@SauravDassss@VijayGajeraO LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE. Too late dude, AAP cockroaches should have covered the footprints better 😅
It’s all over the internet.
Marco Rubio did not land in New Delhi to talk friendship. He came with a checklist.
Buy American oil. Buy Venezuelan oil routed through US channels. Pay the premium. Do not ask questions.
Washington has kept the Strait of Hormuz in a slow boil deliberately. Russian refineries sit under sanctions. The squeeze on global energy supply is not an accident. It is architecture. Manufactured scarcity to make US crude the only viable option at whatever price Washington decides to name. India is the target market.
The mediation offer on Pakistan is another arm of the same agenda. The US wants to position itself as the indispensable middleman before any India Pakistan flashpoint escalates. What that really means is this: India must inform Washington before taking any unilateral defensive action. India must seek American approval before responding to aggression on its own soil. That is not mediation. That is a leash dressed up as diplomacy.
And then there is the immigration lever. Hundreds of thousands of Indians are embedded in the American economy, in tech, in medicine, in finance. Washington knows this. Rubio knows this. The visa threat is the silent weapon sitting in the corner of every room where these conversations happen.
The opening stop at Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata was optics. It was a signal about values and about who controls the moral framing of this visit. The agenda was set before the plane touched down.
India has navigated far more sophisticated pressure than this. The answer must be simple and non negotiable. Strategic autonomy is not a talking point. It is the policy. India does not pre-inform. India does not pre-seek permission. India does not buy overpriced oil because Washington engineered a shortage to make the math work.
Rubio came with a list. India should hand it back unsigned.
@RahulGandhi There is no logic in your argument. By that same logic, you recording a video while traveling in a luxury car is also an insult to the nation's farmers and laborers. As per your own standard, all Congress leaders should live in huts and travel only in bullock carts.
In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.
May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?
Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?
In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?
The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.
It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.
Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.
Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?
India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.
Read about the China-puppet @HelleLyngSvends
No coverage on India. Plenty on China (positive coverage), and a mutual of all the vile anti-India, anti-Hindu forces - from Rana Ayyub to Suhasini
Was the heckling of PM Modi during a joint statement (not press conference) planned?
Our Chinese funded journalist knew her big pay day was coming, that's why she all of a sudden activates her account after 2 full years and buys blue tick just before Modi's press briefing
Preaching “fearless journalism” sounds great; until the questions are directed at Rahul Gandhi himself.
From dodging reporters to branding every uncomfortable journalist as a “BJP agent,” his record speaks louder than his speeches.
Also Rahul Gandhi still doesn’t seem to understand the difference b/w briefing and an open press conference.