sunderarajan

Jaisa raja, waisi praja. A Prime Minister whose dog-whistle about identifying Muslims by their clothing has contributed to an increasingly hostile and unsafe environment for Muslims in India presides over a governance model characterised by: 1️⃣Widespread violence against Muslim citizens, followed by impunity. At least 54 people were killed in 322 reported hate crimes targeting minorities across India in the first nine months of the year. And we know that only a small fraction of documented hate-related incidents and cases of mob violence result in formal First Information Reports (FIRs), prosecutions or convictions <image 1 attached> 2️⃣The deliberate erasure of Muslim religious sites. The laboratory for this project is, unsurprisingly, the home state of the Prime Minister and his partner-in-crime, the Home Minister. In Gujarat's Gir Somnath district, a pattern of systematic erasure of Islamic shrines is unfolding, with reports describing a 'plan to wipe out dargahs'. Several historic shrines, including the Haji Mangrol Dargah, Pir Silar Shah Dargah, Garib Shah Dargah and Jafar Muzaffar Dargah, have been bulldozed in the district. <image 2 attached> 3️⃣The deliberate erasure of Muslim homes. Governments in BJP-ruled states such as Uttar Pradesh and Assam have institutionalised what has come to be known as Bulldozer Raj, with Muslim homes being demolished, often without due process or meaningful recourse for those affected. Recently, on November 1, the Assam government carried out a series of demolitions in Alamganj, Dhubri. On Nov 8, Himanta Biswa Sarma posted the following on his X account: "Just before Diwali, we undertook this Ghar ki Safai in Lakhimpur." <video attached. Pay particular attention to the insensitive background music> None of this happens in isolation. ❌Modi himself, and other BJP leaders, including Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur, Giriraj Singh, and Nupur Sharma - only to name a few - have repeatedly been associated with hate speech, discriminatory rhetoric or actions targeting Muslims, with NO meaningful accountability. ❌When those at the top act with impunity, the system beneath them works, predictably, to Muslims’ disadvantage. There is little reason to expect a leadership that keeps feeding this hate machine will ever treat Muslims as equal citizens. 🔔That is why it matters who occupies the highest office in the country. India needs a Prime Minister who believes in equal citizenship, irrespective of religion, caste, tribe, gender or economic status. And Modi is not that person.

Well, it couldn't get more blatant than this. 1️⃣The ECI declares election results by counting the votes on EVMs -> Votes Counted. 2️⃣But it also maintains a separate record of the number of people who actually turn up at polling stations to vote — data it does not proactively make public -> Votes Cast. ✅Logically and legally, the two figures should match. ❌Yet tragically, according to the ECI's own internal records, accessed by The Reporters' Collective, the number of votes cast did not match the number of votes counted in 51 constituencies across Maharashtra, Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir. ✅Ideally, under the ECI's rules, such discrepancies should trigger investigations to rule out electoral rigging. ❌But, obviously, no such investigations have been conducted. 🔔And it is precisely for moments like these that the puppet called Gyanesh Gupta has been installed in the CEC's chair by MMS — Mohan, Modi, Shah. The Hon'ble Supreme Court must take suo motu cognisance and seek an explanation from Gyanesh Gupta for yet another instance of his failure to do his job.