Murali Krishnan
@legaljournalist
Challenge to amendments to #Aadhaar Act to be beard by Supreme Court today, Senior Advocate Shyam Divan to appear for petitioners.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/legaljournalist/status/1197761088739323904
Wish that pride was all it took to resist tyranny.
Mostly, pride here is limited to slogans of the "Garv se Bolo" type.
The real motivation should come from the terrifying thought that it'll be some babu in a Govt office who'll be deciding your fate. And anyone with "pull" with that babu will be able to get away with murder.
Just 10% probably need to resist this idiocy vehemently.
And we need MORE stories of the 19 lakh "foreigners". Bring them HOME to everyone.
There, but for..
This Govt won't do it. They know their IT cell will be the worst hit by this.
All the fake news gets tracked back to BJP IT cell and get busted.
Govt have more to lose than anyone in this case.
https://www.medianama.com/2019/11/223-no-aadhaar-social-media-linkage-rs-prasad-parliament/
RT @iam_anandv
This is #Aadhaar's main feature. - It started from "Everyone is a subsidy thief" to "Everyone is a potential terrorist and needs to be surveilled".
Deep distrust and xenophobic suspicion of the other was the founding principle. How biometrics can ever solve trust deficit? https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1196281378540838912
“Manmohan Singh: The suspicion that every industrialist, banker, policymaker, regulator, entrepreneur and citizen is out to defraud the government has led to a complete breakdown of trust in Indian society. This has halted economic development. https://t.co/fB1fueN5bD”
Let's be clear, his record before becoming CJI didn't indicate he'd be some champion of civil liberties (*cough* NRC *cough*).
But even his fiercest critics from back then wouldn't have predicted this. As a certain judge of the court is wont to say, "Not like this."
Kartar Singh Sarabha (24 May 1896 – 16 Nov 1915)
Revolutionary who chose to sacrifice life for the nation at the age of 19.
India must remember and celebrate such freedom fighters instead of some British stooge who wrote mercy petitions & lived for 82yrs! #KartarSinghSarabha