Modi claimed he did nothing Indians can be ashamed of. The lie and brazenness with which he said it was unfortunately followed by the #NupurSharma debacle. But #ModiShamesIndia should have trended since 2014 or earlier. A thread to explain:
#BJPShamesIndia, #BJP_Defames_India 🧵
#BJPShamesIndia, #BJP_Defames_India 🧵
Since 2002
Modi was easily the crassest CM of his time & the crassest PM ever. The insults he hurls at opponents, particularly women, border on the obscene. They do not bear repeating but are well documented as are his dogwhistles against Muslims...
Modi was easily the crassest CM of his time & the crassest PM ever. The insults he hurls at opponents, particularly women, border on the obscene. They do not bear repeating but are well documented as are his dogwhistles against Muslims...
Since 2014
Modi has not addressed a single press conference. He's been Prime Minister of the planet's largest democracy for nearly 3000 days.
Modi has not addressed a single press conference. He's been Prime Minister of the planet's largest democracy for nearly 3000 days.
Since 2014
Modi made a raft of promises - return of "black money", bullet trains, smart cities, poverty eradication, ODF India, doubling farmer incomes, $5 Trillion GDP by 2022, none achieved so far. Even promises made in parliament remained unfulfilled...
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Modi made a raft of promises - return of "black money", bullet trains, smart cities, poverty eradication, ODF India, doubling farmer incomes, $5 Trillion GDP by 2022, none achieved so far. Even promises made in parliament remained unfulfilled...
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Since May 2014
India has steadily declined in practically every international index and ranking that measures socioeconomic & human development or quality of governance to historically abysmal levels...
India has steadily declined in practically every international index and ranking that measures socioeconomic & human development or quality of governance to historically abysmal levels...
Since May 2014
BJP's assumption of power in India, states like UP & elsewhere let loose a wave of hate speech, lynchings, riots, attacks against minorities, Dalits & women, suppression of dissent, false sedition cases, etc. No citations needed...
BJP's assumption of power in India, states like UP & elsewhere let loose a wave of hate speech, lynchings, riots, attacks against minorities, Dalits & women, suppression of dissent, false sedition cases, etc. No citations needed...
Since May 2014
Modi & his merry band have repeatedly embarrassed the nation, making absurdly unscientific & fake historical claims while rubbishing anything built between 1947 and 2014...
Modi & his merry band have repeatedly embarrassed the nation, making absurdly unscientific & fake historical claims while rubbishing anything built between 1947 and 2014...
https://twitter.com/santhoshd/status/1172090471276957696
Nov 2014
After traipsing around India on Adani's jet during elections, Modi delivers a deal to Adani, taking him along on an official trip, brokering a $1 billion SBI loan enabling him to buy an Australian coal mine (more of which later)...
ndtv.com/india-news/sta…
After traipsing around India on Adani's jet during elections, Modi delivers a deal to Adani, taking him along on an official trip, brokering a $1 billion SBI loan enabling him to buy an Australian coal mine (more of which later)...
ndtv.com/india-news/sta…
May 2015
Modi repeatedly defamed India abroad. For eg.,
"People used to feel that what sin they committed in their past life which resulted in taking birth in India... [now] intelligent people... settle in India for even lesser incomes" - South Korea...
livemint.com/Politics/zU0Hd…
Modi repeatedly defamed India abroad. For eg.,
"People used to feel that what sin they committed in their past life which resulted in taking birth in India... [now] intelligent people... settle in India for even lesser incomes" - South Korea...
livemint.com/Politics/zU0Hd…
Since Mid-2015
As global crude prices plummeted, Modi levied a fuel cess to "cushion future price shocks". He kept hiking levies over time after blaming Oil Bonds, collecting over 20 Lakh Crore INR since. Indians pay among the highest taxes for fuel/gas...
As global crude prices plummeted, Modi levied a fuel cess to "cushion future price shocks". He kept hiking levies over time after blaming Oil Bonds, collecting over 20 Lakh Crore INR since. Indians pay among the highest taxes for fuel/gas...
https://twitter.com/santhoshd/status/1414196553137344514
Mar 2016
Despite credible intelligence, the Modi Govt couldn't stop the Pathankot terror attack. Worse, it inexplicably invited a Pakistan security team to investigate on Indian territory...
indianexpress.com/article/india/…
Despite credible intelligence, the Modi Govt couldn't stop the Pathankot terror attack. Worse, it inexplicably invited a Pakistan security team to investigate on Indian territory...
indianexpress.com/article/india/…
Nov 2016
Modi's demonetization knocked the economy out; it hasn't recovered even now. He kept changing the aims but anyway none of them were achieved. Lives were lost, Indians were humiliatingly made to stand in queues to obtain their own money...
financialexpress.com/lifestyle/book…
Modi's demonetization knocked the economy out; it hasn't recovered even now. He kept changing the aims but anyway none of them were achieved. Lives were lost, Indians were humiliatingly made to stand in queues to obtain their own money...
financialexpress.com/lifestyle/book…
Since 2017
Thanks to DeMon's decimation of informal sector, an inept GST rollout's blow to MSMEs, a weakened economy knuckling under the lockdown with no direct stimulus, unemployment/inflation are at unprecedented levels...
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/i…
Thanks to DeMon's decimation of informal sector, an inept GST rollout's blow to MSMEs, a weakened economy knuckling under the lockdown with no direct stimulus, unemployment/inflation are at unprecedented levels...
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/i…
Oct 2018
In a move only he could dream up, Modi introduced completely opaque Electoral Bonds in the name of "transparency" in corporate funding of political parties...
thehindu.com/opinion/lead/t…
In a move only he could dream up, Modi introduced completely opaque Electoral Bonds in the name of "transparency" in corporate funding of political parties...
thehindu.com/opinion/lead/t…
Aug 2019
Under the pretext that there was no J&K assembly or governor (a situation he created by suspending the assembly & imposing President's rule), Modi abrogated Article 370 solely based on brute parliamentary majority and Presidential assent...
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Under the pretext that there was no J&K assembly or governor (a situation he created by suspending the assembly & imposing President's rule), Modi abrogated Article 370 solely based on brute parliamentary majority and Presidential assent...
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Sep 2019
In the dumbest move any Indian PM has made on foreign soil, Modi proclaimed "Ab ki baar Trump sarkaar" at a Texas venue. Trump lost, but the cringeworthy promotion of 1 presidential candidate still astonishes...
independent.co.uk/news/world/asi…
In the dumbest move any Indian PM has made on foreign soil, Modi proclaimed "Ab ki baar Trump sarkaar" at a Texas venue. Trump lost, but the cringeworthy promotion of 1 presidential candidate still astonishes...
independent.co.uk/news/world/asi…
Dec 2019
Modi unveiled Citizenship Amendment Act, a legislation which bizarrely includes & excludes religions & neighbouring countries to potentially disenfranchise swathes of Indian Muslims...
firstpost.com/india/harish-s…
Modi unveiled Citizenship Amendment Act, a legislation which bizarrely includes & excludes religions & neighbouring countries to potentially disenfranchise swathes of Indian Muslims...
firstpost.com/india/harish-s…
Mar 2020
Modi locked India down for months with a 4 hour notice, triggering the largest migration, from urban workplaces to rural homes, since Partition. The deaths, distances covered on foot & ostracism en route were humiliating for a modern nation...
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Modi locked India down for months with a 4 hour notice, triggering the largest migration, from urban workplaces to rural homes, since Partition. The deaths, distances covered on foot & ostracism en route were humiliating for a modern nation...
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Jun 2020
Despite the deaths of Indian soldiers, despite glaring evidence of repeated Chinese incursions, Modi claimed that "no one intruded into our territory"...
Despite the deaths of Indian soldiers, despite glaring evidence of repeated Chinese incursions, Modi claimed that "no one intruded into our territory"...
https://twitter.com/santhoshd/status/1443489086421942273
Sep 2020
In a brazen attempt to benefit corporate cronies, the Modi Govt enacted agri "reforms", and BJP govts despicably dealt with opposition to it, calling it treason. After more deaths & imprisonment, they were repealed before UP & Punjab elections...
indianexpress.com/article/explai…
In a brazen attempt to benefit corporate cronies, the Modi Govt enacted agri "reforms", and BJP govts despicably dealt with opposition to it, calling it treason. After more deaths & imprisonment, they were repealed before UP & Punjab elections...
indianexpress.com/article/explai…
Jan 2021
Modi delivered his usual mix of hubris & lies at World Economic Forum: "India not only managed to beat Covid-19, it helped over 150 countries despite predictions for the worst." The Delta-driven trauma & deaths after this haunt us even today...
foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/30/mod…
Modi delivered his usual mix of hubris & lies at World Economic Forum: "India not only managed to beat Covid-19, it helped over 150 countries despite predictions for the worst." The Delta-driven trauma & deaths after this haunt us even today...
foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/30/mod…
Apr-May 2021
Despite being warned during the 1st wave of oxygen shortage, the Modi govt did nothing. Uncounted numbers of people died in hospitals, car parks, footpaths & homes gasping for breath in the 2nd wave...
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Despite being warned during the 1st wave of oxygen shortage, the Modi govt did nothing. Uncounted numbers of people died in hospitals, car parks, footpaths & homes gasping for breath in the 2nd wave...
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
April 2022
After months of officially insisting that there was no coal shortage, a sudden shortage occurred and Coal India "had to import" coal, at the same time Adani's Australian mine began exports...
After months of officially insisting that there was no coal shortage, a sudden shortage occurred and Coal India "had to import" coal, at the same time Adani's Australian mine began exports...
https://twitter.com/santhoshd/status/1530917299305455619
May 2022
Foreign investors fled Indian markets for 7 successive months, Indian equity collapsed and the Rupee reached all time lows with no Govt plan in place, leaving Indian retail investors bearing huge losses and Indian imports costlier...
indiatoday.in/business/story…
Foreign investors fled Indian markets for 7 successive months, Indian equity collapsed and the Rupee reached all time lows with no Govt plan in place, leaving Indian retail investors bearing huge losses and Indian imports costlier...
indiatoday.in/business/story…
There have been a slew of other Jhumlas (a word indelibly associated with him now), the destruction of virtually every autonomous national institution , and myriad daily embarrassments he's subjected India to. One thread possibly cannot recount them all.
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