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๐‘๐ž๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ The Chola-era Copper Plates have finally returned home. Under PM Modiโ€™s leadership, a historic 642 stolen antiquities have been brought back since 2014. ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฌ! ๐Ÿšฉ

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๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š ๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Once seen as a distant frontier, the Northeast is today emerging as a hub of connectivity, investment, and opportunity under PM Modi's leadership. ๐Ÿ”น National highways expanded from 10,905 km in 2014 to over 16,200 km. ๐Ÿ”น Landmark projects like the Sela Tunnel and Bhairabi-Sairang railway line are enhancing all-weather connectivity. ๐Ÿ”น Operational airports doubled from 9 to 17 under UDAN. ๐Ÿ”น Natural farming is gaining momentum across Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur. ๐Ÿ”น The โ‚น27,000 crore Tata semiconductor plant is positioning Assam as a manufacturing powerhouse. ๐Ÿ”น Violent incidents fell by nearly 70% between 2014 and 2024. ๐Ÿ”น 12 historic peace accords have strengthened stability across the region. ๐…๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ซ๐จ๐š๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š'๐ฌ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ. ๐ŸŽฅ

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๐Ÿšจ ๐„๐’๐๐'๐’ ๐‰๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐จ๐๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐š'๐ฌ ๐›๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Œ๐‹๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐‘๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก With MLB set to expand to two more cities, Jeff Passan, ESPN's senior MLB insider, listed Raleigh as one of six serious candidates to land one of those franchises. Here is that 10-min conversation, with an abbreviated recap below๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ง: ๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐‘๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž? - No market on either coast that has what Raleigh does. - Larger population than all expansion contenders - 22nd largest media market in the US, - 2nd fastest-growing metro - Soon to be 7th most populous state in the US (largest without MLB). -The current Stanley Cup champion owner Tom Dundon involved, with interest from former Bucks owner Marc Lasry. - Approved entertainment district being built and rights to 80+ acres of land. -Bi-partisian political support is ready for future talks. ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ง: ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐. ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ? -It's a full go. -Tom was the first to step up and is popular here because of the work he's done with the Canes. The fact that other billionaires want in and want to work together, shows that Raleigh is the place to be. ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ง: ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐›๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ซ๐จ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐Œ๐‹๐ ๐œ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐จ๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ? -Our research said Raleigh was the best path for NC's MLB -Wake County (Raleigh) is larger than Mecklenberg Count (Charlotte) - Charlotte has NFL, NBA, MLS, NASCAR...Raleigh only has NHL. State government wants more balance. Charlotte has entertainment spend overlaps that Raleigh wouldn't. -Raleigh does not have a downtown AAA ballpark it'd have to move. Charlotte does. Durham Bulls, 26 miles from Raleigh, fits with MiLB/MLB structure of farm teams within driving distance of parent teams. ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ง: ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐š ๐Œ๐‹๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ? -All the heavy lifting has been done. -This started with the community carrying the torch. It's organically grown to the point where there is an ownership group and politicians ready to make it happen. This is authentically a market that is SHOWING that it wants baseball. -We've been under the radar, and that was by design. - We have all the pieces needed to get MLB in Raleigh. ๐–๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž, ๐’๐š๐ฅ๐ญ ๐‹๐š๐ค๐ž ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐Ž๐ซ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐๐จ, ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ? Watch the full podcast here โฌ‡๏ธ

MLB2NC

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๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ. ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. ๐€ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Since 2014, Indiaโ€™s growth story has been driven by a mix of welfare, reforms, infrastructure, and national ambition under PM Modiโ€™s leadership. From financial inclusion and sanitation to digital transformation and manufacturing expansion, the country today looks vastly different from a decade ago. ๐Ÿ”น 50+ crore Jan Dhan accounts opened ๐Ÿ”น 4+ crore houses sanctioned under PM Awas Yojana ๐Ÿ”น 10+ crore Ujjwala LPG connections provided ๐Ÿ”น 55+ crore Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries covered ๐Ÿ”น GST implemented to unify Indiaโ€™s tax system ๐Ÿ”น Article 370 abrogated ๐Ÿ”น Massive push in highways, railways, airports & metros ๐Ÿ”น PLI schemes boosting semiconductors, electronics & solar manufacturing ๐Ÿ”น Rapid expansion of Digital India & UPI-led payments From welfare delivery to structural reforms, from villages to global boardrooms โ€” these 12 years have reshaped Indiaโ€™s development journey. ๐–๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐Œ ๐Œ๐จ๐๐ขโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐ŸŽฅ

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#WATCH | Delhi | On joining BJP, Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal says, "...I joined the BJP not under any compulsion, but because I believe in the leadership of PM Modi. I urge all those who want to do constructive politics to join the BJP" "I have left the AAP and joined the BJP. Since 2006, I have been working with Arvind Kejriwal and supported him during every agitation. However, Arvind Kejriwal had me beaten up by a goon in my own house. I was threatened when I raised my voice against it, and he put immense pressure on me to withdraw the FIR I lodged regarding this incident. I was denied any opportunity by the party to speak in Parliament for two years; this is very shameful. Arvind Kejriwal is anti-women. Now, they have entered Punjab, and the state government is being remotely controlled, turning Punjab into their personal ATM. Sand mining and drug usage are at a peak in Punjab...FIRs are registered against all those leaders who raise their voices against them. Arvind Kejriwal is known for corruption and 'gundagardi'. On the other hand, we have PM Modi, who is the most popular leader in the world. Be it during Operation Sindoor, when we killed enemies by entering their homes and ending Naxalism in the nation, or introducing the women's reservation bill in Parliament, PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have taken historic decisions for the development of the nation. I joined the BJP not under any compulsion, but because I believe in the leadership of PM Modi. I urge all those who want to do constructive politics to join the BJP"

ANI

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Historic day in Indiaโ€™s quest towards energy security and energy self-sufficiency under the dynamic and firm leadership of PM Sh Narendra Modi Ji. Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Amendment Bill 2024 successfully passed in Lok Sabha today! Far-reaching amendments made in the existing legislation will further strengthen and propel Indiaโ€™s energy sector under the leadership of PM Modi Ji, and ensure policy stability, international arbitration, extended lease periods etc. The present global energy scenario and the hydrocarbon landscape has dramatically changed. Hence, there was a need to amend the Act to reflect current realities, national priorities, promote Ease of Doing Business (EoDB), decriminalize provisions and align Indiaโ€™s Exploration and Production (E&P) framework with practices of competing geographies. By virtue of the fact that we are going to rely on conventional energy for some time we need to step up our exploration and production activities. Todayโ€™s successful passage of the bill will be a constructive and positive step in this direction. Utilisation of energy is a reasonably good indicator of economic performance. Today we are consuming 5.5 Million Barrels of crude oil in a day. Just three and a half years ago this consumption was 5.0 Million Barrels. If we continue to grow at the rate at which we are, we will go upto 6.5-7.0 Million Barrels Per Day. Indiaโ€™s transformation to being #ViksitBharat will require a large amount of energy in all forms. Steps have been taken to enhance Indiaโ€™s energy exploration and production. Earlier one million sqkm area of our sedimentary basin used to be a โ€˜No Goโ€™ area. As a result our import dependence was on a rise. We opened up that one million sqkm out of the 3.5 million sqkm of sedimentary basin to encourage and enhance domestic crude production. This has sent positive signals to prospective investors. 76% of total area under exploration has come under active exploration only since 2014. PMO India Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas #MoPNG PIB India Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

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In a tragic incident that has raised serious civic safety concerns, a young man identified as Tauheed lost his life after accidentally falling into an open sewer near the Satellite Bus Stand in Bareilly. The incident occurred late Tuesday night when he had reportedly reached the bus station to catch a ride back home. According to police, Tauheed slipped into the uncovered drain around 9:30 pm. CCTV footage later confirmed the moment he fell into the deep sewer. Initial observations suggested he may have been under the influence of alcohol and accidentally stepped onto a partially open section of the drain. Rescue operations were launched immediately, with teams from NDRF and SDRF working through the night. Despite continuous efforts, there was no trace of the victim for several hours. Authorities then brought in heavy machinery from Rampur on Wednesday morning to break open the concrete slabs covering parts of the drain and to pump out water. The rescue operation faced major challenges due to heavy garbage accumulation inside the sewer, which slowed down efforts. After an intense 30-hour search operation, Tauheedโ€™s body was finally recovered. Local shopkeepers alleged that the drain had been left open after cleaning work by municipal workers ahead of Holi, creating a hazardous situation. Senior officials, including ADM City and municipal authorities, visited the site during the rescue. Police have initiated further investigation while questions are being raised over negligence and public safety measures in the area.

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WATCH: Stephen Miller Just Annihilated Whatโ€™s Left of the Anti-Trump Crowdโ€”Unleashing a Historic Defense of Trumpโ€™s โ€˜Golden Ageโ€™ Agenda Stephen Miller didnโ€™t just defend Trumpโ€”he took a proverbial flamethrower every remaining critic still clinging to the old regime. Stephen Miller released pure fire: โ€œThe same people who are criticizing President Trump's agenda to restore America, to usher in this new golden age, are the ones who ordered us to lock down during Covid and close all the schools.โ€ โ€œThey are the ones who opened the borders and flooded our cities with illegal aliens.โ€ โ€œThey are the ones who brought us nothing but death and destruction in the Middle East, one disaster after another.โ€ โ€œThey are the ones who empowered a federal bureaucracy to steal our rights and voices as citizens, crush dissent, crush fresh free speech, crush industry.โ€ โ€œThey are the ones who allowed China and foreign countries to take our most essential industries out of the United States, gravely imperiling our national security, and destroying that working and middle classes of this country.โ€ Thatโ€™s the America Trump inherited, Miller saidโ€”and itโ€™s the one heโ€™s been fixing since day one. โ€œThat is what President Trump inherited. That is what he is boldly and bravely repairing every single day.โ€ He pointed to the border as proof of results: โ€œThe southern border now under his leadership, has the lowest number of illegal crossings in the history of the lancets of America.โ€ โ€œNot in the last 10 years or 20 years or 30 years, in the HISTORY of these United States.โ€ And itโ€™s not just about immigrationโ€”itโ€™s about survival: โ€œUnder President Trump, for the first time since the rise of China we are protecting and defending our jobs and our manufacturing base, and we are preventing foreign countries from making it impossible to defend ourselves in the event of a national emergency.โ€ โ€œManufacturing security is national security,โ€ he added. โ€œAnd he is taking on the rogue bureaucracy and rogue judiciary that have sapped and stolen and frittered away the rights of our people and pushed them into the hands of unelected power centers.โ€ Miller closed with a line that could define Trump's second term: โ€œHe is, in every sense of the word, restoring national democracy and popular sovereignty. He is making America free again.โ€

Overton

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SFJ Declares Shimla Capital of Khalistan; Charges Modi Regime of โ€œSilent Genocideโ€ Through Drugs, Debt, and Demographic Warfare LAHORE, PAKISTAN โ€” Speaking to the Pakistan media at the Lahore Press Club, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) extended formal Mubarak Azadi Dihara greetings to People of Pakistan on the Independence Day, praising its current era of leadership under Field Marshal Asim Munir. In a major strategic announcement, SFJ formally declared Shimla as the capital of Khalistan and avowed to politically and democratically conquer Delhi to establish the Democratic Republic of Khalistan. Modiโ€™s โ€œSilent Genocideโ€ in Punjab The core focus of the briefing detailed how Prime Minister Narendra Modiโ€™s regime is actively executing a multi-pronged, silent ethnocide against the Sikh population through three specific state strategies: Drug Warfare: The systematic weaponisation and flooding of narcotics into Punjab to intentionally cripple the physical and mental resolve of Sikh youth. Debt Warfare: The engineering of artificial agricultural crises that have forced over 18,000 Punjabi farmers into suicide since Modi took power in 2014. Demographic Warfare: The deliberate creation of harsh economic conditions forcing native Sikh youth to migrate abroad, paired with the mass introduction of non-local labour to erase the Sikh majority within Punjab. Historical Continuity of State Aggression SFJ contextualised todayโ€™s crisis by drawing a direct line back to 1947. Grounded in independent scholarship by Professor Paul Brass published in the Journal of Genocide Research, SFJ stated that the violence of 1947 was not mere โ€œPartition riots,โ€ but an organized, planned โ€œretributive genocideโ€ orchestrated by early Congress leaders like Patel, Gandhi, and Nehru. This structural state aggression directly continued through the June 1984 attack on Darbar Sahibโ€”where Shaheed Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and sovereignists attained martyrdomโ€”and the November 1984 genocide, followed by the armed defense of the 1990s where over 100,000 Sikhs martyred. The Ballot and the Sikh Homeland Security (SHS) The ongoing struggle for independence from Indian occupation is shifting decisively to the global democratic stage: The Referendum: On 16 August, the next phase of the global Khalistan Referendum will take place in Indiana, USA, allowing the diaspora to vote on sovereignty. The SHS Defensive Force: Citing the inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, SFJ declared readiness for the Sikh Homeland Security (SHS). The SHS is designated as a strictly defensive force structured to counter state aggression, secure the political transition of Delhi, and serve as the foundational military brigade for the Democratic Republic of Khalistan.

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun

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๐Ÿ˜กGROTESQUE: Jared Kushner on Gazaโ€” "[I'm a] volunteer to help the government when asked... [but] we appointed [the] new government in Gaza... businessmen who are risking their lives." "Tony Blair has been great." "We're building a Palestinian police force." "Steve [Witkoff] and I are both realizing, 'Oh, my God, there's a lot to do to keep this thing held together.'" ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "I have not joined the administration, so I'm still just a, volunteer like other businessmen who volunteer to help the government when asked. The level of engagement has definitely been a lot more than, I anticipated. "It really got started with Gaza. I was helping, Steve Witkoff, who's, really, an amazing human being. And he's really made a big sacrifice to go and devote his life to trying to make a difference on some of these, very, very challenging issues. And I know firsthand how lonely it is to be in those jobs and how hard it is when everyone's rooting against your success. "And so I spent a lot of time helping Steve, just quietly. And then when things got very intense with Gaza, Steve, and the president asked me to get more involved operationally, which obviously, when the president asks you to do something, you do it. And, we worked together incredibly well. We're able to achieve an outcome that, I think nobody thought was possible. "For two years, the war in Gaza was raging. It was causing really, a big dark cloud over the entire world. And I think that, it was something we were able to get in. And really, with the great help of our partners, in Qatar and Egypt and Turkey and many others who helped, we were able to get to a great outcome. "And now the 20 hostages have been brought home. All 28 bodies have been returned. It's the first time since 2014 that there's no, hostages or dead bodies in Gaza. And now that's creating the conditions for a new beginning. "You know, the other side of it as well is now that the war has stopped and we've, you know, a lot of people thought it wouldn't hold. It was a very delicate ceasefire in the beginning. You know, I thought I would get the deal done, and then, you know, I'd go back to my life. But then Steve and I are both realizing, oh, my God, there's a lot to do to keep this thing held together. "You know, there's so much here hatred and emotion and distrust when you're ending a war that you can't just, like a light switch, turn it on and off. So we, then started focusing on how do we deal with the massive humanitarian issue that was occurring in Gaza. You had 2 million people there. "We've been able to work with the United Nations. I give Tom Fletcher a lot of credit. We've, put in more humanitarian aid into a war zone. Than I think has ever been done in history. So now, there's a lot of aid in there, and we've started the rebuilding process. I know Yakir, Gabay is here, who's a great friend of mine, and, he's basically volunteered all of his time away, from his businesses to try and help us come up with a plan to do this. "Tony Blair has been great, so we really have brought a lot of great entrepreneurs and thinkers in, and I think we're, making a lot of progress. And, we're currently, I think it's about four months, since the war, was stopped, and I think nobody thought it would last this long. And, we're kind of at the final stages of the negotiations with Hamas on the demilitarization, where, they've basically agreed in principle to, follow through. That was the agreement we did. Now their concerns are mostly about, well, if we turn over our weapons and we do this, who are we turning them over to? "And, we're building a Palestinian police force. Right now we had over, I think about 200,000 applicants for it, and I think over like 70,000 that passed our vet. So we're going to build a great Palestinian police force, and so we have to work it through. And I think that we appointed a new government in Gaza, which also was a very interesting, experience all, again, businessmen who are risking their lives, to go in and do public service in that area. And, our goal is just to really help them. And I think we want to see this region built for, at least Gaza. We want to see it built for the people of Gaza."

Sense Receptor

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Honouring a Lifetime of Service to India's National Security! Glad to be present at the conferring of the 'Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2026' upon NSA Ajit Doval ji by Hon Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amitbhai Shah in Pune today. 'There is no silver medal in national security. If you win, you make history; if you lose, you become history.' These words by NSA Ajit Doval ji are far more than a statement; they reflect the courage, conviction and sense of duty that have defined his life's work. Since assuming office as the National Security Advisor in 2014 under the leadership of Hon PM Narendra Modi Ji, Ajit Doval ji has fundamentally transformed India's national security doctrine. Through his vision of proactive deterrence, combined with a pragmatic approach, he has redefined India's response to security challenges, bringing strategic clarity, confidence and resolve to the nation's security framework. It is therefore most fitting that this year's Lokmanya Tilak National Award is being conferred upon Ajit Doval ji. Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak awakened the spirit of patriotism during British rule and inspired a sense of national pride among Indians. Through the public celebrations of Ganeshotsav and Shiv Jayanti, he brought the society together and motivated generations of young Indians to dedicate themselves to the service of the nation and the cause of freedom. This award is a tribute to Ajit Doval ji's exceptional service, courage and enduring contribution to strengthening India's national security, reflecting the very ideals of patriotism, commitment and selfless service that Lokmanya Tilak championed. DCM Eknath Shinde ji, DCM Sunetratai Pawar, Union MoS Murlidhar Mohol, Minister Chandrakant Dada Patil, Minister Uday Samant, MoS Madhurita Misal, BJP State President MLA Ravindra Chavan, President of Lokmanya Tilak Smarak Trust Dr. Rohit Tilak and other dignitaries were present. Narendra Modi Amit Shah Eknath Shinde - เคเค•เคจเคพเคฅ เคถเคฟเค‚เคฆเฅ‡ Sunetra Ajit Pawar Murlidhar Mohol Chandrakant Patil Uday Samant Madhuri Misal Ravindra Chavan Dr. Rohit Tilak #Maharashtra #AjitDoval #LokmanyaTilakNationalAward

Devendra Fadnavis

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ISIS Returnees Are Back in Britain. The Government Won't Say If They're Locked Up. Ben Obese-Jecty stood in the House of Commons this week and asked whether individuals with links to Islamic State, recently brought back to Britain from al-Roj detention camp in northeastern Syria, were taken into custody on arrival. The Government refused to answer him. Al-Roj is a holding site in Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria, home to thousands of people connected to ISIS fighters since the military collapse of the caliphate. Kurdish authorities have warned Western governments repeatedly that they cannot hold foreign detainees indefinitely. So the UK government has quietly began repatriating UK national ISIS fighters. When jihadists with known ties to a proscribed terrorist organisation land on British soil, the public expects a straight explanation of what powers were used to make sure the British public are protected. Ben Obese-Jecty MP did not get one. The Government will not say how many terrorists have been returned. It will not explain what legal framework was applied. And when asked directly whether these people are under state control, the Labour Party Minister attempted to deflect in his response. The Government knows whether these individuals are in custody. The refusal to say so is the answer. ISIS fighters are now openly walking the streets of the United Kingdom. Isn't that right Shabana Mahmood MP? _________ Iโ€™m Raja Miah MBE. For seven years, I led a campaign that exposed how senior Labour politicians helped protect Pakistani rape gangs. The people of my town helped force the national inquiry. You wonโ€™t see me on the BBC. You wonโ€™t read my work in the legacy press. Thatโ€™s not an accident. I take this to a place from where there is no coming back. My work is free. No paywalls. No gatekeeping. No exclusions. Because the truth shouldnโ€™t belong only to those who can afford it. If you can afford to do so, supporting me costs as little as 75p a week (ยฃ30 a year). Sign up here; ๐Ÿ‘‰ If you canโ€™t commit to a regular subscription, a one-off contribution genuinely helps keep this alive. You can support me using one of these links; ๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐Ÿ‘‰ Weโ€™re up against a machine, politicians, police, officials, and media, working together to shrink, sanitise, and bury the truth. This work survives because of you. If youโ€™ve ever shared my posts, learned something, or felt less alone reading them, stand with me. I need your help. Raja ๐Ÿ™

Raja Miah

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Burnham stood there ERM-ing and STUMBLING, swearing blind he's got a GRIP on the boats. In his OWN first week as PM, nearly 900 crossed. Including 165 people crammed into ONE dinghy, the biggest single boatload on record. So much for the grip and here's the man saying it. He spent TWENTY YEARS voting the other way. He almost always voted AGAINST tougher immigration enforcement. 6% aligned. Six. He wanted to scrap the rule that stops migrants claiming benefits. His whole career, Labour's soft touch, open arms. Then he needed your vote. Suddenly he's on the News doing tough. GRIP. CONTROL. He voted for a crackdown two weeks ago he'd have marched AGAINST a year back. He even took days to say a word, then dodged the charge he'd just handed the whole thing to his Home Secretary. The tough talk is two weeks old. The record is twenty years long. That's not conviction. That's a COSTUM and watch it fall apart. TODAY, French police were filmed handing life jackets to migrants and WAVING them off to Britain. We pay France ยฃ662 MILLION to STOP the boats. Their law bars them touching a boat in the water, so they don't. They hand out vests and wave. The traffickers have a sales pitch now. Don't worry lads, the French will see you off. Vest included. We're not funding a border. We're funding the WELCOME PARTY. Hereโ€™s the bill they'd rather you never saw. ยฃ8 BILLION a year. ยฃ230 out of every taxpayer. Hotels alone, ยฃ5.77 MILLION a day. The contract TRIPLED to ยฃ15.3 billion, MPs called it SQUANDERED. Donโ€™t think this started with Burnham. Labour opened the doors under BLAIR. Net migration five times higher. No controls in 2004, a decision his own Home Secretary later called a SPECTACULAR MISTAKE. The Tories then lost the Channel and let the bill triple. Different rosettes. Twenty-five years. One direction. And YOU paying for all of it. Then the number that ends it. Of certain refused claims, 95% are NEVER removed. Only 4% of everyone who's crossed since 2018 has EVER been returned. They arrive, they're refused, they stay anyway. Burnham's proof it's working? Crossings are DOWN. Down from 2025, the SECOND-HIGHEST year on record. Seas flat calm, GB News admits it's the WEATHER, and the summer surge hasn't landed. Still 39,000 a year. 90% of all illegal arrivals. Wait for the year to end. Then count. We pay France half a billion to stop the boats. They hand out the life jackets. The weather does the rest and the man calling it a GRIP spent twenty years holding the door open.

BanksyCat

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Liz Truss's full speech at CPAC Who needs enemies when you have former Prime Minister's trashing our country ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ And never forget, she lost to a lettuce ๐Ÿฅฌ -- Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's fantastic to be back in America and it's fantastic to be back at CPAC for the second year in a row. But last year, there was a dark cloud hanging over this conference. It was called Joe Biden. And this year, we are now under the leadership of President Donald Trump. This is truly. This is truly the golden age of America. But I'm sad to report. I'm sad to report that Britain is in the dark age. We have a socialist government, commissars ruling over us, who are leading our country in a terrible direction. But what I want to say today is they are not the only problem. The current establishment stooges in Whitehall and Westminster are only the latest iteration of Britain going wrong for the past few decades. Because, let's be honest, Britain isn't working. The British system is deeply rotten. Britain is becoming a failed state. We've got people who are being arrested and locked up for posting on X and Facebook. We've seen tens of thousands of girls as young as 12 raped, tortured and even killed by Pakistani grooming gangs. And yet many of those perpetrators have not been brought to justice. In fact, those crimes have been covered up. And we know that the authorities colluded. We know there was police collusion and we know there was collusion from the local council. We have a massive problem with illegal immigration, but yet we can't even deport people who are criminals from our country because of human rights. One example was a immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo who had sexually abused his own stepdaughter. But he was allowed to stay in Britain on the basis of the right to family life. How disgusting. A criminal from Albania was allowed to stay in Britain because his son didn't like the kind of chicken nuggets they sell abroad. And I'm not joking you there. But it's not just a problem we have with mass migration and illegal immigration. We've also got a problem with our energy in Britain. So in Britain, fracking has been banned. I was the only Prime Minister who allowed fracking. Sadly, I wasn't in office long enough to actually make it happen. We have net zero policies that have decimated our oil and gas industry. The net result is we have the highest energy prices in the developed world. And in Britain, we've just seen the last steel plant close down last year. We cannot produce our own steel anymore. We have an economic orthodoxy, a Bank of England that has printed vast amounts of money. They've created rampant inflation. They've wasted billions of taxpayer pounds. If they Weren't the government, it would be called a heist. Yet in none of these cases, in none of these cases have any of these people, any of these authorities been held to account for the fact they have completely failed. And we're in a situation where Britain is almost bankrupt morally, socially and economically. And I think people in this room might want to know, how on earth has this happened? This is the country that invented parliamentary democracy. It's the country of the Magna Carta. It's the country of the Bill of Rights. We protected freedom of the press back in 1695, almost 100 years before the First Amendment. How on earth can the country of Adam Smith and the Industrial Revolution be de. Industrializing? It doesn't make any sense. And the answer is that everything that made Britain great is being destroyed by an establishment that hates Britain and hates the West. Like in most of Europe, our universities, our institutions and our corporations have been taken over by anti west ideology, Islamism, green extremism, anti capitalism, wokery, transgenderism. You name it, they've adopted it. And what we've seen is a massive failure of leaders in Europe to push back against this. Because this is not something the population wanted. This is not something the people in Britain or Europe voted for. This is something that was imposed from above. And what happened is that democratically elected politicians handed vast amounts of power over to the unelected and the unaccountable. In Britain, Tony Blair in particular, trashed centuries of liberty by creating a tyranny of technocrats. He created an unaccountable Supreme Court which had never been existed in Britain before. He created a much deeper and powerful state that is not held to account. He also handed vast powers over to an Alphabet soup of international bodies, the World Health Organization, the United nations, the ECHR, all of whom nobody could vote in and nobody could vote out. And all of those bodies, as you've seen in the United States of America, have been captured by the same anti west ideology. But what I find really incredible, really, really incredible is it wasn't just China and Iran and Russia that were funding these NGOs, funding these anti west groups. It was actually the United States of America under President Joe Biden through USAID Now, did you know that American taxpayer dollars was funding the BBC? Did you know that they were funding the Tony Blair Institute? Did you know that they were funding Rory Stewart's wife? It's incredible. We thought you were our friends, but you were actually American taxpayers were funding this anti west ideology. And the problem is when the people in Britain voted for something different when they tried to change the government, when they tried to change the system in 2016, in 2019 and in 2024, they found the same people were still in power. The bureaucracy had not changed. And it's no surprise that young people are losing their faith in democracy because they don't believe it can change things. And amazingly, during all of this, many so called conservatives went along with the ideology. They were busy hugging Greta Thunberg. They were putting up taxes. I'm not joking about that. They were putting up taxes. They were increasing immigration, they were pursuing transgender ideology. And it's no wonder that the Conservative Party had its worst defeat since 1834. Patriotic Brits have had enough. They've had enough. And we look across the Atlantic with envy. We see President Trump in the Executive, in the Oval Office, signing off executive orders. And we want some of that in Britain. We want drill, baby, drill. We want men banned from women's bathrooms and women's sports. We want illegal immigrants deported. We want taxes to be cut. We want a Trump revolution in Britain. We want to flood the zone. We want Elon and his nerd army of muskrats examining the British deep state. Ladies and gentlemen, we missed the first American Revolution in 1776. In fact, it was actually a revolution against us. But we want to be part of the second American revolution. We want to dismantle the British deep state, which is older and more entrenched than the American one. We need a great restoration bill to repeal all of the terrible Blair laws, the Equality act, the Climate Change act, the Human Rights act, the Constitutional Reform Act. We need to eradicate judicial activism in Britain and restore parliamentary sovereignty. We want our government run by the Executive, not by the bureaucracy. But most of all, what we need is we need to restore free speech. This is the lifeblood, our democracy. And J.D. vance is right. Vice President Vance is right. Free speech is in retreat in Britain and in Europe, to Europe's governments, particularly Britain. They see George Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual. Look at the evidence. A British citizen was arrested for praying outside an abortion clinic. We have German prosecutors saying that if you insult somebody, you could be arrested. We had Alison Pearson, a British journalist, visited at her home by the police because of a tweet that she'd posted a year ago and since deleted. I want the police to be policing real crimes, not thought crimes. But not only this. We have a supine legacy media that pay lip service to free speech, but have suppressed stories and distorted stories. The BBC were found to have violated their editorial guidelines 1500 times in the four months after the appalling atrocities of October 7th. They were found to have been downplaying Hamas terrorism and promoting the idea that Israel was the aggressor. This is our state broadcaster funded by the taxpayer. The mainstream media have failed to report on the grooming scandal and they failed to hold the deep state to account. And much of the reason for that is the deep state of the people giving them all their information, all their leaks, all their funding, all of their material. And they're frightened of the media regulator, Ofcom. We have seen what independent media has done for the United States and we want some of that. That's why we are going to be establishing a new free speech media network in conjunction with our American allies, including, including the great people here at cpac. It will be uncensorable and uncancelable. It will take on the Britain Bashing Corporation, which is what we call the BBC. It will take on Starmer and his socialists and it will take on the censors of Germany because. Because it's only by telling people the truth in the United Kingdom, in Europe, in the Anglosphere, in America, that we will turn our backs on the war's west against itself. All of the people here are working to make America great again. I believe that we can make Britain great again. I believe that we can make Europe great again. And I believe that together we can make the west great again. Thank you. Thank you.

Farrukh

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#TRANSCRIBED The U.S. warned that it is going to use โ€œtools at its disposalโ€ to hold Rwanda accountable, a "spoilers to peaceโ€, referring to both Rwanda and M23. READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE UNITED STATES' DURING TODAY'S UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING The United States is profoundly concerned and deeply disappointed by the renewed outbreak of violence in Eastern DRC. Today, I want to share additional information on the scale and sophistication of Rwandaโ€™s involvement in the region. Since its re-emergence in 2021, Rwanda has maintained strategic control over its proxy armed group, M23, as well as M23โ€™s political wing, the Congo River Alliance, also known as the AFC. Rwanda has deployed M23 and the AFC to further its geopolitical ambitions in Eastern DRC. Kigali has been directly involved in planning and executing the war, providing both military and political direction to M23 and the AFC. For years, the Rwandan Defence Forces (RDF) have supplied material, logistical, and training support to M23, and have fought alongside them in the DRC with approximately 5,000 to 7,000 troops as of early December โ€” not accounting for any additional deployments during the recent escalation. In recent months, Rwanda has deployed multiple surface-to-air missile systems and other heavy, sophisticated weaponry into North and South Kivu to support M23 in its ongoing conflict with the DRC. Just this past weekend, M23 and Rwandan forces launched an offensive to seize Uvira, with RDF forces co-located on the frontlines with M23 fighters. We also have credible reports of increased use of suicide drones and artillery by both M23 and Rwanda, including artillery strikes into Burundi. Rather than a march toward peace โ€” as seen in recent weeks under the leadership of President Trump through the Washington Accords โ€” Rwanda is instead dragging the region back into greater instability and war. In light of the commitments made in Washington, we are deeply concerned about the continued presence of Rwandan military forces on Congolese soil in support of M23. The United States will use every tool at our disposal to hold accountable the spoilers of peace. We call on Rwanda to uphold its commitments and to fully recognize the Democratic Republic of Congoโ€™s sovereign right to defend its territory, including the right to invite Burundian forces onto its land in response to aggression. We are engaging with all parties to urge restraint and to prevent further escalation โ€” including calling for an end to hostile and ethnically charged anti-Tutsi rhetoric. As this Council continues to negotiate the renewal of the MONUSCO mandate, the United States will seek to ensure that the mission is empowered to support both the Doha and Washington agreements. While the parties themselves bear full responsibility for implementing these agreements, MONUSCO must have the freedom and capability to operate โ€” including unimpeded mobility and logistical support. It is a sad hypocrisy that UN peacekeepers are under siege from forces backed by a UN member state โ€” a state which also contributes troops to peacekeeping missions. The months-long M23 blockade on MONUSCO has severely impaired its ability to operate in and around Goma, as many have highlighted today. Furthermore, Rwanda continues to deploy surface-to-air missiles and conducts spoofing and jamming operations, effectively grounding MONUSCOโ€™s air assets. Under such conditions, how can MONUSCO succeed? We demand the immediate cessation of these obstructions, which violate Rwandaโ€™s and M23โ€™s obligations under the Doha and Washington Agreements. The United States remains firm in its support for MONUSCO and its critical role in realizing these historic agreements, which we believe hold the potential to finally end decades of suffering in Eastern DRC.

Xtrafrica

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A Twist in the Tale: Has BJP become the adda of corrupt? In the run up to the 2014 general elections, the BJP centred its campaign around alleged corruption under the Congress-led UPA government, promising โ€˜ache dinโ€™ . Several times during the campaign, Narendra Modi Ji grandiloquently promised to jail the corrupt. He was equally loud about bringing back 'all the looted money stashed away in Swiss banks and eliminating black money'. People gave BJP a decisive mandate and Modi became PM in 2014. On 8th November 2016 in a public broadcast PM Modi declared that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes would cease to be legal tender and grandiosely announced that the purpose of #demonetisation was to crackdown on corruption and eliminate black money. It, however, turned out to be spurious. Recently, Supreme Court Justice B. V. Nagarathna said in a conference in Hyderabad that in the Indian economy at that time, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes comprised 86% of the currency and wondered about the goal of the demonetisation exercise since 98% of those notes came back to banks. She also questioned about black money eradication as demonetisation became a good way of converting black money into white money. In 2017 the BJP government introduced #ElectoralBond Scheme, which was anonymous financial contributions to political parties, by amending several laws namely, the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the Companies Act, 2013, the Income Tax Act, 1961. Its avowed purpose was to enhance transparency and accountability in political funding by eliminating black money, corruption. etc. The Supreme Court has recently struck down this secret political funding as unconstitutional and directed disclosure of complete details of all electoral bonds. From the data available in public domain, thanks to the Supreme Court, it came to light that the BJP is the biggest beneficiary as out of total Rs. 11,450 crores it received Rs. 6,566 crores which is 57%. Contemporaneous evidence indicates that #ElectoralBonds have all the ingredients of a huge scam such as quid pro quo and corruption, shell and loss making companies donating to political parties huge sums of money suspected to be kickbacks, and laundering of black money. In order to shield our democratic process from foreign interference, the laws regulating foreign contributions prohibited political parties and candidates in elections from accepting foreign contributions. But the BJP government through Finance Acts, 2016 and 2018 amended with retrospective effect the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010 (#FCRA) by changing the definition of โ€˜foreign sourceโ€™ not only condoning the past illegalities committed but also permitting political parties to receive foreign funds, and thereby paved way for foreign intrusion into our political and electoral process compromising our sovereignty. Further, notwithstanding the huge propaganda of alleged action against Foreign Funded NGOs, there has been a huge spike in #FCRA remittances since the 2014-15. While during the 20 years between financial years 1994-1995 and 2013-14 an amount of Rs. 1,51,036 Crores was received, during the 8 years between 2014-15 and 2023-24 Rs. 1,46,392 was received. Data for financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 is not yet available. However, from the trends of #FCRA remittances in the preceding years it will be around Rs. 50,000 Crores together for both the financial years, making the total FCRA remittances during 10 year rule of BJP to be around Rs. 2,00,000 Crores which is humongous. Even if a small fraction of that huge amount of foreign funds has gone to political parties or candidates in elections, it amounts to serious subversion of our democracy and constitution. What sort of patriotism is this? Several months prior to 2014 general elections, a spate of alleged scams during UPA rule surfaced namely, Chit Fund scam, Chopper scam, Tatra truck scam, 2G Spectrum scam, CWG scam, Coal scam, Adarsh scam, etc. The courts, CBI, ED and IT proactively initiated action as a result several Congress and UPA leaders came under scanner. Though the BJP came to power on the anti-corruption plank, hardly any political leaders of significance was convicted, nor even paisa of black money stashed away in Swiss banks was brought back. On the other hand, the BJP has allegedly been misusing the law enforcement agencies to arm-twist the opposition political leaders under cloud either to defect to or align with the BJP. Out of 25 important opposition leaders who were allegedly under the scanner and joined BJP, 23 have reportedly got reprieve. Politicians like Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan who faces 38 criminal cases including 11 CBI and 7 ED cases, have been buying peace from the BJP. As a result none of his cases have seen the light of the day, notwithstanding the direction of Supreme Court to speed up trial of cases against politicians. Likewise, the DMK leaders namely, the Maran brothers, A. Raja, Karunanidhiโ€™s daughter Kanimozhi have been acquitted, after they not so secretly cosied up to BJP, thanks to the lacklustre prosecution of their cases before the courts. These are only representative examples of how the BJP has become the adda for the leaders facing allegations of corruption, money laundering, etc. It is quite possible that some of them may be genuinely innocent. But as their innocence has been established only after their defection to or aligning with the ruling BJP, it creates dark shadows by raising serious moral questions. Last year, fourteen political parties approached the Supreme Court against the alleged misuse of central investigating agencies in arresting opposition political leaders and other citizens exercising their fundamental right to dissent and disagree with the ruling BJP. It was alleged that 95% of political leaders investigated by CBI and ED belong to opposition. That is, out of 121 prominent politicians facing ED probe between 2014 and 2022, 115 are opposition leaders who had been booked, raided, questioned or arrested. To wriggle out of or deflect the allegations of promoting corruption, shielding the corrupt who have joined or aligned with the BJP and targeting opposition leaders, etc, one of the standard refrains of the BJP has been that as Narendra Modi has no family he cannot be corrupt or has no motivation to be corrupt or shield the corrupt. That is a disingenuous argument. Late Jayalalitha, who was a spinster with no family, was convicted for corruption and was sent to jail. There are many prominent leaders who are unmarried or have no families facing cases or allegations of corruption. I donโ€™t mean to even hint let alone allege that Narendra Modi is personally financially corrupt. I merely want to call out their bluff by highlighting the point that there is no connection between oneโ€™s familial status and corruption. It must be recalled that Manmohan Singh, whose personal financial integrity was impeccable, presided over a corrupt regime. As such, personal financial honesty of PM or a CM is meaningless if his party and government are not honest. Barring honourable exceptions, every political party while in opposition grandiloquently talks against corruption, not necessarily because they are honest, but because they try to make a virtue of out of lack of opportunities to make money. Notwithstanding its anti-corruption rhetoric the BJP is no stranger to corruption as its unsavory history tells. In 2001, none other than its National President late Bangaru Laxman was caught on the camera taking bribe from one Mathew Samuel, and was later convicted by a Special CBI Court on 27th April 2012 and sentenced to four years in jail. Further, BJPโ€™s former CM of Karnataka Sri B. S. Yeddyurappa faced charges of corruption and was also in jail for a while. There are allegations of misdeeds of BJP government in PM-CARES Fund which is mired in secrecy, in sale of Air India to Tatas for peanuts, about CAGโ€™s concern about astronomical escalation in cost of construction of Dwarka Expressway from Rs. 18.2 crores per km to Rs. 251 crores per km, in the utility of more than Rs. 14,000 crores public funds for Namami Gange project while the sacred Ganga is on the verge becoming a sewer like Yamuna, and several others. The #ElectoralBondScam which points to several alleged scams, is only a tip of the iceberg. It seems further action to take it to logical end has come to a naught. Therefore, having seen the fate of investigation and trial of all the alleged scams and how the political class sabotage, it is imperative that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising serving or retired officers specially chosen by the Supreme Court, which will not be part of any Law Enforcement Agency but independently directly reporting to the Supreme Court, would alone will be able to unravel the truth. It is pertinent to recall the stellar role of RTI Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (before it was amended in 2018) in exposing alleged corruption in the Congress-led UPA government. Information is power. So, the RTI Act empowered people to seek information from public authorities on all official matters (barring a very few exceptions). Based on that information obtained through RTI process about alleged corrupt deals, illegalities, etc during UPA rule, the CBI which had no legal shackles could initiate enquiries and investigation into those allegations. The BJP while in opposition used and exploited this situation to the hilt to oust the Congress-led UPA from power. And having formed government the BJP is acutely aware of the dangers for the corrupt lurking in these laws. So they have systematically wrecked the RTI Act so much so that it has gone from citizensโ€™ most powerful tool to an Act on life support. In 2018 they amended the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. As per new section 17A introduced therein, โ€œNo police officer shall conduct any enquiry or inquiry or investigation into any offence alleged to have been committed by a public servant under this Act, where the alleged offence is relatable to any recommendation made or decision taken by such public servant in discharge of his official functions or duties, without the previous approvalโ€ of respective governments or appointing authority of the public servant. Which government will permit investigation into its own misdeeds? While Justice R. M. Lodha in 2013 denounced the CBI as a โ€˜caged parrotโ€™, the BJP government translated his oral observation into a legal reality by destroying the Prevention of Corruption Act. Evidently, the real purpose of BJP undermining RTI Act and emasculating the CBI was to prevent visitation of fate similar to that of UPA by insulating and firewalling themselves from any future enquiries and investigations into their alleged corrupt deeds. Finally, there is an uncanny resemblance between the BJPโ€™s anti-corruption rhetoric with a story in Jeffrey Archerโ€™s popular book, โ€˜A Twist in the Taleโ€™, which goes like this: Ignatius Agarbi was the new Financial Minister of Nigeria. He begins a sweep on corruption and makes a name for himself. Impressed by his extreme honesty, his president entrusted him to find out how many Nigerians have stashed their bribes in Switzerland. He arrives at the Swiss Bank with a briefcase. Despite his greatest persuasion, the Swiss banker refuses to break their code of privacy. In the end, Ignatius places a gun to the head of the Swiss banker and threatens to kill him. Still the banker refuses to divulge any confidential information. Ignatius, who was actually extremely corrupt, was only checking to find out if the Swiss Banks would actually reveal the name of an account holder. Delighted with their secrecy, Ignatius deposits $5 million in cash which he had skimmed as Financial Minister.โ€

M. Nageswara Rao IPS (Retired)

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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa who has been in power since November 2017, following the military coup that removed President Robert Mugabe. He has now signed into law Constitutional Amendment No. 3, which, among many other things, extends his term of office to 2030, cancels the 2028 elections, extends the presidential term from five years to seven years, and removes the direct election of the President by citizens, transferring that responsibility to Parliament. This is a massive controversial constitutional change, one that would ordinarily require a referendum. However, the President and his advisers have refused to subject these changes to a referendum. That fact alone renders the entire process contestable and places a dark cloud of illegitimacy over his presidency beyond 2028, when his term of office was originally supposed to end. But this crisis will not wait until 2028. It began the moment he signed Constitutional Amendment No. 3 into law, as opponents of the Bill which is now law have already declared the process illegal because there was no referendum. The real challenge facing President Mnangagwa is not so much the opposition, which he has effectively dismantled with the assistance of opposition leaders who have allegedly been bought or co-opted. The real challenge is the economy. As Bill Clinton famously said, โ€œItโ€™s the economy, stupid.โ€ The economy is what will create a wave of political discontent between now and whenever he eventually leaves office, assuming he does not die in office. I have seen some of my South African friends mocking Zimbabweans over this development and saying it is a Zimbabwean issue that Zimbabweans must resolve themselves. One can only say that if one is ignorant of the interconnectedness of our region and the ripple effects that this constitutional change is likely to create. South Africaโ€™s illegal immigration crisis has been authored, in part, by the misgovernance in Zimbabwe, which successive South African governments and the African National Congress have tolerated and, at times, enabled. When the economy deteriorates in Zimbabwe, desperate people cross into South Africa by any means necessary in search of jobs and opportunities. This should not be viewed as a Zimbabwean crisis alone. It is a regional crisis, one that has the potential to create political and social turbulence throughout Southern Africa. History has taught us that whenever there is a crisis in Zimbabwe, South Africa bears much of the burden. But this post is not about South Africa. It is about Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans. The culture of bootlicking leaders and hero-worshipping politicians cuts across Zimbabwean society, both in the ruling party and in the opposition. Part of the reason why the opposition has been emasculated by Emmerson Mnangagwa is because citizens continue to place blind faith in leaders who have delivered very little. Those leaders continue to sell hope to the people, even when many Zimbabweans know that some of them have been captured or compromised. We saw this decadence in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Opposition Members of Parliament voted with ZANUPF. Only 42 voted against the Constitutional Amendment Bill. The rest supported it. That is a reflection of the deep crisis within the opposition itself. Unfortunately, many Zimbabweans mistakenly think that Zimbabweโ€™s problems are exclusively a ZANUPF problem. They are not. They are a Zimbabwean problem that Zimbabweans themselves must resolve, and not sit and watch. As long as Zimbabweans continue to hero-worship personalities instead of supporting ideas, institutions and principles, the crisis will never go away. There are people with ideas and solutions for Zimbabwe, but they are not popular enough. Populism has derailed the opposition and made it ineffective in pushing back against ZANUPFโ€™s misgovernance. The signing of Constitutional Amendment No. 3 into law is, in my view, the beginning of a new phase of resistance, assuming events themselves do not overtake any organic resistance to Mnangagwaโ€™s rule. Zimbabwe today is a hopelessly divided society. People are fighting one another, and there is little national unity. President Mnangagwa could have secured his legacy by uniting the country and fixing the economy. Instead, it is evident that his administration remains adrift when it comes to economic management. This is, therefore, a moment for Zimbabweans to reflect on what they want for their country and how they intend to achieve it. For neighbouring countries, particularly South Africa, this is not Zimbabweโ€™s problem alone. According to the South African government, around 70% of women who give birth at Musina Hospital are Zimbabwean. You cannot simply turn them away. They will continue coming because the Zimbabwean government has failed to build a healthcare system capable of serving its people. An estimated 2,500 Zimbabwean women die every year while giving birth because of inadequate maternal healthcare facilities. The largest hospital in Zimbabwe still relies on a single maternity theatre built in 1977 by the Ian Smith government. That alone is a devastating indictment of the state of public healthcare in Zimbabwe, and a metaphor for the state of affairs. With unemployment estimated at over 95% in the formal and informal sectors combined, it is not surprising that Zimbabweans are prepared to risk their lives crossing crocodile-infested rivers in the Limpopo to reach South Africa. They will continue doing so. No amount of anti-immigration marches in South Africa will stop this reality. One either understands how crises create migration flows, or one lives under the illusion and delusion that Zimbabweans can somehow be prevented from seeking survival elsewhere. As we speak, many large-scale farms in Limpopo employ significant numbers of undocumented Zimbabwean workers. If those workers were suddenly to disappear overnight, the consequences for agricultural production and food prices would be enormous. This is not simply my opinion as an analyst or journalist. I have spoken to numerous farmers in Limpopo. I am a farmer myself and have access to many people within the agricultural sector, including some who are political actors in South Africa. The reality is that complex regional problems cannot be solved by slogans, social media noise or emotional outbursts. They require honest conversations, competent governance and courageous leadership on both sides of the Limpopo. As this law comes into effect, many people must reflect on the roles they played, directly or indirectly, in bringing Zimbabwe to this point. Vice President General Constantino Chiwenga was one of the leading proponents of the idea that President Mnangagwa could and should rule for as long as he wished, as he stated in the video I have attached below. Today, he finds himself effectively locked out of any constitutional path to the presidency. The opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, also bears a significant share of responsibility. He effectively dismembered the opposition by getting rid of key allies who brought talents and skills that he himself did not possess. He dismantled leadership structures and ran the opposition without a constitution, creating an environment that enabled ZANUPF to infiltrate the opposition through the political charlatan Sengezo Tshabangu, whose actions were aided by Professor Jonathan Moyoโ€™s ideas. Ultimately, the supporters of these two men must not live in denial by blaming everyone else while refusing to examine their own role in what has happened. There is nothing contained in this constitutional amendment, which is now law, that was not predicted. Analysts who warned that these developments would occur were ridiculed. They were demonised on social media, insulted and called names by opposition supporters. That abuse continues to this very day. It cuts across the political divide, both in ZANUPF and in the opposition, where leaders deploy and sponsor people to attack anyone who raises uncomfortable truths about the realities of life in Zimbabwe. One cannot help but wonder whether some of those who have spent years attacking people who brought genuine issues to the table have themselves been manipulated or even indirectly serving the interests of ZANUPF, because it beggars belief that people can be so self-contradictory and self-destructive in the manner in which Zimbabwean politics has unravelled since 2022. In 2021, through Constitutional Amendment No. 2, the running mate clause was removed. That amendment effectively dismantled the constitutional mechanism that many believed would guarantee General Chiwengaโ€™s succession within ZANUPF. The running mate provision had been an important part of the constitutional architecture established by the 2013 Constitution, which was negotiated during the Government of National Unity and endorsed by almost 95% of Zimbabweans in a referendum. The Vice President remained silent. He was warned. I was among those who argued that the removal of the running mate clause was the beginning of what I called a โ€œroyal presidencyโ€, one in which President Mnangagwa would accumulate so much power that he could potentially remain in office until his death. All the mistakes that have been made, whether through deliberate action, political expediency or sheer ignorance, have brought Zimbabwe to where it is today. Have opposition supporters finally understood that ideas matter more than bootlicking and hero-worshipping political leaders? I do not know. Their reaction to what is happening in Zimbabwe today will answer that question. Have members of ZANUPF who feel aggrieved by President Mnangagwaโ€™s actions now come to understand that when people speak about constitutionalism, accountability and good governance, they are not necessarily being anti-ZANUPF? I do not know. Time will tell. My thoughts, as I end this article, are with the millions of Zimbabweans who remain trapped inside Zimbabwe with little or no prospect of meaningful economic opportunities and who are unable to live normal lives in the way that citizens in functional countries do. My thoughts are also with those citizens who spent years bootlicking and hero-worshipping politicians, unknowingly aiding this process and helping to create the very circumstances in which they now find themselves: unemployed, economically excluded and without hope for a better future. And my thoughts are especially with those who cannot leave. As the Jamaican reggae artist Buju Banton poignantly said in his song Untold Stories: โ€œThose who can run, run away, but what about those who canโ€™t? They will have to stay.โ€ That, perhaps, is the greatest tragedy of Zimbabwe: those with the means often leave, while the poorest and most vulnerable are left behind to endure the consequences of political failure, economic collapse and broken leadership. Their suffering should never be forgotten.

Hopewell Chinโ€™ono

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