Petition on Vote Polled data to ECI
जानिए क्या हुआ जब Civil Society Members पहुंचे EC HQ votes polled data के petition के साथ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uUhDaEo6JU May 15, 2024 Transparency activist Anjali Bharadwaj, Shabnam Hashmi and other ci vil society members Ashok Sharma and Amrita went to the Election Commission of India's Headquater office to meet the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) with the signed petition of 4000 people demanding absolute numbers of votes polled data.
The CEC could not meet them because he was busy with the other officials but the delegation of civil society members managed to submit a copy of the petition with the EC with the hope that the CEC will look into the matter an release the absolute numbers of votes polled data.
in Bombay, a joint letter petition endorsed by several civil society organisations and citizens to hold the Election Commission of India (ECI) accountable for its inaction against violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and laws during the Lok Sabha elections 2024, was submitted to Mr. S. Chockalingam. The letter petition raised critical issues on the delay in releasing the voter turnout data in numbers, the discrepancies in the 2019 voter data, failure to combat hate speech during elections, failure to take action against surrogate ads, failure to stop campaign violations, the need to take equal and impartial action against violating political parties and the withdrawal and threats to candidates, which are going unchecked.
On the issue of hate speech during election campaigning, he said that at least in his jurisdiction they are taking violations seriously and have already filed 280 FIRs, of which 211 are on MCC violations. On being asked on what punitive action is being taken against candidates to ensure that they do not repeat the violations by restricting them from campaigning, he said that such action is in the domain of the ECI.
The delegation also pointed out that citizen’s rights were being clamped down under the guise of MCC, for instance when meetings are organised to ask people to vote, people have been detained by the police for violation of MCC. Expressing surprise at this, the CEO said that citizens must inform him of any such incidents and assured the delegations that citizens would not face harassment for fulfilling their constitutional duties.
On Saturday, a joint complaint was submitted through the offices of the Chief Electoral Officers in different cities like Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Hyderabad and others, and a letter was also submitted to the office of the Chief Election Commissioner in Delhi. This collective of organisations and concerned citizens also undertook a postcard campaign in which hundreds of postcards were sent to ECI, Delhi from various cities containing the image of a spine - thereby demanding the Election Commission to ‘Grow A Spine or Resign’.
The Alternatives view of the State of the Promise!!
‘Nyay Patra’ vs ‘Modi ki Guarantee’: Free citizens or wards of the state? https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/nyay-patra-modi-ki-guarantee-congress-bjp-manifesto-comparison/article68101333.ece
The Congress and BJP manifestos are unflatteringly similar, but with one crucial difference: the empowerment of citizens. Apr 26, 2024 ASHISH KOTHARI
Ashish Kothari highlights the Alternatives View of the Manifestos.
Both manifestos are silent on some crucial actions that could lead India to achieve the goals of justice, equality, and sustainability.
Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977
Authoritarianism crushes the spirit. Majoritarianism poisons the mind and the heart. Their rise must be stopped.
Will these ongoing elections reverse the trend? Most pollsters seem to think so. They believe that Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party are almost certain to win a third successive majority. What happens then? A commentator I otherwise respect, Parakala Prabhakar, has been quoted as saying that if Modi and the BJP win a third term, “there won’t be any more elections in the country”.
The absolute silencing of a democratic Opposition, that Mrs Gandhi and the Congress were able to achieve between 1975 and 1977, will be far harder for Modi and the BJP to accomplish now even if they fulfil their fantasy of winning 370 seats in the Lok Sabha. There will still be popularly elected governments in place in large states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Telangana and so on
In the ten years that Narendra Modi has been in power, religious minorities, and particularly Muslims, have been pushed ever further to the margins of Indian politics. They face endemic discrimination in everyday life, on the street, in the marketplace, in schools, hospitals, and offices. BJP MPs and ministers mock and taunt Indian Muslims on a regular basis, their message amplified on WhatsApp and YouTube by their supporters. Textbooks are rewritten to indoctrinate schoolchildren with hostility towards fellow citizens who are not Hindus.
21/04/2024
PM Says "Congress To Distribute Assets Among Infiltrators"
https://youtu.be/7LWA-rP5TKw?t=1579 PM Says PM Says "Congress To Distribute Assets Among Infiltrators" This 'urban Naxal' mindset, mothers and sisters, they will not even leave your 'mangalsutra'. They can go to that level... The Congress manifesto says they will calculate the gold with mothers and sisters, get information about it, and then distribute that property. They will distribute it to whom - Manmohan Singh's government had said Muslims have the first right on the country's assets," PM Modi said at the rally on Sunday.
Huge Row After PM Says "Congress To Distribute Assets Among Infiltrators" https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/lok-sabha-elections-2024-pm-narendra-modi-invokes-manmohan-singhs-muslim-remark-to-jab-congress-party-rebuts-5492647
Lok Sabha elections 2024: "Manmohan Singh's government had said Muslims have the first right on the country's assets," April 22, 2024 https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/lok-sabha-elections-2024-pm-narendra-modi-invokes-manmohan-singhs-muslim-remark-to-jab-congress-party-rebuts-5492647 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, reacting to PM Modi's attack on Dr Singh, in a post on the microblogging website X said the Prime Minister now wants to divert the attention of the public from issues.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, who is also a part of the Opposition bloc INDIA, criticised PM Modi over the speech. "Not only the country but the whole world also knows Prime Minister Narendra Modi lies, the way how he spread lies about the Congress's 'Nyay Patra' and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is an example of dirty politics."
Slamming the Prime Minister for his remarks, AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi posted on X, "Modi today called Muslims infiltrators and people with many children. Since 2002 till this day, the only Modi guarantee has been to abuse Muslims and get votes. If one is talking about the country's wealth, one should know that under Modi's rule the first right to India's wealth has been of his wealthy friends. 1% of Indians own 40% of the country's wealth. Common Hindus are made to fear Muslims while their wealth is being used to enrich others."
Petition to the Election Commission of India to take strict action on hate speech of Narendra Mod: .. This speech violates the model code of conduct set by the ECI. It distorts the facts which are already available in the public domain posing a serious challenge to all the initiatives taken by the ECI to prevent fake news and fact check all forms of communication. By targeting Muslims using a pejorative language to seek votes, it seriously undermines India's stature as the ‘Mother of Democracy’ in the world. ..The ECI's failure to take any action against such hate speech will only undermine its credibility and autonomy that has been safeguarded and upheld by a series of exemplary officers before you.
Congress Calls Out Modi For ‘Hate Speech’, Provides Fact-Check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dx7NPJl6Bk HW News English Apr 22, 2024
Supriya Shrinate ने PM Modi को 'मंगलसूत्र' वाले बयान पर किया पलटवार, जमकर सुनाया https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ru8eT_KbP4 Apr 22, 2024
ADR Letter to ECI:
Transformational Solidarity: A Dalit Feminist Viewpoint
Transformational Solidarity: A Dalit Feminist Viewpoint Priyanka Samy https://thewire.in/caste/transformational-solidarity-a-dalit-feminist-viewpoint We live in times where struggles for social justice and equity converge, revealing inherent similarities between issues.... we must transition from our binary understanding of systems and power. This mandates the social justice movement to rise to a new level of consciousness and action. It is an urgent call – to move from performative politics to progressive politics, from tokenistic solidarities towards transformational solidarities.
Transformational solidarity goes beyond the superficial allyship often displayed by those who remain ensnared in the webs of white and Brahminical supremacy. It demands of us a deep, introspective commitment to understanding the diverse ways in which people are systematically oppressed.
Recalibrating our politics to embody transformational solidarity is not a one-time action but a continuous process of unlearning, learning, strategising and re-strategising. Moreover, as the civil society space is increasingly shrinking across the globe, the time for surface-level solidarities has long passed.
INDIA bloc rally vs Modi’s ‘war’ on corruption: What made the front pages of newspapers?
INDIA bloc rally vs Modi’s ‘war’ on corruption: What made the front pages of newspapers?
The rally in Delhi was ‘in effect the first public meeting of the 10-month-old INDIA bloc’ https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/04/01/india-bloc-rally-vs-modis-war-on-corruption-what-made-the-front-pages-of-newspapers
The Indian Express in Delhi had the event on page 1, with the top headline declaring the opposition “rings alarm on free and fair polls”. On the side was a report on Prime Minister Narendra Modi making a speech at an event in Meerut, where he “launched a no-holds-barred attack on the Opposition saying its leaders were trying to ‘save the corrupt’ at a time when he was waging war against corruption”.
The Hindu in Delhi also devoted the top half of page 1 to the Delhi rally, saying this was “in effect the first public meeting of the 10-month-old INDIA bloc, which has been hit by desertions and conflicts over seat-sharing arrangements”. A snippet on the page noted that the BJP claimed the rally “failed to make a mark...with citizens of Delhi rejecting the rally calls of AAP and Congress”.
Hindustan Times had two stories sharing space on its front page in Delhi. The first was on the INDIA rally, the second was Modi’s promise that “action on corruption” will continue. The prime minister had been speaking at the Potato Research Institute in Meerut.
The Times of India in Delhi followed the same approach, placing the two stories side by side. It had Modi claiming “this war on graft…has put biggies in jail” while Rahul Gandhi said Modi was engaging in electoral “match-fixing along with three-four billionaires to snatch Constitution from poor”
The Telegraph in Kolkata which said the rally “tried to make most of the public sympathy generated by the rash of arrests of Opposition leaders. The story shared space with a rally held by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Dhubulia in Sunday, where she threw her weight behind Mahua Moitra. Banerjee “held aloft…Moitra’s hand” and “urged people to re-elect her to register their protest against her expulsion from Parliament”.
Ladakh Solidarity- PUCL-NAPM-VS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx-zYD4hZus
Ladakh Solidarity- PUCL-NAPM-VS
webinar on Ladakh: https://www.youtube.com/live/xx-zYD4hZus?si=aGj7bkd-m9616g4_
Ashish Kothsri hISTORICAL Context https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=441 end=861 Land issue.. for tourist, miining, Vision from outside... - commwercial industrial profit making, security zone, religious, the narrative itself.. Ecological crisis in terms of water, people from outside ladakh are also dependent on this as a source of water.. https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=861
https://youtu.be/xx-zYD4hZus?t=921 Kavita welcome Sonam...
Sonam Wangchuk,
Hum Tumare Saath Hai, Sonam Wanchuk
NAPM supports the democratic demands and people’s movement for Constitutional Safeguards in Ladakh!
Government of India must decide and act promptly on the fast by Sonam Wangchuk and thousands of citizens of Ladakh!
23 rd March, 2024: Today is the 18th day of his 21 days of fasting, and along with him,hundreds of people of Ladakh are also observing relay-fast for the movement. The demand of the movement is to achieve decentralized democracy and via that actual, sustainable, environment-friendly development! From the Constitutional perspective, the demand to recognize Ladakh as a State and include it in the Sixth Schedule are very important and necessary. We, the National Alliance of
People’s Movements (NAPM), fully support this demand, rooted in justice. In addition, other demands that need attention are that of one Member of Parliament each from Leh and Kargil and formulation of Public Service Commission for the employment of local youth.
SKM out-rightly rejects the proposal by the Union Ministers at Chandigarh to have a five years contract with farmers to procure 5 crops
19-2-24 SKM Out-rightly Rejects the Union Ministers Proposal on Crop Diversification and Procurement for 5 Years as Diverting and Diluting the Focal Demands of Farmers. Nothing Below MSP@C2+50% with Guaranteed Procurement Acceptable to Farmers. SKM Rejects Proposal of Ordinance on A2+FL+50%- Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/samyukta-kisan-morcha-rejects-centre-msp-proposal-crops-punjab-9169610/
The "Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change": MLK day
On this 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it would be pertinent to recall what he said about a nonviolent campaign.
The "Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change" is based on Dr. King’s nonviolent campaigns and teaching which emphasize love in action.
1. INFORMATION GATHERING: To understand and articulate an issue, problem, or injustice facing a person, community, or institution, you must do research. You must investigate and gather all vital information from all sides of the argument or issue to increase your understanding of the problem. You must become an expert on your opponent’s position.
2. EDUCATION: It is essential to inform others, including your opposition, about your issue. This minimizes misunderstandings and gains you support and sympathy. You can write articles for newspapers and magazines. You can hold seminars, and workshops and build coalitions on the issue. You can write statements for pastors, priests, and rabbis to include in their sermons.
3. PERSONAL COMMITMENT: Daily check and affirm your faith in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence. Eliminate hidden motives and prepare yourself to accept suffering, if necessary, in your work for justice.
4. NEGOTIATIONS: Using grace, humor, and intelligence, confront the other party with a list of injustices and a plan for addressing and resolving these injustices. Look for what is positive in every action and statement the opposition makes. Do not seek to humiliate the opponent, but call forth the good in the opponent. Look for ways in which the opponent can also win.
5. DIRECT ACTION: These are actions taken to get the opponent to work with you in resolving the injustices. Direct action imposes a “creative tension” into the conflict. There are over 250 different direct action tactics, including boycotts, marches, rallies, rent strikes, work slowdowns, letter-writing and petition campaigns, bank-ins, property occupancy, financial withdrawal, and political denial through the ballot. Direct action is most effective when it illustrates the injustice it seeks to correct.
6. RECONCILIATION: Nonviolence seeks friendship and understanding with the opponent. Nonviolence is directed against evil systems, forces, oppressive policies, and evil and unjust acts, not against persons. Reconciliation includes the opponent being able to “save face”. Through reasoned compromise, both sides resolve the injustice with a plan of action. Each act of reconciliation is one step closer to the “Beloved Community.” Not only are individuals empowered, but so is the entire community. With that comes a new struggle for justice and a new beginning. Post by S. P. Udayakumaran Green Tamilnadu Party Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, January 15, 2024, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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