@msisodia धर्मेंद्र प्रधान ऐसा निवाला हो गए हैं कि न मोदी जी उन्हें थूक पा रहे हैं, न निगल पा रहे हैं!
राजनीति में ऐसे मोड़ भी आते हैं,
अपने ही फैसले भारी पड़ जाते हैं।
कुर्सी बचाने की जद्दोजहद में,
कई चेहरे सवाल बन जाते हैं
धर्मेंद्र प्रधान ऐसा निवाला हो गए हैं कि न मोदी जी उन्हें थूक पा रहे हैं, न निगल पा रहे हैं!
राजनीति में ऐसे मोड़ भी आते हैं,
अपने ही फैसले भारी पड़ जाते हैं।
कुर्सी बचाने की जद्दोजहद में,
कई चेहरे सवाल बन जाते हैं
@abhijeet_dipke#cjp#BJPFails#genz
The harassment of journalists at #JantarMantar wasn’t an attack on one reporter or one channel it was an attack on the freedom to report.
The most disappointing part? The silence of our own fraternity.
When journalists are intimidated on the ground, every newsroom should stand together, regardless of ideology or competition. A united stand by all news channels could have sent a clear message: reporting cannot be bullied into submission.
If we don’t defend the right to report today, tomorrow there may be no one left to report.
I don't care if you support BJP, Congress, or any other party.
As a citizen of India, ask yourself honestly:
Don't you feel that our Education System has failed most us?
0. Govt schools are pathetic
1. Private schools are looting parents
3. The syllabus is outdated
4. Most teachers are unqualified
5. Exam Papers get leaked
6. Students are taugh rattafication
7. The fees of private colleges are sky rocketing
8. Colleges are surrounded with drug peddlers.
I could go on and on and on....
Haven't we all experienced most of these problems in our education?
Now ask yourself:
Do we want our children to suffer through the same Education System that many of us struggled with?
Kabhi to sawal puchne padenge.
Kabhi to question karna padega na bhai.
Kabhi to accountability maangni padegi na yaar?
Every year in budget, thousands of crores are allocated to education in India. Shouldn't we expect to see meaningful improvements?
Kahan hai woh quality education jo har "Neta ji" apne manifesto mein promise karte hai?
As a teacher, a father, a student (who suffered through the same system) and a citizen of India, I feel sad for all of this.
I urge you,
If you want a change, Ask Questions.!
Whoever comes to power - BJP, Congress, or any other party, don't become a blind supporter.
Ask tough questions.
Demand accountability.
Take a stand.
Ask a lot of questions, because asking questions is the democratic right of every citizen of India. 🇮🇳
I don't care if you support BJP, Congress, or any other party.
As a citizen of India, ask yourself honestly:
Don't you feel that our Education System has failed most us?
0. Govt schools are pathetic
1. Private schools are looting parents
3. The syllabus is outdated
4. Most teachers are unqualified
5. Exam Papers get leaked
6. Students are taugh rattafication
7. The fees of private colleges are sky rocketing
8. Colleges are surrounded with drug peddlers.
I could go on and on and on....
Haven't we all experienced most of these problems in our education?
Now ask yourself:
Do we want our children to suffer through the same Education System that many of us struggled with?
Kabhi to sawal puchne padenge.
Kabhi to question karna padega na bhai.
Kabhi to accountability maangni padegi na yaar?
Every year in budget, thousands of crores are allocated to education in India. Shouldn't we expect to see meaningful improvements?
Kahan hai woh quality education jo har "Neta ji" apne manifesto mein promise karte hai?
As a teacher, a father, a student (who suffered through the same system) and a citizen of India, I feel sad for all of this.
I urge you,
If you want a change, Ask Questions.!
Whoever comes to power - BJP, Congress, or any other party, don't become a blind supporter.
Ask tough questions.
Demand accountability.
Take a stand.
Ask a lot of questions, because asking questions is the democratic right of every citizen of India. 🇮🇳
Hearing out Gen Z.
My father's caretaker is a 24 year old guy. Hails from Kanpur. He has done BSc Nursing and we have hired him through an agency that provides elder-care professionals at home.
Spends 12 hours at our home (8 am to 8 pm), rarely takes a leave. A very diligent guy, soft-spoken, well-read (keeps reading books from my collection) and speaks pretty fluent English.
On the morning of 20th July, he calls up and says he is not feeling well. On 21st he came, was limping a bit. Did not share what happened.
Yesterday he shared with dad that he told a lie. On 20th he had gone to Jantar-Mantar for supporting the students' protest and was hit by the police truncheon during lathi-charge. While running, lost his shoe and twisted his ankle.
Last night when I went home and was having dinner, dad told me about this. Today morning when he came I talked to him and realized what 'generation(al) gap' means.
While talking to him I realized, he was 9-10 when Anna Andolan happened. He was 10-11 when Arvind Kejriwal became the CM for the first time. He was 11-12 when BJP formed the government in 2014. The NEET aspirants are even younger than him. They were toddlers 12 years ago.
Some of the things we have lived through, are alien to him. All he has seen since he started experiencing the world is the current government and Modi as the PM. So for him, everything that he and his generation is been through in last 7-8 years since he 'grew up' - the responsibility lies with the current government.
He mentioned that there are 1000s of youngsters who have travelled from as far as Lucknow and Varanasi for these protests.
Again on being asked why? Why did he and his friends join the protest? Why these students have come so far to join the protests?
NEET exam leak was the last thing on his mind. The reasons he gave were - everything becoming expensive and unaffordable, no job opportunities, government's and police's high-headedness, corruption everywhere - and then went on to mention falling bridges, broken roads, no footpaths, stray dogs and cattle all around and dumps of garbage everywhere. He called ethanol-blending a scam.
I felt he was just waiting to burst out everything that's piled up in his mind. Glad that heard him out.
Then I realized that there are millions like him and these protests are not just about the NEET exam leak. These are the piled up frustrations finding a way out.
Forget Sonam Wangchuk. Forget Abhijeet Dipke. Forget the CJP.
Did the exam papers leak? Yes.
Do they leak frequently? Yes.
Did many students commit suicide? Yes.
Do papers leak for other exams as well? Also yes.
The Government seems to suggest that a successful re-exam was undertaken, and the criminals have been punished - so what’s the problem?
The problem is that it doesn’t stop the next paper leak.
Putting some low level criminals behind bars and throwing money at the families of the dead isn’t the permanent solution. How many senior administrators and bureaucrats have faced the wrath of the law in the last 10 years?
It’s a post-facto reaction after the leaks have already taken lives.
Exam paper leaks in India are not confined to one state, one government, or one type of exam. In fact, the situation is even worse in State exams.
The attitude, by-and-large, seems to be, jaisa chal raha hai chalne do..
We’ll pick up a few people here and there, give away some money, do a re-exam and move on to the next cycle. Itna toh kiya, aur kya chahiye?
But the students have gotten restless. They are fed up. You see it in TV interviews after every exam that gets cancelled at the last moment. Police recruitment. Teacher recruitment. State Govt recruitment. Again and again. Year after year. Too many students have all hopes pinned on these various exams. It is their ticket out of poverty, to make a life for themselves and their families.
Why should they just “get on with it”?
Another line of argument seems to be that there were more paper leaks in the Congress era. And that this government has done better than its predecessors. And so people need to be ‘sensible’ about this issue.
Ok, but why should that be relevant to a 20-year old today?
She didn’t live in the Congress era. She is living and studying in 2026.
It is an argument that would perhaps resonate with millennials and older folks who have lived through both regimes. But the very young don’t have that old reference (and it’s a good thing) - they have the reference of social media.
This is a social media native generation, they don’t consume traditional TV or news. Social media gives them access to what the world is like, right on their screen, 24X7. And they will increasingly ask - why can’t we have the good things that the world has?
If Ethiopia can have decent roads, why can’t India?
If Sri Lanka can be clean, why can’t India?
If Vietnam can conduct exams well, why can’t India?
And this restlessness expresses aspiration.
To demand more. To want better. To want it quickly.
Chalta Hai.. is not going to cut it anymore.
Take the counterfactual - if there was no hue and cry, do you believe anything would change? There would be another paper leak somewhere in another month. Another series of suicides. Another round of compensation.
It may very well happen even now, but the students have expressed their rage and fury- that it can’t be business as usual.
“Chalta hai” is the defining attitude of India.
Road after road after road has potholes.. but chal raha hai.
Exam after exam after exam gets cancelled.. but chal raha hai.
Kachra on every street, highway, station… but chal raha hai.
Corruption in every other government service.. but chal raha hai.
The young (thankfully) don’t carry the baggage of the past. The older you get, the more cynical you become - that this is how the system is, and how things will always work. But the young, with their (hopeful) naivety, at least have the ability to dream of a different tomorrow.
In my early 20s, I wore the Anna cap and went around the area sloganeering with a bunch of other young people during the IAC movement. Nothing came out of it, and in hindsight I felt stupid for having supported any of those people. But the sentiment that it came out of - the frustration with rampant corruption - that was genuine.
As I’m sure, the sentiment is genuine with thousands of students who have been part of these protests.
I hope your movement has a more fruitful end than the one I supported.
PS: Is this movement foreign funded? Are there other forces involved? I will let people with far more experience than me on security and intelligence matters to comment on that. But I will say this - the issue has been genuine, and it has resonance among the public. Grifters will always find a way to latch on to popular issues and try to hijack it. We must not lose sight of solving for the core sentiment.
We are relieved and grateful that Sonam sir has ended his hunger strike after 26 days.
Thank you, sir, for your extraordinary courage and sacrifice. By putting your own life on the line, you awakened the conscience of an entire nation. Your life is far too precious to this country.
The Cockroach Janta Party’s peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar will continue until Dharmendra Pradhan resigns.