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ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips
How, then, was the BJP, facing such tremendous odds, able to pull through? Were Electronic Voting Machines manipulated or did the government machinery help BJP win?
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Religious issues cover up the governance failure in UP
Hence law and order for BJP means treat your own criminals as honourable and target your opponents vindictively.
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Agnipath: Path of Militarisation of Society?
What will prevent a jingoistic leader to goad the jobless youth trained by Armed forces in their twenties and thirties not mature enough to discern national interest from the interest of ruling dispensation to take up arms for a particular cause?
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Bulldozing the Constitution!
What kind of people can watch this naked dance of sham democracy which is more of an oppressive dictatorship rather than anything else?
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When Accused Become Innocent And Innocent Are Made Accused
Welcome to the new India where accused will be made to appear as innocent and the system will try to protect them and the innocent will be portrayed in bad light. Activism, fighting for human rights, speaking the truth have become liabilities.
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Is it enough to fly the Tricolour to prove one’s patriotism?
The entire government machinery, keeping aside their important work, are now enforcing the government order of flying a tricolor at every house. This country is slowly becoming a country which believes in ostentation rather than real work.
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Agniveers on contract: What if Chinese PLA offers Indian youth better service options?
While all this is discussed by defense experts, one must explore another side of this scheme, that it makes thousands of trained ‘Agniveers’ — 75% recruits who lose their jobs after four years’ contract is over — simply unemployed. https://www.counterview.net/2022/06/agniveers-on-contract-what-if-chinese.html
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Statement in support of Prof Ravi Kant, signed by 160 concerned individuals including Socialist Party (India)
In support of Prof Ravi Kant “India is not a country of Hindus only. It is country of Muslims, the Christians and the Parsees too. The country can gain strength and develop itself only when the people of different communities in India live in mutual goodwill and harmony. It is my earnest hope and prayer…
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Debauchery of the RSS top brass as narrated by insider Balraj Madhok
Madhok despite his busy life as politician was an indefatigable writer too, and is known for his controversial political writings. In fact, he was mainly responsible for articulat¬ing the Hindutva’s ideological response to the problem of minorities specially Muslims by propounding the theory of ‘Indianization’ in 1969. http://epaper.kashmirtimes.com/epaperadmin/photos/large/37252246620225325.jpeg
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Open meeting: Electronic Voting Machine: Presenting an Alternative
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE: PRESENTING AN ALTERNATIVE An Open Meeting Date: 26 June, 2022, Sunday Time: 2-5 pm Venue: Auditorium 1, KLMDC, IIM Ahmedabad Presentation by Professor Subhashis Banerjee (online) of Ashoka University and IIT Delhi, followed by discussion.
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“A feudal mindset dominates the political culture in South Asia”: Sandeep Pandey
Hostility between India and Pakistan can be ended by creating a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in South Asia. All outstanding issues, including Kashmir, should be resolved through dialogue. Most importantly, the border between India and Pakistan should be opened for all citizens the way this has been done to visit the Kartarpur Sahib gurudwara. https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/963083-a-feudal-mindset-dominates-the-political-culture-in-south-asia
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Lockdown Effect: Manual Scavengers Turn to Selling Human Bones Simply to Survive
Even now, nearly a year after the worst effects of the pandemic were seen, hundreds of sanitation workers and manual scavengers are permanently employed in digging up human remains for trade.Lockdown Effect: Manual Scavengers Turn to Selling Human Bones Simply to Survive: Pragya Akhilesh, Anil Balmiki, Sujith Balmiki and Dinesh Hela, 24 March 2022https://thewire.in/rights/lockdown-effect-manual-scavengers-turn-to-selling-human-bones-simply-to-survive… Within…