The brutal police crackdown on student protesters at Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University leaves the Modi government with no place to hide. The videos are there in public domain. Once again, it exposes the government didn’t anticipate or prepare for the trouble the new citizenship law could trigger.
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Reports are emerging of two or three students having suffered bullet injuries. If true, should this information not have been officially shared by the authorities.
Protests are a part of democracy, and so is dhaka-mukki between the protestors and the police. There were big protests against Boris Johnson’s re-election (including dhaka-mukki between the protestors and the police) – on the night after he won a landslide mandate – in London, the protest capital of the world, and capital city of the mother of all democracies; NO impact on its ‘GLOBAL IMAGE’. However, this CAA was an unnecessary diversion in a country that can have better priorities. The police should be held accountable for any excesses and loss of life should be strictly avoided.
And yet see here, who Modi blames for the riots. “Addressing a rally in Jharkhand, the prime minister lashed out at the Congress and its allies and blamed them for the unrest and arson in parts of the country over the controversial legislation.” Who would believe him? The whole world knows this is Moodi’s yet another stunt like demonetisation!
The awesome power of the Indian state is meant for our external foes. A part of it for internal security. Not college students. Young girls courageously forming a shield around a male colleague. The police has changed little from colonial times. Trashing India’s global image. People more knowledgeable than me will judge how much political capital / popularity is leaching away. A sense of siege sets in, decision making and judgment get impaired. That is why no government in a democracy ever lasts for fifty years.
Reports are emerging of two or three students having suffered bullet injuries. If true, should this information not have been officially shared by the authorities.
Protests are a part of democracy, and so is dhaka-mukki between the protestors and the police. There were big protests against Boris Johnson’s re-election (including dhaka-mukki between the protestors and the police) – on the night after he won a landslide mandate – in London, the protest capital of the world, and capital city of the mother of all democracies; NO impact on its ‘GLOBAL IMAGE’. However, this CAA was an unnecessary diversion in a country that can have better priorities. The police should be held accountable for any excesses and loss of life should be strictly avoided.
And yet see here, who Modi blames for the riots. “Addressing a rally in Jharkhand, the prime minister lashed out at the Congress and its allies and blamed them for the unrest and arson in parts of the country over the controversial legislation.” Who would believe him? The whole world knows this is Moodi’s yet another stunt like demonetisation!
The awesome power of the Indian state is meant for our external foes. A part of it for internal security. Not college students. Young girls courageously forming a shield around a male colleague. The police has changed little from colonial times. Trashing India’s global image. People more knowledgeable than me will judge how much political capital / popularity is leaching away. A sense of siege sets in, decision making and judgment get impaired. That is why no government in a democracy ever lasts for fifty years.
Reports are emerging of two or three students having suffered bullet injuries. If true, should this information not have been officially shared by the authorities.
Protests are a part of democracy, and so is dhaka-mukki between the protestors and the police. There were big protests against Boris Johnson’s re-election (including dhaka-mukki between the protestors and the police) – on the night after he won a landslide mandate – in London, the protest capital of the world, and capital city of the mother of all democracies; NO impact on its ‘GLOBAL IMAGE’. However, this CAA was an unnecessary diversion in a country that can have better priorities. The police should be held accountable for any excesses and loss of life should be strictly avoided.
And yet see here, who Modi blames for the riots. “Addressing a rally in Jharkhand, the prime minister lashed out at the Congress and its allies and blamed them for the unrest and arson in parts of the country over the controversial legislation.” Who would believe him? The whole world knows this is Moodi’s yet another stunt like demonetisation!
The awesome power of the Indian state is meant for our external foes. A part of it for internal security. Not college students. Young girls courageously forming a shield around a male colleague. The police has changed little from colonial times. Trashing India’s global image. People more knowledgeable than me will judge how much political capital / popularity is leaching away. A sense of siege sets in, decision making and judgment get impaired. That is why no government in a democracy ever lasts for fifty years.