₹19,000 crore.
That is what Banks collected in last 3 years just for not maintaining ‘Minimum Account Balance.’
Not from the rich. Not from big borrowers.
From the poorest accounts in the system.
Their crime? They didn’t have enough money.
A farmer misses the minimum balance - Penalty.
A pensioner withdraws money for medicine - Penalty.
A daily wage worker falls short by a few hundred rupees - Penalty.
The poor keep money in banks for safety. Not to be quietly fined for being poor.
Financial inclusion should protect small savings, not punish small balances.
In Parliament today I proposed ending minimum balance penalties so the banking system stops charging people for their poverty.
India needs to throw away the “Juvenile act” RIGHT NOW!
Cuz all it does is give free passes to “BOYS” who rape!
If HE is old enough to RAPE
Then He is old enough to be HANGED
Periods are natural. Stigma is not.
If a girl misses school because there are no sanitary pads, no water and no privacy, it is not her personal problem. It is our collective failure.
We live in a country where alcohol and cigarettes are sold openly, but sanitary pads are still wrapped in newspaper as if they must be hidden. Somewhere along the way, society turned a biological fact into a social taboo.
A matter of science has been turned into a matter of silence.
Menstrual hygiene is not charity. It is not a favour. It is not a side issue.
It is a matter of health, education and equality. Above all, it is a matter of dignity.
Raised this issue in Parliament today because it affects over 35 crore women and girls in India. A nation cannot call itself truly progressive if millions of girls still face fear, shame and silence for something so basic. The real test of progress is simple. The day every girl in India can go to school, live with dignity and speak about this without stigma, that will be the day we can truly say our society has moved forward.
I’m not targeting any political party by name, but let’s stop pretending this is normal. In the last ten years, crimes, corruption, assaults, rapes and harassment involving ministers, councillors and party members have hit a peak we’ve never seen before. Yes, crimes existed earlier. Yes, Lalu’s era was lawless. Yes, UP has always had a reputation. That excuse is tired and dishonest.
What feels different now is entitlement. A dangerous one. People aligned with this party behave like laws don’t apply to them because practically they don’t. There’s no fear of consequence. No urgency for justice. No accountability. When a minister is caught with ₹100 crore and walks free with ₹90 crore still intact, the message is clear: evidence means nothing, power means everything.
This isn’t corruption anymore. This is institutional rot. Courts move slowly, agencies selectively wake up and public outrage is managed until people get bored. The accused don’t even bother hiding anymore. They roam freely, give interviews, attend rallies because they know no one will touch them.
So where are we heading as a nation? Towards a place where morality is optional if you’re politically useful. Where justice depends on proximity to power. Where the system bends not because it’s broken, but because it’s been instructed to.
And what can one person do? Honestly very little. When power is concentrated in the hands of one man and that man protects his own, fair trials become a myth. Democracy starts looking less like a system & more like a stage managed illusion.
That’s the real danger not just that crimes are happening, but that we’re being slowly conditioned to tolerate them. Outrage is numbed, questions are buried and silence is sold as maturity. This is how democracies don’t collapse overnight, they decay quietly, while people convince themselves nothing can be done. The moment citizens stop demanding accountability & start accepting injustice as “normal,” power stops fearing the public & when power stops fearing the people, the country isn’t being governed anymore it’s being taken over 🙏🏻
Oddly enough Rahul’s teams are doing some solid investigations for a political party- something that in a normal country would be done by all journalists.
people love steve because of his development and his relationship with the “outcasts” i don’t get what’s so hard to understand about that HE HIMSELF has become an outcast or do y’all watch the show with ur eyes closed
Earth is set to temporarily obtain another moon on September 29th.
The asteroid known as a ‘mini-moon’ is expected to make a single orbit journey around Earth, ending on November 25th.
The reason why there are no rallies on the road for her, no demands for justice is because she is poor. No one is safe till everyone is safe. Till we raise our voices against each and every single incident and create the same pressure on authorities.