In May 2019 India was forced to stop buying oil from Iran after #DonaldTrump disallowed a waiver. Trump's NSA John Bolton in his book 'The Room where it Happened' wrote Trump dismissed #Modi 's concerns telling his team that he'll be Okay with this decision. 🧵1/6 Though India's Right-wing celebrating the Trump win because of the closeness between Modi and Trump the question arise does national Interests works on personal rapport?
As in Past it didn't.

#Trump twisted India's arms saying *his Allies are not doing enough." 2/6

It must be remembered that the AAP originated from a movement dominated by a few Upper Castes & supported by the RSS.

#ArvindKejriwal in 2012 posted on FB About a month after the launch of AAP - “Should there be reservation in promotions in govt jobs? What do you think?” 🧵1/12 This was two days before the UPA Govt introduced a constitutional amendment mandating quotas in promotions for Dalits and Adivasis.

The AAP party had opposed the quota and called it unconstitutional. 2/12 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/quota-in…

My salute to South Indian wisdom for resisting the Gujju Amul Brand. They are the the true Ambassador of the slogan 'Vocal for Local'.

Sharing why.
5 Days ago making 'Mahaprasad contract at Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, UP was given to Gujarat's Banas Diary of Amul. 🧵1/8 Before this new Contract 5 local vendors used to produce & supply Prasad for the Temple. Navbharat Times reports each employed 60-70 female local workers.

One group among them is noteworthy Bela Papad self-help group's Sunita Jaiswal who gained Yogi-Modi's praise in past. 2/8

The above pic is of an Electrocuted Elephant near the Adiyogi Centre, and the below picture is of an electric fence erected by the Isha Foundation - #Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's Headquarters in the foothills of the Velliangiri hills.
Pic: 2021
Source

🧵1/14 newslaundry.com/2021/05/17/how…
Sadguru's 150 acre campus is adjacent to the Bolampatty Reserve Forest, an elephant habitat in the Nilgiris biosphere reserve, and along the Thanikandi-Marudhamalai migration corridor of the pachyderms regulated by the Hill Area Conservation Authority (HACA) set up in 1990. 2/14

A closer look reveals RSS stems from the 19th Cen Brahminical resistance to the religious reforms whose goal to resettle the Brahminical Hegemony.

Exploring MS GOLWALKR's Bunch of Thoughts - considered RSS’s BIBLE & his views esp on Buddhism & Ambedkar's social justice.🧵1/13 Golwalkar wrote after Buddha, his followers degenerated by uprooting age-old national traditions.

He thanked Adi Shankaracharya for “erasing” Buddhism from India “as a distinct sect" & Buddha remained as an incarnation (Lord Vishnu).
Can u guess that Tradition?
Caste. 2/13

Shaiytu Kunjam (15yrs) student, Portacabin school Basaguda Chattisgarh after the dussera vacation of Oct, 2023 informed the school Sup he would return once the farming work in village over.

He never returned as he was shot on 10/05/24. Police claim 20K reward upon him. 🧵1/11 Shaiytu Kunjam from Pedia Vill - On 10/05/24 morning police gunned down 12 in early morning claiming them Maoist.

However, @ChhattisgarhTak found an Advasi injured from the firing of the security forces. Villagers claimed forces shot when they were plucking Tendu Leaves. 2/11

25/08/2023 This clip of a Dalit girl (20yrs) crying over the dead body of her brother killed by village elites, MP went viral.

25/06/24 She died in Mysterious circumstances in the presence of police. Only few heard.
However a report after her death has been released
Stay.🧵 1/17 A fact-finding report by concerned citizens of MP released in July 2024, available online.

Baraudiya Naunagir a village in Sagar dist of MP.
On 26/01/2019 a Dalit girl (15yrs) was beaten by members of the vill elite Thakurs, locally called “lambardars” (Thakurs). 2/17

Why are people so outraged about PT Usha?
Have u forgotten that just one year ago, she slammed the protesting wrestlers incl #VineshPhogat saying "They are tarnishing India's Image"?

Btw have u ever read about the humiliation the wrestlers faced before the probe committee? 1/11 On 23/01/23 an Oversight Committee was formed to probe the allegations leveled against the WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh & other coaches by the Union Sports Ministry.

Should be noted the protesting wrestlers sent complaint letter to PT USHA, the IOA Pres on 20/01/23. 2/11

15yr old Janela Nuruti. Student at a primary school in Dinagunda Vill, Chattisgarh. She used to walk 3 hrs daily to attend school.

She was one of the 29 Maoists killed on 16/04/24 by the forces.
Was it the only option left for the mighty state? Glorious Victory? 🧵1/14 "Why did they kill Janela? They should have arrested her."
He, Mainu Nuriti was Jamela's teacher said to Frontline journalist.

In 2022 Amit Shah declared: “We will root out naxalites from Chhattisgarh in the next 2 yrs.” In last 6 months min 130 naxalites have been killed. 2/14

Remember this?
The 19yr Dalit girl, gang-raped & murdered in Sept 2020, followed by her forceful cremation.

Allah HC recently informed by the UP Govt that the family members of the victim girl has not been reallocated to a new place as per Court order 2022. Stay 🧵1/12 The victim Girl was paralysed with severe spinal cord injury, her neck damaged as the accused had dragged her wrapping her dupatta to a field near which she had been gathering cattle fodder.

She also has a deep cut on her tongue which she had bitten when strangulated. 2/12

#DibrugarhExpress derailed. Btw do u remember #TrainAccident Kanchanjunga Express on 17/06/24, 32 days ago?

Do u know what the preliminary accident (17/07/24) report said? Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety says it was an “𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕-𝒊𝒏-𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈”.
Read.🧵1/10 Kanchanjunga Express was hit by a goods train in New Jalpaiguri on June 17, killing 9 people and many injured.

The Chairman, Railway Board & CEO, Jaya Varma Sinha claimed in an interview that the goods train had “disregarded” the signal resulting in the accident.

REALLY? 2/10

Kamala Devi holding Priyadarshini on her lap, the most courageous bravest Prime Minister of India ever had.

In future, she would break a 700 yr streak of gender bias since Raziyya Sultana (1236-1240) ruled over Delhi until she a woman became PM of India.
Indira Gandhi. 🧵1/21 6th Dec, 1921 first time Motilal and Nehru both father & son were arrested, both refused to defend themselves though the case was poorly prepared.

Motilal's was granted a concession, he kept his grand daughter Indira in his arms while the trial was going on. 2/21

J&K LG flagged off the Amarnath Yatra today,
The Yatra ties the Muslim Locals & Hindu Devotees, each one complementing the other's needs, a bit more.

In 2022 a Sradhalu slept on the Horse & was about to fall, horseman IMTIYAZ saved the Devotee, but couldn't save himself. 1/10 Imtiaz Ahmad Khan, was Sole breadwinner of the family, was fighting grave poverty as his blind father was jobless, started working for Yatra. Had no money for a Horse, his friend helped him.
Married in 2020. When he died saving a devotee in 2022 he left an 8-month-old child. 2/10

Govt Fact Check unit PIB that seems to be run by the Nagpur RSS Sakha Centre, yesterday again made a false fact check of Ayodhya Railways Station Wall fall.
Now check

NOTICE I&B Ministry 17/12/20 terming PIB Fact Check as Fake on a Employment news that PIB termed as Fake. 🧵1/7 June 2020 Journo Piyush Rai, Indian Express & few other media reported UP STF IG Amitabh Yash issued an order to remove 52 Chinese Apps. PIB Fact-Check sealed it as "Fake" despite confirmation by IG Yash. Days later 59 Chinese apps were banned including these.
PIB 🤡 2/7

After the murder of a Brilliant student of IIT Kharagpur Faizan Ahmed in 2022 the Admin claimed it a Suicide, the director even refused to meet the parents.

Now see this👇🏿
Before 2nd post-mortem, when the body was being exhumed IIT sent its people to the spot. Why? 1/10 After being ranked 11th in JEE 2020, Faizan chose his ideal Sundar Pichai's IIT KHARAGPUR. Before completing, also enrolled in 2 research on robotic teams at IIT-KGP.

All dreams were shattered when on 14/10/22 his partially decomposed dead body found in the hostel room. 2/10

Do you watch movies? Even if not, it is my humble request to watch this clip from a 90s movie.
About a fictional Island- Manjira.
While watching the clip replace the name with the Great Nicobar Island, in the movie the island was saved.

What about Nicobar's future?
Stay. 🧵1/21 Great Nicobar Island, is small but has extremely high levels of biodiversity.

95% of the island covered in rainforest and it’s home to 11 species of mammals, 32 species of birds, 7 species of reptiles & 4 species of amphibians, all found only here.
Watch the beautiful clip. 2/21

National Human Rights Commission.

By 9/05/23 NHRC had received 11 complaints of ARSON, Mob - violence in diff areas of Manipur.

12/05/23 NHRC meeting held in their HQ Subject was
1. Forced conversions
2. Museum of human rights
3. Illegal immigrants
Stay. 🧵1/15 It is 2nd year in a row the GANHRI has deferred granting accreditation to India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

Founded in 1993 NHRC in the early 2000s was known for taking firm stand on Human Rights issues.

Then in 2014 some non biological entity became PM. 2/15

Sabka Saath Days?
Part One.

30 May 2015
Raj
Abdul Gaffar Qureshi was killed by a mob after a fake news circulated that Muslims had killed more than 200 cows.

Beat with sticks & iron rods till Hindu neighbour tore through the mob to save him. Ghaffar died later. 1/ 2nd August, 2015
Dadri, UP
Nazim, Arif & Anaf breathed last that day.
A mob lynched them accusing them of being cattle thieves.

An FIR was filed against the dead men. Police said it would likely to file an FIR against Killers. 2/

Read this letter dated 29/8/23 issued by the Ministry of Ayush, Govt of India.
It instructs State/UT licensing authorities to refrain from taking action against misleading ADS of Ayurvedic, Siddha & Unani Drugs that are without licensing authorities' approval.

Plz, stay. 🧵1/7 This letter came to the notice of the SC during the hearing of the Patanjali Case.

Yesterday after facing the SC wrath ASG KM Nataraj assured that the letter would be withdrawn "forthwith".

Modi's push for pseudoscience began in 2014, however some imp. data published today. 2/7

The man in Police custody, name is Shailesh Pandiya.

He is one of the 2 assailant shot an RTI activist Amit Jethwa from point blank range in 2010 outside the Bar Council building opp Guj HC.

Vid 4 yrs old. That time he said
"No Fear".
Today he got acquitted. 1/6 Amit Jethwa, was shot dead for exposing illegal mining in & around the Gir Wildlife Sanc in which Amit Solanki the BJP leader & then MP known for close to A. Shah was involved.

In 2010, he filed PIL against the illegal mining in the only abode of the Asiatic Lion. 2/6

Chattisgarh Maoists killed -
30 April: 7 (2 women).
16 April: 29 (15 women)
2nd April: 13 (3 women).
✌🏿
Pic: Somli Kunjam holding her disabled daughter Kamli’s bangle that was found in the forest, as claimed by police was one among the Maoists killed on 02/04/24.
Stay.🧵1/19 Kamli on 02/04/24 at 9.00 am due to her stomach ache was lying in her mud hut in Nendra Vill when police barged in, dragged her out of the hut, Somli & Grandmother Joggi tried to stop them but failed.

Instead of Road, they dragged her towards the forest.
She lost forever. 2/19