S Sarkar

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[S Sarkar @rockysarkar]

@paulagnimitra1 @IndranilKhan we were to have dustbins every 100m but at Kalikinkar Road between ward 125 & 126 there are no dustbins and people are throwing garbage everywhere. Please help arrange dustbins every 100m. @kmc_kolkata

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

A Jhalmuri break during the NDA meeting at Bharat Mandapam. All our leaders greatly enjoyed this snack!

[S Sarkar @rockysarkar]

@pnbindia India pestered for KYC to my senior citizen mom. She finally did it but they didn’t do it properly. cKYC not updated and neither she is marked as senior citizen. She ends up getting lower interest rates! @RBI waste of government! @narendramodi @nsitharaman

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

These are the prime beneficiaries of the Laxmi Bhandar Scheme under Mamata Banerjee.

The scheme was meant for poor women but it was going to TMC's special vote bank.

[Amit Malviya @amitmalviya]

What Mamata Banerjee couldn’t do in 15 years, Suvendu Adhikari and the BJP government have delivered in just 15 days.

🚇 RVNL has successfully completed the long-delayed girder launching work at the Chingrighata crossing section of Kolkata Metro’s Orange Line, ahead of schedule.

This 366-metre missing link is critical for completing the New Garia-Airport Metro corridor, which will connect Kolkata’s southern suburbs with the IT hub in Sector V.

Why was this project stalled for years?

Because the Mamata Banerjee government repeatedly denied permission for traffic diversion. RVNL had only sought night traffic blockades over two successive weekends to complete the work.

The moment the political obstruction ended, the work moved at speed.

For years, Bengal was told delays were “technical”. Turns out, the biggest technical problem was the TMC government itself.

[Dear Men @Dear_Men_Life]

@supriya_sule What the Hell.

This Supriya Sule's (MP)whole family is in politics from Father to Brother.

Her father was CM of Maharashtra

These Politico Dynast can't find single Indian university to get graduated?

Meanwhile, Fees of MBA in NYU = $135,840= 1.3CR INR.

Corruption Killing Us

[Mamta Kumari @mamtabhumihar]

@supriya_sule It's good nah...

Send your kids to foreign universities for higher studies and ask Indian GenZ to come on road for revolution.

[Padmaja Joshi @PadmajaJoshi]

Finally went to Avijit Sarkar’s house, 5 years after he was lynched during post poll violence in 2021.

Even today, his brother runs a shelter for rescued strays.

He has built a little memorial to the murdered puppies right next to Avijit’s memorial.

3 murdered puppies were laid to rest under a Tulsi plant.

Bishwajeet told us how Avijit’s killers’ family still lives next door to them, but they never hurt them even when BJP came to power.

Because violence is NOT ‘political culture of Bengal’

[Rohit @Iam_Rohit_G]

Number of Tweets and Videos posted against BJP for burning of 2 TMC offices in West Bengal :

Ravish Kumar : 3
Arfa Sherwani : 6
Sakshi Joshi : 2
Ajit Anjum : 5
Abhishar Dalla : 7
Dhruv Rathee : 4
Pragya Mishra : 10
Ashutosh : 2
4PM : 20 Videos

Number of Tweets and Videos posted against TMC after Murd*r of Suvendu Adhikary's PA :

Ravish Kumar : 0
Arfa Sherwani : 0
Sakshi Joshi : 0
Ajit Anjum : 0
Abhishar Dalla : 0
Dhruv Rathee : 0
Pragya Mishra : 0
Ashutosh : 0
4PM : 0 Videos

For them 2 Party Office of TMC>> Life of a PA

[S Sarkar @rockysarkar]

#NewProfilePic

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Aren’t they talking to each other anymore?

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT Data point:
49 constituencies in West Bengal had winning margins lower than number of electors deleted in SiR
26 won by BJP, 21 by TMC, 2 by Cong
Average victory margin of BJP in 207 seats was an impressive 27,805 ,
Note: total of 90 lakh names deleted during electoral rolls. Over 34 lakh appeals pending before tribunals which is a sizeable number.
Net net: SIR may have affected marginal seats BUT did NOT influence final verdict in WB. It was HIGH ANTI INCUMBENCY in several regions that cost TMC after 15 years in power .
More details here: https://t.co/R44Xdn3STH

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

The results of the recent state elections have been dramatic by any measure.

But for me, this image will remain the most unforgettable outcome of the elections.

More than 166,000 votes were cast between the two leading candidates in this constituency in Tamil Nadu.

And history was changed by just one vote.

This image should be shown in every school in the country & perhaps around the world.

So that every child understands that when they grow up, the greatest power they may possess is the Power of One.

The power of their one vote.

[Open Letter @openletteryt]

when TMC wins, BJP workers are killed

now BJP won, still BJP workers are being killed

this is the condition when security forces are patrolling every corner

meanwhile, the rot in ecosystem runs so deep that everyone just stays mum on this for the sake of their "ideology"

[BJYM @BJYM]

If you ever think Congress can be trusted, remember that Rahul Gandhi called @mkstalin his brother! 😆
#TamilNadu

[Amit Kumar Sindhi @AMIT_GUJJU]

People who tweeted against the BJP after two TMC offices were allegedly ransacked by local people:

Dhruv Rathee
Sagarika Ghose
Arfa Sherwani
Saba Naqvi
Rohini Singh
Ravish Kumar
Akash Banerjee
Ajit Anjum

People who tweeted against the TMC over the killing of Suvendu Adhikari’s PA:

None of the above (404 error - not found)

For them, a TMC party office seems to matter more than a person’s life.

[BJP @BJP4India]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞.

They’re crying foul over the SIR process, but the numbers tell a different story. TMC won 8 of the top 10 seats with the highest deletions. Their own victories expose the claim — if the process were unfair, how did they benefit the most?

𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬. 📊

[BJP @BJP4India]

TMC’s record of violence has finally caught up with it.

Shova Majumdar, an 85-year-old woman, was brutally assaulted by Trinamool Congress workers ahead of the 2021 elections in West Bengal. They came looking for her son. When they couldn’t find him, they turned their violence on her. She later succumbed to her injuries.

This is the reality of TMC’s street-level politics — intimidation, brutality, and fear.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲, 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠-𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐚 𝐣𝐢, 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞.

[Dibakar Dutta (দিবাকর দত্ত) @dibakardutta_]

There is one news story that I will never forget in this lifetime. It is about a man named Avijit Sarkar.

He was the first person to be killed by the TMC after winning the 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election.

Minutes before his gruesome murder, Avijit Sarkar took to Facebook to narrate that he had been surrounded by a mob of TMC workers.

He did not know what was written in his destiny on that fateful night. Look at the date - 2nd May 2021.

This was the last time Avijit posted on Facebook.

In the following weeks, TMC workers killed a dozen more people as part of a coordinated wave of political violence.

But the story of Avijit Sarkar never left my mind.

Avijit was holding a puppy in his hand and narrating his ordeal. At that point, he did not know that he would be killed.

I was tasked to translate his dying testimony from Bangla to English so that non-Bengalis can know his story.

Bangla is my mother tongue, and every word he spoke captivated the anxiety that a man experiences when his life is in danger.

While writing the news report, I broke down several times because I knew what happened after the video ended. It was a traumatic experience.

Death has always been a triggering subject for me. The fact that I was new to this industry and that I was already suffering from mental health issues made it worse.

It has been 5 years since that incident. Tears have dried up, but not the rage that continues to stir inside me.

This is why I have taken a pledge. As long as I am alive, I will make sure that the story of Avijit lives on.

I will leave you with something I wrote in my diary back then -

"Ek din bichar hobe. Ek din sasti hobe, adalat e na hole rastai" ( One day, there will be justice. One day, the perpetrators will be punished, either in court or on the road).