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The Villages That Were Submerged Due to PM Modi’s Birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYysHwsCSs0 The Wire 13 Jul 2024
Medha Patkar talks about the forty years of her struggle, the lives of the displaced people, the falsehood of compensation, and how a few Gujarat companies gained more from the Sardar Sarovar project.

संविधान हत्या दिवस पर राजनीति, संघ ने क्यों किया आपातकाल का समर्थन? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fR8FIvUqw Ravish Kumar Official 13 Jul 2024
मोदी सरकार ने अचानक 25 जून को संविधान हत्या दिवस मनाने का एलान कर दिया। जून के महीने में पार्टी ने आपातकाल की याद में लंबा चौड़़ा कार्यक्रम किया लेकिन इसका नामकरण किया गया जुलाई में। इस फैसले के बाद से ही सवाल उठने लगा कि आर एस एस ने आपातकाल का समर्थन किया था। कांग्रेस ने आज प्रेस कांफ्रेंस कर इसे लेकर सवाल पूछा है कि बीजेपी आर एस एस के स्टैंड पर क्यों नहीं बोलती है। तरह-तरह के दिवस मनाने की राजनीति पर देखिए हमारा यह वीडियो

Bulldozers & Demolitions, Political arrests during elections, Washing Machine, News Reporters' Arrests & Raids, Treament of foreign jurnliasts,

https://thefederal.com/category/features/keeping-up-the-good-fight-review-prabir-purkayastha-reflects-on-emergency-then-and-now-101061

Prabir Purkayastha: Keeping up the good fight: from the Emergency to the Present day.. the political autobiography of a midnight’s child, dissects tyranny and tyrants in India John Dayal 19 Nov 2023.. the narrative between his two arrests and incarcerations by two powerful regimes separated by half a century..Indira Gandhi’s government arrested him from the lawns of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in a case of mistaken identity, which, however, didn’t shorten his one year in jail under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA). The Narendra Modi regime has arrested Purkayastha under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), from the Delhi offices of NewsClick, one of the few independent news platforms in these times, which he had founded with some gut-feel that it would be needed not too far in the future.

RSS & Emergency https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/rss-emergency/article64760048.ece  A.G. NOORANI  Jul 18, 2018 The RSS and its flock in the BJP have no locus standi to make noises about the Emergency. Its own leaders grovelled before the Congress dispensation to win reprieves from jail terms and have the ban lifted on their organisation.
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These two videos from Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad (extract from his Whatsapp message
#RashtriyaSwayamSevakSangh Interactions With #IndiraGandhi During #EmergencyIndia1975  https://youtu.be/osAv8LXfNEQ  describes the numerous interactions between the RSS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Indira Gandhi, including during the Emergency. In November 1976, the RSS had signed a Document of Surrender, that if Indira Gandhi first released all RSS members from prison, then the RSS would support the Emergency. This RSS Document of Surrender, to take effect from January 1977, was processed by HY Sharada Prasad.

 https://youtu.be/hjgGTA11eEg  it was Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Narayan's tying up with Nanaji Deshmukh of the RSS which triggered Indira Gandhi to decide on a harsh crackdown...One of Indira Gandhi's principal aims in imposing the Emergency was to destroy the RSS and the ABVP in order to preserve India's secular policies. ..The Emergency was a panic over reaction by Indira Gandhi after Jaya Prakash Narayan and Morarji Desai had pushed her into a corner without giving her a face saving escape route... Indira Gandhi's including the term Socialist in the Preamble to the Constitution was her promise to Jaya Prakash Narayan... Indira Gandhi knew that the RSS would exploit Jaya Prakash Narayan to grab power, and so she included the term Secular in the Preamble of the Constitution.

Over 7 lakh people rendered homeless in last two years: Report https://maktoobmedia.com/india/over-7-lakh-people-rendered-homeless-in-last-two-years-report/ 

In the last two years (1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023), over 1.5 lakh houses were demolished by state authorities in India—at the central, state, and local levels—thereby, resulting in the forceful eviction of over 7.4 lakh people from their homes, Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) claimed in a new report released a new report.

Demolishing Muslim Properties in India https://inkstickmedia.com/demolishing-muslim-properties-in-india/ The demolitions by the BJP government are framed as “retribution” and “punishment” for Muslims for participating in anti-government protests — a gross violation of human rights, and a clear example of extrajudicial punishment even if the accusations are true. Most observers, however, see the violence as purely ethnically motivated. Now the BJP party has turned to targetted demolitions

In June 2022, Three United Nations Special Rapporteurs for Housing, Minority Issues and Freedom of Religion wrote a joint letter to the Indian government strongly criticizing and protesting arbitrary housing and property demolitions ordered by local governments to punish Muslim minorities. The letter claims the Indian government has carried out “collective punishment” against the minority Muslim community.

https://www.hlrn.org.in/documents/Forced_Evictions_2021.pdf