"Corruption & Black money are accepted as a part of life. This thinking has afflicted our politics, administration and society like an infestation or termites. None of our public institutions is free from these termites"
Now is the time to change this @narendramodi, 8th Nov 2016
125 crore Indians fought a decisive battle and WON #AntiBlackMoneyDay. Tell me what do you feel about the efforts to uproot corruption & black money?
A political career founded in criminal gangsterism, which paved the way for acquisition of power as Chief Minister, and a governance record peppered with extrajudicial killings and excesses
That is public life of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a nut shell
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Yogi Adityanath has built up a career in Hindutva politics independently of the RSS
Succeeded in winning the Sangh Parivar’s support because of the clout enjoyed by the Gorakhpur Math and its ability to perpetuate and promote its own brand of Ruthless Militant Hindutva
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Book Reading
In spite of insurgencies in Punjab, Kashmir, Ladakh, Assam and Arunachal, Entire Indian public's attention was on a dispute over the status of certain mosque in a small town in UP
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Reason why this dispute took central stage over national security and social welfare is the result of relentless political campaign by BJP RSS VHP for decades that the past, present and future of Indian nation be considered around a notion of 𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘵𝘷𝘢, "Hinduness"
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This campaign of Political Hinduism became possible with the imagination of "India" starting 19th century British Colonial India
During the freedom struggle, political leaders imagined a nation, "India, that is Bharat", to unite people
🚨Journalists are exposed to every kind of attack, including police violence against reporters, ambushes by political activists, and reprisals instigated by criminal groups or corrupt local officials
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐢 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚
🚨Ever since general elections in the spring of 2019, won overwhelmingly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, pressure has increased on the media to toe the Hindu nationalist government’s line
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐢 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚
🚨Indians who espouse Hindutva, the ideology that gave rise to radical right-wing Hindu nationalism, are trying to purge all manifestations of “anti-national” thought from the public debate
LIE: The mentality of 1200 years of slavery is troubling us
Fact: India was enslaved by the British for 200 years. The term ‘slavery’ is used for the Britishers to signify how they looted India for the benefit of their home country, unlike the prior rulers
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July 2014
LIE: Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji inaugurated Jammu and Kashmir rail connections
Fact: Immediately after independence, PM Nehru took the first step to link Jammu with the rest of the country by initiating the extension of Jalandhar – Mukerian branch line to Pathankot
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