Tushar Gupta
@Tushar15_
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Tracking Economy, Politics, Technology and Infrastructure. Pro-Capitalism. Usually on @timesnow; bylines on @swarajyamag, @DDNewslive, @eOrganiser
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Joined February 2017
š§µSome Thoughts On June 4 And Beyond;. I was in two minds when it came to penning down my thoughts on Twitter about June 4 and beyond. What finally moved me was a video that I came across today, shared by one of the most influential voices on Twitter. Gandhian spine, they say.
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Rohit Sharma's captaincy makes Virat Kohli look like a legend and MSD like a God.
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SC will never tell Mohd Zubair to apologise to the entire country for his Hinduphobic tweets.
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If cricket can move on without Sachin Tendulkar, it can easily move on without Dhoni as well.
Dhoni may not need IPL. But IPL sure needs Dhoni .#IPLRetentions.
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Only in India are people dumb enough to feel happy over an Indian company losing out a foreign contract to China. These dumb people are a liability we carry as an aspirational nation, and not surprisingly, most of these illiterates happen to be Congress voters.
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Clever game of India Today. When Congress was winning, Rahul Gandhi's photo was on. Now that they are losing, it's Kharge's photo alongside the Congress tally.
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Says the man who took 8 years to complete his PhD and that too in a subject that is totally unrelated to the work he does.
"A person cannnot drive a car after 70 than how can a PM run a Country after 70". - Kanhaiya Kumar š„
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Shane Warne had nightmares about Sachin Tendulkar. Virat Kohli has nightmares about Ajaz Patel and Mitchell Santner. Virat is not Sachin. Not even 10% of him in Test Cricket.
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The man admits receiving Rs. 2 Crore to make certain tweets that will flame communal sentiments, but the apex court wants to recognise his right to free speech.
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The voters made him lose his deposit, dodo.
Powerful voices like Prakash Raj deserve to be the Parliament š„ . Who all agree?
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The anger against Aamir Khan is permanent. Irreversible damage. Rightfully so.
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Funny, everyone asks what a young man or woman will do after exiting the Agnipath programme after 4 years, at the age of 21-25, but no one asks what a failed UPSC aspirant will do after spending 6-7 years in their 20s, studying in Mukherjee Nagar.
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The most underrated tech device you can buy for Rs. 3000. So, last Sunday, I gave my car to service, forgetting to remove the tracker, a small coin-shaped device, that I keep in the vehicle because I live in Delhi (chances of theft, being towed away, etc.).
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Don't be happy because the BJP won Haryana. Be happy because an emerging economic powerhouse has been saved from a fiscal mess that would have been inevitable under Congress.
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First day for Bhagwant Mann as the Chief Minister of Punjab.
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An educated and independent woman finds empowerment in free ticket. š.
Hereās my zero fare ticket in the free bus service launched for women in Karnataka by the Congress Government .#Shakthi
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Good to see Congress MPs bringing along a copy of the Constitution to offer an apology for the Emergency that was imposed five decades ago.
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May 13- 'Internal Party Matter'. May 17- 'BJP has done this'. This is how AAP fools everyone, and the fools get fooled.
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Parties opposing Central Vista are now upset that they are not being invited to the unveiling of the National Emblem on the new Parliament building.
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Random Stat: Yuvraj Singhās Test career was cut short because he was averaging 33.92 after 62 innings. However, KL Rahul, who averages 33.57 after 101 innings continues to get the benefit of doubt. Any reason why?.
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The BJP has the patience to listen to Rahul Gandhi. The Congress has no patience to listen to PM Modi. Should tell you who is scared in reality.
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Father: Safe passage for the CEO of an American company that commits a crime in Bhopal and kills thousands of Indians. Son: Wants the chairperson of an Indian company 'accused' in America to be jailed because the FBI can't be wrong.
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FAKE NEWS ALERT: . RBI is not considering charges on UPI transactions, nor any such thing is in the works. A paper was circulated last week which elaborated on changes in payment systems, and a question on this was MERELY ASKED for public feedback. No policy change on the cards.
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Remember the time when Mamata Banerjee was asked a tough question on women's safety, and instead of addressing the young girl's fears, she labelled her as a Maoist and stormed out of the show?. Do you recognise the future TMC Rajya Sabha MP here?
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Thank you, Congress. This is all the evidence required to know it's a paid hit-job by the Hindenburg report. BTW, it took almost a week for the Congress to speak up for Hindus in Bangladesh, but less than an hour to speak up for Hindenburg. Quite interesting.
Here is our statement on the latest Hindenberg revelations. Quis Custodiet Ipsos.Custodies
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Imagine if a Jain student walked into a school and demanded that the biology lab must be shut down because it was against his religious teachings to hurt any organism, even single-celled? What if they asked the subject to be removed?. That case would never make it to the SC even.
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Zubair ran an incomplete debate that featured Nupur Sharma's remarks, not the provocation, not the insult from the other side, and today, because of that incitement, a tailor in Udaipur was beheaded by two proud Muslim men who further claimed they'd do the same to PM Modi.
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Coming Soon From Punjab: AAP will splurge, thanks to their freebie suicidal economics, state fiscal will suffer, Mann and Kejriwal will then attempt to convince the Sikhs that the Centre doesn't want a Sikh-state to have any money, and then, questions over Centre-State relations.
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Please. You were mocking the security breach in Varanasi when a show was thrown on the PMās cavalcade. You should be the last to talk.
I am deeply concerned by the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump. Such acts must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Wishing him a swift and complete recovery.
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In no universe should @vivekagnihotri and @AnupamPKher be guilt-trapped about the commercial numbers their movie is registering, day after day, and hopefully week after week. I wish it does not stop at Rs. 125 Crore, or Rs. 150 Crore, or Rs. 200 Crore even.
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Because you donāt read a newspaper. He has Z+ security since 2023, and since 2013 had Z security. And before you start crying over the cost, please note that the cost of this arrangement is borne by the family. Donāt be proud about your ignorance.
āI never knew that being the richest man in the country is an official position that allows the use of a red and blue beacon on private vehicles.ā š¤
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Bloomberg says Adani's share price fall is worse than the Evergrande crisis. What Bloomberg won't tell you is that Adani just made pre-payments for loans worth $1.1 billion while Evergrande was defaulting on its debt in 2021. Again, not sentimental, but the attack is obvious.
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BJP, with an 18% vote share in Punjab, is considered a massive failure. Congress, with a 21% vote share nationally, is considered a grand success. All about perspectives. In the end, the winner matters. Everything else is noise.
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Won't be surprised if Ratna Pathak Shah declares Taliban as a testament to modern society.
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The audacity.
āWhy donāt we have a full time railway minister?ā Asks TMC @SaketGokhale .
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Here's one way to better UPSC. Dilute the perks. No residence bigger than 2BHK for the first 10 years of service. Not more than one domestic help. No study tours or subsidy on anything, even unofficial trips. Nothing except a driver and car. Many will chicken out from the exam.
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The audacity of Rohit Sharma to give a Ted talk after getting 31 runs in 5 innings, and leading India to 0-3 defeat against New Zealand at home.
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After Priyanka Gandhi's speech, there are now 241 BJP MPs in the Lok Sabha.
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Modi moved the entire welfare and banking model online, with zero middlemen and zero leakages, and today, some kids here are asking what Modi did to reduce redundancy in governance. Trump is doing now what Modi has been doing since 2014.
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Poor woman and her fraternity doesnāt understand a simple thing. Ram Mandir was a battle that went on for 500 years and the victory attained is irreversible. We have the Ram Mandir, and the government. You, meanwhile, are left with the poor jokes.
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Syria now. Romania yesterday. Bangladesh a few days ago. Of course, our nation is far more stronger than all of them put together, but had Haryana and Maharashtra results gone the other way, imagine the misadventures deep state would have undertaken in India.
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Not elected, but sworn in. Impeccable choice of words.
Congratulations to @CMShehbaz on being sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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TMC Rajya Sabha MP does not know that TMC was a part of the coalition led by the BJP in 1999. It happens when you do not earn your ticket but buy it.
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I'm not sure why channels are saying that 'Olympians' are joining the Congress. Last I checked, Vinesh Phogat does not have a single Olympic medal.
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Nupur Sharma responds to a provocation and errs in the heat of the moment and we have the SC lambasting her, refusing to entertain her plea. Zubair fellow runs an entire troll army, admits to taking money for making tweets that flame violence and the SC sets him free.
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Punjabās river water? Please tell me more about the glaciers in Ludhiana and Gurdaspur?.
If you steal Punjabās river water from the most productive agricultural land in the world, you can water trees in a desert. This is obscene.
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What is the value of your vote?. 20 seats here and there, and Mamata Banerjee could have been your Home Minister.
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Mark my words. Now that a Nobel Prize winner in economics is at the helm of affairs in Bangladesh, youāll soon witness food shortages, high inflation, supply chain crisis, industry moving out, and an irreversible recession in the country resulting in more protests.
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I made the first visit to Haryana after the election results in the state, and had the opportunity to interact with a lot of people (in the age group of 35 and above), and here's what they told me about BJP's third-consecutive victory over the Congress.
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@HindenburgRes Summing it up for y'all: They want you to believe a story they are selling on the Indian stock market, push the sentiment towards negativity, have retail investors lose money, and attack the Indian growth story. In their own conclusion, they are not being confident.
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A woman finding pride in a free bus ticket calls a self-made entrepreneur and national award-winning actor clown. The irony.
The amount of stuff this clown knows about Rahul Gandhi, his family and India-can comfortably fill the back of a postal stamp.
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NATO hua maddham, Ukraine jalne laga?.
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So much for Freedom of Speech and Expression. I wrote about buying a 'ticket'. She assumed I said 'Rajya Sabha ticket'. Laughable.
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Mukesh Ambani paid $2.7 billion for IPL streaming rights. Now, he's planning to broadcast it for free. Dope.
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So, a lady was academically sound enough to pursue MBA in finance from London School of Economics, engineering from Mumbai University, and worked with Siemens and Google, and yet she chose to believe in the AAP, so much that she gave up her entire career for it. What brain fade!.
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Then why did you get angry when the producers of ā3 Idiotsā did not give you credit for your story and tweaked it as per their will.
Itās a show. Itās a movie. Get over it.
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One would hope that an IIT graduation, UPSC training, and endless money from the Ford Foundation would instil enough manners in a Chief Minister to know how to sit in a meeting with the Prime Minister of a country.
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For the ones born after 2000s, donāt take the Modiās governmentās great record on internal security for granted. You have no clue what we lived through in the 2000s and I hope you never have to live through that kind of a phase again.
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SP MP ends his oath with Jai Bhim, Jai Samajwad: No Problem!. BJP MP ends his oath with Jai Hindurashtra: Rahul Gandhi's Congress protests. Priorities are clear. Divide Hindus and rule.
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Imagine walking for 3,500 kilometers, only to see your entire effort be rendered useless by 3 announcements in two minutes by the Finance Minister.
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Fun Fact: Sachin's last Ranji match was in 2013. Virat's was in 2012.
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Rajdeep Sardesai, in his book, calls 240 seats for the BJP Amit Shahās biggest failure. By his logic, Shah, in his biggest failure, is far more successful than Congress (from Rajiv to Rahul) across the laat 40 years. š.
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Thatās why I donāt take artists seriously. Too emotional. Too delusional.
Vinesh Phogat for PM.
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About Muslim PM, why is it only about one minority when it comes to such discussions? Why not a Jain, Buddhist, Parsi, Christian, or even a Sikh PM again? Why is every minority privilege reserved for one community alone? Let's talk about potential PMs from other communities too?.
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The arrest comes after the investigation, dodo.
ADANI is not INDIA. Arrest - Investigate - Prosecute!.
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Talking of offending Hindu sentiments, Rajkumar Hirani is as guilty as Aamir Khan. One believes that the audiences will also factor that in when Hirani's next movie comes out, with Shah Rukh Khan.
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When the TMC Rajya Sabha MP was reminded that TMC was a part of the Vajpayee-led coalition, a series of assumptions followed, ending with a legal threat.
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This fellow is such a hypocrite. He has been against the liberalisation of the agricultural sector since 2020 but will hail the 1991 LPG reforms because it fits his agenda.
Our generation has a lot more to thank Dr Singh for. We are the children of liberalisation- we benefited tremendously. Hereās hoping that the next generation has a MMS to save them
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As someone who grew up in a Jain family, has a Jain mother, was raised around other Jain families, and had the fortune to regularly interact with Jain Monks (Swetambar), I urge you all to not take this lady seriously on the Hindu-Jain divide. No difference. None existed. None.
Hello Ankit .You are not a Jain, stop masquerading as a Jain. There's nothing called as Hindu Jain. You need to be educated about Jainism . If you had any grey cells you would see what's happening in Girnar. This isn't something new, it's happened multiple times across India.
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An incorrect notion being peddled is that @NupurSharmaBJP mocked the sentiments of a minority group. That's incorrect. She merely asked 'WHAT IF' the other group was mocked as well, as Hindus are day and night for leisure. She asked a question and made no offensive declaration.
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It starts with 'Muslim area' and then ends up as 'Pakistan'.
Iāve seen the footage from #Leicester where about 200 supporters of Hindutva took out a rally shouting Jai Shri Ram in a Muslim area. Let me just say to all my fellow Indians, Hindutva has deeply broken our country. Please do not export these divisions worldwide.
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Samit Patra had a slip of the tongue. Some journalists have had a slip of credibility for decades now. There are a lot of differences. Sit down.
Lord Jagannath is a ābhaktā of PM Modi: BJP leader Sambit Patra. Later clarifies it was āslip of tongueā. But today outside Kashi Vishwanath temple, an old lady called Mr Modi an āavatar of Godā! Net net: too much bhakti/devotion is injurious to health of devotee, nation (and.
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Why is Rahul Gandhi calling 'Bharat' or 'India' as the Indian Union? We are not the European Union, and states are not sovereigns here, so what exactly is Rahul Gandhi trying to imply? The LoP can't be allowed a free hand like thisāparliamentary and political scrutiny needed.
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Personally, for me, 26/11 was a point of no-return with Pakistan. Forget peace accord, I'd rather have the population fighting amongst themselves for the last available grain.
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Will @sardesairajdeep accept that he should have done a basic smell test before alleging a controversy around EVMs?
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RSS is in Wayanad, Kerala. Two-time MP Rahul Gandhi isnāt.
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Hate to say this, but it's precisely people like this young man here who do not deserve to have a government job, for they are only looking for job comfort and security that comes without accountability. This is what qualifies as a liability on the country.
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BBC is just the start. Indians should brace themselves for more crap from western media as the 2024 elections draw near. Can think of the usual suspects already (NYT, WaPo, Economist). Can guess the usual rhetoric already (anti-minority, inequality, Hindutva bla bla).
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Akhilesh Yadav, one of the biggest advocates of caste census, is asking Anurag Thakur how he can ask Rahul Gandhi's caste. Irony on steroids.
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Sir, control. The internet never forgets.
They freeze our accounts. They arrest @HemantSorenJMM. They arrest Arvind Kejriwal. All this only shows how scared is the emperor. INDIA will still not get destabilised.
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Quite rich of Raghav Chadha to speak on taxes. Man shows a meagre income in his election affidavit but goes to London for months for an eye surgery and has Wimbledon on his schedule, while Delhi remains utterly mismanaged under his partyās rule.
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Punjabis cannot say that they have been let down by everyone so they'll vote AAP because Modi tried to usher them into the new age of agriculture, and then some of them were on the roads, mindlessly protesting, inviting an ecological disaster, while Punjabi NRIs cheered them on.
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Rohan Joshi is a reminder of why we must be thankful that All India Bakchod is dead. š¤£.
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Unpopular opinion: Nuclear Hindu families are not in the best interests of Hindus.
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We had similar clowns during the License Raj days. Enjoy your poverty while you remain intoxicated in Chinese-sponsored righteousness.
WE DID IT!!! ADIOS ADANI!.
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By that measure, Mukesh Ambani qualifies for a Bharat Ratna. The Centre must acknowledge the role of Jio in ushering the success of UPI and being an enabler for digitisation of the economy. Can the government do it?.
Big Breaking: India honours Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella & Google's Sundar Pichai with Padma Bhushan.
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Very very important point made by the Prime Minister, which is often overlooked in academic discussions. The country did not have an ELECTED Government between 1947 and 1952.
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Now that you have unblocked me for this tweet, please do specify where did I mention 'Rajya Sabha ticket'? :).
āBuyā a Rajya Sabha ticket? Please prove it here with evidence . Else @Tushar15_ you are liable for defamation immediately . Cc @derekobrienmp.
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@sardesairajdeep One of the flaws of our democracy is that journalists who peddle fake news from ground zero of a protest (like saying a farmer has been shot dead in Delhi) continue as 9 PM anchors with zero accountability and credibility.
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@MamataOfficial Very smart, but obvious. Trying to paint a generic picture in order to take attention away from the state.
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Not worried about KL Rahul. Heāll strike gold against Netherlands.
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If you can tweet, you can also use the GPS.
After the medical examination, Zubair is being taken to an undisclosed location. Neither Zubairās lawyers or I are being told where. We are in the police van with him. No police person is wearing any name tag.
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Mind-boggling Modi Government. Fiscal deficit of 4.4%. Effective Capex of Rs. 15 Lakh Crore. Nil Tax upto Rs. 12 Lakh. No mindless sops.
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š§µ about Leicester and Hinduphobia at large; . A few days back, after the episode in Leicester, I sat down for a virtual conference with a few young Hindus, including a few of those who were born and raised in the same neighbourhoods where Hindus were threatened by a fanatic mob.
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Same person. Now that the police is from a state that has his spouse as the Rajya Sabha MP, notice the change in tone.
Another āpeacefulā protest of so-called āstudentsā turns violent and guess who suffers the most? The Kolkata police caught in what is becoming a political slugfest with less and less connection to a genuine fight for justice for the rape and murder victim. Ordinary honest cops
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People have forgotten that the upper limit for income tax exemption was Rs. 2.2 Lakh in 2013-14 and it is 7 Lakh today. You really think Congressā freebies obsession would have allowed the necessary room for this increase in the upper limit? Whatās the whining for?.
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Clowns posting an image from 10 years ago to defame Swachh Bharat Mission.
Maturity is realizing that Swacch Bharat wasnāt about cleanliness, but a new way to tax people.
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She predicted that our vaccination drive will fail. 5 months after her tweet, we hit a billion doses.
Sad but true . there many today hoping that Vinesh fails on the semi final mat . and these 'many' are Indians.
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Open challenge to @tehseenp. Explain how the Congress will give Rs. 10 Lakh Crore each year (just MSP crops), or Rs. 40 Lakh Crore (universal MSP), when the budget expenditure is Rs. 45 Lakh Crore. Where will the money come from?.
It's a good move by the Congress to give the promise of LEGAL STATUS of MSP to every farmer on crops as per Swaminathan Commission. 15 crore farmer families will prosper by ensuring this Guarantee!.#BharatJodoNyayYatra.
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