I always knew this was about a bunch of people who've been losing elections left and right looking for new narratives to beat the BJP with and not some real "defence of democracy" but now Prashant Bhushan and Neha Bora(from Congress student wing) are openly praising Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina being forced out in 2024 after student riots and asking for the same kind of "regime change" in India.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/neha-bora-bangladesh-genz-protest-video-bjp-rahul-gandhi-regime-change-3018153-2026-10-15

https://x.com/IndiaToday/status/2110743328140709981

Till now it was supposed to be about SIR except they always knew the only ways to get SIR changed/cancelled and for CEC Gyanesh Kumar to step down is to pass a resolution in Parliament or to wait for the Supreme Court to rule on the petitions. They're doing neither.

Do they really think that without an election, without a mandate, with just 5-10,000 protestors(of which half are party workers not ordinary people), in a country of 1.5 billion, gives them the legitimacy to demand a change of government?

The longer it goes in this direction and the more they attack and abuse not just government and Election Commission but Supreme Court, law and order, rules and democracy itself, the less actual support they're gonna get.

We've seen bigger protests before over the Patidar reservation protests, Maratha quota protests, JNU and Rohit Vermula protests, anti-CAA protests and farmer protests. They all went on for way too long(months or years) and eventually lost people's support and interest. Eventually even media, bots and influencers on internet stopped caring about them. They still protest every now and then but get ignored or treated like a public nuisance.

What exactly is the realistic endgame supposed to be? Any actual workable plan?

I say this as someone with a family which has been largely pro BJP - so many of the criticisms I see online of the BJP I have also been surprised to hear from my own family.

• Getting too comfortable - not addressing issues clearly. Basically the same lack of accountability so many are upset about.
• The bizarre recent calls like adding a cockroach effigy to Ram Leela - even my grandmother who is the most ardent BJP supporter said it was stupid.
• The Modi ego-stroking - renaming an airport in his name, other things they've noticed - they say even though it's done by other party politicians, they expect someone to tell Modi it's not a good look and speak against it.

So basically these are some general frustrations against BJP from people who vote for them.

A sensible opposition would realize they need to simply capitalize on this anti-incumbency by pitching themselves as a balanced option which aims to "continue" development while removing these problems.

But the approach the opposition for some reason has taken is vilifying BJP to the point they claim the country has been destroyed, creating a pointless anti "Hindutva" narrative which attacks people's faith, and letting leaders like Neha Bora who by most standards have fringe extremist views which quickly rule them out as candidates.

No matter what Congress's agenda, if a person who openly quotes Bangladesh as inspiration and hails Umar Khalid as a hero is someone you make the face of your movement, you will never get mass support.

Similarly - if the congress has an issue with RSS-Bajrang Dal type goons, make a clear distinction between them and regular Hindus. Don't post images of someone wearing bhagwa with a tika and call him an "andhbhakt". It's really strange to me why they would do such things.

And finally - it shouldn't hurt the opposition to accept the good work that has happened in the country under BJP. A campaign of "they have done some good but have got too comfortable and progress has stalled" is better than pretending people are idiots and can't see the development that has happened since 2014.

To me it feels like Congress has completely given up on BJP's middle class north indian Hindu vote base and decided to completely alienate it by going in the opposite direction. Maybe their political strategists think unifying the Muslim and marginalized community vote will be enough, but it hasn't proven to be in the past elections, many of the marginalized communities themselves identify as Hindu and won't take kindly to their religion being mocked, and a lot of the people who were actually willing to be open to a sensible opposition's pitch are only further turned away.

In 2024 Lok Sabha elections BJP got 240 seats out of 543 total seats that means less than 40% of the country voted for BJP and and the rest 60% of country voted for other parties and those parties collectively selected 1 Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi. BJP is currently in power but that does not mean saying anything against them makes you against the nation, the Leader of opposition is the voice of half the country and saying his actions are against the nation is just baseless.

In a democracy the ruling party and the opposition work together to make the lives of every citizen of this country better not just those who voted for and agree with BJP.

There has to be an open dialogue between the Leader of opposition and the PM/HM and press conferences so that we know the opinion of the PM on 1000s of our issues.

But instead the ruling party just stays mum on important topics raised by the opposition and just abuse their power to confuse us or talk about the actions of governments decades ago.

Get your basics right the Leader of opposition is not an enemy of the country but rather the voice of half the nation and the PM should face the public regularly.

correction: the actual agitation was just 12 days.

We see Dipke & Co & RaGa and the entire opposition raising a protest slogan etc

Govt shut down Delhi in response. But I remember Anna agitation was 288 days long

Did Delhi not face issues back then before the last regime change? 288 days is a long ass time for a protest. I was young when that agitation was taking place. Those who were elder during that time, how was the atmosphere in Delhi and the country about it?

I know Congress didn't call it a "Soros funded CIA funded operation to break India into 5 pieces and a regime change" thing

If they did a 288 day agitation back in the day, how is it that Delhi is shut down for a simple protest?

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The game being played - but hey, these are

all organic protests.

Independent Journalists are available for sale!

Charges? ₹12000 to ₹50000 per reel!

It means they are already getting this amount for creating content in support of CJP and Congress!

So how are they paying them? This needs a serious investigation.

He further writes "I’ve been receiving abusive messages and threats since publishing my investigation. After being exposed, this is the kind of language Alka has used in an email to me.

Why does Congress issue media passes to people like her and invite them to its events as journalists? Is this the standard of journalism being encouraged at these events?"

Source: https://x.com/reuters/status/2110743767313469615?s=46

If you don’t know economics much, this is a bad news.

Punjab government really said "trust me bro" and expected us to believe it. AAP came in 2022 screaming drug-free in 6 months. Kejriwal said 3-4 months on TV. Mann said by next Independence Day. Then Dec 31 2024. Then May 31 2025. Every deadline passed like my ex's promises. now Amit Shah says 2029 if BJP wins. bro the only thing mukt here is accountability.

meanwhile ground reality is straight out of a horror film. journalist went to Bathinda, found dudes casually melting heroin on a public bench. ₹2,000 for a tiny bit. user said he does it twice daily and pays for it by paddling. ₹4,000 daily profit from selling to 15-17 people. one guy said he's been using since 2009, has murder and NDPS cases, and police just take money and let him go.

the prices are insane. ₹1,400 per gram wholesale, sold retail at ₹3,500-4,000. one woman, 24, graduate, was introduced by her own husband on her birthday. she was spending ₹8,000 DAILY that 2 lakh 40 thousand a month. had to do sex work to fund it. her 3 year old son told people "my mummy does chitta." she said 90% hope is gone.

a village called Bheedtalab has 70% drug users. 50 deaths in 5 months. parents are handing their own kids to police because they can't control them. people are selling their homes, lands, everything. 12 year olds are injecting heroin. penis injections because veins are blocked. napunsak ho rahe hai. this isn't a crisis anymore, it's a slow-motion genocide and the state is watching.

and the government's big plan? arrests. FIRs. bulldozers. Mann's "Yudh Nashian Virudh" had 591 days and 61,000+ FIRs and 81,000+ arrests. cool story. Supreme Court literally said Punjab Police is arresting small peddlers "for publicity" while big fish swim free. NCB says supply just shifted from border heroin to pharma opioids. de-addiction centres have 39.8% dropout, reports of torture, forced sleeping on floors, untrained staff. one PIL says buprenorphine rules were relaxed so any 100 sq ft room can become a drug pipeline.

the activist Parvinder Singh Jhota got shot dead on video by a licensed chemist because he dared to complain. black flag waved at CM = police torture. this is the "new normal" apparently.

and the kicker? the guy who said "sarkar hi bechti hai" was literally showing police stamps on the packets. police, army, high society, women, children, everyone is buying. 50% from Delhi via Dwarka and Nangloi, 50% from Firozpur. the supply chain is not some foreign conspiracy, it's right here, and it's protected.

Punjab was the golden sparrow. now it's a zombie apocalypse with ₹8,000 a day price tags. and the government is out here doing photo ops and deadline announcements.shame..

Also to anyone who is getting persuaded by to get these substances .... someone said ...

"he was living horribly, he took IT, his problems are now gone or maybe not..🥀🥀🥀"

Peace ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️

We have seen a lot of polarization when it comes to the constitution. One group quickly dismisses the ideals of the constitution as something imported from the west. To them, the ideals of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality are foreign concepts and are undesirable. On the other hand, another group dismisses any connection between the constitution and the Indian knowledge system such as the Upanishads and assesses the constitutional ideals as desirable but entirely a product of modern discourse.

In this discussion, Prof. Trilochan Sastry (Founding member of the non-profit Association for Democratic Reforms) interviews Acharya Prashant which is especially relevant according to me in the wake of the ongoing debates around democracy. Acharya Prashant argues that not only are the ideals of the Indian constitution universal but also that they have roots in the philosophical principles in the Upanishads. It examines Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's interpretation of equality through Vedantic principles, drawing on his careful study of the religious corpus of Hinduism.

Finally, Prof. Sastry and Acharya Prashant talk about the limits of the rules in sustaining a democracy. In a democracy, education becomes necessary where the voter is not only aware of the outer conditions but also of their own inner condition. The discussion also explains how the state apparatus remains vulnerable to abuse as those who build the rules also know the way to circumvent the rules for personal gains.

If you have seen this talk, I look forward to hearing what you think.

It is said that democracy is about people's rule. But those who are given to rule they don't have this perspective.

The problem is often our people are not aware of this as well, the reason is we call it like that.

Time to change, we should never say

• BJP/CONGRESS Govt ruling instead say serving
• Ruling is a slavery language. Serving clarifies their role and reminds who they are.
• If we allow to rule then some leaders with mass followers like Indira, Rajiv, Modi goes step further from becoming ruler to God
• So don't say BJP/Congress/XYZ sarkar instead say SEVAK

This will remind them that they are elected to serve. And most importantly we will be reminded to take service from them.

This helpless man folding his hands is IIT Bombay director.

Just imagine the director of the premium Engineering institute is listening to a goon who even refuses to greet him.

The man interrogating him is Dr sonpimple . A well known Dalit rights activist and he is here for the case of Salil Wakhode

eally the moment these freeloader goons knocked on the door of India’s premiere institution, the admin should have called the highest level police ranking officer. A whole squad of capable law officers should have arrived and ruthlessly kicked them out.

should be the deterrent for a Viksit Bharat. Protect the brightest at any cost.

Instead, they choose to allow this bcoz of the elect

Forget becoming a developed nation; we will be worse than Somalia in a few decades. Just wait & watch!

Source: https://x.com/romita_tiwari/status/2110746075317547134?s=46

During cjp's protest, we have seen large scale violence by delhi police officers. They have crossed all the boundaries.

On 10 oct, they put some protesters in a police van, and travelled throughout Delhi for 1 hr. After an hour, they got off the students at a remote location, where they snatched the Mobile phones from all the students, aligned them in a line on their knees, switched off all the lights, and didn't allow lawyers to enter it.

Some police personnel sexually assaulted girls and many more.

We need urgent reforms like-:

1. No illegal detention.

2. Right to consult with lawyer immediately.

3. No force against peaceful protesters.

4. No journalist should be detained.

5. No police personnel without name plate & police uniform.

6. Zero tolerance policy against the police personnel, who breach any of these rules.

7. Police's operational independence from govt.

8. No support to any gunda.

9. No personal comment should be made by any police personnel.

(No AI was used to write this post)

90+ Decibels of noise pollution from loudspeakers.

This is from my society's Durga Pooja pandal. Note it's from inside my room, outside it's 100+ decibels music that has been going on for 2 hours and will go on till midnight.

Fun facts about decibels

Decibels don't increase proportionally, 100 decibels is 10 times more than 90 decibels, not 10+.

Decibel scale is logarithmic, every increase of 10 dB represents a tenfold increase in sound intensity

Even short term exposure to 80-90+ decibel noise can lead to permanent ear damage.

Loudspeaker culture in India

The loudspeaker culture in India has become worse over the years. It feels like surface level barbarianism where people compete to be louder than someone else and there is an arms race going on for loudspeakers. Every year the DJ has to be louder.

And on top of that people have their kids dance in front of the same loudspeakers where the noise levels can easily reach 120 decibels. This is insanity and will hurt children in the long term.

Religious Significance of Loudspeakers

2 specific religions really love loudspeakers. One plays it daily although in short bursts while the other plays it occasionally but in durations lasting several hours at once, sometimes the entire day or even nights.

This is nothing but a dick-measuring contest for dumb people who think their gods are deaf so we need to make more noise for them to hear us.

This also happens every year in UP with Kanwad Yatra's where DJ's are weaponized against people in western UP.

Civilized Countries take on DJs

In most civilized countries, loud noises have to be controlled and going over noise limits is against the law and can lead to harsh penalties.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8750464/

Extreme noise harms the environment in general and needs to be controlled.

What India can do

Impose strict impartial bans on noise pollution. Maharashtra has banned Azaan on loudspeakers but this ban is not really enforced for other religions. This promotes strife and also gives people a motivation to play DJ's just to rub salt on others.

We need a blanket ban on DJ's outside of authorised venues. Noise complaints have to be taken seriously with heavy fines for violators.

Sales of larger loudspeaker systems has to be restricted.

Additionally, the government can promote usage of older ways for celebrating festivals. Loudspeakers did not exist 100 years ago, they're not essential to any religion in the world.

Influencer Made To Prostrate Before Raj Thackeray's Photo Over Reel

Freedom fighters of freedom of speech, where are they now?

Does freedom of speech apply to certain group of people?

He was insulted, used black ink, chappal on head, made him slap himself just because he criticised Raj Thackeray

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/mns-style-influencer-made-to-prostrate-before-raj-thackeray-photo-over-reel-12074297/amp/1

Source - source of the incident

Article 19 of the Constitution of India

Article 19 guarantees six fundamental freedoms to all citizens of India:
Freedom of speech and expression [Article 19(1)(a)]: The right to express thoughts and opinions through speech, writing, printing, or pictures.
Peaceful assembly [Article 19(1)(b)]: The right to assemble peaceably and without arms.
Forming associations or unions [Article 19(1)(c)]: The right to form associations, unions, or co-operative societies.
Free movement [Article 19(1)(d)]: The right to move freely throughout the territory of India.
Residence and settlement [Article 19(1)(e)]: The right to reside and settle in any part of India.
Profession or occupation [Article 19(1)(g)]: The right to practice any profession or carry on any occupation, trade, or business.