Huge Anti-Modi Student Protests Across India
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Very well written and from the heart.
Can I add one thing....the reason Congress is so desperate is that if they lose one more national election really badly Rahul Gandhi will be on a very sticky wicket, if they lose two more national elections the family will be out of Congress .
Congress and the entire state machinery is full of family loyalists over the years, if the family is out a LOT of people in many walks of life stand to lose their priveleges and money making deals, hence this desperate fight.
It would be better for the country if the family and their coterie was dislodged and a merit based political party emerged. We do need a two national parties for the health of democracy.
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How Modi's WTO stand is a far cry from UPA's weak trade policies
Whether BJP's policies help Indians or world, for that you need to understand economics which is not my subject ask @PARIKRAMA @Spectre (He is banned i think). I am too willing to learn more.
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let's forget about economics, let's ignore what some mba'ed professor in some 'indian institute of management' says... explain to me in simple terms why 300,000 indian farmers suicided between 1995 and 2015, something that is not seen in any other country... explain to me why are 70+ million indians homeless... explain to me why did a five-day-old girl die in 2012 from being taken out of a jalandhar government hospital incubator just because her parents could not pay the 200 rupees demanded by the hospital... explain to me why have 100+ farmers have already suicided in "maha rashtra" state since 2016 began, despite great hero modi ji being prime minister... explain to me why indian government is spending 65,000 to buy french fighter planes that are intended to kill pakistanis and chinese when india has so many things to spend money on first.
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Explain me what these things has to do with BJP more than Congress. Stick to the argument which you started on this thread.
These are to kill Pakistanis but to not get killed by them, for safeguarding nation so that people like you can surf internet safely and then write against them. Although i myself is against buying arms from outside, there is no choice right now. French, American, Russian will keep arming better us against each other with better and better arms and this cycle will keep on going untill both nations build up trust. Pakistan's millitary has never been independent in history, invaded Kashmir in 65, Bengal Genocide 71, did Kargil 99 foolishly mosly likely on advice of the US covertly.
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because the bjp is defending and promoting the same anti-human social/political/economic system that has caused those atrocities i listed in previous post, and declaring as "anti-national" ( whatever that means ) anyone who rejects such a system and wants progress.
india doesn't need defending... india needs radical change.
so the indian military is building itself on the the dead and broken bodies of the oppressed and the trampled??
do you really think the indian military has been a noble force in the world??
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You are arguing for the sake of argument, in reallity you have nothing to say.
Indian Army United Nations peacekeeping missions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediado you really think the indian military has been a noble force in the world??
Protests Against #India Student Leader's Arrest Spread - ABC News - #JNU #Modi #BJP Protests Against India Student Leader's Arrest Spread - ABC News via @abc
A protest that rocked a New Delhi university this week spread across India on Thursday, with students and teachers in at least 10 cities demanding the release of a student leader arrested on sedition charges and accused of being anti-Indian.
The protesters were outraged by nationally televised scenes of Kanhaiya Kumar, the student union president at Jawaharlal Nehru University, being kicked and punched while he was escorted to a court hearing Wednesday, renewing allegations that the Hindu nationalist governing party is intolerant.
He was arrested last Friday over his participation in events where anti-India slogans were allegedly shouted. A New Delhi court has ordered him to stay in custody for two weeks. The court will hear his bail plea on Friday.
The demands for the student's freedom in the Indian capital were met by mobs of Hindu nationalists, including many lawyers, attacking students and accusing them of being anti-Indian.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and other Hindu groups accuse left-wing student groups of anti-nationalism because of their criticism of the 2013 execution of a Kashmiri separatist convicted of an attack on Parliament.
Kumar's treatment and attacks on teachers who supported him have triggered allegations that the Modi government and the BJP are cracking down on political dissent in the name of patriotism.
Soon after the protests began, India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted that anyone shouting anti-India slogans "will not be tolerated or spared."
The violence by lawyers occurred despite the Supreme Court ordering the police to ensure security in the court and has drawn wide criticism of the lawyers and police.
"Such a deliberate obstruction of justice amounts to constitutional contempt and cannot go unpunished," said Maja Daruwala of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.
The Bar Council of India said it had appointed a three-member panel to investigate the violence by lawyers.
"We are going to take a strong action against them," Council president Manan Kumar Mishra said. "We are going to punish the lawyers if they are found guilty," he said before apologizing on behalf of the lawyer community.
On Thursday, students in at least 10 Indian cities marched through the streets and denounced Kumar's arrest.
In New Delhi, thousands of students, professors and journalists gathered in the center of the city. They carried flowers as a sign of peace, Indian flags and placards saying, "Free Speech under attack" and "Just because I don't agree, doesn't mean I am an anti-national."
Police said the rally was not authorized, but allowed the march to proceed to a central space used frequently for public protests.
In the southern city of Chennai, 40 students were arrested after they clashed with police.
In Kolkata, police were on alert as two groups of students held rival rallies in the Jadavpur University campus. Student groups affiliated with the BJP demanded strict action against Kumar and others who they accused of being anti-Indian.
A protest that rocked a New Delhi university this week spread across India on Thursday, with students and teachers in at least 10 cities demanding the release of a student leader arrested on sedition charges and accused of being anti-Indian.
The protesters were outraged by nationally televised scenes of Kanhaiya Kumar, the student union president at Jawaharlal Nehru University, being kicked and punched while he was escorted to a court hearing Wednesday, renewing allegations that the Hindu nationalist governing party is intolerant.
He was arrested last Friday over his participation in events where anti-India slogans were allegedly shouted. A New Delhi court has ordered him to stay in custody for two weeks. The court will hear his bail plea on Friday.
The demands for the student's freedom in the Indian capital were met by mobs of Hindu nationalists, including many lawyers, attacking students and accusing them of being anti-Indian.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and other Hindu groups accuse left-wing student groups of anti-nationalism because of their criticism of the 2013 execution of a Kashmiri separatist convicted of an attack on Parliament.
Kumar's treatment and attacks on teachers who supported him have triggered allegations that the Modi government and the BJP are cracking down on political dissent in the name of patriotism.
Soon after the protests began, India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted that anyone shouting anti-India slogans "will not be tolerated or spared."
The violence by lawyers occurred despite the Supreme Court ordering the police to ensure security in the court and has drawn wide criticism of the lawyers and police.
"Such a deliberate obstruction of justice amounts to constitutional contempt and cannot go unpunished," said Maja Daruwala of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.
The Bar Council of India said it had appointed a three-member panel to investigate the violence by lawyers.
"We are going to take a strong action against them," Council president Manan Kumar Mishra said. "We are going to punish the lawyers if they are found guilty," he said before apologizing on behalf of the lawyer community.
On Thursday, students in at least 10 Indian cities marched through the streets and denounced Kumar's arrest.
In New Delhi, thousands of students, professors and journalists gathered in the center of the city. They carried flowers as a sign of peace, Indian flags and placards saying, "Free Speech under attack" and "Just because I don't agree, doesn't mean I am an anti-national."
Police said the rally was not authorized, but allowed the march to proceed to a central space used frequently for public protests.
In the southern city of Chennai, 40 students were arrested after they clashed with police.
In Kolkata, police were on alert as two groups of students held rival rallies in the Jadavpur University campus. Student groups affiliated with the BJP demanded strict action against Kumar and others who they accused of being anti-Indian.
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American news website 0 credibility
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They rode the coat tails of previous NDA.
Economically they did not introduce anything revolutionary and started putting on the brakes by allowing the unleashing of credit fuelled capital spending while promotion their social programs on the backs of reckless subsidies of energy and fertilizer.....while not taking any time or effort to bring in genuine structural reform. Its why the crash in UPA II was especially bad and quite external to any scams/lack of leadership etc..
Thats why to me only Narasimha Rao congress administration is one that bears any merit when we are talking in pure economic terms about congress admins.
His lot are a broken record player stuck on repeat.
As the heat comes on them, the speed and volume of repeating will proportionally increase.
It will be better sure. But it is now becoming antithesis to the very concept of congress.
I wish congress one day will go back to the format it had for a short period under Narasimha Rao and improve from there....but now it is next to impossible...."Gandhis" have re-emerged and sunk their tentacles everywhere again.
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Have you heard the story about why NS was chosen as PM? Apparently it was because Sonia thought that he was too old and so his bad health would prevent him from becoming a good PM thus keeping the seat warm for the Gandhi family. Unfortunately for her, as soon as he became PM he started to energize like the eveready bunny, he walked with a spring to his step and his health improved. This was a miscalculation on the part of Sonia and lucky for India, if he had been an ineffective old crow then who knows we may well have gone the way of the USSR, we were certainly following similarly stupid policies.
This is what I dislike most about the family, they always put their interest before that of the nation. ....and in my opinion Rajiv Gandhi was the worst PM we ever had....think Sikh genocide, Shah Bano case, LTTE,allowing the culprits of the Bhopal tragedy to escape, bofors ...I could go on.....he was TERRIBLE.....and half the airports and hospitals in the country are named after him!
#Kashmir was never integral part of #India: Arundhati Roy. #Pakistan Kashmir was never integral part of India: Arundhati : The Hindu - Mobile edition …\
Activist Arundhati Roy, who created a controversy by questioning Jammu and Kashmir's accession to the Union, on Sunday said the State was never an integral part of India.
“Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this,” the Booker Prize winner said.
Ms. Roy alleged that India became “colonising power” soon after its Independence from the British rule.
She was speaking at a seminar on the theme ‘Wither Kashmir: Freedom or enslavement' organised by the Coalition of Civil Societies (CCS) here.
Activist Arundhati Roy, who created a controversy by questioning Jammu and Kashmir's accession to the Union, on Sunday said the State was never an integral part of India.
“Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this,” the Booker Prize winner said.
Ms. Roy alleged that India became “colonising power” soon after its Independence from the British rule.
She was speaking at a seminar on the theme ‘Wither Kashmir: Freedom or enslavement' organised by the Coalition of Civil Societies (CCS) here.
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@Who.Cares : See bro this is the problem when you don't care
to read properly, you misinterpret. The above pics from Delhi shows rally of JNU students protesting arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar who was innocent and now released, and was arrested for sedition charges. The second pic is of a rally in Kolkatta against the anti-national people who did this rally. There is nothing anti-modi about it. Plus the real culprit of all this Umar Khalid who started all this.
to read properly, you misinterpret. The above pics from Delhi shows rally of JNU students protesting arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar who was innocent and now released, and was arrested for sedition charges. The second pic is of a rally in Kolkatta against the anti-national people who did this rally. There is nothing anti-modi about it. Plus the real culprit of all this Umar Khalid who started all this.
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Haq's Musings: Massive Anti-Modi Student Protests Spreading Fast Across India
Students across India are rallying against Modi government's attacks on academic freedoms. Massive protests were triggered when the Modi government arrested Kahaiya Kumar, the student union president at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
Universities across India are ringing with the following slogans:
"Geelani bole azaadi, Afzal bole azaadi, jo tum na doge azaadi, toh chheen ke lenge azadi! (Geelani and Afzal demanded freedom. If freedom is denied, we will snatch it!)".
"Modi ka Hindutva nahin sahenge, Modi ke Brahmangiri nahin sahenge." (We will not tolerate Modi's Hindutva oppression. We reject upper caste Brahmin domination).
Geelani is the separatist leader demanding freedom of Jammu and Kashmir from illegal Indian occupation. Afzal refers to Afzal Guru who was executed by the Indian government on trumped charges of terrorism.
Students also chanted in memory of Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old Muslim woman who was gunned down in Gujarat in June 2004 when the current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ran the state as its chief minister. In September 2009, Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate called encounter fake. CBI , India's federal investigating agency, did not find link between her and LeT as was alleged by Modi's government in Gujarat.
Afzal Guru was accused of carrying out an attack on Indian parliament in Dec, 2001. The Indian supreme court judgment acknowledged the evidence against Guru was circumstantial: "As is the case with most conspiracies, there is and could be no evidence amounting to criminal conspiracy." But then, it went on to say: "The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation, and the collective conscience of society will only be satisfied if capital punishment is awarded to the offender." This shameful Indian Supreme Court verdict to approve Guru's execution is a great miscarriage of justice with few precedents in legal annals.
Independent educators and academics in India feel they are under siege since Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Modi ascended to power. A concerted move is underway in many states across India to Hinduize education. RSS ideologues are being given key positions in India's educational and cultural institutions to realize a Hindu Nationalist vision of India.
Last year, Modi's BJP appointed Gajendra Chauhan as head of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). The staff and students protested the appointment describing Mr. Chauhan as grossly unqualified for the position. The Indian media have sharply criticized his work that includes films such as “Jungle Love,” “Vasna” (“Desire”), “Jungle Ka Beta” (“The Son of the Jungle”) and various other B-grade movies. Aljazeera reported that his main qualification appears to be his affiliation with the Hindu Nationalist BJP as national convener for culture, responsible for promoting “the party’s ideology through cultural activities,” as he put it in an interview with The Indian Express.
In the Aug. 13, 2015 issue of The New York Review of Books, the economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen described how the government pressured him to step down from his position as chancellor of the newly formed Nalanda University — most likely because of his criticism of Modi before the elections, according to Aljazeera.
According to the Aljazeeera report, Mr. Sen has listed the ways in which the government has interfered in the management of many academic institutions — the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay and the National Book Trust. It has proposed a bill that would give it direct control of the 13 Indian Institutes of Management. The caliber of two recent appointments is also alarmingly questionable: Lokesh Chandra, the newly selected head of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, which oversees India’s cultural relations with other countries, has said Modi is an incarnation of God, and Yellapragada Sudershan Rao, the new head of the Indian Council of Historical Research, has praised the caste system.
Massive student protests in India are the culmination of growing resentment against attempts by the Modi government to curb academic and intellectual freedoms and reshape educational and cultural institutions and the Indian society at large.
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Huge.... right .... lets count.... 1000 + in Delhi... 1000+ in some godforsaken place in Bengal.... and a Few 1000 in random places....
Sure looks like a huge number.... its 0.000000001% of total India population.....
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