Can religious processions on roads be banned in India? Can such a law be implemented on events of different religions simultaneously and equally? The question does not have a particular answer but we can definitely sense the ferocity of the times in which the question is being posed. We need to listen carefully to the underlying voices behind the protest against agitations on roads or offering of namaz. We also need to see how far the political rhetoric related to roads has changed in the past decade. The issue of toll tax or poor infrastructure of roads has not been raised as often and as vigorously as the matter of namaz on roads. Why is the question of road use so ferociously brought up only at the time of namaz? https://thewire.in/communalism/dont-hide-your-communal-prejudice-under-the-cloak-of-protecting-our-roads

Similarly, footpaths have vanished from roads in urban areas. Rights have been denied to pedestrians and here in Delhi, there is not a single lane for lakhs of cyclists. I am citing this example only to show that a road is not such a public and democratic space after all. In India, a particular class has dominated the roads – we call it the class of ‘car-wallahs’. A long campaign was run in a capital city like Delhi for making way for ambulances.

Democratisation of roads in India has taken place in a very narrow sense. Even if we look at it only as a space for unhindered traffic, there is gross dishonesty here. However, one must understand that roads are not used only for going to office or a hospital. They are used for hundreds of democratic and religious activities. 

by Ravish Kumar

12/03/2024

Democracy is Dying: Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPxaSgKpD0E Mar 10, 2024 The rise of Hindu Nationalism in India and its support from the Bharatiya Janata Party, which stems from the RSS movement in India is isolating minorities and eroding democracy according to Dr. Maya Tudor from the University of Oxford.

Comments:@DeepakKulkarniMukundNagar It is unacceptable for foreigners to speak about India and Indian culture without proper knowledge and research. Before making any comments, it is important to understand organizations like RSS and their history, including their actions during the partition. Moreover, it is essential to acknowledge the recent efforts of RSS during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they have been helping every Indian without any discrimination based on religion, caste, or creed.

@shankarchat Dr Maya Tudor applies one set of standards for the west and another for Bharat. The BJP is an elected government in power through a free and fair process and no amount of her cribbing on her part will stop us from course correction. We will chart out our own way, independent of the dictates of the woke western intellectuals who have no empathy or understanding for the Hindu civilization

अरुण गोयल का चुनाव आयोग से इस्तीफ़ा | Arun Goel resigns from the EC  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKxiNHLGt0g Ravish Kumar Official Mar 11, 2024
जिस दिन चुनाव आयोग अपनी वेबसाइट पर इलेक्टोरल बॉन्ड की जानकारी प्रकाशित करेगा उसी दिन दो-दो चुनाव आयुक्तों की नियुक्ति की कमेटी विचार कर रही होगी जिसमें सरकार का ही बहुमत है। एक तरह प्रधानमंत्री ही चुनेंगे कि चुनाव आयुक्त कौन होगा। ठीक लोक सभा के चुनाव से पहले अरुण गोयल का चुनाव आयुक्त के पद से इस्तीफा देना, बंगाल के दौरे के बाद देना, बंगाल के चुनाव और चुनाव आयोग के संबंधों को भी रौशनी में लाता है। इस राज्य में चुनाव आयोग को जिस राजनीतिक संदेह से देखा जाता है और क्यों देखा जाता है, हम इस पर आज के वीडियो में बात करेंगे। है। नए आयुक्तों की नियुक्ति पर सबकी नज़र होगी, क्या वही बनेगा जो पहले से संपर्क में होगा, क्या बाद में भी संपर्क में होगा? बीजेपी का संपर्कवाद संविधानवाद पर हावी हो गया है। विपक्ष में परिवारवाद और बीजेपी का संपर्कवाद। आप देख नहीं पा रहे हैं लेकिन आपकी नाक के नीचे संस्थाओं के घाव का मवाद सड़कों पर बहने लगा है।

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BDqVanVhZo  Key Findings of 12 CAG Reports in 12 Points | The Wire Explains | Comptroller & Auditor General

WA comment: BS इन घोटालों की जांच-पड़ताल न हो इसलिए मोदी जी हर कीमत पर चुनाव जीतकर प्रधानमन्त्री बने रहना चाहते हैं - चाहे उसके लिए EVM में घोटाला करना पड़े, अपनी ऊलजलूल बातों से देश की जनता को गुमराह करना पड़े, देशहित और मुख्य मुद्दों से जनता का ध्यान भटकाना पड़े, देश के वीरों की जान जोखिम में डालनी पड़े - अन्य पार्टी/ विरोधी नेताओं को ED/CBI के बल पर जेल में भेजना, चुनाव में धांधली करके खुद को प्रधानमन्त्री बनाऐ रखना है। कबतक ऐसा करके जनता को गुमराह करोगे। मोदी और अमित शाह कबतक अपनी कुर्सी की ताकत के बलबूते हेकड़ी दिखाकर जनता को दबाओगे।

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvXgwtrs-M Kisan Protest: कुछ ऐसा रहा किसानों का 'रेल रोको' आंदोलन! पटरियों पर दिखे किसान, देखिए Video
Amar Ujala Punjab-Haryana 

*Lawyer Hassan, Rat Minor Statement for Press*:  https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=910008410927264&id=100057543396300&mibextid=Nif5oz  CITU DELHI NCR :As you all are aware, I Lawyer Hassan, Team Leader and 11 other Rat Miners, who played an important role in saving the lives of 41 laborers trapped in Silkyara Tunnel, Uttarakhand, located at Shri Ram Colony The house was dropped by DDA officials without any legal notice on 28-02-2024. After this proceedings, this unfair action of the administration has been given publicity by print and electronic media, I sincerely thank him for this. After this, DDA officer, Vice Governor himself, taking cognizance of this unfair action, immediately intervened and statement in the press that lawyer Hassan will be given harjana and alternate house. Region MP Mr. Manoj Tiwari himself met lawyer Hassan and repeated this assurance in the press. Also said that action will be taken against the convicted officers of the DDA by the administration. But with great regrets I have to write that for 12 days today me and my family have been living on the road but leave home no authority of administration has come to pay off the losses till today Is it. Me and my wife, haven't even come to rectify what 3 kids are living. In this situation I have decided that I will sit on hunger strike with my family from 10am on 11-03-2024 in protest against delay in giving justice by the administration. My protest will continue until I get justice. This movement will remain peaceful. I just want justice with me. I appeal to those who sympathize with me in my struggle for justice. *Issued* *Lawyer Hassan, Residence: Shri Ram Colony, Khajuri Khas, North East Delhi, 10-03-2024*
👆All companions should read the above statement carefully. Today morning 10-03-2024, Secretary Ranjit Tiwari, of Anurag. Maimoona, of. Pushpender Singh, phoolkant, Nargis, Pushpa all have decided to support their struggle. Appeal to all trade union to support, support lawyer Hassan Rat minor, team leader to get justice. *Your friend* Anurag Saxena General Secretary Situ Delhi State Committee

We Also Make Policy: An Insider's Account of How the Finance Ministry Functions Hardcover – 1 October 2023
by Subhash Chandra Garg

The book talks candidly about controversial decisions from the first tenure of the NDA government, such as the politics of 'minimum support price' to farmers, electoral bonds, recapitalizing of banks, monetizing national assets and the controversial resignation of RBI Governor Urjit Patel, among others. As the author of three Union Budgets, Garg also talks about what it takes to put the Budget together: the pressures, the processes, the calculations and, above all, the politics.

from https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/book-review-we-also-make-policy-subhash-chandra-garg-gossipy-account-of-india-finance-ministry-masters-and-slaves/article67878587.ece

account of how Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took an intense dislike to her senior-most bureaucrat in North Block, which eventually led to his early retirement from the civil service; how former Home Secretary R.K. Singh, who later became Union Power Minister, was a socialist of sorts because of his support for public sector corporations in his ministry, or so Garg would have us believe; and, most sensationally, how Prime Minister Narendra Modi compared the then RBI Governor, Urjit Patel—who was unwilling to part with the Central bank’s reserves for use by the allegedly profligate Indian government—to a snake zealously guarding its stash of gold.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/reviews/story/former-finance-secretary-subhash-chandra-gargs-we-also-make-policy-gives-a-peek-into-modi-raj-557420 With this book, Garg’s circle of friends in the bureaucracy is certain to shrink; beginning with senior Punjab IAS officer Anurag Agarwal and including then Principal Secretary to the PM Nripendra Mishra, who he burdens with the responsibility of pushing through the PM Kisan scheme in an interim budget, a morally dubious move, and without firm numbers of farmers in the country because general elections were round the corner. Garg also mentions several who in his view deserved credit and none more than Arun Jaitley.

Garg also punctures the Central government’s myth that it increased the MSP by 150 per cent for all crops. Or that foreign direct investment and e-commerce have been runaway successes. What if the policies, at least the economic ones highlighted by Garg, were not sudden directives from the top and an attempt to fit round pegs in square holes?

The Bill to regulate cryptocurrencies, privatisation, the IL&FS resolution or the much talked about confrontational years with the RBI — much of it is in the public domain. What spices up the incidents this time is that Garg takes the reader into the hallowed rooms on Raisina Hill with a meeting-by-meeting and a note-by-counter-note account of each of the policies framed in his tenure. If sometimes the build-up, as in the chapter on SEBI or monetisation, appears technical and tedious, perseverance opens a delightful window into the years of the Modi government straddling the 2019 general elections for the reader as well as for RTI enthusiasts.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-modi-compared-ex-rbi-governor-urjit-patel-to-a-snake-claims-ex-finance-secretary-in-his-book-101695542331881.html  Prime Minister Narendra Modi compared the then Reserve Bank of India governor Urjit Patel as a ‘snake who sits over a hoard of money’...  the Narendra Modi government's ‘frustration’ with the then central bank chief had grown as early as February 2018 and escalated a month later when he accused the government of its inability to shed regulatory authority over nationalised banks, which according to him left the RBI with inadequate regulatory authority over the public sector banks compared to private-sector banks.

 Ladakh starts 21 Days climate fast to save the Himalayas | Sonam Wangchuk
Sonam Wangchuk   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euAQOFNmX8I  

comment u WA OPS..and yet he refuses to call out the PM and HM for their actions..

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चुनावी बॉन्ड और आर्थिक पारदर्शिता | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

क्या देश के सबसे बड़े बैंक को आर्थिक पारदर्शिता से नहीं पेश आना चाहिए? स्टेट बैंक जैसे विश्वसनीय बैंक का ये कहना की वो चुनावी बॉन्ड का डाटा नहीं दे सकता मात्र चौकाने वाली बात नहीं है, ये संकेत हैं हमारे लोकतंत्र के स्तम्भ हिल रहे हैं। हमारे संविधान के मूल्यों के साथ खिलवाड़ किया जा रहा है।

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