Aniruddha 8

अभिमानी हिंदू, राष्टाय स्वाहा :

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

A year ago, a Hindu woman studying at a college in Bhopal filed a police case against a college senior named Farhan that he befriended her under a false identity, and then drugged, raped, blackmailed and forcibly tried to convert her to Islam

Soon after, several women from the same college came forward with similar complaints against different men

Police found that the accused were part of the same gang and had the backing of a criminal named Shariq who is notorious in Bhopal by nickname ‘Machli’

Police found that the accused targeted Hindu girls in a coordinated manner - trapping one girl, then introducing her friend to another gang member, and so on

They also facilitated opportunities for intimacy and then secretly recorded videos

Two of the victims were sisters who had lost their parents long ago and were being raised in poverty by relatives. The scandal left them so shattered that one of them tried to kill herself and still bears a deep scar on her wrist

The revelations were reported as ‘Bhopal sex scandal’

Such was the outrage over the shocking revelations that MP govt got Shariq’s house bulldozed, top police chief of MP got involved, women’s commission got involved, and several accused were arrested. They continue to be in jail

The most important intervention came from NHRC member @KanoongoPriyank

He closely monitored progress of the case, ensuring it was not diluted. Such was his impact that a close aide of Shariq once reached his office in Delhi and asked him to withdraw from the matter. Priyank Ji threw him out of his office. The incident was widely covered by the media

Now comes his most significant intervention

He conceptualised a program to educate college girls across Bhopal about this racket as well as legal and social support available to any girl who is trapped but either is not recognising it yet or is too scared to break free

This program, named Sankalp, was taken up by @sewanyaya, run by @SanjeevSanskrit and me, and implemented through our partner @NetworkforJus

We selected a group of women college students from Bhopal, trained them and deployed them to conduct large-scale awareness sessions across campuses

In the past eight months, this group has educated over 8,000 girls across 100 colleges in Bhopal

During the program, several who attended these sessions later reached out to the team privately and managed to get out of such situations, while three went on to file actual police cases.

Yesterday, Priyank Ji and I were in Bhopal to mark the highly successful completion of the first year of this programme, along with MP Child Commission Chairperson Nivedita Sharma and the senior leadership of the LNCT Group of Colleges

I also met the remarkable trainers, mentored by the superb @nidhikartikey and @SalujaSanat

And I also met three victims of the scandal

Their stories are disturbing and I will share them another time

But I saw they have found their strongest support system and closest friends in the Sankalp team

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@swati_gs @RatanSharda55 What a great activity you have done... 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@rishibagree You showed tremendous spirit my friend 🤗🤗

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@Virginia_wolfie @BJP4Bengal Who is she?

[Chandra🇮🇳🚩 @Chandra4Bharat]

An inspirational story 🧡

An ancient step well, which took 16 yrs to dig was in a very bad condition, filled with garbage.

Hindus, by raising Jai Sree Ram slogans have cleaned it despite hot sun🧡

Women performed puja and decorated it with haldi & kumkum after cleaning.

Maddileti Reddy garu has provided breakfast, lunch, etc for all the volunteers.

An organisation named Purva Sampada Rakshana team has raised awareness and united Hindus for this noble work.

📍Ramireddi Palle, Sanjamula, Nandyal, AP.

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@Virginia_wolfie What are you waiting for? Just shoot...

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@Shirink_13 No one hates " progressive muslims "

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

Mera Supreme Court Sachmuch Badal Raha Hai?

I just love CJI Surya Kant Ji. He's raising bars with every passing day.

"ARE YOU CHIEF PRIEST OF THE COUNTRY? WHAT WAS YOUR BUSINESS?"🔥

CJI literally took The Indian Young Lawyers Association, led by President Naushad Ali to Cleaners in Sabarimala Case.

The fake NGO faced intense scrutiny from the Supreme Court over its petition to overturn the age-old traditions of the Sabarimala Temple.

During the proceedings, the bench expressed sharp skepticism regarding the NGO's standing to interfere in Hindu religious practices.

CJI Surya Kant Ji delivered a stinging rebuke: "Are you the chief priest of the country? What was your business?"

Justice BV Nagarathna questioned the NGO's personal stake in the matter: "How are you concerned with all this, tell us? Is it in any way you are affected?"

The exchange has raised big debate over whether outside organizations, who are not even practicing Hindus, should have the legal right to challenge the internal customs of a faith they do not represent.

Earlier these scums used to get Red Carpet Treatment in Supreme Court, today, RIGHTLY they're getting dumped in Commode.

[Mohammed Shoaib @ShoaibIND]

Request to Modi,

Abolish this ministry and save Rs 3400 crore for the country.

RT if you agree

[Dr Poornima 🇮🇳 @PoornimaNimo]

They arrived silently in West Bengal.
They performed each and every task they were given by Amit Shah.
They left quietly for Punjab.
No one noticed, no one acknowledged.
They are the Silent Warriors of the BJP, faceless nameless casteless....
Their mission : "Seva Parmo Dharmah" Service to the Nation is the highest duty.
They are least affected by praise or criticism.
They are the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.🚩🚩🇮🇳

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

After West Bengal win, I hope government now launches a helpline number where I can report illegal Bangladeshis living in my area?

I see them everywhere- selling vegetables, security guards, gardeners etc.

U.S has a 24x7 helpline to report illegals. Why don't we have one?

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@PoornimaNimo @fgautier26 You nailed it 🙋🏻‍♂️

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

One mother forbade medicines to the dying, converted them, then laughed at the death count; the other mother has provided free treatment to 5.9 million, built 13 million sqft, 95 OT, 101 speciality, 4050 bed hospitals employing 1540 doctors.

The first mother got the Nobel Prize.

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@choga_don Show them to Ajay Sharma, bnew Sigham police cop

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@derekobrienmp They were shops without permission and license

[Aniruddha 8 @8Aniruddha]

@sagarikaghose @MamataOfficial Ha ha, what a rant....

[Deep Dive @TheDispatch01]

🚨 Hindutva A Bhadralok Project - The Lotus Blooms in Bengal: A Civilizational Homecoming

▶️ I. The Word Itself Was Born in Bengal

The very term Hindutva did not originate in Nagpur or Pune. The word "Hindutva" first appeared in print in 1892, in a book of the same name written by Chandranath Basu - a conservative Bengali writer. A review in the Calcutta Review in 1894 described it as "evidently a work of Hindu revival," noting that within the preceding decade "the Bengal press has been deluged with works written solely with this object."

An often-overlooked truth: long before Savarkar, Golwalkar, or even the RSS, Hindutva began as an intellectual project in Calcutta.

▶️ II. The Intellectual Architecture:

Late 19th century Bengal was the birthplace for Hindutva - what the RSS describes as Hindu cultural nationalism. Amit Shah himself acknowledged this in Kolkata in 2018: "Our nationalism is cultural nationalism and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is the fountainhead."

The architecture of that nationalism was laid systematically:

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: A Brahmin deputy magistrate from North 24 Parganas, educated at Presidency College. His poem Bande Mataram was first published in 1875, and in 1882 when his novel Ananda Math was published, it became the anthemic call to Hindu resistance against Muslim rule.

• The Hindu Mela (1867): Organized by Debendranath Tagore along with Nabagopal Mitra and Rajnarayan Basu, the fair was inaugurated with a patriotic song addressing Bharat as mother. Members were mostly bhadralok - wealthy, upper-caste, educated Hindu Bengalis.

• Bharat Mata herself: The very concept of India as Bharat Mata was conceptualized through a painting by Abanindranath Tagore. Whether it is Bankim, Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, or the idea of Bharat Mata - the early roots of Hindu nationalism were Bengali. The systematic intellectual and emotional development of Hindu nationalism were substantially developed in Bengal, and only later taken forward by Tilak and Savarkar.

▶️ III. The Institutional Founder: A Bengali in New Delhi's Shadow

After resigning from Nehru’s cabinet in 1950 over the Liaquat–Nehru Pact, Syama Prasad Mookerjee turned to M. S. Golwalkar.

In 1951, backed by the RSS’s cadre, he founded the Jana Sangh, the ideological and organizational precursor to today’s BJP.

This is often inverted in popular understanding: the BJP is seen as a Hindi-belt, UP-Bihar party that "invaded" Bengal. The truth is the opposite - the party's ideological and institutional origin is Bengali, and it spent seven decades trying to return home.

▶️ IV. The Data Record: 75 Years of Exile, One Historic Return

The electoral data reveals a long political disconnect from the very land where the movement began.

2011
TMC: 184
BJP: 0
Congress: 42
Left: 40

2016
TMC: 211
BJP: 3
Congress: 44
Left: 26

2021
TMC: 213
BJP: 77
Congress: 0
Left: 0

2026
BJP: 207
TMC: 80
Congress: 4
Left: 3

For the BJP, the victory in Bengal is more than seats in the Assembly, it is the ultimate validation of the mission started by Mookerjee in 1951.

West Bengal’s political shift traces back to October 21, 1951, when Syama Mookerjee founded the Jana Sangh - not just a party, but the beginning of an ideological movement rooted in national unity, cultural nationalism, and strong central leadership.

▶️ V. The Parenthesis: How 50 Lost Years Happened

The gap from 1953 to 2016 wasn’t demographic drift - it was political displacement. Left militancy erased cadre networks, Congress ceded space post-Emergency, and TMC recalibrated politics around identity arithmetic.

The bhadralok - once the intellectual base of Hindu nationalism - cycled through CPI(M) (anti-Congress) & TMC (anti-Left), before the arc corrected itself.

On May 4, PM Modi stood in Delhi in dhuti-panjabi, invoking Syama Prasad Mookerjee. The message was unmistakable.

This wasn’t expansion. It was return.

Hindutva began as a bhadralok project - Bengal 2026 is its homecoming.

[Pooja sharma @poojakaushik08]

🚨At Hakimpur in Indo-Bangla border notice a huge crowd of Bangladeshi immigrant by following the BJP's landslide victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections.

🚨This political shift triggered significant anxiety in border areas as the new administration has immediately pledged to intensify anti-infiltration drives.

🚨 Fearing of a crackdown and stricter identity verification under many undocumented individuals are choosing to return voluntarily.

🚨 BSF is reportedly facilitating these returns through flag meetings with the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Big victory for Prime Minister Modi in India 🇮🇳 state elections. Its time the West appreciates the strength of Indian democracy!

BJP has won a massive victory in state elections in West Bengal and Assam. The turn out was extraordinary high, more than 90%, far above normal participation in European and American elections. With a population of 106 million West Bengal is much larger than any nation in the European Union, so this matters!

The result should give western media a pause. They very often present prime minister Modi as a threat to democracy and his policies as some sort of Hindu extremism. The reality is exactly the opposite. Indian is not only the worlds largest democracy in size - its also one of the most solid in content because its not a western transplant but rooted in Indian traditions and history.

Yesterday’s election produced surprising results in West Bengal and Kerala and a shocking one in Tamil Nadu. Still the losers accept defeat. The turn out is high. There is close to zero violence. Every citizen get the ballot papers - even in the most remote places. The right to free speech is uncontested and Indians use it widely.

When BJP performed below expectations in the 2024 parliament elections, many western media wrote as if it was the beginning of the end for Modiji. Since then the BJP has won state elections in Odisha, Haryana, Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar - and now Assam and West Bengal. What a revenge!

At a time when democracy is threatened in the US and European democracies struggle to deliver, we should look to India for inspiration not fear!

[taslima nasreen @taslimanasreen]

This election in West Bengal was not merely an election for a change of power; it was an explosion of long-accumulated anger, exhaustion, and deprivation. People did not vote only to bring the BJP to power; even more than that, they voted to defeat the Trinamool Congress. A party that had once become the symbol of change gradually came to represent, in the eyes of many, the arrogance of power, corruption, and partisan domination.The list of allegations against the Trinamool Congress is also long. For years, opponents have argued that the politics of Muslim appeasement in the state crossed all limits, that the administration and police increasingly turned into instruments of the ruling party, and that corruption and extortion became institutionalized from the panchayat level to the highest ranks of government. The teacher recruitment scam, the culture of “cut money,” and the abnormal financial rise of local party leaders did not escape public notice. Villagers saw people who once possessed nothing become owners of enormous wealth within only a few https://t.co/ouQGBIRL6x the same time, a section of the population came to believe that instead of genuine industrialization, employment generation, or long-term development, the government relied on welfare-dependent politics to preserve its vote bank. Although schemes such as Lakshmir Bhandar and other social welfare projects benefited many people, the opposition successfully established the narrative that instead of development, “votes were being bought with allowances.”Government employees were also deeply dissatisfied. The DA movement, resentment over jobs, and the growing distance between the administration and citizens pushed many educated middle-class voters away from the Trinamool Congress. Allegations of electoral violence, booth capturing, attacks on opposition workers, and chaos surrounding elections created long-standing frustration and distrust toward democracy itself. Public anger also grew over women’s insecurity, rape, and violence against women, as well as the administration’s handling of such incidents. In many cases, the absence of justice, political interference, and insensitive remarks by those in power generated deep disappointment and outrage among ordinary people.Most importantly, many people came to believe that Mamata Banerjee was no longer the same combative leader she once was. After remaining in power for a long time, an atmosphere of personality cult, excessive centralization, and arrogance of authority emerged around her. The opposition successfully attacked this image and established in the public mind the political message: “Bengal no longer wants you.”History repeatedly shows that governments do not lose solely because of the strength of the opposition; they lose when people begin to feel that those in power no longer listen to them. In this election in West Bengal, that psychology played the most decisive role.Bengal was once not merely a geographical region; it was an intellectual civilization. It was the capital of thought, the center of renaissance and awakening. From Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Swami Vivekananda, from Rabindranath Tagore to Subhas Chandra Bose, from Satyajit Ray to Mahasweta Devi—this land built itself upon traditions of free thought, humanism, rationalism, and https://t.co/x5QZUV7y3b was in this Bengal that Ram Mohan stood against religious superstition, and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar endured social hatred and humiliation in support of widow remarriage. Rabindranath spoke for humanity even against the blindness of narrow nationalism. Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote songs of equality and rebellion against divisions of religion and caste. Jibanananda Das discovered the lonely beauty of Bengal, while Sukanta Bhattacharya dreamed of a world free from hunger, poverty, and exploitation.The artists and writers of Bengal once refused to bow before power. They were the conscience of society. When they witnessed injustice, they protested. Rabindranath returned his British knighthood in protest; Nazrul was imprisoned. The question today is this: does contemporary Bengal still inherit that tradition? Or has much of today’s artistic and literary community grown accustomed to applauding power? Many writers, poets, actors, artists, and academics in Bengal are no longer viewed by people as independent voices; rather, many believe they are openly engaged in praising the rulers in order to receive patronage.There are, of course, exceptions. But the perception that has formed in public consciousness is that a once-protesting cultural sphere has largely transformed into a culture of dependence and obedience. Allegations have arisen that conscience has been traded away in exchange for state grants, awards, positions, committees, and invitations. When art surrenders to money and privilege, artistic freedom dies and literature degenerates into flattery.The issue of minority appeasement also played a major role in this election. Many people in West Bengal came to feel that under the name of secularism, a form of biased politics was being practiced. Secularism means that the state should treat all religions equally; but if one particular community is used as a vote bank, resentment among the majority population is hardly https://t.co/kTvxdAjtef of attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh—temple vandalism, forced occupation of property, and persecution of religious minorities—has regularly reached West Bengal. As a result, many Hindus in West Bengal have become fearful of the rise of Muslim fundamentalism. They fear that if fundamentalism is encouraged for political interests, the social balance will be destroyed. Whether this fear is entirely real or partly exaggerated, its influence on the election cannot be https://t.co/KxaCqfiojz the same time, Islamist groups in Bangladesh are criticizing the BJP’s victory as a “victory of Hindutva.” Yet here a profound hypocrisy becomes visible. Most Christian-, Jewish-, or Hindu-majority countries in the world have established themselves as secular states. Yet in many Muslim-majority countries, Islam is the state religion; in some places Sharia law prevails, in others freedom of expression and the right to leave religion are restricted, and in many minority rights are curtailed. Many Islamist groups support religion-based states in their own countries while demanding secularism elsewhere. This double standard further obstructs modernization and self-criticism within Muslim societies.The political history of West Bengal seems trapped in a recurring cycle. Once, people removed the Left Front government because they believed the CPI(M), after decades in power, had become detached from the public. They rejected it over allegations of deindustrialization, party dictatorship, political violence, and minority appeasement. Riding that wave of anger, the Trinamool Congress came to power with promises of change. But over time, in the eyes of many people, the Trinamool also began walking the same path—only in a more open, aggressive, and reckless form.I myself have been a victim of this political culture. The CPI(M) government banned my book—a book written against religious fundamentalism and in favor of secular humanism. I was forced to leave West Bengal. Later, the Trinamool government also did not allow me to return to the state. Events around my books were stopped, and the broadcast of my television serial was blocked. Such treatment of a writer is not merely a personal attack; it is an attack on free thought, freedom of expression, and the right to question. A society that fears writers ultimately fears independent thinking itself.I am not a worker of any political party, nor am I a blind supporter of one. I believe no party is above criticism. Good work must be acknowledged, and wrongdoing must be opposed. In a democracy, the first duty of a citizen is not to become blindly partisan, but to preserve one’s conscience.Since people voted in hope of change, their expectations are enormous. They want corruption reduced, violence stopped, administration made impartial, transparency restored in recruitment, industry and investment expanded, and the education system revived. They want West Bengal once again to become a radiant center of thought, culture, art, literature, and humanity.But changing governments alone does not change society. Society changes when people transform themselves from within—when artists refuse to sell themselves, journalists refuse to live in fear, teachers refuse to become servants of parties, and writers refuse to stop speaking the truth. The great question before West Bengal today is whether it will return to its liberal, rationalist, and humanist traditions, or move further toward polarization, hatred, and the politics of revenge.Once, Bengal gave India the direction of renaissance, the courage of free thought, and new languages of literature and culture. Even today, people expect much from Bengal. At this moment of change, what is most necessary is not only a change in power, but also a change in political culture. Otherwise, history will repeat itself once again, and the people of Bengal will continue to move endlessly in the same circle.