Onika

[(समण) Rajendra Pal Gautam @AdvRajendraPal]

बड़े ही शर्म की बात है..!

संसद मार्ग थाने में ACP का कहना है कि मेरे पास स्टाफ नहीं है मुकदमा दर्ज करने के लिए मुझे 3 दिन का समय चाहिए..!

जब 20 सांसदों की मौजूदगी में भी एक शिकायत दर्ज करने के लिए पुलिस के पास स्टाफ और समय नहीं है, तो आम आदमी की शिकायत कौन सुनेगा..?

[Ankur Bhardwaj @Bhayankur]

TIL: The Swaminarayan sect once argued before the Supreme Court that it was not part of the Hindu faith—because it wanted to deny Dalits entry to its temples. In Sastri Yagnapurushadji v. Muldas Bhudardas Vaishya (1966), the Court rejected the claim.

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

As the Dhoklas of BAPs are on Fame India world campaign, here is tweet by Former French Prime Minister Michel Barnier. Read the last two paras especially. 👇🏾

Leaving it here. Not even get into the 2021 US case when FBI rescued many Dalit forced labourers from their temple. 🤌🏾

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

No lynching happens in a vacuum.

Mobs have picked up the assurance that as long as the cause is (even vaguely) majoritarian and the victim is from a minority, courts and cops will not prosecute. In fact, govt ministers might come and garland you too for the murders.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

अगर एक जाहिल इस मुल्क की रैहनुमाई करता है तो वह यहीं चाहेगा कि उसकी तरह पूरा मुल्क जाहिल बेरहम नासमझ बने: नासिरउद्दीन शाह

[D.⛅ @Deep_Take001]

India's greatest actor is from Gujarat so it's only fair that the ceremony is moved there.

[Meme Janta Party 🥳 @Fearless_Memez]

नेताओं के बच्चे vs आपके बच्चे 🌝

[Anurag Minus Verma @confusedvichar]

Wow!

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

imp question, did the venue have AC or was PM keeping onion in pocket?

[Onika @Onikasingh]

Never a day when there isn't a cause for international beizzati from these people

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This sounds completely unreal but I double checked and it's true: the Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday due to a Hindu sect that demanded that all women "make themselves invisible" so their 93-year-old guru wouldn't have to see them.

The sect in question is BAPS - "Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha," which roughly translates to "the organization of Swaminarayan followers who believe in Akshar Purushottam, based in Bochasan" (a village in Gujarat).

It's a very wealthy organization with deep ties to Modi's BJP (Modi is himself from Gujarat), known for building mega-temples around the world and whose doctrine demands absolute obedience to a living guru as the sole path to God.

It's not their first controversy: in 2021, the FBI raided their massive New Jersey temple after workers - mostly Dalits, India's lowest caste (the so-called "untouchables") - alleged they'd been lured to the US on fake religious visas, had their passports confiscated, and were forced to work 13-hour days for about $1 an hour, confined to a guarded compound (see https://t.co/kTNzdZWtoe).

Long story short, they just opened a new mega-temple in France (the website: https://t.co/4g6HW9bBPy) - specifically in Bussy-Saint-Georges (30km away from Paris) - presented as "the biggest Hindu temple built in continental Europe in a traditional style" (https://t.co/exbFjzLe2k).

Their guru was there for the inauguration and, as you do, wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower while in France. But, thing is, his doctrine dictates that women must not be in his presence.

And here is where it gets unreal: when his entourage requested a private visit, the Eiffel Tower's management actually agreed to the terms and ordered all female employees - including subcontractors - to hide (https://t.co/Sm7yb5LMFq).

This was on Saturday and, France being France (in a good way), on Monday the women who'd been told to make themselves invisible made themselves very, very visible: the staff went on strike and shut down the Eiffel Tower.

So there you have it, unreal but true: the Eiffel Tower, symbol of the French Republic, is closed because a 93-year-old Hindu guru refuses to be in the presence of women.

(picture below the picture of their guru on his visit, taken from https://t.co/4FRKezWJvq)

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This sounds completely unreal but I double checked and it's true: the Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday due to a Hindu sect that demanded that all women "make themselves invisible" so their 93-year-old guru wouldn't have to see them.

The sect in question is BAPS - "Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha," which roughly translates to "the organization of Swaminarayan followers who believe in Akshar Purushottam, based in Bochasan" (a village in Gujarat).

It's a very wealthy organization with deep ties to Modi's BJP (Modi is himself from Gujarat), known for building mega-temples around the world and whose doctrine demands absolute obedience to a living guru as the sole path to God.

It's not their first controversy: in 2021, the FBI raided their massive New Jersey temple after workers - mostly Dalits, India's lowest caste (the so-called "untouchables") - alleged they'd been lured to the US on fake religious visas, had their passports confiscated, and were forced to work 13-hour days for about $1 an hour, confined to a guarded compound (see https://t.co/kTNzdZWtoe).

Long story short, they just opened a new mega-temple in France (the website: https://t.co/4g6HW9bBPy) - specifically in Bussy-Saint-Georges (30km away from Paris) - presented as "the biggest Hindu temple built in continental Europe in a traditional style" (https://t.co/exbFjzLe2k).

Their guru was there for the inauguration and, as you do, wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower while in France. But, thing is, his doctrine dictates that women must not be in his presence.

And here is where it gets unreal: when his entourage requested a private visit, the Eiffel Tower's management actually agreed to the terms and ordered all female employees - including subcontractors - to hide (https://t.co/Sm7yb5LMFq).

This was on Saturday and, France being France (in a good way), on Monday the women who'd been told to make themselves invisible made themselves very, very visible: the staff went on strike and shut down the Eiffel Tower.

So there you have it, unreal but true: the Eiffel Tower, symbol of the French Republic, is closed because a 93-year-old Hindu guru refuses to be in the presence of women.

(picture below the picture of their guru on his visit, taken from https://t.co/4FRKezWJvq)

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Aari Aari… students dying? Not my zimmedari...

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

'Despotic' Officers Will Turn UP Into 'Orwellian Dystopia' : #AllahabadHighCourt Slams Noida DM For NSA Detention Of Student | @ISparshUpadhyay

Court says Noida DM (@dmgbnagar) "desired to set an example" out of student activist Akriti Chaudhary.

https://t.co/UWdxulPkWZ

[Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 Commentary @RoflGandhi_]

India is the second-largest importer of the French arms, just behind Saudi Arabia. If Saudis visit next, they may also ask the same thing as this Gujarati religious sect and France 🤑💰will gladly honor it.

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

Eiffel Tower workers go on strike after female staff sidelined for Hindu group BAP visit. PM Modi virtually inaugurated BAP temple in Paris this week. https://t.co/tSoX9FN9Tg

[Sagar @Sagar_reporter]

Why do you hear only about low conviction in SC ST cases, but not violence against the communities?

No newspaper (I worked with three before) covers: Anusuchit Jaati thana, Anusuchit jaati courts, labour courts, SC commission, sanitation unions. They are nobody's beat.

[Onika @Onikasingh]

Hindu Rashtra ban chuka hai 🤡

[Sagar @Sagar_reporter]

A Hindu citizen of a Hindu govt is appealing the rest of Hindus to boycott Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from renting their houses. A constitutional government would have arrested him immediately. But, under a Hindu govt, he will be supported by executive and judiciary.