Vinod Thomas

Interested in Public Policy and Politics. Normal human. Listens to NPR

[Vinod Thomas @ThomasPVinod]

@VIGNESHKR12 @safimore @free_thinker Education doesn't mean just professional education but education of the masses and literacy. Ability to read and write that empower common people. This is something sanghis doesn't understand and reason for illiteracy in other states and their poor human dev index. #keralamodel

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Wayanad, Keralam | As suspense over Keralam's next CM continues after Congress-led UDF's victory, posters targeting Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and the party high command have appeared near the Wayanad District Congress Committee office

[Vinod Thomas @ThomasPVinod]

@Politicx2029 VDS

[Rajnish @oshoera2024]

ഞങ്ങടെ ജീവനല്ലേ സാറേ..പിന്നെ ഞങ്ങൾ എങ്ങനെയാ പോവുന്നെ..
Party may become ungrateful, but we will not.

[Anish✋ @Anish_INC]

The youth of Kerala want @vdsatheesan as CM💙💥🥰💪

@RahulGandhi, please stop choosing the "old guard" over fresh faces. If Congress doesn't empower youth leaders now, the party will face the same fate as it did in other states. Change is needed @priyankagandhi
@kharge @INCIndia

[ഭ്രാന്തൻ @bran_than]

പറയില്ല, എഴുതില്ല എന്ന് കരുതിയതാണ്.

ഇത്രയൊക്കെ ആയ സ്ഥിതിക്ക് രണ്ട് വാക്ക്...

കഴിഞ്ഞ ഹരിയാന തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് 'ജയിച്ചിട്ട്' തോറ്റപ്പോൾ എന്റെ ഒരു മാധ്യമ സുഹൃത്ത് പറഞ്ഞു. എങ്ങനെയാടാ തോൽക്കാതിരിക്കുക?. സംഘടന ജനറൽ സെക്രട്ടറി ഗാന്ധി കുടുംബത്തിന്റെ പെട്ടി താങ്ങി നടക്കുകയാണ്.
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[Rajesh Kumar @rajeshkumarpv]

I am done with the CM discussion. If VDS is not made the Chief Minister, I will never support the Congress party or Rahul Gandhi again. I will no longer discuss secularism, extremism, or any political matters. I have decided never to vote for Congress in the future. Venu etta, I had immense respect for you for over 30+ years - it began when I was just 10 years old and you visited my school and forced me to contest as a KSU candidate for 5th standard. Unfortunately, that respect is now lost. @RahulGandhi @kcvenugopalmp @vdsatheesan @kharge #keralam #politics

[Asianet News @AsianetNewsML]

'മത്സരശേഷം കളിനിയമത്തെ മാറ്റിയെഴുതികൊണ്ട് മറ്റൊരാളെ ട്രോഫി ഏറ്റുവാങ്ങാൻ കൊണ്ടുവരുന്നത് ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന് ഭൂഷണമാണോ?'

#NewsHour #Congress #VDSatheeshan #KCVenugopal #RameshChennithala #UDF

[സ്വാമി സുഡോൾഫാനന്ദ @fannaforu]

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Message to @RahulGandhi @kharge @INCIndia

#VDforKeralaCM #VDSatheeshan

Why are the MLAs with KC?

Based on conversations I had today with some nominated Congress MLAs, here’s what I can say:

1. No matter what they tell the central observers, KC Venugopal will come to know. The Congress is a party that leaves even the selection of block presidents to the high command. If you antagonise KC, you’ll face the consequences.

2. Ever since the candidate selection process began, KC has been calling everyone on the list. He assured them, “I am doing my maximum for you.” To those who were selected, he said, “I put in a lot of effort to get you into the list.” To those who were dropped, he said, “I tried very hard, but some others didn’t agree.” Those who are certain they got the seat without KC’s intervention won’t name him. Those who have doubts about whether he played a role will name him — out of fear of future repercussions.

3. The party’s election funds reached the candidates through KC. He distributed the money in such a way that it looked like it was coming from his personal interest and hard work for each individual. He has told everyone, “I didn’t give funds to many others — I specially considered your case.”

4. While the V.D. faction (Venugopal’s group) does not excessively interfere in party matters or build a group aggressively, the old A-group has once again become active under KC’s leadership. They have created a perception right down to the lower levels that standing with the group will bring benefits. Once again, the situation has arisen where group affiliation and sharing the spoils matter more than ability and performance.

5. Instead of asking the observers directly, if a secret ballot is held now, 35 out of the 45 MLAs who are naming KC will vote for V.D.

In short, there is no point in the central observers relying on the strength of the numbers who claim support for KC in front of them. Those MLAs are helpless. Senior leaders who cannot be easily sidelined by KC through the high command, who are not caste or community nominees, and leaders like K. Muraleedharan have taken a clear and firm stand before the observers.

[Supriya Shrinate @SupriyaShrinate]

मध्यप्रदेश के सिंगरौली में एक असहाय आदिवासी आदमी को भद्दी भद्दी गालियाँ देकर बुरी तरह से पीटने का यह वीडियो मानवता को शर्मसार करता है

आदिवासियों की ज़मीन छीनने के साथ ही साथ उनके साथ खुलेआम जानवरों से भी बदतर व्यवहार हो रहा है

डबल इंजन सरकार में यह बर्बरता हो रही है और BJP में सुई टपक सन्नाटा है

इन दरिंदों को पुलिस, प्रशासन, सरकार किसी का डर क्यों नहीं है?

कितना दुखद है कि आदिवासियों के साथ हमारे देश में यह अराजकता तब हो रही है जब हमारी महामहिम राष्ट्रपति स्वयं आदिवासी समाज से हैं - लेकिन दुर्भाग्य से वह बिल्कुल मौन हैं

📍 सिंगरौली, मप्र

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Marco Rubio 2 days ago: “Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military”

Trump today: “We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military”

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

'Harsh Reality of the 4th largest Economy'

This is called true journalism 🔥👏

India needs more journalist like her.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani says Americans should look to ISLAM and “Prophet Muhammad” to support mass migration

Except there’s one problem: non-Muslims are NOT allowed in the Muslim “holy land” of Mecca, Muhammad’s birthplace

Non-muslims are arrested and deported immediately 🤣

[Vinod Thomas @ThomasPVinod]

@CollinRugg But Saudi doesn't except any migrants except with valid visa to work

[Jawaharlal Nehru @PMNehru]

This is a school teacher in India's capital Delhi.

When asked if casteism should end, he says, "will you keep your shoe on your head?"

One can only imagine what dalit students in his class go through everyday.

[From the Hills of Nagaland. @Nagaland_India]

Dedicated to every racist individual in the World

[Vinod Thomas @ThomasPVinod]

@INCKerala Why are you not stressing the fact that they bought election by giving 10k to women just prior to declaration of election in Bihar. It's not SIR, it is the money that changed the election. The same thing is going to happen if P.Vijayan gives money to women prior to ele

[PallaviCT @pallavict]

Have you seen the CROWDS during the Janazas of terrorists like Burhan Wani & Yakub Memon ?

You will FIRST to take out VICTIM card but LAST to condemn acts of terror?🤨

Please read this extremely well written post by Arshia Malik ji on why you need to CONDEMN terror attacks unequivocally👇👇

[Siddhartha Speaks @SAMaskeri]

Let me tell you why, @_sabanaqvi.

Because I have never seen Muslims taking to the streets demanding reform, denouncing the radicals who use your faith as a license for violence. Why do we never see sustained, internal outrage from within the community itself?

Instead, every time such incidents happen, we see the same pattern — denial, deflection, and a tired script: “don’t generalize,” “don’t blame the community.” Convenient, but hollow. Or as you’ve just put it — “I don’t understand why Muslims particularly must do so as if they are all guilty till they apologise.”

Here’s the reality: no one is asking for collective guilt — only collective responsibility.

And let’s be honest — the Muslim community has shown remarkable alacrity in mobilising when it serves its political interests or targets its political adversaries. We’ve seen Sar tan se juda rallies over perceived insults to the Prophet, massive demonstrations against the CAA, and countless other mobilisations.

So clearly, mobilisation is not the problem — selective outrage is.

Where is that same moral energy when terror is committed in the name of Islam?
Where is the voice of reform when innocent lives are taken by those claiming to act for your “merciful” God?

Here’s the truth: Indian Muslims would be far better served if the moderates among them dislodged the radical clerics who preach division and fear, and led genuine reform from within.
Reform is strength; denial is decay.
Deflecting blame onto others does not protect the community — it only isolates it.

And here’s the uncomfortable question Muslim leadership, civil society, influencers, and intellectuals never address:
Why is it that only one faith seems to have violent flare-ups across continents, cultures, and political systems — from Asia to Africa, from Europe to the US, even within its own countries?

Think about it — the Bali bombings (Indonesia), 9/11 (USA), 7/7 London Underground, Madrid train bombings, Paris Bataclan massacre, Charlie Hebdo killings, ISIS atrocities, Westgate Mall (Kenya), Lahore church bombings (Pakistan), Dhaka café siege (Bangladesh), Moscow theatre siege, Mumbai 26/11, and even the slaughter of the Druze in Syria — Muslims killing fellow Muslims — all justified in the name of the same faith.

This silence — this moral evasiveness — is not neutrality; it’s complicity.
And yes, when you look away, when you deflect, when you relativise — you have blood on your hands.

Keep going down this path, and the divide won’t just persist — it will calcify beyond repair, if it hasn’t already.

[Vinod Thomas @ThomasPVinod]

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[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

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