Meanwhile on Chinese TV: "I visited California in the 80s. They were promising high-speed rail. China didn't even have highways."
40 years later, they have built zero. China: biggest high speed rail network.
"The superiority of socialism is clear."
Today Mamata Banerjee has fallen into the trap she allowed to grow over the last decade.
Despite enjoying a full majority, she allowed the RSS to expand across West Bengal. She never seriously confronted the organisational penetration that was gradually making Bengal fertile ground for the BJP.
In 2022, she even said, "I don't think RSS is bad."
She appears to have assumed that the BJP was still the same party that Atal Bihari Vajpayee once helped build to challenge Congress. It was a serious miscalculation.
Today, she is witnessing the consequences of that strategy and has effectively lost control of large sections of her own political space.
She was eaten by the animal, unleashed by herself.
Strongly condemn the Enforcement Directorate raids directed against former Kerala Chief Minister Com. @pinarayivijayan.
Such actions once again raise serious concerns over the growing pattern of central agencies being weaponised against Opposition leaders.
Incidentally, this also exposes the hollowness of the reckless allegations made by some Congress leaders who repeatedly questioned why Pinarayi Vijayan had “not yet been targeted by the BJP”!
#EDraids
Be it KCR, Jagan, Chandrababu, Biju Patnaik, Mamata didi, Akhilesh Yadav, Kejriwal, Ashok Gehlot, Pinarayi Vijayan, Stalin etc., all these affected by ANTI INCUMBENCY & lose elections.
Surprisingly, none of the BJP CMs or party’s governance is affected by it.
It’s a mystery!🤷♂️
In 2011, the Left Front got 34 lakh votes less than the TMC-INC.
LF got 41%; TMC-INC got 48%
LF won 62 seats; TMC-INC 226.
34 lakh votes, 7% gap, and a difference of 164 seats.
That's how first-past-the-post works.
At times it works for you, at other times against you.
Maharashtra : Thackeray and Pawar
Delhi : Kejriwal
Kerala : Pinarayi Vijayan
Tamil Nadu: MK Stalin
Bengal : Mamata Banerjee
All the forces that united against Modi have been decimated through rigged elections. There’s a clear pattern here. They snatch power where it matters and toss one odd state to Congress to preserve the illusion of electoral integrity.
Iran FM Abbas ,@araghchi:
"We permitted passage through the Strait of #Hormuz for friendly nations including China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan".