VIJAY MATHIKATTI

ಧಾರವಾಡದವ|Believes in Philosophy of Budhha, Basavanna and Dr Ambedkar| KPCC General Secretary

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: NO criminal case pending against Meenakshi Natarajan in Telangana matter clarifies a Hyderabad court, returns the private petition citing lack of jurisdiction. This happens exactly in the week where her election nomination was rejected by a returning officer because of this very case and SC refused to intervene and asked her to file an election petition in HC instead. So who will now ensure justice is done to her and institutional integrity maintained? @ECISVEEP @indSupremeCourt . ANYONE?? https://t.co/Hc7OwXOtel

[Pavan K N | పవన్ కే ఎన్ । पवन के एन @PavanNerellaINC]

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Nehru's Nation Builder vs Modi's Democracy Stripper: A Tale of Two Indias

Nehru vs Modi: A tale of two Indias https://t.co/OzulXj17MA

[Congress @INCIndia]

The Real Cost of Great Nicobar Project

[TV9 Kannada @tv9kannada]

ಸಿಎಂ ಆಗಿ ಕೆಪಿಸಿಸಿ ಕಚೇರಿಗೆ ಡಿಕೆಶಿ ಗ್ರ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ಎಂಟ್ರಿ
@INCKarnataka @DKShivakumar #karnataka #shorts
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[Mallikarjun Kharge @kharge]

Shri @siddaramaiah’s public life has consistently reflected dignity, compassion, and a deep commitment to social justice.

From humble beginnings to serving Karnataka twice as Chief Minister, he remained steadfast in his commitment to equality, harmony, and the welfare of the marginalised.

Karnataka and the Congress party remain grateful for his contribution to public life. Wishing him good health and the very best in his continued service to the people.

[Pavan K N | పవన్ కే ఎన్ । पवन के एन @PavanNerellaINC]

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NEET to CBSE: How India’s education system has taken a hit under Modi govt.

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[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ @Pawankhera]

Incapable of reading the signs over the last 12 years, the government has led India to a point where the country is now being viewed as one of the biggest losers in the artificial intelligence-led reshaping of global investment flows.

It is now increasingly evident that there is a significant outflow of capital from the Indian economy.

The consequences are visible all around us: a weakening rupee, rising economic anxiety, and repeated public appeals from the government asking citizens to cut consumption – use 50% fertiliser, work from home, avoid unnecessary travel, and tighten spending habits.

But the horror doesn't end here. The investments that are being pulled out now might never return. Places like Taiwan and South Korea, which are riding their AI-innovation wave, promise better returns for investors.

India’s position as a darling destination for investments has been violently shaken.

Thank you, Modi Ji.

[Ruchira Chaturvedi @RuchiraC]

Has @IndiaToday officially become the BJP IT Cell?

Total Congress MLAs: 664

• Hindu: 520 (~78%)
• Muslim: 80 (~12%)
• Other religions: 64 (~10%)

But India Today will peddle BJP propaganda without bothering to verify facts and present the correct picture.

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

Today exactly a year ago the Modi Govt had announced that caste enumeration of the entire population will be included in the upcoming Census.

The recent chronology relating to this dramatic U turn by the Prime Minister is this:

1. On July 21 2021, the Home Minister had answered a question in the Lok Sabha asked by a BJP MP Smt Raksha Nikhil Khadse (now a Minister herself) and said that the Government of India had decided as a matter of policy not to enumerate caste-wise population.

2. On September 21 2021, the Modi Govt filed an Affidavit in Writ Petition (Civil) No. 841 of 2021 in the Supreme Court saying that any directive by the Court to enumerate caste-wise population would be tantamount to interfering with a policy decision already taken by the Modi Govt.

3. On April 16 2023, the President of the Indian National Congress Shri Mallikarjun Kharge ji wrote to the PM demanding an up-to-date caste census as part of the regular census.

4. On April 28 2024, in a television interview to News18 Network, the Prime Minister attacked the Indian National Congress saying that its demand for a caste census was indicative of "urban naxal" thought.

The Prime Minister owes the leadership of the Indian National Congress an apology for his accusation. More importantly, he owes the people of India an explanation of why he allowed his mind to be contaminated by "urban naxal" thought when he announced a caste census on April 30 2025.

A full year has passed. The details of how this caste enumeration will be done are still awaited. There has been no dialogue with Opposition parties and state governments, let alone with experts in this subject.

The President of the Indian National Congress had written to the PM again on May 5 2025 on the issue of the caste census. That letter was not even acknowledged. The issues raised in that letter remain very valid even now. In fact, they are more relevant after the recently-concluded special session of Parliament where it was evident that the PM has every intention of delaying the caste census.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Really enjoyed meeting the young women from Gargi College and Delhi University.

Two things are clear:

1.The magician has run out of tricks. Young India can see right through him.

2.Gen Z is our future - and Gen Z women will lead the way. It is our duty to open every door for them.

The future of our country is in safe hands.

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

The Prime Minister is a so-called Leader whose only distinguishing feature is his unmatched ability to be a Misleader.

He is a habitual liar who cannot speak the truth, even by mistake. He has engaged in deliberate deceit with the nation over the question of delimitation.

The Bills that his Government has circulated for the special session of Parliament contradict all the so-called assurances that he has been giving. The southern states will lose their strength in the Lok Sabha and so will smaller states in northwest India and states in the east.

What happened to the uniform proportionate increase of strength in the Lok Sabha for all states - that was promised by the PM and some of his colleagues? That has not happened.

The PM’s assurances cannot be trusted. He is unable to rise beyond his crude power-grabbing impulses and be a statesman - even on an issue as sensitive as delimitation.

The Bills were uploaded on Dr. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary. The delimitation provisions are an insult to his legacy and a reflection of his warning - delivered in the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949 - about the dangers of a government that isn’t guided by constitutional morality.

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

The PM is upto his usual tricks of making misleading statements that are meant to deceive.

He says South Indian states will not be hurt in any way if the strength of the Lok Sabha is increased by 50% and the number of seats of each state in the Lok Sabha is also increased by 50%.

This is hoodwinking the people of the country in which the PM has unique expertise.

For example, the difference between UP’s and Kerala’s seats in Lok Sabha is now 60. Mr. Modi’s proposal will increase it to 90. Similiarly the difference between UP and Tamil Nadu will increase from 41 to at least 61. Such examples can be multiplied.

Mr. Modi is bulldozing a proposal that will will work more to the benefit of larger and populous states since their already large numbers will get further magnified.

It is not just South India but states like Punjab and Haryana and those in the North East that will also see their relative influence decline.

The nation is facing a serious economic and foreign policy crisis. All that the PM is bothered about is pushing through an increase in the strength of the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas without meaningful consultations and widespread public debate. This is nothing but a Weapon of Mass Distraction (WMD).

[Mallikarjun Kharge @kharge]

Our salutations to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, fondly remembered as Sam Bahadur whose leadership was pivotal to India’s decisive victory in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

Across four decades of service and multiple conflicts, he exemplified exceptional leadership, integrity, and duty. India will always honour his remarkable contribution and enduring legacy.

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

The Modi Govt is proposing to bulldoze a Bill to increase the size of the Lok Sabha by 50%. The number of seats allocated to each state is also proposed to be increased by 50%.

The argument that a 50% increase in seats across-the-board is equitable is deceptive. Proportions may not change for the present but there are deeper implications that cannot be wished away.

Any increase in the gap in the existing strengths of different states in the Lok Sabha will place South Indian states at a disadvantage. For instance, currently Uttar Pradesh has 80 seats and Tamil Nadu has 39. With the proposed Bill, UP’s strength will zoom to 120 while Tamil Nadu will crawl up to at best 59. Similarly, Kerala will increase from 20 Lok Sabha seats to 30 seats, while Bihar will move from 40 to 60 seats. Overall, the southern states will gain 66 seats while the northern states will gain 200 seats.

Mr. Modi is unilaterally preparing a law which will disadvantage smaller states in the South, Northeast, and West. The Chief Minister of Telangana has already raised an alarm. Others may very well follow as this proposal becomes officially public.

[Gurdeep Singh Sappal @gurdeepsappal]

In the early 1950s, Russia was offering crude oil to India in rupees. The US opposed it even then.

95% of the market was in the control of three Western MNCs - Burmah Shell, Stanvac, and Caltex. They refused to accept Russian oil.

It was then that Minister Keshav Dev Malviya moved the proposal for oil exploration and production in India itself, which got active support from PM Nehru.

US and Britain refused technical help and financial support for oil exploration, arguing that a poor country like India didn’t need to venture out for such an expensive adventure.

But India went ahead. ONGC was established in 1955. Within two years, KD Malviya ensured that 100 geologists and geophysicists were trained. By 1959, India struck oil!

Since then, ONGC has led India’s energy security programme. It became India’s most profitable company. By 2014, it was debt-free, with cash reserves of 13,000 crore rupees. India produced 27% of its domestic oil needs. Now it is 13%!

Come 2025. ONGC is under a debt of 78,000 crore rupees. The money for exploration was diverted to write off loans and dead investment of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation worth nearly 26,000 crore rupees and fund the deficit of the Union Government by forcing ONGC to buy stakes of HPCL for 36,000 crore rupees, which went to the union budget!

So the exploration suffered, and our domestic production of crude oil is falling.

I write for National Herald that how the Modi government strangulated oil exploration, profiteered from oil imports, and squeezed money out of the common people in the form of taxes.

Now is the time to protect them from rising crude oil prices by giving subsidies, by taking a cue from the UPA government and Dr. Manmohan Singh’s policies.

@NH_India @INCIndia @RahulGandhi @kharge

[Randeep Singh Surjewala @rssurjewala]

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In a landmark Judgment dated 20th February 2026, the United States Supreme Court has quashed President Trump’s powers to impose tariffs.

Let us examine what the United States Supreme Court has laid down in the pathbreaking ruling in the case titled as “LEARNING RESOURCES INC. vs. DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”:

1. The Court held that IEEPA – International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 1977 – does not authorise the President to impose tariffs.

2. Under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, only Congress has power to impose taxes, which includes power to impose tariffs.

3. The President has no inherent authority to impose tariffs during peacetime.

4. Whenever Congress has delegated its tariff powers, it has done so in explicit terms and subject to strict limits.

5. Tariffs are beyond the President’s legitimate reach.

The Presidential powers to impose tariffs under IEEPA have been clearly set aside.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Saddened by the demise of senior Congress leader Sri Bheemanna Khandre.

A freedom fighter, educationist, and stalwart Congressman, he devoted his entire life to the service of the nation and the people of Karnataka.

My heartfelt condolences to Eshwar Khandre ji, the Khandre family, and all his supporters.

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

In the 1970s, following a severe drought, the Congress Govt in Maharashtra under the leadership of V.P. Naik and inspiration of V. S. Page introduced the pioneering Employment Guarantee Scheme to deal with rural distress. Subsequently, in the early 1980s, two new schemes were announced by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi - the National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) and the Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP). Thereafter in the early 1990s, an Employment Assurance Scheme in 100 poorest districts was announced by Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao - who also happened to be Minister of Rural Development.

Congress CMs met in early April 2002 and reviewed all schemes and programmes related to rural employment. Thereafter, in its Lok Sabha election manifesto released in late March 2004, the Congress pledged to enact a new law to guarantee employment for 100 days a year to rural families. Thus was born the idea of a legal guarantee as opposed to a mere administrative promise. This pledge formed part of the Common Minimum Programme of the UPA that was released in May 2004.

This is the background to MGNREGA. Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party, who along with Dr. Manmohan Singh played a pivotal role in making MGNREGA happen as an instrument of rural transformation writes today in @the_hindu on its bulldozed demolition. In the next few days, the Indian National Congress will announce a public agitation campaign to repeal the abolition of MGNREGA.

[VIJAY MATHIKATTI @VijayMathikatti]

Thanks to @INCKarnataka leadership for giving me the opportunity to be part of the historic #VoteChoriMahaRally in New Delhi.
As In-charge, Karol Bagh Camp Office, I handled room distribution for Karnataka party workers, pass distribution, and ensured smooth transport & food arrangements.

From planning in Bengaluru to work on the ground in Delhi, our efforts reflected unity and commitment to protecting democracy.
Sharing some glimpses.

#INCIndia #AICC #SaveDemocracy #CongressForDemocracy

[Priyank Kharge / ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕ್ ಖರ್ಗೆ @PriyankKharge]

Today, the Dept. of E, IT & BT, along with KEONICS, introduced:

KEO:
Knowledge-driven, Economical and Open-source.

A first-of-its-kind AI personal computer designed and developed entirely in Karnataka. It is a compact, affordable and AI-driven mass-computing system that serves as an inclusion device, built on an open-source RISC-V processor and loaded with full computing features, including an on-device AI engine - BUDDH for syllabus-aligned learning support.

Fewer than 15% of households in Karnataka own a personal computer.

Over 60% of students struggled to access online learning due to lack of devices and only about 45% of schools have computers.

Affordable, compact and AI-driven mass computing that can reach every home and classroom is now essential for learning, skilling and economic participation.

KEO shows how Karnataka is building sovereign, home-grown technology at scale. This is our step toward taking powerful computing to the grassroots and creating a future where every learner and every citizen can participate fully in the digital economy.

@CMofKarnataka @DKShivakumar @MBPatil