Raju

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. _Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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80 yrs retiree, widower, father.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@FriedrichPieter #RSS "Re-writing history on how to dehumanize minorities" with the help of #Hindutva Extended family (Parivar) of BJP Rashtravads: RSS, VHP, BAJARANG DAL, ABVP, Maharajs, Sadhus, Sadhvis.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@IndianGems_ #OneTimeJailBird? Never happen under this regime.

#NarodaPatia wasn't a happenstance.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@dhruv_rathee The corrupt duo, #SpouseAbandoner and #OneTimeJailBird, continue to fool their parivar by announcing fake recognitions and awards. These are just like his fake degrees. Parivar being dumb and moronic do the craven leader's bid by terrorizing MINORITIES.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@Amockx2022 #SpouseAbandoner & his saffron parivar acts of HATE & VIOLENCE proved otherwise.
#NarodaPatia
#GharWapsi
#ChurchBurns
#Islamophobia #BirlokaDadriLynches
#LoveJihad
#DalitChildMurder
#Rapes
#Lynches
#SeditionCharges
#BeefBan
#Dabholkar #Pansare #Kalburgi
#Manipur

[Raju @pdaraju]

@ashoswai Modi's legacy since 2014:
 #GharWapsi
#ChurchBurns
#Islamophobia #BirlokaDadriLynches
#LoveJihad
#DalitChildMurder
#RationalistsMurders
#Rapes
#Lynches
#SeditionCharges
#BeefBan
#NarodaPatia
#SaffronBarbarism
#Manipur

Add to his promises the Acts of HATE & VIOLENCE.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@ichandigarh @tanmoyofc Modi's legacy since 2014:
Acts of HATE & VIOLENCE  #GharWapsi
#ChurchBurns
#Islamophobia #BirlokaDadriLynches
#LoveJihad
#DalitChildMurder
#RationalistsMurders
#Rapes
#Lynches
#SeditionCharges
#BeefBan
#NarodaPatia
#SaffronBarbarism
#ManipurAtrocities
Rogues gallery

[ParanjoyGuhaThakurta @paranjoygt]

The Telegraph editor’s passport not being renewed in Kolkata

Note from R. Rajagopal
Former Editor, The Telegraph
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In March this year, my name was deleted from the Ballygunge constituency electoral roll in Kolkata, apparently because the Special Intensive Revision process could not trace either my name or that of my late father in the 2002 voters' list. My father, a Gandhian, retired professor and former State Secretary of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Kerala, passed away in 2016. I remain unable to understand how a conscientious voter like him could have been absent from the rolls.

Like nearly 27 lakh other residents of West Bengal, I was excluded on account of what were described as “logical discrepancies”. No reason was furnished even after I submitted my matriculation certificate, and my appeal is now pending before one of the tribunals constituted pursuant to the Supreme Court's directions. As a consequence, I was unable to vote in the recent election.

More distressing has been the fate of my passport renewal application. Although I completed the biometric formalities on March 19, 2026, police verification has not been cleared because my name no longer appears on the electoral roll. Despite submitting several alternative documents, I have been informed that they are insufficient. In fact, today (June 27, 2026) is the 100th day since my biometrics for passport renewal were taken. I was formally informed last week by the passport-issuing authority that Kolkata Police sent an adverse report, citing the deletion of my name from the voters' list. I have been asked to appear before the Regional Passport Office in Calcutta "immediately" but when I sought an appointment, without which it is difficult to gain entry, the date granted is July 17, 2026.

In between, our daughter, a journalist in California, got married in San Francisco on April 17. Needless to say, it would have been impossible for me to attend the wedding in the absence of an active passport, notwithstanding my possession of a valid ten-year US visa.

For all practical purposes, I find myself in a state of civic uncertainty although recently the government iterated that a passport is no proof of citizenship. Much of my time is now consumed by efforts to reconstruct family records and secure documents dating back several decades….

My days begin with checking my voting right appeal status and then the passport tracker. Then I write to the college where my mother taught in 1965 and to her school from where she passed out in 1959, asking for any document that proves she existed. The school has been very helpful but not the college. Similarly, I speak to prohibition campaign activists in Kerala, running down a list I collected after coming across an activist's name in a group by chance, asking for any news clipping or photographs that show my father campaigning against illegal liquor vends and communalism.

Some close friends and public figures have helped me in all these efforts. However, I am unaware if any media outlet or journalists' association or guild (of which I am not a member) has shown any interest in my situation. A senior journalist reminded me that this situation is by no means unique as "rejection" has been the daily certainty confronting millions of Indians for centuries. I accept that point.

My intention has never been to project myself as a victim. Rather, I have wanted to underline a larger point: if someone who spent his professional life in journalism and edited a relatively known newspaper can encounter such difficulties, one can only imagine what the truly marginalised must endure. Did I approach any newspaper? No, because I do not want it to become an issue concerning me. Do editors and journalists know about my issue? Of course, several do. If they don't, they should not be in the profession, don't you think?

Yet, the complete silence of newspapers on this issue has confirmed my suspicion, now reinforced with personal experience, that so-called mainstream journalism has little to do with my life. I do not "read" any newspaper now. I glance at some but hardly find anything that piques my interest.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@PaulStewartII He has become incurable. Isn't there anyone in the party who believes that he's not the one to lead?

[Raju @pdaraju]

@CommonBS786OM Does anyone, with the exception of andhbhakts, think that Diaper Don and Spouse Abandoner aren't corrupt?

[Raju @pdaraju]

@bruceanderson He is irrelevant.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@TheJasonPugh @PierrePoilievre @MarkJCarney It seems cons have no respected political or national leader hence they settled with this one.

[🇨🇦Baba Zabinsky - Proud NASTY Canadian 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dogmom_lj]

@acoyne I'm old enough to remember that when @stephenharper was PM and he drove us into a recession, he had no one in the party to advise him on how to navigate the situation.

He reached out to the "smartest man and economist" he knew to help him and his party.

That man @MarkJCarney

[Raju @pdaraju]

@LegalAdvisour By that logic he is an imposter roaming around the world posing as PM.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@TheJasonPugh @PierrePoilievre @PierrePoilievre who spent 8.8 plus millions in 2024 came up with this rant.
https://t.co/KT4sltrvvD

[Nickie with an 'e 🌈 🇨🇦 @winter_canada]

@TheJasonPugh @Michell64451873 @PierrePoilievre The government should cut Pierre Poilievre's spending!!

Pierre Poilievre spends more than any other MP in Canadian history including the Prime Minister!

[Raju @pdaraju]

@fredhamilton @ashokdadhwal196 @MEAIndia @DrSJaishankar Majority are bootlickers of #SpouseAbandoner and #OneTimeJailBird.

#NaodaPatia wasn't a happenstance and the convicted were either freed/pardoned because of their allegiance to Ram Bakht fallacy. There isn't single iota of governance of current govt to compare with Ram Rajya.

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Quick test: can you prove you’re an Indian citizen?

Go through your documents.

👉 Passport — NO
👉 Aadhaar — NO
👉 PAN — NO
👉 Voter ID — NO
👉 Driving Licence — NO
👉 Bank Passbook — NO
👉 Domicile Certificate — NO
👉 Govt Employee ID — NO
👉 Property Papers — NO
👉 Birth Certificate — NO (unless you were born before 1 July 1987)

Not a single document that you have is proof of your Indian citizenship. So if the government asks you to “prove” you’re a citizen, you can’t.

Now connect the dots.

Modi-Shah and their poodle Gyanesh Kumar at ECI are conducting the SIR across India.

When you’re asked to prove your citizenship, what document will you show? You just saw the list. None of them work.

You will then be deleted as a voter and your citizenship will be “doubtful”.

What’s the next step?

That will be the NRC (National Register of Citizens).

In Assam’s NRC, 19 lakh people were left off the list of citizens. Many were declared “foreigners” over a misspelt name or a missing date.

Across states, BJP is building detention centers. Are these for “infiltrators”? NO.

These mass detention centers are being built to keep people who cannot prove that they are Indian citizens.

So if you are convinced that you’re an Indian citizen, think again.

When the govt asks you to “prove you’re Indian,” remember who’s actually deciding your citizenship: Modi, Shah, and their hand-picked Election Commission.

This is the BIGGEST DANGER facing our country. To cling on to power by manipulating elections, Modi-Shah will even delete you as a voter & then strip off your citizenship.

Why do you think the BJP is spending hundreds of crores right now to buy MPs from other parties? All of this is for a 2/3rd majority in Parliament which would allow them to change the Constitution.

And once they are able to change the Constitution, it’s GAME OVER for Indian democracy.

Question is: will you stand up and raise your voice against this? Or will you be mute spectators while they destroy your rights in front of your eyes?

[Raju @pdaraju]

@TheJasonPugh @PierrePoilievre Seems there are no progressive cons left in the party and the incompetent is leading.

[Paul Stewart II @PaulStewartII]

Canadian media is not what most think.
It’s not just about foreign media. Time to reup my earlier post.

Canadians are lobsters in a propaganda pot. CBC, for all its faults is the only independent and truly Canadian media.

Canadian media is influenced by 5 billionaire families and a US (Trump MAGA) hedge fund. Billionaires being Rogers, Shaw, Thomson, Bitove and Peladeau who respectively own / control / influence:
✔️ Rogers media
✔️ Corus Entertainment
✔️ Globe & Mail, Bell Media, and
✔️ Thomson/Reuters
✔️ Toronto Star, and
✔️ Quebecer Media, including
✔️ Journal de Montreal

These are not “mainstream”, they’re all monied special interests with collective family wealth exceeding $100 billion. These interests plus US hedge fund Chatham Asset Management collectively own 85% of Canadian media, including TV and Radio stations of any significance. PostMedia alone is a big part of that.

Chatham controls PostMedia through a special two thirds ownership structure. Chatham also owns US media AMI / National Enquirer. The link from Chatham to Trump indirectly is David Pecker at AMI.

So it’s a Trump MAGA aligned, CPC propaganda operation ever since Harper approved this years ago. Pecker used to be on the PostMedia board and is Trump’s media man.

PostMedia is playing a big role in Trump’s 51st play. Which seems to be Harper’s Christian (Church) Reform Party’s end game. Yes that would be the so called CPC.

Yet, even worse, algorithm driven social media are viral distributors of the “Canadian” and foreign media too! They’re owned by mega billionaires, including Zuckerberg and Musk, with combined wealth measured now in trillions.

So media generated content is then filtered and run via social media algorithms geared to foreign influence, their own special interests and clickbait profits.

These players are likely first order CPC “owners”, funders and disinformation operatives, beyond their controlling interests in our media.

[Frank @FrankVeri]

🍁 🍁🍁🍁🍁
Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it.

His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra.

Born in India, 1934. Came to Canada in the 1960s. PhD in microbiology. Senior scientist at Health Canada's Bureau of Veterinary Drugs. 35 years reviewing drug applications. Approve the safe ones. Reject the unsafe ones. Protect the public.

For 20 years he did it quietly.

Then Monsanto came knocking.

A new drug. Bovine growth hormone. Brand name Posilac. Inject it into dairy cows, get 10-15% more milk. Bigger profits for the industry. Far bigger profits for Monsanto. The FDA had rubber-stamped it in 1993. Monsanto expected Canada to follow.

The file landed on Chopra's desk.

He started reading the science. He started finding holes.

The data was thin. Long-term safety studies were missing. The cow studies that did exist showed lameness, mastitis, reproductive failure, shortened lifespans.

If it was doing that to the cow, what was it doing to the milk?

His recommendation: reject it. Demand real safety data.

His managers had a different idea.

Approve it. The Americans approved it. Why are you holding it up? Just sign off.

He refused.

So the pressure started. Closed-door meetings. Attempts to pull the file and hand it to someone friendlier. Gag orders don't talk to the media, don't talk to anyone. Suspensions. Reprimands. Demotions. Dead-end reassignments.

He kept refusing.

Two other scientists refused with him. Dr. Margaret Haydon. Dr. Gérard Lambert. Same data. Same alarm. Same answer.

In 1998 the Canadian Senate launched an investigation into what was happening inside Health Canada.

Chopra and his colleagues did something almost nobody does. They walked into the Senate and testified under oath. Said managers were pressuring them to approve unsafe drugs. Said industry was running the regulator. Said the system was broken.

It made headlines around the world.

In 1999, Health Canada rejected Monsanto's application. rBGH would not be approved. Europe banned it next. Then most of the developed world.

Sit with that. One immigrant scientist in Ottawa beat one of the largest chemical corporations on Earth — and won.

Then his own government fired him for winning.

July 14, 2004. After 35 years of service, Health Canada fired Chopra, Haydon, and Lambert on the same day. Official reason: insubordination. Real reason: he embarrassed them in front of the country.

The same year, the Prime Minister mailed him a gold watch for "illustrious service." While they were firing him. He called it comedy.

He sued to clear his name. The fight took 13 years. He lost appeal after appeal. The final ruling came down in 2017. Three months later, in January 2018, he died. 83 years old. Never reinstated. Never given his pension back. Never owed an apology by anyone.

But here is what they could never take back.

rBGH is still banned in Canada today. Every glass of Canadian milk is still hormone-free — because one man refused to sign.

And the United States? Never banned it. It's still legal there. Right now.

He kept it out of Canada and they fired him. The system he fought is still pouring it into glasses across the border.

So tell me below was Shiv Chopra a hero, or just a troublemaker who got what was coming to him? Pick a side. Because someone in those meetings is still telling scientists to "just sign off."

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Former deputy PM John Manley: We used to always refer to the president of the United States as the leader of the free world. Donald Trump is not the leader of anything other than about the 37% of Americans that still support him. If anything, intellectually at least, Mark Carney has become the leader of the free world, the countries that believe in democracy and the rule of law.

[Raju @pdaraju]

@HunterBiden Like dad extremely thoughtful.