2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 13 Jul 2020 22:24

^^I don't see it as a huge factor. Same speculations were made about Scindia versus Uncle Chou in MP.

If Pilot joins BJP, he will be on probation...unlikely that he will be made CM right away irrespective of whether Raje or someone else is the main contender. Most likely he will be sent to Rajya Sabha and some of his supporters will get powerful posts in the RJ cabinet. Same was done for Scindia.

greatde · Post by **greatde** » 13 Jul 2020 22:40

Pilot miscalculated and over-reacted, to bargain better position within Congress. To go for BJP, he probably will ask for impossible CM seat. Like in Karnataka where it was JDS (smaller party CM) with Congress supporting.

And even in medium run, the bypolls of his estimated 20-30 MLAs wont be easy to win. BJP has nothing to gain nor lose in this immediate phase...

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 14 Jul 2020 07:56

greatde wrote:Pilot miscalculated and over-reacted, to bargain better position within Congress. To go for BJP, he probably will ask for impossible CM seat. Like in Karnataka where it was JDS (smaller party CM) with Congress supporting.

And even in medium run, the bypolls of his estimated 20-30 MLAs wont be easy to win. BJP has nothing to gain nor lose in this immediate phase...

Read my previous posts. This is not a "is the bride coming with or without dowry ?" drama. I said that the BJP + can stake claim if BTP and independents switch sides, and Pilot gets some 30 congis to resign. This is irrespective of whether he joins the BJP or not. If Pilot forms his own party and forms a bypoll understanding with BJP, the congis are toast.

As of now I don't think Pilot is bargaining with the Congis, he knows they are not going to push Gehlot off the chair or rein him in. As Scindia realized, there is no future with the congis.

BJP indeed has nothing to lose, but certainly much to gain whichever way this plays out.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 14 Jul 2020 16:39

that's because pappu is already working for them

Arfa Khanum Sherwani@khanumarfa · Jul 13

One can say this with certainty that Rahul Gandhi is the only political leader in India who will not join the BJP.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 14 Jul 2020 16:44

point of no return

sachin pilot will remove gehlot as CM now

ANI@ANI
Sachin Pilot removed as Deputy Chief Minister, announces Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala
1:37 PM · Jul 14, 2020

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 14 Jul 2020 17:00

dinesh_kimar wrote:
schinnas wrote:No need to pull the plug of a state govt now during Covid time.
Saar, the UPA doesn't seem to suffer any such compulsion, after forming Maharashtra Govt. just before/around COVID time. Today, I believe it's the worst hit state in the country.

this is the true state of the MAH govt today.

why would anyone pull it down today.

besides, after the RBI takeover of coop banks and the APMC surgical strike, the congis and pawarfools have been stripped naked, neutered and rendered politically impotent in terms of distributing unaccounted largesse, guaranteeing political protection and nurturing partisan patronage, and they have much reduced capability in the targeted tending of cultivated vote banks.

The next strike will be against "capitation" colleges.

nvishal · Post by **nvishal** » 14 Jul 2020 17:07

^ He's part of his own dynasty. Many of these families were absorbed by the INC post independence. His kind will find no love in the BJP and will try to go on with his own regional party - as so many others have done(ysr, thackrey, pawar, ambedkar, karunanidhi, devegowda etc)

Without the INC, these families have no choice but to float their own regional party.

KJo · Post by **KJo** » 14 Jul 2020 18:06

I don't think Sachin Pilot can be called part of a dynasty, it's just his father and him. Unlike Scindia. Father was close to Rajiv, so Sachin was close to Rahul.

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 14 Jul 2020 21:37

It seems V Raje is not in the picture at the moment...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 921717.cms

BJP held a meeting today at their party office in Rajasthan over the current political situation in the state. Party's state president Satish Poonia and party leaders Om Mathur, Gulab Chand Kataria & Rajendra Rathore were present at the meeting

People are angry & disappointed with this govt & no power in the world can save it. Our priority is that this govt loses power. We are vigilant, monitoring the situation & will decide our strategy as the situation unfolds

Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 14 Jul 2020 23:21

KL Dubey wrote:^^I don't see it as a huge factor. Same speculations were made about Scindia versus Uncle Chou in MP.

If Pilot joins BJP, he will be on probation...unlikely that he will be made CM right away irrespective of whether Raje or someone else is the main contender. Most likely he will be sent to Rajya Sabha and some of his supporters will get powerful posts in the RJ cabinet. Same was done for Scindia.

BJP was out of power for 10 years from 2004 to 2014.

Do you remember any big BJP leader joining Congress

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 00:17

pakistan, of the same size, is even more broken, but you guys have never prescribed this solution for it.

Why the double standard

this guy is the evil pappu of the media.

brainless, shameless and entitled.

Shekhar Gupta@ShekharGupta

Uttar Pradesh is India’s broken heartland....

The only way to fix it is to break it up into 4 or 5 states....

10:38 AM · Jul 11, 2020

Rony · Post by **Rony** » 15 Jul 2020 00:18

'Taliban arrived in West Bengal ! Body of BJP MLA from Hemtabad Sh Debendra Nath Ray was found hanging like this near his home.He was KILLED & HANGED in Public . His Fault ? He left TMC & joined BJP in 2019. Dear snowflakes,this is real fascism ! Will you speak now ? "

https://twitter.com/MajorPoonia/status/ ... 64960?s=20

"For those asking what is BJP doing at center, let me tell them that had BJP not been in centre, this would've been happening across India, as it did before 2014. WB is extremely infested. Many of us don't understand the gravity. BJP MUST be brought to power there by people.

https://twitter.com/Prisma_Me/status/12 ... 14048?s=20

'BJP will not win West Bengal. People want to be on the winning side. Those living under a tyranny wont risk their lives for a weak leadership interested only in collecting martyrs. If you really care for your people don't just hail the dead, avenge them. Whatever it takes'.

https://twitter.com/VikasSaraswat/statu ... 32320?s=20

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 15 Jul 2020 01:42

“Obligatory Upon The Muslim Faithful To Perform The Sacrifice Of Goats” -Maharashtra Cong Urges CM To Allow Bakri-Eid
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/obligator ... -bakri-eid
The plea came in a memorandum to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, state Congress chief and Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat and NCP''s Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, submitted by former minister Arif Naseem Khan.

Khan said that Eid al-Adha is one of the most important festivals in the Islamic calendar and obligatory upon the Muslim faithful to perform the sacrifice of goats.

"Just as the government has permitted the upcoming Ganeshotsav festival with stringent conditions, we appeal to you to let the Muslim community also celebrate Eid al-Adha with appropriate restrictions," Khan said.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 13:12

this is one law that should be implemented in India ASAP

Under new security law imposed by china on hongKong, “damage to public transport” is defined as “terrorism”, carrying life imprisonment

the first target in every peacefool/commie/naxal agitation is the wanton burning of trains, specific shops, and busses.

recall if you will, the focussed bus burnings in dilli and the train burnings bengal

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 14:11

Rajasthan crisis now haunts Uddhav sarkar in Maharashtra

Since last week, Nationalist Congress Party patriarch Sharad Pawar’s rampant meetings at Raj Bhavan in Malabar Hills and Matoshree, followed by a veiled attack on Rahul Gandhi in the Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana, have further fuelled the political rumour mills in the state. It is also an indicative of the growing differences within the ruling coalition, which sources say is being closely looked at by the BJP, which has been forced to sit in the Opposition despite winning most seats in the Assembly elections.

The pundits of Maharashtra politics believe that the mishandling of Covid-19 by the Uddhav Thackeray government has only made the political life of the usual coalition more uncertain. At a time when Covid cases in Mumbai have crossed the 1-lakh mark and the overall state tally is more than 3 lakh, swords are out against the state government. Political sources say none of the three parties of the ruling alliance are happy with the current state of affairs, with each blaming the other for the Covid-19 crisis, with the state government constantly looking at the Centre to bail it out of the pandemic. Sources further add that a section of Shiv Sena MLAs too is unhappy and may switch sides at any moment.

Monsoon has arrived in the state. With this, the problem of waterlogging has started appearing. And if politics doesn’t stop, then the Opposition will obviously be benefited from this mudslinging and “lotus” might bloom in Maharashtra in the near future.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 14:32

It's the same old, age old mafia family tactics and sleight of hand techniques that the congis are relying on once again.

However, this time around, their failure is public, messy and politically damaging to the family

note the showing a “large heart” assertion which is a typical paki muslim and also a paki inspired lootyens pasand argument, used when all logic has failed and it is the very same modus operandi that the slimy snake oil salesman bhutto peddled so successfully at shimla to con IG.

where the gujarati mohammedan mian is concerned, even plausible deniability has failed to work.

such entitlement being asserted by the mafia family, via the gujarati mohammedan mian, seems to be in tune with their proclaimed assumption of the royal white skinned lineage.

In the meantime, it looks like pappi has tweeted herself out of the two month extension granted by the govt by publicly denying that she has any interest in staying on.

ABA/LKA would never have ventured so far. They would simply and "magnanimously" have granted permission for pappi to stay on in perpetuity and the mafia family would have, once again, managed to turn the tables to suit themselves.

This govt has learned how to weaponize and use the media.

The same bitter medicine, once reserved exclusively for the mafia family's enemies is now being force fed to them.

Priyanka, Hardeep Puri spar over ‘extension’ to vacate Lutyens’ bungalow

It seems the controversy related to the eviction of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from 35 Lodhi Estate is not going to die down soon. In a fresh salvo, the Congress leader on Tuesday reacted to a news story about how she had approached the government for an extension of two more months to vacate the house and how Prime Minister Narendra Modi, showing a “large heart”, agreed for it. Tagging the report, she tweeted: “This is fake news. I have not made any such request to the government. As per the eviction letter handed to me on the 1st of July, I will be vacating the government accommodation at 35 Lodhi Estate by the 1st of August.”

However, Priyanka’s remark drew a sharp rejoinder by Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri who took to social media and tweeted: “Facts speak for themselves. A powerful Congress leader with much clout in the party called me on 4th July at 12.05 pm to request that 35 Lodhi Estate be allotted to another Congress MP so that Priyanka Gandhi can stay on. Let’s not try to sensationalise everything, Please.” This tweet clearly showed that the government was not willing to take things lying down.

Priyanka retaliated and reiterated that she has made no such request. She responded to Puri’s tweet: “If someone called you Mr Puri, I thank them for their concern, and thank you for your consideration as well, but it still does not change the facts: I have made no such request, and I am making no such request. As I said, I will be vacating the house by the 1st of August as required in the eviction letter.”

The minister, however, was in no mood to let go of this and gave out more details of the caller which left nothing to imagination as far as the identity of the caller is concerned. Puri tweeted, “The leader who called me, & many others, is at the very top of the Congress hierarchy… the same political advisor who speaks and acts on your family’s behalf. It was when he requested that we decided to give a two-month extension in good faith.” The minister added: “Would only request you to first sort out these issues within your own party before venting in public. Streak of entitlement & playing victim don’t go well together.”

Meanwhile, Priyanka seems all set to shift out of Lutyens’ zone. A source close to her family told The Daily Guardian that she has started shifting to Sukhdev Vihar in south Delhi where her husband Robert Vadra has an office. “Much of the shifting work has been done and she is certainly going to vacate 35, Lodi Estate days before the deadline ends. After the Central government’s notice to vacate the Lodi Estate bunglow before 1 August, a house hunt took place and a bungalow at Jor Bagh in Lutyens’ zone was also considered, but the deal could not be finalised,” the source said.

“An option for shifting to Gurugram was also considered, but there were some security issues with the Haryana government, so it was decided to shift to Sukhdev Vihar,” the source quoted above said. As the house at Sukhdev Vihar is much smaller than her previous residence, much of her belongings have been shifted to her mother Sonia Gandhi and brother Rahul Gandhi’s residences.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 16:13

surely there is much more to this than just a bland headline

many investigations later, the govt has prevailed and it looks like some pretty hard bargains have been made

usually, there is a heavy index linked, dollar denominated lifetime pension after such a juicy appointment

darbaris are being ruthlessly sidelined, even at this usually untouchable and rarefied level

Chanakya said "a son born to a foreign mother can never be loyal to the nation" and by extension, nor will the darbaris serving such a foreign mother

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa set to join Asian Development Bank as vice president

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 17:14

now that India has thrown the first stone and the chinese reaction is available for all to see, the US will leverage that to further push china into the rabbit hole.

It is also very advantageous for trump to ban such apps, especially with the US elections coming up fast and he would surely hope to negate a large amount of chinese propaganda against himself.

too bad for biden though and the obummers and the cash clintons

Banning TikTok takes a big espionage tool away from China: US NSA

Banning TikTok takes a big espionage tool away from China: US NSA

Washington
July 15, 2020

China will lose “a big tool” of espionage and surveillance if America and some western European countries ban Chinese apps like TikTok as done by India, US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien has said.

India last month banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok and UC Browser, saying they were prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and security of the country.

O’Brien told Fox News Radio in an interview that the Trump administration was “very seriously taking a look” at TikTok, WeChat and some other apps coming out of China.

“India has already banned those apps, as you know. And if they lose India and the United States, they lose some western European countries, that takes a big tool away from the espionage work or the surveillance work of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party),” he said in response to a question on the dangers posed by apps like TikTok.

“The kids who are using TikTok — and it can be a lot of fun — but there are a lot of other social media platforms they could use. TikTok is getting facial recognition on you,” O’Brien said. “They are getting all of your personal, private data, your most intimate data. They are getting to know who your friends are, who your parents are. They can map all your relationships,” he added.

All the information is going straight to the massive supercomputers in the cloud in China, O’Brien said. “So China is going to know everything about you. They are going to have biometrics on you. You ought to be very careful regarding who you give such personal information to,” he said.

The Trump administration, he said, is looking not just at TikTok but at WeChat and some other Chinese apps as well, because the Chinese are big consumers of America’s personal data. “They will either try and get you to give it to them for free through WeChat or TikTok — if they cannot get it that way, they will steal it,” O’Brien said.

China, he said, has hacked into Marriott and stolen the personal data of hundreds of millions of people, including their passport numbers.

“They have hacked into Experian and other credit rating agencies to get most intimate credit details. They have hacked into Anthem healthcare so that they can get medical details. So this is not just an advertiser trying to find out what you are interested in searching for on Google so they can sell you a different brand of car, this is a country that is looking to get every bit of personal, private information they can, so they know everything about you,” O’Brien said.

He said there were social credit scores in China for people based on how compliant they are with the Communist party dictates.

“They are going to be able to put social credit scores together on all Americans and everyone in the world soon because of artificial intelligence and supercomputing,” he said. “We need to make sure that does not happen,” the US National Security Advisor said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week said the US is “certainly looking” at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok.

The American leadership’s remarks on the Chinese social media apps came amid growing tensions in bilateral ties with Beijing on a range of issues, including on the coronavirus outbreak and the controversial national security law imposed in Hong Kong.

The US has banned Huawei from their 5G networks over concerns of security and Washington has been pressuring other countries to restrict the operations of the Chinese telecom firm.

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 15 Jul 2020 18:11

PETA has no issue about open messages targeting Hindus and their culture but all those fake animal worries to cause cultural revolution brainwashing disappear when it comes to non Hindus. None of their messages show up with explicit mentioning of non Hindu events. Recently PETA had put on token messages against goat slaughter without any explicit mentioning of Eid or Islam.

‘Cows are our sisters and deserve protection’: PETA India says after netizens outrage over its Raksha Bandhan campaign
https://www.opindia.com/2020/07/peta-in ... w-leather/
PETA removed goat slaughter billboards after Islamic clerics objected

Earlier this month, an image of goat on a billboard urging people to turn vegan and stop goat slaughter offended the Islamic clerics in Lucknow. They claimed such an appeal hurt their religious sentiments as Bakri Eid, wherein goat slaughter is a part of the ritual, is just around the corner. Later PETA had claimed that the the hoardings were removed by the authorities and they did not agree with removal of hoardings. However, speaking to OpIndia, the Lucknow Police had said that PETA had removed the hoardings itself.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 19:28

chetak wrote:surely there is much more to this than just a bland headline

many investigations later, the govt has prevailed and it looks like some pretty hard bargains have been made

usually, there is a heavy index linked, dollar denominated lifetime pension after such a juicy appointment

darbaris are being ruthlessly sidelined, even at this usually untouchable and rarefied level

Chanakya said "a son born to a foreign mother can never be loyal to the nation" and by extension, nor will the darbaris serving such a foreign mother

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa set to join Asian Development Bank as vice president

After the stick, the carrot.

J Gopikrishnan@jgopikrishnan70·3h

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa caught for wife's Directorship in many Companies when he was Govt Secretary. Then Income Tax investigation on wife & son's firms. Now he bought peace with Govt & escapes to ADB. Moral of the story : Only Fakirs can fight, said Mahatma Gandhi

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 19:47

Ankit Tyagi@Ankit_Tyagi01 · 6h

1 big reason for @SachinPilot to vociferously deny going to the @BJP4India or speak about his future plans, is the #Rajasthan Speaker’s notice. Till 17 July if Pilot says anything that can be construed as anti party speech, would put his or supporters MLAship in danger.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 19:55

b@!!le$$ anti Hindu stand up comedians are slowly becoming an endangered species, as well they should

- The rape threats and abuses are coming from BJP “IT Cell”
- Facist and Intolerant is Mudi
- Freedom of Expression is in danger since 2014.

But we’ll apologize only to..

PS: even those crazed bimbos from bollywood aren’t speaking up for the FoE and intolerance against these dimwits.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 20:21

The comedy of apologies: When the ones mocking Savarkar for mercy petition to British apologise to ‘secular goons’

The comedy of apologies: When the ones mocking Savarkar for mercy petition to British apologise to ‘secular goons’

What more amusing about the whole 'apology' incident of the Krantikari comedians is the fact that these were the same set of people who often mock Hindu nationalist leaders such as Veer Savarkar for allegedly writing mercy petitions during the British rule.

15 July, 2020
Shashank Bharadwaj

'Comedians' apologise to 'secular' Maha Vikas Aghadi while accusing BJP of giving threats

Since last few days, the assertive ‘internet Hindoos’ seems to have finally woken up from their slumber. Netizens have been unearthing the blatant anti-Hindu acts of these so-called ‘creative’ stand-up comedians and have exposed their nauseating attack on the Hindus, aimed at hurting the sentiments of people by making offensive remarks on the Hindu Gods and Goddesses, cracking jokes on historical figures and making disgusting sexual remarks.

The old tweets of these so-called ‘comedians’ highlights their extremely poor sense of humour, which emanates from harbouring pathological hatred for Hindus, Hindu customs, traditions and deities.

The controversy started when a lesser-known comedian Agrima Joshua, came to limelight for mocking on Maratha warrior Chatrapati Shivaji. Netizens were outraged over her ‘jokes’ which were not even funny to begin with. While facing severe heckling on social media, Joshua initially blamed the ‘BJP IT Cell’ and then pleaded to Uddhav Thackeray for help. Later, it was known that even members of MNS and Shiv Sena had aggressively attacked for her anti-Hindu comments.

मेरी क्षमायाचना स्वीकार करे,
Please accept my humble apology,@cmoMaharashtra @authackrey@anildeshmukhncp@nitinraut@RajThackrey pic.twitter.com/uHBZMBPOfB

— Agrima Joshua (@Agrimonious) July 11, 2020

After going on a tirade against ‘BJP IT Cell’, she eventually apologised. Except, apology was addressed to Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray, NCP leader and Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and MNS’ Raj Thackeray. After blaming the ‘BJP IT Cell’ for threats, Joshua actually apologised to the ‘secular’ Maha Vikas Aghadi government of which Congress is a part.

Following Agrima Joshua, other self-proclaimed comedians – Aadar Malik, Sahil Shah, Azeem Banatwallah, Alokesh Sinha, ultra-left wing Sanjay Rajoura, Neeti Palta, Rohan Joshi, whose anti-Hindu tweets and acts were put up on social media, to highlight their inherent hatred for Hindus and its customs, historical figures.

As their old acts began to resurface on the internet, the ‘comedians’, who have been hailed as the champions of free-speech and often ‘spoke truth to power’, were soon hit with the reality and decided to run away from social media platforms as they deactivated their profiles.

These extremely unfunny and abusive ‘comedians’, fell over themselves to either deactivate or protect their account, perhaps to avoid action from the concerned authorities and also prevent the netizens from further publishing their Twitter tweets which could have provided them with more damaging content.

However, a day later, some of these free-speech warriors resurfaced again on social media platforms only to plead in front of the ‘secular’ Maharashtra government for hurting sentiments of people. Ironically, these stand-up comedians who have been fighting the ‘Fascist Modi’ all their life, hurried up to post apologies to the ruling Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra.

If I’ve offended anyone’s sentiments please accept my humble apology.@CMOMaharashtra@authackrey@AnilDeshmukhNCP@nitinraut593@RajThackrey pic.twitter.com/Jemg7bIoQ7

— Sahil Shah (@SahilBulla) July 14, 2020

If my actions and words have hurt anyone’s sentiments, here is my sincere apology. @CMOMaharashtra@authackrey@AnilDeshmukhNCP@nitinraut593@RajThackrey pic.twitter.com/NVH0YesZz8 pic.twitter.com/HZ0nRt69VV

— Aadar Malik (@TheAadarGuy) July 14, 2020

It was rather intriguing to many as to why they pleaded to the Shiv Sainiks and the likes of Raj Thackeray as it is a standard norm across the left-wing ecosystem to blame ‘BJP IT cell’ whenever they get abused or exposed by netizens. However, none of them apologised to the so-called fascist government, BJP and it’s allies or BJP followers, but pleaded by tagging Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray, MNS Raj Thackeray and Congress leader Nitin Raut.

Not only that, these so-called ‘comedians’ offered apologies to the Maharashtra government but not to people, whose sentiments they had hurt in the first place. May be, these ‘anti-fascist crusaders’ thought that pleading to the Shiv Sena-led government would save from the imminent arrest.

What more amusing about the whole ‘apology’ incident of the Krantikari comedians is the fact that these were the same set of people who often mock Hindu nationalist leaders such as Veer Savarkar for allegedly writing mercy petitions during the British rule. Savarkar was a political prisoner. He was ordered 50 years of rigorous imprisonment. Only natural for him to file a petition. In case we also forget, in 1920, even Mahatma Gandhi wrote a petition to the British for his release so that he could join the constitutional reform process. Motilal Nehru, too, pulled a few strings and his son Jawaharlal signed a bond to get out of Nabha jail in just two weeks of ‘harsh conditions’.

At Cellular Jail, Veer Savarkar was subjected to unconscionable torture and inhumane treatment that tested the very limits of his conviction. He was, reportedly, restrained in chains, flogged, and resigned to six months of solitary confinement. The British, made him pound coir with his bare hands where his hands were often dripped with blood. He had to manually turn a massive wheel, that would squeeze coconuts for oil and had to produce about 30 pounds a day. By some accounts, he was often forced to eat rotten food infested with worms and insects as punishment for his ‘crimes’ against the government.

Unlike numerous political prisoners who were driven to insanity or committed suicide, Savarkar showed remarkable resilience. He wrote strategic letters of ploy to the Britishers, not only for himself but for others also, to get out of jail, which the Congress has been shamelessly twisting for decades now.

However, the left-liberal ecosystem, which often falls back to Savarkar’s mercy petitions to mock Hindus of the country, have themselves been begging for mercy in front of the so-called ‘liberal-secular’ establishment.

Many such ‘comedians’ and Congress supporters often mock Savarkar. Here are some samples:

The letter ‘b’ in Veer Savarkar stands for BRAVE

— Kunal Kamra (@kunalkamra88) December 14, 2019

Umm.
I suppose he wasn't as much of a freedom fighter as Savarkar and Godse. https://t.co/ZlNnRrKGP9

— Agrima Joshua (@Agrimonious) March 9, 2020
Well, this ‘joke’ didn’t quite age that well, right?
*Cries in Savarkar*

— Agrima Joshua (@Agrimonious) June 16, 2020
*laughs in ‘secular’*

These bunch of ‘comedians’, now resorting to pulling their victim card, to absolve themselves from the attack, have now cried for help from the likes of Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray to rescue from the wrath of their own minions.

Perhaps, these set of ‘comedians’, who seems to have finally understood that their courage to ‘speak truth to power’ or fight the establishment is hollow, have now chickened out in front of the very same establishment, which often scrutinises them for making vile Hinduphobic comments under the garb of achieving comedy.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 15 Jul 2020 21:34

https://twitter.com/AskAnshul/status/12 ... 7077757952

Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul

Nun's rape case:

Few days ago, rape accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal filed plea seeking quashing of rape charges against him but Kerala High Court rejected his plea.

Today, Bishop Franco Mulakkal tested +ve for COVID-19 hours after Kerala court issued arrest warrant against him.

As soon as this guy hears the news of an arrest warrant he tests +ve for COVID.

Ambar · Post by **Ambar** » 15 Jul 2020 21:46

chetak wrote:b@!!le$$ anti Hindu stand up comedians are slowly becoming an endangered species, as well they should

More than these unfunny, bigoted, filthy "comedians" my problem is with the audience who pay to watch and hear their culture, their gods, their customs and country get mocked and derided upon. An example needs to be made out of some of them starting with Kunal Kamra so they think twice before holding that microphone with the intent of humiliating someone's beliefs the next time.

anmol · Post by **anmol** » 15 Jul 2020 22:04

Ambar wrote:More than these unfunny, bigoted, filthy "comedians" my problem is with the audience who pay to watch and hear their culture, their gods, their customs and country get mocked and derided upon. An example needs to be made out of some of them starting with Kunal Kamra so they think twice before holding that microphone with the intent of humiliating someone's beliefs the next time.

There is a reason why deplatforming has become a weapon of choice for the "left", it just works... because of which the audience is left with only these people.

Instead of going after these "comedians" (and risk streisand effect), go after the platforms (Amazon, Netflix, comedy clubs, sponsors).

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 22:07

Subramanian Swamy@Swamy39·9h
I urge all PTs to read the Op ed in The Hindu an article written by Ms. Antara Ghosal Singh. It is original in analysis of the internal debate in China

The standoff and China's India policy dilemma

The standoff and China’s India policy dilemma

Antara Ghosal Singh
JULY 15, 2020

As New Delhi seeks to reset ties with Beijing, it must take note of the ongoing Chinese debate on India

For China, which has long been preoccupied with its relentless pursuit to approach the centre of the world and in managing a turbulent relationship with the United States, the June 15 incident of a violent face-off between Chinese and Indian troops at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), causing casualties on both sides, came as a big jolt. It brought the national focus back on an otherwise not-so-popular topic of China-India relations. The development took China’s strategic community by storm, while the intense debate and discussions that followed, rather than generating a consensus, brought out China’s many dilemmas vis-à-vis India.

No accident
On one side of the debate are China’s top India watchers such as Lin Minwang and Zhang Jiadong, from Fudan University, and Li Hongmei from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) among others, who believe that the present conflict is not an “accident” but an “inevitable result” of what they perceive as “India’s long-standing speculative strategy on the China-India border”. From Doklam to Kashmir to India’s “unending infrastructure arms race” at the LAC, they say, Beijing was “fed up” and “had to teach India a lesson”.

Comment | China policy lacks perspicacity

Their key argument is that China-India relations hold no great prospect in the current international situation. There is no possibility of a negotiated settlement of the border dispute any time soon. India is already a “quasi-ally” of the U.S. with no scope for reversal. With opportunities for cooperation at the global level diminishing, regional competition intensifying and the earlier system of effective management of bilateral differences crumbling beyond control, periodic violent conflicts, they predict, are the “new normal” in China-India ties.

China, they argue, should reconsider its prevalent strategic thinking that India is not its main strategic challenge and, therefore, peace needs to be maintained in its direction as much as possible. Only by daring to fight, by showing strong determination, the will and the ability on the western frontier can China effectively deter its adversaries on the eastern coast. This is also, what they called, the right way to resolve China’s primary contradiction, that is the China-U.S. problem, by first breaking “its arms and legs”.

Handling a resurgent India
To deal with a resurgent India, Chinese hardliners suggest a policy of “three nos”: “no weakness, no concession and no defensive defence”. In other words, China should take all opportunities to crack down on India, take the initiative to hit it hard whenever possible. This, it is argued, will not damage China-India relations; on the contrary, it will make it more stable. Didn’t the 1962 China-India war help China to maintain peace and stability on the western front for a long time and directly eliminate American and Soviet ambitions to use India to contain China? In this backdrop there is renewed interest among certain sections of the Chinese strategic community to: keep India under control by destabilising the entire border region, creating tension across the board, from the McMahon Line in the east to the Aksai Chin area in the west; take the initiative to attack and seize territories under India’s control from Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh, and weaken India internally, by supporting the cause of Maoists, Naga separatists and Kashmiris.

Comment | History, the standoff, and policy worth rereading

Some criticism
However, on the other side of the debate are Chinese political thinkers and professors such as Zheng Yongnian and Yu Longyu among others, who in their analysis of the Galwan Valley incident, have been somewhat critical about China’s policies towards India, which they say remain mostly tactical, of a “reactive nature” and are characterised by a “tit-for-tat” approach without any clear strategic intent. This, according to them, stokes extreme nationalism in India and unites the otherwise divided nation against China, which not only harms China’s interests but might eventually draw China into an untimely military conflict.

They criticise those vying to “teaching India a lesson” as being “short-sighted” and not “psychologically prepared for the rise of India”. China, they argue, lacks understanding of the fact that India, as a rising power, is very important to China and will be increasingly crucial in the future, with China-India relations evolving as the most important pair of relations after China-U.S. links.

If China-India ties are damaged beyond repair, they warn, India alone or in association with other countries will cause “endless trouble for China”. For instance, an openly hostile India will use every possible means to prevent China from reaching the Indian Ocean. On the other hand, the decoupling of China-India relations will further strengthen the “anti-China alliance” between the U.S., Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and other countries, who will actively take the initiative to reshape global industrial chains, use the Indo-Pacific Strategy to check and balance China’s military and economic power, and expand international organisations such as the G-7 to weaken China’s influence in international affairs.

Analysis | China’s Belt and Road Initiative fuels Ladakh standoff

Opinion on scenarios
On a similar note, various commentaries in the Chinese press highlight that downgrading China-India relations to the level of India-Pakistan relations or a ‘Kashmirisation’ of the China-India border is easier said than done as this will require a complete reversal of China’s present LAC policy of being “reasonable, profitable and economical”.

Strategically too, they say, it is “unwise” for China to take the initiative to get into a comprehensive military conflict with India — “a big country with comparable military strength”— at this point in time. The general view among these military analysts is that if China has an advantage in terms of psychology, equipment, and logistics mobilisation, India too has advantage on various fronts such as deployment, supply line, practical war experience, topography, and climate among others. If India’s disadvantage remains in the fact that its capital lies well within the bombing range of China, China’s key disadvantage is its particularly long supply lines. Therefore, if the conflict ends in a short period of time, it will benefit China. But if it is prolonged, China will be disadvantaged.

Comment | Making sense of China’s calculations

If a war starts, they argue, India will make all efforts to prolong it as long as possible, and the U.S. is likely to help India to attain this objective. Even if the two sides ended in a tie, in India it will be counted a victory and the national morale will rise sharply; on the contrary, in China, the morale will decline if it cannot beat India decisively. Therefore, in its effort to “teach India a lesson”, they fear, China might lose more than it would gain.

What India must note
The overall consensus within this group is that it is still not the time to ‘resolve’ the India problem. Instead, China, for now, should strive to make India retreat without a military conflict, maintain basic peace and stability at the borders, and, at the minimum, not deliberately push it towards the U.S. Meanwhile, China simultaneously carries out its strategy of weakening India internally by leveraging its social and political differences, completing its strategic encirclement, improving troop deployment in the Tibet region to secure the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and stationing Chinese troops in the Gwadar Port (Arabian Sea), so as to secure China’s Indian Ocean sea routes, among other interests. In the words of another Chinese strategist, Yin Guoming, rather than winning a war, China should aim at attaining a comprehensive and overwhelming advantage in geopolitics vis-à-vis India, which cannot be altered by war.

Interview | India-China ties will be reset after LAC standoff, says former NSA Shivshankar Menon

To sum up, despite all the jingoism and rhetoric propagated through its official media, China is actually in a serious dilemma over its India policy. As we, in India, seek to reset ties with Beijing in the post-Galwan era, we should take note of the ongoing Chinese debate on India, factor in its many internal contradictions and perceived vulnerabilities vis-à-vis India, and leverage the same to our benefit.

Antara Ghosal Singh is a Researcher at the Delhi Policy Group (DPG). She is a graduate from Tsinghua University, China and has been a Chinese language fellow at the National Central University, Taiwan

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 15 Jul 2020 23:13

https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag/status/ ... 6062688257

Swarajya @SwarajyaMag

Yogi Govt Cracks Whip On Don Mukhtar Ansari's Ecosystem, Seizes Property Worth Crores, Suspends Arms Licences

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Jul 2020 23:21

this is a new worry for the hans

5G Smartphones: Jio-Google tie up can shake up India's smartphone mkt, threaten Chinese players

https://blog.google/around-the-globe/go ... dians-jio/

Jul 15, 2020

Today we signed an agreement to invest $4.5 billion (INR 33,737 crore) in Jio Platforms Ltd, taking a 7.73 percent stake in the company, pending regulatory review in India. This is the first investment from the Google For India Digitization Fund announced earlier this week, which aims to accelerate India’s digital economy over the next five to seven years through a mix of equity investments, partnerships, and operational, infrastructure and ecosystem investments.

Google and Jio Platforms have entered into a commercial agreement to jointly develop an entry-level affordable smartphone with optimizations to the Android operating system and the Play Store. Together we are excited to rethink, from the ground up, how millions of users in India can become owners of smartphones. This effort will unlock new opportunities, further power the vibrant ecosystem of applications and push innovation to drive growth for the new Indian economy.

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 16 Jul 2020 03:38

Very worrisome ...

Why is Modi Govt. handing over all crucial communication platforms to Jio/Ambanis?

FB/Google all are routing money thru Ambanis and giving away whole 5G on a platter to one company.

We need eco-system of digital players. We need AirTel 5G and 3rd player to become as big competitor as possible. This Reliance is in every platform: web conferencing, phone, video, internet etc. How will they allow any competition? They will kill all players.

Any thoughts?

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Jul 2020 03:44

the sheer hypocrisy of the congies and its blatant self serving opportunism

Youth Congress@IYC
First they ban Indian news channels and now Nepal has the guts to say Lord Ram is not son of Indian soil?
11:37 PM · Jul 13, 2020

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Jul 2020 03:55

darbari congis should clearly see writing on wall when maken and surjewala are all they've got as "senior leaders"

CNNNews18@CNNnews18
Congress has sent its senior leaders Ajay Maken and Randeep Surjewala as central observers to Jaipur to avert a crisis as it faces factionalism in Rajasthan.

M_Joshi · Post by **M_Joshi** » 16 Jul 2020 14:18

vijayk wrote:Very worrisome ...

Why is Modi Govt. handing over all crucial communication platforms to Jio/Ambanis?

FB/Google all are routing money thru Ambanis and giving away whole 5G on a platter to one company.

We need eco-system of digital players. We need AirTel 5G and 3rd player to become as big competitor as possible. This Reliance is in every platform: web conferencing, phone, video, internet etc. How will they allow any competition? They will kill all players.

Any thoughts?

In an ideal situation yes. But it's better to have at least one Indian player than NO Indian player. No Indian company provided tech for 4G. If at least one starts with 5G & Govt protection is provided for some time, then few players may emerge. But it required deep pockets. And in India only someone like RIL could do it on the scale required for India & to go global. Airtel is a network provider & seeing their current financial & R&D situation I doubt they will have inhouse 5G tech.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 16 Jul 2020 15:57

https://twitter.com/AsYouNotWish/status ... 6088338432

Sonam @AsYouNotWish

Maharashtra Govt writes to centre to stop the screening of the film “Muhammad: The Messenger of God” in India.

Awesome! The film has been made in Iran. Director, producers, writers, actors, all are Muslims but it hurts the sentiments of Indian Muslims cuz they are very tolerant.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 16 Jul 2020 16:32

https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/stat ... 6672982016

Mike Coudrey @MichaelCoudrey

BREAKING: Alleged leaked pictures from the Twitter admin control panel that was compromised showcase the buttons ‘Trends Blacklist’ and ‘Search Blacklist’, indicating Twitter DOES have the ability to shadowban it’s users.

UPDATE: Twitter is now removing and deleting images of the admin control panel from its website.

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 16 Jul 2020 17:24

OK - In RJ, it looks like Pilot has raised his game. He (+ 18 other congi MLAs) has challenged the disqualification notice in the HC. Good lawyers (Salve and Rohatgi) representing him....it looks like the BJP is certainly supporting Pilot.

This is interesting....if the HC allows these 19 congis to retain their elected positions, then they can participate in a floor test. With BJP+ at 76, these 19, 2 BTP, pulling over a few independents, the 100 mark can be crossed and Gehlot's goremint can lose a confidence vote.

It could also set a precedent for future "defection strategies"....

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Jul 2020 18:07

pankajs wrote:https://twitter.com/AsYouNotWish/status ... 6088338432
Sonam @AsYouNotWish

Maharashtra Govt writes to centre to stop the screening of the film “Muhammad: The Messenger of God” in India.

Awesome! The film has been made in Iran. Director, producers, writers, actors, all are Muslims but it hurts the sentiments of Indian Muslims cuz they are very tolerant.

sirji,

It is a sunni Vs shia thing and bound to catch fire on its own nearer the d-date

the MAH (NCP politician) home minister is slyly trying to pass the buck to the center it will not even elicit a response from the powers that be in dilli

so with eid fast approching, the NCP home minister can ban it in his own state or face the music on his own. the congis/commies/naxals will vociferously demand that it be banned just to embarrass the SS

In any case there is going to be serious trouble on the streets with the NCP squarely in the crosshairs.

let's hope that the MAH pappu knows how to play this bouncer without being struck on the head. The best way would be to run quickly between the wickets and give the batting to the NCP guys

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Jul 2020 18:43

"Speaking good English, giving sound-bytes and looking handsome does not mean everything" thus spake ashok gehlot, the RAJ CM, about sachin pilot during a recent media interaction.

snajay jha, the recently extinguished congi spoki is turning out to be quite the comedian

touche

Sanjay Jha@JhaSanjay·3h

" Speaking good English, giving sound-bytes and looking handsome does not mean everything".

I hope my eminent colleague @ShashiTharoor slept well last night.

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 16 Jul 2020 18:50

pankajs wrote:https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/stat ... 6672982016
Mike Coudrey @MichaelCoudrey

BREAKING: Alleged leaked pictures from the Twitter admin control panel that was compromised showcase the buttons ‘Trends Blacklist’ and ‘Search Blacklist’, indicating Twitter DOES have the ability to shadowban it’s users.
UPDATE: Twitter is now removing and deleting images of the admin control panel from its website.

I think this is the evidence needed to start an avalanche of cases against Twitter and other orgs ... Hope US and India take it forward. We have to finish them off and bring them under control

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 16 Jul 2020 18:54

https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelCoudr ... 6672982016