Lawyers read Preamble of Indian Constitution in the Delhi High Court.
In frame: Senior Advocates Rajshekhar Rao, Warisha Farasat, Anu Malhotra, Advocates Bharat Chugh, Shahrukh Alam and various others.
A heartfelt message by a parent, K Sharad Haksar to Neha Bora.
“When I got married, I knew I wanted only one child. And in my heart, I hoped it would be a girl.
I was blessed with a daughter.
The first time I held her, I made her a silent promise. You will never have to share my time. You will never have to wait for my attention. Whatever I have, you will get all of it.
I had seen families with four or five children. Parents running from morning to night, and still some child was always left waiting. I also felt our country has too many people, and nature is paying for it. One child felt right. It felt responsible.
For years, I never questioned it.
Then this year, I saw Neha Bora.
She is 29, a PhD student at JNU, a theatre artist from Khatima, a small town in the hills of Uttarakhand. When the NEET paper leak happened, she sat down at Jantar Mantar for students she did not even know. Children who had studied for years. Parents who had spent their savings on coaching and still lost.
She did not eat for 23 days.
She was 66 kilos when she started. She lost more than 7. Near the end, doctors were taking her blood three or four times a day.
The night I read that, I could not sleep. I kept seeing my own daughter in her place. On a hot Delhi road. Thin. Tired. A doctor holding her wrist again. And I knew I would not be able to stand there and watch. I would have begged her to stop.
But Neha did not stop until the work was done. And when it was over, she said her body had forgotten how to eat. It had to learn again, like a baby. Even then, still weak, she went to Bihar to meet more than 600 students who had been arrested. She did not go home to rest. She went to the ones who had stood by her.
I am a dowser. Every day I work with energy. I have learned that anger is heavy. It burns out fast. Nobody can live on anger for 23 days without food. Only love can carry you that far.
Then I read that her father was in the Army, and the family kept moving from one posting to the next.
My wife's father was also in the Army. I never call him my father-in-law. To me, he is simply Papa. My wife studied in 13 schools. Thirteen first days. Thirteen times walking into a class where nobody knew her name. Thirteen goodbyes to friends she never saw again. Army children learn to smile, pack their bags and start again. Nobody asks them how much it hurts. I see that strength in my wife every day. I saw it in Neha too.
In Ranchi, a man threw ink on her face and called her anti-national. She said she had already faced pellets and lathis in Delhi. Ink would not scare her.
Ink washes off. In energy work, we say that what people throw at you only stays if you take it in. She seems to know this without ever holding a pendulum.
Her family did not agree with her. There were fights at home. But during the hunger strike, her mother came to Jantar Mantar.
I don't know what they said to each other. I don't need to. I am a parent. I know what a mother feels when she sees her child weak and thin on a road, and still standing. Every argument is forgotten in that moment. All that is left is: this is my child.
Neha said she has not spoken to her father yet.
I don't know him. But I am a father too, and I know how hard it is for men like us to say some things out loud. So if he cannot say it yet, let me say it for him, from Chennai.
Beta, we are proud of you. Now go and eat something properly.
Somewhere in all this, a thought came to me that I never expected. I wish I had one more daughter. One like Neha. This takes nothing away from my own daughter. She is my world. She always will be. But Neha made me ask myself a hard question. We spend our whole lives keeping our children safe and helping them get ahead. Do we ever teach them to look back at who is being left behind? And if one day they stand up for someone else, will we stand next to them as Neha's mother did? Or will we ask them to come home and stay quiet. Our job is to protect that light, even when it scares us.
Congress came for the protest, and a sea of people joined. The march was historic and successful. Rahul Gandhi thanked everyone.
BUT IT DIDN'T END THERE.
Late at night, members of the Congress Seva Dal returned to the same route and cleaned the roads leading to the Supreme Court.
As they said:
"Late at night, we all fellow members of the Congress Seva Dal once again arrived on the roads leading towards the Supreme Court, because the responsibility to keep democracy alive and to keep it beautiful is a shared responsibility of all of us ❤️🇮🇳"
This is what democracy looks like. Not just raising your voice, but taking responsibility for it.
वीडियो बनाता हुआ पत्रकार चिल्ला-चिल्ला कर पुलिसवालों से कह रहा है -‘लड़की है सर, लड़की है सर’
अनसुना करते हुए 8-9 पुलिसवाले निर्दयता से उस Protestor पर टूट पड़े
मोदी-शाह के राज में ‘रक्षक ही भक्षक’ बन गया है !!!
An ASI from Delhi Police told me yesterday that there were direct orders from DCP New Delhi to assault protesters while detaining them.
He said that @DCPNewDelhi had specifically directed beating up of protestors in order to “instill fear” so that they don’t come back.
Can you explain this illegal order @DCPNewDelhi? Is this your own idea or a direction from Amit Shah?
Massive crowd gathered on just 1 call of Rahul Gandhi. Over 2.5 lakh people walked
Neither police could detain them
Nor RW goons were seen lurking around,
That’s how you organise protest. That’s how you stand with the protestors, shoulder to shoulder.
The party was born out of protests,
Nobody should Lecture Congress or opposition on how to protest.
दिल्लीतील ज्ञानेश कुमार आंदोलनातील ट्विस्ट:
ज्या पोलिसांना रस्त्यावर गुंडागर्दी करताना पाहिले,
महिला मुलींवर हात टाकताना दिसले,
ते भाजपचे (अमित शहा) नकली पोलिस होते,
भाडोत्री गुंडांना खाकी गणवेश देऊन आंदोलकांना रोखण्यासाठी उतरवले होते
दिल्लीत आंदोलनाच्या आसपास खाकी पोलिस वर्दी ने गच्च भरलेल्या गाड्या होत्या
कोणासाठी?
नेमप्लेट शिवाय जे पोलिस दिसत होते ते अशी वर्दी घातलेले गुंड होते
हाच राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षेचा गुजरात पैटर्न आहे!
उघडा डोळे आणि बघा नीट!
What a country we have become!
A big shout-out to all the young lawyers who ensure the release of all detainees every evening!
This fight goes on because we do not fight it alone. Journalists reporting the truth despite unlawful repression, lawyers holding the police to the law, lakhs and lakhs of first-time protesters fighting tooth and nail, giving actual blood to keep democracy alive.
His name is Harsh an independent journalist.
Delhi Police detained him and even after 48 hr no one knows where he is.
Pls share this widely he was helping protesters who were being beaten up and raising his voice against this dictatorship govt.
@harshdelhise
🚨 WARNING NOW' ✊
Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are taking away two of your constitutional rights.
✊Article 19-
Freedom of speech and expression and the right to peaceful assembly.
✊Article 326-
The right to vote in elections based on adult suffrage.
📍We will fight for our rights, we will not be afraid......Gyanu....Game Over ‼️
"Tired of going to the Supreme Court again and again, I don't feel there is any use of going to the Supreme Court, I have lost trust,"- Sr Adv Kapil Sibal.
"We go to the Court, but I don't know if we will get any relief. The people of the country feel that this Government should go. If anybody can save the Constitution in these times, it is the Supreme Court of India. But I am tired of keeping on going to the Supreme Court. I am speaking for myself. I don't think there is any use of going there. I don't have much trust in the Supreme Court of India. Whatever has to happen, will happen."
"We told the Supreme Court many times that the voters' names are being wrongly deleted and wrongly included, we argued for months. The evidence is before the public. And the appellate tribunals now say 93% of the voters were wrongly removed. So the Supreme Court must have known. But no relief was given. So I am speaking for myslef, I don't have [faith]" - @KapilSibal says.