Mandeep

[Gurdeep Singh Sappal @gurdeepsappal]

https://t.co/SiOO6970hl

[Kavish aziz @azizkavish]

Respect. Resilience. Revolution.

🔥100 Gun Salute to Pooja Meghwal!

On April 29 in Udaipur, Rajasthan, Dalit bride Pooja Meghwal was dressed as a beautiful bride and proudly seated atop a horse during her wedding procession.

But upper-caste men could not tolerate the sight of a Dalit woman riding a horse. They humiliated her, forced her to dismount, and attacked the entire procession.

Yesterday, Pooja rose again fearless and dignified. Mounted on the horse, holding a photograph of Jyotirao Phule, she led a massive procession to the Collectorate demanding justice.

This time, no one dared to stop her. Courage cannot be broken.
Dignity cannot be denied.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I travelled through Great Nicobar today.

These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow.

The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs.

The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away.

This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language.

So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime.

It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

[Vinay Kumar Dokania @VinayDokania]

Aise kaun beizzat karta hai BJP walo ko

[Sanket Upadhyay @sanket]

Slow clap for @ANANDDUBEYK 🤣🤣

[Gurdeep Singh Sappal @gurdeepsappal]

One cannot be the heir of Manu and the champion of women. Not simultaneously. Not credibly.

I write ✍️

India has a new champion of women. He is loud about it. He wants you to believe it. And he is counting on you forgetting everything that came before.

Don’t.

As Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has presided over some of the lowest representation of women in Parliament, in state assemblies, and in his own Cabinet in recent memory.

His tenure will be remembered for the weaponisation of misogyny, for an IT cell that sexualises dissent, for a party leadership that garlanded convicted rapists, for a silence so conspicuous it became its own statement when women wrestlers sat in protest at Jantar Mantar.

The pattern is not incidental. It flows from an intellectual tradition that has never treated women as political equals.

Congress has different tradition

• Before Britain, France & the US gave women the vote, the Indian National Congress made Annie Besant President in 1917, Sarojini Naidu in 1925, Nellie Sengupta in 1933. Women led our national movement.

• The Motilal Nehru Report (1928) — India’s first self-drafted constitutional blueprint — explicitly proposed universal adult franchise regardless of sex. Congress didn’t discover women’s rights in an election year.

• The Karachi Resolution (1931) guaranteed equality before law and freedom of conscience. The architecture of the republic was built with women’s rights as non-negotiable — before the republic even existed.

• Gandhi said: “The awakening of women is the most significant sign of the awakening of India.” Nehru wrote that a civilisation is measured by the status of its women. These were not slogans. They were governing philosophy.

RSS Record

• The RSS was founded in 1925. For the next 25 years , through the entire drafting of the Constitution, it produced not one substantive statement on women’s rights, education or political participation.

• When the Constitution was adopted, the RSS mouthpiece Organiser praised the Manusmriti, which holds that a woman must never assert herself independently, guarded by father, husband, then son.

• When the Hindu Code Bill sought to give women equal inheritance and divorce rights, RSS workers burnt Nehru and Ambedkar’s effigies. BJP’s predecessor called it an “atom bomb on Hindu society.”

• In 2013, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said a husband may disown his wife if she fails to look after the home. This is not ancient history. This is the ideological sovereign of today’s ruling party.

• The BJP did not discover women’s rights. It borrowed the cause, the language, the legislative frame from a democratic tradition it spent decades opposing — and is counting on voters forgetting that history.

@NH_India @INCIndia @kharge @RahulGandhi
Link to E-paper. Article is on page 3

https://t.co/4HgxOtm7ys

[BJP Delhi @BJP4Delhi]

झूठ बोले कौवा काटे 👇

आज तक सिर्फ सुना था, आज देख भी लिया कौवे ने झूठे को काटा !

[Ram Madhav @rammadhav_]

What I said was wrong. India didn’t agree to stopping import of oil from Russia anytime. Also it vigorously protested 50 percent tariff imposition. I was trying to make a limited counterpoint to d other panelist. But factually incorrect. My apologies.

[desi mojito @desimojito]

Bulldozer action continues in Gurgaon. Good to see authorities working 🔥

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

BJP IT cell head @amitmalviya deleted all his Anti-Reservation and Anti-Women Reservation tweets.

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Dear @narendramodi your party has the lowest percentage of women among all parties in Lok Sabha . Implement Women’s Reservation NOW based on 543 seats - what is stopping you? Jumlabazi Nahi Chalegi

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Women's 33% quota. #womensquota

[Dayashankar Mishra @DayashankarMi]

आज के अख़बारों में ‘द हिन्दू’ का हेडलाइन एकदम साफ़-साफ़ है। इसमें साफ़ तौर पर बताया गया है कि सरकार का परिसीमन की परियोजना ध्वस्त हो गई। संविधान संशोधन बिल गिर गया। कल देश ने जो अपनी आँखों से देखा, वह सच्चाई साफ़-साफ़ लिखी है।
दूसरी तरफ़ ‘इंडियन एक्सप्रेस’ से लेकर ‘दैनिक भास्कर’ तक केवल सरकार की बात दोहरा रहे हैं। विपक्ष को आरक्षण बिल के सामने शत्रु की तरह पेश कर रहे हैं।
सरकार और मीडिया घर-घर तक अपनी पहुँच को विपक्षी दलों के लिए महिलाओं के मन में दुष्प्रचार और द्वेष भरने का काम कर रहे हैं।
भारतीय मीडिया IT सेल का एक्सटेंशन बन गया है । इसका स्पष्ट विरोध और बहिष्कार लोकतंत्र और संविधान के लिए ज़रूरी है।

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Important (here’s what actually happened yesterday)

👉 Modi Govt tried to bring a Bill which would set up a Delimitation Commission that includes a retired SC judge & CEC Gyanesh Kumar

👉 This commission would REDRAW all the Lok Sabha & Assembly constituencies in India in BJP’s favor before the 2029 elections

👉 Parliament had unanimously passed the Women’s Reservation Act in 2023 which guarantees 33% reservations for women supported by the Opposition

👉 Then Modi Govt shamelessly tried to tie women’s reservation to this delimitation bill where the agenda was to manipulate elections using women as an excuse

Thanks to a united Opposition, the Modi Govt’s agenda of delimitation was DEFEATED in Parliament yesterday.

What is HISTORIC is that:

👉 This is the 1st Bill to be defeated in Lok Sabha since 2011 (15 years)

👉 Since Independence, only 5 Govt Bills have been defeated in LS. This Bill is the 6th

After this humiliating defeat, BJP is now spreading the FALSE PROPAGANDA that “Opposition defeated women’s reservation”.

Truth is:

👉 Opposition demanded IMMEDIATE implementation of women’s reservation without delimitation

👉 Modi Govt blocked this because their real agenda was delimitation & manipulation of electoral constituencies

This is a HUGE defeat for Modi-Shah & their sinister agenda. They have been humiliated in Parliament - a place they otherwise take for granted.

Yesterday, the Opposition blocked Modi-Shah from manipulating the 2029 elections.

This is the beginning of the end of Modi-Shah’s rule. 💪

[Gurdeep Singh Sappal @gurdeepsappal]

आज मोदी सरकार को देश से माफ़ी माँगनी चाहिए कि जो महिला आरक्षण बिल तीन साल पहले सर्वसम्मति से पास हो गया था, उसे विवादित बना दिया है।

आज मोदी सरकार को इसलिए भी माफ़ी माँगनी चाहिए कि उसने महिला आरक्षण की आड़ में दक्षिण भारत की सीटें कम करने का कुटिल षड्यंत्र रचा।

कल ही देश को पता चला कि तीन साल पहले महिला आरक्षण को पास करने बाद कल रात तक मोदी सरकार ने उसे क़ानून के रूप में नोटिफाई नहीं किया था, जबकि इस बीच लोकसभा के चुनाव भी हो चुके हैं।

इसलिए अब ये बात पूरे विश्वास के साथ कही जा सकती है कि अगर BJP को 400 सीटें आ जातीं, तो उन्होंने महिला आरक्षण को कूड़े की टोकरी में फेंक देना था। शायद इसीलिए बिल संसद द्वारा पास होने के बावजूद उसे कानून के रूप में नोटिफाई नहीं किया गया और देशवासियों की आँखों में धूल झोंकी गई।

@INCIndia @kharge @RahulGandhi

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

हंगरी के चुनाव में पब्लिक मीडिया पर केवल ऑर्बान की पार्टी का ही विज्ञापन चल रहा था। विपक्ष को जगह नहीं दी गई। शर्मिंदा हो कर वहां के चुनाव आयोग ने कह दिया होगा कि विपक्ष को भी जगह मिलनी चाहिए। तब भी हंगरी के पब्लिक मीडिया पर विपक्ष को बराबरी की जगह नहीं मिली। लेकिन यह भारत है। हंगरी नहीं है। हम चुनाव आयोग से उम्मीद नहीं करते हैं कि वह प्रधानमंत्री के भाषण को लेकर कार्रवाई करेगा। सरकार को आदेश देगा कि जितनी देर तक प्रधानमंत्री ने भाषण दिया है, उतनी ही देर तक नेता प्रतिपक्ष को भाषण देने का मौका मिले। सरकार भले चुनाव आयोग के आदेश को न माने।

लेकिन ख़ुद और सभी से यह उम्मीद ज़रूर करते हैं कि आचार संहिता के खंड 7 के बारे में पता होना चाहिए। पता होगा तभी हम चुनाव आयोग की निष्पक्षता का मूल्यांकन कर सकेंगे। शनिवार रात जो हुआ वह दुखद था।

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

And here comes the favourite part!!

I can still remember my joy when we heard Ravish sir has won Ramon Magsaysay award!!
I am glad they recorded his raw reactions🙏🏻
Keep fighting for what’s right❤️

Ravish did it. Only Ravish could do it “while we watched”.

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

This is NOT a women’s reservation bill - stop using our shoulders to fire your political guns from

[Gurdeep Singh Sappal @gurdeepsappal]

महिलाओं को दिया वचन विपक्ष ने नहीं तोड़ा। प्रधान मंत्री मोदी ने तोड़ा है, क्योंकि वो नई शर्तें ले कर आ गए।

[Krishna Kant @kkjourno]

कपिल सिब्बल ने उठाया आचार संहिता के उल्लंघन का मुद्दा -

"मैंने प्रधानमंत्री का भाषण सुना, प्रधानमंत्री के पीछे राष्ट्रीय ध्वज था और वे भारत के प्रधानमंत्री के तौर पर बोल रहे थे, जबकि चुनाव चल रहे हैं। यह भारत की राजनीति में एक नया निम्न स्तर है। लेकिन मुझे पता है कि न तो मुख्य चुनाव आयुक्त और न ही कोई अन्य संस्था इस बारे में कुछ करेगी..."

क्या हमेशा की तरह प्रधानमंत्री के पद का इस्तेमाल चुनाव को प्रभावित करने के लिए किया जा रहा है? बंगाल में तृणमूल सत्ता में है और मुख्य प्रतिद्वंद्वी है। प्रधानमंत्री के संबोधन में तृणमूल पर हमला किया गया। देश की सरकार और प्रधानमंत्री के पद का इस्तेमाल चुनाव प्रभावित करने के लिए हो रहा है।