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Oct 31 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
🧵#TheIndiaFix: On Oct 9, the New Indian Express reported a significant piece of news:

Amit Shah-led committee had recommended that the medium of instruction in higher educational institutions, including Central universities, should mandatorily be Hindi. scroll.in/article/103622… Image
Just as drastically, the Committee of Parliament on Official Language recommended that government entrance exams – which are now conducted in both Hindi and English – should drop English. scroll.in/article/103622…

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Like in the 1960s, today’s Hindi push from Delhi has angered the Southern states.

The chief minister of Tamil Nadu bluntly described the committee’s recommendation as the start of a “language war”.
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#TheIndiaFix | Given the sharp reactions in states such as Tamil Nadu, what explains the BJP’s sharp push for the Hindi language? The answer might lie in a mixture of votes, ideology and jobs.
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Like the Congress before it, the BJP has a strong incentive to push Hindi to remain the pole of Indian politics.

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Part of the reason [behind the #HindiImposition] is the pull factor of the approaching 2024 Lok Sabha elections. But also important is the dire employment situation in the Hindi belt.
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She received her first dose of Covishield vaccine.
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Oct 31
More than two days after violence broke out at a rally organised by a tribal organisation in #Shillong on October 28, no arrests have been made even though Meghalaya deputy chief minister Prestone Tynsong had said the police would take “necessary steps”.

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#Shillong City Superintendent of Police Vivek Syiem told @ROKIBUZZAMAN2 on Sunday that the police had registered two cases related to the violence, but no miscreants have been identified so far. scroll.in/article/103621…
The rally, in central #Shillong, had been organised by the Federation of Khasi, Jaintia and Garo People to draw attention to Meghalaya’s unemployment problem. scroll.in/article/103621… Image
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#DroupadiMurmu as President would be a triumph for the Sangh Parivar – but not the Adivasi community

By nominating Murmu as its presidential candidate,the Sangh has completed its last leg of appropriating all of India’s major identities By Vivek Deshpande
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Wouldn’t this be to reduce the highest constitutional post in the country to a mere symbol? Yet, time and again, this is exactly what has happened under successive governments. By Vivek Deshpande

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She stood her ground even as the other rape complainants withdrew their cases. Nearly a decade later, is a verdict anywhere in sight? @iyersaishwarya writes scroll.in/a/1026696
In 2013, as communal riots spread across Muzaffarnagar in western UP, she had been beaten up and raped. Her son, then three months old, had been held hostage.

If she protested, her assailants had said, they would kill her son, @iyersaishwarya writes scroll.in/a/1026696
The 34-year-old said she knew the three men who had raped her – they lived in her village and were frequent customers of her husband, a tailor. scroll.in/a/1026696

She was scared and dizzy with fever on Feb 18, the day she had to go to the Muzaffarnagar district court.
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#MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil | 37 Shiv Sena MLAs proclaim Eknath Shinde as legislature party leader

A quick recap of the top developments from Thursday on the #PoliticalCrisisInMaharashtra⬇️

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#MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil | The rebel MLAs are demanding that the Shiv Sena should quit the ruling alliance formed with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party.

LIVE Updates on #MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis here: scroll.in/a/1026822
#MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis | 37 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs who are currently camping at a hotel in Guwahati on Thursday write to Maharashtra Dy Speaker Narhari Zirwal, proclaiming state minister Eknath Shinde as their leader in the legislature.

LIVE Updates: scroll.in/a/1026822
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The law was supposed to end corrupt defections. But it has clearly failed, @ShoaibDaniyal writes. ✍️

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If two-thirds of the MLAs (or MPs, in the case of Parliament) agree to defy the party leadership, they legally can.

The Anti-Defection Law will not apply to them, @ShoaibDaniyal writes. ✍️

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Tuesday saw a repeat of a now-familiar sight in Indian politics: MLAs being herded to a secure holiday resort to prepare the ground for a government to be brought down. By @ShoaibDaniyal ✍️

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