Good news: I grew up in the generation that was scarred by India’s 7-1 loss to Pakistan in hockey at the 1982 Asian Games. To now see India beat Pakistan by the same margin is, I must say, a moment of sweet sporting redemption! Maybe we need to play Pakistan more, not less when we are a way superior hockey and cricket team, no? 😁Jai Ho!🇮🇳
Sonia Gandhi’s conscience appears to possess a very selective passport.
It travels instantly to Gaza, discovers “moral failure”, condemns India’s diplomacy and pronounces PM Narendra Modi’s Israel visit a “bewildering strategic decision”.
But it somehow never crosses the border into Bangladesh.
Where was this moral thunder when, in Bangladesh, Hindu homes and temples were attacked, women terrorised, religious leaders targeted and minority communities forced to live in fear?
Where was the op-ed? Where was the denunciation?
Sonia apparently prefers performative morality.
Her objection is not that India lacks an independent foreign policy. Her objection is that India’s foreign policy is no longer written in the Congress office, filtered through old ideological reflexes and subordinated to domestic vote-bank calculations.
Don't be a moron like Pappu. All documents are valid. The issue is if your citizenship is challenged in a court of law, you must prove your identity and documents as genuine, adhering to the law of the land. Example: if your documents show that you were born in Delhi, then you have to prove that if challenged.
The ministry of external affairs says that a passport is a document travel not the proof of citizen ship . Really ??? . So are they providing this travel document to some people with out being totally convinced that this person is an Indian citizen ?? . It is absurd .
Don't be a moron like Pappu. All documents are valid. The issue is if your citizenship is challenged in a court of law, you must prove your identity and documents as genuine, adhering to the law of the land. Example: if your documents show that you were born in Delhi, then you have to prove that if challenged.
I have a VOTER ID card, but NO, it is not proof of citizenship.
I have a AADHAR card but NO, it is not proof of citizenship
I have a PAN Card, but NO, it is not proof of citizenship.
I have a PASSPORT but NO, it is not proof of citizenship.
So who will give me a CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATE? A govt bureaucrat?
My question is simple: is the problem with the citizen, or with the Mai Baap State itself?😡
The first Prime Minister of India was one of the greatest Indian, a world's statesman.
If we will write Top 10 indians ever, Nehru'll be in that list always. Somewhere besides Buddha, Mahavir, Ambedkar, Gandhi, Ashoka, Vivekananda, Shankar, Shivaji, Gandhi.
I might be wrong here and there and miss some...but yeah he's right there at top.
Dear Gideon, as you know, the EU and Israel have a lot that binds us. I value our dialogue and engagement, and I’m open to continue in that spirit, respectfully and constructively. Dialogue is the foundation of diplomacy, especially when differences arise. The EU is always committed to a constructive relationship with Israel.
To bring peace to the Middle East, the Two-State Solution remains the only viable path. The EU has condemned the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank that make it increasingly difficult to get to that goal. That is the EU position.
So Pappu is saying that if not every student appearing for an exam gets selected, it's Modi's failure & he will somehow change that?
Does he even understand what he's saying, or is he intentionally making such statements to incite students?
.@PriyankKharge’s letter addressed to RSS Chief Shri Mohan Bhagwat Ji is not an exercise in constitutional inquiry.
It is a calculated political provocation: thin on law, thick on presumption, and conspicuously marked by the entitlement of dynastic politics.
For a full century, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has served the nation openly, in the full glare of public scrutiny: building character, fostering discipline, strengthening social cohesion, and doing so without seeking state patronage.
Certain Congress leaders, by contrast, have preferred suspect diplomacy - flying to China to sign an MoU with the Chinese Communist Party, shrouded in secrecy and political discomfort.
The contrast could not be starker.
One has operated in Indian sunlight for a hundred years.
The other has repeatedly found comfort in foreign shadows.
Let us address Priyank Kharge’s demands with the precision they lack.
Article 19(1)(c) of the Constitution guarantees every citizen the fundamental right to form associations, unions or co-operative societies. This is not a privilege granted by the State. It is a constitutional freedom.
Article 19(4) permits reasonable restrictions on this freedom only on specified constitutional grounds, and only by authority of law.
Nowhere does the Constitution mandate that every voluntary association must first obtain registration from the State before it can exist or function.
The RSS is precisely such a voluntary association of citizens, united by a shared ideological, cultural and national vision.
It requires no certificate of existence from a minister.
It requires no political permission slip from a dynast.
It requires no registration merely because a Congress leader wishes to manufacture a controversy.
Priyank Kharge’s demand that the RSS must “register” or justify its legal existence is not rooted in constitutional text, statutory obligation or settled principle. It is a whimsical assertion unsupported by law.
In a constitutional democracy governed by the Rule of Law, no individual, however exalted his office, may issue dictates and expect compliance merely because he occupies public office.
Priyank Kharge may be a Minister in the Government of Karnataka. That office confers upon him only those executive powers that law recognises. It does not confer upon him the authority to summon any citizen or organisation and demand that it restructure itself according to his personal fancies.
Such demands, unmoored from any legal mandate, are non est in law.
A dynast indulged by inheritance does not become larger than the Constitution merely because he sits in a ministerial chair.
It was perhaps in anticipation of precisely this species of overreach by those clothed with temporary authority that Thomas Fuller observed: “Be you ever so high, the law is above you.”
Those words were later immortalised by Lord Denning in The Due Process of Law.
The point applies squarely here.
Further, Mr. Kharge’s insistence on disclosure of funding, expenditure, assets and taxation conveniently ignores settled judicial pronouncements.
The question of taxability of Gurudakshina - the voluntary offerings received by the RSS from its members - has already been examined by a constitutional court.
In Commissioner of Income-Tax vs. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Patna High Court upheld the principle of mutuality and held that Gurudakshina received from members is not taxable.
The RSS has never claimed exemption from the law.
It has simply refused to be bullied into accepting obligations that the law itself does not impose.
For a hundred years, it has functioned openly, published its activities, withstood bans, political hostility and repeated attempts by Congress governments to delegitimise it.
It has done so without taxpayer money. Or foreign funding.
The letter addressed by Junior Kharge in the garb of accountability stems from legal misconception and political malice.
It is unworthy of the constitutional office he holds and of the democratic traditions he claims to defend.
The RSS needs no certificate of good conduct from any dynast, however high his office.
The law remains above all of us.
Kharge junior’s pompous demands lie beneath it.