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[spar @thepolicyhoe]

You sound like the RSS folks who thought like this about the freedom fighters. Fortunately our freedom fighters kept fighting the good fight and drove the British away.

Some day you yourself may have to protest against the govt. Don't mock our hard won right to protest.

[Sameer @BesuraTaansane]

You went to US, you didn’t get a job, so you came back to India to freeload. At your age I was heading an MNCs India operations and had over 50 employees working with me

Get a life @abhijeet_dipke

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

Iss admi ko jitni gaali du utni kam hai 💩

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

History has been written today.

On 10 June 2026, Hon'ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji completes 4,399 consecutive days in office, surpassing the 4,398 days of India's first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ji, to become the longest continuously serving elected Prime Minister in the history of our Republic.

Pause for a moment and reflect on what this truly means.

India is not a nation in the ordinary sense. It is a civilisation of 1.4 billion souls. A land of 22 scheduled languages and hundreds of dialects; of many faiths, castes, communities and creeds; of countless regions and walks of life, living side by side. We are the world's largest democracy, with an electorate of nearly 98 crore, more than the people living in all of Europe. This makes ours perhaps the most complex electoral exercise across the globe.

And yet, out of these 1.4 billion people, the same leader has been entrusted with the nation: again, and again, and again. 2014. 2019. 2024. Three successive mandates from the people of India, each one a renewed act of faith.

To win the trust of so vast and diverse a nation even once is remarkable. To win it three times over, without a break, is extraordinary.

Consider, too, how different the two eras are. Pandit Nehru ji earned his mandate in the formative decades of the Republic, an age of one-party dominance in which the Congress towered over a young and fragmented opposition. Narendra Modi ji has earned his in a far more demanding democracy: the age of coalitions, of powerful regional forces and fierce multi-party competition. And he has met that challenge in full: winning absolute majorities in his own right in 2014 and 2019 (the first single-party majorities since 1984), and then forging and leading a victorious coalition in 2024. To command the trust of so fiercely contested a nation, mandate after mandate, is by any measure the harder achievement.

On this historic occasion, I bow to the wisdom of the Indian voter and salute the Hon'ble Prime Minister's tireless devotion to the nation.

May he be blessed with robust health and a long life, and may the people of Bharat grant him many more mandates in the service of our motherland.

@narendramodi

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

Yeah because Arvind Kejriwal lookmaxed his way into becoming CM 🤦‍♂️

[Viraj Sheth @viraj_sheth]

abhijeet dipke neither a looksmaxxer nor a captivating speaker and to add to that gets framemogged by anyone who stands next to him. no traces of any kind of aura.

a genz party cannot underdeliver on these metrics. they need a change of face if they are to stand any real chance. stat.

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

Movement shuru hone se pehle band krwado. They've just started and knowing Saurav I'm sure it'll be an inclusive space, nobody will be denied access.

[Aviral Mishra @misrainka_ladka]

Why is there no non-binary representation, minority representation? Each one of them is a cisgender, heterosexual, heteronormative binary hindu man. Not a single non-binary person in sight. So what exactly is this party trying to represent?

You cannot claim to be the voice of young people while conveniently erasing marginalized identities from the table. Representation is not some optional “progressive add-on”, it is the bare minimum in a democracy.

At this point, CJP is starting to look dangerously similar to the same traditional political parties it claims to challenge. Because if your politics only changes the slogans but keeps the same power structures intact, then congratulations, you are not fighting the system anymore, you are becoming it.

The revolution cannot be led by a boys’ club wearing reformist merch. 🌈

@Cockroachisback @CJP_2029 @Cockroach4India

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

Reminder, this man is a senior advocate 🤦‍♂

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

Rahul Gandhi blaming Prime Minister Modi for the NEET paper leak is proof that the man has no intellectual equipment left beyond foreign trips and Soros-money outrage.

Every problem in India, according to Rahul, has one answer: Modi. Paper leak? Modi. Weather changes? Modi. Congress loses? Democracy stolen. China smiles? Silence. Pakistan sponsors terror? Silence.

Rahul Gandhi shows inanity, entitlement and a frightening inability to think beyond Modi-hatred.

At some point, India must ask: does Rahul Gandhi even understand governance?

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

He's literally asking the right questions, as the leader of opposition should be. nobody can say the opposition doesn't act. They do, the fence sitters of our country just choose not to listen

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Read this story. Carefully.

CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.

Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.

TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.

And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.

Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.

So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?

Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.

The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.

To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.

And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Read this story. Carefully.

CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.

Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.

TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.

And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.

Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.

So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?

Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.

The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.

To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.

And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

This is soo wrong. NOTA exists for a reason. Press that button. It's important from a statistical point of view. If someday NOTA gets majority votes, even though the next major party wins, all pol parties including BJP will be faced with the mass discontent of NOTA voters.

[Vijay Marathe @Fintech00]

The fun fact is Each and every Indian hate the BJP right now but they dont have any option to vote other than BJP.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

Extremely cheap! Norway’s largest newspaper needs URGENT sensitisation on racism and media ethics.
Whatever the context, Narendra Modi remains India’s Prime Minister, and a graphic of this nature reflects nothing but a deeply colonial mindset. This is hardly an example of the “freest press” in action and warrants an IMMEDIATE apology from @Aftenposten!

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

To become a real thing they'll need to do reach out to people on ground and move beyond twitter's echo chamber.

CJP or no CJP, at some point we need a massive public movement against this govt's indifference to major public issues and the ideology they stand for

[g4uri @okjaaneman]

im sry but is cockroach janta party going to be real thing or its just satire?

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

we basically got Justice Bobde as CJI again but with a different face and for a longer period. This man will be CJI for 2 years, we're cooked

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

CJI Surya Kant responds to a claim that criminal cases are being slapped against young people protesting on streets and their careers can be destroyed -

"They should not threat and create law and order problem. Everybody has a right to peaceful and lawful protest...as permissible in law can be done. But not come on streets and create problems for the common man"

The CJI bench was hearing a plea for timely naming of the Navi Mumbai International Airport.

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Archives | Surya Kant faces allegations of grave misconduct. In 2012, a real-estate agent accused the judge of having participated in illegal property dealings involving undervaluation and cash transactions worth several crores. In 2017, a prisoner in Punjab filed a complaint listing eight cases heard by Kant, and alleged that the judge had accepted bribes to grant bail in these.

Read the entire report by Atul Dev: https://t.co/XaLUHj5o6k #cji

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

@amitdwivedi1008 IPhone is really good now at blocking these spam calls. IPhone call screening is a life saver since the latest software update. I no longer get these random spam calls as it filters them out themselves. You should consider getting one at some point in future.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

https://t.co/pzMhhmqr24

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

@nixxin @AshwiniVaishnaw @SecretaryMEITY What had you tweeted now even more interested to know :p

[Pragya Paarijat Singh @parijatpragya]

Slow down
Cook my favourite food
Do my laundry
Sip my favourite wine
Spend time with family
Play with my baby dog
And maybe do nothing at all.
Stop glorifying over-work!

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

The untrammelled expansion of the IT Rules 2021 started in 2022 and continues to expand through several amendments.

This fractured approach to tech regulation is what happens when the govt has no clear or real intent to structurally regulate digital platforms.

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

New blog post:

Digital structural authoritarianism – India’s IT Rules 2021 Draft Amendment --

https://t.co/KupsegSMLf

[A guest post by Rudraksh Lakra.]

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

This is incredibly disappointing to see, but also not surprising - it’s just visible evidence of how broken constitutional litigation is in India, and has been for a while (and why, after every law, people beg others not to rush to the SC - but to no avail).

Brief 🧵.

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

Yeah this is not the flex you folks think it is

[Penguin India @PenguinIndia]

Over 20,000 pirated books seized in Delhi through a collaborative crackdown led by Delhi Police with Penguin Random House India, @SimonSchusterIN & @HayHouseIndia - one of the capital’s biggest anti-piracy actions.

Read the full report: https://t.co/lWUS5K2Ee8

[spar @thepolicyhoe]

Naval's takes are becoming pretty generic now

[Naval @naval]

AI coding agents can now deliver one-shot custom apps straight to your phone.

It’s the beginning of the end for the iPhone’s dominance.