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[Darmashkian]

The man below is a big AAP supporter & also a journalist. Opened a pro-AAP website
His description from his twitter profile:-
Founder, @JantaKaReporter. Former BBC editor (12 yrs with the beeb in UK) and ex TV Today Managing Editor. Also workd with Rediff & Statesman. Big Chelsea fan!

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If number plate is not complete, it indeed is an offense. Read no. 15 below

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Insiders reveal: Kejriwal blames his two flunkeys for mismanaging DUSU polls


India Samvad Bureau

New Delhi: Defeat is an orphan. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was quick to realise this bitter truth as results of DUSU polls were out on Saturday. Obsessed with his own cult figure Arvind Kejriwal did not take a second to blame his two sycophants for fighting DUSU polls in his name.

Violating all norms, Kejriwal was the only recognised leader among all the parties who campaigned directly in the DUSU elections. Kejriwal's posters were used widely in the election campaign. Congress openly said that AAP pumped cash into the University elections by misusing its power in Delhi. But in the end, nothing clicked for the anti-corruption crusader whose candidates lost all the four seats by a wide margin.

Sources said that Kejriwal reportedly blamed Ashish Talwar and Dilip Pandey for using his face in the students polls. Ashish talwar is the in-charge of AAP’s youth wing CYSS while Dilip Pandey is the in-charge of Delhi. Both are said to be part of Kejriwal’s kitchen cabinet. Both are Kejri’s yes-persons known for flattery in inner circles of AAP. After the disgraced show, Dilip Pandey reportedly offered to resign in a bid to prove his alleged sacrifice for his master.

Sources said that like Jitendra Tomar, the Congress turncoat Talwar had convinced Kejriwal that party should contest DUSU polls to garner youth support in the forthcoming Municipal elections. Talwar assured that by using Kejriwal’s image the DUSU polls would be quite easy to win.

Sources said that Kejriwal ostensibly approved the posters which projected AAP supremo as the trump card for victory. Later, an expensive rock show was organised at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium to catch the attention of students.

At the concert, Kejriwal was the focal point while Bollywood stars Vishal Dadlani and Shilpa Rao were the performers. Both BJP and Congress had blamed AAP for spending huge amounts on the show and making students election an expensive affair.
Sources said that in the season of sycophancy in AAP, leaders like Ashutosh were sidelined. Even Sanjay Singh and Gopal Rai(former student leaders) were not consulted by Talwar. Manish Sisodia was invited for the show as he is considered no. 2 in the party after Kejriwal.

“Kejriwal should rely on genuine leaders in the party. But he seems to be obsessed by his own image. After throwing out Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, the cult worship in the party has increased,” said an MLA of AAP from South Delhi. According to him, greedy workers, leaders and even journalist have besieged Kejriwal by flattery.


Insiders reveal: Kejriwal blames his two flunkeys for mismanaging DUSU polls

 

[Prajapati]

The man below is a big AAP supporter & also a journalist.
His description from his twitter profile:-
Founder, @JantaKaReporter. Former BBC editor (12 yrs with the beeb in UK) and ex TV Today Managing Editor. Also workd with Rediff & Statesman. Big Chelsea fan!

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If number plate is not complete, it indeed is an offense. Read no. 15 below

 

[magudi]

@Star Wars I take Back all I said about sambit patra - today I learned that he won presidentship from JNU In 2001

 

[Star Wars]

@Star Wars I take Back all I said about sambit patra - today I learned that he won presidentship from JNU In 2001

I heard ABVP won 1 seat in JNU in todays result

 

[magudi]

I heard ABVP won 1 seat in JNU in todays result

Yup after 14 years, came pretty close in 2 others also. Breaching the last standing commie bastion is no small achievement

 

[Star Wars]

https://twitter.com/x/status/643044163911442433

ok,folks Bihar is ours....

 

[Star Wars]

Kashmir BJP leader inviting Hindus, Muslims for his ‘beef party’

@SarthakGanguly

He is a Muslim MP, he will do what's necessary...isko blame math karo. He only wants tolerance(only from hindus)

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Kashmir BJP leader inviting Hindus, Muslims for his ‘beef party’

@SarthakGanguly

He is a secular. He lost in Kokernag and wants to save his skin.

 

[magudi]

He is a Muslim MP, he will do what's necessary...isko blame math karo. He only wants tolerance(only from hindus)

What about compulsory hindi in schools ?UN offical status for hindi? Ramayana and Mahabharata forced into school syllabus ? Like i said bunch of illiterate clowns given key ministries

 

[Echo_419]

Guys here is a brilliant article by Vasundhara Raje, Honourable CM of Rajasthan in the TOI. Please Read it
@Rain Man @Roybot @nair @levina @anant_s

A revolution in subsidies: A modern state is a welfare state, but it must target and deliver subsidies effectively

A modern state is a welfare state. But a modern state does not “spray and pray” with its subsidies. It must deliver them with grace, efficiency and effectiveness.

Currently ration shops in Rajasthan stock only three items (wheat, sugar and kerosene), are open only one week a month, treat citizens poorly, and have high subsidy leakage because we lack the online infrastructure to cross reference inventory, consumption and eligibility. Over the next year the state government will rebrand 5,000 of our 25,542 ration shops in a public private partnership as Annapurna Bhandars: They will stay open all month, sell more than 150 products at prices regulated by the government, start home delivery and join an online platform.

In parallel, all families with state government issued Bhamashah cards will have the option to choose between direct cash credit of subsidies to bank accounts or getting non-cash subsidised goods that trigger an SMS to their cellphone when their eligibility amount is issued by any ration shop. During pilots of this subsidy choice in Ajmer, citizens opted for non-cash versus cash subsidies in the ratio of 65:35. But this may change over time.

India’s subsidy debate has deep historical roots; some of the most heated debates between the 299 members of the constituent assembly that wrote India’s remarkable Constitution were around the distinction between fundamental rights (whose aim was political democracy) and directive principles (whose aim was social and economic democracy). There was great disappointment amongst some members when directive principles were made non-justiciable (unenforceable by courts).

I believe these were essentially conflicts of head and heart because everything that our citizens needed was not possible immediately. As Babasaheb Ambedkar said during his speech introducing the draft Constitution in 1948, “The criticism that directive principles are pious declarations with no binding force is superfluous. Whoever is in power cannot ignore them even though he may not have to answer in a court of law for breach. But he will certainly have to answer to the electorate.”

Babasaheb was right; electoral politics since our first election in 1952 have shown that no political party can ignore the social and economic objectives of the directive principles. The amount of government spending is less important than how the money is spent; spending that doesn’t reach the needy is not only wasteful but represents stealing from future generations.

Much of the Rs 80,000 crore outstanding debt of the Rajasthan State Electricity Board represents wasteful subsidies that could have been spent on roads, education or skills. A former prime minister once said that only 15% of government expenditure reaches the poor; clearly his realisation was not shared by the last central government which bafflingly cancelled the implementation of Aadhaar verification for gas cylinder subsidy just before the last Lok Sabha election.

Thankfully the linking of gas cylinder subsidies to Aadhaar by the new government will save Rs 10,000 crore annually. Economic theory is divided over the relative efficacy of cash versus non-cash subsidies but experience from Mexico, Brazil and the US suggests that cash transfers have smaller leakages and women are more responsible custodians of subsidy spending than men. However the economics profession changes its mind often and policy makers should be guided by citizen choice, while simultaneously improving cash and non-cash subsidy delivery using a powerful new tool for the modern welfare state: biometric identification.

The enemy of subsidy spending is leakage to people who do not need it. The Rajasthan government’s consolidated and de-duplicated Bhamashah database will issue a card to every family that will be linked to a bank account in the name of the lady of the house. Bhamashah’s Aadhaar authenticated database makes it an effective platform for financial inclusion, health insurance, ration shops, education scholarships, Mgnrega payments, and much else – because all families will receive an SMS for all cash or non-cash transactions linked to their card.

The state government has enrolled 88 lakh of Rajasthan’s 135 lakh families and will cover everybody in two years. Over time physical cards will be replaced by phones consistent with the Centre’s audacious JAM trinity (Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and Mobile Phone).

It’s safe to predict that over the next few decades government expenditure in India will rise substantially from the current 16% of GDP; comparable numbers are 57% for Denmark, 40% for the US and 25% for Brazil. However, a populous country like India must balance targeted government subsidies with alternate social justice solutions like infrastructure, education, skills and jobs.

The wisdom of balance in governance is hardly new; the magnificent ruins at Hampi of the Vijaynagara Empire have a horizontal band of three animal sculptures at the bottom of every building; tigers (for courage), horses (for speed) and elephants (for stability). This grouping has an important message for state governments that often choose the status quo over boldness, innovation and experimentation.

The Centre has created new space for state governments to complement India’s progress in fundamental rights since 1947 with better outcomes on the Constitution’s directive principles. Delivering subsidies more efficiently and effectively is surely a great place to start.

A revolution in subsidies: A modern state is a welfare state, but it must target and deliver subsidies effectively - TOI Blogs
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There is ego & hatred on both sides,
From the SS:- Uddhav Thackeray & co.
From the BJP:-Some at the state BJP Leadership+Modi-Shah. Modi didn't want any alliance with the Sena in the first place(after election) after UT's personal attacks, he was eager on an alliance with the smaller parties+breaking the NCP & the Congress.. SHah made him agree to an alliance.

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& more importantly, many in the BJP leadership now believe that:-"Why rule Maha. with a partner side by side, when we might as well rule it alone with some junior partners whom we can easily bypass??"

The Hindutva & ideology part is very complicated to explain, will do it later when I also get the hang of it..
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& i agree on the bolded part, Maharashtra can be considered one of the janma-sthans of Hindutva & Hindu nationalism!! Infact many NCP & Congress cadre too are Hindutvavadi by nature

@vsdoc @Tridibans @doppelganger @all marathis

I have heard rumours from good friends & contacts that the Gujarati & Jain lobbies are now thinking of working towards making Mumbai a UT after this meat ban ruckus!! What do u think.. is this possible?? & will the Marathis & the rest of Maharashtra accept it.

Here is a Gujarati supremacist on twitter ranting against the Thackerays & talking about making mumbai an UT

https://twitter.com/x/status/642753292787822592

https://twitter.com/x/status/642751235821441024

https://twitter.com/x/status/642754550881894401

What arrogance -_-

Raje is one of the CMs who has a reputation of getting things done

 

[magudi]

Raje is one of the CMs who has a reputation of getting things done

Modi should resign and make her pm actually.Haven't seen a more inept Prime minister in recent history - squandering away a decisive mandate with no reults whatsoever

 

[Star Wars]

Modi should resign and make her pm actually.Haven't seen a more inept Prime minister in recent history - squandering away a decisive mandate with no reults whatsoever

Either Modi bhakts, or Raje Bhakts ... we should have a Nehrivian India under the mighty leadership of the Gandhi Family.. down with you Hindutvadis....

 

[Echo_419]

WTF

BC YEH kya post kardiye

 

[ranjeet]

BC YEH kya post kardiye

Holy Spirit.

 

[Bang Galore]

Nice try with "Non Sanskrit" origin ........... forgot to bring in "Aryan" and "Dravidian"

I think he was referring to those words that do not have a known Sanskrit origin. Figures that if there is a Sanskrit origin of the word, it makes sense for it to be the same/similar.

What about Kannada??..Telegus in Bangalore learn Kannada faster than us(Malayalis)..I do speak Kannada,seen lot of common words between Kannada and Telegu(i mean non Sanskrit orgin) like mathaadu/mathlaadu?? etc..

While it is true that people speaking Telugu pick up Kannada faster, it is unlikely to be because the languages are similar. The similarity you pointed out will likely exist, in different words, to other languages too. Telugu is actually in a different grouping from the other major South Indian languages. The similarity in the script used (Kannada & Telugu) is what leads most people to believe that.