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Yes, but there should be a distinction made against irrational hate speech.



What are you talking about ?

You need free speech just to say those things,
Why would you need the concept of "free speech" if everyone is saying things that everyone else agrees?

Dimag kidar gaya hai bhai?

Anyway, I am not the one thats shouting "free speech".
it's a question to the liberandus of India who shout "free speech" when ever a muslim or christian is caught abusing Hindus or Hindu gods.
Just posing the same conundrum to them..
 
Posting here because that thread has been closed.

As soon as Trump was in India, Shaheen Bagh protests moved towards Northeast Delhi streets.

Delhi had already seen unpleasant things just before the "riots". Things like that Hindutvadi young man shouting "Yeh lo azadi" and shooting at the anti-CAA protestors. And then there was the police attack on AMU university. And then there were the Hindutvadi goons ( most probably the ABVP ) who attacked the JNU university.

As for the Trump visit timing, don't you want the real and present socio-economic and political injustices in India to be vocally presented to the outside world, in this case through the international media present to cover the "Namaste Trump" event ?

Don't include Dalits with muslims to make your point. Dalits are not with muslims.

I quote from the Wikipedia page about the Dalit movement Bhim Army :
what the founder of the organisation Chandrashekar Azad describes as "the Bahujan community which includes SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities who had been away from the mainstream for long." He has said that "We may even gherao the Vidhan Sabha in support of our demands." He has sought to build a coalition between Dalit and Muslims against the BJP


Regarding Amnesty, does progressives want GOI to ignore the floundering of laws by Amnesty?

“In 2009 during the UPA regime their licence was rejected for receiving foreign funds and the operation was suspended,” Rathore said.

He said any organisation can work in India, but they cannot be allowed to circumvent the laws.

Amnesty International had set up four companies, and showed money received in their account as FDI.

The thing about Amnesty International is not so simple.

Firstly, when AI is acted against by governments not friendly with Western governments, the Western governments speak against the actions and even set the pattern for regime change. But when this happened in India, done by the BJP government, I don't hear any vociferous Western government statements of condemnation against the Modi government.

Secondly, you mentioned action in India against Amnesty by the Congress-led UPA government. Well, I am not a fan of the Congress. Wasn't it Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the Congress government who ignored the menace in India of right-wing elements and said that the left-wing Naxalite movement is the greatest internal threat to India ? Congress must reform.
 
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I would love to watch a debate between Modi and Kanhaiya Kumar.
 
Bengal BJP leader gunned down near police station
FE Online Desk | Published: October 05, 2020 11:53:59 | Updated: October 06, 2020 12:43:57
Bengal BJP leader gunned down near police station


A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was shot dead on Sunday evening near an Indian local police station.
The deceased, Manish Shukla, was gunned down near the station, about 20 km from north Kolkata, when he was speaking with some locals and party workers, reports NDTV.

In protest against the killing, BJP has called for a 12-hour bandh (shutdown) in the Barrackpore area today (Monday), blaming the ruling Trinamool Congress for the killing.

The Trinamool Congress has denied the charge and blamed the incident on an internal feud within the BJP.
Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who condemned the incident in a late night tweet, has summoned the DGP (Director general of police) and home secretary to the Raj Bhavan on Monday morning.

According to eyewitness accounts, several men on motorcycles suddenly drove up to Manish Shukla, a member of the BJP's Barrackpore organisational district committee and a former councilor, and riddled him with bullets.

He was reportedly shot in the head, chest and his back, first rushed to a private hospital in Barrackpore and then Kolkata; however he died.

A huge team of cops rushed to quell the tensions that erupted with the BJP supporters heckling Barrackpore police commissioner Manoj Verma and additional commissioner Ajay Thakur, and demanding the immediate rest of the accused.

Senior BJP leaders who rushed to the spot blamed the Trinamool Congress for the attack and called for a 12-hour bandh on Monday.

BJP general Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya described Manish Shukla as "a close associate of BJP's Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh" and blamed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for his death.

"We have no faith in the police. As the killing happened in front of the police station, there has to be some link. There should be a CBI probe into it. Arjun Singh had said earlier his life and those of his associates were in danger," he said.

"I regret Mamta Banerjee that you are resorting to such tactics. The people will never forgive you," he added.

"Shri Manish Shukla, BJP councillor from Titagarh, shot dead in front of a police station... Lawlessness in Bengal under Mamata Banerjee is at its peak. Political murders seem to have state sanction and have increasingly become a norm. This violence won't stop till Pishi is out," BJP's Amit Malviya tweeted.
 
I don't usually take a lot of interest in two bit WB politics (who cares?).

But this is only a sign of the times. Didi won't back down this easy.
 

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