#ShivSena Chief @OfficeofUT 's speech on the occasion of #DasaraMelava - My take:
Caveat : I heard only 30 mnts or so at the end. 1. He made a distinction between #Hindutva as practiced by RSS & as understood by him. He said - my Hindutva doesn't make me hate people.
2. RSS Chief's persistent claim that all Indians had the same ancestors, meaning Hindus - UT had a 2 fold answer - If you talk of the ancestors, you will have to go back to monkeys, and, if ancestors of all Indians were Hindus - why u behave as if ancestors of opposition ..
leaders came from a different planet. [Methinks, this is an effective counter (given the charged & gullible citizens) to the trope of claiming superiority of race by the Sangh Pariwar. 3. He spoke about federalism. He stressed that Maharashtra is being discriminated against.
On the eve of #75thIndependenceDay : I want to address fellow citizens: I know I'm inconsequential. I also know that I'm the ultimate source of power. The power of my Corporator, the MLA, the Chief Minister, the Prime Minister, the CJ of my High Court, the CJI ...
All of them assume power from me. They're there to 'serve' me & you.
How would they serve 'us' ??
Well.....
Not at their whims & fancies.
Not at their biases.
Not at their ideological preferences.
All of them are there to serve 'us' - in accordance with the Constitution.
They are enjoying their power, their perks, their luxuries - at 'our' cost.
We slog, we work hard, we live & we pay taxes. The taxes pay for their upkeep. They're there cause 'WE' put them there. They draw their legitimacy from 'us'.
Namaste sada vatsale matrubhume, tvaya hindu bhume sukhamvartitoham......
I sang this every evening when I headed RSS shishu shakha at 12.
It was fun. The evenings, the small little games. The बौद्धिक। Stories of great kings & heroes. The sense of pride, the fulfilment.
Went on for a few months. Then, my ताऊजी got to know that I'm attending Shakha.
ताऊजी was an amazingly simple person. A Brahmin who lived in poverty despite his father being the Chairman of local municipality for 20 years. Despite his father being a person friend of Rajasthan CM
At night, he called me - told me a long story as to how the जांगिया वाले (that's Marwadi for RSS Chaddis) betrayed his father & other freedom fighters, gave info of their whereabouts to Brits & the Brits caught my grandpa along with Hiralal ji Shastri (1st CM of Rajasthan)
How can I not share the real life experiences here on Twitter?
This is an interesting story :
A businessman, resident of the uppest-upscale of Mumbai.
In partnership with a man living in the most downtrodden neighborhood of a small town.
A business partnership.
Strange, you would say. But, it's real. And, it's the India aka Bharat in which we grew up. Not the phony #NewIndia that's being propagated and thrust down our throats.
The Mumbaikar is Hindu & the small town gentleman is Muslim.
They've an inherited business partnership.
Both are multi-millioners.
This is the second generation. The third generation is equally close.
Now, the issue why they needed to visit a 'sasta & 'down-markeet' lawyer like me :
A land was purchased, in Partnership, from an erstwhile Patil in 1970.
Recap:
Indians gave power of governance to Sonia Gandhi led @INCIndia .
For heading the Government - she recommended the unmatched Dr. MMS, despite her party members doing a Circus to urge her to become the PM.
To guide the policy decisions of UPA govt - NAC was formed.
Sonia Gandhi roped in the best amongst us - an eclectic mix of - mix of activists, bureaucrats, economists, politicians and industrialists.
Aruna Roy,M S Swaminathan, Prof Ram Dayal Munda, Jean Drez, Anu Aga, Jaiprakash Narayan, Virginius Xaxa, Mirai Chatterjee, Narendra Jadhav
Madhav Gadgil, Harsh Mander etc etc.
The NAC recommended social benefit legislation like - RTI, RTE, FSA, MGNREGA, Land Act & ors.
The economist Prime Minister Dr. MMS - delivered a steady economic growth for over 10 years. Saved India from the 2008 global financial crisis.
The SC has delivered a 32 page interim order, mainly, on Modi's so called Liberalized Vaccination Policy & held that :
the policy for the persons between 18-44 years is, prima facie, arbitrary and irrational.
This thread is a compilation of SC's observations:
We find that the submissions
urged by the Amici are extremely pertinent and have indicated that in practice, the
Liberalized Vaccination Policy may not be able to yield the desired results of spurring
competitive prices and higher quantities of vaccines.
Whether Central Govt conducted a “means-test” of the demographic of a State/UT to assert that 50% of the population in the 18-44
age group would be able to afford the vaccine. If not, the rationale for pvt hospitals being provided an equal quota for procurement as the State/UT