This is @aakashibhatt & @shantanubhatt95,
8 years - 2,923 days of our father, Mr. Sanjiv Bhatt's unjust incarceration.
Today, 5th September, marks 8 years since this regime came into our home and took our father from us, tearing our family apart under the guise of trumped up charges manufactured to silence his voice of truth. Eight years is an extraordinary amount of time to measure the life of a family, but there are moments when time becomes a strange and almost meaningless measure: the calendar insists that eight years have passed; however, our hearts and souls remain rooted in that September morning when our world was turned upside down and torn apart.
When I look back at these past years, I often think about what our father chose to stand for, and the principles that have given meaning to everything that followed. From him, we learned that there are moments when an individual has to decide whether the safety of silence is worth the price of surrendering one’s conscience. From him we realised what it truly meant to stand in the path of power, when power had decided that it would rather not be questioned. Our father knew that the battle before him was profoundly unequal, uphill and lonesome; that institutions capable of protecting a society, when captured by power and stripped of their independence, become deadly instruments capable of destroying it. He was aware of the consequences of refusing to bend to the whims of this totalitarian regime and yet, he did, and still continues to fight against it with all his might!
That is who Sanjiv Bhatt is …
Not simply a name that appears in newspapers, nor the IPS officer who has become a symbol of something much larger, but our father, a man who possess the extraordinary strength and resilience to keep fighting a battle he knew would cost him everything, because he believed that some principles are more important than the preservation of one's own comfort, career or freedom.
His sacrifices were never made for himself. He fought for people who had suffered hate and violence for the political ambition of one man. He raised his voice when remaining silent would have been infinitely easier. He placed his career, his reputation, his freedom and, ultimately, years of his life on the line because he believed that those who wield enormous power must also be held to an enormous standard of accountability.
And for that, years of his life, his freedom have been cruelly ripped away from him.
But there is something the passage of these eight years has made increasingly clear to me: the greatest victory of repression is not breaking the person it targets, but convincing everyone watching that there is nothing they can do!
Because democracy does not disappear in a single dramatic moment. Its foundations are eroded far more quietly when institutions that were created to restrain power begin serving it; when the judiciary, which should be the last refuge of the powerless, fails to protect them; when due process becomes something that can be manipulated; when truth becomes inconvenient and therefore dangerous; and, perhaps most dangerous of all, when ordinary citizens decide that it is safer to look away, instead of raising their voices in the face of atrocities! That is how the pillars of a democracy begin to crumble. Not because people do not know what is happening, but because remaining wilfully oblivious is far “safer”.
For eight long years, we have watched this unfold around our father. We have watched the extraordinary machinery of power descend upon one man, and we have watched institutions that were supposed to stand between the citizen and the State fail, again and again, to live up to the promise for which they exist.
And still, our father continues to fight …
That, more than anything else, is the measure of his courage, his legacy!
Because courage is not measured by how loudly someone speaks when the world is listening, it is measured by what they are prepared to endure when the world has stopped listening!
Our father has and continues to endure …
He has endured the loss of his freedom, the destruction of his career, the years stolen from his family and the extraordinary weight of a system determined to break him.
Yet somehow, after eight years, the thing this regime has been unable to imprison is the very thing that made him dangerous to them to begin with … his refusal to surrender his conscience!
And perhaps that is why his fight matters now more than ever. For years, too many people learnt to lower their voices before they had even spoken. Questions were replaced by silent acceptance; outrage by apathy; courage by cowardice. An entire generation watched examples being made of exemplary individuals who dared to stand up against this regime and slowly began to believe that the safest way to survive was perhaps to remain silent …But silence comes with a terrible price!
A country cannot remain free when its people are afraid to question power. Institutions cannot remain independent when citizens stop demanding accountability. And justice cannot prevail when the judiciary ceases to be a shield for the people and becomes a weapon against those who dare to dissent. Democracy can survive only when ordinary people are willing to defend its most fundamental promise, that no power is above accountability, and no citizen should have to surrender their freedom, dignity or voice to remain safe.
And yet, perhaps that willingness to speak truth to power is beginning to return. Across the country, once again, people are raising their voices to question. They are beginning to look beyond the empty noise, beyond the propaganda, beyond the carefully constructed narratives that ask them to blindly accept rather than use their agency to examine. A generation that was taught to keep its head down is slowly beginning to lift it with courage and defiance!
Perhaps that is how the endless night finally begins to give way to a new dawn, not through one spectacular event, but through millions of ordinary people deciding, each in their own way, that they will no longer surrender their capacity to question!
And if there is one thing I have learnt from watching our father through all these years, it is that courage is contagious!
One person standing up against an entire regime can look insignificant. One voice can appear almost absurdly small against the mammoth machinery of power. But history has a way of remembering those who refused to bend, and of showing how one person’s courage can awaken the courage of millions!
Our father knew exactly what he was risking, and still chose courage over self-preservation, truth over silence, and conscience over fear. He did not stand up against this regime because he believed he was invincible; he stood because he believed some things were worth fighting for, whatever the cost!
Today, doesn’t just mark 2,923 days of separation, it marks 8 years of our relentless fight for justice …
I hope that everyone who reads this today will once again remember Sanjiv Bhatt ...
Remember the courage it took to confront power when doing so came at an unimaginable personal and professional cost …
Remember what happens when institutions created to protect citizens are weaponised against them …
Remember that the independence of the judiciary, the integrity of institutions and the rule of law are not abstract constitutional phrases; they are the barriers that stand between an ordinary citizen and the unchecked power of the State.
And remember that those barriers remain standing only for as long as we have the courage to defend them!
Eight years have passed since they tried to silence our father’s voice of truth.
Eight years since they stole his freedom, but failed to shake his courage.
Eight years since they tried to bury his resolve, but could not break his indomitable spirit
Eight years in which we have been reminded, again and again, that justice delayed is not merely time lost, it is a test of whether a society still possesses the courage to demand justice at all!
Our father dedicated his life fighting to protect the very secular, democratic fabric of our society, our nation. The least we can do is to refuse to let his voice stand alone!
We must stand together and raise our voices… not only for our father Mr Sanjiv Bhatt, but also for all those who have sacrificed everything to protect the rights, freedoms and values that belong to every citizen of our country.
Eight years on, our father is still standing strong, with his head held high, his conscience intact, and his resolve unbroken!
He refuses to bend, to be silenced, or surrender …And neither will we!
Our fight for justice continues!
We may be bloodied, battered and bruised ... but we remain unbroken, unbent, unbowed!
#justiceforsanjivbhatt #FreeSanjivBhatt #EnoughIsEnough
छात्रों के अधिकारों के लिए आंदोलनरत दलित सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता और उसके पिता पर हमला कर अधमरा करने वाले अराजक उपद्रवी आतंकी “स्वतंत्र भारद्वाज” नाम के व्यक्ति को चिराग पासवान बचाते है।
दलितों पर अत्याचार करने वाले के खेवनहार बने चिराग पासवान दलितों के लिए क्या आवाज उठायेंगे, यह पासवान समाज के लिए विचारणीय विषय है?
🚨#Announcement
From Day 1, we have not let any student or protester fight this battle alone.
Nishu’s father Sanjay ji’s case is harrowing. Gang members like Swatantra Bhardwaj are openly flaunting that they attempted murder on Sanjay ji who was simply peacefully protesting for NEET students. Sanjay ji was brutally attacked and barely survived.
Therefore, I, along with other Cockroach Janta Party members will reach the Parliament Street Police Station tomorrow at 10 AM and seek justice for Sanjay ji and Nishu.
There is clear admission on the record now. We will not allow Delhi Police to protect criminal gangs in our national capital!
@Cockroachisback
यह स्वतंत्र भारद्वाज है
शान से बता रहा है कि स्टूडेंट प्रोटेस्ट में प्रदर्शनकारी के पिता पर हमला किया - उन्हें 60 टांके लगे और वह मौत के कगार पर थे
307 के अंतर्गत हाफ मर्डर का मामला बनता था. लेकिन वह जेल नहीं गया - रात भर बेख़ौफ़ घूमता रहा
कपिल मिश्रा के एक फोन के बाद उसे राहत मिल गई
आगे बताता है कि कपिल मिश्रा, चिराग पासवान ही नहीं मोदी जी भी उसके “बड़े भाई” हैं, सबका समर्थन प्राप्त है
दिल्ली NCR महिलाओं के लिए इतना असुरक्षित हो चुका है कि एक नाबालिग बच्ची के साथ एक स्लीपर बस में 47 किलोमीटर तक गैंगरेप हुआ - ग्रेटर नोएडा से दिल्ली तक।
हैरानी की बात है कि पूरी दिल्ली या नोएडा पुलिस को इसकी भनक तक नहीं लगी। यह बस नोएडा-ग्रेटर नोएडा एक्सप्रेसवे, दिल्ली का रिंग रोड, बॉर्डर - सब पार कर गई, बिना एक भी चेकपोस्ट पर रोके गए।
बस की सीटों पर पर्दे लगे थे, ताकि अंदर क्या हो रहा है कोई देख न सके। और अपराधियों में प्रशासन का कोई डर भी नहीं।
निर्भया के बाद इतने सालों में, इतनी घटनाओं के बाद भी ऐसी बसों की जाँच और निगरानी के नियमों का पालन क्यों नहीं हो रहा?
पर्दे सिर्फ़ उस बस में नहीं डाले गए थे - साल दर साल सरकार द्वारा प्रशासन की नाकामियों पर डाले गए पर्दों का नतीजा है कि देश की राजधानी में भी महिलाएं एक सुरक्षित सफर नहीं कर सकतीं।
और कितनी महिलाओं और बच्चियों के साथ ऐसा होना बाक़ी है, तब जाकर केंद्र और राज्य सरकारें इस व्यवस्था को ठीक करेंगी?
क्या अमित शाह के अधीन दिल्ली पुलिस और आदित्यनाथ के अधीन UP पुलिस की जवाबदेही तय की जाएगी? कोई गुंजाइश ही नहीं - इस अपराध पर भी एक पर्दा डाल दिया जाएगा।
पटना -गर्दनीबाग में TRE-4 अभ्यर्थियों का प्रदर्शन तेज, अभ्यर्थियों ने सरकार से सवाल पूछा- “हर बार प्रयोग हम पर ही क्यों?” उनका कहना है कि TRE-1, TRE-2 और TRE-3 में एक परीक्षा और बिना नेगेटिव मार्किंग के भर्ती हुई, जबकि TRE-4 में PT, Mains और नेगेटिव मार्किंग लागू की गई है।
#TRE4 #BiharStudents #TeacherRecruitment #StudentProtest #BiharEducation #BPSC #Gardanibagh #Patna #BiharNews #HindiNews
पटना में छात्र नेता दिलीप कुमार रोने लगे, कोई बिस्किट तक देने वाला नहीं है.. जंतर मंतर और झारखंड में मदद करने वाले बिहार में क्यों नहीं कर रहे मदद?
BPSC, BSSC के छात्रों से भावुक होकर सुनिए क्या बोले दिलीप कुमार.. "मेरी मां, मेरी पत्नी, मै खुद बीमार हूं.."
बिहार में आंदोलन कर रहे छात्रों की मांगें
शिक्षा सत्याग्रह 2.0
स्थान: गर्दनीबाग, पटना मुख्य माँगें:
• 70वीं BPSC पूरी तरह निरस्त हो
• BSSC की सभी लंबित परीक्षाएँ (स्टेनोग्राफर, CGL, ASO, BSO) जल्द हों
• असिस्टेंट प्रोफेसर से पहले BET कराया जाए
• TRE-4 जल्द पूरा + One Candidate, One Result
• 1799 क्लर्क भर्ती निरस्त + प्रश्नपत्र-OMR जारी हों
• AEDO, Sanitary आदि की हाई-लेवल जाँच
• CSBC में भी प्रश्नपत्र-उत्तर कुंजी-OMR दें
• लाइब्रेरियन (18 साल) व लेखपाल (4 साल) भर्ती जल्द
• अधिकतम आयु 45 साल
• 85% डोमिसाइल
• संविदा वेटेज खत्म
• सालाना कैलेंडर + पेपर लीक पर सख्त कार्रवाई — ऑल बिहार स्टूडेंट यूनियन (ABSU)
#Cancel70thBPSC #BSSC
मैं इस बात को राजनीतिक मुद्दा नहीं बनाना चाहता।
मैंने कभी किसी से यह नहीं कहा कि मैं दलित हूँ, मेरी रक्षा करो और न ही किसी के सामने गिड़गिड़ाया। मुझ में लड़ने की शक्ति है और मैं लड़ता हूँ।
लेकिन हल्द्वानी में स्टेज का शुद्धिकरण कर मुझे Untouchability का एहसास कराया गया और मेरा अपमान किया गया।
मेरी माँग है —
हल्द्वानी में जिन लोगों ने स्टेज का शुद्धिकरण किया, उन पर Untouchability Act के तहत केस दर्ज हो और उन्हें गिरफ्तार कर जेल भेजा जाएँ।
BJP का एक और बलात्कारी
"BJP विधायक विनोद सिंह ने मेरे साथ रेप करने की कोशिश की, शराब के नशे में मेरे प्राइवेट पार्ट छुए और कपड़े फाड़ दिए।
अब वो मेरी बेटी पर एसिड अटैक करवाने की धमकी दे रहे हैं। इतना ही नहीं, पुलिस वाले मेरी लोकेशन निकालकर BJP विधायक को देते हैं।"
- ये करतूत यूपी के सुल्तानपुर से BJP विधायक विनोद सिंह की है, जो एक महिला को धमकाकर उसका शारीरिक शोषण करने में लगा है
यही है- BJP का चाल, चरित्र और चेहरा, जहां ऐसे दरिंदे सत्ता की हनक में महिलाओं की अस्मत लूट रहे हैं।
नरेंद्र मोदी, क्या यही हैं- आपके सभ्य लोग?
इस दरिंदे पर कड़ी से कड़ी कार्रवाई होनी चाहिए, जेल भेजा जाना चाहिए, लेकिन हमें पता है कि 'मोदी का परिवार' इस हैवान का माला पहनकर स्वागत करेगा।
We live in a place where without twitter activism the police won't budge an inch.
For every small thing, even to take action for self recorded crimes one need to raise whole social media storm.
The police is as much culprit as these petty criminals.
#amitkilhor#kilhor#uppolice