Today must be a proud day for BJP workers in West Bengal, and especially for the RSS karyakartas who spent years fighting the “corrupt” TMC and worked relentlessly to deliver the BJP’s historic victory in the state.
Their reward? Three Rajya Sabha nominations for former TMC MPs who resigned only a few weeks ago.
Clearly, this is what sacrifice looks like. Years of grassroots work so that those they campaigned against could be declared the most deserving faces to represent the party in Parliament.
Perhaps corruption has an unusually short expiry date in politics. A resignation, a new party scarf, and suddenly yesterday’s villains become today’s ideal Rajya Sabha nominees. What a remarkable journey of political transformation.
Living in 100% Amrit Kaal,
driving 80% ethanol cars,
breathing 60% polluted air,
drinking 40% adulterated milk,
in an education system with 20% credibility,
to get killed with 0% dignity, by USA missiles, by mob lynchings, by a badly made bridge or a pothole, or just a stampede.
*25 people ‘murdered’ by negligence and corruption in Goa club fire.
* thousands of passengers exploited and left in tears after Indigo’s flying mess.
Both glaring examples of a terrible governance and regulatory deficit.
BUT guess what our Lok Sabha MPs will debate today? 10 hour debate on Vande Mataram led by none other than PM Modi! Why? Because Govt can blame it on Nehru and create another WEAPON of MASS DISTRACTION!
Meanwhile, ‘burning’ issues of today won’t be touched (we haven’t had a word spoken on air pollution either)
Yeh hai ‘Andheri Nagri’ India! Jai ho!😂
When he got elected in 2014, I was in Bangalore..got 20K worth of sweet boxes for my entire block in Mallesewaram to celebrate
Thought he would be the LKY of India, he had a blank check to do all he wanted + majority in both houses
Also the most benign macros, Low energy prices, no major wars etc
Wasted every thing, he doesn't care now, just wants to ride on reservations and Laadli schemes
Only thing my family will still vote for him forever is Opposition is 10x worse and worst part, he KNOWS this, he knows middle classes is behind him and he will use that Intel till he squeezes us dry
Pretty grim actually!
You have to give it to Mr Modi for one thing
- after implementing GST on everything,
- introducing 10% LTCG on capital gains,
- completely removing LTCG and indexation on debt funds,
- imposing 20% TCS on foreign remittance; and
- after imposing tax on insurance proceeds,
He has shifted the debate to this - "if the opposition comes, they will impose inheritance tax"..... Now everyone is confused!! This deserves a standing ovation.
अगर 1857 में Nehru ji अपने मोबाइल फ़ोन से flashlight जलाते तो अंग्रेज कब का भाग जाते।
लेकिन अफ़सोस 1857 में मोबाइल फ़ोन नहीं था और Nehru ji भी नहीं थे।
बच गया Nehru !!
Couple of years ago, while a relative was visiting, he saw my collection of books and said "My son likes reading too, but he won’t like what you are reading". I asked, "What’s wrong with what I am reading?". He said his son is a fan of Netaji. He won’t like Gandhi. I realized..
Do watch: And you thought Clive Lloyd was the only Guyanese who could blast his opponents! Superb fact based response by Guyanese president Mohd Irfaan Ali exposing the double standards in western mindsets on climate change. Well done sir!👍
This is a stunning piece of accidental confession to explain the news media playbook last few years. It’s a simple three step process (already mastered by WhatsApp uncles over the years):
1. Label yourself as ‘apolitical’/‘observer’.
2. Start framing every issue into a govt vs opposition conflict.
3. Black out the uncomfortable issues under the pretext of being apolitical.
Stories of public concern (mob lynchings, ethnic violence, sexual assault allegations against people in power, or even much widespread old-school issues of rising unemployment etc) have been systemically ignored under the horribly shameful pretext of ‘not our job to discuss politics’. Every inconvenience faced by the common citizen has been dubbed as the ‘opposition’ and hence ‘not our job to side with them’.
And to top all that, constant pushing of communal, divisive, and provocative narratives has been normalised as a job of media. So somehow - talking about a tunnel collapse is political side-taking but branding an entire religion as anti-national every night through shrieking anchors is being a ‘neutral observer’.