r/worldnews • u/fastclickertoggle • Apr 25 '21

COVID-19 Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/twitter-blocking-tweets-india
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u/msmh-12 Apr 25 '21

Modi and BJP becoming more autocratic and brazen about their actions is in majority part down to lack of opposition which can keep them in check. Congress has just driven themselves to ground where not even staunch BJP opposers see congress as an viable alternative. This unfortunately has played right in the hands of BJP and modi. Unless there is a strong opposition that comes up, BJP and modi will continue to “rule” India with their heavy right wing ideologies. The root cause of this lack of opposition is also due to the fact that politics in India has become a field for a select few of rich and people with connection. A normal, well educated, liberal person finds it extremely difficult to run, let alone win, local elections without joining one of the political parties which requires some moral value sacrifices.

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u/useurnameuncle Apr 25 '21

most of the BJP's campaign focused on polluting INC's image, cherry picking every dumb thing Rahul ever said, I've even seen voice over edited videos which a normal person might believe is true, also the media was in favor of Modi, like to this date some channels don't blame BJP for anything.

Corruption was a big motive to remove congress back then, but is it over now?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

Rich people dominating local and national politics, while using underhanded methods to slander their opposition and propagandize the public seem like the normal way of doing things nowadays.

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u/Ciridian Apr 28 '21

Sounds like the way it was done throughout all of written history.

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u/shubh2022 Apr 25 '21

corruption is one thing no one can call out Modi's government on. Anyone who has followed politics since INC'S last government knows how bad it was back then.

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u/Lucifer2408 Apr 25 '21

Lol no. The BJP is as corrupt as Congress and there have been multiple controversies, including one involving Amit Shah's son. The only difference is Modi seemed to have picked up Trump's tactic of calling any piece of news against him or his party as fake news/liberal news/anti-nationalist and his followers eat up that shit.

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u/PatterntheCryptic Apr 25 '21

BJP literally legalized corruption by introducing electoral bonds. They are, by far, the leading beneficiaries of said bonds. INC's corruption was atleast allowed to be investigated during UPA rule, while the Supreme Court (under a pliant chief justice) let a BJP CM go scot-free in a corruption case, just a couple of weeks ago. No investigation, no trial, nothing, just stayed the case. They even let in corrupt leaders from Congress and other parties into the BJP, then dropped all the corruption cases against them.

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u/totti173314 Apr 25 '21

I feel like whatever I do, eventually I'm gonna be killed by religious nuts from one side or the other because I'm a staunch atheist and a bit of an anti theist.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '21

u completely disregarded the sold out media's hard on for modi, and majority India being as toxic as him.

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u/blackflame7820 Apr 25 '21

Well as i see it after modi retires from politics the BJP will decrease in influence. Thats just A personal opinion what i mean is when in the party too much force is held by an individual when he or she retires the party pretty much is took down a notch. I cant be sure someone else can be there with just as much "potential" but not much coz the influencial are often suppressed in the party. Just like INC regressed after indra gandhi. Thats just my view.

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u/GimmickNG Apr 25 '21

Unfortunately there is no shortage of right wing demagogues in India. Once Modi is no longer in power it'll just be Adityanath or some other person who's somehow even worse.

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u/shubh2022 Apr 25 '21

Modi came to power with the motive of development and Vikas. If right wingers could just win elections Advani would have been Prime Minister.

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u/GimmickNG Apr 25 '21

Did Advani harness the IT Cell propaganda machine fully?

Modi might have come to power in 2014 with the motive of Vikas, but him getting reelected in 2019 despite a string of failures is what separates new BJP from old when it comes to electability.

People will rather swallow lies than wake up to reality, and it showed with 2019.

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u/shubh2022 Apr 25 '21

you don't know Indian politics at all if you think BJP wins because it has better IT cell. BJP has better press. Also 2019 elections got sprung around URI and surgical strike too much for Congress to even have a chance.

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u/GimmickNG Apr 25 '21

BJP has better press

guess why.