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Parliamentarian Prof @manojkjhadu spoke about #UNEQUAL in today's discussion in the @rajyasabhatv to challenge India's faceless, jobless growth and inequality 🙏🙏✊

Gyanesh Kumar, the Chief Election Commissioner, faced “go back” slogans and black flag protests during his visit to Kalighat Temple in Kolkata on March 9. 📹: PTI

but didn't the #EpsteinFiles have to be erased from the news cycle #DistractAndRule

cannot recommend the Kochi-Muziris #Biennale enough - the real #KeralaStory of everyday secularism is as exquisite kochimuzirisbiennale.org

“In the final analysis, the measure of a democracy is not the absence of protest at international summits, but presence of a citizenry willing to speak even when the setting is inconvenient. Silence may preserve appearances, but dissent preserves freedom” indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

When you regularly target universities that show a semblance of critical thinking and reward sycophants instead, you will only get institutions like Galgotias. What happened at the AI summit isn't a surprise. Sycophancy and innovation don't go well together.

Indian news report on key takeaways Bangladesh elections: “BNP Sweep, Jamaat Snub, No Awami League: Tarique Rahman is set to become Bangladesh's prime minister, becoming the first male to hold the post in 35 years.” Not many countries can make the last claim!

Being in the spotlight has always made #AnirbanBhattacharya uneasy. scroll.in/article/109060… He remains invested in public life, just from behind the scenes, like being a researcher for Kunal Kamra's podcast. What made the introvert take to podcasting? @AnantGuptaAG reports

What can one say when the union of india csnnot defend its own regulations and looks to the Supreme Court for a bail Out? Failure of constitutional duty ?

#MGNREGA_Bachao_Sangram Rally 📍Bhucho Mandi

What a joke we have become.

The Centre as the federal puppet master squashing the legal #RightToWork Har haath ko kaam do, kaam ka pura daam do ✊ #RestoreMGNREGA scroll.in/article/108980… @NREGA_Sangharsh @rozi_roti

"If you're watching this, it means I've been locked up.." Umar Khalid’s video message just before his arrest in 2020. Rewatch this as the Supreme Court denies him bail yet again.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

“The annihilation of this powerful social security intervention will have catastrophic consequences for crores of people across rural India.” CPP Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji’s stark warning about the demolished MGNREGA in The Hindu is a must-read.

As Governor of Jharkhand, (now) President Murmu rejected BJP CM Raghubar Das' govt's amendments to Chota Nagpur+ Santhal Parganas acts. Will she stand up again now against the repeal of NREGA and replacement with a central scheme masquerading as an Act? downtoearth.org.in/governance/-i-…

This is gone! A huge blow on rural women. A step ahead in cementing dependency on cash transfers. #NREGA #MGNREGA #GRamG Photos from MGNREGA site at Nilambur, Kerala. May, 2023.

Last night, the Modi government demolished twenty years of MGNREGA in one day. VB–G RAM G isn’t a “revamp” of MGNREGA. It demolishes the rights-based, demand-driven guarantee and turns it into a rationed scheme which is controlled from Delhi. It is anti-state and anti-village by design. MGNREGA gave the rural worker bargaining power. With real options, exploitation and distress migration fell, wages increased, working conditions improved, all while building and reviving rural infrastructure. That leverage is precisely what this government wants to break. By capping work and building in more ways to deny it, VB–G RAM G weakens the one instrument which the rural poor had. We saw what MGNREGA meant during COVID. When the economy shut down and livelihoods collapsed, it kept crores from falling into hunger and debt. And it helped women the most - year after year, women have contributed more than half the person-days. When you ration a jobs programme, it is women, Dalits, Adivasis, landless workers and the poorest OBC communities who get pushed out first. To top it all, this law was bulldozed through Parliament without proper scrutiny. The opposition demand to send the bill to a Standing Committee was rejected. A law that rewires the rural social contract, affecting crores of workers should never be rammed through without serious committee scrutiny, expert consultation, and public hearings. PM Modi’s targets are clear: weaken labour, weaken the leverage of rural India, especially Dalits, OBCs and Adivasis, centralise power, and then sell slogans as “reform”. MGNREGA is among the most successful poverty alleviation and empowerment programmes in the world. We will not let this government destroy the rural poor’s last line of defence. We will stand with workers, panchayats, and states to defeat this move and build a nationwide front to ensure this law is withdrawn.

#TakeBackGRAMG Protests in #Odisha Bring back the lifeline of the poor - #MGNREGA Please follow @NREGA_Sangharsh for more updates

Protests today in Bihar - 58% of #MGNREGA workers are women

Protests start across the country yesterday #MGNREGA