While Modi & sycophants devote themselves to guarding 56 inches, China intrudes kilometres deep into India, almost at will & with no consequences. Just a few incidents reported in Indian media (many of whom are complicit in the 56" protection plan)... ⬇️ #BorderKhatreMeHai
Jun 2017: PLA helicopters flew into Indian airspace in Barahoti, Uttarakhand. This was the fourth such incursion into Indian territory since Mar 2017... ndtv.com/india-news/ind…
Jul 2017: Even as the Doklam stand-off was underway, the PLA intruded into Barahoti, Uttarakhand... livemint.com/Politics/sj3LN…
Jul 2017: The waves of PLA intrusions into Barahoti, Uttarakhand continued, with soldiers entering Indian territory on Jul 24, 25, 26 and 30. There were previous reports of an intrusion on 15 Jul as well... news18.com/news/india/wav…
Dec 2017: A PLA road construction crew showed up in Bishing, Arunachal Pradesh, just months after the Doklam standoff threatened India's Siliguri corridor. Indian Govt sources claimed that they went back after Indian troops confronted them... business-standard.com/article/curren…
Data about 2018 Chinese intrusions, provided in Nov 2019: The Modi govt admitted that there were at least 326 Chinese incursions into Indian territory in 2018. It added that there were 273 in 2016 and 426 in 2017. dnaindia.com/india/report-3…
Aug 2019: The PLA intruded into Chaglagam, Arunachal Pradesh to build a bridge. Ironically it was BJP MP Tabir Gao who brought this to public attention. He added that there was a previously unreported Chinese incursion in Oct 2018 as well... thewire.in/security/bjp-a…
Sep 2019: Despite a Modi govt claim that road construction was prevented in Bishing, Arunachal Pradesh, satellite imagery presented evidence of a road at least a kilometre long in Indian territory, with what appeared to be military bases along it... theprint.in/opinion/satell…
Apr-Jun 2020: Multiple incursions by China's People Liberation Army in Ladakh - Bottleneck at Depsang, Patrol Point 14 in Galwan, PP15-17 in Gogra, Fingers 4-8 in Pangong Tso... livemint.com/opinion/online…
Nov 2020: China builds a 101 home village in Upper Subansiri district, Arunachal Pradesh. Revealed in Jan 2021. Tabir Gao flagged it in Nov2020 but his party & govt ignored him just like it did previously in 2019... ndtv.com/india-news/chi…
Sep 2021: A PLA horse-mounted patrol of 80-100 soldiers penetrated 5 Km into Indian territory in Barahoti, Uttarakhand. tribuneindia.com/news/nation/la…
Bizarrely, China is the only nation (of 10) whose FY21 bilateral trade with India GREW. The more China violates Indian sovereignty, the more trade Modi facilitates!
To add insult to injury, he expects us to think a ban on some apps is the right response to lives lost in Ladakh.
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If today's ruling dispensation somehow seized power on #15August 1947, notwithstanding its cowardly absence from the freedom struggle, what country would it have created? This thread of Golwalkar's thoughts & Organiser (RSS mouthpiece) OpEds offers clues.. #यह_आज़ादी_झूठी_है
The RSS was quite clear that Hindus, Hindu traditions, Hindu culture and Hindu ideas & aspirations are the sole foundation for India.
It didn't even wait for #IndependenceDay to declare its cultural nationalism, publishing this editorial on 14th Aug 1947...
Both the RSS (again on 14/08/47) and Golwalkar (in 1966) poured contempt & scorn on the #IndianFlag adopted for the new nation. Their preference was the Bhagwa Dhwaj which apparently was a "national emblem" for "thousands of years"...
Since Modi slid into the driver's seat, consumer fuel prices are "market-dictated" only on paper.
To ward off blow-back, BJP trolls peddle an Oil Bonds narrative to justify the world's worst oil & gas pricing/tax regime.
Do their 2 claims have any basis in fact? 🧵...
1. Who created Oil Bonds?
September 2000, Vajpayee-led NDA Govt's Petroleum Minister Ram Naik on fuel pricing regime:
"We have... a mixture of three options: adjustment of taxes & duties, issue bonds to control oil pool deficit & increase prices"... zeenews.india.com/home/petro-pro…
In Sep 2001, Ram Naik & FM Yashwant Sinha discussed dismantling the Administered Pricing Mechanism in petroleum products. The main concern: Dealing with subsidy-fuelled deficits created by the crude price rise at the time... tribuneindia.com/2001/20010923/…
Why is the Judiciary examining the Vaccination policies of the Modi govt in the first place? Fairly straight-forward justification provided...
Examining the changes forced upon the 18-44 year age group, the SC observes that the differential policy for them might, prima facie, be arbitrary & irrational...
It angers me that the financially illiterate Modi hoodwinks even decent people into believing him. For eg., he peddled the lie that only a small %age of Indians pay tax (Not income tax. Tax).
This thread is a layperson's guess of how many people are liable to pay INCOME tax...
Modi's Minister of State for Finance, Anurag Thakur, made an equally idiotic statement - apparently only 1% of Indians pay income tax... businesstoday.in/current/econom…
Should he not take into account how many Indians earn any income, a basic pre-requisite to pay income tax in the first place?
And of those earning incomes, should he not factor in a basic tenet of Indian Income Tax rules - agricultural income is tax-exempt?...
We have so many dire existential threats in India - the #ToolkitCase and Nupur's iPhones - that we might have missed this hilarious story. South Africa received its 1st shipment of #COVID19 vaccine a couple of weeks ago... reuters.com/article/us-hea…
Apparently someone was furious tht @CyrilRamaphosa didn't acknowledge Indian Govt & Serum Institute for "generously allocating" vaccines.
"Attorneys", Kirshen Naidoo & Co, shot off an incendiary letter on behalf of unnamed clients, demanding tht he apologize for his "error"...
This amazing act of generosity is fake news, as @KathradaFound explains. South Africa had paid @AstraZeneca (twice the cost of the vaccine in Europe) & the latter got Serum Institute to ship it. The Indian govt had made no "sacrifice", in fact had no role to play at all...
Delhi Police say the "Toolkit" called for economic, social, cultural & regional war against India...
All it contained, based on screenshots & reports, was info about the Farm Bills & #FarmersProtest, and suggested actions one could take to express solidarity with the farmers... amp.scroll.in/article/985946…