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(sorry I’m a bit late to this pawry, but this was in my draft and I forgot about it)Bezan Daruwala died last year, a celebrity astrologer. (May he rest in peace.)Renowned astrologer Bejan Daruwalla passes away at 89; Guj CM tweets condolencesAnd I feel like I may have been possessed by his spirit!So,Just like anyone else who holds utter contempt for those supporting farmer’s protests and at the same time keep screaming “environment is in danger!”…I had made this on January 25:A general, “farmers’ protest” supporting, pro-environment, liberal hypocrisy meme:Lets skip our collective boiling rage about events that followed the very next day on January 26. Obviously Greta Thunberg didn’t bother about that, and neither did most of the anti-nationals within our own country.What she did feel most bothered about, was this:We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India.https://t.co/tqvR0oHgo0— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) February 2, 2021Greta Puttar posted her “concern” for so-called “farmers” on 3 February.Okay, time for another meme:After your meme becomes astrological prediction for Liberal StupiditySo far so good.But things become interesting when you take into account the fact a prominent Right Winger had requested my answer to an unusual question, and I obliged:Abhinandan Pandey's answer to If you had to describe your writing style to anyone, how would you do it?That, I had done on 2 February itself — a day before Greta.But there’s more!When Bajpai ji asked my answer, I divided it into 2 partsFirst was how I write on Quora. Subcategorized in another 3 styles. With examples for each based on a single topic: Farmer’s protest. (strange, right?)Second was about how I prefer to write my fiction. Now, here things become really really interesting.The example I gave to better understand my writing style, was lifted from page 2 and 5 of my WIP novel. Lost among the long example was this gem (you can directly skip to section in bold, but I’d urge you to read the whole for better context):“Hafeez, I don’t care whose ass you have to lick, but I want that blog page taken down, at least until,” he turned back to Habib, who looked at his watch and whispered half an hour, keeping his face neutral with an effort, “until half an hour, when our friends at ISI barge the door of that bastard and remind him of national security if he writes one more sentence about his home-town ‘Balakote.’”“DG-ISPR’s tweet is going viral, Mustafa. Of 5.30 AM,” someone from the middle of the row said, he didn’t need to turn back but he did. “7K likes till now,” he added, maybe expecting a praise. Habib pitied him. As expected, Mustafa threw an empty can of Red-Bull at the poor soul, with surprising speed and accuracy. The frightened guy ducked and the can shook the monitor exactly where the back of his head had been.“You damned fool! Only 7K? as in seven? You think that’s a milestone?” he frantically searched for something else on his big table, maybe to hit the guy once again; then abandoned the search of weapon on his own, muttering, ‘You gotta do everything yourself in this town, don’t you? And the ISI calls them ‘experts’. Disgraceful!’Habib sighed, looking up he said, “Careful, Mustafa.”Mustafa, still attacking his keyboard, raised his hands for a fraction before continuing the attack. “I know, I know, damn it! But I did advise them to work on the language on the way here, didn’t I?” Then to the frightened bird at the middle row: “Here, it’s a list of 300 people in Islamabad who’d happily do our work for us for at least 3k more likes. Could you at least mass-retweet it to them? Pretty please? Thank you…you little shit!”Sometime later, Habib got a call, nodded and looked at his phone then showed it to Mustafa, who nodded vigorously back. “Now that’s something I wholly agree with. Pictures speak louder than anything. Shows no damage. Not to people, not to property, only to poor trees. Poor trees…hmm. Perfect. Freaking perfect!” His face had brightened suddenly. “You there! Girl with black headscarf!” When several heads turned, he rolled his eyes and emphasized, “the one with blue, green kashidakari. You’re doing nothing worthwhile for 16 whole minutes. No, no, don’t deny it. I’m seeing everything on my screen and no; no Bollywood khan celebrity will fall in your trap, so fuck it and do this: RT and FB to environmental wing of UN agencies, our own government, Germany and Sweden. That little bitch Greta too. Make an appeal on behalf of speechless trees, call them out about the dangers of Indian aggression to the environment. Include fucking Himalayan Glaciers in that if you can wing it. Then take the help of the 2 guys and the girl next to you, and try to break in Indian Environmental Ministry and see if you can make them RT it too. If not, then any senior officer in the ministry. Yes, right fucking now! for Allah’s sake!”Phew! There you have it.Obviously I had written it for satirical effect. And things varied in reality, true. But, if you pay attention to the text, this has been written like a Pakistani Disinformation campaign on the day of balakot airstrike. (I had to dial it down a lot so that normal folks wouldn’t get lost in technical info-dump).Mustafa here is a Cyber Warfare Expert/propaganda master who is doing everything it can to bring disrepute to Indian State, and discredit our claims —and for that he even tries to involve the great “Greta”, the alternate-nobel winning environmental activist. (I may have to change spellings there or some other variation, to avoid copyright. :P)I even wrote about a fake 300 strong pakistani twitter troll factory — which more or less is what government had cracked down on January 27. [1]But more than thatThis whole thing…I had started writing all that on July 30, 2020 — 2 months after Bezen Daruwala died. and nearly a month and a half before the new farm bills were introduced in Parliament - replacing the ordinance introduced on 5 june 2020.Such prophecies, Right?So with only those “fortune telling” credentials in mind, here’s my take on all this:Now we know Greta had tweeted a supposed “toolkit” on how to organize and bring disrepute to Indian government and shame Indian People. She then deleted and posted an “updated” tool kit. [2] but Indian Twittereti were very quick. they screenshotted everything.Hidden among them were multiple interrelated items of concern:Poetic Justice Foundation, a Khalistani separatist outfit, is mentioned multiple times in this “toolkit” (in act may have created it). [3]PJF has defended the raising of Nishan Sahib on Red Fort on 26 january — an utterly disgraceful insult in national history. [4]AskIndiaWhy.com, mentioned in the document, is registered in UK and its owner is PFJ. [5]PFJ’s founder Anita lal, founded it with Mo Dhaliwal, a knonwn khalistani who had made abundantly clear that “farmers protests are just the beginning.”[6]Mo Dhaliwal owns SkyRocket, a PR Firm which allegedly paid 2.5 m dollars to Rihanna, in exchange for the tweet “Why aren’t we talking about this?” A line which is exact copy of the example mentioned in the document. [7]Now we also know that it was another Hypocritical Environmental Activist named Disha Ravi, who supplied Greta with the “tool kit” on telegram and coaxed her to act on it. So clearly it was not “Greta’s Toolkit” per se.[8] .[9]Nikiata Jacob, a lawyer-activist, who has been alleged to have linkages with AAP and is based inn Mumbai, has been caught live editing that toolkit along with Anita lal. She’s a volunteer in Extinction Rebellion India, whose founding member was Shantanu Mulak.Extinction Rebellion is registered in UK where it has multiple bad chapters in its bloodied history.on 17 October 17, 2019, eight protestors affiliated with Extinction Rebellion were arrested for attempting to disrupt the services of the London Tube during peak hours. They had climbed on top of the train carriage. It harried the London Metropolitan Police for four weeks, two weeks in April and two in October.Authorities in UK, on January 10, 2020, linked Extinction Rebellion with Islamist organisations. A report by Police Exchange, a UK think-tank, says that Extinction Rebellion is an extremist organization, seeking the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law.”On September. 1, 2020, around 90 persons were arrested in London for a day-long demonstration by Extinction Rebellion: the charges included assaulting an emergency worker, obstructing police and public order breaches.extinction rebellion, in fact operates on exactly the lines on which current Farmer’s Protests and Red Fort Siege happened. Block Roads, Occupy public buildings, Refuse to move. [10]In fact Nikita Jacob and Shantanu Mulak had been some of the key conspirators on this toolkit drama. Nikita Jacob is on record admitting that Disha Ravi attended a zoom meeting with PFJ top brass, including Mo Dhaliwal before 26 January (11 january to be exact, exactly 15 days before the Republic Day Riots). [11]There’s another guy named Pieter Friedrich. He’s mentioned in the toolkit as well. Now this christian missionary is more important than many people realize. Disinfo lab, an OSint website had drawn linkage between him and … hold it…the notorious Pakistani ISI. Indian Intelligence has been keeping an eye on him since 2006. He’d been recruited by a US-based Khalistani Bhajan Singh Bhinder alias Iqbal Choudhary — becuase of, well because of his white race and because of his thinking that maybe Indians will buy into the whole khalistan propaganda if it comes from the mouth of a white guy. (Basically bhajan singh is a racist, and this will not do white people any good who are already heavily prejudiced and judged by Left-Liberals in the west to the point it has become reverse racism.) And so, Bhajan Singh propped him up, creating multiple farcial and hypocritical organizations around Pieter. He even wrote 2 books with him and created a fake publishing house! That’s as good as cover gets in intelligence business! In addition, Pieter was also entitled to a significant amount of authority in a similar ISI funded organisation, Sikh Information Center (SIC) – an outfit that was working on a larger plan involving terror as well as propaganda warfare strategies against India.[12]Sikhs for Justice, the banned terror outfit has now launched a separate website on February 17 for release of the so called activists, and mentioned Disha Ravi specifically by name.[13] The website is owned by Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, Founder of Sikhs For justice.Now, its clear that ISI, along with Khalistani Sympathizers and deplorable and hypocritical Anti-Nationals in the garb of Left-Liberal ideology, are trying their level best to hijack equally hypocritcal so-called peaceful farmer’s protest which has already descended once into massive Republic Day Riots and even afterwards, with rampant human rights violations all across the country.But however hard they try, sadly for them, their will never be a Quasi Civil War in India because of it.Because a quasi civil war doesn’t exist. Its either a Civil War or it isn’t.Now how to even define the Civil War?“Truth-has-a-left-bias” wikipedia says, while admitting the confusion, that if 1000 casualties are there/year, it could be called a Civil War - and majority of it are backed by foreign interventions. .Geneva Convention is also vague on Civil War while acknowledging its existence.Red Cross would have you believe that:That the Party in revolt against the de jure Government possesses an organized military force, an authority responsible for its acts, acting within a determinate territory and having the means of respecting and ensuring respect for the Convention.That the legal Government is obliged to have recourse to the regular military forces against insurgents organized as military and in possession of a part of the national territory.(a) That the de jure Government has recognized the insurgents as belligerents; or(b) That it has claimed for itself the rights of a belligerent; or(c) That it has accorded the insurgents recognition as belligerents for the purposes only of the present Convention; or(d) That the dispute has been admitted to the agenda of the Security Council or the General Assembly of the United Nations as being a threat to international peace, a breach of the peace, or an act of aggression.(a) That the insurgents have an organization purporting to have the characteristics of a State.(b) That the insurgent civil authority exercises de facto authority over the population within a determinate portion of the national territory.(c) That the armed forces act under the direction of an organized authority and are prepared to observe the ordinary laws of war.(d) That the insurgent civil authority agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Convention..In my opinion War for Khalistan would definitely classify under Sedition, however it would NOT amount to a Civil War. It was an “Insurgency” sure, but to achieve the glory of waging a ‘Civil War’ against nation-state of India, well, even the cockroaches of humanity and utterly despicable and worst barbaric excuses disguised as human beings called Left Terrorists - or romantically referred to as “Naxalites”, even they have failed to achieve that status even after more than 50 years of their inhuman Left WIng terrorism.At its height, Khalistan rebellion of late 70s - early 80s was still an insurgency. They might be guerillas, sure. But lets remember that until they posses large swathes of national territory under their control, and/or manage to get tanks, APCs, Technicals (SUVs with Machine Gun mounts), I personally, would not amount it to Civil War.Current political scenario has mostly rich Jaats and Sikhs “Farmers” protesting against Indian State and misleading small farmers, backed by political parties in opposition.There were images used where ex or even current army-men are seen supporting the farmers protests.Lets assume the 40 Farmers Unions, a lot of them having Left leanings, decide that “peaceful protests is not gonna change anything, damn the Indian laws and state, lets start armed war against it - our very own peasant revolution!”How would that play out?See, problem with that is just like 1984, India has a very popular and very strong leader in center in the form of Narendra Modi, having absolute majority in parliament with practically zero credible opposition.Situations in modern times are even worse for our would-be-Revolutionaries than they were in 70–80s.For a Civil War to happen, Revolutionaries would need weapons. Where would they get them?Sure, there are lots of illegal weapons in Punjab/Haryana and UP but nearly not enough for waging a Civil War against the whole might of Indian Army (currently the largest in number of personnel. You cannot fight them with Desi Kattas either.)Foreign intervention was there in khalistan, in the form of pakistan and its ISI supporting khalistani terrorists. They had supplied them with AK-47s, RPGs and Anti Tank arsenal. But in modern times, it can’t do even an ounce of that, nor would that be effective.See, in 1970s-80s, 9/11 had NOT happened. The west had not awakened to the deadly, brutal and heinous barbarism of Islamist terrorism. Now it has. It has also learned pakistan’s role in it. And now it is under constant watch of Anti-Terror Financing Watchdog FATF. It has lost all support in the eyes of USA when Bin-Laden was found inside abbottabad, near Pakistani Military Academy of all places! So….At in 1980s Khalistan rebellion, CIA was helping ISI and Khalistanis. Now they despise them. So any attempt by pakistan to support Khalistanis would not just have precedent to be suspicious about, but would bring great international spotlight - even if they weren’t actually supporting them. and if they did, and FATF found out… well, then you can be sure than Pakistani Economy would collapse.Not just that, “New India” would disregard any international appeals and would move heaven and earth to support baloch rebels, as Ajit Doval had threatened them, “Another 26/11 and you would lose balochistan.” and I fully believe this man to carry out that threat.So pakistani support is out of the question, it would try to pressure through hypocritical diplomatic means, where it would be outmaneuvered by Indian diplomats and no-one would listen to them anyway if situations become this worse in India. But a small pocket of supply cannot be ruled out.lets not even think about Canada supporting Khalistanis. Militarily speaking. Sure, most khalistanis are there only, but as overt as supplying them with arms? Its a pipe dream.Chinese are of the view that “internal affairs of other countries - unless openly leftist in nature” are not something they should interfere with. At least on a very bigger scale like ISI did. But then, a lot of “farmer” unions are leftist and China is still nursing the bruised ego when Indian Army stood up to its bullying with a 50,000 strong deployment on LAC. Where despite all the provocations and propaganda, chinese could gain nothing except humiliation and are now even going back from Pangong as disengagement is complete there. [14]While it does present a fine opportunity for China to distract India along domestic lines by supporting leftist khalistan revolutionaries (oxymoron, I know), only to backstab us once again in the north, I think the numbers and situations are just not in Chinese favor. But lets assume that Chinese would try their level best to diplomatically corner India on world stage and try to establish a supply line of weapons and other logistics from aksai chin or PoK.Again that would become a fruitless headache, because India would block access to all such insurgency laden areas, and lock the airspace. If past lessons are really learned, the first thing India would do is cover the western border of Punjab against pakistani infiltration. But lets assume a not-insignificant number of weapons and other expertise will filter through.So this expertise and weapons, both have to come from within the country and from Chinese - and to a lesser extent, pakistan. About Chinese interference, India could do nothing except block their supply lines and play the international diplomatic chess and spy the hell out of them. But the other part, the actual leaders, who’d direct and lead the revolutionary troops? Where would they come from?In 1980s Khalistan’s case, a number of Indian Sikh Units had mutinied along with some of the great Senior Military/police commanders too.But lets not forget that Operation Blue Star was mounted by 6 Generals, 4 of them were Sikh (including general officer, commanding), 1 hindu and 1 muslim. the 15,000 army men assaulting the occupied Golden Temple were mostly Sikhs too. [15] And it was another Sikh KPS Gill who cleansed Punjab from Khalistani Militancy. Anyway, blue star was an attack on religious shrine, with the whole Khalistani movement demanding a separate religious state of Punjab.Present crisis has low level of religious sentiment and more of an economic one. And religion in India, had always trumped economics. Always (although that is changing slowly). So I guess it presents an even lesser incentive of army units to mutiny.Because there would be tonnes of internal suspicion and paranoia among various units considering mutiny. Even if there is a Civil War, what place would a Jat have in a khalistani leftist revolutionary state? Isn’t it exclusively for Sikhs? Would that mean Haryana and UP needs to be fought for too? How would other locals feel about that? Do we actually have the numbers and means to subjugate 3 states (4 if you take rajsthan into account). If no, then would Khalistan be secular? If yes, why do we need to mutiny as India is also secular?There’s a can of worms no-one would like to open. In 1980s it was easy, because it was just one community, and that too some of the fringe nuts from them. Not whole Sikh population.As far as can-of-worms is concerned, the whole Khalistan issue is a can of worms. I’m pretty sure a lot of Sikhs and a lot of Hindus feel guilty about that. I have seen a lot of answers even here on Quora, even before farmers protests, where Sikhs from all walks of life had openly denounced khalistan like secessionist movements and proclaimed their love for India. People just want to forget about that dark chapter in history and move on (unlike Islamist terrorists in Kashmir, say). That’s why we still have 20% officers from Sikh community in Indian Army, despite sikhs being just 2% of Indian population. Because we trust them.Now Lets talk about Indian Army. In 1984, it already had vast amount of experience dealing with separatist insurgencies, vis-a-vis north east. But from 1987, it had gained tremendous amount of exposure dealing with religious terrorists in Kashmir. In 1986, NSG was also founded with exactly those purposes in mind: counter terrorism and anti-hijacking. It had taken part in lots of Anti-Khalistani operations and trained Punjab Police in that too. After operation blue star, NSG had cleared Golden Temple at least twice with much lesser casualties, and sooner too! After 26/11, India also has its own SWAT teams. Its true that Indian Army was handling WW2 era .303 rifles in 1984 while Khalistanis were pounding them with bullets from AK47s, I don’t think anyone’s under impression that Indian Army would be lacking in weapons department this time.But the most important thing is not the army, nor even westerns;Its the rest on Indian public, of 1 billion people.Indians are highly patriotic creatures. But now, the nationalist frenzy is at an all time high, fuelled by rise of social media and BJP. Majority public, long shamed and discriminated against for just being majority in the name of pseudo-secular-appeasement-politics, eyes everyone who opposes BJP as Anti-Hindu. Its an unfortunate truth. Farmers protests, has been seen by many political opponents of BJP and Left-Liberals as an opportunity to penetrate that perception. But in the process, they’ve constantly been making utter fools of themselves. Either by hypocrisy, weird demands, and sometimes even weirder statements. (constantly talking about some perceived arrogance of government when in fact it was “farmers” who’ve been arrogant)It was, to some degree, working too. But all hell broke loose on 26th January. With Republic Day Riots. About which enough has been spoken and I won’t repeat it here. The thin public support which was already wavering, shattered to pieces seeing rioters storm the Red Fort and unfurl a religious flag, something, anything, other than a tricolor. It damaged the “protests” to unbelievable degrees. So much so that Rakesh Tikait, whose whole persona reeks of unimaginable arrogance from top to bottom, was seen, (in fact has to,) crying publicly to bring people back to Delhi Borders to further inconvenience People of Delhi. At this time, its just “Farmers” and political opposition in some congress ruled states, who is supporting farmers. Farmer Unions have shown their caste colors[16] and are using khap panchayats - infamous for ordering honour killings, to demand support from villagers.[17] Who have no choice except to face social boycott, if they said no or sided with BJP[18] . If they don’t send out protestors they have to pay fine. [19] . All this amounts to masive human rights violations. But ofcourse activists and left-liberals are silent on that, because human rights of, well, humans don’t matter to them—If those humans belong to some other ideology, they are not even humans. Despite all that, Delhi Borders have thinned out. [20] “Farmers” who’d been beating their chest about not allowing any political leader on their platform, are welcoming all sorts of opposition leaders with open arms today, to address the forced gatherings of misguided villagers.If 1 day of violence could do that to so called “farmers”, make them that desperate. Imagine what a full fledged Insurgency — or Civil War, if it escalates to that, could do.We have been living through near war hysteria since last 2 years. From 14 feb 2019 pulwama suicide bombing, to balakot airstrike to chinese belligerence on LAC for months on end - which is still ongoing. Not to mention the same war-like situations imposed on us by Covid — which also came from china. It gets overshadowed over time yes, but it doesn’t go away. Deep down, everyone is praying that India must hold together in these trying circumstances. If in this environment, an insurgency breaks out, “farmers” would not just loose all support among public, tentative or otherwise, they’d be earning a very very angry enemy 1 billion strong! No military on earth, even USA or China, has the capability to subjugate that number. None. let alone some deluded insurgents.Present Indian public discourse is heavily disgruntled by tremendously biased Anti-Hindu/Anti-India coverage of left-liberal outlets and just about anybody in the west holding same thought patterns. There’s already a narrative that liberal west wants to break India. Canadian PM is alleged to have been working in favor of this “new world order.” Now if a separatist movement breaks out, whose key conspirators have been shielded by arch liberal canada, of all places, now that’ll be something every Indian will interpret as liberal foreign interference in Indian Affairs. Every single outlet and political party which supported farmers protest will be branded a certified Anti-National with BJP screaming at the top of its lungs, “SEE? I TOLD YOU SOO??”Lets not mince words here, BJP has been looking for ways to discredit “farmers.” To end the massive threat to its electoral prospects. So far it has been unsuccessful, not just because of the overwhelming support of super rich left-liberals and media across the world conspiring against Indian Nationalism. Not just opposition parties who are lending their not-so-insignificant support. Not just rich “farmers/middlemen” glamorizing the whole show with leftist/marxist tactics and you have a “my dear protest” for western media. Its not just because of that. The fact of the matter is that BJP is losing support with even its own supporters by treating these rioters and anti-national people with super soft kid gloves. Shaheen bagh had BJP dealing with these people aggressively, even if they failed to vacate the spot. In this one, BJP is cowering like a wet cat with its tail between its legs. If even after Republic Day Riots, BJP cannot hold the insurrectionists and rioters accountable, then it gives the impression that “somehow government too, knows that its wrong.” more than that it dents the faith of common citizen in BJP led central government to uphold Law and Order.But an insurgency would put paid to all that. Delhi Police didn’t open fire during riots. But if there’s Civil War — or even an insurgency, well, kid gloves will definitely come off then. They have to. By now, punjab police and Delhi has too much experience dealing with insurgents of Khalistan and other varieties. BJP will flame the “Akhand Bharat” rhetoric and this insurgency will be crushed in its totality.There will be many more surprising developments in this case, given the high profile nature. Exactly because of that, and the rampant corruption, inefficient police work and vast sums of foreign funding being provided by certain people who want to eradicate nationalism from earth, and had reserved a separate billion dollars for this purpose, could well work over time for all conspirators to go scot-free.But one thing is true:Disha Ravi and all those environmental activists who worked on toolkit are hypocrites of the highest order and Anti-Nationals of even higher one.By all predictions, its looks like she and her ilk would make bail, despite working with separatist organizations, spreading fake news, defaming India and inciting violence.Its utterly shameful that Disha Ravi, who’s been working with such precision against her own country may go scot-free.Sedition law needs to be tightened in India. Left-lIberals are saying PFJ is not a banned organization, hence she shouldn’t be charged. Because its unconstitutional.Are you kidding me?Those same liberals who decry the same constitutional law that allows Hindus to complain against blasphemy and put those behind bars who hurt their religious sentiments. Hindus are shamed for using their constitutional rights and resorting to lawful means.Well, I’ll use the same standard to denounce every left-liberal who’s asking Disha Ravi and everyone else, associated with the toolkit to be released on a technicality provided in the sedition law.Disha Ravi had proven herself to be capable of destroying evidence to hinder investigation.Patiala High Court Judge compared her offence to “someone associating themselves with dacoits, and asking from them donations about construction of a temple?” (Why did he has to bring a temple, donation and dacoits in the same sentence for example is unclear to me. Was there any dearth of legal examples to illustrate this point?)[21]1st of all, I find it highly derogatory to Hindus. Just replace ‘temple’ with ‘mosque’ and ‘dacoit’ with ‘terrorists,’ and see the outrage against me.2nd of all, there is a galaxy wide difference between ‘hypothetical’ dacoits donating for temple construction, and the ‘quite real’ separatist organizations advocating for khalistan, with Pakistani ISI providing them with resources.There has been call to physical action mentioned in the toolkit, which is what happened on Republic Day Riots. AskIndiaWhy dot com mentioned in it is asking questions like:Why is India killing its farmers? Why is India killing its minorities? Why is India killing its own democracy?All patently false and dangerously provocative. There have been hashtags mentioned in it like modi-planning-farmers’-genocide. If all that is not incitement to violence, against modi, and against our elected PM and government of India, I don’t know what is.Of course there’s been inordinate amount of sedition cases lodged by both congress and BJP to silence dissent. Some are laughable — but this one, isn’t.Pray tell what sort of environmental purpose is served by taking help from intelligence agency of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and collaborating with open khalistani sympathizers — to support a movement, which quite frankly, is one of the chief culprits against environment in India? After mass-scale violence which left nearly 500 policemen injured and maybe a lot of “farmers” too — with 1 even dead, whose death could have been used as a dangerous “tool” to further incite more deadly violence by eminent journalists, during a tumultuous time with their fake news.Let me tell you what also isn’t mentioned in “banned organizations list”Inter Services Intelligence of pakistan.Muslim Jabanz Force. [22] who are responsible for killing the owner of a famous “Krishna Dhaba” in Shri Nagar not 1 kilometer away from where recent EU delegation was staying.yet people will be arrested when found working with them, and/or taking money from them, wouldn’t they?And her age…God!I do not want it to be an intersectional issue but when a 17 year old boy had been found to have committed one of the most heinous rapes in Delhi, y’all was so frustrated with law you wanted to amend it, specifically to punish him. Here a 21 year old girl is found to be collaborating with separatist organizations and ISI, and the same people are missing no chance to highlight her 21 (or 22?) year of age in headlines? (or her soft spoken nature, or animal love, or all sorts of unrelated non-sense.)Like seriously?She’s not even a fuckin’ minor!And people are treating her 21 years as if its black jack get-out-of-jail-free-card number. Its disgusting! utterly disgusting.She is smart enough to do all the shit she participated in, she knew perfectly well what she was getting into. In fact her panic reflects that.Yes I see nothing wrong with comparing a rapist with a traitor.Because she is one. A traitor.She is 21, for crying out loud, not 2 or 1, who can cry “misguided minor” card.Nikita Jacob has admitted that Disha Ravi attended zoom meetings with Mo Dhaliwal on january 11. There were more such meetings afterward, there’s no reason to believe she didn’t attend the latter ones too.She must know who Mo Dhaliwal is, what are his ambitions. At the very least she must know her chosen field of activism, environment, and understand that Farmers protest has nothing to do with environment preservation. In fact supporting such an act to victory would straightaway go for endangering environment dangerously for years to come.How come she would not know stubble burning and its month long poisonous effects on North India? About depleting water tables in Punjab? About the soil which has become a chemical factory by now due to fertilizers? About the tall eucalyptus trees sucking the resources left behind in earth?How would she not know any of this?I refuse to believe that.She knew, and she she still chose to betray her core activism area: concern for environment and climate change by propping up a movement whose one of the core demands is to keep damaging environment.Just like she knowingly betrayed our nation, by colluding with Khalistanis and ISI.If not for the country than for her “Fridays for Future”, she should have given up this disastrous project.You know how to edit a google doc, use telegram, create whatsapp groups…you are playing with online activism, twitter storms, contacting celebrities and what-have-you, and you couldn’t visit the websites that are mentioned in the “toolkit” you’re editing yourself, and find out what the hell it is they believe in? Am I supposed to believe that?Damn girl.She knew.She’s a traitor, and hence her arrest, in my eyes, is completely justified.But sadly for her, however hard she and her cabal would try, there won’t be a Civil War — or even an insurgency in India around this. because if that happens, left-liberals would lose the fight for 30 years at least.But not for her and her ilk’s lack of trying.Jai Hind.(All images sourced from google)Footnotes[1] Twitter suspends over 300 accounts for breaking rules during tractor rally[2] Greta Thunberg farmers tool kit: Greta Thunberg tweets, deletes and then updates farm protest 'toolkit' | India News - Times of India[3] Delhi Police to approach Google on Jan 26 violence - The Statesman[4] Canada firm, MP, PR person suspected for farmers protest toolkit tweeted by Greta Thunberg[5] Banned terror outfit SFJ behind the sponsoring of anti-India and celebrities’ tweets on farmers’ strike. Operating through Canadian foundation and websites from UK and Germany - PGurus[6] http://Let no one tell you that this battle is going to end with the repeal of the farm bills[7] Rihanna Paid $2.5 million by PR Firm with Khalistani Links to Tweet in Support of Farmers: Report[8] What Is A Toolkit That Led To Disha Ravi's Arrest?[9] Disha Ravi panicked when Greta Thunberg leaked toolkit, say police | India News - Times of India[10] Extinction Rebellion - Wikipedia[11] ‘Disha Ravi attended Zoom meet, toolkit not meant to incite violence’: What Nikita Jacob told Mumbai Police[12] Toolkit controversy: Pakistan's ISI was working through Pieter Friedrich to manufacture dissent in India: Here's how[13] SFJ launches website to support Disha Ravi, Deep Sidhu and others[14] Pangong disengagement over, other friction points to be discussed today[15] Sikh mutiny spreads in Indian Army [16] In Haryana, Farmers Target Caste Divide To Boost Traction For Protests[17] How farmers’ protest has made Haryana khaps, infamous for honour-killing diktats, relevant again[18] Those inviting BJP leaders for family events to make food for 100 people as punishment: BKU panchayat | Meerut News - Times of India[19] Punjab Panchayats Ask Villagers to Send 1 Person from Each Family to Delhi Protest or Pay Rs 1,500 Fine[20] Crowds Thin Out At Delhi Borders As Farmers Plan New Strategy[21] Disha Ravi bail hearing: "If I approach a dacoit for temple donation, how do you say I'm privy to dacoity?" and other highlights [22] Militants open fire at popular Srinagar eatery Krishna Dhaba, owner’s son shot - India News , Firstpost

Remember the teacher-writer in most Amitabh Bachchan movies? Usually killed by goons. Now YOU CAN change the narrative! That honest, insightful, dedicated one, contests the elections and wins!Social activist Sarah Joseph, popularly known as Sarah Teacher, is an award winning novelist and short story writer. She was the harbinger of feminist movement in Kerala and the founder of ‘Manushi – organisation of thinking women’, the first of its kind. She is the AAP candidate from Thrissur, Kerala.She believes that AAP is the party of the future and has opened a new path, the potential of which should be fully used.Pioneer of the prestigious National Law School in Bangalore is AAP candidate from Bangalore North... A track record of delivery, institution building and fighting for justice, & labour reforms....Name- Prof. Babu MathewConstituency- Bangalore NorthEducation- BSc, LLB,LLM, M.Phil from National Law School of India, Bangalore, gold medallistAge- 64Occupation- Former Law ProfessorFormer Professor of LawChair, Juvenile Justice, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India,Former Registrar of National Law School of India University, BangaloreBabu Mathew was one of the pioneers of NLSIU, the premier Law School of India. This professor of law quit his job at National Law University in New Delhi recently to work for AamAadmi Party fulltime. He is a Nehru Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library and a noted philanthropist – he is the former Country Director of ActionAid India. He has been the Vice President of the Trade Union International affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions. Babu has contributed immensely to Labour Law reforms, Child Rights, Human Rights, Legal Reforms and in protecting the rights of working people and provided his expertise as a subject expert to several international universities. He has also been a negotiator to settle several disputes under the Industrial Disputes Act 1947...Babu Mathew is committed to provide his expertise to citizens of Bangalore to reclaim their city, make it safe and address (and solve India’s third largest city’s) civic, social, developmental and human rights related issues.For the first time in many years, someone has had the courage to confront and put up a strong challenge against Gandhis in their strong hold. That is Dr. Kumar Vishwas, AAP Amethi candidate who is taking the fight against dynasty politics head-on. While other parties raise up the issue of Congress's dynasty politics which has eroded our democracy, but no leader of other major parties challenges Congress dynasts directly.Shefali Misra, human rights activist and development specialist, a former UN employee, who has studied at Delhi University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and London School of Economics, is the AAP candidate from Sitapur, UP.Shefali believes that planning with people is the first step towards empowerment.Born as a bonded labour slave, married at 14, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, Tiliya Devi is the candidate for Lok Sabha by Aam Aadmi Party from Jhajharpur, Bihar in 2014.The extra-ordinary story of a courageous Dalit worker, who the Nobel Peace committee could spot, but not India's mainstream parties. It took an AAP. These people have EXPERIENCE, TRACK RECORD, plus HEART, CARE HONESTY & COURAGE.Read her extra-ordinary story here - PeaceWomen Across the GlobeAlok Agrawal, AAP Candidate from Khandwa, MP is an IITK Alumnus, Chief activist working since 25 years for Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in Khandwa.From 1990 to 2000, Alok along with the people of Nimar plains has mobilized numerous peaceful protests against the construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam. Due to stiff resistance from Narmada Bachao Andolan led by MedhaPatkar and Alok Agarwal against the construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam, World Bank undertook an independent review of the project plan. The review concluded the project to be falling short of World Bank policies and guidelines of Government of India. Subsequently, in 1994 World Bank's participation was cancelled by the Government of India.In 2002, Alok along with Narmada Bachao Andolan team was instrumental in procuring a compensation of ₹ 10 crore for the families displaced by the Maandam project. In 2005, Alok and his team won a High Court ruling against the state government which prevented the latter from using the police force and bulldozers in the Indira Sagar Dam area for the displacement of people. The Court ruling also granted a compensation amounting to ₹ 11 crore for the displaced people.Alok initiated Jal Satyagraha, a novel form of peaceful resistance where protesters stand in water, to demand proper compensation and rehabilitation of the families displaced by the Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dam. These protests bore fruit when the Supreme Court of India, in the year 2011-12, ruled in favor of the displaced people and ordered the government to give "land for land".and the list goes on........................... :))Here are the lists in detailFIRST LISTAshutosh – AAP Candidate, Chandni ChowkOne of the best known faces of the Hindi News Television Ashutosh was deeply influenced by agitation for Janlokpal under Anna Hazare’s leadership. While extensively covering the agitation Ashutosh wrote a book “Anna: 13 days that awakened India”. He’s the only non English TV journalist to get prestigious UN scholarship. Ashutosh will take on Union Minister Kapil Sibal, who represents Chandni Chowk in Lok Sabha.Mukul Tripathi – AAP Candidate, FarrukhabadMukul Tripathi is a specially-abled activist and journalist from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He’s been fighting for the cause of physically impaired people. He’s been awarded with “Shreshth Viklang Karmi Award” in 2009. Mukul will take on Union Minister Salman Khurshid.Baba Hardev Singh – AAP Candidate, MainpuriBaba Hardev Singh retired from Indian Administrative Service IAS. He was one of the most popular and upright civil servants of Uttar Pradesh. He was also President of UP PCS Officers Association. Baba Hardev Singh will take on Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh.Subhash Ware - AAP Candidate PuneSubhash Ware, a member of the AAP National Executive is one of the most respected names amongst activists and intellectuals in the State. Former Maharshtra president of the Chatrrs Bharati movement, he has been an active participant in numerous agitations both as a student leader and as a member of the Rashtriya Seva Dal. A staunch supporter of the India Against Corruption movement, Subhash believes that public representatives must focus attention on transforming the manner in which public policies are frames and delivered in this nation. Subhash Ware will take on CWG scam accused Suresh Kalmadi in Pune.Dr. Kumar Vishwas, AAP Candidate, AmethiHe is a well-known poet. He has recited his poetry both in India and abroad. Through his poetry he is known as one of the most popular poets of the country. Kumar Vishwas is very popular amongst the youth. He makes some bold and scathing remarks on the social issue through the medium of his poetry. He is associated with the Janlokpal movement right from the very beginning. Dr. Vishwas will take on Gandhi family scion Rahul Gandhi.Anjali Damania - AAP Candidate, NagpurConvenor of AAP Maharashtra, Anjali blew the lid off the 70000 crore perpetrated by the NCP led Irrigation Ministry. She then exposed the complicity Nitin Gadkari, RSS strongman and BJP party president with other parties and their business interests. 45 year old Patholgist, Anjali born and brought up in Mumbai, married and has two children. She is confident that the poster boys of corruption will see their downfall in Maharashtra. This Maharshtrian 'mulgi ' has toured the state extensively in the past year, drawing huge crowds at rallies in every district and it is her efforts that AAP has become a household name in the state. Anjali will take on former BJP President Nitin GadkariSoumendra Dhaka – AAP Candidate, BaghpatA masters in law, will contest from Bagpat, Uttar Pradesh.. His livelihood comes from Law practice and agriculture. He is working for AAP from December 2012. He is involved in resolving the social issues and believes he can be the voice of the people from his constituency. He is inspired by the idea of Swaraj and wishes to make it a reality. Soumendra will take on RLD supremo Ajit Singh.Jarnail Singh- AAP Candidate, West DelhiJarnail Singh is a tireless crusader for the rights of the 1984 anti-sikh riot victims. He was a journalist before joining the movement to get justice for the riot victims. Jarnail will take on Congress MP Mahabal Mishra.Dr. Jiyalal – AAP Candidate, LalganjSr Prinicipal Scientist, 1984 Bhopal men remaining gas men controlling, was rewarded, Maharashtra Sarkar. Mharashtra Sarkar diya tha. 1989 men South Pole par gaye the. Antartic award was there for six month. World Confence for Global warming 71. Unicellular plantsYogendra Yadav – AAP Candidate, Gurgaon.He is a well-known social scientist and Political analyst of the country. He is the Senior Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Yogendra Yadav is also associated with many National and International forums. For rolling out law for Right to Education, Yogendra Yadav was made a member of National Advisory Council in the year 2010. Yogendra Yadav will take on Congress MP Rao Inderjeet Singh, who’s contesting on a BJP ticket this time.Mayank Gandhi – Aap Candidate Mumbai North WestMayank has been the founder of the India Against Corruption movement and the leader of AAP in Maharashtra. An activist for over 10 years he has regularly confronted local administration on civic issues, an expert on infrastructure issues, he was a member the team that drafted the Nagar Raj Bill and has also contributed in large measure to the formation of the RTI Act. A member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi Party, Mayank is spearheading the Lok Sabha campaign in the State and is proving to be a veritable crowd puller, with his gentle demeanour and profound insights on life and on the lack of conviction in public representation. Mayank Gandhi will take on Congress MP Gurudas Kamat.Medha Patkar – AAP Candidate, Mumbai North EastMedha Patkar is a name that needs no introduction, a social activist who has led the struggle for the people affected by the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project on the Narmada River in Gujarat, India. She founded the Narmada Bachoao Andolan and National Alliance of People's Movements and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Goldman Environmental Prize, Amnesty International's Human Rights Defender's Award and the BBC's Green Ribbon Page on award.an advocate of human rights, Patkar founded her campaigns on two basic tenets in the Indian constitution: the rights to life and to livelihoodMeera Sanyal – AAP Candidate Mumbai SouthWith a distinguished career that ranges from investment banking and micro finance, Meera recently quit her assignment as CEO and Chairperson with the Royal Bank of Scotland to join politics and work towards the best practices and policies that India should adopt to alleviate many of it's problems and challenges. She has formerly worked with ABN Amro, Lazards and Grindlays and in each of her stints, she found herself engaging actively with community programmes. Her work with children and disadvantaged communities she says, has given her valuable insights into lapses in policy and she is hopeful her experience in banking and finance will find expression as a solution provider for the nation. Meera will take on Union Minister Milind Deora.Habung Payeng – AAP candidate, West ArunachalHe is an information commissioner in Arunachal Pradesh and a member of the National Executive of AAP will contest from Arunachal West constituency. He is counted as one of the most strict and adept information officers in the country. Before becoming the Information Commissioner Habung Pyang was actively contributing to social work.Vijay Pandhare – AAP Candidate, NashikAn engineer, former bureaucrat and member of the state level technical advisory committee on irrigation, who has raised several pertinent questions about irregularities in the use of public funds in this sector, Vijay Pandhare has repeatedly locked horns with the establishment over the lack of transparency in modalities, in a career spanning 32 years defined by the highest standards of integrity in public service.In 2013, Vijay blew the lid off an irrigation scam in Maharashtra that is estimated to be about 70,000 crore rupees if not more, leading to the resignation of Deputy CM Ajit Pawar who had held the irrigation portfolio for a decade. His revelations focussed attention on the norms flouted in the grant and administrative approvals of thousands of crores for irrigation projects, the poor quality of delivery by contractors, inflated budgets and irregularities in purchase of materials. Spiritual, his early influences include Sant Tukaram and Dyaneshwar and he hopes to rekindle commitment and integrity in public systems.Alok Agarwal – AAP Candidate, KhandwaA veteran activist of the “Narmada Bachao Andolan” (1990-2014) will contest from Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh. He completed B.Tech from IIT Kanpur. His dream is to provide empower the common man so that no political party may be able to exploit them anymore. He is inspired by the idea of Swaraj. His active involvement in the Narmada Bachao Andolan has helped him realize the struggles of the aam aadmi and encouraged him to dedicate himself to serve the nation through active involvement in politics. He believes that the Andolan must go beyond their present definitions and we must work together with other similar forces to bring about a change in the system.Lingraj – AAP Candidate, BargarhFormer National President of the Samajwadi Jan Parishad will contest from Bargarh, Odisha. He has been a socio-political activist since 1996 and worked for alternate politics. He was part of various farmer related activities and people’s movements in the state. In his words, “I am seeing the anti-corruption aggressiveness and the idea of decentralization as a situation full of possibilities for agitation based parties like ours”.H S Phulka – AAP Candidate, LudhianaAn eminent lawyer who has been handling cases pertaining to the 1984 riots and has been fighting for justice for the victims for the last 30 years will contest from Ludhiana, Punjab. He is strongly committed to free, fair and transparent elections and governance. Union Minister and Congress leader Manish Tewari is the sitting MP from the constituency. Mr. Phulka will take on Manish Tewari in Ludhiana.Khalid Parvez – AAP Candidate, MoradabadKhalid Parvez is a social entrepreneur. He’s been active in the field of education. He will take on Congress MP Mohammed Azharuddin.Yogesh Dahiya- AAP Candidate, SaharanpurYogesh Dahiya is a member of the National Executive of the party. He’s been actively involved in farmers’ movement.SECOND LIST1. Rajmohan Gandhi - AAP candidate from East Delhi, DelhiRajmohan Gandhi is an eminent scholar and journalist. Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajgopalachari, Shri Gandhi is a biographer and a research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is also a Scholar in residence at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. He was also the convener of the all-party joint committee of both houses addressing the condition of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Parliament.2. Shekhada Atulbhai Govindbhai - AAP candidate from Junagrah, GujaratShekhada Atulbhai Govindbhai is an engineer by training. He is an active Janlokpal campaigner and leader of Farmers' Land Acquisition Andolan in Junagarh. He is a strong proponent of good governance.3. Naveen Jaihind - AAP candidate from Rohtak, HaryanaAn eminent social worker, Naveen led the movement for Right to Information Act in Haryana and campaigned for Swaraj in the state. He has been organising blood donation camps and body organ donation pledge camps. Under the name “Jaihind” he formed an organisation of students on 15th. August 2006. Naveen has been associated with Janlokpal movement right from the beginning.4.Balwinder Kaur - AAP candidate form Kurukshetra, HaryanaShe is a member of Bhartiya Kisan Union. She was lodged in jail for eight days for her struggle for farmers rights. She is also president of Pharunijattan Mahila Mandal.5. Poonam Chand Ratti - AAP candidate form Sirsa, HaryanaShri Ratti retired from fire brigade department in 2013. He's a well known social worker. He worked tirelessly for the cause of pensioners and safai karmcharis.6. Yudhbir singh Khyalia - AAP candidate from Hisar, HaryanaA retired IAS officer, Sh Khyalia, has done his PhD on "Management of safe blood transfusion" and MA in public administration His name was listed in Limca Book of Records, 1998 edition for organizing “Rakt Daan Jaagran Mela". He was also awarded with "Mother Teresa Memorial Award" and was lected President of Indian Society of Blood Transfusion & Immunohaematology (ISBTI), India in the year 2009.He has been actively involved in total sanitation and literacy campaign.7. Jaisingh Thekedar – AAP candidate from Sonipat, HaryanaHe is an advocate by profession and president of BAR association for last two years. He is an active social worker for last 8 years. He was secretary of Arya Pratinidhi Sabha. He was sarpanch of kasanda village and president of gaushala. He has been involved in the movement against land acquisition.8. Dr. Rajan Sushant - AAP candidate from Kangra, Himachal PrasadHe is ex MP from kangra. He played an active role in Jaypee Pond Dam rehablitation, farmer and worker movements and has been jailed many times during public movements. He was youngest legislature in 1982. He was elected as MP for four times from Himachal Pradesh.9. Bhawna Bhavesh VasnikBhawna Wasnik is a professor of home economics in Amravati and soon this young mother of two will be an inspiration to women in this country, as she takes on the challenge of contesting against established names in the Shiv Sena bastion. Bhavna has worked towards creating awareness about AIDS and conducted programmes for special children. The cause of the nomadic and much maligned Pardhi tribes is close to her heart and she has been working with social workers in the area to design programmes, that will help them generate income and sustained livelihood.10. Sameena Abdulmajid KhanRaising pertinent questions about the abysmal performance of public representatives is a young lady in black robes, Sameena Khan. A lawyer who represents labour unions and others in the labour and industrial courts of Sangli, Sameena is exposed to many of the crucial issues in the area and articulates them vociferously. Born and brought up in Miraj, Sameera believes the youth of this nation must don the mantle of representation and work towards inclusive growth and development , to oppose the indifference and arrogance of established political scions.11. Maruti Sahebraw BhapkarA lone crusader who has long protested against the inability of the government to provide housing for slum dwellers, Maruti Bhapkar is one of the strongest voices against corruption in Maharashtra. A former independent municipal councillor, Maruti has been a vociferous RTI activist who has raised several pertinent questions on the SEZs in the Ratnagiri and Maval regions and led agitations by people displaced and affected by Lavasa. Maruti Bhapkar is the voice of hope that this nation needs, in an era when the nexus between the politicians and the land mafia threatens the life and livelihood of the rural populace.12. Wamanrao SudaishiraoAll are equal but some are more equal observes Wamanrao. A lawyer and relentless crusader against the inequalities of the system and lack of focus on alleviation of inequities, Wamanrao is in the forefront of grass roots movements in Maharashtra. A former member of the Maharashtra assembly, he has strived for better governance and raised the bar in public representation.13. Lalit BabarA strong and resilient figure espousing the socialist cause in Maharashtra is Lalit Babar. Born to agricultural workers in Sangola village of Sholapur, Lalit has a degree in political science and a diploma in journalism. He was deeply influenced by the JP movement and has worked tirelessly to create water resources in the drought prone areas of Maharashtra. Formerly employed with the State Bank Of India, Lalit has always remained connected with community development initiatives and has presented a paper at the World Social Forum in Brazil. As founding member of a dalit organisation that engages with communities in seven states of India, he has focussed attention on developing livelihood for deprived sections especially women, farmers and youth . His vision seeks an awakening among people, through a developmental process based on the founding principles of equality, liberty and social justice.14. Subahsh LomteThe unorganized sector in India continues to be the most vulnerable, devoid of any social security or benefit . Spearheading the movement for rethink and focus on the issues concerning this sector is Subhas Lomte. An activist based in Aurangabad, Subhash has led organisations that work towards mobilising agricultural workers, hamals ( coolies) ,construction workers and domestic workers against social and economic exploitation. He has agitated relentlessly for minimum wages, insurance and financial support from governments for labour in this sector so that they can access the primary needs of livelihood, education and health and ensure a better environment for future generations. Subhash has been a part of the Marathwada Vikas Andolan, Land to the Tiller movement and Dalit Shishyavrutty Wadh Andolan. He has a post graduate degree in biochemistry and is based in Aurangabad.15. Sanjeev SaneLong associated with veteran socialist leader Bhai Vaidya and the Samajvadi Janparishad , Sanjeev Sane is a popular and respected mass leader of Maharashtra. He has over the years,been a part of and led several agitations against systemic malpractices and indifference of local governance to needs of the disadvantaged. He was an active associate of the Jan Lokpal movement and was among the few who believed that the movement needs to find resonance within the political space if it has to be an agent of change and transform Indian polity.16. Nandu MadhavAn acclaimed theatre and film artiste, Nandu Madhav is known for his well defined views on governance and policy. Nandu recently donned the lead role in 'Harishachandrachi factory', India's official entry to the Osacrs in 2010. In the two decades spent in the Marathi theatre milieu and in his travels across Maharashtra, he has experienced the struggles and helplessness of the populace as they struggled to avail of basic livelihood and opportunities and been fuelled by the desire to contribute to systemic change and improving delivery mechanisms. Nandu is best known for ' Shivaji Underground in Bhimnagar Mohalla ' , a play directed by him and which won commercial and critical acclaim . The play busted many myths and is no less than a revelation of the true spirit and values of Shivaji Maharaj as a leader of every community and segment of society, be it the Dalits, Muslims or Hindus.17. Deelip MhaskeA resident of Kandivali in Mumbai, Dilip lost his home, a 10 x 10 tenement in a slum demolition drive several years ago. Since then, this industrious young man has acquired degrees in law, social work and a doctorate from the USA. Born to parents who farmed in Jalna , Deelip's commitment to developing solutions in healthcare and education for the most disadvantaged strata of society is reflected in his work and engagements with civil society . Nominated for the Mann Award , which recognizes innovations in health and human rights, Deelip has transformed the lives of several communities living in five slum tenements of Mumbai. He has also instrumental in advocating land for 18 lakh landless farmers in Maharashtra under the Swabhiman Yojana in 2005. Deelip hopes to raise a generation of Indians who will be equipped to fight for their rights and usher in systemic change.18. Prashant MishraLong troubled by the state of the nation, Prashant is a software professional who has charted a career in software services and management and is now set to apply his skill sets in public representation. Prashant grew up in Vidharbha, studying in local government schools and later acquired a bachelors degree in electrical engineering in India and a masters in electronics engineering in the USA. He and his spouse manage software businesses, with offices in the USA and Nagpur. Prashant has been closely involved in several endeavours in the social development sector and was a part of the Anna movement.19. Aneeta HindoliyaAnita is a dynamic lady in Ujjain. She has a sound family background. She also runs a pertol pump. She has been fighting for poors and women related issues.20. Kailash AwasyaLocal, well educated aadiwaasi community leader; did an MA, tought in a government school and left his job in a couple of years to get involved in anti displacement movement(Narmada Bachao Aandolan). Very highly regraded in his community. It's a rare find because it has not been easy to find community leaders and candidates from ST seats.21. Capt. Abdul Nasir HanfeeHe is a retd. Vir Chakra Prapt Wing Commander. He is originally from Mhow (Indore). He has good management capabilities22. Paras SaklechaParas is a Ex-MLA (Independent). He has raised maximum questions in MP assembly. He has raised VYAPAM issue and malnutrition issue in MP. Has an extremely clean image.23. Khuman Singh ArmoHe is a retd. DSP belonging to Mandla, Who is willingly working as a farmer. He has been very sympathatic to the plight and concerned of his fellow farmers, tribal children and women. He has traveled extensively in rural Mandla district. He is working towards health and education of the poor and tribals.24. Bhagawat Singh RajputB S Rajput has been associated with Party/IAC since beginning. He has a good network with many veteran politicians of MP. He is politically mature and has been working in Vidisha constituency from very long time.25. Dr. Dharamvira GandhiHe is a famous cardiologist in punjab and much appreciated in rural areas. He has been a student activist and been jailed for opposing emergency. He has been a founder and active member of human and democratic rights bodies, while in government services he developed rural health care model and ensured public participation in running hospitals and health care programmes in rural areas.26. Major Surendra Kumar PuniaThe youngest recipient of the President’s award - Vishist Seva Medal in 2013 and a qualified doctor, he will contest from Sikar constituency in Rajasthan. He was involved in counter-insurgency operations in Kashmir and had first hand exposure to the happenings in Kashmir. He was inspired by the Jan Lokpal Andolan and retired from the army to dedicate himself to the service of the nation.27. Ashok kumar JainAshok Kumar Jain is AAP Convener in Rajasthan and is a founder member of the party. He is the first person to implement the Right to Recall in India (in a municipal body in Rajasthan)28. Raj KadyanRetired as Lt General (deputy chief of Army staff) from Indian army. Worked for welfare of Ex servicemen. Formed an organization ISEM for ex servicemen. Fought a battle for one rank one pension for ex servicesmen. Stays in Gurgaon.29. Dr. Muzaffar Bhatt:He is an eminent Right to Information activist, who’s been fighting for the rights of the people of J&K.

Short answer :-Blaming Nehru for all of India’s current problems has become a fashion in last few years. It seems completely illogical and absurd to me. Afterall, a person has to be evaluated, based on the appropriate context of his era, not on what is happening 70 - 80 years after his death.Blaming Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi for today's problem is like blaming Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev for India’s loss to NZ in World Cup 2019 semi final. Just like Legendary players like Gavaskar and Kapil Dev should not be abused for poor performance of Kohli and Sharma, similarly Gandhi and Nehru should not be blamed for today's issues.Imagine how irrelevant and absurd would it sound that in 2100 AD nearly 80-100 years after Modi dies, someone is trying to win Lok Sabha elections by saying that Advani or Rajnath Singh should have been PM in 2014 as they were past BJP party presidents while Modi was not?Imagine how illogical would be for someone in 2100AD to say that ‘India would have been a better country had Nitin Gadkar (then the BJP's party president would have become the PM instead of Modi) ?Imagine someone creating a 3000 crore statue of ‘Iron Man’ Amit Shah, and at the same time saying that India would have been better if Amit Shah would have become PM instead of Modi who became PM by backdoor entry ?Does any of this sound even 0.0001 % relevant 100 yrs after Modi’ s death?Long answer below :-Not only on Quora but nowadays Nehru is abused also on Facebook and Twitter and whatsapp.Because of the simple reason, that people in India love to find a reason for blaming their failures on someone else's actions. They love to exaggerate stories, come up with half cooked, half baked tales, moreover they love to live in an 'unrealistic' world.In reality, Nehru was the most talented and the most successful PM in the history of India, in the most violent and challenging times of the world, immediately after an era that witnessed two world wars in quick succession. There is no one, who comes anywhere close to him, when it comes to matters of democracy and social reforms.His tenure of 50 odd years, as one of the greatest sons of India, is studied by historians in two phases. First phase, is the set of 32 years he served as a young, bold, intelligent and dynamic Indian freedom fighter who was Gandhi's right hand and the 2nd set is the set of 17 years, he served as Independent India's Founder PM. His vast contribution to India spanning 49 years, is the reason why Indian history books have mentioned him in great detail.Despite being from a super rich and affluent family, he decided to dedicate 32 years of his life, in serving the country and living a very modest life. He faced lathicharge several times and injured himself on many occasions, but kept going. He went to British jails 10 times for over 3,529 days or almost 10 years. His contribution to India's independence movement is next to Gandhi. No one highlights the fact that while serving in jail, he could not attend his ailing wife and newly born son, both of whom died due to his stay in jail for long sentences.Post independence, as India's PM he was the most popular, the most successful and most competent PM of India till date. He was the father of Industrial Revolution in India and the architect of Modern India. He built dams, schools, colleges and a great democratic framework. He also setup a framework where IIT's, AIIMS, ISRO, IISc, NIT's, NID, NSD, CSIR, IIMs were established, nurtured and developed.In India, recently BJP and RSS have come to power and strangely they don't have any leaders of their own to look up to. So instead of making an effort of raising their own level to that of Nehru, they have started lowering the level of Nehru and bringing it down to their own level.Since they can't find any flaw in his national policies, they try to call him British agent, Western thinker, Catholic Christian, Parsi, Muslim, Anti -Hindu, Anti-Sikh, Anti-India, debauch, womanizer, gay, drunkard, drug addict, chain smoker, beef eater, one who blackmailed Gandhi, killed Bose and ruined Sardar Patel's career, gave Kashmir to China and Pakistan, gave up UNSC seat to support China etc. These are completely false claims, supported by nothing, but morphed photos, fake claims, distorted data, mis-interpretation of facts and figures. There is no evidence of any of these fake stories spreading on social media, whatsapp, youtube and Facebook. None of these claims are even 0.01% true. One can read my other posts to go in detail for facts proving each of these accusations to be completely false and baseless.It is very ironic that those who sided with the British themselves, accuse Nehru of being a British agent, just because he was educated in Cambridge University and spoke good english. It is also ironic, that those Hindus who themselves eat non-veg food regularly, accuse Nehru of being a beef eater. People like Subramanium Swamy whose daughter married a Muslim, accuses Nehru of being a Muslim as his daughter Indira married a Parsi Feroze Ghandy. Illiterate people like Baba Ramdev who never understood Socialism and importance of Swadeshi concept started by Nehru, are now selling Swadeshi products and have build 8000 crores worth business empire and still they accuse Nehru to be a western thinker, despite stealing his idea of Swadeshi. Even more ironical, is that child rapists like Bapu Asharam call Nehru a womanizer, just because he shook hands with foreign women while greating them at an Indian airport. People who accuse Nehru of shaking hands with foreign women, forget that it was S.C. Bose who had married a foreign Christian girl called Emily in Europe. Their fake Hindutva doesn't get affected by this fact. People who portray Bhagat Singh and Bose as devout Hindus, forget that both of them were inclined towards atheism, though Bose was a follower of Swami Vivekanand and a moderate Hindu himself, both Bhagat Singh and Bose were far more extreme leftists than moderate Nehru.The height of absurdity is crossed when fake education degree holders like Smriti Irani, Pokhriyal etc go on to become HRD/Education Ministers in Central government of India and they accuse Cambridge alumnus Nehru to be a criminal. Moreover, terrorism accused and anti-national extremists like Sadhvi Pragya Thakur out on bail, call Nehru a conman. Patanjali Boss and Managing Director Mr. Balakrishna who is a Nepali citizen and 98% owner of the company's shares, openly tweets that Nehru died of AIDS in 1964, despite the fact that AIDS was discovered and clinically reported as a disease only in 1990.People who have never ever been to Kashmir accuse him of giving it up to Pakistan, despite the fact that it was his article 370 which helped India annex Controversial 'Muslim' dominated Kashmir into 'Hindu' dominated 'Secular' India. Moreover, he himself being a Kashmiri Pandit was the only one who made it an integral part of India, while Sardar Patel was least bothered about Kashmir.Sardar Patel is given credit for uniting 565 princely states of India in 1947. He thoroughly deserves the credit, as he was the Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India at that time, reporting directly to and taking instructions from the Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, on all areas of national policy.However we must understand the role of both Nehru and Patel in uniting the 565 states. Since most of the princely states wanted to be independent and tried to avoid being a part of a democracy, it was difficult for Indian National Congress to convince them to join India instead of staying independent or joining Pakistan. INC didn't have any army of its own at that time to exert pressure. Neither would it be feasible for INC to use arms against own countrymen, now would it be advisable, as most of the princely states had their own army, own military equipment and own currency. They were too powerful to be dealt with force and too difficult to negotiate with.Keeping in mind the limitations of INC and the relative strength of the princely states, who covered approximately 48% of the land and comprised of 28% of the population, it seemed an insurmountable task. Therefore the military option was ruled out. The only other option was to negotiate, but they were reluctant to be brought to the negotiating table, unless the INC exerts some sort of power, influence and offer something lucrative in return.Nehru strategically analysed, that though the princely states were tough to negotiate with INC, these princely states were controlled like puppets by the British empire, which was represented in India by then the Viceroy as Lord Mountbatten. So if the INC could some how bring Mountbatten on their side, then the 565 princely states could be brought to the negotiating table easily and later merged with India.Nehru and Menon worked in collaboration with each other to convince Mountbatten to work for a united India, as opposed to the idea of a broken and fragmented India, which was endorsed by former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill. After being convinced by Nehru and Menon, that a divided India would cause enormous bloodshed, riots and crime against humanity, Lord Mountbatten agreed to help Nehru by going against the wishes of his UK boss, because Mountbatten had already seen enough of war and bloodshed in the World War-2, where he in the capacity of the Supreme Commander in Chief of the UK had defeated Germany’s Hitler and Italian Mussolini.Nehru and Menon also reminded Mountbatten that UK owes a lot to India, especially because more than 200,000 soldiers fighting in the British army were Indians and that Indian National Congress had agreed to support the British, only if the British grant full independence to India, post completion of WW-2.Therefore, visionary and clever Nehru played a master stroke by appointing then the Viceroy of India - Lord Mountbatten as the Governor General of Independent India. Immediately after that, the princely states decided to fall in line to join the Indian territory. The 565 states were split into 3 categories namely large states, medium states and small states, based on their relative size, population and regional influence.Nehru based on his discussion with Sardar, Menon and Mountbatten decided to offer a sort of a ‘joining bonus and annual salary ’ or privy purses to each of the kings and in return they would give up their ruling rights and join the Indian union. They would surrender their currency, their ruling rights and entire military, therefore the privy purses had to be a considerable amount.The trio of Nehru, Sardar and Menon decided that 450 small states would be given a salary of Rs 5000 per annum, while 102 medium states would be given the salary ranging from Rs 1,00,000 to Rs 2,00,000 per annum. 5 large states were given salary ranging from Rs 2,00,000 per annum to Rs 10,00,000 per annum. Only 6 large states namely Hyderabad, Travancore, Baroda, Jaipur, Mysore and Patiala were given salary more than Rs 10,00,000 per annum.On the other hand, Jinnah was trying to lure these kings towards Pakistan by offering business opportunities to them in Railways Karachi port. To further appease the disgruntled Kings, some of the Kings were given ceremonial designations of Governor, while some joined politics, some were offered high positions in the military like Brigadier and Major General. Some of princely states were given construction contracts in Indian Railways, Museums, Ports and Shipping industry.Through out this episode, I do not see any activity, which makes Sardar Patel a bigger hero than Nehru. Nehru being the PM was the chief strategist, Mountbatten was the influencial stakeholder and Sardar /Menon were the people who were just following the orders of their PM by executing the tasks assigned to them. I would rather say, they worked extremely well as a team in those days, only keeping the welfare of the country in their mind.Please don’t fall for fake Nehru- Patel rift controversies created for political purpose.Nehru is often incorrectly blamed for not exploiting military advantage against Pakistan in 1947 -48 war. He has mentioned in his letters, that all efforts should be made to attain peace and avoid wars, because political leaders like him don't die in wars, however thousands of foot solidiers are killed on both sides and millions of family members of deceased soldiers suffer on both sides.He didn't want more Indian soldiers to die in that war against Pakistan, as several thousands had already died and we had already defended the fertile lands of Kashmir very well.More military conflict would have definitely drained out massive resources from India's already bankrupt treasury which we had inherited after 200 years of economic exploitation by the British. Therefore I think that Nehru was extremely wise and prudent to take the issue to the UN and declare a ceasefire as it put an immediate end to war, saving lives of thousands of Indian soldiers and millions of rupees that were now being used for constructive purposes in India like agriculture, roads, water-dams, hospitals, schools, colleges and universities.As for annexing of Kashmir in a peaceful and strategic way lets look at the best practices of top corporate leaders to attract talented people into their organization.As most people are already aware, even today lots of great companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google give a good 'joining bonus' to attract initially 'reluctant to join' candidates from other organizations, though this leads to 'complaints' from existing employees of these organizations, who are unhappy with the existing pay structure and annual bonus.Kashmir issue of 1947 was pretty much like the same. Both India and Pakistan wanted Kashmir to join them. Muslim dominated Kashmir was naturally more inclined to join a Muslim dominated Pakistan rather than join a Hindu dominated India. As partition was done on the basis of religion there was no way 'Hindu' dominated India could have 'Muslim' dominated Kashmir easily. Nehru established extremely good and trustworthy relationship with Sheikh Abdullah who was a strong Muslim leader of muslim dominated Kashmir. So when Sheikh Abdullah refused to merge Kashmir with Pakistan and spoke openly against Jinnah, he was able to convince entire Kashmiri population to join India. Therefore the people's will was given top most priority and Kashmir willingly merged into Indian union.Lets compare this from a HR strategic talent attraction and retention perspective of a global MNC. In this scenario the CEO of a MNC made an extra effort of giving a lucrative 'joining bonus' to recruit a 'particular candidate' in order to ensure that the 'candidate' doesn't join a 'competitor' organization.Here Nehru was the CEO of India and gave this 'joining bonus' of 'article 370 special provisions to make it lucrative for candidate 'Kashmir' to join India and not join 'competitor' Pakistan.Obviously existing Indian states did get upset initially, just like existing employees of an organization, who feel that new comers are getting better pay than existing ones.After a couple of years this 'one time joining bonus of article 370 ' was tweaked (through New Delhi act of 1950) and most of its provisions 'standardised' at par with rest of the states.Here I would like to give credit to Nehru who proved to be 'Management Guru' ahead of his time, as what he implemented as a leader and practitioner, later on got added to several management books as chapters on HR strategy. Any guesses why Nehru wanted that particular candidate 'Kashmir' to join India, because he himself was a Kashmiri Pandit. In a way you can say, one college alumnus has special preference for recruiting candidates from his own alma matter!!!As for POK, India left it as it is due to potential massive costs, rising burden on treasury, and potential loss of lives of Indian soldiers. Quora wizard Balaji Viswanathan has also supported Nehru’s decision to leave POK, in his posts, after analysing all parameters.Article 370/371 came into Kashmir after mutual agreement of Raja Hari Singh, his Minister Sheikh Abdullah, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel. Over a period of time, article 370 was implemented in 8-9 states of India including North Eastern states, Maharashtra and Gujarat and it still exists there for special castes, tribal and ethnic communities. There is nothing wrong with it in these 9 states, where it works perfectly fine even today, but it has been misunderstood and abused in Kashmir by Pakistan sponsored terrorists, separatists and hard core extremists. This means that Nehru's decision to get article 370 in Kashmir was not a historic blunder as portrayed by social media nowadays. Rather it was confidence building measure initiated by Hindu majority India to peacefully annex Muslim majority Kashmir into India.Despite being under enormous pressure, Nehru ensured that article 370 is a temporary provision and he stated that future PM’s of India would have the full freedom to scrap it /modify it when needed. Therefore, in these circumstances, Nehru would be extremely happy in heaven, if Modi scraps this outdated and obsolete law just like Nehru diluted it in 1950 under the New Delhi Act of 1950. Yes, Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi didn't scrap it in their tenure, probably because there was no need to do it at that time. There were no extremists, no terrorists over there and separatists were also ignored by the Kashmiris till 1989. Problem started only in 1989 when Rajiv Gandhi was in opposition and VP Singh was made PM. PM VP Singh appointed Kashmiri leader Mufti Saeed (father of Mehbooba Mufti) as Home Minister who allowed terrorists to infiltrate into Kashmir and promote radical extremism. After Rajiv Gandhi died in 1991, since then the obsolete article 370 has become a shield for extremists in Kashmir to defend themselves. Moreover the liberalization and economic reforms started by Dr. Manmohan Singh gave benefits to the whole of India but Kashmir missed out on that. Therefore I don't think that Nehru can be blamed for abuse of article 370 be Kashmiri extremists, almost 25- 30 years after his death.As for 1962 war, it was Nehru’s firm belief in the principles of Hinduism in particular and in humanity at large, that he offered help to Tibetan refugees (including Dalai Lama) who were killed in millions of numbers in China by Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was implementing his 'Great Leap forward' strategy at that time and this resulted in deaths of millions of people. Nehru’s decision to help Tibetan refugees in 1959, angered China and it attacked us few years later in 1962. Aksai Chin was never under Indian occupation even for 200+ years earlier even Kashmir was under British rule, we never had it in real life, though we always had it on the map.RSS fondly gives high regard to many Hindu heroes like Prithviraj Chouhan, Raja Ratan Singh(husband of Padmavati), Rana Sanga, Rana Pratap, Shivaji, who lost wars to foreign invaders, but their faith in the principles of humanity in general and in the principles of Hinduism in particular remained rock solid. However the same RSS continues to be suffering from selective memory disorder, when it accuses Nehru for losing the 1962 war. Nehru was a diplomat and global Statesman, not a war trained military general. INC leadership never had any background in military warfare and didn't have any great military equipment either.Yes, he wanted peace with China at all costs, therefore he followed a policy of appeasement with them. This is nothing new to our culture and history. In Satyug, even Lord Shiva avoided direct war and confrontation with demon Bhasmasur at Kailash, only because he wanted to explore all options of peace before asking Lord Vishnu to kill him.Lord Vishnu himself has always said that all efforts should be made to attain peace and avoid wars, because rulers and Kings don't die alone in wars, thousands of solidiers are killed on both sides and millions of family members of deceased soldiers suffer on both sides also.In Tretayug, Lord Ram tried this policy of appeasement with Ravan as well by sending Hanumanji and Angaad as messengers of peace and asking him to return Devi Sita gracefully and respectfully and the war could be avoided.In Dwaparyug, Lord Krishna himself went as messenger of peace to avoid the great Mahabharat war. Lord Krishna even gave a proposal of accepting just 5 small villages for the 5 Pandava brothers and in return Duryodhan could keep the entire Bharatvarsh. Was this not a policy of appeasement to give away a piece of land in return for avoiding large scale military conflict and attaining peace at all costs?Is it not wise to explore all options of peace to avoid war?As a devout Hindu, I don't find anything wrong in Nehru’s policies on China. Moreover he was not a trained military general to fight wars. He was a statesman and a diplomat. Even Sardar Patel in 1950 had pointed out the Chines threat to Nehru, but Patel could not provide a solution to it, probably because there was no solution in the first place, except to keep China happy at all costs and avoid warfare. Both Sardar Patel and Nehru knew from the very beginning that India could not afford a large scale war with a 3 times larger in size neighbouring country like China, so the only way to stay safe was to keep China happy by accepting its annexation of Tibet, signing the Panchsheel agreement, and avoiding discussion on all controversial border issues that could flare things up. This policy of Nehru worked fine for 15 years from 1947-62, so one cannot say that Nehru's foreign policy with Chinese was not successful, rather it was very successful for 15 out of 17 years of his tenure.At that time, Chinese leader Mao who had killed 4-5 crore (40–50 million) people in his own country during his reign had become unpopular and his regime had become extremely unstable at that time. His country was on the verge of a disaster and his own political future was very uncertain. At that time in 1959, when Nehru gave asylum to Dalai Lama on purely humanitarian grounds, this gave Mao a golden opportunity to shift the focus of his govt's inefficiencies to an external country -India shaking hands with a Chinese enemy-Dalai Lama.As Nehru’s friendship with Dalai Lama increased with time, It took Chinese 2-3 years to prepare for the war and assemble their forces in such a large number that they could attack and defeat the Indian army in 1962.Yes we lost the war under Nehru's leadership, and he took the moral responsibility for the failure of the same, however Nehru learnt from his mistakes and invested heavily in military equipment thereafter. Immediately after the 1962 war got over, Nehru doubled the budget for defence forces, quadrupled the military personnel and set nuclear science programs for self defense and military reasons (it was earlier restricted to civil purposes only).Though Nehru died soon after, his recent investment in army (1962–1964) helped India won its two major wars in next few years, against Pakistan in 1964 under Shastri and against China in 1967 under Indira Gandhi. Nehru who had initiated the nuclear science program only for peaceful purposes before the 1962 war, after the loss had now extended it to defence and war purposes as well.Though Nehru's global stature and diplomacy was not good enough to avoid the war, however it was good enough to successfully save the lives of 4000+ Indian soldiers, who were taken as prisoners of war by the Chinese army. After the chinese debacle, India has not yet made any mistake in military affairs , so I give full credit for this to Nehru for learning from his earlier mistakes.Kings and politicians don't fight wars, they only inspire the army. Even if S.C. Bose, Patel or Indira Gandhi would have been PM in 1962, the result of the war would have been the same, because the people who were fighting the war were the same, the machinery and war equipment would have been the same, the geographic location conditions which went against us, would have been the same and more importantly the opposition i.e Chinese army would have remained the same.In wars, you win some, you lose some. No one wins all wars, not even the British Empire, not even the USA and USSR won all the wars they fought. Nehru annexed 14 disputed territories (with Pakistan) into India. He further got Hyderabad, Junagadh and Jammu and Kashmir merged with India. He also won Pondicherry from France and Goa from Portugal. After so many victories, the law of averages took over and we lost a miniscule part of kashmir to China.Cambridge educated Jawaharlal Nehru was a visionary leader who put India on the global map. The seeds of meritocracy sowed by Nehru by creating/constituting institutions like IIT's, AIIMS, IIM's, ISRO, DRDO, India's nuclear and atomic energy program, CSIR(Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) , IISc, NIT's (then REC's), NID (National Institute of Design) , NSD (National School of Drama) , Lalit Kala Academy, Sangeet Natak Academy, Kendriya Vidyalayas, RBI(Reserve Bank of India) , SBI( State Bank of India) , UTI( Unit Trust of India) , LIC( Life Insurance Corporation of India) , ONGC( Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) , NPTI( National Power Training Institute), BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited) , SAIL (Steel Authority of India) and many more public sector Enterprises, dams like Bhakra Nangal dam, Hirakud dam etc have put India at the top of the world today, just behind USA and China in almost every parameter that you can think of. Unfortunately, he didn't have time on his side, else he could have done a lot better.Moreover children and grandchildren of Sardar Patel, Lal Bahadur Shastri, S.C.Bose all have happily settled abroad in US, UK, Europe, Canada and Germany and living luxurious lives there. No one asks them for their contribution to India, post independence.Edit2:- Thanks Quorans for 415+ upvotes. Based on popular requests, I shall be adding a section on Nehru’s role in pre and post independence of India.Gandhi and Nehru’s strategic role in pre- independence era :-Gandhi and Nehru knew it very well, that Indians can't defeat a supreme military powered UK (which had established the largest empire in the world spreading across Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Australia) by arming themselves with wooden lathis and pelting stones and some locally made pistols.UK which had probably the best Airforce, Navy and tanks/missiles in the world could tear part any opposition in any of its colonies. UK also had the support of its Allies including nuclear powered USA, USSR and France.I hope people remember that UK's best ally USA threw an atomic bomb on twin cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. As Nehru had travelled to different countries in the world, he understood global affairs much more than anyone else. This was also one of the major reasons for INC to not support S.C.Bose, when he suggested a military alliance with Japan.If Nehru indeed wanted a military solution, he could have sought help from German hero Hitler and Italian Mussolini, both of whom had invited him personally to meet them, whenever he traveled to Europe.(Source :-Letters from Hitler and Mussolini to Nehru).This also proves that Nehru was a much more accepted global leader representing India at international level than Bose, as these two leaders reached out to meet Nehru and at the same time refused to give appointment to Bose even, when Bose waited outside their office at reception.However Nehru decided to not visit these German and Italian fascists, as they were military dictators with proven past track record of violence, corruption and deceit and all they were interested in was free supply of Indian soldiers against the British, but not in the welfare / independence of the Indian citizens .Nehru knew it before, but Netaji Bose learnt after a long time, that Italy and Germany were least bothered to help Indians get their independence from British. Indian Nationalist Bose tried to convince Hitler for the same on several occasions, however on every occasion, Hitler refused to provide any help to Indians suffering from the British Raj, because there was nothing India could offer him in return. Finally Bose, gave up his efforts to team up with Germany and Italy and focussed on taking help only from Japan.Though Gandhi and Nehru trusted Bose's pure intentions for India's independence, but knew it very well that it just won't work in an extremely complicated political climate pre-World War-2 and requested him to resign from Inc and continue with his efforts separately as the end objective was the same.The victory of UK’s Allies over the Axis in 2nd world War again proved that Nehru's strategic decision making of INC to not seek help from Japan was right, else we could have been nuked as well. This also proves that Nehru was correct in his judgment, when he predicted the victors of the World War 2, much before it actually started, some thing that our beloved Netaji got terribly wrong.It would have been a catastrophic strategic failure for a extremely poor nation like India, if we had gone ahead with S.C.Bose's decision to side with Japan.If we had, indeed gone ahead with S.C.Bose's decision to side with Japan (who were losers of the 2nd world war) we would have been bombarded terribly. Imagine British and their allies using their powerful airforce for bombarding Indian cities like they bombarded Germany, Hiroshima and Nakasaki among others.I ask all Netaji supporters to ask this question to their heart and answer honestly, Could we Indians as a country of poor farmers and some laborers have fought these technologically superior military aircrafts with pelting stones, hand made local pistols n lathis made of bamboo ? Probably No.It is not that Indians didn't have a good army and military means. We did have very good military warfare and brave soldiers, but beyond the access of the common citizens. However most of Indian soldiers were either directly serving the British Army as separate regional regiments in Punjab, Bengal, Calcutt, Bombay etc or indirectly serving the puppet Kings/Maharajas who were serving the British Raj directly.Gandhi and Nehru were well read in global affairs as well as Indian culture and history. They knew that most of the 500 +Indian Maharajas and their dynasties, who had reasonably good armies, had already sided with the British post the revolt of 1857. The British had bribed the Maharajas all over India to act in the favor of the British East Indian Company /British Raj. That is the reason, why none of these 500+ Rajas and their massive armies revolted or fought against the British for the next 90 years from 1857–1947.Realizing that the comman man was being exploited and made to suffer by their very own Indian Kings in collaboration with the British, Gandhi and Nehru decided that military option against British was ruled out.Even if Indian citizens resorted to military route and fought against the British government, just think who would fight against whom? Indians were on both sides.For. Eg. 95% of British government soldiers spread across various regional regiments were of Indian orgin only, which means that Indian citizens would have ended up killing Indian soldiers only, which would have further divided the already fragmented and battered country. Moreover Maharajas would have used their social political influence to crush the common man's desire to be independent.Thus Gandhi and Nehru decided to defeat the british in their own game by using the British law against its govt.All these years, the British had been claiming themselves to be ‘messiah of peace and democracy’ while criticizing Indians and other European countries of monarchy, military dictatorship, cruelty etc and preaching the ‘so called good and civilised’ things British were teaching un-civilised Indians. These double standards by the British gave an opportunity for British educated Indians like Gandhi, Nehru, Sardar Patel and INC leaders to argue with the British on its constitutional policies and human rights. Being born and brought up in India, they knew the tyranny of the British Raj, the immense suffering it caused to the common man and on the other hand being educated in law from top British universities, they could argue on legal grounds.Therefore Gandhi and Nehru agitated within the framework of the British law in such a way that they got great crowd support and also they did not resort to any violence. They went door to door and awakened the masses across different regions, geographies, religions, caste and social, political and cultural barriers and then merged them into the soul of one nation in principle. He gave them the concept of One Nation ‘Akhand Bharat’:-One for all and all for One.Once the erstwhile divided 33 crore people were united as one nation with one belief, Gandhi was a big force to reckon with as he could influence their behaviors and actions to such a great level that made the existing governance of Maharajas /Kings and British Raj ineffective.Then they did strategic planning to do non-cooperation, they believed in ahimsa (non-violence), and finally forced the British government to come to the negotiating table. Gandhi and Nehru understood that breaking of the salt law (Dandi March), boycott of British manufactured cotton clothes, promotion of Swadeshi products would harm the British economy a lot more than a large scale military attack against them. Dandi March was a big success and reduced Britain's revenue from India by 6 percent. Major economic blockages by India like Cotton, wood, spices, handicrafts, steel and other raw materials reduced Britain's revenue from India by another 32 %. Overall more than 40% of Britain's revenue coming from India was reduced and it brought them to the negotiating table.Therefore they broke the economic back bone on the British Empire without even making them realize it.Nehru spent 9 terms in jail, each visit was full of suffering and crying. He hardly got an opportunity to meet his ailing wife (who died at age of 36), old father and young daughter. Even today white collar criminals are put in different jails than murderers and rapists.Nehru spent 9 terms in jail spanning 3,259 days (almost 10 years) which is the maximum for any Indian freedom fighter. He has mentioned in his 200 letters to his family that he utilises his time in reading books and writing books.Rather than wasting time in cursing the British (like most Indians did) he used this time to make new strategies in countering the next move of the British.Moreover the Headquarters of Indian National Congress at Anand Bhavan which was worth lakhs of rupees even 120 years ago (now worth 100 crores) , was earlier the personal home of Nehru, which he donated generously to the Indian Congress party as it had no money of it's own to setup an office (as the entire nation and its people were mostly bankrupt). So in way he used his personal wealth to sponsor the start-up ‘Poorna Swaraj’ or independence movement of India .Not only that, all official trips of the INC leadership within India as well as abroad were sponsored by Nehru himself.Post independence, Nehru initiated 5 year plans for faster progress of the country. The first Five Year Plan emphasised on Agriculture for which major river valley projects like Bhakra Nangal, Damodar, Mahanadi and Tunga Bhadra were undertaken increasing both irrigation and hydro power electric supply. These dams were to ensure waters reaches the farmlands.During first Plan period (1951–56) there was low inflation and agricultural productivity increased manifold.Land tenure system was rationalised and Zamindari system was abolished. However, land reform measures didn't continue in most of the states and land was not restored to the tiller in most of the states except in West Bengal during Communist rule.During the second Five Year Plan (1956–61), the emphasis shifted from agriculture to industry when heavy industries were set up in the public sector and major steel plants were established in Bhillai, Bokaro, Durgapur and Rourkela.It also created new urban areas which would have taken a long time without government intervention. In private sector there were few industries in the hands of Tatas, Birlas and Dalmias. The 3rd five year plan focused on science and technology institutions.Overall, I think that regarding the freedom seeking independence movement of India, Gandhi was the soul, Nehru was the brain which took strategic decisions , Bose was the heart where passions and emotions originated and Sardar Patel was the strong and robust body. Let's not fall into the trap of petty and shrewd politicians who have made a career for themselves by baseless criticism of legendary figures. If I have to compare Nehru with a great leader of the glorious past of India, then I would compare him only with the likes of Emperor Ashoka and Emperor Akbar.I often wondered if Nehru would be born again in today's communal, caste based, corrupt political climate where would he stand? What would he do? Who would reply back to Modi’s abuses?Recently Kejriwal declared that India was fortunate to have Nehru as its first PM and architect of modern India who built laid the foundation of science, technology and industry in India. Kejriwal also said that India without Nehru would have been in a pitiable situation.I see AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as an equally secular, honest, socialist, democratic, patriotic, nationalist, hardworking, visionary and well read as Nehru (maybe Kejriwal is a reincarnation of Nehru himself as Nehru died in 1964 and Kejriwal was born few years later in 1968, after all the theory of reincarnation of souls, is not new in Hinduism). During interviews in 1960’s, Nehru often said that he should be remembered as ‘Pratham Sewak’ or first servant of India and not first Prime Minister of India. Nehru further added that if he were to be reborn, he would like to serve India again and would like to be educated at IIT and join IAS rather than join US based MNC. It could well be pay back time for Kejriwal to be rewarded for his past good karma to join prestigious institutions like IIT, IAS and work as CM in the Government of Delhi - all the institutions which he created, nurtured and cared for as Nehru in his previous birth? ). Nehru had created IIT’s so that its alumni serve the country and in Kejriwal he is doing exactly the same.Both Nehru and Kejriwal see infrastructure projects like Bhakra Nangal Dam and Signature bride of Delhi as temples of Modern India. Both are extremely popular among the masses and draw huge crowds. Both want govt to spend huge amounts of money being spent on education and public health care rather than on temples and mosques. Both don't keep any VIP security and are approachable to the masses to an extent that people can even hug them or hit them. Both hate crony capitalism and consider ‘profit’ as a dirty word, if it is achieved unethically after exploitation of the common man.Modi is chasing Nehru, and Kejriwal is chasing Modi, is it payback Karma ? Could it well be the return of Nehru ?Edit4:- Based on multiple requests that I have received to write more on Nehru, I shall add more text here, If you are tired of reading and want to stop reading, you can stop here. I have brought my post to a logical conclusion. For voracious readers, pls continue to read below. Thanks to Dr. K. L. Raina for his inputs shared over mail.Post independence Era, Nehru and his vision for Science, Technology and Education:-Science occupied a central place in Pt Jawaharlal Nehru's vision of good society. As a scholar at Cambridge, he had acquired a sensitive understanding of the intellectual matrix of science and this understanding became deeper through extensive reading of socialist literature.In many ways Pt Nehru was the greatest man of our age. His name and fame will resound throughout the world in the ages to come. His love of science was only one facet of his complex, many sided, mysterious personality, yet his depth of understanding of science was perhaps unique among world leaders. He said, "The future belongs to science and to those who make friends with science".Science for Pt Nehru was more than just a conglomeration of disciplines dealing with the development of material resources. He was concerned with, what he described as a scientific temper which enables man to look upon himself, upon society and upon the problems facing mankind with an intellectual vigor, which combines sympathy with objectivity. To him science is an effective agent to bring social and economic transformation. It doesn't solve man's present day problems but also governs the future course of civilization also.Pt. Nehru often referred to the paradox of India being a rich country inhabited by poor and starving people and asked, "Why are we unable to convert our natural endowments into wealth meaningful to our people?" And the question was answered in the book 'Discovery of India' in these words: "It is science alone that could solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and decaying customs and tradition".After our country achieved independence his gaze was on development since he wanted to concretize his vision on new India. As Prime Minister he wanted India to develop along modern lines and make rapid strides lest it should be left behind in the competitive world so he looked upon science and technology as the levers for this purpose and for raising the living standards of masses.In 1950 Planning Commission was set up to devise strategy of rapid economic growth as well as of the reduction in economic disparities. Heavy industries, Machine tool factories, fertilizer plants, shipping and aeronautical industries came up with amazing speed. Towns and cities started cropping up at places which had known no habitation at all. The entire rural India was connected through a network of village development blocks and community projects.During British period emphasis on Indian science and technology was directed towards meeting the needs and requirements of the then Government for increasing trade communication and defenses. This resulted in several important advances such as the first scientific survey of the country and a network of meteorological stations, the buildings of canals and railway system. Several academic institutions were created.The end of 19th century and the first 50 yrs. of 20th century produced some of the ablest scientist the country has known and this period is recognized as the Renaissance of science for India.Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar(1894-1955) an outstanding chemist in his own right, worked very closely with Pt Nehru and founded the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) with a chain of National Laboratories.In the later period, another person who made the greatest impact on Indian Science was Dr Homi Bhabha, the father of India's Nuclear Program. He was instrumental in establishing the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Atomic Energy Establishment which was later named after him.Dr Vikram Sarabhai was another scientist of physics background whose efforts yielded in the establishment of Space Research Organization (ISRO) and IIM's. However, it was only after the independence and through the vision of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru that science and technology were developed as a major force for accelerating for social and economic change.Nehru's involvement in the promotion of scientific activities in India was of several folds. On the eve of independence he constituted a scientific manpower committee along the lines of a similar committee of England.From 1947 to 1950 in addition to being Prime Minister, he was the Minister-in-charge of scientific Research. In this capacity and even otherwise his fervent and convincing advocacy of the importance of science on motions to grant funds punctuated the parliamentary debates and lent luster and freshness to the quite often dull deliberations, presenting and defending the budget demands for scientific research he was not tired of reminding of his colleagues, the fundamental impact of science on the modern world and its implications for the Indian science.He laid the foundation for the establishment of a chain of national laboratories and continued as the chairman of the Governing Council of Scientific and Industrial Research until his death. From the time the Department of Atomic Energy was created, it remained directly under his charge as Prime Minister. He was elected President of Indian Science Congress Association in 1942 and again in 1947. Since that time he attended its annual sessions regularly.1n 1950, three laboratories, namely the National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi, the National Chemical Laboratory in Poona and Central Technical Research Institute in Mysore were established. Pt. Nehru diverted his attention to the villagers in 1952 in a new effort to galvanize the national economy. He gave a call that "Everything can wait but not agriculture". This statement became a landmark in the history of India for the formulation of future policies towards agricultural development.It was for the first time that Government of India showed determination to tackle major rural problems. Research institutes on crops, animals, fisheries and other related sciences were started. Agricultural Universities, colleges and research institutes were sprung up in every part of the country. It was the vision of Pt Nehru that gave us the "Green Revolution" and placed our country on strong footing to take up any challenge on the food requirements of one billion people by the turn of 20th century.Today, India can be proud of having the third largest manpower in the field of science and technology because of the structure which Pt Nehru laid down for higher education in fifties. It was the N.R.Sarkar Committee which reported in 1946 with regard to the post war landscape of technical education that led to the founding of an innovative technological institute at Kharagpur, afterwards it was raised to level of an institute of technology.Within four years, four others IIT's were established on the same pattern. This coincided in its own way with Pt. Nehru's vision of future India in which science and technology would play a considerable role in the development of the country. From the day these technical institutes were established, it was visualized that these institutes would compete with the best of the kind in the world. The model taken was from that from MIT at Boston. US helped directly for the establishment of MIT like IIT at Kanpur and Delhi. Russian and German influence was strong in Bombay and Madras IITs. All these institutes were developed in fifties.The mineral raw materials constitute the backbone of industrial production. It was Pt Nehru's time that mineral exploration and mining development was given the pride of the place and its exploration made India totally self sufficient in the filed of planning, engineering and construction of mines.Presently India is in a position to extend technical know-how in setting up, integrating and mining steel plants to other countries. The credit for all this goes to Jawaharlal Nehru, whose vision is being transmitted into reality. India's atomic energy program owns its beginning and development to the encouragement that Nehru gave during 17 years of his Prime Ministership.The creation of the Department of Atomic Energy in 1954 as an independent Ministry with Pt Nehru as its in charge was a radical departure from the normal methodologies of the working of the Government Ministries. It was Pt. Nehru who started the space Program in 1963 and its first centre at Thumba started functioning.Later on India undertook many complex projects and accomplished them. As President of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, on 23rd May 1964, Pt Nehru approved for the setting of National Laboratory devoted to the study of the Ocean. This decision led to the establishment of the National Institute of Oceanography and Research soon after his death.Pt. Nehru had strong scientific temper which dispels difference between myths and logics. From the foregoing account it is ample clear that our impressive achievements in the field of science and technology during the post independence period own a great deal to the interest, support and patronage of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.Unfortunately,certain extremist groups within BJP and RSS have stooped to a new low, something never seen before in Indian history. They still live in the past, and don't want to do anything in present to make a better future. They continue to spread stories that Mahabharat character Ashwathama is still alive, if that wasn't enough, now they say that S.C.Bose is still alive. It seems that spreading fake stories is the forte of some people.Some people are just too jealous of Nehru's success and seem to dislike him for that. It all depends on PM Modi now, if he continues to get driven by RSS agenda (instead of Niti Aayog agenda) and loses track of development, he may do gross injustice to the people of his country. Rather he should focus on implementation of policies initiated by Niti Aayog.Edit5:- Today in winter of 2018, Modi and BJP are hell bent on chasing and erasing Nehru’s legacy and destroying the constitutional framework setup by him. Nehru is no more so BJP can abuse him as much as they want, as they know he will not return from the ashes to answer back. In today's Era, I do not see any one in Congress even worthy of comparison with the likes of Nehru.Edit6 :- This answer was collapsed recently by Quora, as it was reported by huge number of trolls from a particular party. I hope it is reinstated as the people of this country have a right to know the truth and stay away from fake propoganda done by paid trolls of a particular party.Edit 7:-I don't want to get political. Deeply saddened by the extremely low level politics done by Modi and BJP. Not only Quora, but Facebook, youtube, whatsapp and entire social media is filled up with such disgusting things. Now BJP has made this tool of disgusting and derogatory language the new normal. The BJP always thinks that those male politicians who have potential and perform better than Modi are all rapists, womanizer and children of Muslim terrorists be it Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru or even new comer Arvind Kejriwal, and if the political candidate performing better than BJP is a lady, then she must be a sex worker /prostitute, be it Indira Gandhi or Atishi Marleen a of AAP. This is the unfortunate truth of BJP in 2019.Edit 8:-Blaming Nehru for all of India’s current problems has become a fashion in last few years. It seems completely illogical and absurd to me. Afterall, a person has to be evaluated, based on the appropriate context of his era, not on what is happening 70 - 80 years after his death. Blaming Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi for today's problem is like blaming Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev for India’s poor performance and loss to NZ in World Cup 2019 semi final. Just like Legendary players like Gavaskar and Kapil Dev should not be abused for poor performance of Kohli and Sharma, similarly Nehru and Gandhi should not be blamed for current problems of India. Therefore It is only the current leadership to be blamed. We should stop living in the past and live in the present while planning for the future.Edit 9:-I visited my alma matter on 22nd December 2019 to attend the Alumni event. Till 5 years ago there was a stone kept in the IIT Delhi Main building where it was written /carved out the following text ‘IIT Delhi foundation stone inaugurated by first PM of Independent India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in year 1960’ and I was disappointed to see that it is now destroyed / removed. Then I quickly went to IIT Delhi administration and inquired about it. They told me that this happened recently after Modi came to power in 2014 and even the IIT Delhi website which a contained a section on ‘History of IIT ‘s’ and ‘Nehru's vision for science and technology’ and his role in setting up IIT’s has also been removed based on instructions received from MHRD. Very disappointed to see this.