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Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
1984 was a crime against the Sikh community, and the Congress carries that guilt.
Dr Manmohan Singh apologised for it in Parliament in 2005. The UPA then acted on the Nanavati Commission's recommendations with a ₹714.76 crore rehabilitation package, of which more than ₹534 crore reached the states.
Compare that with the Modi government's 2014 package: ₹5 lakh promised (only for the kin of those killed), with an estimated cost of ₹166 crores. Rajnath Singh handed out 17 cheques in Tilak Vihar, and the rest were left waiting on "verification". Later, the BJP's own chairman of the National Commission for Minorities claimed that "no government can pay full compensation to all victims."
Twelve years into this government, he also conceded that none of the 944 families resettled in Tilak Vihar have ownership rights, and ₹13 crore in power dues still hangs over them.
In 2022, BJP MP Parvesh Verma told the Lok Sabha that the jobs promised to victims' children had never been delivered. The ₹5,000 pension for widows, promised in the 2025 Delhi election, is still awaited. Job letters come out in batches of 19 and 36, always handed out by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta in front of cameras.
Today the BJP marches through the same neighbourhoods it has left waiting for over a decade. The farcical counter-march is an insult to the legacy of 1984. Reducing the grief of those who lost their loved ones to a political stunt trivialises one of the darkest chapters in our history.
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
ये वीडियो यूरोप के प्रदर्शन का नहीं है, उस प्रदेश का है जिसकी तरफ़ से इस देश के प्रधानमंत्री ने मुंह मोड़ रखा है।
जी हां, मणिपुर में हज़ारों लोगों मार्च निकाल कर राज्य और केंद्र की सरकारों को चेतावनी दी है कि अगर उसने कुछ न किया तो हालत बदतर हो जाएगी
क्या प्रधानमंत्री को इससे कोई फ़र्क पड़ेगा? अभी तक का अनुभव यही कहता है कि नहीं पड़ेगा। हालांकि मणिपुर में चुनाव होने हैं इसलिए चुनाव जीवी प्रधानमंत्री जाग भी सकते हैं।
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
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Horrific attack at Anantapur School: 21-year-old enters classroom with power chainsaw, one girl killed another Injured. the attack took place inside the classroom while a teacher was present and lessons were underway. Police launch a hunt to nab the accused. #AndhraPradesh
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
When Dhruv Rathee called out Aditya Dhar and Sandeep Reddy Vanga for glorifying violence and propaganda through films like Dhurandhar, the right-wing went after him with abuse. And now we're witnessing the kind of consequences that come from normalising hatred and glorifying violence. But In India questioning cinema is a bigger crime than questioning the mindset it promotes.
Horrific attack at Anantapur School: 21-year-old enters classroom with power chainsaw, one girl killed another Injured. the attack took place inside the classroom while a teacher was present and lessons were underway. Police launch a hunt to nab the accused. #AndhraPradesh
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Sam Altman thinks RAM sitting in personal computers is a waste when it could be put to better use in data centers.
Weird. I was just thinking that all those billions sitting in billionaires’ bank accounts could be put to much better use in our communities.
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
🔹Why are we holding this impeachment proceeding in a garden?
👉Because we have no other option. Every single institution is closed to us.
I don't think anything like this has ever happened in history: the entire Opposition sitting in a garden to discuss the impeachment of the Chief Election Commissioner of India.
: LoP Shri @RahulGandhi on the Public Impeachment of CEC Gyanesh Kumar
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Pardon my French but this is absolute bullshit.
This so-called PIL should have been dismissed with exemplary costs. Instead, notice has been issued.
Can anyone just get up & ask for a witch-hunt against a private citizen using the judiciary now?
If this is going to be a precedent, then there’s a LONG list of names.
Stay strong brother @SauravDassss. This is clear retaliation for exposing the rotten parts of our judiciary. With you 100%.
BREAKING: Madras High Court issues notice on plea seeking investigation into the identity and background of journalist Saurav Das, including his parents, and cancellation of his passport and Aadhaar card if allegations are established.
@SauravDassss @Cockroachisback
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Friends, ex-colleagues demand release of Dr Randall Sequeira arrested over anti-mining protest thenewsminute.com/news/frien… #
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
The final game is now clear.
Large-scale disenfranchisement, and then linking various public subsidy benefits to new voter ID cards, (not Aadhar or other docs). So they hold a life-and-death power over you now, once you are removed from SIR lists. Their aggression in a mala-fide SIR is understandable from this.
#SIR #EPCI #Aadhar
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
What's happening here is a moment of collective shame.
Hounding someone just because you can't stand their work - to what extent are we going to tolerate all of this?
BREAKING: Madras High Court issues notice on plea seeking investigation into the identity and background of journalist Saurav Das, including his parents, and cancellation of his passport and Aadhaar card if allegations are established.
@SauravDassss @Cockroachisback
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
October 31, 1984. I was 19 and had gone for a hair cut in Mumbai when we got the news that Indira Gandhi had been assassinated. It was a shock to the system: she had towered over public life for two decades like no other . In 2007, we did a nationwide poll on the 60th anniversary of Indian Independence and Indira Gandhi emerged as the politician with the highest recall value. Indiraji in North India, Indira Amma in the South, through the highs of 1971 and the lows of 1975, she quite uniquely remains firmly embedded in the public imagination. 🙏🇮🇳
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Very important story. Please pay attention. The work by @reporters_co has been outstanding.
Thousands of fake voters were inserted in Pilibhit’s voter rolls after SIR. We found that ECI’s rules and software leave voter data across India vulnerable to Pilibhit-like fraud.
By @ayushikar1998, @ShubhangiJourno, @TweetSumedha & @DikshyaKoirala7
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reporters-collective.in/trc/…
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Hello @nsitharaman Ji, Dragging Congress's historical failures into every debate is an excuse to escape accountability.
Yes, Congress made mistakes. Yes, there were banking scandals, political interference and questionable lending decisions. Nobody is asking you to give Congress a clean chit. But does that automatically make the BJP government competent, transparent or corruption-free?
You cannot spend years blaming previous governments while refusing to take responsibility for your own failures. If IDBI needed ₹25,000 crore of taxpayers' money to revive it, don't present that as some extraordinary achievement. It is taxpayers' money, not money from the pockets of BJP leaders.
And what about today's banking sector? What about corporate loan write-offs, NPAs, corporate insolvencies, banking governance, political-business connections and accountability for financial irregularities? Why is there selective outrage?
A White Paper is not a certificate of good governance. Historical failures are not a licence for present-day incompetence.
Congress's failures do not make BJP's decisions automatically right. Indians deserve answers from the government in power today, not endless lectures about what happened decades ago.
Stop treating every legitimate question as an opportunity to blame Congress. GOVERNANCE IS ABOUT PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY, NOT PERMANENT WHATABOUTERY!
We all know how @INCIndia has used Banks and financial institutions as personal entities and pressured bank employees to extend loans at their whim, bypassing prudent lending norms.
Let me list a few instances.
- In 1957, Haridas Mundra got money from LIC due to influence by the Congress leaders.
- In 1976, Indira Gandhi's government removed SBI Chairman R.K. Talwar after he refused political pressure to relax lending conditions for a company linked to Sanjay Gandhi's circle.
- Sanjay Gandhi pressured the Central Bank of India over loans to Maruti.
- B. Janardhana Poojary, MoS Finance under Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi — pressured bank employees to issue loans in the 1980s.
- Pawan Kumar Bansal, as a minister in the UPA, pressured Canara Bank to give loans to his family-linked businesses.
The IDBI Bank was handed over to us in poor shape, as IDBI itself was forced to lend to large business groups with close connections to @INCIndia leaders such as Videocon, Winsome, ABG Shipyard, Kingfisher, etc. These turned into bad loans, causing huge losses for IDBI Bank, which we recognised.
The NDA govt led by Hon'ble PM Shri @narendramodi revived the IDBI bank through professionalism, prudence and recapitalisation of more than Rs 25,000 crores. The IDBI Bank is now poised for its next phase of growth.
All due process has been followed in the IDBI Bank strategic restructuring, and we have already clarified this yesterday.
Check this: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.…
Many more instances of blatant scams and economic mismanagement have been covered in the White Paper on the Indian Economy released in February 2024. It remains relevant even now.
Read here: bsmedia.business-standard.co…
Your lies with respect to Rafale had failed and were exposed. You had to apologise. The same will happen here.
Congress-era banking had a phonebook for the powerful and a rulebook for the common citizens.
The era of 'connection and setting banking' is over.
Common people now have easy access to loans, and employees are not under pressure to extend loans over the phone calls.
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
BEYOND BIZARRE: SC observes that ‘logical discrepancy’ category for removing voters from electoral rolls in Bengal was an ‘interim measure’ and legality has not been decided. Ah! But your Lordships the Bengal elections are done and dusted and you didn’t allow lakhs of eligible voters to vote as a result of an ‘interim measure’? @AneeshaMathur has more
Supreme Court's scathing observations on S.I.R —
SC: Logical discrepancy in West Bengal interim measure; legality of 'logical discrepancy' undecided
@AneeshaMathur with more details
#SupremeCourt #SIR #WestBengal #NewsToday | @sardesairajdeep
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Govt babu is probably the only person in India who can delay your work for 3 months and still behave like you are wasting his time by asking about it.
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Release unlawfully arrested Odisha mining and people's rights activists Doctor Randall Sequeira, Laxman Naik Lada Sikaka and Lingaraj Azad
Massive Protest rally today,against the unlawful arrest of people's doctor Randall Sequeira, Youth tribal Singer cum Activist Laxman Naik, Adivasi leader Lada Sikaka and Eminent environmental Activist Lingaraj Azad in front of Muniguda Tehsil Office, Rayagada district of Odisha.
@tmkrishna @samar11 @TeestaSetalvad @HansrajMeena
@DhanadaKanta @Ayaskant_Das
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Massive Protest rally today,against the unlawful arrest of people's doctor Randall Sequeira, Youth tribal Singer cum Activist Laxman Naik, Adivasi leader Lada Sikaka and Eminent environmental Activist Lingaraj Azad in front of Muniguda Tehsil Office, Rayagada district of Odisha.
@tmkrishna @samar11 @TeestaSetalvad @HansrajMeena
@DhanadaKanta @Ayaskant_Das
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Every caring Indian must read this
When most doctors opt for immigration or corporate hospitals Randall chose to work with Adivasis
He asked why they were impoverished
He's now arrested for fighting mining
Will you jail the most idealistic youth among us?
nivarana.org/reality-check/h…
Devi Lakshmikutty retweeted
Important:
Here’s something that a LOT of people don’t know about what’s actually going on with Delhi Police.
CJP’s Saurav Das & Ashutosh Ranka have been sent to 2 more days of judicial custody in Tihar Jail.
By a judicial court? NO.
They have been kept in Tihar Jail for the last 6 days on the order of a Special Executive Magistrate (SEM).
Who is an SEM? He is an ACP-rank (junior) police officer of Delhi Police appointed by the state govt.
Therefore, Delhi Police arrested Saurav & Ashutosh & now a Delhi Police ACP (acting as SEM) is keeping them in jail.
There’s no FIR against them. There’s also no judicial order.
Delhi Police are the accusers & well as the judge when it comes to keeping them in jail.
That’s how messed up it is.