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Man!
#BJP
is having a field day with this video, but to be honest it goes to show what a great guy
@RahulGandhi
actually is! Behaved with so much decency and niceness!
If this was Modi ji he’d have pushed the translator off stage and suspended the state committee by now!
Everyone telling you you're not middle class because earning 10-15 Lakh in India means you in the top 5% is wrong. You're most definitely middle class!
Even earning 30 Lakhs, you're middle class!
The middle class isn't economically in the middle. That's a misconception. 🧵
Hilarious video of this angry
#Patna
uncle shows one thing: Modi supporters today defend him because they hate Muslims. That’s it.
There’s no development talk. Bas Hindu-Muslim, Hindustan-Pakistan pe dukaan chalni hai. 😞
I have filed a complaint with the Election Commission against Smt. Smriti Irani for violation of the Model Code of Conduct for posting a maliciously edited 6 second clip of
@RahulGandhi
and using it to claim that he is a terrorist sympathizer. 1/3
Real respect for
@RahulGandhi
and
@INCIndia
for putting in the parts on defamation, AFSPA, sedition in there even when they obviously knew
#BJP
will try to shut them up by calling them anti-national!
Today is a happy day where our politicians have stood for what’s right!
Today we released
#CongressManifesto2019
, through which resonates the voice of thousands of Indians we spoke to, as a part of our exhaustive consultative process.
This manifesto lists our commitments to the people of India.
You can read it over here:
This man is the top spokesperson of
#BJP
. He has been behaving like this for months now and channels still invite him and the party loves him. It is up to us, the people, to let the country know that this behaviour is NOT acceptable!
Public appeal to everyone: (Please Read)
Can’t believe we all didn’t question this nonsense in 2014! These tweets from the 2014 elections sound so unbelievable stupid in retrospect! 🙈
200 crores, India has 6 Lakh villages! That’s 1200 Lakh Crores!!
This time I’m comparing 3.6 Lakh crore to the budget for NYAY!!
Communist, Capitalist, Right Wing, Left Wing, Urban Naxal, Nationalist... it's all a distraction. When you evaluate a party, the only relevant metric is what they do on actual issues. Are they working to help strengthen systems or are they weakening them. My take on
@ndtv
.
Have any of you read Swami Vivekananda’s writings? High chance he’d be attacked in the India of today. These political opportunists are destroying Hinduism!
Kya kaat rahe hain!
Credit guarantee scheme already exists for collateral-free loans up to 1 crore - announced in 2018. But NO bank will sanction!
Start up fund of Rs. 10,000 crore already created but amount remains unspent! Ab 20,000 crore unspent rahega.
#BJPJumlaManifesto
THIS IS HUGE!
BJP will launch a scheme to provide collateral-free credit up to Rs 50 lakh for entrepreneurs
BJP will also institute a Seed Start Up fund of Rs 20000 cr!
Bengaluru being the start up capital of India will benefit hugely from these schemes.
#BJPSankalpPatr2019
Kattar Modi supporter breaks down after getting stuck in the PMC Bank Scam. Video is just depressing.
We all need to realise that the economy must be examined rationally, beyond political preferences! And there is a problem, don’t wait for it to hurt you! Demand answers!!
Dear
@RahulGandhi
and
@INCIndia
please at least file a defamation case against Amit Shah and Arnab Goswami for lying to the country about your Manifesto promises in an attempt to shore up religious tension!!
They’ve filed cases for a lot less with zero evidence! Step it up!!
The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
There's the poor and below middle class - defined by a social profile of having to do labour to live, and struggling for the basics.
Unbelievable. Banned for 30 days for quoting a book.
@facebook
really should be ashamed!
In a world where these digital platforms are so powerful, real laws are needed to ensure such arbitrary things don’t happen! The platforms actually influence elections!
Today,
@Facebook
banned my account for 30 days.
What a coincidence that elections are 30 days away also and what a coincidence that my engagement rates are one of the biggest in India, competing with BJP’s top propganda pages, including Modi’s official page.
Nothing wrong in investing in a meat company, but being a hypocrite about it like
@TVMohandasPai
is, that’s definitely wrong! Takedown by
@bainjal
is totally deserved and much appreciated.
This funder of fake news is the worst kind of opportunist human being there is!
Aww so cute are you denying liar that you run a meat company & disowning fake news site OpIndia. Pointless engaging with a hypocritical joke like you. A fraud on an epic scale
Whatever your opinions on the government, PM Modi did raise a lot of pertinent points in his speech today. These measures need to happen:
1. Conserve Water
2. Protect Green Cover
3. Population Control
4. Pay Taxes
5. Stop Bribing
6. Don't hate. Love.
Best example of how this Government fooled the voters - The MUDRA Fraud:
From the Bandhan Bank Investor's Call:
Analyst - Sir, Mudra Loan website shows that 45% of your loans are Mudra Loans. Can you please confirm this?
CEO- We don't give any loans as Mudra loans...
Person claims
@free_thinker
has manufactured fake news just for
@AltNews
to correct it - because he hasn’t seen it before.
I tell him article states exactly which FB pages posted it.
Person replies he won’t read Pratik Sinha’s article! Don’t know, don’t wanna know - Modi, Modi!
Gazab desh hai mera! Some people can’t even register an FIR for serious cases like rape and murder, while others walk into a police station and file an FIR about a tweet like they’re getting an award, with a social media worthy picture and everything...
Funniest thing online!
@surjitbhalla
talking about Minimum Income Guarantee... Says Modi ji promised UBI to farmers already, when anchor fact checks him, says he read it on WhatsApp!!
Desh ke economist bhi WhatsApp forwards se gyan le rahe hain!!
They struggle every month to make sure bills are paid. And they don't even think of sending their kids to expensive schools. Of course no big vacations. No eating in Khan Market / CP type restaurants. They drink nothing over Blenders Pride.
Above this is the middle class...
Shameful undoubtedly. The way
#BJP
is trying headlines management in Patna too is just shocking and extremely disappointing. The country is corrupted to the core! :/
Two leading media panna pramukhs were the ones leading the spin that
@RahulGandhi
had “apologised” to Modi in the SC! The woman “journo” took dictation from a Bjp lawyer. Pretty shameful
Can the AG file a case against
@TimesNow
too while he’s at the supreme court?
They’re basically confessing to accessing “Secret” report!
Or does that argument only apply to
#RafaelScam
?
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#AirStrikeProof
It can afford private school for the kids, a private health insurance, has a car, has a rented 2-3 BHK or a 20 year home loan. It can go to restaurants, is the consumer of almost all Indian startups. This comprises ~ 10 Crore people.
Income can be even 40-50 Lakhs, still middle class! Because it's a social class. It's not just income.
50 LPA pay (not nonsensical CTC) means you can earn 3 Lakhs/Month. In a Metro city, if you have a family, your cost of living is 1 - 1.5 Lakh. Rent, kids fees, car, food...
What a guy!
@RajThackeray
gets an entire family on stage used in BJP propaganda of poverty reduction!
They have zero good things to say on how Modi ji reduced their poverty! Image used without them even knowing about it!!
Looking at exit polls and realised something crazy.
@republic
has two separate polls.
Republic -
@CvoterIndia
poll shows Congress winning everywhere.
Republic -
@jankibaat1
shows BJP winning everywhere.
Basically no matter what the result, Arnab will claim to be right! 😂
Lose your job and can't find another one fast enough? Your expenses and EMIs can and will strangle you.
This is the middle class! The class that can drink Black Label and Glenfiddich, looks rich. Is rich! But constantly saving for goals and aspirations that seem one step away.
And they complain because they fear the high taxes will keep them middle class forever! Or at least an extra 10 years!
Tax plays a HUGE role in this group's transition to rich. As the govt tries to collect more tax, it's entirely likely this class can't transition.
This is more than Alok Verma,
#CBI
or Modi! The message that this move sends to all serving bureaucrats - toe our line or we’ll ruin your lives - is an extremely dangerous one! This is how nations are ruined.
Not only is a personal and unsubstantiated attack against (1) General Conduct, Point (2) of MCC, but a 6 second clipping taken out of context can also be deemed to be spreading fake news. Calling an opposition leader a terrorist sympathiser is also harassment and hate speech. 2/3
So at most, you're saving 1.5 Lakhs a month. Huge amount! It's 18L per year.
Now you think of buying a house in the city. A 3 BHK flat for the family. Guess what, it'll take you 10 years of ALL your savings in the outskirts of a metro. I'm talking Navi Mumbai and Greater Noida!
Lets see how serious the election commission is about preventing the spread of such malicious content on social media. Will they act even when the offender is a Union Minister? 3/3
@SpokespersonECI
@publicpvt
@RahulGandhi
Lol! Amit Shah had a translation disaster way worse and he was rude as hell to the translator. Look it up.
Also it isn’t stupidity. Its language barrier and cultural differences. I would much rather support a nice guy than a PR machine built on lies!
So yes, the well earning complaining about high taxes are indeed middle class! They might become rich after saving and accumulating assets over the next 20 years, but today and for the foreseeable future - they very much are middle class.
Modi ji says there is no black money in India. We did demonetisation! Would love to see the RTGS transfers for the buying of MLAs!
Rate comparisons might drive some MLAs mad though... or is it a fixed price system and everyone gets the same?
Big Breaking news on
@CNNnews18
Kannada channel
BJP is spending 1000 crore on
#OperationKamala
to buy 15-20 MLAs 😲
Horse Trading expert Yeddyurappa is trying continuously trying to lure MLAs from other parties by offering money. Where is he getting money from?
#ShameOnYeddy
A ministry official, however, has clarified that Gadkari has only reiterated what he has been saying in the past. “He is talking about diverting India’s share of Indus water which was going to Pakistan – and he has always been saying this,” the official said.
For this class, if your kids do well in life, they'll be rich. Starting out with a paid for house and other assets!
You can be first generation rich, but it's extremely unlikely to happen as a salaried employee in anything less than 20 years.
Sir what does this mean? If Modi ji hadn’t told you, you wouldn’t even have voted!?
Forget democratic rights and constitution, only follow the orders of the Supreme Leader?
Dear
@narendramodi
, I have used my democratic right to participate in this festival of democracy. You had appealed to us
#VoteKar
. we have done just that.
To buy within the city - forget it. And if you find an area you can afford, please don't buy there! There will be no car parking, cramped lanes, constant fight with neighbors - it'll be illegally constructed, badly maintained, with constant water and parking problems!
To all those who think the
#BJP
is going to fight on development, look at the cover picture of the largest BJP page on Facebook! Prepare for polarisation, stay safe everyone!
1. Please stop watching all channels that invite him and state so publicly on social media.
2. Stop buying products that advertise on these channels - tag those products on FB and Twtr - let them know you won't buy their things because they advertise such channels.
All savings going towards owning a dream house 30 km away from the city center, and while you're paying this EMI, your kid is big enough for college!
Either he gets into a government college, or you just committed a few more years of savings. A health emergency - you're screwed.
Extremely popular MLA Ratan Lal Nath joins
@BJP4India
from
@INCIndia
in
#Tripura
. Praises the corruption free government under PM Shri
@narendramodi
and pledges to oust the violent CPIM regime from power.
BJP-JD(U) have been ruling Bihar for 13 years and Sushil Modi is questioning Rabdi Devi over the death of over 100 children in Muzaffarpur. These people are shameless!?
How can a country vote for such people?
Simple answer - branding! They’re outspending all parties and spending crores from taxpayer money to advertise.
They also have a nice story - Modi can’t be corrupt because he has no family. What a joke. How’s the
#BJP
getting it’s election funds? How’d it pay for party offices?
I disagreed with most of Ram Guha’s political and economic analysis but since I am not a leftist I do not revile people I disagree with. I would have liked to hear him explain why Modi remains popular if he has failed so abysmally.
@bainjal
Even worse, many are telecasting Jaitley verbatim even though he’s WRONG! Most UK M.Phils don’t require a masters!
No journalist questioned him, and most using his statement as headline without a fact check. Media is now just a medium for
#BJP
netas to disseminate fake news!
#BJP
WhatsApp groups have gone insane since
@INCIndia
won the 3 states. Fake news flooding since then on how foreign entities love Modi and Indian voters are idiots. “Modi ji we don’t deserve you”, “You are PM of wrong country”, “India don’t deserve you”... ye hai Bhakti!
3. To my friends in the media: stop inviting him, and stop going to all TV debates with him.
We must take a stand. Mere criticism on social media hasn't worked in months - we must punish these channels financially to ensure they stop inviting him.
Added appeal to
@RahulGandhi
and
@INCIndia
: Please stop sending your spokespersons to debate with this man. It isn't a debate if one person's sole agenda is to polarize along religious lines and insult people, no matter what the issue is.
Absolutely game changer announcement by
@INCIndia
President
@RahulGandhi
. Minimum Income Guarantee of Rs. 12,000 per month. Support for up to Rs. 72k/year for India's poor to get the income of India's 20% poorest households to a minimum of 12k! This is HUGE!
#RahulForBehtarBharat
@chhuti_is
Same income can do it, but you need assets.
At least a paid for good house in the city and enough savings to pay for kids education, marriage and your own retirement. A that stage, you're affluent.
Once you have passive income producing assets > comfortable expense... rich!
This is how a democracy is supposed to be! My way or highway is how it’s done in a dictatorship, really not the model our political parties should be adopting. I’m impressed with the honesty of
@RahulGandhi
’s answer.
My Q to
@RahulGandhi
: Your view on Sabrimala? Women being stopped from going there?
Rahul answers: My personal opinion is women should not be stopped from going anywhere. My party in Kerala has another view. So my opinion is different from my Party on this issue
What is common between Rahul Gandhi and Pakistan?
Their love for terrorists.
Please note Rahul ji’s reverence for terrorist Masood Azhar - a testimony to
#RahulLovesTerrorists
They’re using CRPF for raids. BJP CM of Arunachal’s official car was caught carrying cash, but it was the Youth Congress that had to do the job of catching it!
The way BJP has just destroyed the independence and credibility of every organisation is mind boggling!
Pradeep Kumar, CRPF Official: Madhya Pradesh Police aren't letting us work, they're hurling abuses at us. We're only following orders of our seniors. Seniors have asked us to not let anybody in. Proceedings are on, that’s why we're not letting anybody in; only performing our duty
Minister
@rsprasad
asks
@RahulGandhi
about wealth increase from 55 Lakh in 2004 to 9 crore in 2019. Meanwhile Chowkidar
@smritiirani
’s wealth increased 3200% in that period, 52 Lakhs in 2004 to 16.2 crores in 2017.
Modi ji ke mantri parishad ke hypocrisy ki koi seema nahin!
ONGC ke director ho bhai! Apni maa ko toh gas cylinder dilwa dete, warna UJJWALA ka cylinder le lete!
Why do all these
#BJP
people keep their own families so horribly even when they’re getting huge government salaries!!
यह मेरा अपना परिवार है, माँ ने खाना बनाकर खिलाया। मैंने अपने हाथों से इन्हें खाना खिलाया और मैं यह मानता हूँ कि इनकी सेवा ही ईश्वर की सबसे बड़ी पूजा है। [2/2]
@BJP4India
#PhirEkBaarModiSarkar
Classification by the government without the knowledge of the Bank and the customer. Learn marketing from Modi ji. This government is truly a branding and PR machine.
Yes, because Prime Minister wants people who clap and shout ‘Modi, Modi’ even at stupid decisions!
Support nahin kiya toh naya label. Wah, what an idea!!
I'm convinced we as a nation don't want the truth or care about what's going on in Kashmir. The entire population could be massacred and we'd celebrate it across the country as a massive success and lesson to Muslims that India won't tolerate them anymore.
A very exciting discussion airing on
@ndtv
tonight at 7:30 PM.
@mehartweets
,
@Memeghnad
,
@gunjakapoor
and I discuss what the youth of the nation thinks about PM Modi’s latest interview.
Always a fun experience to be on panels anchored by
@JohnnyAmitoj
!
This is a new low for
#BJP
. All arguments of these being fringe elements now gone.
You’re being warned, BJP’s strategy for 2019 is polarisation and riots.
Hindus will be in danger once the party incites riots and be forced to vote BJP even if they’re unhappy with governance!
How shit of a person do you have to be to celebrate a monk getting beaten up by goons? Doesn’t matter what his views were and if you agree with them, if you celebrate this instead of condemning it you should be ashamed to call yourself a Hindu, an Indian and even a human being!
“The
@BJP4India
does not agree with the insensitive comments [Mumbai bridge collapse] made by
@Sanju_Verma_
.She is not an official party spokesperson”. Don’t worry am sure
@jpmorgan
will soon put a statement confirming you worked for them as “Associate Director”.
Totally agreed. Important to note though, data suggests a much bigger brainwasher is
@ZeeNews
.
Reaches a hell of a lot more people and spews the same kind of nonsense as
@TimesNow
and
@republic
.
I have refused to appear on
@TimesNow
because of the partisan agenda they peddle am disgusted with several senior journalists who are condemning the attack on
@UmarKhalidJNU
but happily appear on hate mongering channels
Entire
@RJDforIndia
family stands with
@ShatruganSinha
ji and forces Amit Shah to change his tone.
His tweet after the
#BihariAukat
statement and Shatrughan ji’s response to it clearly shows the power of Mahagathbandhan unity! The arrogance desolved and he became humble!
भाजपा नेताओं को बिहारियों की "औकात" का पता नहीं! बिहारियों ने बार बार पूरे भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप को जीत कर वर्तमान भारत से बड़े भूभाग पर शासन किया है! आगे भी ऐसा दोहराने की ताकत रखते हैं!
हम बिहारियों को किसी बाहरी के इशारों पर चलने और डरने की आदत नहीं!
Lets learn from the world and not let such technologies come to India in the first place!
Privacy is important, and it is a cornerstone of liberty and freedom!
CEO - No. Since we don't give Mudra Loans.
So, ladies and gentlemen, that is what Mudra Loans are. A rebranding of normal loans! And then the government further perpetuates this nonsense to say that they're creating new small jobs using this loan data!!
Tag TV channels and advertisers in this thread, or tweet about it from your accounts separately. They must know that we won't accept this nonsense anymore. Even tag news anchors who invite this person to let them know they'll lose viewership if they continue to invite him.
The only positive to come out of this government and Modi ji’s incessant lying is that now I try to fact check everything I read or hear! Sadly that’s the only way to live in the age of WhatsApp forwards ka gyan filling up people’s brains!
Wow! Fake news is so prevalent now that the
@gulf_news
editor has to tweet out an
@AltNews
story telling people that the stories about them calling Rahul Gandhi “Pappu” are fake news!
Sadly
#BJP
WhatsApp groups will not get the message.
No media, no right to information and no transparency! Welcome to New India where the government can do anything it wants and somebody gonna get a hurt real bad if there’s criticism!
Two years ago when
#Demonetization
happened I was working for
#BJP
. I still wrote about how it was meaningless if politician funding wasn’t addressed. As long as elections cost so, there will be corruption. The amount BJP spends on elections is not through Modi ji’s salary.
1/3
Use fake news and cut up video clips to defame any political opponent, typical of power and money hungry fools.
Didn’t comment on ideology because people like this have none. They don’t represent “right wing” or “Hindutva”. They’re just shameless self promoters.
What is this kind of language?
#BJP
leaders saying
@AmitShah
is coming to
#Patna
to show Bihari Babu his “Aukat”. One questions DNA, the other raises aukat. Their disdain for Biharis is obvious, but they’ll experience
#BihariAukat
on 23 May!!
ये सुन कर बहुत दुःख हुआ कि भाजपा की भाषा की महा गिरावट बिहार तक आखिर पहुँच ही गयी है। कहा जा रहा है की अमित शाह पटना में रोड शो के ज़रिए हमें "औक़ात" दिखाने आ रहे हैं। मैं जो भी हूँ, पटना और बिहार की जनता के प्यार और आशीर्वाद के बदौलत हूँ।
ये One Man Show और Two Men Army के....
Watched this reportage from
@TV9Bharatvarsh
and it breaks my heart! The government is clearly responsible for the Death of 90 children in Muzaffarpur, Bihar!
How is the opposition not out on the streets!? Who will hold the government accountable for these deaths!?
Shri
@ShatruganSinha
ji launched the NYAY campaign in the Patna Sahib Lok Sabha in front of a very excited set of Mahagathbandhan karyakartas! Door to door campaign starting to explain exactly what the
@INCIndia
Manifesto entails!
This is the level that propaganda and brainwashing has gotten to. People will believe anything they want to, even when the proof is right in front of them.
They’ll blatantly deny to even look at the proof that proves them wrong. Welcome to New India!!
The Yen carry trade unravelling is some scary stuff. It's a cycle that might be very hard to contain, and a TINY .25% hike in interest rates in Japan is taking down many markets. I explored why and finally got it. And it's quite something!🧵
Quoted by
@ariathak
in
@qzindia
on why the strategy of PM Modi following
seemingly random supporters is an effective one, and why I feel
@RahulGandhi
and
@INCIndia
SM team should sometimes retweet supporters. It's a huge morale boost! 1/2
Look at the track record of BJP -
1. Rapist Unnao MLA is still in party
2. BJP minister who offered ₹10 Cr to behead Deepika Padukone on live TV is still in party
3. Mining Mafia of Karnataka Reddys still in party
So, did you really expect
#MJAkbar
to resign?
बोहोत आसान है "presstitute" बुला देना। बोहोत कठिन है पढ़ना और दुनिया को समझना। और फिर भी आदर्शों के साथ काम करते रहना।
@ravishndtv
जी और
@sardesairajdeep
जी के बारे में तो हम व्यक्तिगत जानते हैं की उनकी सही नियत और पत्रकारिता दोनो आज के समय में लुप्त होते जा रही है...
Why does
@narendramodi
keep repeating “kya kaaran hai LED bulb
@INCIndia
ke time mein Rs. 350-400 ke daam pe bikta tha, aaj uska daam Rs. 50 ho gaya hai”...
Does the PM not know that new technology usually gets cheaper with time or does he think voters are idiots?
Very balanced and well thought out letter on
#Kashmir
and
#Article370
by Dr. Karan Singh - a Congress leader and son of J&K's last ruler.
Addresses both BJP and INC, but more importantly - shows a degree of nuance that's completely lost in our political discussions nowadays!
If you think politics is done with only official pages and groups you’re the exact kind of person who’ll be emotionally manipulated by WhatsApp forwards and fake news!