“I visited the Vishwanath temple last evening, and as I was walking through those lanes, these were the thoughts that touched me. If a stranger dropped from above on to this great temple, and he had to consider what we as Hindus were, would he not be justified in condemning us?
“Is not this great temple a reflection of our own character? I speak feelingly, as a Hindu. Is it right that the lanes of our sacred temple should be as dirty as they are? The houses round about are built anyhow. The lanes are tortuous and narrow.” Gandhi on 4th Feb 1916
“If even our temples are not models of roominess and cleanliness, what can our self-government be? Shall our temples be abodes of holiness, cleanliness and peace as soon as the English have retired from India, either of their own pleasure or by compulsion, bag and baggage?”
Imagine it took PM @narendramodi and 105 years to renovate Kashi Vishwanath temple on the lines of something that even Gandhi noticed on 4th February 1916 during inauguration of BHU!

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3 Dec
Hindu’s consolidation on political lines has made enemies of Hindus to try all kinds of propaganda & easiest is to drive a wedge in the Hindu society on caste lines by making one caste show an enemy of other n vice versa.That is showing up via rise of Bhim Army & casteist forces
Misuse of SC ST act happens & repeal of law is NO solution. Hindu society need to come together & not let few wrongful & motivated cases n forces to divide larger Hindu society.

India is a country of 1.3 billion & few hundred/thousand cases must not pit one caste against other!
Here is the statistics of cases filed under SC ST act last year! Image
Read 5 tweets
3 Dec
Bring it on @Shubham_fd - file a case. BTW u talked of reversal of cases in Jind.
I will share local view as well with video to show show u r resorting to motivated reporting to further the agenda that u r circulating for long.

Fake SCST case is a reality but so is ur reporting Image
There is a local journalist - Pardeep Sandhu of The Local Express and I have spoken to him on the telephone no given in his video- @Shubham_fd u can also talk to him as his extensive video of almost 70 mins is enough to show the real truth unlike urs.
So Pardeep Sandhu-I don’t care what his political views are.

Per him:
1. Cases are on- only arrests have not taken place
2. He has covered both views -

UC view (Rajesh’s Supporters)


Accuser (Gurmeet’s version)


@Shubham_fd Image
Read 7 tweets
2 Dec
My quoted tweet attracted a lot of vile abuse-majority of the tweets objected to my calling out @Shubham_fd of @FDikhana for dividing Hindus by constantly harping on the UC-SC divide in North!
That SC-ST act is misused is a known reality & not Newton type discovery by Sharma Ji!
So @Shubham_fd reported abt a Hathras case where SC-ST court of Hathras acquitted 23 accused after 6 years. That tweet was a careful wordplay showing as if it was his initiative that brought closure to those 23 men - then came "SUPPORT" appeal citing Jind!
The real issue is not what @Shubham_fd reports but how he reports-the case that he reported on falanadikhana.com/sc-st-act-case… - Since his template is set, reducing a 21-page order to mere 3 paras is super easy and that this what he has mastered-coz final narrative is set-BJP is anti UC!
Read 13 tweets
1 Dec
Came across this interesting map and guess what only two missing ones in this map are - @BJP4India and @cpimspeak

Often in a democracy, people tend to use different terms interchangeably- for ex dynasty & personality cult -latter is an integral part of democracy, former is not!
In this 75th year of independence, 2 things clearly stand out
# More than the @BJP4India, it is PM @narendramodi who has come to occupy the principal pole position in our polity
# His adversaries are mostly an incongruous/motley group of 'family enterprises' or political parties
A political figure becoming a principal pole of our politics is something Indians have always been used to since 1947; but PM @narendramodi 's taking over that position is a new change as he is the 1st leader to have risen to that position outside of both-Gandhi family & congress
Read 25 tweets
27 Nov
While I understand outrage on this decision but let me also write a thread about the fact how parali burning debate has never been addressed in right perspective. It is important to stress on the fact that solution to this prob lies in addressing what caused it in 1st instance
As someone who has spent a decade in Delhi until 2011, I do remember how this problem of Oct/Nov smog started around 2010. I had written abt it in the past as well but can’t find those tweets-Badal Govt passed PUNJAB PRESERVATION OF SUBSOIL WATER ACT in 09
dswcpunjab.gov.in/contents/docs/…
This Act was passed in the name of preserving groundwater- blamed on rice fields. It is widely held that rice fields use too much water. So Punjab Govt came up with this law & barred farmers from sowing rice in April & forced them to do this only towards the mid June
Read 10 tweets
27 Nov
Here is the text of the PM’s Constitution Day speech at SC yesterday - pib.gov.in/PressReleseDet…

Requesting volunteers to please translate at least court related aspects of this seminal speech into various other languages - Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Odiya etc.
As against INCLUSION philosophy of Constitution,governance was abt exclusion.

Last 7 yrs saw real inclusive governance-2 cr houses,8 cr gas connections,health cover to 50 cr & Garib Kalyan ration to 80 cr is all that & so are govt’s development efforts!
All the governance efforts are abt developing every corner of the country in the same manner as Delhi & Mumbai. Our efforts have shown results via National Family Health Survey report as well as improvement in various parameters like Gender equality etc
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