Rashmi Samant

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[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Is BJP in power in Kerala too where students are being hosed down by water cannons?

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Dear Students,

You think you’re fighting for a cause? You’re just cannon fodder for elite hypocrites.

Your sense of justice isn't driving a movement, it’s being exploited. The loudest voices egging you on are trust-fund revolutionaries and armchair activists who have everything to gain and absolutely nothing to lose.

What do they gain? Foreign NGO grants, media relevance, and political resumes built on your sacrifices. What do you gain? Broken futures, criminal records, court-runs and empty promises.

They dangle lofty slogans while securing foreign funding for their NGOs and inflating their political capital, all while setting you up as the human shields for their ambition.

Let's drop the delusion: socialism is a catastrophic failure that has produced nothing throughout history except shortages, queues, and misery. Anarchy isn't progress; it's self-destruction.

Stop letting wealthy grifters trade your future for their personal brand. Grow up, look at the incentives, and stop acting as useful idiots for elite agendas.

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Dear Students,

You think you’re fighting for a cause? You’re just cannon fodder for elite hypocrites.

Your sense of justice isn't driving a movement, it’s being exploited. The loudest voices egging you on are trust-fund revolutionaries and armchair activists who have everything to gain and absolutely nothing to lose.

What do they gain? Foreign NGO grants, media relevance, and political resumes built on your sacrifices. What do you gain? Broken futures, criminal records, court-runs and empty promises.

They dangle lofty slogans while securing foreign funding for their NGOs and inflating their political capital, all while setting you up as the human shields for their ambition.

Let's drop the delusion: socialism is a catastrophic failure that has produced nothing throughout history except shortages, queues, and misery. Anarchy isn't progress; it's self-destruction.

Stop letting wealthy grifters trade your future for their personal brand. Grow up, look at the incentives, and stop acting as useful idiots for elite agendas.

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

While protesters were facing a police lathi-charge on the streets amid the unrest, CJP spokesperson Vijeta Dahiya was seen casually roaming elsewhere and did not participate in the march or rally.

He was caught red-handed.

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Is BJP in power in Kerala too where students are being hosed down by water cannons?

[Supriya Shrinate @SupriyaShrinate]

टंगड़ी मार कर गिराया, फिर पीटा

अमित शाह ने अपनी पुलिस को ट्रेन करके भेजा था

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Indeed!

[Cockroach Janta Party @CJP_for_India]

शिक्षक पिटा
किसान पिटा
छात्र व नौजवान पिटा,

क्या ये अघोषित आपातकाल है??

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Hey @iPoonamPandey, before lecturing the nation on student welfare, take a long look in the mirror. You built your brand by profiting on the porn industry associated with addiction, distorted attitudes toward sex, and negative mental health outcomes, including among teenagers who are exposed to it. You don't get to profit from content that reaches vulnerable young audiences and then suddenly reinvent yourself as their champion at Jantar Mantar. Spare the moral posturing.

[lev aran-no narratives, only facts - F4F @LevAranlookeast]

in my 35 years visiting India, it’s clear that while Jana Gana Mana is official, Vande Mataram is, for many, the true, unapologetic anthem. Proper stirring stuff that captures the real spirit of Bharat.
Right sort of patriotism. 🇮🇳 #VandeMataram

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Ultimate bad journalism is pretending that public welfare becomes illegitimate simply because you dislike the ideological leanings of the volunteers delivering it.

The latest attempt to sensationalize ONGC's CSR allocations is a textbook example of shifting the goalposts. Let's look at the facts instead of the headlines.

First, the premise itself is flawed. The RSS, as a voluntary socio cultural movement, is not the legal recipient of these funds. Organisations such as Sewa Bharati, Ekal Vidyalaya and other affiliated institutions are independently registered trusts and societies with their own governing bodies, statutory registrations, PAN numbers and audited accounts. They are separate legal entities fully eligible to implement CSR projects.

Second, this is not discretionary political funding. Under Section 135 of the Companies Act, CSR spending by a Maharatna PSU like ONGC is governed by a strict legal framework. Funds are tied to approved projects, monitored throughout implementation and subject to statutory audits. If hundreds of crores had genuinely been siphoned off, regulators and auditors would have flagged it years ago. They haven't.

Third, ask where the money actually went.

A significant allocation funded the Swargadew Siu Ka Pha Multi Speciality Hospital in Assam, a 300 bed tertiary care hospital empanelled under Ayushman Bharat that serves tea garden workers, tribal communities and rural families. Other funds support Ekal Vidyalaya's schools in remote tribal regions and Sewa Bharati's hostels, health centres, disaster relief operations and community welfare programmes.

These are measurable outcomes, not political slogans.

There is a reason PSUs partner with such organisations. They have decades of experience delivering services in villages, tribal belts and border districts where many others simply do not operate. Development is not about announcements. It is about execution.

Demand accountability. Demand transparency. Demand better governance.

But branding legally compliant, independently audited CSR partnerships as "criminal" simply because you dislike the ideological ecosystem of the implementing organisations is not journalism. It is ideological prejudice masquerading as investigative reporting.

Your real target was never financial accountability. It was an ideology.

In the process, you are asking people to oppose hospitals treating the poor, schools educating tribal children, hostels housing underprivileged students and disaster relief reaching those in need, simply because you dislike the volunteers behind them.

If narratives like yours succeed, it will not be an ideology that pays the price. It will be lakhs of ordinary Indians who depend on these schools, hospitals and welfare programmes.

Before weaponising journalism to wage an ideological battle, ask yourself one question. Do you even understand what it is you are trying to destroy?

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Hey @iPoonamPandey, before lecturing the nation on student welfare, take a long look in the mirror. You built your brand by profiting on the porn industry associated with addiction, distorted attitudes toward sex, and negative mental health outcomes, including among teenagers who are exposed to it. You don't get to profit from content that reaches vulnerable young audiences and then suddenly reinvent yourself as their champion at Jantar Mantar. Spare the moral posturing.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: At the protest site at Jantar Mantar, Actor Poonam Pandey says, "The entire internet and all of India have been echoing with and clamoring about this protest. The public, these students are simply demanding an answer, and I have come here for that very reason; I genuinely request the government to please listen to them. They haven't eaten. Sonam Wangchuk is already unwell. I have come here to state one thing clearly: amidst everything we are seeing on the internet, the issue has been severely sidetracked. All sorts of things have crept in. The whole of India is shaken and becoming divided. Let us not do that. Let us not turn this into a religious or political issue. Let us avoid getting into who is doing what, who did what; that is wrong. This protest began because of the NEET exam paper leak. Today, the issue has shifted to something else.... I know it is a march tomorrow; there could be trouble or a lathi-charge and I am aware of that. But I am just praying that the students don't suffer any further. They are already in great distress..."

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

The ultimate gaslighting is painting the victim as the aggressor.

Before weaponizing the word "lynching" to lecture others, look at who has actually been brutally murdered on the streets over the past decade. No actual minority, from Zoroastrians and Bahá'ís to Buddhists or Indo-Jews, faces systemic violence in India, yet you gloss over the savage, public killings of real victims. Name them: Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, Umesh Kolhe in Amravati, Harsha in Shivamogga, and Kamlesh Tiwari in Lucknow. These aren't statistics; they are human beings who were targeted and murdered, while people like you look the other way to peddle a convenient narrative.

And your sanctimonious praise of Oxford for "shaming bigots" is a vile joke. What happened at Oxford was institutional bullying. A democratically elected young student body president was mercilessly doxxed, her family's privacy was violated, and she was relentlessly hounded by a mob that explicitly declared the university "wasn't ready for a Hindu president." Her only "crime" was being born to Hindu parents.

You don't get to rebrand targeted harassment and xenophobia as moral justice. Demanding that someone "leave Norway to Norwegians" while pretending to champion tolerance is breathtakingly hypocritical. Turn that mirror around, acknowledge the actual victims of violence, and grow a conscience before you dare lecture anyone else.

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Ultimate bad journalism is pretending that public welfare becomes illegitimate simply because you dislike the ideological leanings of the volunteers delivering it.

The latest attempt to sensationalize ONGC's CSR allocations is a textbook example of shifting the goalposts. Let's look at the facts instead of the headlines.

First, the premise itself is flawed. The RSS, as a voluntary socio cultural movement, is not the legal recipient of these funds. Organisations such as Sewa Bharati, Ekal Vidyalaya and other affiliated institutions are independently registered trusts and societies with their own governing bodies, statutory registrations, PAN numbers and audited accounts. They are separate legal entities fully eligible to implement CSR projects.

Second, this is not discretionary political funding. Under Section 135 of the Companies Act, CSR spending by a Maharatna PSU like ONGC is governed by a strict legal framework. Funds are tied to approved projects, monitored throughout implementation and subject to statutory audits. If hundreds of crores had genuinely been siphoned off, regulators and auditors would have flagged it years ago. They haven't.

Third, ask where the money actually went.

A significant allocation funded the Swargadew Siu Ka Pha Multi Speciality Hospital in Assam, a 300 bed tertiary care hospital empanelled under Ayushman Bharat that serves tea garden workers, tribal communities and rural families. Other funds support Ekal Vidyalaya's schools in remote tribal regions and Sewa Bharati's hostels, health centres, disaster relief operations and community welfare programmes.

These are measurable outcomes, not political slogans.

There is a reason PSUs partner with such organisations. They have decades of experience delivering services in villages, tribal belts and border districts where many others simply do not operate. Development is not about announcements. It is about execution.

Demand accountability. Demand transparency. Demand better governance.

But branding legally compliant, independently audited CSR partnerships as "criminal" simply because you dislike the ideological ecosystem of the implementing organisations is not journalism. It is ideological prejudice masquerading as investigative reporting.

Your real target was never financial accountability. It was an ideology.

In the process, you are asking people to oppose hospitals treating the poor, schools educating tribal children, hostels housing underprivileged students and disaster relief reaching those in need, simply because you dislike the volunteers behind them.

If narratives like yours succeed, it will not be an ideology that pays the price. It will be lakhs of ordinary Indians who depend on these schools, hospitals and welfare programmes.

Before weaponising journalism to wage an ideological battle, ask yourself one question. Do you even understand what it is you are trying to destroy?

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

RSS claims it doesn’t seek government funds, so it doesn’t need registration.

Our 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.

Do read. Do share.

https://t.co/w5VIFA8iZn

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

The ultimate gaslighting is painting the victim as the aggressor.

Before weaponizing the word "lynching" to lecture others, look at who has actually been brutally murdered on the streets over the past decade. No actual minority, from Zoroastrians and Bahá'ís to Buddhists or Indo-Jews, faces systemic violence in India, yet you gloss over the savage, public killings of real victims. Name them: Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur, Umesh Kolhe in Amravati, Harsha in Shivamogga, and Kamlesh Tiwari in Lucknow. These aren't statistics; they are human beings who were targeted and murdered, while people like you look the other way to peddle a convenient narrative.

And your sanctimonious praise of Oxford for "shaming bigots" is a vile joke. What happened at Oxford was institutional bullying. A democratically elected young student body president was mercilessly doxxed, her family's privacy was violated, and she was relentlessly hounded by a mob that explicitly declared the university "wasn't ready for a Hindu president." Her only "crime" was being born to Hindu parents.

You don't get to rebrand targeted harassment and xenophobia as moral justice. Demanding that someone "leave Norway to Norwegians" while pretending to champion tolerance is breathtakingly hypocritical. Turn that mirror around, acknowledge the actual victims of violence, and grow a conscience before you dare lecture anyone else.

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Unpopular opinion : @narendramodi gave her a job!

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

@TVMohandasPai Indeed sir!

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

@RashmiDVS please see the hypocrisy! That person from Norway is totally bought out

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

It is fascinating how 'press freedom' is treated as an absolute, untouchable Western virtue right up until it becomes politically inconvenient.

You pride yourself on a system where everything is out in the open, yet the European Union enacted sweeping, blanket bans on Russian media outlets like RT and Sputnik, recently even extending those censorship laws to target independent, donation-funded bloggers who simply share that content.

When India regulates digital spaces or restricts platforms in the interest of national security, Western journalists waste no time labeling it 'authoritarian censorship' and a 'crackdown on free speech.' But when Europe completely deplatforms entire networks and criminalizes alternative viewpoints, it is seamlessly reframed as a 'necessary defense of democratic values' against foreign hybrid threats.

The truth is, the West does not have absolute press freedom; it has conditional press freedom. You tolerate dissent only as long as it remains within the boundaries of your geopolitical comfort zone. If the European judicial and political apparatus can systematically decide what its citizens are allowed to read and watch under the guise of public order, then stop lecturing India from a pedestal of moral superiority. Your press freedom ends exactly where your political anxiety begins.

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

I have written about this. Awful things happen here in Norway too.
Norway is not a perfect country. The people or the powerful are not perfect either. I never claimed that.

What we do have is press freedom.

This is probably one of the most covered trials of this century.

He is facing four years of prison, which he has appealed. The case is still in the judicial system.

[Hindutva Knight @HPhobiaWatch]

Instagram is WhatsApp University for GenZ

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Always nice to point fingers at other countries and forget about the trash in one’s own backyard!

[Rashmi Samant @RashmiDVS]

Always nice to point fingers at other countries and forget about the trash in one’s own backyard!

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

There is a hunger strike in your country.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Puri, Odisha | RSS formed a massive human chain to create an ambulance corridor during the Annual Jagannath Rath Yatra. (16.07)