We ll soon meet in your inbox.
Please wait.
In the tweet, the actor urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to show his Virat Roop from the early 2000s to tame Mamata Banerjee in Bengal. This sparked outrage among Twitter users, who asked the platform to take action against her account. We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. The referenced account has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twitter Rules specifically our Hateful Conduct policy and Abusive Behaviour policy, a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. We enforce the Twitter Rules judiciously and impartially for everyone on our service.
Desk Report
The actor had been critical of the micro-blogging site s regulation policies in tweets that led to her suspension.
Part-time Bollywood actor and full-time couch politician Kangana Ranaut s Twitter account has been suspended today, Tuesday.
In tweets made prior to the her suspension, the
Queen star had been very vocal about the alleged violence in West Bengal after the election results were declared. The All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) stunned the BJP in the state elections, as the ruling party struggled to get even half the votes it aimed for. The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC won 213 seats with the majority mark standing at 148. The BJP managed to secure only 77 constituencies. Soon after the result, reports of violence across the state emerged, with BJP accusing TMC of murdering its workers, vandalising their offices. However, Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien said that the incidents were “BJP intra-party fights”.
In February, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party passed a resolution declaring that the country had “defeated Covid under the able, sensitive, committed and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.” It hadn’t.
India has been undergoing a severe COVID resurgence since March: Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are escalating faster than anywhere else in the world, while dire shortages of vaccines, medical ingredients, and oxygen tanks have denied countless patients the care they’ve needed. Multiple countries have restricted or banned travel from India after receiving Indian passengers with COVID symptoms, and India has stopped shipping vaccines abroad in order to prioritize its population. Yet even in the face of horrific tragedy, Narendra Modi has refused to establish necessary lockdowns to stop viral spread many individual states have instead enacted their own restrictions, like they were forced to do last year. Instead of focusing on shoring up n
Can a person who lost election be appointed as chief minister?
Is there any legal or constitutional bar in a person who lost election becoming Chief Minister? This column attempts to discuss the law and precedents in this regard.
By News Desk| Updated: 4th May 2021 4:57 pm IST Photo: Mamata Banerjee
She is reportedly going to swear in as the Chief Minister of the state.
Is there any legal or constitutional bar in a person who lost election becoming Chief Minister? This column attempts to discuss the law and precedents in this regard.
Article 164 of the Constitution deals with appointment of Chief Minister and other ministers. It reads as follows:
The Economist15:22, May 04 2021
OPINION: In the home state of Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, a person too clever by half is said to have won the house, but lost Gujarat. Through March and April, political pundits voiced the Gujarati proverb as a warning. So fiercely were Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) fighting to win elections in another state, West Bengal, that they risked losing a bigger prize. Focused obsessively on the campaign through eight rounds of voting that ended on April 29, they failed to pay attention as India’s second wave of Covid-19 grew from a worrying swell into a tidal wave – the biggest cataclysm to have struck the country in living memory.