Dissent  

While Rahul Gandhi unsuccessfully tries deflecting the infighting within the Congress by blaming Modi for the state of economy, among others, BJP has asked him to explain the ‘G-23’ conflict 

Congress has punished those who chose to write a letter to the party chief, seeking changes

 In the letter of dissent shot off to AICC president Sonia Gandhi, the signatories rue the loss of youngsters and how Congress has failed to have an introspection since its political debacle 2019 
 

Sources indicate that senior Congress leaders want those dissenters who wrote a letter to AICC chief Sonia Gandhi seeking changes in the party to be punished 

 Moments after he was sacked as the deputy CM of Rajasthan and PCC chief, Sachin Pilot, the rebel Congress MLA put out a tweet, saying ‘Truth can never be defeated.’ 

China is using Operation Fox Hunt to hunt down Chinese dissenters living across the globe who expose the rampant human rights violations in the country

On the 45th anniversary of Emergency, we must note that times have changed but mindsets have not. Congress continues to harass and hound people with its browbeating tactics.

 June 4 marks the date of the ghastly Tiananmen Square incident in which helpless protesting students were butchered mercilessly in a somewhat similar but much more nightmarish fashion to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. This incident is not a one-off outlier story of murderous revenge against any form of dissent in a communist regime but it is the hallmark of all red revolution clad utopian dreams across the dimensions of time and space, writes Sudhakar Upadhyay, TISS Mumbai
 

Union minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on February 22 said that dissent and consensus are part of democracy, but protestors cannot get their rights by blocking the road.

In the event of BJP government taking action against Yogesh Soman for having criticised Narendra Modi (in an imaginary situation) the champions of free speech and champions of dissent would have been on the streets by now. 

A PhD student of Physics, University of Delhi has openly supported the CAA, but alleges that he is being targeted, gaslighted and force to leave his position because of his support. 

The Sabarimala verdict has been referred to a larger bench by the Supreme Court. The 2018 saw a 4:1 split verdict but the November 14 saw a 3:2 split verdict with Justice JY Chandrachud and Justice Nariman expressing dissent. 

 

The Supreme Court has decided to refer the Sabarimala case to a seven-member bench after two judges expressed dissent notes. 
 

Former Union minister Salman Khurshid criticised the BJP government for the arrest of P Chidambaram and DK Shivakumar. He agreed that there is dissent in Madhya Pradesh unit as Jyotiraditya Scindia is upset for not being given prominence and wished Muslim politicians joining BJP luck.

While the Congress always stresses that dissent is the essence of democracy, it has neither honoured nor stomached the statements of its top leaders not to ‘demonise’ PM Modi