This is horrible.
What’s even more horrible is that there has been no tweet from the Defence Minister of this country, Rajnath Singh, Prime Minister Modi, or Home Minister Amit Shah about this incident.
Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk’s indefinite hunger strike has entered its 20th day, with the Ladakh-born educator losing more than 9 kilograms as he demands examination reforms and the resignation of a key Modi ally over alleged exam paper leaks.
भूख हड़ताल के 16वे दिन, दीपक को hypovolemic shock की वजह से अस्पताल में भर्ती हुआ।
मनीष, आमीन और मैं @dpradhanbjp के इस्तीफे तक भूख हड़ताल जारी रखेंगे।
आप सब @Wangchuk66 और हमारी भूख हड़ताल के समर्थन में, धर्मेंद्र प्रधान का इस्तीफा माँगते हुए 20 तारीख को जंतर मंतर पहुँचे।
#SOS: To every Indian,
Things are looking grimmer by the day.
I don’t know how much longer Sonam sir can hold on. He keeps telling us he can. But those of us sitting beside him are terribly worried.
This is a man who could have chosen a life of comfort and recognition. Instead, the recipient of a Ramon Magsaysay Award, an honour equivalent to the Nobel Prize, is putting his own life at risk for the future of our children, the young, and this country. He sits for those dead students murdered by a broken, corrupt education system. He is sacrificing his body and maybe his life for a greater cause.
It makes me think what does it say about US that a son of India, who brought us such great honour before the world, has to STARVE himself to death simply to be heard by his OWN government?
This is not my idea of India. This is not India!
Somewhere along the way, we stopped feeling. We began to accept silence when there should have been outrage, indifference where there should have been compassion. We have become spectators to suffering. We have convinced ourselves that someone ELSE will speak, someone ELSE will act.
I have no words left.
I am sorry sir.
We are failing you. We are failing you by allowing a nation to reach a point where a man of your integrity and stature must gamble with his own life just to make those in power LISTEN. We are failing you because we normalised arrogance over empathy. We normalised power over compassion. And we normalised indifference over conscience.
July 20 is our last attempt to save you.
If we cannot stand up now, history will not ask what Sonam Wangchuk did for India. It will ask what India did when Sonam Wangchuk needed her.
Jab vo mar jaayega tab hosh mein aaoge kya?
Tab WhatsApp status lagaaoge?
Tab 3 idiots ki clips share karoge?
Lekin abhi vo zinda hai toh support nahi karoge?
Dear Indian youth,
It’s time to distinguish between reel-life heroes and real-life heroes.
Sonam jaise heere iss desh ko dobara kabhi nahi milenge.
Baithe mt raho, pahucho Jantar Mantar.
Sonam wangchuk sir is on hunger strike till the resignation of Education minister,
Please 🥺 come and support peacefully at Jantar Mantar,
It's for you and your children not personal.🤯