🚨Please spread and educate kids and students and citizens what to do and how to handle Police , Modi and Shah going forward!!!
‼️Faila do bhai log,,, hear each and every word 👇
Must watch!
“If courts don't step in, it's a licence to the police to get away with absolutely anything becoz they know they have the sanction of their political masters.”
- Sr. Adv. Gopal Sankaranarayanan
on the excessive force used by police against Jantar Mantar protestors.
I haven't been following the India protests that closely, but it seems to me that they reflect a basic contradiction in India's political economy that will naturally get more acute as the country grows economically. At a very basic level, the path to political power in India is through the rural poor and the farmers. This plays out at the central and state level, with governments at every level regularly extracting resources from surplus-producing urban areas to fund welfare for the hinterlands. As long as this basic political logic remains, Indian politicians will neglect the aspirations of the electorally insignificant urban middle class who form the bulk of the protesters.
The BJP has somewhat successfully bridged this divide through Hindutva politics: When it comes to economic policy they double down on rural development (water connections, electricity, welfare etc.) while pushing cultural and religious nationalism to satisfy the ascendant Hindu middle class that has the luxury of voting on ideological lines. But this is not sustainable in the long run. As the urban middle class grows, the demand for greater economic opportunity, a better standard of living, and the promise of a better future will naturally increase in intensity.
Retorts about the depredations of the Congress-era, even if true, are little consolation to the young who have only known BJP-led India. The reflexive tendency of BJP supporters to see protests as a "foreign conspiracy" reflects a basic inability to see the world through the eyes of others. That there are bad actors is no doubt true, but this does not detract from the legitimacy of the complaints about corruption, stagnation, urban misgovernance etc.
Modi and the BJP have spent years referring to their era of electoral dominance as a "golden age" of Indian economic and cultural regeneration. Turns out when you set expectations high, people will expect you meet them. Who would have thought?
THIS IS PEAK COURAGE 🔥
One fearless woman stood in front of a police can carrying detained protestors during Mumbai students protest
She refused to back down
Soon more people joined and the police had to release the protestors
What a brave lady. Huge respect 🫡