Article 19 of the Constitution of India

Article 19 guarantees six fundamental freedoms to all citizens of India:
Freedom of speech and expression [Article 19(1)(a)]: The right to express thoughts and opinions through speech, writing, printing, or pictures.
Peaceful assembly [Article 19(1)(b)]: The right to assemble peaceably and without arms.
Forming associations or unions [Article 19(1)(c)]: The right to form associations, unions, or co-operative societies.
Free movement [Article 19(1)(d)]: The right to move freely throughout the territory of India.
Residence and settlement [Article 19(1)(e)]: The right to reside and settle in any part of India.
Profession or occupation [Article 19(1)(g)]: The right to practice any profession or carry on any occupation, trade, or business.

During cjp's protest, we have seen large scale violence by delhi police officers. They have crossed all the boundaries.

On 10 oct, they put some protesters in a police van, and travelled throughout Delhi for 1 hr. After an hour, they got off the students at a remote location, where they snatched the Mobile phones from all the students, aligned them in a line on their knees, switched off all the lights, and didn't allow lawyers to enter it.

Some police personnel sexually assaulted girls and many more.

We need urgent reforms like-:

1. No illegal detention.

2. Right to consult with lawyer immediately.

3. No force against peaceful protesters.

4. No journalist should be detained.

5. No police personnel without name plate & police uniform.

6. Zero tolerance policy against the police personnel, who breach any of these rules.

7. Police's operational independence from govt.

8. No support to any gunda.

9. No personal comment should be made by any police personnel.

According to India's census data, the Hindu share of the population declined from 84.1% in 1951 to 79.8% in 2011, while the Muslim share increased from 9.8% to 14.2%.

These figures made me wonder how Indians feel about this demographic change.

• Do you think this trend is something Indians should be concerned about, or is it a natural result of differences in fertility rates and socioeconomic factors?
• How would you feel if Hindus eventually became a minority in India? Would it matter to you, and if so, why?
• Do you think the average Indian actually cares about these demographic changes, or are they mainly discussed in political and social media debates?
• Should religious population proportions matter in a secular country, or should the focus be entirely on equal rights, social harmony, and economic development?

I'm interested in hearing honest opinions from Indians of different religious backgrounds and political viewpoints. I'm looking for thoughtful discussion rather than arguments or religious hatred.

This helpless man folding his hands is IIT Bombay director.

Just imagine the director of the premium Engineering institute is listening to a goon who even refuses to greet him.

The man interrogating him is Dr sonpimple . A well known Dalit rights activist and he is here for the case of Salil Wakhode

eally the moment these freeloader goons knocked on the door of India’s premiere institution, the admin should have called the highest level police ranking officer. A whole squad of capable law officers should have arrived and ruthlessly kicked them out.

should be the deterrent for a Viksit Bharat. Protect the brightest at any cost.

Instead, they choose to allow this bcoz of the elect

Forget becoming a developed nation; we will be worse than Somalia in a few decades. Just wait & watch!

Source: https://x.com/reuters/status/2110743767313469615?s=46

If you don’t know economics much, this is a bad news.

Source: https://x.com/romita_tiwari/status/2110746075317547134?s=46

Punjab government really said "trust me bro" and expected us to believe it. AAP came in 2022 screaming drug-free in 6 months. Kejriwal said 3-4 months on TV. Mann said by next Independence Day. Then Dec 31 2024. Then May 31 2025. Every deadline passed like my ex's promises. now Amit Shah says 2029 if BJP wins. bro the only thing mukt here is accountability.

meanwhile ground reality is straight out of a horror film. journalist went to Bathinda, found dudes casually melting heroin on a public bench. ₹2,000 for a tiny bit. user said he does it twice daily and pays for it by paddling. ₹4,000 daily profit from selling to 15-17 people. one guy said he's been using since 2009, has murder and NDPS cases, and police just take money and let him go.

the prices are insane. ₹1,400 per gram wholesale, sold retail at ₹3,500-4,000. one woman, 24, graduate, was introduced by her own husband on her birthday. she was spending ₹8,000 DAILY that 2 lakh 40 thousand a month. had to do sex work to fund it. her 3 year old son told people "my mummy does chitta." she said 90% hope is gone.

a village called Bheedtalab has 70% drug users. 50 deaths in 5 months. parents are handing their own kids to police because they can't control them. people are selling their homes, lands, everything. 12 year olds are injecting heroin. penis injections because veins are blocked. napunsak ho rahe hai. this isn't a crisis anymore, it's a slow-motion genocide and the state is watching.

and the government's big plan? arrests. FIRs. bulldozers. Mann's "Yudh Nashian Virudh" had 591 days and 61,000+ FIRs and 81,000+ arrests. cool story. Supreme Court literally said Punjab Police is arresting small peddlers "for publicity" while big fish swim free. NCB says supply just shifted from border heroin to pharma opioids. de-addiction centres have 39.8% dropout, reports of torture, forced sleeping on floors, untrained staff. one PIL says buprenorphine rules were relaxed so any 100 sq ft room can become a drug pipeline.

the activist Parvinder Singh Jhota got shot dead on video by a licensed chemist because he dared to complain. black flag waved at CM = police torture. this is the "new normal" apparently.

and the kicker? the guy who said "sarkar hi bechti hai" was literally showing police stamps on the packets. police, army, high society, women, children, everyone is buying. 50% from Delhi via Dwarka and Nangloi, 50% from Firozpur. the supply chain is not some foreign conspiracy, it's right here, and it's protected.

Punjab was the golden sparrow. now it's a zombie apocalypse with ₹8,000 a day price tags. and the government is out here doing photo ops and deadline announcements.shame..

Also to anyone who is getting persuaded by to get these substances .... someone said ...

"he was living horribly, he took IT, his problems are now gone or maybe not..🥀🥀🥀"

Peace ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️

I say this as someone with a family which has been largely pro BJP - so many of the criticisms I see online of the BJP I have also been surprised to hear from my own family.

• Getting too comfortable - not addressing issues clearly. Basically the same lack of accountability so many are upset about.
• The bizarre recent calls like adding a cockroach effigy to Ram Leela - even my grandmother who is the most ardent BJP supporter said it was stupid.
• The Modi ego-stroking - renaming an airport in his name, other things they've noticed - they say even though it's done by other party politicians, they expect someone to tell Modi it's not a good look and speak against it.

So basically these are some general frustrations against BJP from people who vote for them.

A sensible opposition would realize they need to simply capitalize on this anti-incumbency by pitching themselves as a balanced option which aims to "continue" development while removing these problems.

But the approach the opposition for some reason has taken is vilifying BJP to the point they claim the country has been destroyed, creating a pointless anti "Hindutva" narrative which attacks people's faith, and letting leaders like Neha Bora who by most standards have fringe extremist views which quickly rule them out as candidates.

No matter what Congress's agenda, if a person who openly quotes Bangladesh as inspiration and hails Umar Khalid as a hero is someone you make the face of your movement, you will never get mass support.

Similarly - if the congress has an issue with RSS-Bajrang Dal type goons, make a clear distinction between them and regular Hindus. Don't post images of someone wearing bhagwa with a tika and call him an "andhbhakt". It's really strange to me why they would do such things.

And finally - it shouldn't hurt the opposition to accept the good work that has happened in the country under BJP. A campaign of "they have done some good but have got too comfortable and progress has stalled" is better than pretending people are idiots and can't see the development that has happened since 2014.

To me it feels like Congress has completely given up on BJP's middle class north indian Hindu vote base and decided to completely alienate it by going in the opposite direction. Maybe their political strategists think unifying the Muslim and marginalized community vote will be enough, but it hasn't proven to be in the past elections, many of the marginalized communities themselves identify as Hindu and won't take kindly to their religion being mocked, and a lot of the people who were actually willing to be open to a sensible opposition's pitch are only further turned away.

We have seen a lot of polarization when it comes to the constitution. One group quickly dismisses the ideals of the constitution as something imported from the west. To them, the ideals of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality are foreign concepts and are undesirable. On the other hand, another group dismisses any connection between the constitution and the Indian knowledge system such as the Upanishads and assesses the constitutional ideals as desirable but entirely a product of modern discourse.

In this discussion, Prof. Trilochan Sastry (Founding member of the non-profit Association for Democratic Reforms) interviews Acharya Prashant which is especially relevant according to me in the wake of the ongoing debates around democracy. Acharya Prashant argues that not only are the ideals of the Indian constitution universal but also that they have roots in the philosophical principles in the Upanishads. It examines Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's interpretation of equality through Vedantic principles, drawing on his careful study of the religious corpus of Hinduism.

Finally, Prof. Sastry and Acharya Prashant talk about the limits of the rules in sustaining a democracy. In a democracy, education becomes necessary where the voter is not only aware of the outer conditions but also of their own inner condition. The discussion also explains how the state apparatus remains vulnerable to abuse as those who build the rules also know the way to circumvent the rules for personal gains.

If you have seen this talk, I look forward to hearing what you think.

I always knew this was about a bunch of people who've been losing elections left and right looking for new narratives to beat the BJP with and not some real "defence of democracy" but now Prashant Bhushan and Neha Bora(from Congress student wing) are openly praising Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina being forced out in 2024 after student riots and asking for the same kind of "regime change" in India.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/neha-bora-bangladesh-genz-protest-video-bjp-rahul-gandhi-regime-change-3018153-2026-10-15

https://x.com/IndiaToday/status/2110743328140709981

Till now it was supposed to be about SIR except they always knew the only ways to get SIR changed/cancelled and for CEC Gyanesh Kumar to step down is to pass a resolution in Parliament or to wait for the Supreme Court to rule on the petitions. They're doing neither.

Do they really think that without an election, without a mandate, with just 5-10,000 protestors(of which half are party workers not ordinary people), in a country of 1.5 billion, gives them the legitimacy to demand a change of government?

The longer it goes in this direction and the more they attack and abuse not just government and Election Commission but Supreme Court, law and order, rules and democracy itself, the less actual support they're gonna get.

We've seen bigger protests before over the Patidar reservation protests, Maratha quota protests, JNU and Rohit Vermula protests, anti-CAA protests and farmer protests. They all went on for way too long(months or years) and eventually lost people's support and interest. Eventually even media, bots and influencers on internet stopped caring about them. They still protest every now and then but get ignored or treated like a public nuisance.

What exactly is the realistic endgame supposed to be? Any actual workable plan?

In 2024 Lok Sabha elections BJP got 240 seats out of 543 total seats that means less than 40% of the country voted for BJP and and the rest 60% of country voted for other parties and those parties collectively selected 1 Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi. BJP is currently in power but that does not mean saying anything against them makes you against the nation, the Leader of opposition is the voice of half the country and saying his actions are against the nation is just baseless.

In a democracy the ruling party and the opposition work together to make the lives of every citizen of this country better not just those who voted for and agree with BJP.

There has to be an open dialogue between the Leader of opposition and the PM/HM and press conferences so that we know the opinion of the PM on 1000s of our issues.

But instead the ruling party just stays mum on important topics raised by the opposition and just abuse their power to confuse us or talk about the actions of governments decades ago.

Get your basics right the Leader of opposition is not an enemy of the country but rather the voice of half the nation and the PM should face the public regularly.

When a party is not in power, it has no positions in government corporations, MLA or MP seats, various committees, or other lucrative posts to distribute among its party workers. During such difficult times, it becomes challenging for any political party to keep its workers together.

Therefore, raising various issues against the ruling party, putting it in a difficult position, and creating an atmosphere that a change of government is imminent and that they will soon come to power is a natural process in any democratic system. This helps keep party workers motivated and energised.

Look at the allegations made by the Opposition over the last two years. First, they alleged that EVMs were hacked in such a way that pressing any button would cast a vote for the BJP’s lotus symbol. Then came allegations that votes were being secured by distributing money. After that, they claimed there were irregularities in the voter lists. Now, they are alleging that Modi is winning elections because of the SIR process. Through these various allegations, the Opposition is attempting to capture power, first in Uttar Pradesh and then at the national level.

But several questions arise. If someone has hacked the EVMs, why would they need to distribute money? If someone is distributing money, why would they need to manipulate the voter lists? If someone is manipulating the voter lists, how would they identify millions of Opposition voters among the millions of voters in a Lok Sabha constituency?

And if those in power are identifying Opposition voters and removing their names from the voter lists, why would they also need to hack EVMs, engineer defections from other parties, distribute money, and engage in so many other activities? Furthermore, if the ruling party is doing all these things, why would its leaders go through the exhausting exercise of campaigning in every street and neighbourhood across the country?

These are just some of the many questions that arise, and the Opposition needs to provide answers to them.

Prashant Bhushan said the quiet part out loud—it was never about “saving democracy”, it was always regime change.

For weeks, we were told by CJP, self-proclaimed civil rights champions, and the usual Reddit echo chambers that protests against the Election Commission, the SIR voter roll revisions, and democratic institutions were purely about "protecting constitutional rights" and "saving electoral integrity."

Today, senior advocate Prashant Bhushan stepped up to the mic at a national press conference and shattered that entire PR illusion in broad daylight:

"This government keeps on saying this is the opposition's operation of regime change... If such barbarism continues, there will definitely be a regime change. We all want a regime change. Is there anything wrong with that?"

Finally. The mask didn't just slip; it was ripped clean off and tossed aside.

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The game being played - but hey, these are

all organic protests.

Independent Journalists are available for sale!

Charges? ₹12000 to ₹50000 per reel!

It means they are already getting this amount for creating content in support of CJP and Congress!

So how are they paying them? This needs a serious investigation.

He further writes "I’ve been receiving abusive messages and threats since publishing my investigation. After being exposed, this is the kind of language Alka has used in an email to me.

Why does Congress issue media passes to people like her and invite them to its events as journalists? Is this the standard of journalism being encouraged at these events?"