M C Rajan

JNU - 1987-89

BUREAU CHIEF

ETV BHARAT

CHENNAI

[Sagarika Ghose @sagarikaghose]

Na khaoonga, na khane doonga. After chanda chors at Ram Temple, @BJP4India’s Madhya Pradesh CM’s land controversy, now another @BJP4India VIP in the @narendramodi government entangled in a web of controversy. Modi minister Bhagirath Choudhary, received a ₹99.6 lakh subsidy (roughly ₹1 crore) for a commercial cucumber farming project in Rajasthan from HIS OWN MINISTRY. The incompetent & allegation-ridden @narendramodi government is now tottering, it has sprung a thousand leaks. It stays alive only because of the captive EC & captured media.

[Audrey Truschke @AudreyTruschke]

Stealing from donations to a Hindu temple... that too, has a history. From my India book:

[M C Rajan @mcrajan]

https://t.co/6Gmtj4QEbK
@arunraajkg @TVKPartyHQ

[S lrfan Habib एस इरफान हबीब عرفان حبئب @irfhabib]

If Jawaharlal Nehru's first five years as prime minister are not counted then our first home minister Sardar Patel was never our first home minister at all. He passed away in 1950, two years before the first general elections. Sounds so silly.

[Arappor Iyakkam @Arappor]

மாதா மாதம் ரூ 14 லட்சம் MDM குட்காவில் இருந்து லஞ்சம் வாங்கியதாக IT ரெய்டில் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டு பிறகு CBI இல் இந்த லஞ்ச ஊழலுக்காக குற்றப்பத்திரிக்கை தாக்கல் செய்யப்பட்ட குட்கா விஜயபாஸ்கர் எந்த கட்சியில் இணையப் போகிறார் ? MDM குட்கா மாதவ ராவ் அவர் இடத்தில் பிடிப்பட்ட ஆதாரங்கள் குறித்த விளக்கங்களை வருமான வரித்துறையில் வாக்குமூலமாக தெரிவித்ததை இங்கே காணலாம் ! சமூகத்தையே சீரழிக்கும் குட்காவை சட்டவிரோதமாக விற்பதற்கு லஞ்சம் வாங்கிய கொடூர முன்னாள் அமைச்சர் சேரும் கட்சி மேலும் சமூகத்தை சீரழிக்கும் !

[Priyank Kharge / ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕ್ ಖರ್ಗೆ @PriyankKharge]

Dear Shri Mohan Bhagwat ji,

My letter will reach you shortly. However, I thought it was important to draw your attention to this matter early.
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Firstly, congratulations to the RSS on completing 100 years.

An organisation that claims over 60,000 shakhas and crores of swayamsevaks must also uphold transparency and constitutional accountability.

As per RSS’ highest and most important decision making body Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha’s 2025–26 Karnataka report, the RSS has 4,127 daily shakhas, 1,389 weekly milans, 60 monthly mandalis, 2,194 Samajotsavas with 19.61 lakh participants and held 562 route marches with 2.21 lakh uniformed participants in the state.

With such scale and influence, the RSS must clarify its legal status, registration, office bearers, funding, expenditure, taxation and permissions for public activities.

If citizens, labour, NGOs, trusts, temples and companies are expected to register, disclose and comply with the law, why should the RSS remain exempt?

In its centenary year, the RSS must responsibly abide by the Constitution and register, disclose, pay applicable taxes and function transparently within the Constitution.

As suggested in my letter, I am looking forward to hearing from @RSSorg soon.

@DrMohanBhagwat @RSSorg

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Monday thought: In this summer of ironies and surprises, who would have imagined a Pakistani PM announcing a US-Iran peace deal the world had been waiting for?
In a world turned upside down, yesterday’s cross-border terror sponsor can suddenly project itself as today’s peacemaker. And we, the aspiring ‘Vishwaguru’, watch from the sidelines, busily breaking parties and manufacturing a LS majority. 🙏

[Jayaram Venkatesan @JayaramArappor]

CMDA must cancel the permission given to 2000 Crore real estate project of Brigade in Ramsar Land!

Its extremely important for the Government to protect the Pallikaranai Ramsar Marsh Forest. We have made a submission at the international level that we wont alter the ecology of the Ramsar land from the designated date which is 08th April 2022. Yet Brigade applied for EC and CMDA Planning permission starting from July 2022 and got the permission in January 2025 in violation of international convention and Wetland Conservation rules 2017 (under Environment Act of India). DMK Government carried out major fraud for this approval which has been well documented by Arappor.

Will the new Government cancel the permission? Arappor has submitted representation to CM. Will action be taken against Sekar Babu and other officials for the fraud and Corruption? Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu CMDA Chennai

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

The Supreme Court's judgment on SIR is the ADM Jabalpur of our times. The signal is unmissable: once the regime puts its foot down on a ‘politically sensitive’ matter, shutters are down for constitutional remedies in the courts. At a moment when the republic needed its guardian the most, the apex judiciary chose to abdicate its constitutional responsibility.

As Bertolt Brecht foresaw—instead of the people electing their rulers, now the rulers are free to elect their people. My complete analysis in @IndianExpress: https://t.co/JTDhzeOP2b

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

An astounding Badminton tournament between Indian Judges & Lawyers is being sponsored in London today by the Law Ministry! Other sponsors are various corporates. Inaugurated by the CJI & Law Minister!~150 judges & lawyers are participating!
What happened to PM’s call for austerity?
What of the code of conduct for Judges?
What of the Independence of the judiciary?
Abominable!

[Jayaram Venkatesan @JayaramArappor]

Today in many news channels this is the breaking news. Why many are reporting at the same time? its a powerful lobby. There will be heavy pressure on the Minister TK Prabhu to back out of actions against illegal mines. He must stand his ground. If the supply reduces because of shutting down illegal mines, ban the rough stones and others going to kerala and use the legally mined resources for TN to manage the supply. Recover more than 20000 crores penalty due from illegal miners!

[Sasikanth Senthil @s_kanth]

There is a memory I carry with me from my years as a civil servant. It has never left me....
Back then, I had just been transferred as Collector to Mangalore, a city then shadowed by communal violence and a menacing sand mafia. Before I left, word came that the Chief Minister wished to see me personally. It was unusual. Collectors don't typically get called in. I walked into his chamber with a knot in my stomach.
He looked at me, that familiar, unreadable face. Steady. Unhurried.
"Banri…" he said. (Come in.)
"Nimage ondhe kelasa… alli ennum communal aaga baradhu."
(You have only one job there. No communal incident should happen.)
That was it. No preamble. No politics. No performance. Just a Chief Minister, alone with a young IAS officer, telling him exactly what mattered. In that single sentence lived an entire philosophy of governance. one rooted not in optics, but in the protection of ordinary people from extraordinary hatred.

Fifteen days later, Mangalore erupted. Two communal murders, two communities, one city on edge. He called me again. Just as directly.
"DC... Do what is required. Take anyone into custody, even our party people. Don't bother. But stop this within a day."
To a young collector, those words were everything. They were permission. They were protection. They were political will at its most honest.
I have known the contrast too. Under a different dispensation, in a similar crisis, the instruction from the top was the opposite. Do nothing strongly. Let things fester. …That silence said everything about who governs for whom.
Siddaramaiah Ji was never that kind of leader.

He carried government finances in his fingertips and social justice in his spine. He refused to tour places that reeked of feudalism. He spoke plainly, governed sharply, and stood on the side of the last person in the room.
If there was one political figure I have genuinely admired, from the stage and up close, it has been him. His legacy is not in the schemes he launched or the budgets he read. It is in the kind of Chief Minister he chose to be when no one was watching. . On that quiet phone call. In the way he asked a nervous young officer to go out and keep the peace.
And now, as he steps back with the same quiet dignity with which he always led, I find myself moved. He has handled this transition with the grace of someone who always knew that principles outlast positions.
Siddaramaiah Ji....long life, good health, and please keep guiding us. The Congress, and this country, still needs the kind of moral clarity only you carry so naturally.

[Jayaram Venkatesan @JayaramArappor]

We are seeing a lot of debate and discussion about the underhand discussions between AIADMK and DMK with background support of BJP. However, this has been amply clear for last several years for those following up DVAC cases of AIADMK corruption. We saw how DMK worked overboard to save several admk corruption cases such as adani coal import scam, kp park scam. Velumani corruption, Ration dhal, palmoil scam and many others. Also DMK not filing FIR in adani coal scam and working with BJP govt to do the 992 crore Christy ration transport scam showed how all of them had a clear underhand dealing when it cme to Corruption. DVAC officials faced pressure not to register or even recomment FIR in many scams. After Thiruma spoke in a interview yesterday, what we have been saying for a few years has come out in the open clearly!

[Priyank Kharge / ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕ್ ಖರ್ಗೆ @PriyankKharge]

When Modiji was still a self-proclaimed “Fakir” and an RSS pracharak, he reportedly travelled to more than 14 countries, including the US, Germany, UK, Guyana, Canada, Malaysia and France.

Who paid for those trips?

Was it funded by the RSS, the so-called unregistered “NGO”?

Mr. Hosabale has also recently undertaken engagements across the UK, US and Germany. Who funded those visits? Who paid for the travel, stay, logistics and outreach?

As mere RSS pracharaks, how do they routinely afford domestic and foreign travel?

Before BJP MPs and their IT-cell coolies demand a breakdown of Mr. @RahulGandhi’s travel expenses, they should first answer basic questions about the RSS , the world’s largest unregistered organisation with massive financial, political and administrative influence.

How does the @RSSorg fund lavish 5-star office complexes?

How are international trips of pracharaks financed?

Who pays for its global outreach and foreign lobbying?

What are its sources of income?

Where is the audited public disclosure?

When will RSS start paying Income Tax
or let the the public know about their “Donations”?

Let the @BJP4India first clarify the RSS’s funding model. Let them publish a full audit of the network of 2,500+ affiliated organisations through which crores are allegedly routed.

Only after that should they lecture anyone about private travel expenses.

[Sanjeev Gupta @sanjg2k1]

I have dealt with this subject in the Ministry of Home Affairs and can therefore write with some authority.

The claim of @actorvijay and @TVKVijayHQ is squarely covered by points 2, 3 and 4 of the Sarkaria Commission recommendations, as well as a catena of Supreme Court judgments being cited by @Mukul_Rohatgi, @DrAMSinghvi, @KapilSibal and others.

As a leader of the single largest party, Vijay did no wrong by truthfully putting on table the support the support so far from others. Article 164 doesn't propound that if one claims support of others, the total numbers claimed prima facie must cross majority mark at this stage.

Moreover, the majority required in this case need not necessarily be 118. Under parliamentary practice, it is the support of more than 50% of those present and voting that matters. Abstentions are permissible, and several Governments in the Centre & in the States, have survived confidence motions precisely in this manner. The determination of majority has to be done on the floor of the House and surely not in the drawing room of Raj Bhavan.

If Vijay fails to prove his majority, he must resign. But in the absence of any rival claimant to form the Government, @lokbhavan_tn has little option but to invite him to be sworn in and grant him a reasonable period of a few days to prove his majority on the floor of the Assembly.

How i wish that objective criteria for inviting a person to be sworn in as Chief Minister had been expressly incorporated into the Constitution itself. Please read Article 164. As matters stand today, the process still rests largely on the Governor’s subjective satisfaction. The Sarkaria Commission attempted to evolve objective conventions, and based on its recommendations, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued guidelines in 2002.

The Punchhi Commission later recommended that these guidelines be formally incorporated into the Constitution. The Ministry of Home Affairs supported the proposal, but the Standing Committee of the Inter-State Council did not accept it. Significantly, eleven States - including Tamil Nadu under both @AIADMKOfficial and @arivalayam - had pressed for these four orders of preference to be constitutionally codified.

Surely, @rajendraarlekar hasn't covered himself with glory by indulging in this wilful procrastination and denying the only claimant a chance in keeping with The case law and past conventions.

[Astha Savyasachi @SavyasachiAstha]

🚨 The BJP calls Soros an “enemy of India.”

But Soros Fund Management quietly parked ~$200 million with a firm co-founded by Union Minister Hardeep Puri’s daughter.

No speeches. No hashtags. No outrage.

My investigation for @newslaundry -

https://t.co/ECD1A7U230

[তন্ময় l T͞anmoy l @tanmoyofc]

BOOM 💥

DEEP STATE EXPOSED

JANASANGH (Ancestor of BJP) WAS CIA'S TROJAN HORSE IN INDIA❓

The Caravan 'Baatcheet' Ep 46 with Dhirendra K. Jha Detonated The Biggest Political Bomb of 2026 🔥

Jana Sangh - Direct Ancestor of Today’s BJP — was Cultivated, Funded and Image-laundered by American and Israeli Intelligence from the 1950s onwards to destroy Nehru's Socialist, Non-aligned India.

𝐂𝐈𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞
1967 New York Times Exposé + India Govt probe revealed the CIA Funnelled large sums of money directly to Jana Sangh (and Swatantra Party) before the elections to crush Congress.
A CIA defector later admitted the agency also bankrolled the violent 1966 anti-cow-slaughter agitation led by RSS/Jana Sangh.

𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬
Mid-1960s Israeli Diplomatic Records show they actively built "Political Relations" with Jana Sangh — explicitly suggesting contact “Perhaps Through The Israeli Intelligence”.

Image Laundering by CIA Asset
Right after Gandhi’s assassination, CIA-linked American researcher J.A. Curran (confirmed by a CIA defector as the agency’s India chief) wrote a book thanking RSS Chief Golwalkar, whitewashing the Organisation’s role in the Gandhi Assassination.

America saw Jana Sangh as the Perfect anti-Nehru Weapon during the Cold War.

They Preached “India First” while taking Foreign Spy Agency Money to Hijack Indian Democracy.

The "Deep State Theory" isn’t a Theory Anymore.
It’s Documented History.

Full YouTube Video Link: https://t.co/JAQYDqft9p

#Delimitation #DelimitationDebate #SayNoToNDA

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

An article on Dr Ambedkar in 1936, in an American magazine describes him as the Untouchable Lincoln. Zoom to read

[Andreas Fagerbakke @afagerbakke]

The Lord's prayer in Aramaic, the language of Jesus.

So beautiful. 🥹🙏

[Father V @father_rmv]

Blessed Rani Maria Vattalil, born Mariam Vattalil on January 29, 1954, in the village of Pulluvazhy near Perumbavoor in Kerala, India, grew up in a simple peasant family as the second of seven children. Her parents, Paily and Eliswa, raised her and her siblings in a devout Syro-Malabar Catholic faith, emphasizing prayer, charity, and regular participation in Mass and devotions. From a young age she showed a deep love for God and concern for others, earning the affectionate nickname Marykunju, or Little Mary.

After completing her secondary education, she felt called to religious life and joined the Franciscan Clarist Congregation. She began her formation in 1972 with aspirancy and postulancy, followed by novitiate, and made her first profession of vows on May 1, 1974, taking the name Rani Maria—Rani meaning queen, symbolizing her devotion to Christ the King. She professed her final vows in 1980. Inspired by missionary zeal, she dedicated herself to serving the poor, particularly in remote and isolated villages across northern India, including in dioceses such as Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

In 1992 she was assigned to Udainagar in the Diocese of Indore, where she focused on social work among marginalized communities, especially tribal and low-caste people exploited by moneylenders and landlords through usury and bonded labor systems resembling modern slavery. She helped establish savings cooperatives that offered interest-free loans, empowering the poor to break free from debt traps and gain economic independence. Her tireless efforts to promote justice, dignity, and self-reliance threatened the interests of powerful local figures who profited from the exploitation.

On February 25, 1995, while traveling by bus from Udainagar to Indore, she was brutally attacked by an assassin hired by those opposed to her work. The man, Samandar Singh, stabbed her repeatedly—over fifty times—in front of other passengers. She died on the roadside at Nachanbore Hill, reportedly repeating the name of Jesus as she succumbed to her wounds. She was forty-one years old.

Her martyrdom for charity and social justice led to the opening of her cause for beatification. On November 4, 2017, she was beatified in Indore by Cardinal Angelo Amato, recognizing her as a martyr of the Church. Her feast day is celebrated on February 25. The story of her life and death has inspired many, including through a 2023 film titled Face of the Faceless, and her witness continues to highlight the call to serve the forgotten and oppressed in the name of Christ.