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Our #RepublicDay #TwitterTakeover with @glorious_gluten has begun!

For the next hour, she will be discussing the relationship between the #police, #State and the #law.

Join the conversation and send us your questions in the comments section.

 On #26January, 2021, the Indian republic completes 71 years since its formation; against the background of a global pandemic that has starkly exposed its fault lines. | @glorious_gluten
The 299 member #ConstituentAssembly was unique for there were 15 women (including a #Dalit woman Dakshini Velayudhan) who were voted to be a part of the
Committee and make their contribution to the building of the republic. #RepublicDay | @glorious_gluten
The #Constitution has also been described as an elite document borrowing heavily from the
Government of India Act, 1935 and heralded by the upper echelons of the country.

The judiciary, army, the police are repositories of this colonial legislation. @glorious_gluten
Those living on the margins have mediated the everyday life of Constitutionalism in the country bringing the document to life as during the Pathalgadi movement led by Adivasis in Jharkhand. | @glorious_gluten
The Indian #SupremeCourt once known as an activist Court given its liberal usage of the power of judicial review has increasingly evolved into an institution that has honoured the #Constitution only in the breach. | @glorious_gluten
The role of the police in Indian #democracy needs to be located within this context.

Over the last year, the omnipresence of the police in the functioning of the Indian democracy particularly in its response to the #COVID19 pandemic has become prominent. | @glorious_gluten
While being made the first point of response of the Indian State to the pandemic, this response has also been marred with instances of violence most notably the deaths of #JeyarajandBennix in police custody. | @glorious_gluten
Understanding the nature and structure of policing is key to examining the relationship between State, and the law in the world’s largest constitutional democracy.

I will examine two aspects of #policing: maintenance of law and order and surveillance. @glorious_gluten
It is crucial to examine and trace the trajectory of such an institution of policing, from its colonial roots of maintaining social control to its current role as an arbiter of law and order maintenance. |@glorious_gluten
India’s police force was set up by the #EastIndiaCompany to control and surveil over-colonised populations for political exploitation and economic appropriation. | @glorious_gluten
It is modelled after the Irish colonial paramilitary police.

The colonial state maintained ‘public order’ by policing populations whose behaviours it deemed unnatural and using vast surveillance powers to quell independence, labour and communist movements. | @glorious_gluten
Against a failure to control the population as a whole, the British government proceeded selectively against some social groups within the working class, who were identified as the ‘proper objects of policing’ upon a consensus built to make its job easier. | @glorious_gluten
This determination by the police regarding which communities are proper objects of policing derives its rationale from the #CasteSystem.

The #police have evolved into a system of casteist social control targeted at people from #Dalit, #Adivasi, #Bahujan and minority communities.
Under the #Constitution, police is a subject on the State list.

Therefore, each of the 29 states have their own police forces. The centre is also allowed to maintain its own police forces to assist the states with ensuring law and order. @glorious_gluten
It maintains seven central police forces and some other police organisations for specialised tasks such as intelligence gathering, investigation, research and record-keeping, and training. | @glorious_gluten
Some states have modelled their laws on the basis of a central law, the #PoliceAct, 1861.

States also have their police manuals detailing how #police of the state are organised, their roles and responsibilities, records that must be maintained, etc. @glorious_gluten
The #CriminalTribesAct (CTA), 1870 is a stark example of this.

This legislation characterised several nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes as hereditary criminals. | @glorious_gluten
This law was amended in 1911 further empowering the police reason to believe that the community is addicted to crime registration, taking fingerprints, report to headmen, police. @glorious_gluten
Ameya Bokil and I have argued about the oppressive nature of substantive criminal laws such as the WPA, the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (IFA), the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (PCA), excise acts, and anti-beggary laws.

This has now includes #CowSlaughter laws.
It is argued that the disparate impact of these laws on certain classes of people -- in particular on their freedom of trade and right to preferences of food -- are disproportionate and unconstitutional. | @glorious_gluten
Determining who deserves to be “policed” is a consequence of the discretionary function of policing.

Discretionary power within the police force is higher within the lower ranks of the police force given their proximity to the public. | @glorios_gluten
The #CriminalJusticeandPoliceAccountabilityProject (CPA Project) studied 34,000 arrest records and 500 FIRs filed in #MadhyaPradesh, India to understand the patterns of pandemic policing and locate the socio-economic profiles of the individuals policed. | @glorious_gluten
The consequent report Countermapping Pandemic Policing – Sanctioned Violence in Madhya Pradesh notes that the police exercised the wide discretionary powers arbitrarily and disproportionately criminalised #marginalisedcommunities. | @glorious_gluten
In the dataset studied, over 6,000 individuals were arrested solely for violating lockdown regulations.

Over 4,000 individuals were arrested for allegedly committing minor, bailable offences such as gambling, hurt and alcohol possession all victimless offences. @glorious_gluten
Another key aspect of #policing is #surveillance.

Much like its law and order function, bodies of marginalised communities are subjected to surveillance in different ways. @glorious_gluten
In MP, being considered a habitual offender is not contingent upon prior conviction for an offence if the police station house officer has “reasonable suspicion”. @glorious_gluten
Rule 411(4) of the MP Prison Manual defines a #habitualoffender as also being, “A member of #ScheduledTribes in the jurisdiction of the state government according to their discretion.” @glorious_gluten
Several bastis of Bhopal where DNT, Muslims and other marginalised communities reside in are routinely required to submit their fingerprints, and other biometric data.

This record is also utilized by the district administration to extern members of these communities.
Surveillance extends up to being required to submit an application for organizing a wedding along with the guest list.

In Ehsaan Nagar, a Pardhi basti, in Bhopal an entire wedding party including the bride and groom were detained on their wedding day for failing to do so.
These actions of the police have impinged the movement, trade, livelihood etc of these communities and the effect of thereby infringing upon the constitutional guarantee of #FundamentalRights. | @glorious_gluten
#CustodialRape was recognised by an Amendment to the IPC in 1983 following the #Mathura gangrape, an Adivasi woman by two policemen in custody.

The accused policemen were acquitted by the SC amidst much uproar by terming it an act of "passive submission and a peaceful affair."
In Bhopal, Indramal Bai, a Pardhi woman, immolated herself due to police harassment.

The Brahminical patriarchal nature of policing forms the undercurrent of the violence inflicted against DBA women. @glorious_gluten
There have been several attempts made to reform the #police.
In 2006, a senior police official, Prakash Singh, moved the #SupremeCourt through a public interest litigation. | @glorious_gluten
Over the last few years particularly #BlackLivesMatter movement has drawn attention to the racial inequality embedded within the American #CriminalJustice system which has propelled the discourse away from reform toward decarceration, defunding and abolition. @glorious_gluten
It is imperative to ask how far our quest for reforming the institution of policing will take us given its structural design to target #Bahujans. | @glorious_gluten
Moreover, it is necessary to interrogate if and where these ideas of carcerality lie along the spectrum of Constitutional morality. | @glorious_gluten

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How Kejariwal and AAP involved with Pro Khalistan and how they do financial fraud!

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In November 2015, AAP’s Sanjay Singh and Ashutosh went to Canada and USA along with few other leaders for donation drive.


About this trip Ashutosh said that "The Indians working in Canada not only hold economic power because of the money they send back, but can also influence voters. More importantly, they are also a major source of fund for the party"
They receive major funds from USA,Canada & UK


In 2015 Sanjay Sing visited Canada 2 times. But interestingly you won’t find any details about his second visit in public domain!
In that visit they met so many pro-Khalistani leaders and discussed they future plan
Pro-Khalistani Leaders have promised them huge financial support


Now let’s see how AAP is involved in Farmer protest on ground.
In December 2020 few NRI reached to Protest site by claiming that they are here to support farmers, but actually they are AAP’s Canada Unit!
They all were here during Punjab election, you can see it in below news.


During Election in Punjab Kejariwal stayed in the house of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF) terrorist Gurwinder Singh.
Not only that, terrorists were openly campaigning for AAP in Punjab election.
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Buddha is Ashtavinayak and "Ganapati Bappa Morya" is "Chandragupta Morya".

In the era of democracy, the head of state is the President. But in ancient India, there was a Gana culture in the monarchy and the head of that Gana was called Ganapati
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In ancient India, a prince named Siddharth Gautam was born in royalty. He later became the king of Shakya Gana in this Gana culture. In time, Siddhartha attained enlightenment.

Let us now understand the difference between a real Ganapati and an imaginary Ganapati.
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Some clever Brahmin manuvadis made the real Ganapati the imaginary Ganapati.

Buddha was the king of the Shakya Gana, so people called him Ganaraja. He founded Buddhism and became the head of the Shakyas. As the head of Gana, people used to call Buddha as Ganapati.
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But the Brahmins Brahmanized Ganapati and created a false Ganapati. When Buddha used to give the message of Dharma to the people, two words would come out of his message. Chitta and Malla.

Chitta is the body.
Malla means waste
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We were all revering Cows and other animals much before all these 'Activists' cropped up. Respecting the environment, the trees and animals are a way of life for Hindus

On the eve of Maattu Pongal, here are a few personal Cow Remembrances 1/n


I was all of 4 when we moved to Vadakara. School was still a year away. We lived in a House named 'Kottaram' (Palace), which had a long backyard. Beyond that was a small house where a Brahmin Family Resided. Mami had a cow. 2/n

Around 2.30 pm, she will call "Konthe" (Colloquial for Kuzhanthai or Child), and that was the sign for me to run across pulling up my half trouser.

A Half Wall separated the houses and I would climb up to watch the guy who milched their cow. 3/n

Once he milched, I will get my quota of a very small glass of raw milk. She never ever took the milk inside without giving me my share fondly. Once I drink it, I played with the calf and then ran back home 4/n


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@BharadwajSpeaks
Thread.

Recently, Harsimrat Kaur @HarsimratBadal_ claimed in parliament that Guru Tegh Bahadur protected the religion of Hindus despite of being a Non-Hindu. And Hindus owe a huge favor to others.

In this thread, I will show that Guru Tegh Bahadur was every inch a Hindu!

Let us begin with some contemporary sources.

Guru Tegh Bahadur visited the holy Triveni at Prayaga in 1662 CE.

This visit is documented in contemporary Bhat Vahi records.

Unlike those unpublished "bhat vahis", this one was published by Sikh historian Madanjit Kaur (1978)


This Bhat Vahi was signed by Guru Tegh Bahadur.

The content of the letter is particularly striking.

Guru Tegh Bahadur calls himself a devotee of Naina Devi.

Note. A devotee of Naina Devi. He does not mention Akal Purakh or Waheguru.


In the record, Guru Tegh Bahadur identifies himself as Sodhi Khatri by Varna and Kaushish by gotra.

This is exactly how the followers of orthodox Hinduism identify themselves to this date!


Further, Guru Tegh Bahadur appoints a brahmin purohit named Bhoj Raj.

He orders Sodhis of his line and all his Sikh followers to obey the aforementioned Brahmin Purohit.

This practice of appointing purohits is just what is referred to by some people as "Brahmanical Hinduism"
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1.எப்போது ஆரம்பித்தது என அறியப்படமுடியாத தொலை காலமாக (தொல்லை)

2. இருந்து வரும் (இரும்)


3.பிறவிப் பயணத்திலே ஆழ்த்துகின்ற (பிறவி சூழும்)

4.அறியாமையாகிய இடரை (தளை)

5.அகற்றி (நீக்கி),

6.அதன் விளைவால் சுகதுக்கமெனும் துயரங்கள் விலக (அல்லல் அறுத்து),

7.முழுநிறைவாய்த் தன்னுளே இறைவனை உணர்த்துவதே (ஆனந்த மாக்கியதே),

8.பிறந்து இறக்கும் காலவெளிகளில் (எல்லை)

9.பிணைக்காமல் (மருவா)

10.காக்கும் மெய்யறிவினைத் தருகின்ற (நெறியளிக்கும்),

11.என் தலைவனான மாணிக்க வாசகரின் (வாதவூரெங்கோன்)

12.திருவாசகம் எனும் தேன் (திருவா சகமென்னுந் தேன்)

முதல்வரி: பிறவி என்பது முன்வினை விதையால் முளைப்பதோர் பெருமரம். அந்த ‘முன்வினை’ எங்கு ஆரம்பித்தது எனச் சொல்ல இயலாது. ஆனால் ‘அறியாமை’ ஒன்றே ஆசைக்கும்,, அச்சத்துக்கும் காரணம் என்பதால், அவையே வினைகளை விளைவிப்பன என்பதால், தொடர்ந்து வரும் பிறவிகளுக்கு, ‘அறியாமையே’ காரணம்

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