Humbled to be elected to be the Deputy Mayor of Bath. First Non-white and first Indian to have this honour, truly thankful.
My heart is bleeding though with the daily demise of thousands in India because of this deadly virus. May God bless us all.
Absolutely delighted to just receive direct phone call from Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
who asked about my physical & mental health and told me that he raised my 'issue' in the House of Commons. Fantastic. Let truth triumph.
Do not just demand better, DELIVER better, DO it better, DO it Now.
Demand but do NOT victimise others, particularly people from protracted characteristics!
My statement during the full council meeting on Building Communities, Shared Dreams.
Let us:
☝️Treat all persons fairly and with respect
And
☝️Lead by example and act in a way that secures public confidence in the role of councillor. Indep. invstgn
.
Had the pleasure of meeting an old friend
@deepakpurohit
the Sp. Commissioner of
@DelhiPolice
in his impressive new office near Gurudwara Ji. Always great to reconnect and see familiar faces in such distinguished positions. Looking forward to our paths crossing again soon!
Was delighted to meet old friend of 25 years, current Indian High Commissioner to UK
@HCI_London
,
@VDoraiswami
ji and Deputy HC
@sujitjoyghosh
ji in London.
@HCI_London
has re-started issuing E-visa. Do visit a mesmerising country--India, when you can.
Kind regards
People of Bath have decided to give a chance now to us. Both the younger and senior voters are supporting us.
The town and gown are enjoying, smiling, and supporting even during a miserable, inclement weather.
Support genuine hard-working people and candidates on 4th.
Regds
Felt privileged and honoured to sell poppies near the Abbey and participate in the service of remembrance.
Salute to those who sacrificed their today for our tomorrow.
🙏
@veterans4india
@binaymishra1975
@PoppyLegion
Was delighted to be at the Wells cathedral once again representing Bath as DM, and participated in Choral Evensong celebrating 70th anniversary of the accession of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Awesome event.
Glad to note that my Hindi translation of book on life of intellectuals who were persecuted during Cultural revolution is available on Amazon India now. English and Bangla translation in pipeline.
Many thanks to
@bathuniversity
student volunteers and Sydney Buildings residents last afternoon for a massive litter pick up, walk 🚶♀️ and talk at Sydney Buildings, Darlington Place, and Batgwick field.
Pleasure doing gardening
@fosydneygardens
this morning too
#Bathwickfirst
.
It was a pleasure meeting
@RobertBuckland
MP of Swindon and discussing issues of Southwest during the wonderful annointment of
@convergingworld
as High Sheriff of Wiltshire last afternoon.
Honoured to represent Bathwick in d council. Truly humbled & remain indebted. Shall work harder & though I tried 2 meet every resident in the last few months/years, shall be even more visible in the coming few years. Will not accept even a cup of free tea.
Extremely proud of my lad, who has been a former U-100British Chess champion and was selected yesterday for the extremely competitive PROMYS-- Oxford Maths summer camp.
Only 5-6 students get selected for this camp from every European country. Proud Dad.
Was delighted to participate
@HCI_London
Republic Day Reception and meet 老朋友 (old friend--his words),
@VDoraiswami
high commissioner who is extremely fluent Mandrin speaker and a dynamic senior diplomat.
Also privileged to worship at Gurudwara and temple 🛕 in Southall.
"When you call Xi Jinping as 'Eleven (XI) cheengpeeng', misunderstanding will occur." Was delighted to be on
@ndtv
last evening and discuss 🇮🇳🇨🇳 interface.
First line fantastic. Second fill of hatred. Why can't we show respect/dignity in politics? Remember in 1980s
@BJP4India
had 2 seats in India and
@ImranKhanPTI
had 0 in 1990s.
@LibDems
have 0 seats in many town council too.
@labour
and
@Conservatives
have more seats than LD in UK
Survey:
#RishiSunak
's party headed for loss
"Surveys before 6 months of elections mean nothing. We've seen many opinion polls in many countries, they don't reflect the real situation...": Dy chairman Conservative party, Bath-UK,
@YukteshwarKumar
#NationTonight
|
@ShreyaOpines
An absolute delight and privilege to attend the Christmas 🎄party at our Vice Chancellor's place.
Met several residents and had wonderful and thorough discussions on many local and global issues.
Calls for Lib Dem leader to investigate bully, discrimination and racism allegations. They have a pattern of misbehaviour not only in Bath and Bristol. Will
@BathCA
,
@BathLabourParty
@BathNESGreens
also write and raise voice?
Irony! Please watch 4 minutes clip. I am talking about following Nolan's principles but a councillor of
@bathnesld
, unfortunately, complained about this speech. A rubbish claim which was rubbished. They forget tree plantation event & instigating hatred!
Racism, racial abuse and threatening behaviour has no place in our society. Raise awareness about it. Though I myself have been victim on couple of occasions but nothing is going to deter me in making our community more tolerant and peaceful.
"Cleaner Bathwick, Greener Bathwick".
Have been volunteering for many years at various gardens and churchyards but this was phenomenal.
Dozens of pupils from Bathwick St. Martin volunteered. Thanks. More to do.
"Don't only demand better, Do it better".
Hosted an event on behalf of the Mayoralty
@MayorBath
with Bath Alkamaar Twinning Association to celebrate 75th anniversary year of twinning of two cities. Wonderful event, wonderful people.
It was an absolute delight meeting
@NitishKumar
ji and the Rajya Sabha MP
@SanjayJhaBihar
ji recently in London. I found esteemed JNUite
@SanjayJhaBihar
Ji to be exceedingly humble and diligent, responding to my messages promptly and even calling me for some photos.
His
While travelling back from the Parliament in London to Oxford this evening, I did this interview sitting on a coach for the Indian TV when the very sad news was still not announced.
Our deepest Condolences!
#BeyondTheHeadline
| QUEEN ELIZABETH II UNWELL
"The mood is here is very somber. In
#Britain
, support for her and
#Monarchy
overall is huge, people are praying for her good heath," says Dr Yukuteshwar Kumar, Former Deputy Mayor, Bath to
@TamannaInamdar
Lovely Tulips🌷which we with the
@BathwickSt
sowed a few weeks ago, are in full blossom 🌸 now.
Some LD trolls even attacked me for sowing these beautiful flowers.
Karma pays.
I wish everyone a lovely day ahead.
Another superb Kidcal Mass Bath event this evening. Good fun particularly while keeping an eye on Butler's thrash of Aussies in T20.
Make road safer for all.
Many thanks to all the residents, friends, and colleagues including several from
@bathnesld
for your kind messages of support at this difficult and disturbing time. 🙏
Kindest regards
@joel_hirst
@BathCA
2/2 You have time every day to attack people on Twitter, but it has been 2 months since you promised meeting me.
Will be happy to buy lunch or dinner.
There are indeed many, many people who have been discriminated against and bullied by grandees of your party.
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.” .
Thanks
@richardwyatt
May the friendship continue to grow higher than Mt Everest & deeper than the Atlantic ocean.
It was wonderful to join the
@MayorBath
and residents of SBHA and do some litter picking at Bathwick Fields last Saturday. Many thanks to Zuleika Henry for the wonderful photographs.
@joel_hirst
@BathCA
I wish your party could have been sensible enough not to brush bigger matters under the carpet.
By the way, do you yourself remember, you had promised me meeting me on bigger issues "Racial discrimination" many moons ago which you have rubbished even without listening to me?
Many thanks
@UniofBath
student volunteers & some residents for a fantastic litter pick up & walk on North Road.
After Bathwick Hill last month, we collected 3 full bins of litter yesterday.
Cleaner Bathwick. More partnership between town and gown.
Off to
@fosydneygardens
now.
Was delighted to participate in the graduation ceremony yesterday and met the two awardees whom I have sponsored from my councillor allowance.
Wishing everyone and all the graduates all the success and happiness ahead.
Spoke at the
@barc_bath
event last afternoon but so sad to see sickening videos and abuse against three lions
@BukayoSaka87
@MarcusRashford
&
@Sanchooo10
. What they have achieved at 19, 21 & 23 is simply unparallel & we will be always proud of them.
Photos credit:
@jmblgr
-Thanks
Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.– Helen Dyer
1st + 3rd Sunday mornings--Henrietta.
2nd + 4th Sunday--
@fosydneygardens
2nd Saturday-St Mary Churchyard.
Get in touch.
Murder of democracy & freedom of speech in Bath. Article 34 of constitution does NOT asks for submissions of whole speech in advance.
@bathnesld
are completely confused & undemocratic.
If they want to read scripts at meetings, that's fine, why impose on residents?
@bathlive
Think it’s fair you now have to send a fully written 3-minute speech to council before they’ll let you speak at a meeting? If not…
Please sign and share our open letter to
@bathnes
calling on CEO Will Godfrey to urgently remove this unfair barrier
@YukteshwarKumar
@CllrDineRomero
Keep spirit high. When the recording of tree plantation event shall be played in the court where it is clearly heard "it will be embarrassing for me to have your presence", liars will have no place to hide. It will be also case of perjury. Hope
@BathCA
+
@UKLabour
support you.
Wishing everyone a very happy
#DurgaPuja
May the Goddess of strength, valour, and truthfulness continue to shower choicest of blessings on my Twitter friends.
I believe that future of humans, and future of Earth, depends on international cooperation. International cooperation is crucial, particularly 4 Bath and its economy and tourism. Was happy 2 be on CCTV watched by almost a billion, and hold the flag of Bath high, very high. Regds
It was an honor last week to attend the 84th Constitution day & jointly opening the Sacred Gardens at
@FairfieldHouse_
(FH) with Deputy Mayoress and others. His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia stayed at FH *1936-40* & donated it in 1954 to the people of Bath.
Gardening at Henrietta and Community Speedwatch at Sydney Buildings this week/weekend. Wonderful weather.
Wishing a lively and lovely day to everyone.
Best regards.
Excellent beginning of the new year.
Went to 🛕and prayed for prosperity and happiness for everyone.
Volunteered at Henrietta Park.
Read some fantastic articles and then spent some time with family.
May 2023 be more successful than any previous years!
Although I have not started any campaign or petition but after talking with hundreds of residents in Bathwick and meeting some of them, my gut feeling says, North Road Active Travel Scheme is bound to fail, and will not succeed.
Was delighted to attend the AGM of
@fosydneygardens
this morning at the Bowling Club. Have been volunteering and supporting for many years and it was fantastic to meet some friends after a long hiatus.
Great to be back again at Henrietta Park and do a bit of cleaning and meeting loads of wonderful people who put community work above personal paraphernalias.
Vote for visibility.
Support for hard-working candidates.
Support for truthfulness.
Support against bully.
Support who care for Bath and Bathwick.
Support those who come throughout year (s) and not only during the election as a monsoon frog.
Kindest regards
After weeks of persuasion, gullies near Laura place and Sydney Garden/Bathwick street were cleaned and cleared. Many thanks to
@ccbathnes
and in particular to an officer who promptly replied to all the queries and emails. Thanks a ton.
Exactly 20 years ago, I had led a bollywood team of over 55 artists to China and performed in several major cities which was a great hit and was telecast by Chinese TV just before the spring festival. A glimpse. Nostalgic!
Many thanks to
@UniofBath
student, Dan for volunteering at
@BathwickSt
this morning with me.
It's good to be a positive conduit between town and gown. Hope some more volunteers from the Uni will join us in coming weeks.
Absolutely delighted to receive non-resident Indian (NRI) award from the cabinet minister
@RamdasAthawale
Ji and former Chief Justice of India recently in Delhi. Many thanks to
@RamdasAthawale
ji for inviting me to his place and discussing various issues.
After spending last Sunday at Warwick University and meeting brilliant councillors and community leaders, it was a pleasure back to volunteering🙋♂️
@fosydneygardens
on Sunday morning.
Met some fantastic people in the garden, too.
Affectionate regards
@Justin4Bath
@joel_hirst
@Angiemut
@bathnesld
Sure, the local liar, racist, unreliable, untrustworthy
@bathnesld
must be very proud of their bullies, discrimination against former PPC, former Councillor, several former colleagues and me. Sadly a person of consciousness and conscience can never be part of this R lot.
Merry Christmas and happy new year in advance. May all your dreams come true, may the new year bring all kind of success, happiness and joy for you and your family.
Fabulous jubilee weekend. Went to several street parties in Bathwick and beyond. Simply stunning. St. Mary was packed this morning and weather God were very kind throughout.
Good to participate this weekend, Chinese New Year Gala at Uni, and opening of new temple 🛕at Swindon.
Pleasure meeting old friends and volunteers at
@fosydneygardens
and
@BathwickSt
Snowdrops planted by a decreased resident looked so lovely.
It has been an honor and privilege to serve the residents of Bathwick, Bath in 2022.
Wishing everyone
#HappyNewYear
with a commitment to continue to deliver for the residents in the new year.
Pleasure to be part of inauguration of the newly built play area in
@fosydneygardens
Sydney garden which had a total funding of almost £3.4 million (INR 34 Crore). Excellent facilities for kids and residents including Tennins and TT boards. Thanks
@BathwickStMary
pupils.
My comments on the Environment and anthropogenic pollution in Bath in general and specifically in Bathwick Street during the full council meeting on 24 March 2022.
@BANESConCllrs
Thanks. Indeed serious. Will
@BANESConCllrs
@BNESLabourGroup
&
@bathnesld
add pressure and support my demand of free & fair investigation of bullies, manipulative lies, discrimination of more than 3 years? 15 questions and more in the pipeline.
So true. Wolves go in packs and lions go alone. Be a lion 🦁 not a wolf 🐺 Thanks
@suvvz
for posting this inspirational quote on wechat. Loved it. Thank you.
Second Saturday of the month. Back at St Mary Churchyard, sweeping the tomb, making them look more respectable just before festive Christmas.
Wonderful start of the day, miles to go before I 😴.
Regards
Absolutely delighted to note that Henrietta Park of my ward along with other 5 parks in city have retained coveted Green Flag award as a mark of recognition for being among the country’s best parks.
Many congratulations to
@Hen3ryford
@ian_herve
and all the volunteers.
Many thanks to
@bathlive
and
@Bath
Chronicle in in raising awareness about racism, racial attitude and threatening behaviour. Never thought that this will be the front page story and get so much prominence. Over 17,745 downloads and share on social media. Thanks a ton!!
Many thanks to the
@UniofBath
students for volunteering last fortnight with
@fosydneygardens
and today at Henrietta Park with many residents.
Mutual learning and cooperation between the town and the gown.
Thank you!
Affectionate regards
@chappers0106
@townieroy
@bathnesld
@BANESConCllrs
Oh John!
@bathnesld
will call police after 13 months 4 your open statement of "removing rotten eggs". I wrote "eradicate rotten 🍎" in Oct 20 & in Nov 21, they called
@ASPolice
implicating me 4 "death threat".
Some LD are so rotten, so racist, so much bully, can't imagine!!
Many thanks for the honor dear friends of Henrietta Park and
@ian_herve
@Hen3ryford
It was lovely to attend the event. Lovely weather, lovely food, lovely people. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Councillors Rigby and Dr. Kumar unveiling the newly restored sundial in Henrietta Park. Thanks to them and all our Friends. Probably Bath's finest.
@BathnesParks
@bathnes
Happy to note that a commemorative volume on late Prof. Ganguly was released recently in India and was pleased to see my contribution in the volume. Her husband is engaged in several charity works. So proud of them!
Speeding is dangerous. Helping Bath City center PCSO this morning during a week of action, promoting road safety on Bathwick Hill once again. Please DM if you wish to join Bathwick hill community speedwatch.
#NeighbourhoodPolicingWeek
#WeekOfAction