The very fact that ppl can call the govt dictatorial with no repercussions, & that such a video is free for everyone to watch with no govtmtl intervention are the two biggest & unignorable signs that we are not living in a dictatorship.
Let us expose all the claims one by one
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Let us expose all the claims one by one
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Claim 1: Dhruv Rathee, told that India is on a path toward one-party-one-election system like North Korea and Russia.
Fact: There are 8 national parties and 55 state level parties in India, some of them even achieved victory over the BJP the biggest example in Karnataka.
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Fact: There are 8 national parties and 55 state level parties in India, some of them even achieved victory over the BJP the biggest example in Karnataka.
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Claim 2: Dhruv Rathee alleges that Modi, manipulates its authority to harass opposition leaders like Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
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Fact: if he or any of his supporters can show me any clause or quote in the constitution and law where it is written a minister and MP has the right to stay as normal citizen even after proven guilty of corruption. Further the decision to reject bail was by court not the BJP.
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Claim 3: Dhruv Rathee contends that the Supreme Court, deemed electoral bonds unconstitutional, and claimed the BJP as the primary beneficiary of bond.
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Fact: Something he forgot to mention, the political parties such as TMC and DMK received more than 90% of their political funding derived from electoral bond.
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Claim 4: Dhruv Rathee allegedly claimed that the Modi government introduced a bill that excluded the Chief Justice of India CJI from the process of appointing the Chief Election Commissioner.
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Fact: Prior to the 2023 SC ruling, the appointment of the CEC & EC was exclusively determined by the ruling govt. The bill presented by the Modi govt allow the Leader of the Opposition to participate in the selection process actually making the process more transparent.
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Claim 5: Dhruv Rathee allege that the government conducted surveillance on Ashok Lavasa’s phone following his dissent against Prime Minister Modi during his tenure as Election Commissioner in 2019.
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Fact: No credible information is posted on it from any govt source or news outlet, the only website who published it without evidence is The Wire and we know how unbiased it is
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Claim 6: Dhruv Rathee claimed that in Pune, the EVM machine was stolen, raising questions about the Election Commission.
Fact: The stolen EVM was for demonstration purposes, not for actual voting.
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Fact: The stolen EVM was for demonstration purposes, not for actual voting.
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This is not the first time in the last 10 years this fear mongering had been attempted. In 2015, we had the “intolerance” brigade and in 2016 a key University in Delhi has been known to condemn the hanging of a well known te*rorist. And then we had the suit boot sarkar jibes
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If democracy is really dying as claimed in the video, then how come the BJP has been losing elections in Karnataka, Himachal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala?. How come AAP is able to hold on to power for 10 years in Delhi and now strong in Punjab?
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How come Mamata is strong in Bengal and Naveen Patnaik in Orissa?. If these elections results are not legitimate, can we dissolve these governments and impose President's rule?. Would the Opposition parties agree to that?.
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If Modi is a dictator then he and his party should not even be preparing for elections at all. One of the peeves of the Opposition is that Modi is in “election mode” all the time. Do you know any dictator in the world who has been worried about losing elections?
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BJP has literally zero to minimum influence in 200 odd seats in Eastern and South Indian states. The best case estimates a total of 340 seats with NDA. How come democracy is dying in India?.
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Rathee talks about the Supreme Court being compromised and not taking action against BJP. And yet the same Court has in a recent judgement deemed electoral bonds as unconstitutional. Can Mr. Rathee explain this contradiction?...
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If he does not believe in the sanctity of the Court can he call for the reversal of the judgements that called for protection of certain minority groups.
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Rathee talks about Godi media. It's an embarrassment, sure. However can Mr. Dhruv say that the “sources” he cites like the Wire are truly unbiased or are they an equally invested in the game of politics?
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The reality is India is a vibrant democracy, with a free and fair election commission and a functional courts. Sure there are scope for reforms and that is where Mr.Rathee must have directed his energies towards.
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However the way the LW keeps screaming about dictatorship and genocide, it's like the boy who cried wolf too anyway times. People won't take him seriously when there is a real genocide
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I am amazed by the reaction of Indian leftist liberals and opposition parties on this video. Are they fools that they hope that a Germay based You Tuber’s video can defeat Modi? Yes, it can help the opposition camp get more money from people like George Soros.
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