@congress प्रवक्ता सुप्रिया श्रीनेत और गौरव वल्लभ को सुनिए। https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNkFF9fAINw   Import duty on Apple reduced during G20

Declaration on Seeds and Farmers’ Rights, 2023

Bharat BEEJ Swaraj Manch (India Seed Sovereignty Alliance) We reject attempts to privatize/usurp India’s genetic commons. the State must safeguard the natural rights of farming and indigenous communities. We urge the State to resist as bio-piracy   Digital Sequence Information (DSI) is being used by corporations for selective manipulation to claim patents. We reject the narrow definition of “access and benefit” as a monetization tool to gain exclusive intellectual property rights over plant varieties. For the full text of the declaration

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Women's Reservation Bill: Yet Another Smoke and Mirrors Trick with Godi Media in tow https://youtu.be/CwiVgBTiwac

<https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/modi-govt-clears-womens-quota-bill-27-years-after-it-was-first-introduced/articleshow/103767705.cms>.

Women's Reservation Bill: Yet Another Smoke and Mirrors Trick with Godi Media in tow Courtesay S Sen in  Whats app

I. The devil is in the details: "(T)he proposed reservation could come into force by 2029 after the constituencies are redrawn as part of the delimitation exercise based on the decennial census expected to get under way in 2026."
Hence, as per the "leak", there'd be no move towards immediate implementation.
Not only that, the implementation would be contingent upon taking up and completion of the next decennial census -- now inexplicably held up by the regime -- to be followed up by delimitation of constituencies.
Two big, completely unnecessary, "Ifs"!

II. A bill once introduced in the Rajya Sabha never dies -- because the upper house never dies -- unless superseded or rejected by the lower house.
Hence, the bill introduced by the UPA Government in the Rajya Sabha and approved by it in March 2010 is still very much alive.
The narrative of "lapse" presented below is plain false.

III. The Congress in its just concluded CWC meet -- Sept. 16-17 in Hyderabad -- has categorically demanded the passing of the pending bill in the Lok Sabha during this "Special Session". (Ref.: <https://twitter.com/Jairam_Ramesh/status/1703279060435263616> and also <https://twitter.com/Jairam_Ramesh/status/1703808646558421128>.)
In the report below, this has been completely suppressed and, in fact, implicitly denied.

IV. The real purpose, as it appears, is not to implement women's quota in state and central legislatures -- as has already been done in case of urban and rural local elected bodies -- but to try to disrupt the Opposition INDIA alliance, given the known differences. Hence, no attempt at arriving at a consensus via prior consultations.

It's now for the (other) INDIA alliance partners to respond with due sagacity.

<<The government refused to confirm the decision, but sources said that the proposed reservation could come into force by 2029 after the constituencies are redrawn as part of the delimitation exercise based on the decennial census expected to get under way in 2026.

The bill was first introduced in 1996, and even cleared by the Rajya Sabha in March 2010, but lapsed after the Lok Sabha failed to pass it.

Sources in the government were confident of the prospects of the bill in Parliament this time as well as of enlisting the necessary support from states. They said Congress would have to come along and pointed to states which are with BJP, its allies as well as parties which though not part of the NDA have been in support of the measure.>>

Peoples Manisfesto points..

Uma As a farmer, I would like that the people working in natural resources sector - forest people, farmers, mining workers - should get their due, a fair deal in the national cake.

Arundhati Roy: The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world  https://scroll.in/article/1055943/arundhati-roy-the-dismantling-of-democracy-in-india-will-affect-the-whole-world

It is no longer just our leaders we must fear, but a whole section of the population. The banality of evil, the normalisation of evil is now manifest in our streets, in our classrooms, in very many public spaces. The mainstream press, the hundreds of 24-hour news channels have been harnessed to the cause of fascist majoritarianism. India’s Constitution has been effectively set aside. The Indian Penal Code is being rewritten. If the current regime wins a majority in 2024, it is very likely that we will see a new Constitution.

Still, the world’s powers choose to give Modi all the oxygen he needs to destroy the social fabric and burn India down. To me, this is a form of racism. They claim to be democrats, but they are racists. They don’t believe their professed “values” should apply to non-white countries. It’s an old story of course.

What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing. Extract Courtsey Leo S - whatsapp

why modi is everything everywhere all at once | MODI REVIEW Ep 1  Sep 11, 2023   deep dive into #NarendraModi, the most successful brand in #Bharat today. That and how brand modi is also responsible for a series of unmitigated disasters that threatens to throw democracy off a cliff.

Adani Scam and SEBI Probe: Mafiaization of India Politics after Modi came to power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3OmqOyAHJ0 | Dinesh K Vohra
The Public India The ultra poor of this country are feeding the ultra of this country! ie the 82 crore who does have "roti", and India is spending 4000 crore in two days, on

The legacy of India's imagination:  A dialogue with Rajni Bakshi by Uday Dandavate  Sep 12, 2023
Using “Bazaar” as a metaphor for healing the rupture between ecology and economy. In our dialogue we talk about her vision for a future based on caring that eschews violence and embraces the foundational qualities of how a traditional Bazaar (marketplace) works as an organic ecosystem of caring people.

A youth group in Mumbai invokes legacy of Gandhi-Vinoba Monday, September 11, 2023,  https://www.freepressjournal.in/angels-of-mumbai/a-youth-group-in-mumbai-invokes-legacy-of-gandhi-vinoba “At the Blue Ribbon Movement, we believe in long term, self-initiated change. We believe in invoking deep democracy through different initiatives that start with a three-hour ‘act-a-thon’ where youth learn the tools of accountability within the civic system, then a three-month challenge, followed by a three-year fellowship. This helps them build a lifelong connection with the Blue Ribbon Movement,” Abhishek Thakore said

Leading up to the upcoming Municipal elections in Mumbai, they are encouraging involvement from a larger public through interactive games, civic sessions, conversations with prominent citizens, local audits and a Citizen Manifesto.

Rajni Bakshi said of BRM "At a time when social and political lives are becoming increasingly polarised, they are making an attempt to listen to everyone, and are trying to find ways to go beyond the polarisation,” .