

(2/n)
As the nomination progressed, Communist Bernie fell behind miserably.

Nomination went to hardcore establishment guy Biden.

Far left wanted a Communist as the nominee. Ordinary democrats wanted Biden.

(3/n)
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