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> Free speech & Free media

Really? Rahul Gandhi (Opposition) was jailed for free speech? Governemnt banned BBC documentary and raid their offices in Delhi? Jailed comedian for free speech? Journalist visiting victim was jailed for 6 months is free media/free speech? Thretening to jail twitter employees if they don't remove tweets critical of this government is a free speech?

> Corruption

Didn't this government bought as many as MLAs as previous 5 government combined?

Did anything happened to Adani?

Demonetization? 5G Spectrum? PM Cares? are not scams?

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> Really? Rahul Gandhi (Opposition) was jailed for free speech?

No he is being prosecuted for a law his party created. He looses the MLAship by a law created by his party. He has been tried in a court of law. He wasn't plucked from the clutches of his mother and thrown in jail.

> Governemnt banned BBC documentary and raid their offices in Delhi?

It was a propaganda piece. Modi was tried in court by opposition and you should read the remarks by supreme court on the nature of the allegations against him.

Not commenting on the others since I don't know about it.

> Didn't this government bought as many as MLAs as previous 5 government combined?

Yes along with residential plots on Venus.

> Did anything happened to Adani? What should happen to him?

> Demonetization? 5G Spectrum? PM Cares? are not scams? No?

Electoral Bond.

I guess you don't understand free speech. Fighting a defamation case with powerful lawyers besides you in a court of law and losing it and then appealing it in a higher court, all while being out on bail and able to plan and campaign actively in an ongoing state election is the definition of justice system working fine in a democracy.

> Demonetization? 5G Spectrum? PM Cares? are not scams?

Explain please. I'm genuinely curious to know what these scams are.

PM Cards - Government told the court that they do not want under RTI.

5G Spectrum sold for as much as 2g. But 2g was a huge scam. Since 2g, Indian wireless usage increased by 10 folds. So either 2g was not a scam, and genius or 5g auction was a bigger scam. You decide.

Demonetization - UP had a state election. Gujarat had panchayat election. Since Modi/Shah knew about it, they converted their cash. It wasn't about the black money. It was about reducing oppositions cash holding during the election. I was in India, and I saw how BJP was able to distribute liquor & money in the villages while everyone was standing in line.

Thanks for agreeing with me about the all the other issues.

PM Cares Scam:

During Covid, Modi created a fund with the name "PM Cares" pretending that it was a government fund by using national emblem of India in the Fund's documentation. And it is illegal for the national emblem to be used for private entities. They took money from government organizations, and their staff salaries. The government banks showed banners on their websites to asking people . On demands of an CAG Audit, they backtracked and said this is a private fund and not subjected to government oversight.

Petitions filed under the Right to Information Act 2005 by the Indian Express to 32 public sector undertakings (PSUs) in India indicated that a total of ₹21050 million had been transferred to the PM CARES Fund, primarily from their corporate social responsibility budget allocations for 2019-20 and 2020–21. A petition for the same information that was made to the Prime Minister's Office was denied, with the Government of India stating that the Fund was not a public authority and did not have to account for the funds under the Right to Information Act. In December 2020, the Indian Express reported that a total of 101 public sector units had transferred ₹2,400 crore (US$300 million) from their corporate social responsibility funds, and a total of ₹155 crore (US$19 million) from staff salaries, to the PM CARES Fund.

Okay, that does smell. Thanks for the detailed response.

Edit: A quick search got me this: https://www.pmcares.gov.in/en/web/page/about_us with the audited financial statements. Is this still a scam? Genuinely curious.

I am getting "403 Forbidden" error for 2 out of 3 audit statements from the link that you shared.

It is indeed one of the biggest scam by Modi BJP government where they siphoned off over 10,000 crores of money on the name of providing coronavirus relief.

1. Why they used national emblem of India in the Fund's documentation while it is illegal for the national emblem to be used for private entities?

2. If it was a private fund, why they took thousands of crores of money from government organizations?

3. If it was a private fund, why they forced donations from government employees' salaries? [1]

4. Russian arms firm to donate $2 million to PM CARES Fund [2]

5. Instead of getting it audited by "Comptroller and Auditor General of India" why they are auditing it through a private Chartered Accountants firm that is closely linked to BJP? [3]

[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/coronavirus-pm-cares-...

[2] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/russian-arms-firm-to-...

[3] https://www.indiejournal.in/article/exclusive-pm-cares-fund-...

I am pretty sure criminal defamation is a jailable offence, no matter if you are the Leader of Opposition or not.

Mr. Gandhi was convicted by a court of law, not the executive or the legislature. If you call all Modis criminals, be prepared to backup such a statement.

It is after all a reasonably large thing to be called a thief and a criminal if you are a merchant yes?

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