While we discuss the moral lessons by Subhash Chandra and Zee group, it is good to remind ourselves of how he became an MP.
This is also about EC's role in ensuring people's mandate.
Year: June 2016
Election: Rajya Sabha seat
Electorate: 90 MLAs.
State: Haryana
Vacancies: 2 seats.
Contestants: Birender Singh (BS), a BJP candidate
Subhash Chandra - Independent; with BJP support.
RK Anand - Independent; Cong+INLD support.
Round 1: The Haryana Assembly has 90 members. BS got 40 votes, Anand got 21 votes and Chandra got 15 votes. 14 votes were rejected.
Round 2: With 14 votes rejected, BS needed only 26 to win. So, BS transferred the remaining 14 votes to Chandra as he was the second option marked by BJP MLAs. Chandra thus ended up with 29 votes. The third candidate, RK Anand, stayed put at 21 votes.
The Fairness: The EC gave a Violet Ink Pen and instructed all MLAs to use that one for voting. Every MLA would vote and pass on that pen for the next MLA to use it. The BJP MLAs used it. The INLD MLAs also used it. The last BJP MLA after casting his vote, changed the pen and passed on a black ink pen to the next in line Congress MLA. And that black ink pen was passed on by every Cong MLA to the next one. 14 passes in all. 14 votes in all. And all those 14 votes were declared invalid by the EC.
Subhash Chandra won. BJP won. Congress lost. INLD lost. Cong charged EC official of fraud. They asked how was the pen changed without the EC noticing it? Imagine a invalid ballot box being used under EC supervision and we all merrily vote.
That is the story of Subhash Chandra, ethics and also about our election commission.
@Sanjay_Dixit NO SUCH THING IS WRITTEN IN THAT VERSE...Mainstream scholarly interpretation views this as a directive tied to ongoing warfare initiated by the hostile pagans of Mecca, aiming to secure religious freedom and stop the active suppression of Muslims.
On the eve of our independence, thinking of every single political prisoner who continues to fight oppression so that we breathe in a just and an equitable nation. Our freedom remains incomplete without their freedom
NOTE: it is sometimes best to put out a full proper video before engaging in worst form of character assassination . Here is Indira Gandhi at 1983 NAM summit holding out her hand to Fidel Castro. The Cuban leader then takes her consent (through an interpreter) and hugs her briefly . He called her his ‘sister’. The entire exchange is done with quiet dignity. To score cheap political points why coarsen the narrative? (Thank you @_kajalbasu for sharing video on Facebook)
The woman giving Nehru a peck on his cheek in full public view is none other than his sister Vijaylakshmi Pandit. And in other pic, Nehru is being given a kiss by his niece Nayantara Sehgal on his arrival at London airport in 1955. You can also see Sehgal’s mother, Vijaylakshmi Pandit who was the High Commissioner to UK at that time.
But again, Boomers from BJP and RSS have been sharing these misleading pics since decades despite knowing the fact. You @nishikant_dubey are not different.
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Anand Ranganathan has built a career on savaging Nehru. Scroll his timeline. Nehru, dawn to dusk, and never a kind word.
Now look at this.
In 1992 he went up to Cambridge on the Nehru Centenary Fellowship, an award linked to the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, the trust created in 1964 to keep Nehru's legacy burning, with Nehru's own daughter, Indira Gandhi, installed as its founding secretary.
He came home. And today he draws his salary as a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
A fellowship in Nehru's name. A day job at a university in Nehru's name.
And a public brand built on flaying the man both are named after.
Show me a bigger 'Namak Haraam'.
A video of FIFA World Cup celebrations in Mexico is FALSELY viral as student protestors dancing inappropriately at Delhi's Jantar Mantar. A Karni Sena leader shared the video and questioned the morality of the protestors | @anindyahazra96
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38 of 40 buildings. Three thousand students. Twenty years.
How many universities in this country have approved maps? How many DM offices do?
I signed. You should too:
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