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An intense political debate has erupted across the nation over ongoing street protests in the national capital and invocations of regime change. In central Delhi, Lokraj Janta Party founder Abhijeet Deepke and AISA chief Neha Bora were detained by Delhi Police during an attempt to march towards Connaught Place. Authorities cited potential commuter disruptions, traffic blockages, and risks to emergency routes. The government, along with ruling party leaders, questioned the intentions behind the demonstrations, alleging an agenda to create anarchy and push for Bangladesh-style regime change. Conversely, opposition leaders and activists asserted that striving to defeat the government and change the system through elections or democratic mobilization is a fundamental constitutional right. The broadcast examined the constitutional boundaries between peaceful assembly under Article 19, legal restrictions to prevent public disorder, and the Supreme Court's ruling on the limits of indefinitely occupying public spaces.

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00:00Heart me tiranga, dil me regime change, like in Bangladesh, is that what we want in India?
00:08Do we realize the importance and the significance of our tricolor, of our tiranga?
00:15Our tiranga, that symbolizes our nation, our pride.
00:20There is now an intense debate across the nation over the protesters.
00:25Are they gradually moving towards a new phase, like in Bangladesh?
00:32Is that the ultimate aim?
00:34Regime change through street protests, keep the students in front,
00:38and then you have radical Islamist organizations like Jamaat-e-Islami, that they will move forward.
00:45Leaders of this unrest, are they truly inspired by what happened in Bangladesh?
00:51Students out in the front, and radical Islamist engineering a regime change,
00:57that operation to our Sheikh Hasina, and then the systematic targeting of Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh.
01:04Is that what we want to see in our country?
01:07Watch these images on your television screen.
01:11This is what is happening in the national capital.
01:14But on this broadcast, we will also show you images from Bangladesh.
01:19Is that an inspiration for Neha Bora, a student leader, who's being mainstreamed?
01:27These are images from Bangladesh.
01:30Is this what we want in India?
01:34Is this the inspiration for the leaders of this so-called students' movement in India?
01:41This is what we want in our country?
01:44Remember that image, that image of Neha Bora being mainstreamed in that march to Supreme Court?
01:52Is that the ultimate aim in India?
01:55We need to open our eyes.
01:57We need to wake up to what's happening around us.
02:00India has witnessed weeks of protest, political confrontation, and mounting disruption.
02:05But the bigger question is, is this dissent to defend democracy or a push to destabilize our economy?
02:16Traders, for example, are up in arms.
02:19Losses, they say, are mounting.
02:21Today, in the heart of the national capital, the city was paralyzed yet again.
02:26Kaukrat Janata Party founder, Abhijit Deepke, he announced a march to Connaught Place with a tiranga.
02:34He was detained by the police.
02:37AISA chief Neha Bora, she too sought to join this march.
02:40She too was detained near Monday House.
02:43But for weeks now, protests by the Congress, other opposition parties, Kaukrat Janata Party, AISA,
02:51they've repeatedly disrupted the flow in the national capital.
02:57Abhijit Deepke says he was stopped from unfurling the tricolor in his own country.
03:03Delhi police insist permission was denied, citing possible traffic disruption,
03:09inconvenience to commuters, and risk of crowd spilling into sensitive areas.
03:15And that they had concerns that narrow lanes could impede movement of either emergency vehicles or ambulances.
03:23This actually brings a larger question to the fore.
03:26Where does the right to protest stand?
03:30And where do the limits of that right actually begin?
03:34Because India's constitution, it guarantees freedom of speech and expression.
03:39Yes, India's constitution guarantees a right to assemble peacefully without arms.
03:45But neither right gives you unlimited power to do what you think you want to.
03:52Take for example, Article 19.
03:54It permits reasonable restriction under specified conditions.
03:58So this Section 153 of the BNSS empowers authorities to impose urgent restrictions
04:04to prevent danger and public disorder.
04:08That balance was actually examined by the Supreme Court of India.
04:13And Supreme Court of India, in the year 2020, in the Shaheen Bagh proceedings,
04:18during a wider debate over protests in public spaces,
04:22the court made it clear that the right to protest cannot translate into an indefinite occupation of public roads.
04:30And that the right of protesters must be balanced against the right of citizens of this country,
04:36other citizens of this country.
04:38The principle is straightforward.
04:41Dissent is democratic.
04:44But public spaces cannot be held hostage indefinitely.
04:48At the same time, restrictions must also operate within the ambit of the law.
04:56And here is where the political battle actually sharpens.
04:59The focus now shifts from street protests to opposition leaders and activists invoking the language of regime change.
05:11Is that what we want in India?
05:14And not through the ballot or through the ballot is that big debate.
05:19Congress Member of Parliament, Pawan Khera, spoke of defeating the government and changing the system through elections.
05:26Imran Masood declared that the regime must change.
05:31Lawyer Prashant Bhushan has openly called this fight a fight for regime change.
05:38A democratic right, he clarified.
05:41The government on its part is questioning the intentions of the Congress, the opposition parties, civil society members who are
05:51joining hands.
05:52Take for example, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
05:55He said that the objective is Bangladesh-style regime change and anarchy in India.
06:03BJP President Nitin Nabeen has accused the opposition of pursuing an agenda to destabilize India's growth story.
06:12Smriti Rani, in an exclusive conversation with me, insisted any change in India will happen only through the ballot
06:20and destabilization process or any regime change, through other means, will not happen in India.
06:29She's confident the BJP will win 2027 Uttar Pradesh elections.
06:34She said so in response to a question.
06:36And Union Home Minister Amit Shah, he says, look at this opposition.
06:41The government will win 2029 elections too.
06:45The bigger question today, how can those who claim to defend democracy invoke regime change against a democratically elected government?
06:562014, 2019, 2020, 2024 and state elections.
07:00You win some, you lose some, but you fight.
07:04Is this a fight at the ballot box or is this an attempt to tarnish the system and then destabilize
07:14the system?
07:15We'll debate that.
07:16We'll get you all sides of the story.
07:18But first, listen in to this very intense war of words between the government and the opposition.
07:30We'll get you all sides of the government and the opposition.
08:00We'll talk about theопрос as such.
08:06We'll try to live some.
08:09We've done a lot.
08:11We'll try to live some.
08:13We'll bloody and love any other possible mistakes.
08:15We'll be able to live some.
08:15We'll find ourselves in the future.
08:16But the government is hiding.
08:18Some of us have to live some,
08:19and that we'll come out,
08:19that we'll please improve our wcześniej down future all нашей tries.
08:21TheIntvolt 신 will be homeless.
08:23So why are you ready for taxier России?
08:24Sherlock Holmes regime change
08:26हो रहा है अरे तो हम तो कह रहे है
08:28regime change करेंगे साब
08:3277 में क्या हुआ था regime नहीं बदला था
08:36हर बार जब
08:37कोई विपक्ष सड़क पर आता है
08:39कोई आंदोलन होता है
08:41there is a regime change
08:43how does a regime change
08:45in a democracy like India
08:46through elections
08:49चुनाव के जरिये regime
08:50बदलना ही तो मकसद होता है
08:52विपक्ष का और क्या मकसद होता है
08:56regime का मतलब क्या
08:58सरकार इस देश में
09:00सरकार बदलती कैसे है
09:01प्रशांत भूशन सड़क पे
09:04खड़े होकर पत्थर मारके
09:06ये सारे प्रदर्शनकारी
09:08दिल्ली पुलीस के पुलीस कर्मियों
09:10को मारके
09:11महिला पुलीस की वर्दी फाड़ कर
09:14regime change लेंगे इस देश में
09:17ये सारे प्रदर्शनकारी
09:18कठे होकर भारतिय सेना
09:20को गाली देकर
09:22regime change लेंगे इस देश में
09:24तो ये सपने उनके सुहाने हैं
09:26लेकिन ये जागरित देश है
09:28ये एक informed देश है
09:30और इस informed democratic देश में
09:33केवल और केवल
09:35सत्ता परिवर्तन वोट के माध्यम से होता है
09:38regime change होगी इंतजार करिए न
09:40थोजार उनतिस आ रहा है
09:42इनने 27 में उत्तरपरदेश से उखाड़ेंगे
09:44पांच स्टेट आ रही हैं
09:46पांच वो हारेंगे ये
09:47उसके बाद
09:48हम लोग जो लड़ाई लड़ रहे हैं
09:49हम लोग चुनायोग की सतंता के लिए लड़ रहे हैं
09:52चुनायोग सतंता रहेगा
09:54तो ये खड़े नहीं हो पाएंगे
09:56और इनको पता है कि इन्होंने गलत किया है
09:58regime change कराना हर नागरिक का
10:01लोग तांत्री का धिकार
10:02हमारे लोग तांत्र को बचाने के लिए
10:05और regime change के लिए
10:06ये मैं आज खुले तोर पर कह रहा हूँ
10:08यहाँ ये regime change की लड़ाई है
10:11है
10:12और हम लोग regime change करा कर रहेंगे
10:15यही आरंब से ही
10:16प्रेस कॉन्फरेंस में
10:18भारतिय जंता पाटी और देश के
10:20साधारान लोग कह रहे थी कि
10:22इनकी मनसा चाहे वो राहू गांधी का मनसा हो
10:25चाहे राहू गांधी के साथ
10:27जुड़े लोगों का मनसा हो
10:28इनका मनसा
10:29S.I.R. का नहीं है
10:31इनका मनसा बच्चों के भविश्य की लड़ना नहीं है
10:35इनका मनसा केवल
10:36aq hi hai aur waha hai
10:39dyesh me taqta palat karna
10:41dyesh drohi
10:42chand paiso ke liye
10:44aaj vidyashi haatho me
10:46big gahe
10:48prashanth Bhushan ji nne kaha
10:50ki mahi regime change ke lida raha
10:52hum regime change ke lida raha
10:54to mahi keana chau ga
10:55ki dyesh drohi chand paiso ke liye
10:58vidyashi haatho me
11:00big gahe

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