#indian protest

I genuinely did not think it could get any lower than this, and the government just PROVED ME WRONG. LATHI CHARGE ON STUDENTS. TEAR GAS. They don't even care who they're hitting anymore, students, elderly people, EVERYONE. THEY HIT A TWELVE YEAR OLD CHILD. A CHILD. And they're probably sitting somewhere proud of themselves right now.

AND NOW THEY'RE AIMING GUNS AT US? AT STUDENTS? AT PEOPLE ON A PEACEFUL PROTEST, ASKING FOR NOTHING MORE THAN THEIR BASIC RIGHTS?

I have no words left for this. THIS IS NOT GOVERNANCE. THIS IS VIOLENCE, plain and simple, against your own people, because they dared to ask for something better. HOW DOES ANYONE SLEEP AT NIGHT AFTER GIVING AN ORDER LIKE THAT?

Let's get one thing straight, i'm not here for CJP. I'm here for the people fighting FOR us.

Whatever their personal reasons are, i genuinely don't care right now. Maybe they've got their own gains in mind, maybe they don't, who knows. But tell me ONE party, ONE person in this entire political circus who's out here with zero self interest. You can't. So why is that suddenly the standard we hold against the people actually showing up for students?

At least they're doing something. At least they're standing on ground, taking the heat, putting their name on the line, while everyone else sits comfortable and criticizes from the sidelines. That counts for something. That counts for a LOT actually.

It has been more than 18 days. EIGHTEEN. a man is STARVING HIMSELF at jantar mantar because the government won't even bother firing an education minister who let millions of students get failed by a leaked exam paper. and the response from the people in power?? Nothing. Silence. Business as usual.

Do these ministers even see this?? do they get it?? there's literally a court case right now because doctors are worried he might not survive this and they had to ask a judge to force the government to step in. people are giving him medical checkups every single day just so he doesn't die on live camera and this is somehow not urgent enough for anyone to just to do something.

Is THIS the india we were supposed to have?? is this what independence was for, so a man has to put his own life on the line just to get someone to LISTEN?? he's doing this for us. for students. for anyone who's ever gotten screwed over by a system that doesn't care. And they're letting him waste away like it's nothing.

He should NOT have to die for this. this is not okay. this is not normal. this should not be normal.

I'm m a med student and every part of me wants to go sit there with him rn but i can't leave without my parents' say so. if you CAN go, please go. stand there. be loud. don't let this get swept under the rug like everything else does.