Now wait for a flurry of articles on how courts have been compromised, democracy is being throttled, minorities are oppressed....leading the charge will be Wire, then Scroll and their foreign cousins WaPo & NYT. And more Faiz and Rahat Indori quotes.
#ShaheenBagh

- On a serious note, #ShaheenBagh was the & #39;democratic& #39; version of chakka-jam which Sharjeel Imam was advocating, especially in strategically sensitive zones like Siliguri corridor.
- #ShaheenBagh was a pretty clever and well thought out strategy.
- With women and children as +

+ supposedly the face of this & #39;protest& #39;, any government action to forcibly evict them would& #39;ve been a massive PR disaster.
- But on the other hand, if you allowed it to be replicated across the country, you& #39;ll have serious undermining of state & central authority.
- Like +

+ east Delhi, the cover of these & #39;protests& #39; can be used to trigger riots and strife.
- In short, perfect recipe for fomenting trouble on a mass scale.
- Silver lining of #ShaheenBagh is that the longer it stretched, the more aware common public became about their intransigence+

+ and the underlying Islamist agenda.
- Both the protestors and their handlers stand thoroughly discredited.
- Their experiment with creating communal riots in NE Delhi will actually land many of them in jail for quite some time.