Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳

Senior Advisor at Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India.
Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat.
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[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

Yes, comparing Modi era with Nehru’s is right. Not to do so would be injustice to millions who suffered because of Nehru.

For example, Hindu Bengali refugees. Their children, grandchildren must never forget that their people were abandoned and thrown to the wolves by Jawaharlal Nehru before, during and after Partition.

Nehru despised dark-skinned Hindu Bengali refugees, among them my father, his siblings, their widowed mother and grandmother, fleeing rapacious and murderous Muslim League mobs in East Bengal; he did not want them to seek shelter in India.

Nehru wrote to CM BC Roy, instructing him not to let Hindu Bengali refugees enter West Bengal. Push them back from the border, Nehru said, don’t let them in.

Nehru insisted Hindu Bengalis of East Bengal / East Pakistan were coming to India for free-loading at the expense of Indians. He cut back Central funds for West Bengal to stop the meagre refugee assistance by way of a couple of kilos of inedible worm-infested rotten rice for Hindu Bengalis.

Hindu Bengali refugee women and children separated from their families, or widowed and orphaned in the Noakhali genocide and subsequent Partition Massacre of Hindus, rummaged in garbage bins and pitifully begged for morsels of food.

Hindu Bengali refugee children in rags with dark large sad eyes greedily licked on used banana leaves dumped on the streets by eateries, also known as ‘pice hotels’ in Kolkata parlance, of which there was a profusion in the post-War years. Emaciated babies and rickety children of Hindu Bengali refugees huddled with stray dogs on pavements.

Many Hindu Bengali refugees lived on ‘rice water’ or ‘fan’ (the starchy water that is thrown away after boiling rice) collected from homes of compassionate Bengalis who had little food to share.

In the morning and evening there were pheriwallahs hawking their wares; in the afternoon there were Hindu Bengali refugee women in tattered sarees that barely covered their bodies and naked children with battered and bruised aluminium pots going from house to house, begging for ‘rice water’: “Ma, fan daao Ma…”

Those voices of has hunger were to haunt Hindu Bengali refugees like my parents for long, often till death.

Driven by hate for Hindu Bengali refugees, Nehru ordered horrifyingly, nauseatingly squalid and disease-ridden refugee camps to be named ‘Permanent Liability Camps’ or PLCs — PLC 1, PLC 2… — reminiscent of the ‘Permanent Solution Camps’ of the Nazis.

When despite his best efforts Nehru failed to push back the Hindu Bengali refugees to be slaughtered in East Bengal/East Pakistan, Nehru brought his devastating Freight Equalisation Policy which collapsed industry in West Bengal. Tens of thousands of jobs were destroyed and the Hindu Bengali was rendered jobless: Those who lost their jobs and businesses began turning on Hindu Bengali refugees just as Nehru had hoped.

Yet Nehru could not break the spirit of the Hindu Bengali refugees who were grateful to Bharat and determined to help rebuild this great nation savaged by invaders and colonisers especially John Company.

Through generations we Hindu Bengali refugees toiled, we built, we paid taxes, we sacrificed for the Nation, our Nation, we succeeded in establishing ourselves as dutiful, law-abiding, loyal citizens of India. Having lost our home and hearth, we had no other home but India.

We Hindu Bengali refugees were hived off to malaria-infested inhospitable Dandakaranya and we cleared forests and made the soil fertile. We were packed off to Andaman and we rebuilt our lives there. When we tried to set up home at Marichjhapi we were slaughtered: the estuaries turned red with our blood.

We grieved, we got up, we overcame that setback.

We lived with dignity and honour, we earned our food, we were not freeloaders. We were poor but we were honest: we had integrity.

Cut to 2026.

So who have proved to be India’s ‘Permanent Liability’ cadging off the state and living on unearned money? Nehru Dynasty.

[DCP New Delhi @DCPNewDelhi]

The allegations by Abhijeet Dipke that Delhi Police has cut off sanitation facilities or water connections at Jantar Mantar is another desperate attempt to spread falsehoods and misinformation.

Delhi Police, being a law enforcement agency, has no role to play in providing or maintaining these facilities.
@DelhiPolice
@abhijeet_dipke

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

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“Our vision is to make Indian Ocean into an Ocean of Opportunit
~ PM @narendramodi

PM Modi’s important message from Seychelles:

“मेरी सेशेल्स की यात्रा का संदेश स्पष्ट है:

भारत ऐसे हिंद महासागर की कल्पना करता है,

जहाँ समुद्री सुरक्षा के साथ आर्थिक समृद्धि भी बढ़े;

जहाँ हमारी साझेदारी आकार नहीं, आपसी सम्मान

और विश्वास पर आधारित हो;

और जहाँ हम हर देश के पास-पास नहीं, साथ-साथ चलें।”

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

PM Modi addressing the National Assembly of Seychelles.

This is the 20th national parliament which has invited PM Modi to
address its members.

Soon after assuming office in 2014, he addressed the Parliaments of Bhutan, Nepal, Australia and Fiji.

The following year, he addressed the National Assembly of Mauritius, the Parliaments of Sri Lanka, Mongolia, the United Kingdom and Afghanistan.

The journey continued with Prime Minister Modi's address to the United States Congress in 2016, followed by a second address in 2023 making him the first Indian Prime Minister to address a Joint Session of the US Congress twice.

Between these landmark engagements, he also addressed the Parliaments of Uganda in 2018, Maldives in 2019 and Guyana in 2024.

The momentum gathered further in 2025 when Prime Minister Modi addressed the national Parliaments of Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago and Namibia during his visits in July, followed by the Joint Session of the Ethiopian Parliament in December, underscoring India's deepening engagement with Africa and the Global South.

Earlier this year, on February 25, 2026, PM Modi created history by becoming the first Indian Prime Minister to address the Knesset, the Parliament of Israel, during his State Visit to Jerusalem.
https://t.co/iyr6irBUF6

[Keya Ghosh @keyakahe]

আহা মুখের কি ভাষা ! আর মহুয়া মৈত্র, কংগ্রেস ছেড়ে টিএমসিতে টিকিটের লোভে আপনি যখন এলেন সেটা গদ্দারি নয় কেন একটু বুঝিয়ে বলবেন?

[Dr Arvind Virmani @dravirmani]

Note: India a sub-continent of 1.42bi people, does not exist in this World view. Channel your anger into sacrifice and accountablity of elected for providing local, State & National public goods

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

Seychelles confers ‘Guardian of the Blue Horizon’ title on PM Modi.

Blue Horizon for Green Vision: PM Modi's Global Impact.

Prime Minister @narendramodi has been conferred the 'Guardian of the Blue Horizon', Seychelles' highest distinction for leadership in environmental conservation and sustainable development.

The award acknowledges PM Modi's long-standing push for sustainable growth and his green vision.

This is the latest in a series of global honours recognising PM Modi’s work on climate action, sustainable development and green growth.

Just last month, in May 2026, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) presented him with the Agricola Medal for strengthening food security, transforming agriculture and promoting sustainable farming.

Earlier, in 2018, he received the Seoul Peace Prize for advancing sustainable economic growth, global cooperation and inclusive development.

In 2018, the United Nations conferred upon him the prestigious Champions of the Earth Award, the organisation

[Sanjay Lazar @sjlazars]

Air India 🇮🇳 #AI182 #Kanishka the 41st memorial at Ahakista Cork, #terrorism !
Commemorating the 41st Tragic anniversary of the Air India Kanishka bombing at Cork Ireland. #neverforget @PMOIndia @MarkJCarney @narendramodi @HCI_Ottawa @IndiainIreland @CanadainIndia @csiscanada @rcmpgrcpolice @gary_srp @HardeepSPuri @KanchanGupta @AdityaRajKaul

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

Hold your angst on the Indian Passport not being a citizenship document.

Media should inform, not join Choir of the Ignorant.

Everybody feigning surprise and ranting against Ministry of External Affairs statement that passport is NOT a citizenship document, chill.

You are ignorant about the law of the land, an ignorance which is widespread in India largely because basic laws and rules that impact a citizen's life are not taught in school, as they should be, and parents discourage children from 'wasting their time' on learning about laws.

The passport we are issued is a travel document as per the Passport Act of 1967. It is NOT proof of citizenship because an Indian passport can also be issued to non-Indian nationals as per Section 20 of the Act.

This is NOT a new rule or definition; this is NOT a rule or definition introduced by the Modi Government after 2014. This is a rule and definition framed by the Congress when the Act was passed in 1967.

Here is what Section 20 of the Passport Act says:

20. Issue of passports and travel documents to persons who are not citizens of lndia --
Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions relating to issue of a passport or travel document, the Central Government may issue, or cause to be issued, a passport or travel document to a person who is not a citizen of lndia if that Government is of the opinion that it is necessary so to do in the public interest.

Apart from the Act, its interpretation by the Judiciary upholds the definition that the Indian Passport alone is not proof or evidence of Indian citizenship. The Bombay High Court was quite emphatic about this.

The full text of the Passport Act of 1967 is available on the website of Passport Seva:
https://t.co/ovvn6AaRBT

Before applying for an Indian passport the applicant is supposed to read through the Act because it also informs citizens about violations and penalties.

If the applicant does not bother to read it, it is presumed s/he has read it: Remember, ignorance of the law is NOT a ground for pleading innocence.

It is extremely regrettable that presumably educated and informed journalists and newsdesks are fanning the cant over the MEA statement and amplifying the unfounded, meaningless angst that the Indian passport is NOT proof of or a document proving Indian citizenship.

The journalists at @toi group, who have joined the Choir of the Ignorant, could try reading archived issues of the paper they work for. There was a time, believe it or not, when it was a great newspaper, second only to The Statesman. It would be educative to read back issues.

Reading is the best cure for ignorance.

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

‘Svayambodha and Shatrubodha’ by Pankaj Saxena should be made compulsory reading across Bharat for class 9 students.
Hopefully 10 years on we will have a generation of Bharatiyas acutely aware of their Shatru — enemy — within and without.
We have no shatrubodh, hence no dignity.

[NIA India @NIA_India]

Accused Sayem Chowdhary @ Babu Chowdhary has been arrested in a case of pre-poll SIR related mob blockades, violence and detention of judicial officers that took place in West Bengal’s Malda district in April.

[Facts @BefittingFacts]

He is Dipankar Das.

• In 2018, his parents, Debu Das and Usha Das, were tied up and burnt alive over their political affiliation with CPI(M).

• He returned home carrying his mother’s favourite ice cream, only to find his parents murdered.

• Instead of giving up, he studied law to fight for justice.

• For years, he received no justice under the TMC government.

• After the BJP government took office, 10 accused in the double murder case were arrested.

• Yesterday, Dipankar met CM Suvendu Adhikari along with CPI(M) leader Minakshi Mukherjee.

Ever victim will get justice.

[Amit Malviya @amitmalviya]

For the “kagaz nahin dikhayenge” brigade outraging over the Ministry of External Affairs’ statement that a passport is not proof of citizenship, here is a reality check.

The MEA has not announced a new policy. It has merely reiterated a settled legal position.

Indian courts have repeatedly held that a passport is not conclusive proof of citizenship. The Bombay High Court made this clear in 2013 and reaffirmed the principle subsequently: citizenship is determined under the Citizenship Act, 1955, based on eligibility and supporting evidence, not by the mere possession of a single document.

In India, citizenship is established through a combination of records, including birth certificates, parents’ citizenship records (where relevant), school records, electoral roll entries, government service records, land and residence records, passports, and other contemporaneous official documents.

The statutory position is equally clear. Under the Passports Act, 1967, the Central Government has the power in specified circumstances to issue a passport or travel document even to a non-citizen. The law itself therefore recognises that possession of a passport cannot, by definition, be treated as conclusive proof of citizenship.

This distinction is neither unusual nor controversial. A passport is an important identity and travel document. It is evidence that may support a claim of citizenship. But citizenship itself flows from the Constitution and the Citizenship Act, not from the possession of any single government-issued document.

The outrage is not over a new rule. It is over a legal position that has long been settled by both statute and the courts.

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

Across this decade, the party that put cash in women's hands has won, from Madhya Pradesh to Maharashtra to Bihar.

With UP voting in 2027, Akhilesh Yadav has promised poor women Rs 40,000 a year if the Samajwadi Party returns, more than double what the winning schemes elsewhere pay.

The arithmetic is the first problem.

- On the eligibility rules other states use, five to six crore UP women would qualify.

- The bill would run to Rs 2-2.4 lakh crore a year, more than twice the state's entire fiscal deficit and nearly the whole of its own tax revenue.

- It is a promise that is easy to make from the opposition benches and impossible to honour from them.

That last point is the one the headline number hides.

In every state where a cash scheme appeared to swing an election, women were already receiving the money before polling day.

Where a government only promised and never paid, like the AAP in Delhi, voters were unmoved.

A smaller sum already in the account beats a larger one printed in a manifesto, and Akhilesh Yadav cannot put a rupee into any account before 2027.

Yogi Adityanath can. But he also need not match the figure, or even the model.

UP's government has leaned on income over handouts, putting women in the driving seat of e-rickshaws where they report earning over Rs 3 lakh a year, and pushing lakhs more past Rs 1 lakh through self-help groups.

If it is eventually forced to write a cheque, Bihar is the template — a one-time Rs 10,000 to start a livelihood with larger support only once the venture shows progress.

Bihar won 202 of 243 seats on that model, and it costs a fraction of a monthly transfer that could wipe out UP's revenue surplus.

The cash contest, in other words, is the easier half of the problem. The harder half is the one Akhilesh Yadav hammers at every day — a failing examination and recruitment.

The system is so plagued by paper leaks and delays that some exams have taken four years to conduct, leaving lakhs of aspirants in limbo.

Fix the recruitment, hold the exams on time, and Yogi Adityanath may not need to write the cheque at all.

Full piece by @nishthaanushree.

https://t.co/uySfBJ4gK4

[B L Santhosh @blsanthosh]

Then accept NRC without raising objections … You will have a single document . Tab bolenge ki “ Kagaz nahin dikhayenge ”.

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

What is mentioned in the Indian passport is the passport holder's "nationality".

'Nationality' refers to a person's country of origin or birth and indicates a cultural or ethnic belonging to a particular nation.

'Citizenship' is a specific legal status granted by Government, which gives a citizen political and civil rights (such as the right to vote).

I hope you learned something new today.

Tata.

[Technophile_Polyglot @silberweiss_b]

@KanchanGupta On right page it's there

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

Yo Choir of the Ignorant who are claiming the Indian passport describes the holder as a citizen, it does not do so.
Just as you did not care to read the law before applying for a passport, you have not bothered to check what the passport actually says.

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

Ermmmm… no.
I work for my living and earn an honest day’s wages on which I pay full taxes.
I wish I could say the same thing about you.

[jayaraman @jayaraman_kal]

@KanchanGupta @IndiaToday You are a cheer leader who gets paid by our taxes but who want the same citizens to suffer..Pathetic for a Living

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

If you are truly a professor with a PhD and a long list of ABCD… degrees, at least read the post instead of shamelessly showcasing your poor knowledge for the world to see.
Section 20 of the Passport Act 1967 says Indian passport can be given to non-citizen.
Now say mea culpa and tata goodbye.

[Prof. (Dr) Tapan Mohanta, PhD, FRSB @mohantatapan]

@KanchanGupta @IndiaToday Its not citizenship doc & SC has already mentioned. But, question is can passport be issued to a non-citizen? Simply, No
So there should not be dichotomy. I know at least 11 Bangladeshi got passport fm India & flew Europe & Middle East.

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

Cut the cr*p.

The Indian passport does not say the holder of the passport is an Indian citizen:

[Technophile_Polyglot @silberweiss_b]

@KanchanGupta @IndiaToday Height of s t u p i d i ty
Inside, in first page President appeals to whom it may concern to extend help to the Passport Holder, an INDIAN CITIZEN!

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

While you are welcome to believe what you think is above the law of the land, that really will not change the fact that the Indian passport is not a citizenship document.
But do feel free to stomp your feet and insist ‘It is, it is’.

[Sanjeev S @this_sanjeev]

No one gets a certificate which is called ‘Certificate of Indian Citizenship’. This is inferred identity established and confirmed through number of cross referenced documents like Aadhaar, Passport, Birth certificate , pan, voter id etc each validating the other something like elements in a block chain. Every such document which has origin in reference to other mutually fundamental document is citizenship document. Passport is citizenship document unless it is specially marked denying so.