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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unhappy with the way Indian citizens have been living all these years. | @jahnavi_sen @1amnerd
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd "The talk of rights, to some extent, for some time, may be right in a particular circumstance, but forgetting one's duties completely has played a huge role in keeping India weak."
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Everyone must "walk on the path of duty", he urged, if we really want to see the country achieve new heights.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd If Modi insists all of us must stop "wasting time" fighting for our rights, and focus instead on our duties, we can only assume he holds himself to the same standard. Or does he?
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Modi's tenure has seen countless violations of the institutions and ideals of the constitution – an independent EC, an independent judiciary, federalism, secularism, social justice, freedom of speech, media and assembly, freedom from arbitrary arrest.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Leaders from his party have covered the national flag with the Bharatiya Janata Party flag and draped the body of a lynching-accused individual, and received no words of admonishment from the prime minister.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd When in Moscow in 2015, Modi himself decided to start walking while the national anthem was being played, and had to be restrained by his Russian hosts.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Leaders of the BJP and of the larger Sangh parivar across the board have made it a habit to insult the ideals and personality of M.K. Gandhi. Instead, they have celebrated the man who assassinated him, Nathuram Godse.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd The Jallianwala Bagh memorial, in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the gruesome 1919 attack by British forces, has been revamped nearly beyond recognition and was inaugurated by none other than the prime minister himself.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd By reading down Article 370 in August 2019, which granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, the Modi government took away the autonomy promised to the people of J&K in the Instrument of Accession.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Far from encouraging unity, Modi and his supporters have spent all their energies in chasing imaginary internal enemies – Muslims, Urban Naxals, 'andolanjeevis' – who apparently are the real problem.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd While always keen to project a strongman image for voters, particularly when it comes to Pakistan, Modi had little to say when the Chinese army took over parts of Indian territory.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Modi's zero-notice lockdown during COVID-19 epidemic caused untold distress, the communalisation which his government and party encouraged weakened India and his lack of planning a proper medical response eventually led to millions of preventable deaths.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Attacks against minorities – lynchings, violence, online bullying, daily discrimination – don't just continue but have been actively egged on by BJP leaders across the country, and Modi has reacted with nothing but silence when confronted with this.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd The BJP under Modi has relentlessly undermined the historical contribution Muslims have made to India's culture. Islamicate monuments, including the Taj Mahal, are projected as symbols of the subjugation of Hindus.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Architects have faulted the Central Vista redevelopment project on aesthetic, cultural, environmental and financial grounds, yet nothing can stop the prime minister in his endeavour to build a new 'power corridor' at the cost of Rs 20,000 crore.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd In Modi's tenure, 'pay and pollute' has become the normal way to conduct industrial activity.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made nonsensical claims about ancient plastic surgery and Ganesha's head, and using wind turbines to extract water from air.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd In mid-2021, a senior member of the country's coronavirus genome-sequencing effort said the Modi government hadn't heeded a warning that potentially deadlier variants of the virus were starting to spread in the country.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd The prime minister did not bat an eyelid when Union minister Anurag Thakur led public calls to "shoot the traitors". He said nothing when a convoy including Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son allegedly ran over protesting farmers, killing four.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd The National Human Rights Commission is currently headed by a controversial judge who praised the prime minister.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd The late Bipin Rawat, who was India's first chief of defence staff, had ingratiated himself with the BJP by supporting the politicisation of the armed forces.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Modi has appointed persons to head leading universities and research bodies purely on the basis of their loyalty to the RSS and its ideology.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Thanks to the sudden shock of Modi's COVID-19 lockdown from March 2020, many public schools around the country had to suspend their midday meal programmes.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd On several international ratings covering a range of issues, India's rankings have tanked under Modi.
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@jahnavi_sen @1amnerd Read @jahnavi_sen @1amnerd's full report here:
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