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FCRA amendment bill is one of the reasons why people are opposing the BJP government, this is a narrative being given now. While this might be the case, the politicians in this country are just the same using the student's issues to propagate their own needs. Bringing down Modi from the PM post has been their objective since a long time. If the FCRA amendment is passed, a lot of anti-social and anti-national stuff that gets funded by it will be stopped.
It is a bit of a stretch to say that illicit actors funding illegal operations or terrorism use official, heavily scrutinized banking channels like the FCRA. They use hawala or other means to carry out those activities, while these non-profits declare every dollar they receive and spend.
From what I understand, CJP is a student movement, and AAP and Congress are jumping into it for political leverage.
CJP isn't student movement, major faces of CJP has AAP background. For first 20 days there wasn't any crowd at jantar mantar even on weekends, it was usual crowd for shopping etc. but day before monsoon session crowd came out of nowhere and it wasn't organic at all. I also didn't see much NSUI leadership but AAP student wing and usual suspects from JNU were there from day one.
I am just saying that the union government did not sack a cabinet minister over an inorganic, manufactured protest. It is true that the person who created the meme after a judge referred to students as 'cockroaches' has an AAP affiliation, but the vast majority who joined them do not have any affiliation with AAP.
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@eaLiTy it started as a student-led protest, but it was never. Please check on this guy, Abijit Charlie. He is an ex-AAP IT cell member, and he does not have a degree from Boston in the US. He is a Dalit, and he is the ideal candidate that AAP wanted to project for their demonstration against the BJP under the disguise of solving the NEET paper leak.
I saw the exact same argument from the RSS IT cell regarding his degree. The fact is that he graduated from Boston University's College of Communication with a Master’s degree in Public Relations. Anyone can verify this by checking the university's official records.
BTW.. India now has facial and social media recognition software, which was revealed in this protest. The hidden fact now is that India, as a democracy, has infrastructure that is far better than China. Nothing wrong in what the government is doing, as this is quite common in the USA, which is known as the second-best democracy after India.
It is actually a violation of privacy and not a sign of superior democratic infrastructure; targeting people with facial recognition is a severe legal overreach. I am pretty sure it will be challenged in court.
We have seen this in Hong Kong, where the government targets protesters, freezes their bank accounts, and creates other hurdles. I am expecting the same here in the future.
If they could have deployed that same basic technology to secure the physical paper chains of national examinations, it would have been great.
My political insights are not that good, so sharing my view as an average citizen who got nothing to do with Neet or other policies regarding the exams. After the protest getting the traction on social media the mister is regisned which is kind of victry but this doesn't solve the problem of paper leak, we need to restructure the exam models to mitigate the human intervention so there won't be any need of banning telegram or keeping the students from their religious beliefs.
As per the suggestions that arose during the strike, it was proposed to move the exam completely online, implement independent, third-party audits, and create an autonomous judicial commission to oversee paper distribution, completely separate from the Ministry of Education. Whether any of these will be implemented is yet to be seen.
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Peaceful protest was a good way to show the government what we are capable of but there are several other problems with the government.
Should we apply the same approach for every problem we face because of the government ? For example: forcing people to use E20 petrol ?
A government should not force citizens to use fuel that causes engine damage. It should be questioned without a doubt. Not all vehicle engines are compatible with this change, and you can ask any mechanic regarding the damage it will cause. It will be a bloody expensive repair, and anyone who uses a petrol car knows that.
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BJP's IT cell is the worst if I compare it with others and the biggest mistake they make is not explaining anything about their policies before implementing them. I also did not get the point why the education minister was asked to put down his papers. Did the 56-inch bow down to the pressure of AAP and INC? What is going through the minds of Modi and Shah? I have never seen them bow down from 2014 onwards so easily.
The fact is that Modi and Shah have always done business using strategic surprise to prevent any opposition before implementation. How many historic precedents do you need to understand their playbook? Demonetisation, GST implementation, and Article 370 are just a few examples to easily understand their strategy.
The BJP as a party spends over ₹3,335 crore on election propaganda and political publicity in a single fiscal year. Of this amount, over ₹2,257 crore went directly into advertisements, social media campaigns, and digital publicity, and you still think they have the worst IT cell ?
According to Meta and Google Ads Transparency data, the BJP regularly spends over ₹40 crore on localized digital ads in just a few weeks, dwarfing the entire national digital ad presence of the Congress.
These are public documents available for everyone to verify.
On top of that, they have all the mainstream channels providing the narrative the government wants the public to know.
