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manjula narayan retweeted
Govt is calling peaceful street protest anarchy. Real anarchy is top down subversion of electoral democracy where lakhs of voters are illegally deleted through a centrally controlled portal without following any procedure. And lakhs of voters added illegally. Real anarchy is when illegal SIR process is forced upon the people just a few months before elections making them run helter skelter. Real anarchy is when pellet guns and AK 47s are used against protesting students. Truth be told the road to Hindu Rashtra is inevitably laden with myraid milestones of anarchy. The world is also seeing this clearly now.
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manjula narayan retweeted
Replying to @utterflea
🍻 Rock Machine was founded in the basketball court of the Sophia Polytechnic where Uday Benegal was a HAFT student! Those years were just so amazing.
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manjula narayan retweeted
"Solicitor General Tushar Mehta opposed the prayer for blanket protection of women journalists. He claimed that in today's times, everyone with a mic claims to be a journalist and it is difficult to distinguish journalists from reel-makers" Via @LiveLawIndia
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manjula narayan retweeted
absolutely astounding that an opposition leader wants to challenge and replace the ruling government, who would have thought democracy would come to this
SHOCKING 🚨 Rahul Gandhi confesses that his ultimate aim is to remove PM Modi and HM Amit Shah. After 100+ defeats, Rahul Gandhi is desperate for power.
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manjula narayan retweeted
SHAME ALERT 🚨 BJP goons who assaulted young protestors at CP got bail within a day and were garlanded and welcomed by Hindu Raksha Dal Next Narendra Modi should meet them and reward them 🔥
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manjula narayan retweeted
Manhandled, dragged, assaulted n misbehaved inside a police vehicle and dumped by the roadside - for the crime of speaking to the media. This is not merely an assault on an MP. It is an assault on democratic freedoms and the rule of law. More chillingly, it happened within hours of the Supreme Court issuing directions to safeguard peaceful protest and constitutional rights. I have written to the Hon’ble President of India @rashtrapatibhvn , the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha @VPIndia and the Chief Justice of India seeking urgent intervention and fixing accountability for the police personnel, and action on the question of parliamentary privilege. The Government cannot intimidate democracy into silence. It cannot substitute the force of the baton for the force of debate. And it shouldn’t expect the people to surrender their constitutional freedoms merely because those in power find dissent inconvenient. The strength of a democracy lies not in its capacity to suppress dissent, but in its ability to address it.
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manjula narayan retweeted
Batao bhayee!
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🚨 ATTENTION, EVERYONE! Unusual activity is taking place around CP. Delhi Police is giving goons a free hand to target protesters. Cars carrying sticks and stones are not being checked, even after repeated requests. We fear Delhi Police and Amit Shah may be planning something to derail the protest. THIS NEEDS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION!
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manjula narayan retweeted
Very Important, Please Read. Yesterday we saw Sanghi terrorists and the Delhi Police go after women specifically. They targeted women. Numerous videos show assault, sexual harassment and intimidation. But why did they do it? My understanding is that targeting women achieves a few things: 1. Indian women have been extremely outspoken and defiant. Attacking them sends a message to every woman watching from home: speak up, and this could be you. 2. It's a message to the women's parents, relatives and friends: stop them, or you'll be responsible for what happens to them. 3. The presence of women makes protests grow and makes them more popular. The last Jantar Mantar protest became what it did because of women. They know women can make this protest very big, which is why they were targeted. Beyond these three points, Sanghis are a massively misogynistic crowd, so targeting women is second nature to them. But above all, ask yourself this: was the decision to target women made in closed rooms, by the people who run this country? And before someone says this is just my theory: yes, it is. But the videos aren't. And a pattern this clear doesn't happen by accident.
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manjula narayan retweeted
🚨 ATTENTION! Delhi Police are detaining protesters in animal transport vans, brutally assaulting them, hurling abuses, and kicking them in their private parts. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
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manjula narayan retweeted
SOS!! Here from the protestors who are detained. These are clear human rights violation. Male protestors are being seperated from female protestors and being beaten up. Male policemen are coming inside these cages and beating up female protestors. Amplify!
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manjula narayan retweeted
Every time one thinks that Amit Shah’s Delhi Police couldn’t hit new lows, they go lower. Detaining and assaulting reporters from agencies, Malayalam journalists, independent bloggers and YouTubers - especially women - to hide your own crimes, is completely unforgivable. These honest journalists who are showing the ugly truth of this regime are being harassed to suppress the reality from being shown to the world. The Delhi Police has turned the entire city into a torture chamber where innocent citizens exercising their fundamental rights are being chased, thrashed and detained. All this, while vigilante groups aligned with the ruling regime are given a free hand to assault protesters - under full police protection. Modi-Shah are criminal-minded dictators who have decided to go to any lengths to save their regime from collapsing. They know their Vote Chori is out in the open and the public has completely turned against them. They should know very well that the youth of India are not cowards like them. No amount of brutality will deter their will to resist this regime. We, the people of India, will succeed. Our satyagrah will win.
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The army nearly suffocated MP John Brittas inside the van. He survived only because an ACP spotted and recognised him. Police vehicles have turned into Guantanamo-style prisons, with protesters beaten by paramilitary personnel. What cowards you are, Amit Shah and Modi! #GyaneshResign
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RSS is like look at these n*zi p*lice, indian p*lice kuch sikho inse....
GERMAN POLICE IN ACTION SUPRESSING PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTS. No "activist" of Indian origin living in Germany will make a youtube video of this condeming "undeclared emergency". No UNHRC resolution will be take up against Germany.
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manjula narayan retweeted
BJP supporters should stop calling themselves Hindus and instead admit that their religion is the BJP and their God is Modi.
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The character I paint in my head when someone says he supports Bajrang Dal
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So much gyan people give Congress - do this, do that, not doing enough, but don’t do this or that. If only that much gyan they could have given BJP instead of appreciating every “masterstroke” or lauding Modi “the great”, just asked a few questions of the govt…
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Replying to @Firoze_
All the millions of deleted voters shd occupy the houses of Sanghi MLAs, MPs&RSS leaders in their respective constituencies. They shd not move out of those houses until&unless their names r added back to the electoral rolls. Gyanu is a puppet; get hold of the puppeteers! 😡
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Replying to @Firoze_ @bhavi_kap
If they can do this to a sitting member of parliament, just imagine what they must be doing to common people?!!
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manjula narayan retweeted
MP John Brittas alleges four CRPF personnel pinned him down inside a vehicle until he struggled to breathe, and released him only after the DCP threatened suspension. He says the person with him was also assaulted. Watch..
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