India politics thread

ThatsGreat said:
Why the hell would the middle class oppose a law which grants citizenship to refugees fleeing persecution? Such laws have always been in place. We have a law in Maharashtra giving preferential admissions in colleges to students of Kashmiri hindu background who were forced to leave Kashmir by the muslims there. That law is 25 years old. I mean feck refugees are the most vulnerable population, who in their right minds would oppose a law giving them citizenship.
Think Congress has already lost the next election.
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amolbhatia50k said:
Don't bother. Andh Bhakts don't follow logic or rational. Nearly every post is an incoherent blabbering consisting of feck knows what.
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This may throw some light.......

BJP’s pro-CAA surge ‘scripted’

Hyderabad: Twitter was overrun on Monday with tweets in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). It was a counter to the countrywide protests against this legislation and another possible move suspected to follow, the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The sudden surge in pro-CAA tweets and trending of this set was consequent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a Twitter campaign to “educate” people about the CAA.

The way this instant popularity was achieved involved some questionable actions, purportedly by the BJP’s IT cell. The BJP’s IT cell “accidentally” leaked a “tweet bank” — a Google Drive folder containing readymade tweets for the BJP supporters to use in support of the CAA.

An ultimate easy content reference for pro-CAA activists, the folder contains nearly 100 tweets, links to articles arguing in favour of the CAA, edited videos calling out Opposition parties’ historical stance on protection of minorities in Pakistan and so on. The folder also contains edited videos of violence by protestors, ready to be shared on Twitter, Instagram as well as other social media platforms.

It also has posters quoting, possibly fictional, surveys about how Muslims of the country don’t understand the CAA, and lines of attacks to be unleashed against anti-CAA activists for protesting against the legislation. One of these posters depicts a protester, named Abdul, throwing a stone at a police van and UP CM Adityanath hitting it for a ‘sixer’ by auctioning Abdul’s property.

Interestingly, most of these posters have pictu-res of Mr Adityanath. One of them said that the pro-tests are a conspiracy by ‘rioters’, human rights act-ivists, journalists and lawyers (Prashant Bhushan, Kapil Sibal).

Another questions MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, asking him to reply on the alleged involvement of a party worker in rioting in UP. “Who will answer for this Owaisi?”, it questions.

The ploy seems to have worked. By 8 pm, ‘#IndiaSupportsCAA” became the most popular hashtag on Twitter India. More than 8.5 lakh tweets during the day used this hashtag.

The content in this Google Drive folder seems to have been put together very meticulously. It has nearly 20 sub-folders, all of which contain documents related to subjects such as “Why Rohingyas should be deported”, “Pakistan’s failure to honour commitment to protect minorities” and “Atrocities against minorities”. These folders contain files with clippings of news reports from newspapers in India and Pakistan dating back decades.

It even has an FAQ section, which shows pro-CAA activists how the law can be defended, based on the opinions of prominent lawyer Harish Salve, who has won two major cases against Pakistan in the International Court of Justice in Hague, Netherlands.

The piece de résistance, of course, was the ‘tweet bank’ itself. It had nearly 60 tweets in Hindi and around 25 in English, other than readymade tweets under the banner “CAA simplified: Spread facts not myth”. All these tweets seemed to be saying the same thing, but were written slightly differently. “The CAA does justice to those who were denied for decades,” read one, while another read, “No Indian needs to fear CAA and NRC”.

One of the tweets is a quote of former President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, in a scathing attack against Pakistan for its failure to protect minorities.

Interestingly, when PM Modi launched his campaign, a few tweets and posters were made available on the official ‘Namo App’. All of the content available in the app is also present in the ‘tweet bank’.

A city-based former BJP activist said the party’s IT cell seems to have pulled out all the stops.

“This is not new. For over six years, since 2013, BJP’s IT cell has sent out readymade tweets and posters for activists to copy and paste from. It is not a secret and has been exposed by many media outlets in the past. But they at least kept it silent and did not let it spread so easily. But today, they took no precaution. The tweet bank is available all over Twitter. They seem to be desperate,” he said.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/311219/bjps-pro-caa-surge-scripted.html
 
MDFC Manager said:
Check this out :lol:

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What are the odds someone did the same with CAA and made it CCA ? Bots are bots at the end of the day.

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amolbhatia50k said:
48-52 currently.
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Even with an army of paid trolls having multiple accounts and countless bots they managed to lose! :lol:

Im not on twitter though, would i be wrong to assume if fake accounts/bots were removed the margin would have been higher.
 
ThatsGreat said:
Why the hell would the middle class oppose a law which grants citizenship to refugees fleeing persecution? Such laws have always been in place. We have a law in Maharashtra giving preferential admissions in colleges to students of Kashmiri hindu background who were forced to leave Kashmir by the muslims there. That law is 25 years old. I mean feck refugees are the most vulnerable population, who in their right minds would oppose a law giving them citizenship.
Think Congress has already lost the next election.
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Edgar Allan Pillow said:
Feck BJP.

I had high hopes on economy and infrastructure and all they have done is play religion. Have no idea whom I want to replace them though, but then apart from Rahul, anyone else should be better.
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India's most populous state is struggling as unemployment doubles

Unemployment almost doubled in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh (UP), during the last year compared to 2018 according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data.

The average unemployment in UP grew from 5.91 per cent in 2018 to 9.95 per cent during the last year. According to 2011 census, UP is home to nearly 20 crore people, which is over 16 per cent of India's population.

Unemployment rate of 10 per cent means that nearly 10 in every 100 persons are unemployed.

The unemployment numbers were higher than the national average of 7.7 owing to a marked decline in economic activity in the country. India's GDP growth rate has crashed by more than 2 per cent in just one year.

Joblessness was also on the rise in the top most populous states in the country. In Maharashtra, the second most populous state, unemployment in 2019 rose to 4.87 per cent from 3.81 in 2018.

Unemployment in Bihar rose sharply to 11.47 per cent from 7.84 per cent in 2018, CMIE data showed. The fifth most populous state, Andhra Pradesh saw a marginal rise in unemployment at 4.71 per cent in 2019 from 4.6 in 2018.

However, in West Bengal, the joblessness figures declined to 6.36 per cent in 2019 from 7.05 per cent a year back.

Experts from across the board have expressed concern about the slowing Indian economy. Former Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian went on claim that the Indian economy is facing a "Great Slowdown".

https://www.businessinsider.in/poli...2019-shows-cmie-data/articleshow/73063715.cms
 
‘We are 80% and you just 17%’: Karnataka BJP MLA threatens anti-CAA protesters
Somashekhara Reddy faces allegations of illegal mining on forest lands. Besides, he is also accused of trying to bribe an Andhra Pradesh judge to get bail for his brother.

In what is being seen as a threat against anti-CAA protests by the Muslim community, Karnataka BJP MLA G Somasekhara Reddy asked them to imagine what happens if the majority turns on them. The video footage of his speech has gone viral on social media.

At a programme supporting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Bellary district, Reddy said, “We are 80 per cent and you (CAA protestors) are just 17 per cent. Imagine what will happen to you if we turn against you.”
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I second Edgar's opinions on this. I had high hopes for BJP when they came to power but it's become quite apparent now what they are doing. The garb has been removed completely now and I hope they get thrown out of power in the next elections. There is nothing good down the road they are leading us down to.
 
Bestie07 said:
I second Edgar's opinions on this. I had high hopes for BJP when they came to power but it's become quite apparent now what they are doing. The garb has been removed completely now and I hope they get thrown out of power in the next elections. There is nothing good down the road they are leading us down to.
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The garb was well and truly up in the 2014 election but had been chucked and abandoned in the 2019 election, its only been a few months since they were re-elected. The voters voting for them and against them knew exactly what the agenda was, anyone claiming otherwise is either delusional or plain ignorant.
 
fishfingers15 said:
feck this shit, if only I had seen this yesterday I wouldn't have eaten the filet mignon yesterday. What the feck am I going to do now
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Once back you'll have to go through a re-initiation ceremony so that you don't continue your old ways consuming beef and all. :wenger:
 
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