Ethanol will hurt the BJP electorally, not because of car owners, the are just 8% of the population, but because of bike owners, who make up 60%.
Every issue with a bike, irrespective of whether it's due to ethanol or not, is being blamed on ethanol. Remember that the overwhelming majority of car and bike mechanics are not your voters and, in fact, they hate you and you know why. They are actively telling anyone with any bike issue that it is due to ethanol. Not only does it serve a political purpose, but it is also easy and convincing.
Car and bike dealers are equally happy to lean into this excuse because it completely deflects blame away from the manufacturers and their own service centers. If a part fails prematurely or a vehicle suffers from a chronic engineering defect, blaming ethanol allows dealers to shift the responsibility onto government policy rather than admitting to poor build quality or honoring warranty claims. It gives them a convenient, politically charged scapegoat that customers readily accept, shielding the automotive brands from reputational damage.
It's up to the BJP to smell the coffee. The issue is no longer on Twitter and no longer raised just by English-speaking metro car owners. It has gone to the ground. There is still time to wake up and make corrections.
P.S. I'm not defending ethanol here. It does damage engines and parts. I've been strongly opposing it and will keep doing so. I'm only saying what's happening on the ground. The BJP should do a course correction on ethanol solely because its implementation was wrong and correcting it is only logical. However, since politicians see every controversy from the standpoint of electoral gains and losses, I'm telling them that it will hurt them electorally too.
I believe @Vaibhavsooryava will only be fit to play only in end Mar 2027, otherwise Tendulkar's record will be broken. What @GautamGambhir is doing is lying outright. Senior players do not want this record broken. @BCCI why should Gambhir remain a manager, when his decisions are faulty. Time for him to manage a school team first
Pakistan thinks our army is terrorist - Sai Pallavi
This mediocre looking person with negative aura, zero personality, absolute zero tej and 100% anti India, anti Hindu attitude is playing role of Sita Mata
Unbelievably rubbish casting by the makers
विश्वविद्यालय अनुदान आयोग, यूजीसी द्वारा देश के सरकारी व निजी विश्वविद्यालयों मे जातिवादी घटनाओं को रोकने के लिए जो नये नियम लागू किये गये है, जिससे सामाजिक तनाव का वातावरण पैदा हो गया है। ऐसे वर्तमान हालात के मद्देनजर रखते हुये माननीय सुप्रीम कोर्ट का यूजीसी के नये नियम पर रोक लगाने का आज का फैसला उचित
जबकि देश में, इस मामले में सामाजिक तनाव आदि का वातावरण पैदा ही नहीं होता अगर यूजीसी नये नियम को लागू करने से पहले सभी पक्ष को विश्वास में ले लेती और जाॅच कमेटी आदि में भी अपरकास्ट समाज को नेचुरल जस्टिस के अन्तर्गत उचित प्रतिनिधित्व दे देती।
Very disturbing to see our Braveheart Commandoo from Para SF being asked to pay toll despite a letter of exemption
'I am not a beggar..... asking for what is written here.... please respond @nitin_gadkari' he says
Shameful and sad to treat our disabled War Heroes like this. Either honour the toll exemption letter or do not issue it
Request your intervention @DefenceMinIndia@rajnathsingh ji
Happy Republic Day 🇮🇳
@theskindoctor13 Put all ingredients except milk in boiling water not in cold water. After boiling for a minute add milk equal to water. After boiling add sugar as per your taste and boil again
A 13-year-old boy, a national-level skater with six medals, made a childish mistake.
He brought a phone to school, recorded a class video, and uploaded it. A minor lapse, not a crime. But the Principal behaved as if she were some colonial-era viceroy dispensing punishments, not an educator handling a teenager.
Instead of guiding him, she threatened to “end his career,” “take away his medals,” and suspend him, punishments entirely disproportionate to the mistake.
The boy apologised 52 times in four minutes, but the Principal, consumed by her own sense of authority, didn’t show a shred of empathy. No patience, no corrective instinct, no understanding, just the arrogant, self-important behaviour that too many Indians slip into the moment they get a chair and a nameplate.
Humiliated and terrified, the child jumped from the third floor. He survived, but he has fractures in both legs, spinal injuries, and more. His future in skating is uncertain now.
Bodhi International School, Ratlam (MP).
“All gave some. Some gave all.”
Inspector Ashish Sharma, one of the finest officers of Madhya Pradesh’s elite anti-Maoist Hawk Force, fell in the forests of Rajnandgaon while fighting Maoists.
A two-time gallantry award winner, he was the man the police sent when the job was impossibly difficult. A farmer’s son from Narsinghpur, he was just two months away from his wedding, as per Navbharat Times.
Sharing this because the heroism and sacrifices of our security forces should dominate media and social media. But sadly, we’ve normalised the opposite. The moment a terrorist is neutralised, the narrative instantly shifts to emotional sob stories about their “circumstances,” while real heroes like Ashish Sharma barely get a fraction of that attention.
Om Shanti.
18–25-year-old, well-off youth from top colleges in mega-metros, living on Instagram and café aesthetics, have zero connection with ground realities.
And the cruel irony is that the children of poor and lower-middle-class families die young at the borders, so this curated, WiFi-wrapped group can perform its ‘freedom of speech’ theatre without ever paying the cost of it. Insulated, overconfident, ill-informed, and intellectually hollow.
Jhansi, a passenger on the Andaman Express named Nihaal, crossed all lines of decency by objecting to being overcharged for food.
The catering staff could have thrown him off the moving train for such audacity, but being law-abiding citizens, they chose to only beat him peacefully with a belt and a few punches.
A fine display of the great hospitality Indian Railway catering services is famous for. Hope the monster Nihaal has learned his lesson.
Girl: Govt said blood and water can’t flow together, then why play cricket with them?
Rakesh Sinha (BJP leader and former MP): We said blood and water, not cricket.
Audience laughs.
Neither the politician is serious nor the audience. What should be a matter of principle has been reduced to a punchline. Sad state of affairs!
It was responsibility of both the govt and the BCCI to ensure India does not play Pakistan in Asia Cup. They failed.
Now the choice is yours: either shrug it off with “if they don’t care, why should I” and watch, or refuse to watch and make a statement.
I hope you choose the latter. Don’t watch, neither on TV, nor online, nor through apps. Don’t even engage when cricket accounts post live scores or hype the match as it gets “interesting.”
Refusing to engage is a small act for each of us, but together it becomes a powerful statement that neither the govt nor the BCCI can ignore. Let silence be the rebellion.