The 33rd honor.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi was yesterday conferred with Slovakia's highest national award, The Order of the White Double Cross (1st Class). This is PM Modi's 33rd international honor." NDTV. This is very satisfying. 'Double cross' is very meaningful (Dictionary), especially if it is '1st Class', and 'White'. Meanwhile, back home, "Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke was slapped and manhandled at a protest meet in Jaipur yesterday. Dipke had called for a peaceful protest....to oppose paper leaks and unemployment, and demand the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan." TNIE. Dipke needs to be careful because lynching by mobs is common across India (wikipedia) and very often go unpunished. Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan which has a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by the BJP with 118 seats out of a total of 200 assembly seats (wikipedia). On 12 June, "Around 4,000 electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in nearly 10 constituencies of South Bengal in the recent Assembly elections were destroyed were destroyed in the fire that engulfed a government building in Alipore," and "According to sources, the fire gutted 4,000 ballot units, 4,000 control units and 4,000 VVPAT machines reportedly belonging to key constituencies." DC. VVPAT, or Voter verifiable paper audit trial, allows voters to check that their votes were allotted correctly and detect possible voting fraud. wikipedia. Therefore a very thorough fire, leaving no trace behind. Fires are not unknown in official buildings in India, usually whenever there is a controversy. In 2012, "The fire at the Mantralaya (Ministry building) destroyed scores of files and official records." "There were claims that the fire was set off to destroy documents related to the Adarsh scam." HT. In the Adarsh Housing Society scam, politicians, bureaucrats and military officers contrived to buy flats at a prime location at below market price. wikipedia. While politicians and officials are protected by fires, journalists and citizens can be charged with fictitious offences and harassed over years even if exonerated in the end. "To allow the Delhi Police's foreign investment case against Newsclick to proceed would entail a 'gross abuse of the process of law', while the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) resting proceedings consist of 'bald assertions' that do not 'even remotely' point to an offence, the Delhi high Court has ruled, quashing both cases against the outlet." The Wire. The case has been going on since 2020, while in 2023, the publisher was arrested and journalists and offices raided, thus achieving the objectives of intimidation, coercion and harassment. In the US, "Members of both the Democratic and Republican parties on Capitol Hill have begun voicing increasing criticism of proposed changes to India's Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) which they believe could adversely impact civil society groups - including Christian organisations - by preventing access to foreign funds and having their assets seized." HT. The ED has already charged The Timothy Initiative and many individuals under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for using "foreign-origin debit cards issued by a US bank to withdraw and utilise foreign funds across India." The Print. Bail is denied and people incarcerated indefinitely on dubious evidence under UAPA. livelaw. The conviction rate for UAPA accusation is just 4% in the whole country and an abysmal 0.8% in Jammu and Kashmir. NDTV. An honor for Dear Leader is an honor for all Indians. We have all been Double Crossed. It's 1st Class. And white.