India’s freedom movement and the Indian Constitution respect our diversity. But uniformity in language, religious traditions and other cultural aspects is what is being aimed at.
Read More »Farmers participation in coming Assembly elections: a very sensitive issue
On Punjab elections and farmers participation I have not been very active on Facebook or other social media since few weeks, except sharing links of some good articles/news or sharing some old memories or wishing some friends on their birthday. As I am tied up in submitting a manuscript, whose …
Read More »Is extending the jurisdiction of BSF against the spirit of federalism?
Jag Mohan Thaken Chandigarh The central Home Ministry on October 11, 2021, issued notification regarding the amendment in BSF Act to authorize the Border Security Force to undertake search, seizure and arrest within an extended area of 50 km stretch, instead of the previous 15 km, from the international border …
Read More »Voting for Restoration of Democracy: Electoral Choices
The nation wants a Union Government which adheres to the norms of the Indian Constitution, pluralism and is inclusive By Dr Ram Puniyani One will be amazed to compare India of today with the same a decade ago. BJP’s getting majority in the Lok Sabha (2014) has changed the political, …
Read More »Tale of two health ministers: One succeeds despite failures while the other failed despite success.
Will K K Shailaja be the new Gauri Amma? India’s political culture is deeply disappointing and depressing. Even those who wish to counter the BJP and Hindutva suffer from the same mindset and sometimes worse. After ‘building’ a brand, we side-line some to create our own monopolies. A few days …
Read More »Impact of farmers agitation: NRI and world support for BJP is dwindling, writes Justice Katju
Before the farmers agitation began there was a lot of support for the BJP in the USA and the western world including support from most of the NRIs who had become polarised. This support has been considerably diluted now,
Read More »Political Ideology of BJP: Pragya Singh Thakur
It is the ilk of Pragya Singh Thakur which shows us the deeper agenda of sectarianism, it is not only marginalizing of minorities, it is also aimed at putting up the show of Hindu unity while retaining the caste/Varna hierarchy.
Read More »Will the Lathi Charge on Farmers by Haryana Police have any adverse effect on BJP-JJP Govt?
Farmers from the different parts of Haryana, who gathered at Kurukshetra on September 10, 2020, to protest against the three anti-farmer central ordinances on the call of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), were lathi-charged by the Haryana Police. Since long the Farmers’ Unions of the state have been demanding the withdrawal …
Read More »Don’t blame Nehru for partition and preponing independence
The other day an important BJP leader remarked that Jawaharlal Nehru and other Congress leaders managed to advance the date of independence and accepted country’s partition because they were in a hurry to enjoy fruits of power. This statement of the BJP leader is totally untrue and is not backed …
Read More »THE ‘VADH’/ANNIHILATION OF THE INDIAN REPUBLIC
The sovereign-democratic Indian Republic came into existence on January 26, 1950, coinciding with the promulgation of a historic constitution which in its Preamble declared its firm commitment to “JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote …
Read More »PM Must Withdraw Call for Violation of Lockdown
New Delhi, 07th April 2020 : The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement : PM Must Immediately Withdraw His Call to Violate National Lockdown In his address to BJP workers from the BJP office on its 40th foundation day, Prime Minister Modi …
Read More »BJP nationalism means creating hysteria against Pakistan
BJP nationalism means creating hysteria against Pakistan. So what went wrong with the Modi-Shah duo in Maharashtra-Haryana elections?
Read More »Hindi as the Uniting Language of India? Dr. Ram Puniyani explains
Modi 2.0 has emerged as a very powerful government. It not only has numerical majority; it is also facing a weak and divided opposition.
Read More »BJP: Hiding Failures-Targeting Nehru
As BJP releases its manifesto, what strikes one is absence of any mention of what their previous promises achieved, as same promises are being repeated with stronger dose of ultra-nationalism.
Read More »BJP workers are asking their leaders what to campaign on? The jhoot and the boot or the youth and the booth?
BJP workers are asking their leaders what to campaign on? The jhoot and the boot or the youth and the booth?
Read More »Masood Azhar has died. Now on whose name BJP ask for votes?
“If Azhar Masood has died than BJP leaders should send to identify. They know him very well, because they went to release him.”
Read More »Big deception done with the people and the farmers by SP-BSP, Walk-over given to the BJP in UP
Big deception done with the people and the farmers by SP-BSP, Walk-over given to the BJP in UP
Read More »Haryana Ex-CM Chautala’s Release Case : AAP Govt In A Cleft Stick
Attacking the JJP and AAP and accusing the former Chief Minister O P Chautala’s own grandson, Member of Parliament Dushyant Chautala, of backstabbing his own grandfather the state INLD president Ashok Arora had alleged,
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