2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

[darshan]

Isn't part of lifting through charity to reduce operational expenses? GoI is just giving one more incentive to minimize. What's the point of running NGO if more than 5% is used to run it?

[vijayk]

https://twitter.com/bhartijainTOI/statu ... 1536137218

the head of oxfam India is livid with rage and is literally pissing his pants

Amitabh Behar@AmitabhBehar

Devastating blow. Red carpet welcome for foreign investments for businesses but stifling and squeezing the nonprofit sector by creating new hurdles for foreign aid which could help lift people out of poverty, ill health and illiteracy.

Indian election commission Naveen chawla ($onia's servant boy) - His wife used to run several NGOs.

[Jay]

HM Amit Shah To Introduce FCRA Amendment Bill Barring Public Servants From Receiving Foreign Funds
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/hm-amit-s ... eign-funds


Home Minister Amit Shah is all set to introduce the the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act amendment bill in the Lok Sabha today (20 September).

Does this news mean that Amit Shah ji is cured from Covid complications and is back in feeling healthy? I really hope and wish he is taking care of himself.

[Sachin]

Part of the 100+ year old Congress ecosystem. Julio Riberio, Rakesh Maria, Hemant Karkare, Sangliana, Vivek Phansalkar etc. are very much a part of the ecosystem who'll do everything to protect their turf.

Any specific instances where the officer has shown his 'secular' credentials? At this very moment I am reading his biography
"Let me say it now". It may be a bit surprising, Rakesh Maria is NOT an X'ian. He is a Hindu (last name was actually Madiya), father from Punjab & mother from Himachal Pradesh. Wife is from Delhi, where as he was been a "Bandra boy" all his life. And it was under him that the Mumbai blasts investigations was conducted. Yakub Memon got the noose because of folks like Rakesh Maria. In fact Rakesh Maria records that he started the investigation when he was DCP(Crime) and he had to also arrange the bandobust for Yakub Memon's funeral as CP of Mumbai Police.

[hnair]

Julius Ribeiro, IIRC, was a failure in Punjab by any yardstick and it was under him that international criticism for rampant human rights violations, extra judicial killings etc started off, because of his penchant for self promotion in media as a "super cop" etc. He basically draw attention to emergency police/paramilitary practices due to childish articles about himself, that he used to promote. Clincher is that despite New Delhi providing him massive support, he did not achieve the sort of success that the late KPS Gill had in rolling back the paki-supported insurgency.

Under Ribeiro's watch in Punjab, even New Delhi was considered fair game by ISI for bomb blasts and armed assaults by terrorists in civilians.

Why is this not-so-successful gent with questionable policing practices (during his tenure as per even his current supporters) being propped up as some kind of secular angel, other than for his rants on behalf of his religious order?

[srin]

the head of oxfam India is livid with rage and is literally pissing his pants

Amitabh Behar@AmitabhBehar

Devastating blow. Red carpet welcome for foreign investments for businesses but stifling and squeezing the nonprofit sector by creating new hurdles for foreign aid which could help lift people out of poverty, ill health and illiteracy.

I wonder which part of the FCRA bill he is protesting - whether it is the public servants accepting money or a cap on admin expenses ?

[hnair]

Cap on admin expenses of course! Think of that malnourished Indian kid who is going to shed a tear of pain for Beharji foregoing imported chenille throws and funky-ass scandinavian art work for his living room. The sheer chutzpah of an Indian govt, I say

[pankajs]

https://twitter.com/JAMMULINKS/status/1 ... 9721509891

NEW DELHI: As many as 16.79 lakh people in Jammu and Kashmir have been given domicile certificates so far, the Lok Sabha was informed on Sunday.

[nandakumar]

Cap on admin expenses of course! Think of that malnourished Indian kid who is going to shed a tear of pain for Beharji foregoing imported chenille throws and funky-ass scandinavian art work for his living room. The sheer chutzpah of an Indian govt, I say

This absolutely scathing! Take a bow, hnair!

[rpartha]

Cap on admin expenses of course! Think of that malnourished Indian kid who is going to shed a tear of pain for Beharji foregoing imported chenille throws and funky-ass scandinavian art work for his living room. The sheer chutzpah of an Indian govt, I say

Super... totally needed...

[Mort Walker]

Is there any truth in the opposition's concern that bypassing APMC will not ensure MSP for the farmers ?

Not a bit.

As the announcement of MSP at APMC in the past set both the floor and the ceiling and n terms of the price. As the APMC was a monopoly and the farmers had no choice to sell out of APMC.

Now that the APMC monopoly is broken the MSP will only set the floor not the ceiling. As the APMC no longer controls who the farmers can sell to.

It's a good thing.

This is correct and the best analogy is milk, which by the way, India is the largest producer of bovine milk. It is 2nd only to the US for cow's milk (99.1 vs. 91.3 MMT). Below is a good article describing the bill on farm trade:
https://indianexpress.com/article/expla ... n-6604053/

milk is a produce neither traded in mandis nor covered under APMC laws. Yet, most organised private dairies procure it through bulk vendors rather than directly from farmers. Aggregators and intermediaries will remain in the farm marketing landscape even if APMCs cease to exist. Even big corporates will prefer to procure through them and not deal directly with farmers.

[Prem Kumar]

While the Farm Bills have the potential to be revolutionary, there are going to be several implementation hurdles:

1) Goonda-giri by the APMC-Politico nexus, threatening both the farmers and newcomers. The new aggregators need to be like Adani, with enough muscle and money power to take them on

2) The APMCs can, with their money-power, float e-marketplaces

3) The farmers must be given options on how to market & sell their produce, what their options are etc. Lots of hand-holding will be required. Their "comfort zone" is the mandi/APMC, even if its an usurious one

4) The Govt should ensure that a new cartel doesn't replace the old one. I.e. new aggregators/marketplaces colluding, buying for cheap (putting price-ceilings) and taking the farmers for a ride

I feel this is going to be a long road with many potholes, before some degree of fairness is achieved

[Prem Kumar]

#antihindu #jihad


Sudarshan News refers to programs on ‘Hindu Terror’ and ‘saffron terror’ by NDTV in its affidavit on ‘UPSC Jihad’ submitted at Supreme Court
https://www.opindia.com/2020/09/sudarsh ... dtv-in-sc/
...
Along with that, Sudarshan News also mentioned programs aired by NDTV on ‘Hindu Terror’. The channel pointed out how NDTV had used the imagery of Hindu saints in their programs, perhaps referring to the Supreme Court objecting to use of images of Muslims on the Sudarshan News program.
...

There are 2 arguments to be made here:

1) The weaker argument: "NDTV was allowed to showcase Hindu terror". While this argument is good because it brings into spotlight what NDTV did, the SC can always counter it with "2 wrongs do not make a right" or some such self-righteous BS

2) The stronger argument: the SC has no Constitutional right to legislate. But this appeal is made to the SC itself! Which is why, if push comes to shove, the GOI must step-in and clip SC's wings. So far, they've not shown an inclination to do so. Sadly, Sudarshan, who is now getting support from OpIndia and the Indic Collective, has to fend for itself & cannot reply on Govt support

[chetak]

Cap on admin expenses of course! Think of that malnourished Indian kid who is going to shed a tear of pain for Beharji foregoing imported chenille throws and funky-ass scandinavian art work for his living room. The sheer chutzpah of an Indian govt, I say

all fcra moneys incoming to an NGOs is to be now mandatorily channeled through one single SBI account so that tracking is easy.

mandatory identification and KYC like provisions for all such NGO directors and their staff including foreigners via passport or OCI card

that's got to hurt them big time, no more operating in the shadows.

strikes directly at big bindi pseudos and sly NGO conversion mafia like ranjana kumari and several JNU "professors" running very lucrative NGOs and receiving tens of crores of FCRA every year, including many being funded from pakistan

[pankajs]

Just wow!

https://twitter.com/Ethirajans/status/1 ... 0457251840

Anti National forces brainwash youth in the name of race, region, religion & language.

Social media is now being used to radicalise youth.

Secessionists operate in TN in the guise of NGOs & Human rights Orgs and spread hate among ppl.

Observes Madras HC Justice Krubakaran.

He further observes that secessionists use Tamil culture, Tamil language & race as tools to set their agenda.

These observations were made while dismissing the bail plea of one Kalailingam of Tamilnadu Viduthalai Padai (Tamilnadu liberation force) who was arrested on charges of placing a Pipe Bomb in the house of Puducherry CM Shri Narayanaswamy.

[pankajs]

https://twitter.com/jgopikrishnan70/sta ... 1255900160

Eight MPs including Derek O'Brein, Sanjay Singh suspended from the Session...MPs asked to go out

https://twitter.com/Arunima24/status/13 ... 8747077632

Heated #RajyaSabha again. Opposition's notice for no confidence against deputy chair rejected. Govt moves resolution for suspension of MPs like @derekobrienmp sanjay singh, dola sen, rajeev satav, ripun bora...all suspended for one week

Suspended MPs refuse to leave house even after Chairman's repeated insistence

[darshan]

These MPs need to be charged for attempted murders for putting other lives in danger by breaking chinese virus avoidance protocol. Suspension is nothing for this goons.

[vijayk]

#antihindu #jihad


Sudarshan News refers to programs on ‘Hindu Terror’ and ‘saffron terror’ by NDTV in its affidavit on ‘UPSC Jihad’ submitted at Supreme Court
https://www.opindia.com/2020/09/sudarsh ... dtv-in-sc/
...
Along with that, Sudarshan News also mentioned programs aired by NDTV on ‘Hindu Terror’. The channel pointed out how NDTV had used the imagery of Hindu saints in their programs, perhaps referring to the Supreme Court objecting to use of images of Muslims on the Sudarshan News program.
...

There are 2 arguments to be made here:

1) The weaker argument: "NDTV was allowed to showcase Hindu terror". While this argument is good because it brings into spotlight what NDTV did, the SC can always counter it with "2 wrongs do not make a right" or some such self-righteous BS

2) The stronger argument: the SC has no Constitutional right to legislate. But this appeal is made to the SC itself! Which is why, if push comes to shove, the GOI must step-in and clip SC's wings. So far, they've not shown an inclination to do so. Sadly, Sudarshan, who is now getting support from OpIndia and the Indic Collective, has to fend for itself & cannot reply on Govt support

iMac_too
@iMac_too
Eggjactly

[Center's reply to overlords]

[darshan]

Congress MLAs protest govt practice of giving fine collection targets to traffic cops
https://www.deshgujarat.com/2020/09/21/ ... ffic-cops/
Gandhinagar: Congress MLAs Gyasuddin Sheikh and Imran Khedawala ...... They were protesting fine collection drives by police on roads.

‘..... In just one month, police has collected Rs. 5.5. crore fine from the people. ....,’ MLA Gyasuddin Sheikh said adding that groups of traffic cops are seen on every nook and corner in the city ....

Jamalpur-Khadia MLA Imran Khedawala who was also wearing apron with messages and pictures said, ‘we believe in social distancing, mask wearing and sanitizer, but giving daily rank-wise fine collection targets to cops for fine collection over helmet and other reasons is something what we protest in this pandemic time.’ DeshGujarat

[vijayk]

Justice ChandraCHud betrayed the constitution and bit more than he can chew.

He has to be discredited and disqualified for CJI.

He openly stated that courts can make laws

[darshan]

Indian citizens need to be seriously worried about the SC and how it's being taken over. It won't be long before it will be turned into the same as paki SC.

'Did We Ask You To Comment On NDTV Show': Justice Chandrachud To Sudarshan News Lawyer In UPSC Jihad Hearing
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/did-we-as ... ad-hearing

[pankajs]

Old news from a particular period but the logic applies today too when APMC's stranglehold is sought to be bypassed.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/hom ... 794345.cms
APMC middlemen fear losing clout if NCP is voted out

MUMBAI: The prospect of a BJP victory in the Maharashtra state assembly has instilled fear in the middlemen of the APMC market. The body which controls the supply of fruit, vegetables and onion to large parts of India is controlled by the NCP. Scores of APMC personnel and mathadi workers are actively campaigning for this party.

This is specific to Maharashtra but it applies to other states too.

[vijayk]

They deleted the tweet and may delete article too




https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... OflFK.html
Sushant Singh Rajput death: NCB probe leads to Amritsar, Pak and drug cartels

Investigations into the drug angle in film actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death has led the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to large drug organisations and entities in Amritsar and Pakistan supplying cocaine and other hard drugs to Mumbai, and to Bollywood.

“We have a fair idea as to who is involved in the Bollywood drug scene and (who the) Mumbai suppliers (are). The evidence is being collected before the consumers of hard drugs including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine and their suppliers are charged,” said a senior NCB official who is familiar with the investigations in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. The official spoke on the conduct that he is not named.

Given that India is the largest producer of potassium permanganate, which is used in processing cocaine, there were even plans by some organizations to set up a cocaine processing unit in the country, these officials added. With India consuming nearly one ton of heroin every day, associate agencies have also alerted NCB to the possibility of a processing unit in India for Afghan heroin coming through Punjab (from Pakistan) or through the sea route from Gujarat. Pakistan’s deep state has always used drug money for terrorist funding.

While NCB is conducting an intensive investigation into the drug angle of the Sushant Singh Rajput case, the matter needs to be handled carefully, the NCB official cited in the first instance said, with names of drug dealers linked with Maharashtra politicians and companies managing film actors and actresses also coming under the scanner.

[Ashokk]

Oppn parties hit out at govt over suspension of 8 MPs, hold protest on Parliament premises

Carrying pillows and blankets at the protest site, the MPs said "we will not budge".

Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee also spoke to the eight suspended MPs and lauded their efforts towards “upholding the values of Parliament”.

[chetak]

Old news from a particular period but the logic applies today too when APMC's stranglehold is sought to be bypassed.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/hom ... 794345.cms
APMC middlemen fear losing clout if NCP is voted out

MUMBAI: The prospect of a BJP victory in the Maharashtra state assembly has instilled fear in the middlemen of the APMC market. The body which controls the supply of fruit, vegetables and onion to large parts of India is controlled by the NCP. Scores of APMC personnel and mathadi workers are actively campaigning for this party.

This is specific to Maharashtra but it applies to other states too.

this is how they were unfailingly creating countrywide onion shortages every year

The APMC act literally kicks these guys squarely in the testimonials.



and now, is this a new powrarful peoples game to remain relevant and in the clover

Ordinance Push: Maharashtra deregulates all agri-produce from APMC Act - The Financial Express https://financialexpress.com/market/com ... t/1365924/

[AshishA]

Indian citizens need to be seriously worried about the SC and how it's being taken over. It won't be long before it will be turned into the same as paki SC.

'Did We Ask You To Comment On NDTV Show': Justice Chandrachud To Sudarshan News Lawyer In UPSC Jihad Hearing
https://swarajyamag.com/insta/did-we-as ... ad-hearing

This Justice Chandrachud seems to be a swinging one. One time he gives dissenting judgement on Aadhar and another case and then he disappoints liberals by not giving any dissent on the Ayodhya case. One time he calls himself liberal and then another time he calls himself nationalist and says he won't yield to pressures of the NGOs. I don't exactly know which side he is actually on? Is he looking to become a hero?

And his father YV Chandrachud was similar. He gave dissenting judgement on Keshavananda bharati case, yet he was a constant irritant to Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi when he was the CJI. The Congis were thinking of impeaching him and even threatened to do so. Everything is under judicial review was his doing (minerva mills case)

I don't get what exactly where both father and son stand.
I initially had negative opinion of Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi. But it all changed due to the landmark Ayodhya judgement and Rafale case. Inspite of being harrassed by congi employed lawyers like Sibal he delivered a good judgement. Time will tell what Chandrachud will turn out to be.

[vijayk]

He is in it for himself. Totally works with US based Think tanks. He comes to US and gives speeches. He said several times that it is OK for judiciary to make laws.

[vijayk]

RVAIDYA2000
@rvaidya2000
·
Sep 21
Interesting--some suggestions made in the conference in 2011 12? By Manushi on FCRA and NGO Reforms incorporated in this bill --Conference speakers @RajivMessage @madhukishwar and self etc

[pankajs]

https://twitter.com/rajshekharTOI/statu ... 0799373313

As shocking as it may sound but rioters sought names of vehicle owners before setting them ablaze by sending text messages to e-Vahan number.

Numbers which sent messages in the crucial hours on rioting day were obtained from the govt vahan database by cops to nail the rioters.

Why would some one want to check on the name before setting the vehicle on fire? Bery secular ... but is also helped nail them.

https://twitter.com/upword_/status/1307934704654364675

Deeply concerned by the gag order on @SudarshanTVnews for taking an inconvenient political position, we have filed a joint intervention application in the hon'ble Supreme Court along with @indiccollective and @OpIndia_com. #FreedomOfSpeech

[chetak]

the sonia sena and poworful peoples are batshit clueless about how to handle criticism given the utter panic they both are in regarding the disha salian/SSR case.

one is in panic about family and the other is in panic about dawood pasand bollywood friends

this is a classic case of digital stalking by both proponents: politicos in a standoff with the media

[darshan]

The selective freedom only allows Modi to be questioned as he had to sell chai and doesn't belong with lutyens.

[Ambar]

RVAIDYA2000
@rvaidya2000
·
Sep 21
Interesting--some suggestions made in the conference in 2011 12? By Manushi on FCRA and NGO Reforms incorporated in this bill --Conference speakers @RajivMessage @madhukishwar and self etc

I doubt it. It was in the BJP manifesto and Modi is the rarest of the rare among politicians who believes whatever is in the manifesto is set in stone.

As for Rajiv Malhotra, his contribution to dharmic and Indic causes over the last 3 decades is immeasurable but something seems to have changed within him the last few years. It is impossible to engage the man on Twitter without him getting bitter,angry and belittling anyone and everyone who attempts to respond to his tweets include those who are appreciative of his work ! Makes me wonder why is he on twitter at all given that he does not like anyone responding or even acknowledging his tweets !

[nachiket]

Continuing my efforts to keep with the Jal Jeevan Mission every month:
20 September 2020


Prior statuses:
August 15 2020

Cross posting this here. If this progresses well, it could be 2024's "Ujjwala scheme" in terms of improving BJP/NDA's re-election chances. It gets more importance because of the damage to the economy inflicted by covid as well as other issues, so the anti-incumbency factor might play a much bigger role in 2024 than it did in 2019.

[chetak]

is there an APMC setup in bihar, AFAIK it is not there.

Indu Makkal Katchi - இந்து மக்கள் கட்சி ( Off )·Sep 21

All these years, TN used to buy RICE from Harayana, Punjab and Bihar, only thru APMC, as they are not rice eaters.

Punjab MP Mrs.Kaur had 719 intermediary companies, hence she resigned.

TN farmers have never been benefited due to this.

But now tables have changed.!!

[pankajs]

https://twitter.com/iMac_too/status/1308225176392278017

#DelhiAntiHinduRiots: Police have attached transcripts of the chats between Yogendra Yadav, filmmakers Rahul Roy & Saba Dewan, Pinjra Tod’s Kalita and Narwal, CPI’s Annie Raja, Rakshita Swamy of MKSS, activists Harsh Mander & Anjali Bhardwaj

The embedded IE piece ...
https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... ssion=true
Delhi riots conspiracy chargesheet: ‘Violence on mind after 2019 results… objective was to uproot elected govt’

The final report, states that “internationally, terrorist activity is defined as the use of violence to force a government to accept/submit to political demands”.

In the chargesheet, police have attached disclosures statements, call detail records, money trail and transcripts of WhatsApp groups such as DPSG (Delhi Protests Support Group) and Warriors. The chargesheet mentions that “they (conspirators) aimed at bringing the government of India to its knees and enforcing the withdrawal of CAA by timing the execution of their conspiracy with the visit of US President, thereby hitting two birds with a single stone”.

The report concludes that the “end objective of all the conspirators had conspired was to uproot a lawfully elected government by sheer use of engineered, vicious and visceral communal violence”.

[Mukesh.Kumar]

is there an APMC setup in bihar, AFAIK it is not there.

Indu Makkal Katchi - இந்து மக்கள் கட்சி ( Off )·Sep 21

All these years, TN used to buy RICE from Harayana, Punjab and Bihar, only thru APMC, as they are not rice eaters.

Punjab MP Mrs.Kaur had 719 intermediary companies, hence she resigned.

TN farmers have never been benefited due to this.

But now tables have changed.!!

Whether there is corruption or not I can tell you the food procurement and disbursement mechanism is deeply faulty. I remember working on evaluation of SGRY ( earlier avatar of MNREGA) in 2002 in Bihar. Workers would be paid half in grain and half in cash. And even though very poor they would have to throw it away because it was even unfit for animal feed. The combination was that in Bihar we grow good rice. Do why does the government give us grain procured from Punjab which is so bad quality.

Hopefully this will change the dynamics of our food supply chain

[chetak]

Part of the 100+ year old Congress ecosystem. Julio Riberio, Rakesh Maria, Hemant Karkare, Sangliana, Vivek Phansalkar etc. are very much a part of the ecosystem who'll do everything to protect their turf.

not to forget parambir singh currently of the mumbai polis and involved in the SSR/disha salian case

OpIndia.com@OpIndia_com·5h

From allegations of torturing Sadhvi Pragya in custody to dereliction of duty during 26/11 Mumbai terror attack: A brief intro on Mumbai CP Param Bir Singh https://www.opindia.com/2020/09/parambi ... f-profile/

Petition against Param Bir Singh for dereliction of duty during 26/11 terror attack

In 2009, soon after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, a petition was filed against Parambir Singh and three other additional commissioners of police on the charges of dereliction of duty during the Mumbai terror attack.

A Public interest litigation (PIL) seeking action against these officers and their suspension on the charges that officers such as Param Bit Singh had failed to follow orders of the then police commissioner.

The petitioner had claimed that had the senior officers obeyed the orders, the terror situation would have been brought under control much earlier and many lives could have been saved. The petitions said that if the officers had acted properly, two more terrorists could have been caught alive.

The petition had quoted former Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor as saying that these officers had disobeyed his orders and failed to perform their during the Mumbai terror attack. The petition said that the officers had refused to combat with the terrorists and preferred to stay away from the trouble-zones and made false reports to the control room and records.

[darshan]

The legal framework has been put down but execution like many have said will only depend on voters. As can be seen from MH, WB, KL, etc. that the ecosystem needs much more destruction else passed laws will not have much meaning. Hopefully, GoI figures out how to run parliament in this chinese virus times to keep introducing bills after bills to keep this goons running from one pole to another while some execution is achieved. All will come down to voters.

Let's see how state elections go and how they even be conducted with the chinese virus ongoing. May be there needs to be discussion on that about how one can have a successful election in virus time and how much of man power will be required.

[chetak]

OpIndia.com@OpIndia_com·6h

Love jihad cases: If a Brahmin or Thakur girl is trapped, going rate is Rs 5 lakh. In case of Yadav or Gupta girl, it is Rs 3 lakh. As multiple cases of Love Jihad emerge in Kanpur, Bajrang Dal activist explains how the racket really works

the commies and the conmedia are well aware of the truth and are hell bent on protecting the islamists when Hindu women are blatantly targeted for conversion.

Though the widespread liberals and the left-controlled education system are sceptical and hesitant in accepting this issue and often pass it off as a figment of the “right-wing” imagination, ‘Love Jihad’ exists. There are forces active across the country that are targeting susceptible and vulnerable Hindu women, luring, brainwashing and forcefully converting them into islam. https://www.opindia.com/2020/09/as-mult ... lly-works/

[darshan]

This is actually across the world and built into islam. Even in US, back in early 2000's, the going rate was in thousands of dollars with all facilities provided to trap from fancy cars to hefty daily pocket money. There's ridiculous amount of money that flows in their parallel network that's not economical to trace.