New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary ruled Twitter Tuesday. Many notables paid homage to Gandhi while others used his birth anniversary to score political points.
Iltija Mufti, Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter, tweeting on behalf of the detained PDP leader, called out Prime Minister Modi’s New York Times article on Mahatma Gandhi.
Strange. You invoke Bapu on the world stage but eulogise his assasin back home. https://t.co/In0m3wcIfu
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) October 2, 2019
What do musicians Bono and The Edge have to do with Mahatma Gandhi? Congressman Milind Deora explains.
Who better than Bono & The Edge, from the world’s greatest Rock & Roll movement, to pay homage to the Mahatma on his 150th birth anniversary ? @U2 #GandhiJayanti #GandhiAt150 #Gandhi150 pic.twitter.com/9Xl3VuQH7P
— Milind Deora मिलिंद देवरा (@milinddeora) October 2, 2019
Why did Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi drop his family name and adopt Satyarthi? It has something to do with Mahatma Gandhi’s centenary.
50 years ago I at the age of 15, organised a feast on Gandhi Centenary. Town leaders were invited to eat food cooked by Dalits(considered untouchables). No one turned up. Brahmin priests outcasted me. In revolt I dropped my family name & changed it to ‘Satyarthi’. #GandhiJayanti
— Kailash Satyarthi (@k_satyarthi) October 2, 2019
Ashok Swain, Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, delivered a brief history of Gandhi and the RSS.
In 1946, when a supporter praised RSS for its discipline & hard work, Gandhi had retorted, "But don't forget even so had Hitler's Nazis & the fascists under Mussolini." Gandhi went on to describe the RSS as "a communal body with totalitarian outlook." #GandhiJayanti #GandhiAt150
— Ashok Swain (@ashoswai) October 2, 2019
Giriraj Singh, Animal Husbandry Minister, finds a way to use Mahatma Gandhi to attack Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
गांधी जी की जयंती पर कांग्रेस पद यात्रा कर रही है । कांग्रेस कार्यालय से राजघाट की बजाय राहुल गांधी की परिक्रमा कांग्रेसी कर लें, उनकी पद यात्रा पूरी हो जाएगी ।
— Shandilya Giriraj Singh (@girirajsinghbjp) October 2, 2019
In other news, BJP’s IT head Amit Malviya is predicting the end of the TMC in West Bengal. A case of counting your chickens before they hatch?
This rousing reception that BJP President Amit Shah got today in Bengal should tell you that it is end of the road for TMC in the state… pic.twitter.com/tk24hrL8rA
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) October 1, 2019
US President Donald Trump is defending himself from impeachment charges the best way he knows – on Twitter.
As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2019
If Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is to be believed, he has improved Delhi’s air quality all on his own. Guess the climate had nothing to do with it, sir?
सभी को बहुत बहुत बधाई। दिल्ली की हवा में लगातार सुधार हो रहा है।
सभी के सहयोग से इतना बड़ा काम संभव हुआ। अभी प्रदूषण कम हुआ है, अब अपने को प्रदूषण बिलकुल ख़त्म करना है। मुझे विश्वास है कि प्रदूषण ख़त्म करने में भी दिल्ली दुनिया के सामने मिसाल बनेगी pic.twitter.com/Y3u7yHVjfX
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) October 2, 2019
Actor Siddharth coins a new name for Home Minister Amit Shah and it’s not all that complimentary.
How is the Home Monster allowed to speak like this? Is it not against the constitution to tell refugees that only the Muslims among them will be forced to leave India by the govt? What is going on? These are the seeds of ethnic cleansing being sown in the open for all to see! https://t.co/YQSPV0Oj0s
— Siddharth (@Actor_Siddharth) October 1, 2019
And lastly, US Representative, Ilhan Omar, spills the tea on climate change. Take a look!
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Denying /_
climate change / |
doesn’t /___|
make it /
less /
_ real _/— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 1, 2019