Delhi police shows that it is FAILING to meet even the MINIMUM standards of transparency required by law & court rulings. Delhi police MUST immediately-
-Ensure every police personnel (or anyone authorised by the police) is prominently displaying their identification & name-tag.
-Disclose how many protestors have been detained and/or arrested
-Display on the website & at police stations- names, addresses of all persons arrested & details of the offences under which they are arrested
-Disclose all FIRs registered till date (as per news reports around 10 FIRs registered till now)
The spontaneous movement of India's youth has already outgrown the narrow question of who started it. The question worthy of a democracy is what started it.
Every attempt to hunt for an architect while ignoring the architecture of injustice is a convenient escape from accountability.
Movements are not born in whispers; they are forged in accumulated silence, broken promises, paper leaks, shrinking opportunities, and institutional indifference.
Jai Hind
The education budget has halved under Modi and the meager amounts have also gone towards Hindutva propaganda in textbooks and syllabus. It is not about Pradhan, the destruction of modern education is Modi's personal project since 2014.
We have marched to PM ModiтАЩs house to demand answers from him for the brutalities against young students yesterday.
The Government doesnтАЩt want to take any accountability or does it want to have a debate on it in Parliament.
PM and HM must resign for destroying the future of IndiaтАЩs youth.
Razor sharp piece by Neera Chandhoke, one of IndiaтАЩs finest political theorists and teachers:
тАЬThe kidnapping of Sonam Wangchuk by the Delhi police throws into sharp relief the defining feature of a government Indians have elected to power in the past three elections. This government does not know the D of democratic politics. It only knows how to rule through the exercise of rank coercion, and by casting a pall of fear over citizens.┬а
тАЬThe idea that elections are but the continuation of a conversation between тАШwe the peopleтАЩ and a representative government on, for instance, why power should be handled with care, exercised with caution, limited by institutional checks and balances, and above all by popular opinion, is completely alien to this government. It has annexed the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Election Commission (EC), the mainstream media, and sadly, at times, the judiciary to its own project of exercising raw, unmitigated power.┬аAnd if тАШwe the peopleтАЩ dare to criticise the incompetence of the government тАУ it cannot even hold a competitive entrance exam adeptly тАУ we will be whisked away at dawn as Wangchuk was.
тАЬThe shameful aspect of the arrest is that the police did not have the courage to take him openly. This dastardly exercise had to be covered with white sheets.тАЭ
https://t.co/vjvJmdxL61 via @thewire_In
RSS claims it doesnтАЩt seek government funds, so it doesnтАЩt need registration.
@thenewsminute investigation reveals state owned ONGC has poured over Rs 670 crore into 20 Sangh linked organisations that run hospitals and schools since 2013.
Dharmendra Pradhan and Hardeep Singh Puri have been Ministers during the time.
https://t.co/4mTWSnQdHI
This is an extremely insightful and thought-provoking article by two economists, one of whom has held senior-most positions in the Government of India and had produced the very first report on GST over two decades back. This article in the @IndianExpress completely exposes the bogus arguments given by some cheerleaders of the Modi Govt in favour of the so-called one nation, one election.