manish prasad

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[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Waving the Tricolour at Jantar Mantar in a peaceful protest is not a crime. Jailing youth for it is an act of cowardice.

Students. Youth. Journalists. The INDIA bloc. Different banners, one cause. All protests are one: citizens demanding their constitutional rights.

Jantar Mantar belongs to the people of India. We will reclaim it.

[Gems of BJP @Gems_of_BJP]

Open comments and keep scrolling until your fingers get tired and I challenge you to find just ‘one comment’ that’s appreciative of Modi. Each and everyone is abusing him.

Thousands of crores spent in showing a joker as Mahamanav laid to waste.

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Most Indians don't know this, but the Dreze family are literally academic royalty in Belgium.

Jean's brother the late Xavier Dreze was a highly regarded Marketing professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. He was one of the very very few who could do both modeling and consumer behavior research. He died very young at age 48. His obituary says he was a true polymath with multiple academic and sporting talents.

Jean's father the late Jacques Dreze was an economist at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He was a highly regarded economist and the first president of the European Economic Association. He has collaborated with nobel laureates Robert Aumann and Franco Modigliani and his publication record is comparable with the best in the field.

Jean Dreze could have had a very cushy life with his family legacy, white skin and European passport. Even in India, he could have been a social butterfly flitting in and out of five star hotels and running think tanks funded hy veated interests. Instead, he took Indian citizenship, learnt Hindi and roughs it out in rural Jharkhand. He designed many schemes and his footprint is all over Indian economic policy.

You may like him or hate him. But Jean Dreze is more Indian than anyone who was born Indian, including you and me. He chose to be Indian. And he has dedicated his life to India.

Think of this the next time some illiterate journalist asks "Who is Jean Dreze?"

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Some folks saying if WHITE CHOCOLATE had not moved to another party he could have been a hero of this protest.

4 ghante mein behosh ho jaata bhai wo dhoop mein aur baarish ki 8 boondon mein sprout ho jaata moong ki tarah.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

@DChaurasia2312 aap godi-suwar ho, sir. 😭

[Dr. Ruchika Sharma @tishasaroyan]

@RShivshankar Indian fascists looking towards white fascism for constant approval since 20th century.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Yesterday, the nation's young came out in Delhi to peacefully protest. They came with love in their hearts, not hatred or anger. They were beaten, both by cops and BJP goons.

This is not the India we want.

Tomorrow, we will march to the Supreme Court as Indians, united beyond party, gender, caste, community and state.

Youth, all opposition parties, civil society groups, all those who believe in democracy and stand by the Constitution of India, will walk with us.

We will submit a memorandum to the Chief Justice on behalf of the nation, demanding an end to vote chori, halting of SIR and the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar.

Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Ajit Doval and Mohan Bhagwat cannot silence India's voice. These cowards cannot intimidate us. They will have to step aside.

We will march together, with love, brotherhood and patriotism.

Daro mat.

Tomorrow, all of India will march to the Supreme Court.

कल दिल्ली में देश का युवा शांतिपूर्ण विरोध के लिए सड़कों पर उतरा। उनके दिलों में नफ़रत या गुस्सा नहीं, मोहब्बत थी। लेकिन उन्हें पुलिस और BJP के गुंडों, दोनों ने पीटा।

ऐसा भारत हम नहीं चाहते।

कल, सोमवार 12 अक्टूबर को, हम भारतीय होने के नाते सुप्रीम कोर्ट तक मार्च करेंगे। पार्टी, महिला-पुरुष, जाति, समुदाय और राज्य की हर दीवार से ऊपर उठकर, हम सब एक साथ चलेंगे।

देश का युवा, तमाम विपक्षी दल, सिविल सोसाइटी और लोकतंत्र में विश्वास रखने वाले, भारत के संविधान के साथ खड़े सभी लोग हमारे साथ चलेंगे।

हम देश की ओर से मुख्य न्यायाधीश को एक ज्ञापन सौंपेंगे। हमारी माँग है - वोट चोरी बंद हो, SIR पर रोक लगे और ज्ञानेश कुमार इस्तीफ़ा दें।

नरेंद्र मोदी, अमित शाह, अजित डोभाल और मोहन भागवत भारत की आवाज़ को दबा नहीं सकते। ये कायर हमें डरा नहीं सकते। इन्हें पीछे हटना ही होगा।
हम सब साथ चलेंगे - मोहब्बत, भाईचारे और देशभक्ति के साथ।

डरो मत।

कल पूरा भारत सुप्रीम कोर्ट तक मार्च करेगा।

#ChaloDilli

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

After Modi-Shah turned Delhi into a fortress and unleashed what can only be described as a war against their own citizens, one thing has become abundantly clear: Gyanesh Kumar is at the very heart of this government’s survival.

The unprecedented use of force, intimidation and threats against citizens simply exercising their democratic rights has exposed the government completely.

But we the young generation will continue to demand accountability. We shall neither be intimidated nor silenced.

We are not backing down. We are returning with full strength!

#GyanuItsDoneBro

@Cockroachisback

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Modi, as PM, is an embarrassment to India.

Never has this country seen a bigger coward and bully.

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

I was not arrested or detained, I was KIDNAPPED.

Thank you for your support, here's the full story 👇

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

@RShivshankar Fake News, I have not given any such undertaking.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I’ve been fighting Narendra Modi and the RSS for over a decade now. I understand them like you would understand your opponent - inside out, like the back of my hand.

The core characteristic of these people is cowardice.

Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Mohan Bhagwat, Gyanesh Kumar and Ajit Doval, the villains of this story, are slowly finding the space closing around them. We are closing that space.

Mr. Modi, do whatever you want. Call out all the police: 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, whatever you want.

Arrest all the leaders. Arrest all the young people. Arrest us all.

We are surrounding you, and we are not going to back down. Mark my words: we already have the information we need.

We are going to defend our Constitution. We are going to protect the voice of the Indian people. And we are going to ensure that what was done to India over the last 10-15 years will never, ever be done again.

Youth of India, I am proud of you. Keep protesting. We are standing with you.

We are going to ensure that this regime and the people who have attacked our Constitution are defeated.

मैं नरेंद्र मोदी, RSS और इनसे जुड़े लोगों के ख़िलाफ़ एक दशक से भी ज़्यादा समय से लड़ रहा हूँ। मैं अपने विरोधियों को उतनी अच्छी तरह समझता हूँ, जितना कोई भी अपने प्रतिद्वंद्वी को समझता है। मैं इन्हें अंदर तक जानता हूँ, इनकी हर चाल से वाक़िफ़ हूँ।

इन लोगों की सबसे बड़ी पहचान है - कायरता।

नरेंद्र मोदी, अमित शाह, मोहन भागवत, ज्ञानेश कुमार, अजीत डोभाल - इस कहानी के खलनायक - अब धीरे-धीरे घिरते जा रहे हैं। इनके चारों तरफ़ से दायरा सिमट रहा है।

जो करना है, कर लीजिए। जितनी पुलिस बुलानी है, बुला लीजिए - 10 हज़ार, 20 हज़ार, 50 हज़ार, जितनी चाहें बुला लीजिए।

सारे नेताओं को गिरफ़्तार कर लीजिए। सारे युवाओं को गिरफ़्तार कर लीजिए। हम सबको गिरफ़्तार कर लीजिए।

घबराइये मत - हम आपको चारों तरफ़ से घेर रहे हैं, और हम पीछे हटने वाले नहीं हैं।
मेरी बात याद रखिए - हमें जो जानकारी चाहिए, वह हमारे पास पहले से है।

हम अपने संविधान की रक्षा करेंगे। हम हिंदुस्तान की जनता की आवाज़ की हिफ़ाज़त करेंगे। और हम यह सुनिश्चित करेंगे कि पिछले 10-15 सालों में हिंदुस्तान के साथ जो हुआ है, वह दोबारा कभी, किसी भी सूरत में न हो।

हिंदुस्तान के युवाओं, मुझे आप पर गर्व है। अपना विरोध जारी रखिए। हम आपके साथ खड़े हैं।

हम यह सुनिश्चित करेंगे कि इस सरकार और हमारे संविधान पर हमला करने वालों को शिकस्त मिले।

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

Would Xerxes Have Understood Sanskrit?

A few months ago, I was in Eastern Turkey, and on one of our last days we made our way to Van.

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

Hello @rameshsrivats, the latest news from India today is that a FIR has been filed against an elderly Muslim man for quietly, peacefully praying in an empty lot, and at the same time, a goon who boasted about cracking open a man's skull, who upholds Godse, who openly talks about beating up people, whose every word is laced with communal and casteist hate, is invited to PM's swearing in ceremony. This India has become thus because of people like you. Because people like you think that Modi who oversaw the 2002 riots of Gujarat, many fake encounters, rampant media censorship in Gujarat and cronyism with Adani and Ambani would bring about a different India. Modi of 2002, Modi of 2014 and Modi of 2026 are all the same.

[MM @mmvp2005]

Writing this without an iota of hate of ill-will toward @Ram_Guha , @HartoshSinghBal , Harish Khare, @tavleen_singh @waglenikhil and many other Gandhi family baiters who have repeatedly targeted Rahul Gandhi and his politics of opposition to the Modi led BJP. I now understand that most of you are still fighting the @INCIndia of 1975 and 1984 among others just as the Sangh is fighting the Congress of Gandhi and Nehru. Much of legacy media and social media are dominated by these two groups. But here's a third group which became politicised in 1992 with the rise of Hindutva- the pro- Rahul Gandhi voice on social media is roughly this group of Gen X ers and a motley mix of a new millennials and GenX.

We are disturbed by the repeated attacks on Rahul Gandhi not because we are members of the Congress party or are blind followers of any cult- we are disturbed because the anti-Congressism of the earlier groups is blinding most toward the clear and present danger that stares before us - the existential threat to our Republic. Rahul Gandhi is among the very few of our politicians who has been able to consistently articulate that danger by his fearless attacks on the Sangh and its agenda of destroying the secular fabric of this country. He might never become Prime Minister of this country - but history will be kinder towards him than many of you would like to believe.

[manish prasad @manish479]

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