Gunjan

[Gunjan @buzzbaldin]

@OdishaGazette @SuzaneN_ Arre anao udhar woh kya kaam kartis.

[Gunjan @buzzbaldin]

India has two different classical music traditions lol. Each with Mozarts of their own. They really think it is only classical when it is western.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Yeah that’s not how greatness works, Jeff. India has 2X more people than the entire earth did in Mozart’s time and they’ve produced precisely zero Mozarts. Numbers don’t produce greatness, cultures do.

It’s baffling how such smart people think and say the stupidest things.

[Apoorvanand अपूर्वानंद @Apoorvanand__]

AK is one of the most evil minds that Indian politics has produced. Transactional, devoid of any ethical sense: lies, half-truths, and fraudulent means come easily to him and his party. They can sacrifice the lives of their voters, as they did in Delhi in 2020.

[Karuna Nundy @karunanundy]

Without a hash value, it is impossible to tell if the agencies have planted anything after seizure.

[ରଘୁନାଥ Raghunath 🇮🇳🇸🇪 @sahoo_raghunath]

Kerala is not even remotely impacted by this, compared to what Odisha is going to be impacted. (1L Cr INR+ 12k Cr annual revenue), yet they're defending for federalism and their own state interests.

Yet, bootlickers and incompetent @BJP4Odisha are defending this #mmdr bill.

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Gujarat cops (accompanied by Delhi police) came to journalist Ravi Nair’s home over a story he did with The Washington Post on Adani. An FIR has been lodged against Ravi, but not The Washington Post, based on a complaint by an Adani Group staffer.

The police took away two of Ravi’s phones, his son’s laptop, and the laptop and iPad of a colleague who happened to be at home and is not an accused in the case. The cops had a judicial magistrate’s order. Refused to give hash value of the devices

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

‘हमें सिलाई सिखाने के नाम पर ले गए थे’: पूर्व माओवादी स्त्रियों ने कहा, ‘धोखे से कराया गया रैंप वॉक’ | @SantoshiMarkam reports

https://t.co/qUpRigyTw6 via @thewirehindi

[Jitendra K Biswal @VoiceOfDisabled]

Odisha’s voters who handed BJP power in the State and sent 20 MPs to prop them up at the Centre have not merely erred - they’ve committed a crime against their own land.

And the “reward”? A mineral‑rich State stripped bare by the Centre’s MMDR Bill. Odisha now stands to lose not just past dues of ₹1,00,000 crore and bleed ₹12,000 crore annually but also surrender both fiscal autonomy and constitutional rights over its natural wealth.

Pollution, displacement, and the crushing burden of mining will remain Odisha’s curse, while the Centre pockets the the revenue earned from our mineral‑bearing soil.

The bitter irony is: the State that backed BJP the most has been stabbed in the back with surgical precision.

[Tony Joseph @tjoseph0010]

When you coin a phrase like 'dimagi Naxal', the idea is not to malign Naxalism. It is the exact opposite. It is to malign those who use their mind, those who have an independent opinion, those who question, those who insist on reason and logic, those who value education, and so on.

[Jai Vipra @JaaiVipra]

We have to stop making the RSS seem stronger or more coherent than it is. They've basically achieved their entire agenda and have no vision now because they are intellectually hollow. This is all there ever was to it.

[କଳିଙ୍ଗ ଟୋକା @Kalinga_Odisha]

Look at the numbers.

Odisha's 2026–27 Budget estimates Rs. 71,000 crore in own non-tax revenue, of which Rs. 53,000 crore nearly 75% is expected from mining. The State's own FRBM documents separately project mining revenue at around Rs. 56,000 crore.

Mining is therefore not just another source of income for Odisha. It is one of the foundations of the state's fiscal capacity.

The MMDR Amendment Bill, 2026 now restricts States from imposing specified taxes, cesses and other levies on mineral rights and mineral bearing land, except according to conditions or restrictions prescribed by the Centre. More seriously, unpaid or unrecovered past dues relating to such levies are deemed invalid, while amounts already recovered will not be refunded.

So what does Odisha potentially lose?

1. Future fiscal flexibility
2. Past mineral related dues
3. Control over mineral bearing land taxation
4. Greater dependence on the Centre

And remember what mining leaves behind in Odisha:

displacement, pollution, damaged roads and infrastructure, environmental degradation and pressure on local communities.

If Odisha is expected to bear these costs, why should its ability to raise revenue from the resources extracted from its own territory be progressively restricted?

Odisha contributes enormously to India's mineral economy.

We cannot accept a model where the minerals leave Odisha, the environmental and social costs stay in Odisha, but the State's fiscal powers over those resources are progressively taken away.

Odisha must defend its mineral wealth, its revenue and its federal rights.

#Odisha #MMDRAmendment #OdishaMinerals #Federalism #FiscalAutonomy

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

RIP Udyog Bhavan, 1957–2026.

Built to house the industrial ambitions of a young republic.

Demolished at night, by a regime intent on ensuring that no visible proof of India's history exists before one man arrived to remake it in his puerile image.

[ଶିଶୁପାଳଗଡ଼ @sisupalagarha]

20 BJP MPs in Lok Sabha and not one of them raised their voice against the MMDR Amendment Bill.

This Act transfers the control of all mineral bearing lands of Odisha (& other States) to the Centre.

Odisha can't levy any tax or cess or royalty without the Center's permission

[Chirag @chirag]

Santras stealing 1 lakh crore of past dues from Odisha. Presumably to divert to Gujarat/UP.

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Odisha votes BJP and BJP at centre passed MMDR bill and now Odisha losses claim over past dues of ₹1,00,000 crore and around ₹12,000 cr annually

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

Taken in the context of the recent harassment and arrest of the TISS student in Mumbai, it’s essentially thought crimes era now

The state went from criminalising armed insurgency, to criminalising adivasi advocacy to finally even thinking about it

[ଶିଶୁପାଳଗଡ଼ @sisupalagarha]

Mohan Majhi meets Karan Adani, son of Gautam Adani.

Next day, Parliament passes MMDR Amendment Bill through voice vote.

Now this Bill retroactively makes even pending tax/cess dues of mining companies invalid. Odisha is set to lose atleast 1 lakh crore.

Happy Independence Day

[Amit|امِت|ਅਮਿਤ @amitjulka]

"Deep state" is such an obfuscatory/hacky way of simply saying that capital controls the state. The fact that bhalla has to invent this spectre points to his psychological reluctance to admit that his beloved 'free market' has finally borne its fruit.

[T. Prashant Reddy @Preddy85]

They do know that census data is confidential and cannot be used for any other purpose? What are they going to do with Aadhaar and passport numbers? Trust this govt to be up to some larger evil plan, all the time.

[Kartikeya Bhatotia @bhatoti]

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