This us such an unusual self goal by the government that it is clear there was not a single brain cell in the room that approved it.
A central idea in Guerrilla warfare is cost-imposition through latent threat. Mao and Giap wrote about this extensively. Both referred to the concept of fleet-in-being used by the English Navy. Basically the mere existence and mobility of ships caused the enemy to cripple themselves by imposing great readiness costs.
Applied here the protesters have imposed city-scale friction without assembling. All they have to do is to announce another one the day after and so on so forth.
YOU HANDED BUNCH OF YOUNG PEOPLE A WAY TO SHUTDOWN YOUR NATIONAL CAPITAL!!!!!
This order is in violation of Supreme Court judgement in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India. Oh! Wait!! Like every lofty judicial pronouncement in recent times, this too has a catch. “Reasonable restrictions” !!!
Does the unreasonable State need any other excuse to suppress fundamental rights?
"Gyanu Must Resign", reference the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, is in effect code for
"PM Modi must resign". Gyanu is just the monkey to the PM's organ grinder. Gyanu has done no wrong that he was not told to do.
Hence the panic in New Delhi.
This Kannada Channel @KannadaPrabha owned by @RajeevRC_X is running Fake News againt me. If you don't take down your fake News. I'll take legal action against.
We owe it to u @abhijeet_dipke@SauravDassss@AshutoshRanka . So proud that our generation will hand over the baton to a brave and responsible generation. Reclaim India, build India and take it to new glory. We will come out stronger, more confident and mature after this victory.
As Opposition was protesting vote chori in Delhi yesterday, this is ironically what Scroll's @ZamanRokibuz_ and @AnantGuptaAG witnessed on the ground during a Bengal bye-poll:
👉 Police preventing Muslim voters from voting
👉 Mass arrests of Opposition workers and leaders
👉 Mass online bans on local journalists
Meanwhile, the EC observer claims the polls were "free and fair".
https://t.co/Bht5cwOEcd
Dear ex CEO Bengal Manoj Agarwal - 300 MPs stood in Vijay Chowk today & told your Big Daddy he’s a Chor who’ll be in jail. We told @rashtrapatibhvn too. So you can take your defamation notice & put it where the sun don’t shine :-)
Was travelling back home via metro from Gurgaon and police officials (why are they literally everywhere) kept pushing me to remove my mask for security purposes and face their cameras? Literal surveillance and police state.
A powerful clip. Wildlife does not stick to limits & boundaries set by humans. Long-ranging species like tigers & elephants don't read signs. And why should they. The land is equally theirs.
Delhi Police & CPI (M) leaders, including MP AA Rahim & Vijoo Krishnan, get into an argument as cops show up at the party’s HQ in Delhi
Police: We saw a commotion here
Rahim: If you see a commotion inside a home, are you going to go inside?
SFI is supporting CJP’s protest
“A minister assured Modi there would be a joint press conference by the EC at the same time as Rahul Gandhi and MPs were marching to the President of India to press for Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, but the two refused,” says senior journalist Narendra Nath (@iamnarendranath).