Varughese Cherian

Nehruvian ~all are equal~
RTs are endorsements.
State Secretary-All India Professionals' Congress, Karnataka

[Varughese Cherian @nonovarg]

I am with Rahul Gandhi.
#IamCongress
@ProfCong @BLRSouthAIPC @SikandDipali @TowardsLiberti @HeyChillBro @SaraSulkunte @gyansr @PramodAloor @Akforyou10 @MATTSMATTS @SafwanINC @Sun_Lv @arjundsage @nishalall @MohandasJithin @bodhiman111 @collegeblues https://t.co/7eUqFk5ZLj

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I stand with the last person in the line. The exploited, marginalised and the persecuted. Their religion, caste or beliefs matter little to me.

I seek out those in pain and embrace them. I erase hatred and fear.

I love all living beings.

I am the Congress.

[Zubair @Zubair99778]

यूँ ही कांग्रेस ने दिग्गज नेता कमलनाथ को इग्नोर करके 👇इनको चुना है!
इनका नाम है मिनाक्षी नटराजन, कांग्रेस ने राज्यसभा भेजने के लिये मध्यप्रदेश से इन्हे ही चुना है, यह तो सबको पता होगा,

लेकिन जो आपको नहीं पता है वो मै आपको बताता हूँ, यह इतनी पक्की ईमानदार और गांधीवादी नेता हैं, 2024 लोकसभा में कांग्रेस ने इन्हे लगभग 5 करोड़ रुपए चुनाव लड़ने के लिये दिये थे

( जो लोग कांग्रेस को जानते हैं उन्हें पता है कांग्रेस में हैसियत के हिसाब से चुनाव के लिये पैसे दिये जाते हैं ) तो चुनाव के बाद इन्होने 4 करोड़ से ज़्यादा रूपये वापस पार्टी फण्ड में जमा करवा दिये थे, ऐसे ही विधानसभा चुनाव में भी इन्होने चुनाव के बाद लगभग 75% वापस पार्टी फण्ड में जमा करवा दिये थे।
रहन सहन से लेकर खाना पीना एकदम गाँधीवादी हैं।
आप कह सकते हो सच्ची कांग्रेस की सिपाही हैं।
राहुल गाँधी जी को मुबारकबाद देनी चाहिये उनके इस फैसले के लिये। RT

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

सार्थक, अपने सिद्धांतों पर अडिग रहो।

#TenderInvestigator

[Helle @Oyemisty]

India has got a wonderful Prime Minister, caring, loving and supportive There is no one like Modi-

The heat has increased a lot, so everyone should drink plenty of water.

India’s great Prime Minister Modi held a high-level meeting yesterday. In the meeting, he called all the MPs and ministers. The entire country was expecting that, with the rising prices of petrol, diesel, and CNG, increasing inflation, and the difficult situation faced by poor people, small business owners, street vendors, and rickshaw pullers, the government would announce some relief measures or make an important decision.

But the interesting part is that Prime Minister Modi told his MPs and ministers:

“The heat has increased a lot, so all of you should drink more water.”

And then the meeting ended.

Tell me, can there be a more caring Prime Minister anywhere? In a high-level meeting, he is advising his MPs and ministers to drink plenty of water.

Now wait and watch. Today they are asking people to drink more water. India was already mixing 20% ethanol in petrol, and now the government plans to increase it to 30%. Slowly, after some time, they may even say, “Please drink less water too, we need it to produce ethanol.”

Now it is becoming clear why the great Prime Minister does not hold press conferences. He probably knows that he may not be able to answer even five serious questions.

If questions are asked about development, education, national security, healthcare, and corruption, then he himself might need to drink plenty of water.

[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.

[Srivatsa @srivatsayb]

185 voted against introduction.

251 voted for introduction.

Even when many opposition MPs weren’t present in the house, still more than 1/3rd (180) voted against.

The Constitutional Amendment Bill is dead on arrival. It cannot get 2/3rd majority.

Modi’s attempt to hoodwink will be defeated.

[Supriya Shrinate @SupriyaShrinate]

Isn’t non disclosure a ground for disqualification?

Will @Ceokerala act against @RajeevRC_X

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

Dear @Ceokerala,

BJP candidate from Nemom constituency, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has not disclosed his residence, a 49,000 sq.ft mansion in Koramangala 3rd Block, Bengaluru, in his affidavit.

This is a 1.07 acre property in one of the most expensive locations in the country, where many Indian billionaires live. Land here costs around ₹35,000 to ₹50,000 per sq.ft or more. By a fair estimate, the land value alone could be around ₹200 crore.

The property number is 408. You can download the property tax receipt using Application Number: 1600322463 from the link below:
https://t.co/0ajN6mffBU

The tax was paid just six days ago on 17th March, which you can verify yourself.

If there is any doubt whether this belongs to the same Rajeev Chandrasekhar, his 2024 affidavit lists the same address, #408, Koramangala 3rd Block, as his residence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar is a habitual offender and appears to believe he can mislead the Election Commission of India repeatedly. His affidavit even suggests that he owns no residential property or car despite being a billionaire businessman.

We request you to intervene in this matter and disqualify the candidate as per the People's Representation Act. Otherwise, it's only fair for the public to question whether the office is acting impartially.

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

The BJP has now come up with a new narrative that the UPA government issued oil bonds, and the BJP government is now paying them back. According to them, this shows Modiji’s magnanimity, as if he is doing a favour to the people of India by not raising fuel prices.

First, oil bonds were not started by the UPA. They were introduced in 2002 by the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee to subsidise petrol and diesel prices.

When the UPA came to power, crude oil prices were extremely high, above $100 and even touching $140 at times. To avoid passing the full burden onto the public, the government continued issuing oil bonds to raise money from the market while keeping fuel prices relatively under control. The easier option would have been to simply raise prices and make people pay more.

The oil bonds issued during the Vajpayee government matured in 2009 and were repaid. Similarly, bonds maturing in the following years were also repaid by the UPA government itself until 2014.

The total oil bonds issued by both the

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

പാപ്പരായ സർക്കാർ ജനങ്ങളുടെ പേരിൽ കടമെടുത്ത പണം കൊണ്ട് 'ചർച്ചയുടെ വിശാലവേദി' ഒരുക്കുമ്പോൾ പ്രതിപക്ഷത്തിൻ്റെ 2 ഫുൾ പേജ് പരസ്യത്തിൻ്റെ ചെലവ് കൂടി വഹിക്കുമോ, മിസ്റ്റർ നികേഷ്? ചർച്ചക്ക് ഒരു level-playing field ഒക്കെ വേണ്ടേ? @mvnikeshkumar

[Praveen Chakravarty @pravchak]

In 2010, media made huge noise about a CAG report on telco spectrum calling it ‘2G scam’

Ministers resigned, MPs arrested, UPA2 collapsed & its scars are still felt

Same CAG has issued many scathing reports of 1000s of crores misuse by Modi govt
Not a peep from media👇🏽

https://t.co/plUjdGz4gz

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX | How to solve Kerala’s train travel problem once and for all with ₹150 crore? 🧵

In 2012, the Oomen Chandy government came up with a plan to build a high-speed rail corridor from Mangalore to Trivandrum. The estimated cost was around ₹1.18 lakh crore. It was planned to be funded through a Japanese loan from JICA. The project was opposed by the then opposition parties. The project was eventually dropped.

In 2020, the present Left government under Pinarayi Vijayan brought back the high-speed rail project, named SilverLine, with a cost estimate of ₹64,000 crore. These numbers were rejected by NITI Aayog, which estimated the cost at around ₹1.2 lakh crore. There were strong public protests against forceful land acquisition, and the project was dropped by the government in 2022. We also strongly opposed it, as our estimate was that the final cost would easily cross ₹1.5 lakh crore, ticket prices would go up to around ₹6,000 to make it viable, and there would not be enough ridership.

Now it is BJP’s turn. They opposed both earlier projects and have now come up with a new proposal using DMRC’s former chairman, Padma Vibhushan Dr. E. Sreedharan, who later joined BJP. This high-speed rail proposal, unlike SilverLine, is 90% elevated and ends at Kannur instead of Kasargod or Mangalore. The estimated cost is around ₹200 crore per kilometre, with an overall cost of more than ₹80,000 crore. Fair enough.

However, the estimate of ₹200 crore per kilometre looks like an underestimate when we look at the Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train. That project started with a cost of ₹216 crore per kilometre and has now reached ₹393 crore per kilometre, even though it is only half completed. By the time it is finished, the cost could touch ₹500 crore per kilometre, if not more.

Leaving these big and fancy projects aside, let us come back to the core problem and look at it differently. Take a close look at this video. This shows the weekly train schedule from Kannur towards the south.

If you observe carefully, the green-coloured trains are those that run within Kerala, while the red ones are outstation trains that either terminate at stations in Kerala or pass through the state. What does this tell us? (1/8)

[K C Venugopal @kcvenugopalmp]

Joined the meeting of our family of senior leaders from Kerala, held under INC President Sh. Mallikarjun @kharge ji and LOP Sh. @RahulGandhi ji’s leadership to discuss election preparations, in New Delhi today.

Energised by our victory in the recently held local body elections, the UDF is all set to achieve historic success of 100+ seats in the 2026 Assembly Elections.

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

Thanks for the list. Can you share the letter, if you don't mind @PTI_News?

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

In history we always had such elite people standing with the fascists and supporting all their misdeeds pretending to be nationalists.

But the point to be noted is that none of the former Elections Commissioners were there in the list. Everyone knows what 'luminary frauds' like Gyanesh Kumar did, and how the constitutional office of Election Commission of India is being controlled from the BJP office.

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

പതിനൊന്നു കൊല്ലം രാജ്യം ഭരിച്ച ബിജെപി "മനോഹര"മാക്കിയ ഒരു നഗരം കാണിച്ചുതരാമോ രാജേഷ് ജീ?

പതിനൊന്നു കൊല്ലം മുൻപ് പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി മോദി വാരാണസി ഒരു ക്യോട്ടോ ആക്കും എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞിരുന്നു. അവസാനം അവിടുന്ന് എതിർ സ്ഥാനാർത്ഥികളെ മത്സരിപ്പിക്കാതെ, പലവിധ തട്ടിപ്പുകളും നടത്തി കഷ്ടിച്ച് കരകയറി പോന്ന കാര്യം രാജേഷ് ജീ മറന്നു പോയോ?

24 കൊല്ലമായി ബിജെപി ഭരിക്കുന്ന ഗുജറാത്തിൽ പോലും ഒരു മനോഹര നഗരം കൊണ്ടുവരാൻ പറ്റിയിട്ടില്ല.

UPA സർക്കാരിന്റെ കാലത്തു JNNURM പദ്ധതിയിൽ കൊണ്ടുവന്ന ലോ-ഫ്ലോർ ബസ്സുകൾ തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തും കൊച്ചിയിലും കോഴിക്കോടും ഓടുന്നുണ്ട്. 11 കൊല്ലമായി 100 സ്മാർട്ട് സിറ്റി പദ്ധതി പറഞ്ഞു തള്ളിയിട്ട്, ഒരു സ്മാർട്ട് സിറ്റിയെങ്കിലും ഉണ്ടാക്കിയോ? നിങ്ങൾ സംഘികളുടെ പറുദീസയായ ഗുജറാത്തിലെങ്കിലും ഒരെണ്ണം കാണിച്ചുതരാമോ?

അഴിമതിയും തട്ടിപ്പും തള്ളും ഉഡായിപ്പുമല്ലാതെ എന്താണ് നിങ്ങൾ ഇന്നുവരെ ചെയ്തിട്ടുള്ളത്?

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

ഇന്ത്യയുടെപ്രഥമ പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി പണ്ഡിറ്റ് ജവഹർലാൽ നെഹ്റുവിൻറെ ഓർമ്മകൾക്ക് മുൻപിൽ പ്രണാമം 🙏🏼

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

"To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together."

— Indira Gandhi

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

BIHAR RIGGING | 128 seats out of the 202 won by the NDA came purely from SIR-based voter deletions.

We analysed the voter deletion data published by the ECI as ordered by the Supreme Court and compared it with the victory margins in each constituency. The pattern is unmistakable: genuine, living voters were removed arbitrarily under SIR.

SIR was supposed to identify and remove illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal. But in the entire dataset released by the ECI, not even one illegal immigrant was found.

What actually happened was a wholesale purge in the name of SIR to remove poor and vulnerable voters who were suffering under the NDA. After striking them off the rolls, they prevented whoever was left from voting and then walked away with a fully stage-managed election.

This is the “mother of democracy” for you. If we do not realise the game plan now, BJP will quietly remove each one of us from the list, add dummy Brazilians in our place, cast votes on their behalf and keep winning elections forever.

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

"When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration."

— Jawaharlal Nehru

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

Modi slaves in Nirvachan Sadan