umar shabbeer

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[umar shabbeer @umar_shabbeer]

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I’m founder of Groundup coffee in Blr, maybe we can work something out here 🙋🏻‍♂️

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@itspiyanka The battering rams, they came thru when needed most haha

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@harnidhish The best burger is at middle room. That one particular one!

[Mansoor Khan | ಮನ್ಸೂರ್ ಖಾನ್ @MansoorKhanINC]

Yesterday, I received my Certificate of Election as a Member of Parliament in the #RajyaSabha, elected by the members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

This is my first public office. I do not take that lightly.

I stood outside the Vidhana Soudha with a copy of the Constitution of India in my hand and made myself a promise: everything I do from here gets measured against that book.

I have spent nearly two decades in the Indian National Congress, almost all of it behind the scenes, in the organisation. Many people outside the party and outside of Bengaluru Central Lok Sabha constituency have not heard of me. I understand the question: who is this person, and why has he been given this responsibility? I want to answer that honestly, and then tell you what I plan to do with it.

My father, @KRahmanKhan2, served as a Union Minister and a Member of Parliament. In the mid-2000s, when he was at the height of his career, I started mine. I did not start in his office or in Delhi. I started on the ground, as an ordinary party worker at the block level in the Jayanagar Assembly constituency.

That was my choice, shaped by a value system my father instilled early: that public life is earned from the ground, not inherited from an office. Over nearly two decades, I worked my way through the organisation, from a block-level KPCC worker to AICC Secretary. The party trusted me with responsibilities in Telangana and Kerala, where we were fortunate enough to help form governments.

In 2024, I was given the opportunity to contest the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha election. It was hard fought. In the course of that election, serious discrepancies in the voter rolls of my constituency came to light. Under the direction of the party leadership, we undertook a thorough investigation into these findings. Shri @RahulGandhi ji recognised their gravity, took them up at the national level, and made it the Vote Chori campaign that shook the country. What started in Bangalore Central is now a much larger reckoning with electoral integrity. That fight is far from over.

That climb, posting by posting, campaign by campaign, taught me more than any office could. And I want to be honest: this is not an arrival. This is a beginning. We are on the ground floor.

For those who do not know my style of working: I am a data-driven person. In business and in politics, my approach has been the same. I listen, I try to understand the real problem, I find the bottleneck, and I work to solve it as efficiently as I can.

I do not cut corners on policy. I am new to this role, and I know it. But the Rajya Sabha demands seriousness, and I intend to match it. What sounds good and what actually works are often different things. I care about the difference, and that will define how I work in Parliament.

Bengaluru is home to some of the finest startups in this country. The people of this city work day and night to contribute to India's growth and its GDP. The best of them build in public: they share their process, invite scrutiny, iterate in the open.

I want to take a page from that book.

I have always been a Bengaluru boy at heart. I grew up surrounded by this city's technocratic culture, and I connect with it deeply.

I will try to represent in public.

And through that, involve the people of this country in the legislative process itself.

My research, my positions on policy, my understanding of the issues will be shared openly through X, Substack, social media, long-form articles, and every other medium that helps these ideas reach the people, before they are final. Every first pass will be open to suggestions and criticism.

I will set up a web portal and as many other touchpoints as needed, online and offline, so that any citizen can reach me with policy ideas, grievances, or questions that fall within the scope of what a Rajya Sabha MP can address. These access points will grow as the feedback comes in and the needs become clearer. I will be upfront about what I can do and what I cannot, so nobody's time is wasted.

I will scale my core team and its capabilities to encompass all the new responsibilities that come with this position. That will take time, but it is the very first thing I am investing in.

I invite the media, educationists, policy specialists, and every citizen of this country to engage with this process. What I pursue, why I pursue it, and how I plan to act will be publicly documented and open for input at every stage. The goal is that no one goes unheard.

I represent Karnataka in Parliament, and this state will always be my primary focus. But I also get the opportunity to sit in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. That is a responsibility to the country. The issues I raise will serve Karnataka first, and India always. This post, and everything that follows, is addressed to every citizen of this country.

The party has entrusted me with this platform. I intend to use it to contribute to what the Indian National Congress stands for, and I will strive my very best to earn that trust every day.

I am deeply grateful to CPP Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji, @INCIndia President Shri Mallikarjun @kharge avaru, Leader of the Opposition Shri @RahulGandhi ji, Member of Parliament and AICC General Secretary Smt. @priyankagandhi ji, AICC General Secretary (Organisation) Shri @kcvenugopalmp ji, AICC General Secretary In-charge Shri @rssurjewala ji, Karnataka Chief Minister Shri @DKShivakumar avaru, Shri @siddaramaiah avaru, @INCKarnataka President Shri @HariprasadBK2 avaru, and all @INCIndia leaders for placing their trust in me.

And to the workers, the ones who have been with this party through every season, in the heat and in the rain, booth by booth: this seat belongs to you as much as anyone.

The certificate is in my hand. The oath, before the Vice President of India, lies ahead. But in my mind, the work has already begun.

ಕರ್ನಾಟಕಕ್ಕಾಗಿ. ಭಾರತಕ್ಕಾಗಿ. ಸಂವಿಧಾನಕ್ಕಾಗಿ. ಕೆಲಸ ಆರಂಭ.

For Karnataka. For India. For the Constitution. The work begins.

[roxane @sebsclaren]

today’s podium 😭😭😭😭😭

[Mansoor Khan | ಮನ್ಸೂರ್ ಖಾನ್ @MansoorKhanINC]

Today I filed my nomination for the Rajya Sabha at Vidhana Soudha, in the presence of Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri @DKShivakumar avaru, former Chief Minister Shri @siddaramaiah avaru, @INCKarnataka President Shri @HariprasadBK2 avaru, and AICC GS and MP Shri @NasirHussainINC avaru.

This is a big responsibility, and I don’t take it lightly. I’m grateful to the @INCIndia leadership for their trust, and to the countless party workers, colleagues, and citizens who have stood with me along the way. I will work hard to serve Karnataka and the nation.
#Rajyasabha

[umar shabbeer @umar_shabbeer]

@MaliniP @ganeshchetan @INCIndia @arivalayam In Andhra, All parties are allies of the BJP and work together in the parliament. Why is it so hard for yall to imagine that happening with the congress and Tamil Nadu?

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping their captors and making their way home

The group is believed to have travelled around 17 km together led by a corgi across highways and fields

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@virsanghvi @TanushreePande The congress only needs 2-3% upward shift in its vote share to form a government in 2029. BJP and the sangh parivar know this.

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@brahma_4u Benki brewing tools is already making in India.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

I think if March 2019 me
and March 2026 me sat in a room,
they wouldn't believe each other.

[Abhay Gandotra @Abhaygandotra]

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@NoAlphaLimits @Abhaygandotra

[Mallikarjun Kharge @kharge]

The Indian National Congress (INC) unequivocally condemns the targeted assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, in a military strike carried out without a formal declaration of war. The INC extends its deepest condolences to the Supreme Leader's family, to the people of Iran, and the Shia community around the world in this moment of profound grief. We stand in solidarity with them as they navigate this grave crisis.

India's foreign policy is anchored in a commitment to the peaceful settlement of disputes through dialogue and respect for international law, as mandated in Article 51 of the Constitution of India. These principles-sovereign equality, non- intervention and the promotion of peace are foundational to India's civilisational values. Given this, the conflict in West Asia is deeply antithetical to our commitment to Vasudhaiva Kutumbaka ("the world is one family"), Mahatma Gandhi's doctrine of ahimsa (non-violence), Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's policy of non-alignment.

The targeted use of force to destabilise the leadership and governing structures of a sovereign state whether in Iran or earlier in Venezuela-signals a disturbing revival of regime-change doctrines and coercive unilateralism. It also contravenes the United Nations Charter-especially Article 2(4), which expressly prohibits "the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state," and Article 2(7), which forbids intervention in matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state. A targeted killing of a sitting head of state strikes at the heart of these international rules. Sovereignty is not conditional, and political legitimacy cannot be manufactured through force.

The INC reiterates that it is the inalienable right of every nation's citizens to determine their own political future. No external power has the authority to engineer regime change or dictate the leadership of another state. Such actions amount to imperialism and are fundamentally incompatible with a genuinely rules- based international order.

[Sasikanth Senthil @s_kanth]

This is how protests happen across the world. No one at the Olympics, on Wall Street, or in Davos says, "Please don’t protest here, it might hurt our prestige." Public events attract public scrutiny, that’s the point.

What’s striking is the selective outrage. When the BJP disrupted proceedings during the Commonwealth Games era, or when bold claims were made that Indians felt ashamed of their citizenship before 2014, there were no sermons about "national embarrassment." It was defended as political expression. But today, a non-violent protest is painted as sabotage. The same silence also surrounds uncomfortable questions from the optics of trade negotiations with the US under Trump that critics argue diluted India’s bargaining posture, to controversies and global chatter linking "Hardeep Puri," "Anil Ambani," "Maharaja of Jaipur" names to the broader Epstein disclosures. On those fronts, the outrage brigade suddenly goes quiet.

And when large sections of the media sideline the opposition for years, avoid tough questions to those in power, and shrink space for debate, what remains for the opposition except visible, non-violent protest?

National prestige is not so fragile that it collapses at the sight of dissent. In fact, a confident democracy is one that can host a global summit and still accommodate criticism without hysteria!
@INCIndia @IYC

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