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82·2 months agoCockroach campaign in India
Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, is going to government schools in Maharashtra and revealing their poor conditions. In the school in his native village, windows were broken and the toilets did not have running water. After his visit, local officials and villagers found benches and a computer for the school.
He knows how to speak. He said ‘We have made a new Parliament and a new PM house. Why have we not been able to build schools in our villages? Do we not consider the children of farmers and labourers the future of our country?’ Even the main opposition politicians have forgotten to speak like this. Also good that he is going to villages and listening to people. The villages have been ignored under the BJP and still have socialist tendencies.
India protests
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned!
Not Communists, Dalits (lowest castes, used to be called the ‘untouchables’).
In the end it doesn’t matter, but it shows their caste attitude.
Also the Cockroach party asked its supporters not to shout Jai Bhim (a popular Dalit slogan) at rallies.
The Cockroach Party was started by an Indian-American student. I don’t know if it is some CIA group, but it is mostly supported by only the urban middle class youth. They are more active on the internet, so you see them more. But most protestors are students with real issues (low marks will ruin their future). Opposition parties including the left parties are supporting them.
No, the Cockroach Janata Party is a joke party. They get media attention because it’s funny and annoys the government. But the protestors are mainly students whose school board and college entrance marks got affected by the government’s corruption and incompetence. Another group is Sonam Wangchuk and his supporters. They want environmental protections for the Ladakh region. Then many opposition parties are supporting the protest to put pressure on the government.
There are different groups protesting, and I have a feeling that some are trying to take all the credit / put themselves in the centre.
Many groups are protesting in Delhi and other cities. Modi and his friends appointed incompetent people to conduct public examinations. There were many problems, like question papers leaking and answer sheets not scanning correctly. So students and young people are angry. Another protest is about the arrest of Sonam Wangchuk. There is also a new political party called Cockroach Janata Party (“Cockroach People’s Party”, mocking the Bharatiya Janata Party and a comment made by the Supreme Court Chief Justice).
India had one of the hottest and driest summers this year. Now the monsoon is approaching Keralam in southwest India, but it will still take many weeks for it to cover all of the country.
if you’re some guy from India being treated like shit and paid five riyal daily
This is a common mistake in many Western media. Indians go to the gulf (UAE, Qatar, Oman) because the salary and work conditions are better. Conditions are not that good in Saudi and Bahrain, but you still get paid better than here.
After the US attack on the unarmed Iranian ship IRIS Dena, two other Iranian ships have docked at Kochi, India, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. Also 22 sailors from Dena have been released from hospital.
Republic TV journalists, who are public nuisances, tried to photograph the ship in Kochi while it was in a naval base and got arrested by the police.
General strike in India
Farmers, trade unionists and bank employees will go on strike today (Feb 12) to protest the new union Labour Codes, the replacement of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act with the much weaker VB GRAM scheme, and allowing private investment in nuclear energy.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/article70584647.ece
India and the US have agreed to a ‘deal’, but there is confusion about the terms.
US President Donald Trump says India has agreed to stop buying oil from Russia, remove tariffs on US goods, and buy 500 billion dollars worth of goods from the US.
Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says that agriculture and dairy products will be excluded. There are medical concerns over allowing dairy products from the US, as the food given to the cows includes animal parts. Farmers are also opposed.
Both sides agree that the US will reduce tariffs from 50% to 18%.
Indian Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi said that Prime Minister Modi is ‘compromised’ and ‘sold off your labour and blood and sweat’.
either they try to form a Dravidian peoples republic essentially causing a war with the central government
This is a joke. Kerala has no industry and does not grow enough food for itself. Its economy is based on tourism and exporting cash crops (wood, tea, spices, cashews and seafood) and educated people to the rest of India and abroad. (Doctors / nurses being from Kerala is a usual stereotype.)
The only Indian state that has any negotiating power with the union government is Tamil Nadu. This is why Tamil nationalism is a thing. But even they benefit from being part of a large country, so when you talk to people the demand is usually only for more federalism.
In Kerala, and many other Indian states, the tradition is for the ruling party to always lose the election. So the two big blocs - the Communist-led LDF and the Congress-led (social democrats + neoliberals + Muslims) UDF take turns. In 2021, the LDF won re-election because they handled Covid very well.
3·10 months agoDelhi is also in a valley in a range of low hills, so the wind cannot clear the pollution away. (E.g. Mumbai has more industry etc, but has cleaner air.)
So I grew up in a smallish town and then moved to a city (not Delhi) for work. And I was surprised when I first saw the night sky. It was a glowing dark red, not black with stars. And then some days afterwards a colleague from Delhi complimented us on the good air quality, pointing out that we did not wear masks outdoors or have air purifiers at home.
Kerala is a medium-sized state, and its government is led by the Communists, who are nationally in opposition. So this was achieved with very limited resources. But now other states can copy this. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are larger and richer states (still ruled by opposition parties), and currently have subsidised food programmes beyond the national ration system. TN is experimenting with other subsidies and schemes, and is important enough that the national government cannot ignore it.
India: For the last few days, opposition parties were demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. He had illegally changed the rules of the Special Intensive Revision of the voter roll, without consulting the other two Election Commissioners, and even failing to reply to their objections. He is accused of using the SIR to exclude Muslims, backward castes and rural voters who generally vote for opposition parties. Many voters have gone to court, and both the Supreme Court and lower courts have asked the Election Commission to not remove their names.
Yesterday, Jiji Thomson, a former Chief Secretary (the senior most civil servant) of Keralam and Kumar’s friend, said that Kumar had asked him to contest for the BJP.