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Interesting: a day after polling ends in West Bengal, ED chooses not to oppose regular bail to Vinesh Chandel, co-founder IPAC in an alleged money laundering case. Raat gayi, baat gayi?🙏

I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

CM Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray inspected the progress of the construction work of the New Khopoli to Kusgaon (Missing Link) project on the Mumbai-Pune expressway.

चुनावी राहत खत्म, महंगाई की गर्मी तैयार! 29th April के बाद देखिए - पेट्रोल, डीज़ल, सब महंगे होंगे। जब तेल सस्ता था, मोदी सरकार ने अपना मुनाफ़ा रखा। अब महंगा है, तो बोझ आप पर डालेगी। सस्ते की लूट मचाती सरकार - जनता को बस महंगाई की मार।

Maharashtra’s Environment and Climate Change Department, led by BJP minister Pankaja Munde, has cancelled administrative approval to 14 lake conservation projects cleared under previous governments, including 11 sanctioned when former Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, an ally, held the portfolio. The department has also ordered recovery of funds already released for these projects, along with interest. Of the 14 projects scrapped, 11 were approved during Shinde’s tenure, while three were cleared when the department was headed by Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray during the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.

Fair & lovely Babua @DripsAjaypal - good to see you enjoying yourself FantaCop style. Stay Thanda Thanda Cool Cool. Bengal is always Trinamool.

Rahul Gandhi has successfully got his image corrected from non serious politician to a serious one in last few years when he challenged the government directly on ground by his constant fight. RaGa needs to push the pedal more now and get more aggressive cornering the government

One of the boldest and yet cleaver play by a politician. This is exactly how the opposition should react against the govt and its institutions. Taking challenge on paper that too against a judge! This is a character building move and he will be fruitful in coming years

जस्टिस स्वर्णकान्ता शर्मा जी से न्याय मिलने की मेरी उम्मीद टूट चुकी है। अपनी अंतरात्मा की आवाज़ सुनते हुए, गांधी जी के सिद्धांतो को मानते हुए और सत्याग्रह की भावना के साथ, मैंने फ़ैसला किया है कि मैं इस केस में उनके सामने पेश नहीं हूंगा और कोई दलील भी नहीं रखूँगा।

It’s easier to run away to London, fight for Samosas, make vacuous statements and posts, hire a PR team to become wannabe Mamdani and then act all virtuous. It’s tougher to be in the opposition and be a @SanjayAzadSln

"जिन्होंने BJP को बनाया अपना अड्डा AAP के घर में कर दिया गड्ढा उनका नाम है राघव चड्ढा" ◆ शिव सेना (UBT) प्रवक्ता @ANANDDUBEYK की इन पक्तियों से हंस पड़ा पूरा पैनल ◆ देखिए राष्ट्र की बात, मानक गुप्ता के साथ ◆ पूरा शो: bit.ly/4e7Nw6g #RKB | #RashtraKiBaat | @manakgupta

5 mins of pure Sarcasm

What happened with AAP is the reason why only a Gandhi family member should be Congress party president.

It's not surprising that Raghav Chadha and Swati Maliwal officially joined BJP. In any case, they had already been working for BJP unofficially. It's not surprising that Ashok Mittal joined BJP 10 days after being raided by ED. That's BJP's playbook stuff. The surprising thing is that BJP wasn't able to break Manish Sisodia, Satyendra Jain and Sanjay Singh, despite trying everything they could.

Regional leaders who have stood their ground against the BJP despite being raided by EDs, CBI etc are the real ideological driven leaders. The likes of Akhilesh Yadav, Sanjay Raut, TMC leaders, Sanjay Singh, Kejriwal, Sisodiya, G Gogoi and many more! History will be kinder to you

Rahul Gandhi is the only true face against BJP and their ideology. Fighting against the giants of BJP is like a suicide and those who join politics for money and power have switched to BJP. Thanks to the andhbhakt voters, BJP is successful in running political circus since 2016.

You were a simple spokesperson of the party. The only thing you have done is go to TV channels and speak. Kejriwal trusted you and gave you an MP ticket from Delhi. You lost. He then offered you a safe seat and campaigned for you to make you an MLA. You were never involved in ground politics, but still Kejriwal gave you more than what you deserved just because of trust. AAP won Punjab, and as you were a good speaker and a trusted party person, you were offered a Rajya Sabha MP position. As a young MP, you married a Bollywood film star, and at the same time, the top leadership was raided and arrested by ED on the instructions of Ranga Billa. Here is where things changed. Your name was also in the chargesheet. Like others, it was confirmed that you would have to go to jail and be deprived of the luxuries that you are used to. You used your wife's family BJP connections to stay away from arrest and ran to London. You came back with a condition that you would not speak anything against BJP, but as an opposition leader, it was not possible. You started picking topics to build your career as a young Gen Z-style politician using PR agencies. But you got exposed, and people now understand what your motives were. You can't leave politics because your Bollywood wife can't just be the wife of a jobless CA with zero experience. You can't stay in AAP without doing AAP-style politics. You can't speak against Modi. You have only one option, and that was to leave AAP and join BJP. But that would mean that you would have to lose your RS membership. You held a few meetings and planned ED raids on people whom you could pressure to come along with you to make your defection safe. You have saved your marriage and RS seat, but in the end, you have sabotaged your image and the trust of thousands of volunteers who made you what you are today. Just three words for you. SHAME ON YOU.

Swati Maliwal protested at Jantar Mantar for Female wrestlers against Brijbhushan Singh Now she is with Brijbhushan Singh!!

Say a word against Modi or the RSS and the entire BJP spills onto the streets, their leaders line up for endless press conferences and their ₹2 troll army carpet bombs social media against the opposition. But when Trump repeatedly insults India and calls it a “hellhole,” not a whisper escapes their lips. Their deshbhakti begins and ends with blind loyalty to their leaders, never with dignity for the nation.

@suyash_kamath Cant handle a simple criticism that too on social media. But want to record video and shame couple for minding their own business. Looked at his pinned tweet flaunting his CGPA. Padha likha gawar who cant simply use his brain for basic common sense

@suyash_kamath You are the one barking and judging here. Try minding your own business, it will give your conservative little brain a bit of peace. Aren’t you engineer? Haven’t you ever been to college or have friends who enjoy freedom? Get some liberal exposure please and stop being an uncle

The way things are going in this country, I fear these “Dharm k thekedars” would enter Mumbai and would start giving gyaan like him. Decade ago, me and my gf have literally make out in front of the police and CM convey and nobody cared or judged us.