In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.
May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?
Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?
In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?
The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.
It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.
Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.
Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?
India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.
সারা বিশ্বেই বাঙালি সংস্কৃতি অত্যন্ত জনপ্রিয়। সুইডেনও এর ব্যতিক্রম নয়।
আয়োজিত অভ্যর্থনা অনুষ্ঠানে, প্রধানমন্ত্রী ক্রিস্টারসনের উপস্থিতিতে, গৌরবোজ্জ্বল বাঙালি সংস্কৃতির এক অনবদ্য নমুনা প্রদর্শিত হয়েছে।
@SwedishPM
The reckless days of setting trains, state buses, and police vehicles ablaze are finished. From this moment, if you burn a train, the govt will recover every rupee by selling your property.
In Bengal, vandalism or arson of any public property will now trigger a full survey of the involved persons’ properties. The cost will be recovered even by auctioning kitchen utensils if required.
This new rule has begun in Asansol, where action has already been taken against 26 individuals.
500+ days in jail.
Bail denied. Again.
Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu, a spiritual leader and an ISKCON monk, continues to languish behind bars in Bangladesh while the world watches.
When even his lawyers are intimidated, threatened and silenced in court corridors, what justice are we even talking about?
Is advocating for the rights of the Minority Hindu community a crime? When a saffron-clad soul is treated like a criminal for raising his voice, the world CANNOT remain silent.
I appeal to the Government of Bangladesh to give medical aid and, more importantly, access to fair justice to Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu immediately. May he be granted bail at the earliest.
And to all the pseudo-secularists and Selective Human rights Activists around the World who flood timelines overnight, wave watermelons and trend hashtags on cue, your silence can be still heard. Apparently, your humanity has a filter.
@bdhc_delhi@UNHumanRights@UN_HRC@UN
#FreeChinmoyKrishnaDas
Hailey Goswami: "Many years ago veteran communist leader Subhas Chakraborty visited the temple of Maa Tara at Tarapeeth to offer his prayers . The communist party issued a show cause letter ordering him to explain his 'misconduct!' When the media asked him how he visited a religious place despite being a communist, he retorted: 'I am first a Hindu Brahmana and then a communist.' That proclamation of Hinduness raised many eyebrows and became a hot topic of discussion, ridicule and sarcasm."
"Today as the new CM of Bengal reverentially carried puja offerings on his head to the shrine of Kalighat, I could not help but think: We Bengalis have come a long way from those cursed times. No Bengali will be shamed for being a Hindu anymore in his own land. That is why I say this is the second independence for Bengal."
Even after his party's defeat in 2024, Naveen Patnaik attended opposition CM oath taking ceremony & congratulated winning side with grace & dignity!
Such gestures are very rare in present day politics especially for crybaby Mamata Banerjee🤡
True Gentleman & Gem of a leader❤️
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari did not even wait 24 hours. In a massive midnight administrative surgical strike, over 40 top IPS officers and District Magistrates loyal to the previous regime have been abruptly transferred.
This is the brutal reality of the Indian bureaucratic system. The police and administration are rarely loyal to the Constitution and they become private armies for the ruling party. The moment the government changes, the entire police brass has to be purged to secure the state.
A new political character cannot be built with the same compromised officers. The cleanup has officially started.
@SuvenduWB@BJP4Bengal@WBPolice@IASassociation@AmitShah
Only non-NDA leader who congratulated Suvendu Adhikari 😳
Naveen Patnaik congratulates Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari.
"I wish under Suvendu's leadership the state reaches new heights of development" - NAVEEN
It’s on! Suvendu Adhikari will be the Bengal CM. Great choice.
He has already demonstrated his leadership and risk taking capacity by taking on Mamata directly and defeating her in her own bastion, twice.
He has been in TMC. He knows how the politically supported crime networks operate, who protects whom, where the money flows, how intimidation works, and how deep the criminal-political nexus runs. Few people would understand the anatomy of Bengal’s entrenched power structure better than someone who has seen it from the inside.
He is aggressive, confrontational, and authority-driven, closer to Yogi Adityanath and Himanta Biswa Sarma. Bengal’s situation may now require exactly that kind of leadership.
I'm sure the wrath of God awaits Bengal's crime and terror networks through the rise of Suvendu Adhikari.
Jai Bangla.
Vijay’s real Soros face getting exposed after he ties up with Congress…
Decades long secret contract between DMK & ADMK becoming public now and getting exposed as they now openly back each other to keep anyone else from assuming power…
Smaller parties showing they are up for grabs for a few crumbs….
Dravida lite BJP’s moral and political irrelevance is glaring like never before…
The post election events have exposed every party in Tamil Nadu…
Only one man stands tall on a
high moral pedestal with his head held high…👇
Suvendu Adhikari's personal assistant, Chandranath Rath, shot dead on a public road in North 24 Parganas.
The sheer audacity of this, even after knowing the BJP has won and Suvendu is set to occupy one of the highest posts in the state!
Bengal needs a ruthless crackdown on criminal and terror elements. That must be the state's top priority for the next five years. Don't spare anyone! Make an example out of every politically protected criminal.
Sit down Rajdeep. You supported the farmer blockade that went on for over a year & caused traffic havoc. Also the shaheen bagh protests that screwed Delhi traffic for 4-5 months? As I recollect you were benched for falsely claiming some tractor terrorist was shot yes?
Police was undercover for 40 days and have stood by each and every statement of the victims who were abused for about 4 years. To call it SM outrage & propaganda requires a special breed of inhumanity.
THIS ISN'T MERELY "HARASSMENT". THE TESTIMONIES SUGGEST THIS WAS "ORGANISED HINDUMESIA".
LET'S TAKE OFF THE BLINKERS AND ACCEPT THE PROBLEM.
COMPANY SOURCES: Tata Sons has directed its COO, Aarti Subramaniam, to constitute a committee to investigate the matter thoroughly. Additionally, all Tata Group companies have been instructed to review their internal environments to identify whether any such behaviour or incidents of employee harassment exist, as the Group maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards any breach of ethics.
N. Chandrasekaran has further directed the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Board to keep Tata Sons regularly updated on all developments.
The issue has been deemed serious and alarming, and is being addressed with the highest level of priority.
It is also expected that the Chairman of Tata Sons may convene a TCS Board meeting on Thursday to review the progress and findings of the committee.
#LoveJihaad does not exist
In Ahmednagar, MH, Heena Sheikh takes tuition for girls. Most of her students are Hindu. She tells her Hindu students to stop wearing teeka and bangles.
She lets Avej Sheikh sit in her class even though he is not a student. Tells Hindu girls to be friends with Avej. Encourages them to share pictures with Avej.
Avej tells atleast 8 girls he loves them, tries to establish sexual relations. His sister, Alisha Shaikh helps him convince all these girls that he loves them. If not Alisha threatens the girls to publish their morphed pictures. The original pictures are just selfies Heena Shaikh had convinced girls to take in her class.
Other adults from community get involved and take girls to Masjid. Maulvi knows what's going on. Every Muslim in village knows. They are all together, raising money, funding, to target 8 underage girls.
Eventually this exploitation of Hindu girls, call it grooming or #LoveJihad is exposed. Avej Nisar Sheikh, Kaif Sheikh, Sohail Sheikh, Heena Sheikh, Alisha Sheikh, Salim Pathan, Altaf Sheikh and Shakir Sayyed booked.
Now think about it, teachers, Muslim boys, their sisters, father, brothers, mother, maulvi & other members of Muslim society all come together to target your underage Hindu girls.
Just think about it.
Now repeat after me, #LoveJihad doesn't exist. They are not after your children. It's just love. Don't be a hater. Love Jihad doesn't exist. TCS doesn't exist.
Industrialist Aditya Birla was assaulted and humiliated in Kolkata during the early 1970s. Birla was dragged from his car between GPO & RBI, opposite the Writers' Building, thrashed, stripped to his undergarments and forced to walk to his office at 15 India Exchange Place, amid a jeering crowd. Birla went to his office, took the next flight & never returned to Calcutta. He took his entire business out of West Bengal. This was the result of Red Terror that targeted business houses. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee should know the reasons why there are no industries in WB. Didn't she force TATAs out of Singur?