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Ed India going down the Dictatorship road fast...

The idea that advanced technology automatically leads to a country turning away from extreme nationalism and nutjob mystical beliefs is not borne out by history.
it's a nice ,warm,cuddly theory that often proves false in the real world.
 
Susheel said:
A major vote bank for Modi is the urban elite particularly from the tech and financial sectors. Most of them are upper caste Indians who constantly live in this weird fantasy where they are victims of the "reservation policies" (affirmative action policies) ensuring equitable access to education for the lower caste, marginalized and underserved communities in India.
The director of one of India's leading, state run tech universities, IIT-Kharagpur- is a major proponent of the "all science began in India" and "we new of gene editing, aerospace engineering even in ancient times," myths.
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That might explain why so many Indian expats in the US are such bigtime Modi supporters.
 
A couple of weeks ago, a BJP MP's conspiracy-filled rant about how a "toolkit" (essentially a strategy document) of the Congress Party specifically instructed on the use of the COVID panic to undermine the BJP administration at the centre was posted on Twitter. The problem was that while as strategy documents go, it is pretty much par for the course essentially detailing how the BJP failures need to be highlighted; the real issue was that the letterhead on which the "toolkit" was shared was obviously forged. Twitter tagged the post as "Manipulated Media."
The Government immediately came out in defence of its dumbest but most loyal mouthpiece and insisted that the tag be removed. Twitter stuck to its guns and decided to tag five more BJP politicians with the same tag for continuing to share the tweet.
Then, yesterday, the Delhi Police, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Central Home Ministry, raided the Twitter offices. For what reason, nobody knows. Even funnier was the fact that the Twitter office was closed for the lockdown as was Delhi because of the pandemic.
Here is a summary of the BJP self goal
 
Lakshadweep Islands off the southwestern coast of India in the Arabian Sea is protected territory. With a Muslim majority population, the Union Territory has been known for its very low crime rate, no communal violence and pretty high social indices. Because of its protected status, developers and entrepreneurs have a tough time gaining access to valuable resources and access to prime beach-front real-estate.
The BJP government had recently appointed the former Deputy Chief Minister of Gujarat, (Modi's old playground), as gvernor. His recent activities reek of an insidious agenda to instigate a law and order situation to ensure tighter control of the territory by the government-- a la Kashmir.
1. Declaring beef illegal. In a Muslim majority region
2. Imposing an anti-gundaism (anti-rioting act) act that is not currently required, but very strongly suggests, is a pre-emptive strategy to harass and arrest Muslim locals when they retaliate against some planned hindutva vigilantism, which is bound to occur as a result of the ban on beef.
It looks like more such measures to gain control of the islands are on the cards.
 
Susheel said:
2. Imposing an anti-gundaism (anti-rioting act) act that is not currently required, but very strongly suggests, is a pre-emptive strategy to harass and arrest Muslim locals when they retaliate against some planned hindutva vigilantism, which is bound to occur as a result of the ban on beef.
It looks like more such measures to gain control of the islands are on the cards.
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Modi is Mates with Netanyahu, right?

That's straight out of Bibi's playbook.
 
The Atheist said:
Modi is Mates with Netanyahu, right?

That's straight out of Bibi's playbook.
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Oh yes...that playbook is the sanghi's (our derogatory term for the Hindutva fascists) wet dream. As is the original playbook of the Nazis. In fact the RSS founders were big fans of Hitler and they were at one point quite keen on implementing its own version of the final solution in India.
 
Susheel said:
A couple of weeks ago, a BJP MP's conspiracy-filled rant about how a "toolkit" (essentially a strategy document) of the Congress Party specifically instructed on the use of the COVID panic to undermine the BJP administration at the centre was posted on Twitter. The problem was that while as strategy documents go, it is pretty much par for the course essentially detailing how the BJP failures need to be highlighted; the real issue was that the letterhead on which the "toolkit" was shared was obviously forged. Twitter tagged the post as "Manipulated Media."
The Government immediately came out in defence of its dumbest but most loyal mouthpiece and insisted that the tag be removed. Twitter stuck to its guns and decided to tag five more BJP politicians with the same tag for continuing to share the tweet.
Then, yesterday, the Delhi Police, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Central Home Ministry, raided the Twitter offices. For what reason, nobody knows. Even funnier was the fact that the Twitter office was closed for the lockdown as was Delhi because of the pandemic.
Here is a summary of the BJP self goal
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God, the Congress Party wishes it was halfway competent enough to pull something like that off.
 
Kerala HC Asks Lakshadweep CJM to Release Those Arrested for Protesting Admin Policies

Extremist saffronite and Modi loyalist and former deputy Chief Minister of Modi's former "playground" Gujarat was appointed as governor of the Lakshadweep Islands territory. The union territory is essentially a Muslim majority territory and some of the new policies included, a ban on beef and also the lifting of liquor prohibition (ironic since the state of Gujarat is a dry state, and another recently saffronised state in mainland India has also been declared a dry state.)

The islands have also been known to be one of the most peaceful regions in India with the lowest crime rate.

The islands has so far been an ecologically protected region. The actions of the current administration reeks of an attempt to help the Modi's crony capitalists gain access to prime beach-front property and natural resources, a la Kashmir. Since the new governor took over, anumber of arrents have been made of dissenters and perceived "undesirables".
 
In the past few weeks, High Courts in the states of UP, Assam, and Delhi have instructed the centre to release a number of journalists and activists arrested under the borderline fascist anti-terrorism UAPA. They have also rapped the Central Government's knuckles for using the act to suppress criticism and dissent.
However, the Supreme Court is definitely dragging its feet and generally sucking up to Modi and Co. by immediately releasing statements to the effect that the High Court decisions do not apply to all such arrests and should not be used as precedent.
 
Susheel said:
A video opinion piece by Indian stand up comedian Kunal Kamra published by NY Times. It is a scathing attack of Modi's COVID response:
Thanks to Modi, India
Had a ‘State Orchestrated
Covid Massacre’
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If only the true numbers were known things would look much worse than they already do.

If we presume India has a death rate comparable to other countries that have had two waves of Covid, at 0.2% of population, the total would be more like 3 million than the 300k it's admitting to.

Modi's role in blame should not be hidden.
 
Fr. Stan Swamy (85), tribal rights activist, arrested on trumped-up charges, died in prison today because of complications from COVID infection. We are calling it what it is, State-Sanctioned Murder, as the jail authorities and courts continued to ignore his deteriorating health conditions even delaying for months, the issue of a sippy-cup brought for him by his well-wishers when it was found to be difficult for him to drink from a normal glass. Demands for his transfer to hospital and the hearings for this were constantly delayed. He was finally moved to a hospital on May 29.

Fr. Stan Swamy passes away
 
Revelations of illegal surveillance by Indian government resulting from an investigation into the sudden appearance of "treasonous" material in the phones/laptops of arrested dissidents.

NSO Groups Pegasus used by Modi government to target/silence opposition politicians dissidents

In fact the list includes some ministers and secretaries in their own cabinet. It also partly explains the BJP's success in "convincing" elected representativies from other parties to switch alliances.

The software was also used to hack the phone and computers of a woman who accused the former Chief Justice of India. Ranjan Gogoi presided over atleast three high-profile acquitals leading members of the current ministry charged with fomenting communal riots, and murder. When the revelations of sexual impropreity came out, the government circled their wagons to protect him. Post retirement, he is currently a BJP representative in the upper house of parliament.
 
The deep friendship between India's and Israel's security services would be concerning the heck out of me. The whole thing is utterly disgraceful.
 
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