Serious [ Singapore News ] Singapore Voters Beware of Indians & Dishonorable Son : Turning Singapore Into Vassal State of India Celebrating Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi's 150th birthday celebrations kick off

Indian school children's throw flowers over a statue of Mahatma Gandhi as they pay their respects during Gandhi Jayanthi celebration in Bangalore, India, on Oct 2. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

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Events to mark birth of independence icon started yesterday, and go on for 2 years
Nirmala Ganapathy India Bureau Chief In New Delhi

India yesterday kicked off celebrations to mark the 150th year of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi's birth next year, with events focusing on sanitation and cleanliness, along with tributes, exhibitions and even a flash mob.

The celebrations will take in Gandhi's 150th birthday on Oct 2 next year, and then continue for another year.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted a video of a flash mob of 70 railway employees at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai, dancing to a medley of songs to spread the message of cleanliness - in line with Gandhi's vision of a cleaner India.



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Singapore and India: A shared vision for a clean future

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While the scale of the task is vastly different, both countries are committed to creating a clean and green living environment for their people, says Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as India marked a new milestone in its Clean India mission with an inaugural international sanitation convention.



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Anniversary celebrated in Singapore

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The 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi is being commemorated in India and around the world through two-year-long celebrations which started yesterday.

In Singapore, the event was marked by a short video on Gandhi projected on a giant LED digital wall at Suntec Convention Centre, and the release of commemorative stamps by India's High Commissioner to Singapore Jawed Ashraf.

 

[grandtour]

What has the Pedophile Mahatma Gandhi got to do with Singapore ?

Typical Indian Snakes rather spent next 2 years celebrating than cleaning up their SHITHOLE !

And our leader has a SHARED VISION with the SNAKES !

 

[AhMeng]

Another PAP's pride. Lol

 

[AhMeng]

Why never celebrate Mao Tse Tong Birthday?

DISCRIMINATION!?!?!

 

[grandtour]

Why never celebrate Mao Tse Tong Birthday?

DISCRIMINATION!?!?!

No you do not celebrate or commemorate ANY leaders of other countries PERIOD.

Dishonorable Son is a GAY with Sexual Fetish for INDIANS. Ever since he became PM, he signed CECA 1.0, CECA 2.0 and the 3rd review of CECA in September 2018. He placed INDIANS into key positions of power, MAS MOF (removed ever since direct threat to him) MHA (in charge of ICA granting Indian Mass PR & Citizenship) MFA and most importantly, the influential Media Industry. All thanks to the Dishonorable Son, Indian Editors now have full control of Mediacorp ( TV Channels, Channel NewsAsia, Today Online ) and SPH ( Straits Times ) churning out Pro Indian Anti Chinese Propaganda News Commentaries & Opinions. The Singapore Demographic Statistics is a BIG LIE. Trust Your Own Eyes, look around you and see for yourself what is The Real Racial Demographic of Singapore. There is an ulterior motive to hide the increasing population percentage of ETHNIC INDIANS until it is too late for voters to revolt. Ethnic Chinese Singaporeans need to wake up, stand up, unite and FIGHT BACK Against ETHNIC INDIANS & Dishonorable Son The Biggest Traitor of Singapore Voters

 

[AhMeng]

No you do not celebrate or commemorate ANY leaders of other countries PERIOD.

Dishonorable Son is a GAY with Sexual Fetish for INDIANS. Ever since he became PM, he signed CECA 1.0, CECA 2.0 and the 3rd review of CECA in September 2018. He placed INDIANS into key positions of power, MAS MOF (removed ever since direct threat to him) MHA (in charge of ICA granting Indian Mass PR & Citizenship) MFA and most importantly, the influential Media Industry. All thanks to the Dishonorable Son, Indian Editors now have full control of Mediacorp ( TV Channels, Channel NewsAsia, Today Online ) and SPH ( Straits Times ) churning out Pro Indian Anti Chinese Propaganda News Commentaries & Opinions. The Singapore Demographic Statistics is a BIG LIE. Trust Your Own Eyes, look around you and see for yourself what is The Real Racial Demographic of Singapore. There is an ulterior motive to hide the increasing population percentage of ETHNIC INDIANS until it is too late for voters to revolt. Ethnic Chinese Singaporeans need to wake up, stand up, unite and FIGHT BACK Against ETHNIC INDIANS & Dishonorable Son The Biggest Traitor of Singapore Voters

This I absolutely agree. Honestly.
That's why I call them PAP's pride.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

The worse thing is the ah nehs don't even like Gandhi n they are now celebrating his birthday? What a joke...
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Mahatma Gandhi
'Racist' Gandhi statue banished from Ghana university campus
Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying African heroes ‘come first’
Jason Burke Africa correspondent
Fri 7 Oct 2016 03.09 AEDT Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 00.36 AEDT

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The Ghana university Gandhi statue, a focus for claims that the Indian leader was racist towards black South Africans.

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be removed from a university campus in Ghana after professors launched a petition claiming the revered Indian independence leader and thinker was racist.

The statue of Gandhi was unveiled in June at the University of Ghana campus in Accra by Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India, as a symbol of close ties between the two countries.

But in September a group of professors started a petition calling for the removal of the statue, saying Gandhi was racist and that the university should put African heroes and heroines “first and foremost”.

Petition calls for Gandhi statue to be removed from Ghana University
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The petition states “it is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eurasian super power”, and quotes passages written by Gandhi which say Indians are “infinitely superior” to black Africans.

More than 1,000 people signed the petition, which claimed that not only was Gandhi racist towards black South Africans when he lived in South Africa as a young man, but that he campaigned for the maintenance of India’s caste system, an ancient social hierarchy that still defines the status in that country of hundreds of millions of people.

Ghana’s foreign ministry said it had followed the controversy with “deep concern” and wanted to relocate the statue.

“The government would therefore want to relocate the statue from the University of Ghana to ensure its safety and to avoid the controversy.” it said. “While acknowledging that, human as he was, Mahatma Gandhi may have had his flaws, we must remember that people evolve.”

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Statues on university campuses have recently prompted bitter arguments in Africa as students wrestle with the legacy of colonialism and history of racism on the continent. Last year students in South Africa successfully campaigned for the removal, from the University of Cape Town campus, of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a notoriously racist mining magnate who died in 1902.

Gandhi, who lived in South Africa for 21 years, has long been a more controversial figure, both in his homeland and elsewhere, than many admirers around the world are aware. A hero for his role in the movement that won independence for India from Britain, Gandhi’s vision of non-violent protest inspired rebels and revolutionaries around the world. His thinking was a key influence on leaders of the African National Congress and others engaged in the struggle against apartheid, and his tolerance for all faiths in his homeland led to his assassination by a Hindu fanatic in 1948. But his more conservative views, and early apparent racism, still anger some.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (centre), also known as Mahatma (Great soul) speaking during a meeting of the All-India Congress in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1942.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (centre), also known as Mahatma (Great soul) speaking during a meeting of the All-India Congress in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1942. Photograph: AFP/Getty
Opponents of the statue in Ghana quoted several of Gandhi’s early writings in which he referred to black South Africans as “kaffirs” – a highly offensive racist slur – and complained that the South African government wanted to “drag down” Indians to the same level as people he called “half-heathen natives”.

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One Gandhi quote was: “Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”

A statue of Gandhi in the centre of Johannesburg not far from the office where he worked as a lawyer, triggered a similar row in 2003.

Gandhi has also been frequently criticised in his homeland. In 2014 the novelist Arundhati Roy accused him of perpetuating a discriminatory caste system.

Prof Mridula Mukherjee, an expert in modern Indian history at Jawaharlal University, in Delhi, said at the time that Roy’s criticism was misplaced. “Gandhi devoted much of his life to fighting caste prejudice. He was a reformer not a revivalist within the Hindu religion. His effort was in keeping with his philosophy of nonviolence and bringing social transformation without creating hatred.”

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[syed putra]

Why never celebrate Mao Tse Tong Birthday?

DISCRIMINATION!?!?!

Because indian named this island. Were here first. Its their promised land. Don't like, get out. Go back to nansha island.

 

[AhMeng]

It's real rubbish for PAP to celebrate such rubbish. 70% loves PAP's pride.

 

[Rogue Trader]

What has the Pedophile Mahatma Gandhi got to do with Singapore ?

you're right on he's a sexual predator pretending to be holy in sheep's clothing. The old pervert preached chastity with his wife but insisted on sleeping naked with young virgins "to prove his holiness". Typical snake rapist argument