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Remember there was a video from 60s where well educated men and women were asked about their life and how they felt in independent India and all. Many wanted to get away and do different kind of jobs. Not far from how it was years later
 

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Its true, isn't it? If Congress choose Sonia or Rahul, everyone will keep silent. If they choose someone else, everyone is going to "Why not me?"
Anyways, I think what Congress thinks or does is largely irrelevant anymore. BJP has moved on to target regional parties now and will start getting rid of them one by one.
 

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Genuinely think that people like Tharoor, Sibal, Pilot etc would be better off trying to start a new party than being a part of this joke of an organisation. They can't even let go of the leadership when their existence is under threat. How many more humiliations will it take for them to realize that they have to walk away?

It reminds me of Steve Kean at Blackburn with the unfortunate common Indian connection.
 

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Genuinely think that people like Tharoor, Sibal, Pilot etc would be better off trying to start a new party than being a part of this joke of an organisation. They can't even let go of the leadership when their existence is under threat.
You need terrible lot of money to start a political party and be able to sustain it, and that too at national level.
 

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The ruling BJP was the largest advertiser on Facebook in India on “social issues, elections and politics” over the last 18 months, spending over Rs 4.61 crore since February 2019, followed by the main Opposition Congress party with Rs 1.84 crore, according to data available until August 24 on the social media giant’s spending tracker.

Among the top 10 spenders in this category are four other advertisers who are linked to the BJP, including three that share the same address in Delhi as the ruling party’s national headquarters, according to the tracker.

These four include two community pages, ‘My First Vote for Modi’ (Rs 1.39 crore) and ‘Bharat Ke Mann Ki Baat’ (Rs 2.24 crore); Nation With Namo, which is categorised as a news and media website (Rs 1.28 crore); and, a page (Rs 0.65 crore) affiliated to BJP leader and former MP R K Sinha, who owns Security and Intelligence Services (SIS).

Taken together with the BJP, their ad spend totals Rs 10.17 crore, which is about 64 per cent of the total advertising (Rs 15.81 crore) by the top ten in this category. The period covered includes the general elections in April-May 2019, which saw the BJP return to power with an overwhelming majority.

The other political entity among the top ten in this category is Aam Aadmi Party with a spend of Rs 69 lakh.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/facebook-india-ad-money-bjp-congress-6571461/
 

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IT cell resetting the dislikes on Dear Leader's mann ki baat episode. I'd laugh if it wasn't also incredibly sad.
 

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4 days of 75k+ cases and right on cue they started talking about getting Covid under control by Diwali...
 

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Fastest growing rate of Covid-19 cases (soon to overtake Brazil in total cases, close to 80k cases a day). Worst economic performance among all major economies (23.9% contraction). Have Indians just stopped giving a feck? We really should be on the streets protesting against these incompetent neo fascists but all is well for a lot of people as long as their bigotry and hyper-nationalism is catered to.
 

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Fastest growing rate of Covid-19 cases (soon to overtake Brazil in total cases, close to 80k cases a day). Worst economic performance among all major economies (23.9% contraction). Have Indians just stopped giving a feck? We really should be on the streets protesting against these incompetent neo fascists but all is well for a lot of people as long as their bigotry and hyper-nationalism is catered to.
Why waste time and energy on protesting (you'll end up jailed) when you can instead take part in a meme competition?

https://wap.business-standard.com/a...s-nutrition-month-pm-modi-120083000283_1.html
 

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Some are claiming that as per the old calculation that was used in upa era the number is even greater!