Shashank Rao

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[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@krishnabgowda @GBA_office After footpath encroachments, please look into road encroachments like this throughout the city. This particular one is opposite Modi Hospital gate in Rajajinagar
@srivatsayb

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@ManipalHealth I got a call from someone claiming to be from your pharmacy, ready to deliver medicines to my house within 2 hrs after my doctor appointment. Why does some random person have access to my prescription? No patient privacy, doctor-patient confidentiality?

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

One of your election issues was conducting BBMP elections. It’s been 2 years now. When is that happening?

[Lavanya Ballal Jain official @LavanyaBallal]

Bengaluru is in a pathetic state due to 13 years of BJP control over BBMP. We are suffering from the misrule of BJP, which has left the city in a shambles.

Shameless bjp also had amnesia

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

Until your dept is focused only on fine collection, which in turn results in corruption, things won’t change. You should focus more on educating the people on how to use the roads properly with lane discipline, starting with your own people. Police cars and bikes flout rules most

[alok kumar @alokkumar6994]

We lost our 2023 batch IPS Probationer Harsha Vardhan to a road accident this evening near Hassan. After finishing training at KPA he was proceeding to Hassan for District training

Young & precious life lost

“#Road safety needs due attention at all levels”

Deeply saddened🙏

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@IWTKQuiz Is this including the practice matches in that series? The highest ever aggregate for a batter in the ashes is 974, by The Don

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@airindia currently at Mumbai airport, your self drop baggage drop is not functioning. Your staff are missing at check in counters. What is the use of @DigiYatraOffice that you promote so much and say we get seamless check in experience? The bag drop is taking close to 40 min

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

And when we try and pay, there’s an error. Your helpline number is useless because nobody answers the call. How to get this issue resolved? If a case is opened, without resolution it gets closed. You’re running one of the worst possible shops when it comes to visa services.

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@USAndIndia why are you taking us for a ride with regards to visa applications? By your own admission, you couldn’t provide appointments due to limited staff and capabilities on your end. Yet you are making us pay the visa fee again saying the application expired.

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@USAndChennai do you have a phone number where I can talk to someone regarding a query for B1/B2 visa appointment?

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@vfsglobalcare @VFSGlobal what are the timings to collect passport at Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore? And are you open tomorrow 28-September-2023?

[Srivatsa @srivatsayb]

Exactly one year ago, on September 7th, the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ commenced its extraordinary journey from Kanyakumari, “The Land's End" at India's southernmost tip.

For the following 145 days, Rahul Gandhi embarked on a 4081-kilometer Padayatra, crossing the rugged Pir Panjal mountains to reach his ancestral homeland of Kashmir, where he unfurled the tricolor at the historic Lal Chowk in Srinagar.

Lakhs of Indians walked alongside him, symbolizing the Yatra's core message: A United India is a strong and resilient India, and the path to progress lies in love and compassion, not in hatred.

Reflecting back to the early days of planning the Yatra, it was impossible for me to anticipate the sheer magnitude of this endeavour, and as we stood at Kanyakumari a year ago, none of us who were deeply involved could have foreseen the profound impact this idea would have on our political history.

The initial days were marked by excitement and chaos; there was no precedent for a campaign of this scale. However, as we reached Kochi in Kerala and witnessed more than 5 lakh people marching with us, practically the entire city joining us, it began to dawn on us that the Yatra was destined to grow bigger and bigger.

Rahul Gandhi has himself said that it took him some time to absorb and comprehend the magnitude of what was transpiring. Here was a man who was walking 25 kms a day, waking up at 5 AM, meeting, talking and listening to thousands of fellow Indians, each with a different opinion and story to share with him. I can only imagine the catharsis the man went through during the Yatra.

I have said this before and will say it again - no leader in the world could have done what Rahul Gandhi did and no one ever will. It takes a special person, someone who has felt a lot of pain and equally love, someone who can make a stranger comfortable enough to share their innermost feelings in just the few minutes they walked with him. Like he says, Bharat Mata is the voice of every Indian. And he listened. (of-course, only someone as fit as he is, which no leader is, could have done it :) )

Bharat Jodo Yatra is an epochal and transformative moment in India's history. It defied the belief that the politics of division and hatred propagated by the BJP could not be challenged, and it countered the notion that India was irrevocably headed towards an authoritarian state, eroding our nation's social fabric. The Yatra breathed life into highlighting Modi's economic failures, especially in job creation and inflation, which had been purposefully overlooked by the Godi media.

The electoral impact of the Yatra is undeniable, with the Congress decisively defeating the BJP in Himachal and Karnataka, where the Yatra spanned for more than 17 days. A year ago, few believed the opposition could challenge Modi, but in the wake of the Yatra and the formation of the INDIA alliance, the BJP is now grappling with desperation and fear attempting even more distractions.

The Yatra continues, with the next seven months set to witness the Bharat Jodo movement growing even more bigger, culminating in the BJP's defeat in 2024.

September 7th will be remembered in history as the day when an epic journey commenced, leaving an indelible mark on the course of Indian history.

Judega Bharat, Jeetega INDIA 🇮🇳

Jodo Jodo, Bharat Jodo….

P.S - To the Bharat Yatris and the Bharat Jodo Team, a big thank you. Their hard work and passion had made this historic journey possible and memorable.

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

Enforce rules to save lives, not to collect money and reach target

[alok kumar @alokkumar6994]

Booking cases using Speed Radar Guns for over speeding on Bangalore- Mysore Expressway

Appreciate action by SP Ramanagara & his team👍

“Follow traffic rules to save lives, not to save fine amount “

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

Prime example of how even top police officers don’t understand the concept of expressways. Speed limit of 90? Why did you build that road then? Also will these cops jump to the middle of the road to stop a speeding car? Idiotic

[alok kumar @alokkumar6994]

Booking cases using Speed Radar Guns for over speeding on Bangalore- Mysore Expressway

Appreciate action by SP Ramanagara & his team👍

“Follow traffic rules to save lives, not to save fine amount “

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@suneel_r 5 mins movie pause maadidre could have enjoyed the fight better

[Prajwal @prajwalmanipal]

This is extreme. If Congress is also going down this route it does not bode well for free speech and criticism.
https://t.co/0Gn0prPxGy

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

@srivatsayb Congratulations @srivatsayb !

[Shashank Rao @raoshashank86]

Very happy to see @srivatsayb succeed!

[Anusha Ravi Sood @anusharavi10]

Success has many fathers but the people who truly deserve appreciation for leading @INCIndia to this performance in #KarnatakaElections2023 are @kharge, @siddaramaiah, @DKShivakumar, @rssurjewala, @RahulGandhi, Sunil Kanugolu, @s_kanth, @srivatsayb & @srinivasiyc & their teams.

[Srivatsa @srivatsayb]

If Satyapal Malik had spoken against Congress & Rahul Gandhi,

Arnab, B&D, Tihadi, Kanwal, Anjana and Navika would have shouted 24*7 and demanded NIA, CBI, IT, ED and every investigation possible!

Satyapal Malik, a former BJP leader and former J&K governor EXPOSED Modi in Pulwama, Corruption, Adani etc,

But Pin Drop Silence and Total blackout by Modia!

The same media showed Ghulam on TV for days and every channel took his interview!

[India Wants To Know: India's First Panel Quiz Show @IWTKQuiz]

If you want a dark satire on rampant corruption in Indian politics, the nexus between real estate magnates and bureaucracy, news media and businesses, there is no better film than Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron.

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