Thakur Da

Dharma First, Always! Indian Politics & Foreign Affairs enthusiast.
হিন্দু, ব্রাহ্মণ, সিলেটী, Right Winger and everything liberals detest!

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

We are the worshippers of Agni.
We fear no one!
#HindusUnitedAgainstTerror

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

@LMAO_EAST @TheAtulMishra Best comment ever!!!! 🤣

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

I started having doubts about her right after she made a podcast with a journalist, indirectly praising D company all throughout.

[Punita Toraskar @impuni]

Today we got to know that

ANI stands with CJP.

Extremely disappointed. Tuluvas are never with anti nationals . But someone had to prove it wrong and she did .

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

@bong_politics @AmitShah They will kill themselves, or maybe some CIA agent will do it. Pray to the Gods to help us fight through this.

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

Japan should really be worried about the numbers of Pakis shouting "Naare Takbeer" in Japan. Hopefully, it isn't too late for them.
#AsianGames #Japan #Shintoism

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

@BJP4Bengal At least in Bengal, we should not pretend to like this man.

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

@ShivAroor Sir, most of Indian print media would write articles with headlines like this too!

[Newton Tax Kumar @Kab_Jaogi_Tai]

Finance advisor bata rahe hai ki 5 days banking se kisi ko problem nahi hogi par vo nalle
jinse Clerk ka exam bhi na nikale

Vo jinke bank account me 100 Rs. balance hai

Unko Saturday ko hi Bank aana hai..

#Banker
#Bankstrike
#UFBU
#5daysbanking

[Ashish Tekale Patil @AshishTekale_]

Necessity of #5DaysBanking 👇
#5DayBankingNow

[Federation of Bank of India Officers' Associations @fboioa_india]

Dear Government,

Bankers demand 5 Days Banking for better health, family time and work-life balance.

We keep India’s banking system moving. Now, let bankers have a balanced week too.

#5DaysBanking A demand, not a luxury. ✊

#5DayBankingNow #FBOIOA
@nilesh_pawar15 @aiboc_in @DFS_India @PMOIndia @FinMinIndia @nsitharamanoffc

[Maulik P Modi @maulikpmodi]

Our struggle for a 5-day banking week is well-founded; the agreement made in March 2024 must be taken seriously. #5DayBankingNow #AIBOC @NigamBrahmbhatt @nilesh_pawar15 @rupamsmail @fboioa_india

[BOIOA Pune Unit @boioapune]

Digital India thrives because PSBs deliver at the grassroots.
Time to recognize bankers with 5‑Day Banking & Fair PLI.
#5dayBankingNow
#FBOIOA #BOIOAPune

[Newton Bank Kumar @idesibanda]

Signed Document where IBA - UFBU reached on all Saturday Off on 7 Dec'23, But still pending with Govt to approve since 1018 Days. #5DayBankingNow

[CH VENKATACHALAM @ChVenkatachalam]

40 Minutes more Banking Every Monday to Friday if #5DayBankingNow implemented so No Inconvenience to Customers

@DFS_India @ChiefIba @ChairmanIba @nsitharaman @nsitharamanoffc @PMOIndia

[All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC) @aiboc_in]

Bankers keep India connected 24×7.

But behind every transaction, target and deadline is a human being, with a family, responsibilities and a life beyond the branch.

A 5-day week was agreed in March 2024, with bankers accepting longer working hours from Monday to Friday.

The demand is reasonable. The commitment is proven. The delay is difficult to justify.

Implement 5-Day Banking now.

@PMOIndia @narendramodi @FinMinIndia @nsitharaman @DFS_India

#5DayBankingNow

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

@bankpediaa Why will we sacrifice our CL for something which is normal in every industry???

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

@GemsOfRailway I blame Jio for making the internet affordable for all idiots so they can speak shit like this!!

[Arunudoy Bhattacharjee @ArunudoyB]

PART 1 | LEAKED IB REPORT: DUTCH NGOs, KSU & THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST URANIUM MINING IN MEGHALAYA

In June 2014, a leaked Intelligence Bureau report brought Meghalaya into a much larger controversy over foreign funded NGOs, environmental activism and development projects in India.

The IB report, dated 3 June 2014, was titled:

“Concerted efforts by select foreign funded NGOs to ‘take down’ Indian development projects.”

KSU AND URANIUM MINING

According to The Telegraph, security agencies had carried out a “network analysis” of anti nuclear activism in India.

The IB claimed there was a larger network, driven by Greenpeace and prominent activists, beneath which operated five “territorial networks”.

One of those named was the Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), which had been opposing uranium mining in Meghalaya's Khasi Hills.

THE DUTCH NGO CONNECTION

The report focused on Cordaid, a Dutch NGO.

According to the IB, Cordaid intended to target:

Oil drilling in Manipur

Large dams in Arunachal Pradesh

Uranium and limestone mining in Meghalaya

A TRAINING PROGRAMME IN SHILLONG

The IB report further alleged that in October 2013 another Dutch organisation, The Coalition Factory, conducted a training programme in Shillong for activists from 10 Northeast NGOs.

Participants were reportedly taught to use GPS technology to build a GIS database mapping oil wells, mines, dams, forests, habitations and environmental impacts.

The IB claimed such a database could facilitate:

“targeted local protests and international activism.”

KSU DENIED IT

Then KSU president Daniel Khyriem categorically denied the allegations.

He told The Telegraph:

“The allegations are baseless and unfounded. We neither attended any training programme nor received any funding.”

So the IB report should be read for what it is: an intelligence assessment containing allegations, not proof that KSU received foreign funding.

But the document is significant because India's Intelligence Bureau placed Dutch NGOs, KSU, anti uranium activism and Meghalaya's mining projects within the same assessment of foreign funded campaigns against development projects in India.

PART 2: We will go directly into the leaked Intelligence Bureau document itself and examine what it actually says about Meghalaya, KSU, foreign NGOs and the Shillong programme.

Source: The Telegraph, 15 June 2014

https://t.co/8S2Yka19Qq

[Thakur Da @ThakurDa17]

@ArunudoyB The audacity to talk about polluting waterbodies when we are forced to immerse our idols in what is basically sewage water flowing through the Polo river.

[Arunudoy Bhattacharjee @ArunudoyB]

WHY I AM WRITING ABOUT SHILLONG

THE MOTHER WAITING

How many of you came home late from college and found your mother standing on the verandah?

Not worried because you were late.

Worried whether you would return home normally or beaten and bleeding.

We have.

Our mothers knew what could happen to a Bengali Hindu boy.

THE BOY WHO CAME HOME BEATEN

How many of you watched a bright, cheerful friend slowly become silent?

He would return home with swollen cheeks after being beaten.

His mother heated old clothes over a coal fire and applied them to his bruised body.

Next morning, he went back. The beatings continued.

We have.

His fault? Son of a poor Bengali Hindu.

KICKED ON THE ROAD

How many of you watched a classmate being kicked in the face on a pebbled road by boys wearing boots?

We have.

You stood there and watched, freezed.

That helplessness doesn't disappear.

THE STEEL TRUNK

How many of you slept wearing sneakers because you might have to run that night?

Steel trunk packed.

Mother wearing one of her better saris.

Lights switched off.

Waiting.

Our refugee colony was under threat.

And before going to sleep, mother told us:

Be ready to become refugees again.

Imagine those words coming from a woman who had already been uprooted once.

We don't have to imagine them.

We heard them.

THE MEN WITH RIFLES

How many grew up seeing curfew?

Empty streets.

Army flag marches.

CRPF.

And felt relieved when Indian soldiers appeared because you knew somebody was finally standing between you and genocide?

How many regarded CRPF as your protectors?

We have.

THE VEGETABLE SELLER

How many saw poor Bengali vegetable vendors humiliated?

Vegetables picked up.

Money not paid.

And if the vendor dared demand payment, he had to worry about whether he would be allowed to return to that market.

We have.

People learnt to swallow humiliation because survival was more important than dignity.

THE FOREIGNER

How many were called outsiders in India?

How many grew up understanding that someone could kick you or humiliate you & expect you to remain quiet?

We have.

Freedom wasn't something we discussed in textbooks.

We learnt what its absence felt like.

YOUR GOD IS INFERIOR

How many were made to feel that the Gods you worshipped were inferior & Devil?

How many regularly cleared religious literature about the “Good News” from their letterboxes?

We were souls waiting to be rescued. Bengali Hindu refugees.

We have.

Yet our parents didn't convert. We remained Hindu.

DURGA PUJA

How many Bengalis waited an entire year for Durga Puja & still couldn't take even the freedom to worship for granted?

We have.

For refugee Bengali families, Maa wasn't an academic discussion about religion. Maa was our Safe place.

REFUGEES. AGAIN.

Our parents had already been uprooted. They chose India.

Then their children grew up hearing that they were outsiders here too.

What exactly were we supposed to do? Become refugees again?

WHERE WERE THE HINDU ORGANISATIONS?

Where were the organisations claiming to speak for Hindus when we needed someone to stand beside us?

What I remember is Bharat Sevashram Sangha.

I remember the bond between refugee Bengali Hindu families.

I remember CRPF, the Indian Army.

They kept us alive.

THE TIPPING POINT

The attack on memorials of Netaji and Swamiji in Shillong.

Enough.

I DON'T NEED A FUKCING LESSON IN NATIONAL INTEGRATION

Don't tell me today that Bengali Hindus must understand everybody else's sensitivities.

Our parents understood enough. They understood what it meant to lose a homeland. They understood what it meant to start again with nothing.

They understood what it meant to keep quiet so their children could survive.

What I want to know is:

WHO UNDERSTOOD OUR SENSITIVITIES?

Who spoke when Bengali Hindu boys were beaten?

Who spoke when we lived under threat?

Who spoke when people left Shillong?

Who told:

You are Indians. You belong here. Nobody has the right to make you run again.

[Arunudoy Bhattacharjee @ArunudoyB]

SHILLONG 1987: WHAT THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA’S OWN HOME MINISTRY REPORT REVEALS - THE KSU AGITATION

There is an official Government of India document recording what happened in Meghalaya during the violence of 1987.

The Ministry of Home Affairs Annual Report 1987–88, under its section on Meghalaya, is remarkably explicit.

THE KSU AGITATION

The Home Ministry records that from the middle of May 1987, the Khasi Students' Union had begun an agitation.

In the Government's own words, the KSU had been trying to whip up “anti-outsiders sentiments.”

The report lists its demands:

• Solution of the foreigners issue in Meghalaya
• Extension of the Inner Line Regulations to Meghalaya
• Removal from the fresh electoral rolls of names of foreigners and non-tribals from outside Meghalaya

The Meghalaya Government held a series of talks with the KSU over these demands.

Reference: Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, Annual Report 1987–88, Para 2.11.

THEN CAME THE KILLINGS

The report records the human cost in a single chilling sentence.

During the KSU agitation against foreigners,

12 persons were killed in the Khasi Hills between June 1987 and January 1988.

The report separately records violent incidents between Garos and non-tribals in the Garo Hills.

This is not a later interpretation of the violence.

This is what the Government of India itself recorded in 1988.

Reference: Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, Annual Report 1987–88, Para 2.11.

DELHI INTERVENED

The Centre was clearly aware that the situation had become serious.

The Home Ministry records:

“Additional para-military forces were provided by the Central Government to bring the situation under control.”

The Meghalaya Government was directed towards restoring law and order and providing security and shelter to affected persons.

Reference: Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, Annual Report 1987–88, Para 2.12.

A UNION MINISTER CAME TO MEGHALAYA. TWICE.

The report reveals something even more significant.

The Minister of State (States), Ministry of Home Affairs, personally visited Meghalaya:

21–22 July 1987

and again

13–14 October 1987.

He visited both Shillong and Tura and held discussions with the Chief Minister of Meghalaya.

And what were they discussing?

The rehabilitation of displaced people and measures to ensure their speedy return to their original homes and occupations.

People had therefore been displaced on a scale serious enough for rehabilitation and return to become matters for discussion between the Union Home Ministry and the Meghalaya Government.

Reference: Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, Annual Report 1987–88, Para 2.12.

AND THEN THE REPORT MOVES ON

The Home Ministry concludes by saying that the situation was returning to normal and that the Meghalaya Assembly elections were peacefully held in February 1988.

But read Paras 2.11 and 2.12 carefully.

The Government tells us:

Anti-outsider sentiments were being whipped up.

12 people were killed.

Violence spread to the Garo Hills.

Additional Central paramilitary forces were deployed.

People were displaced.

A Union Home Ministry minister visited Meghalaya twice.

Rehabilitation and return of displaced people were discussed.

There can therefore be no question that Delhi knew what was happening in Meghalaya in 1987.

But the two paragraphs tell us remarkably little about what happened afterwards to those responsible for the killings.

How many were arrested?

How many were prosecuted?

How many were convicted?

That is the part of the story that deserves to be investigated.

Primary Source: Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Annual Report 1987–88, Meghalaya, Paras 2.11–2.12, p.7.