Public opinion is deeply divided on the electoral roll revision, with significant support for citizenship proof aimed at electoral integrity, juxtaposed against overwhelming fears of disenfranchisement, discrimination, and governmental overreach. Many comments reflect distrust towards the Election Commission and express concerns about marginalized communities being disproportionately affected.

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those who have been to erattupetta knows what kind of a messed up place it is. A few of my friends are from there (muslims) the stories they tell about child marriages in the area are messed up

gemmesumbitches

They submitted a report stating eerattupetta as a terrorist hub. Why are Muslim organisations and groups agitated about this? Are they saying by themselves that if someone says terrorists it has to be Muslim?

thesct

Considering its proximity to Vagamon(the SIMI training camp incident), it wouldn't be surprising.

Ducky_Gamer_13

Erattupetta is barely a few kms from Pala and Pala literally has like 0.5% of Muslim population(ik because I’m from Pala).Cant believe these many radicals stay within a few km.

Electronic_Gold_8549

I remember visiting the place for the first time with my friend (aslo a Muslim, and from Malappuram), on a site visit for the construction of Airbnb style villas. Even my friend (who was more of a liberal, cultural muslim) was visibly uncomfortable at the remarks the clients were making throughout the day. Just a bunch of Uncles who've left their brains few centuries back.

It took more than a month to get that project done, and all the while we both had to maneuver through their conversations, especially me. Since I was a non-muslim, it felt like there was an extra attempt at injecting random Islamic "facts" out of nowhere, maybe hoping that I may turn Muslim or something idk (Me, who at age of 16, had already felt infatuated with Islam, started studying about it and felt disgusted and turned into a hardcore hater of Islamic theology😂)

Beginning-Judgment75

You may search a audio clip of one islamist panchayat member. You will get more idea about the this irattupetta. Also its distance to vagamon and why old SIMI, selected vagamon [vagamon and simi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students%27_Islamic_Movement_of_India) 
 One of my friend in 40’s was , don’t know still he radical. he do a bakery business most of clients are from other communities. He may not be active now , but what it is always be there. Learn from history. Gods own country tagline and this greens replacing reds, we should know this kind of people are in our society too.
 
Direct ariyavuna fact ayathu kondu comment chayunu.

AdMajestic187

പോലീസ് ഇസ്ലാമോഫോബിക്ക് ആവാതെ ഇരിക്കാൻ അരിക്കും 😂

Creative_Window840

The radicalist population in Kerala has crossed the critical threshold — there’s no reversing it now.

Royal_Librarian4201

As if this was a surprise. It's been a loong time coming

The police have no politics, no religion. They prepare factual reports based on what they directly see and the findings they gather through investigation. If that starts to be rewritten just because few sudappis wrinkled their nose, what will be the future of this state? This obedience of the ruling party to radical elements like this will never end well in the long run. Police now, can't even do their duty properly

village_aapiser

Erattupetta is a shithole of islamic terrorists. It's a mini-taliban.

piss_slam

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Dei..kadha paranju irikande onnu randu varikal okke paranju tha..jeevanil kothi undu..cholli kelpikan paranja oru kunthavum arinjuda..pakshe oori kanikan paranja theernu..

delonix_regia18

സത്യം പറഞ്ഞാല് ഇതാണ്, എത്ര നാൾ ഇതുപോലെ കള്ളം പറഞ്ഞു നടക്കും, പ്രീണിപ്പിച്ചു പ്രീണിപ്പിച്ച് ഇവിടം നശിപ്പിച്ചു

TrickSeaworthiness95

sarcastishyan

Something bad like murshidabad happens then Hindus and Christians are done...this is a scary situation

myuniverse_001

Sathyam paranju Kerala de secular fabric nashipikyan nokunnu

Mindless-Pilot-Chef

U all can't do anything 😏
Let's See Kerala in 2060 ☪️🕌☪️🕌🧕🧕🧕🤲🤲

Apprehensive-Mud8710

Used_Skill3801

I remember my friends sister (musilem) had a love + arrangement marriage propel from a guy In office they where okey first after knowing he is from eerattupetta they broke off the relationship.
Now the guy moved with family to kochi

Puzzleheaded-Ad-8051

സംഘികൾക്ക് അല്ലേലും ഈരാറ്റുപേട്ട വിട്ട് ഒരു കളിയുമില്ല...എന്നേലും പ്രശ്നം ഉണ്ടാക്കിയാലേ ഇവറ്റകൾക്ക് നിൽനിൽപ്പ് ഉള്ളൂ

Mahesh-Bhavana

Fun fact u missed : the radical leaders of Maaharashtra &amp; uttar Pradesh are competing on who will first reach 1 trillion dollar state economy. 
While they run their mouths they also work.

mutardkiller

Feudals.  India did land reforms, Pakistan did not.  This is one major difference I see.

Minute-Flan13

I have also done deep research about other countries like this, though I maybe a bit outdated now. I like such intellectual discussions. This is what we want. Research and learn from the experience of others.

Great job with this post. Keep making such posts. I will also try to contribute some random tidbits of information that come to my mind.

In today's India where people have access to information, it is very difficult to get elected as a chief minister or prime minister if the people think you are corrupt. It doesn't have to be proved by law. The exception seems to be in just handful of states. One exception that come to my mind right now that you have not mentioned is the chief minister of Andra Pradesh in the South East of India. He himself declared a wealth of over 1500 crore PKR!! How can someone get that rich in politics without corruption.

In some other educated states I have found that the chief minister will be clean and honorable and often hardworking and responsible, but the other elected members of his cabinet maybe corrupt and have huge networth that they themselves declare. Now, these people are not "legally" charged as corrupt, but it seems suspicious when people with that much wealth is in politics. I think these people pay money to the party to allow them to run for election under that party's banner just for the sake of power for showing off, and not for money as they are already so wealthy.

And your topic about the lack of radical speeches among the top leaders in India, I too have noticed the same. Infact, I have purposefully watched lot of Modi's speeches, and I have not even once seen anything bad said against Muslims. I have purposefully searched for this and watched several hours of content and didn't find any.

Also I thought there will be lot of bashing of Pakistan, but except for handful of speeches during the times relations were tense, I have not seen him talk about Pakistan. And, I have watched speeches of other chief ministers and top leaders too, and found same pattern. None of them talks any hate. Nearly all of them were talking about development and other local issues.

If you get some free time, I suggest watching some of their Independence day speeches. It gives lot of insights on what should we do and also the stuff they are focusing on. I was surprised to hear Modi talk about building millions of toilets for free at homes of people in one such speech to solve outside shitting, which felt like something no leader will publicly talk in any other country.

And another thing I noticed is that most of the anti-Muslim stuff that we hear in the news come from one single state of India called Uttar Pradesh. It is a huge state with population near Pakistan's and it seems to be under-developed too! I have seen local leaders here speak hatred and other things. And it seems like it is a feudal land with lords based on caste and other issues. And the Yogi guy you mentioned is from this state. Before him, all the previous chief ministers of this states seem to be corrupt, atleast I remember something like that in my old research, though I don't remember exact details.

And most of the already developed states seems to be highly focused on development. Look at some of the construction projects going on there at same speed as China! Few that comes to my mind is Mumbai-Delhi Expressway(it is an 8 lane highway of 1000+kms, but completed work so quickly) same with Mumbai Nagpur Expressway. The dedicated goods train project which is separate railway track just for goods. Then, the metro-rail system that is coming in almost all cities of India.

Also I have gone through most of the ministers of India like Finance minister, Railway minister, Highway minister. All of them seems overly hard working and focused on their own assigned jobs. And these ministers regularly update their work daily on twitter and youtube. None of them seems to be corrupt at all atleast from the Internet Research. This is unlike our ministers who randomly say anything and everything totally unrelated to their ministry, and also do not update what they are doing daily about their assigned job.

All of this makes me feel like India is on the verge of going to warp speed growth of china. And we have a lot to learn from it. If we didn't have this military dictatorship with puppet governments since 1958, we would have perhaps developed like that faster than India, and they would have been learning from us. But unfortunately, all we can do is dream.

We can discuss in detail if you are interested.

Pakisking

This is the leadership difference between India and Pakistan that I see:

- **Indian leaders:** power corrupts but they understand that they can get richer and more powerful if the country overall becomes richer and more successful. They have long-term vision. Indian leaders want to be *Indian*.

- **Pakistani leaders:** absolutely corrupt vultures looking to pick every piece of meat, cartilage and bone marrow before the tides of time wash away the body (Pakistan). They have zero long-term vision and only short-term selfish goals. Pakistani leaders want to be *goras*.

instagigated

India got rid of the feudal system after independence. Pakistan was created by Muslim feudal powers afraid of losing significance.

khanofk

Look at how the two handle their languages(learning and using) and decentralisation of government at all levels. You’ll find the difference.

vadertemp

Indian here, I am not an expert but having seen India for decades this is my inference. 

Education, English, sheer size of the economy and a sprinkle of visionary leaders. 



How much do you guys prioritize education? My old maid educated her son to become an engineer, to educate their kids in English medium schools no matter the struggle is the 1st priority of most Indian parents. 

Some say India development is nor because of its leaders but despite them, our politicians were equally corrupt, still are, but either they are better at concealing or are a bit less corrupt, what probably differentiates from Pakistan is the size of the economy, this effects in two ways, one, even after corruption enough funds is left for development and two, our military expenditures as a percentage is way less than Pakistans but in absolute terms is way higher. So Pakistan ends up spending more on military percentage wise.

We were lucky to have a few visionary leaders, initially South India had a bunch of chief ministers competing to out do each other in getting Software companies to their states (English helped us here). Now every state has an event where they try to pull in investment from both national and international investors.

goIndian

One thing I noticed is that our subcontinent, that is people in Pakistan, Bangladesh, SriLanka, India are seeking for a messiah type leader who will be a hero and save everyone. This is why all CM faces you saw are honorable people. Also, all parties are single leader focused whether it is PTI or PMLN or PPP or BJP or AAP or Congress(which is on a loosing streak due to this exact problem of not having a good face)

This is also why political dynasties are common across the subcontinent as people expect the son of existing leader to be the next Messiah after him.  And this keeps these dynasties in power.

(mentioning here because I think I went over the length limit of reddit and it is not allowing there)

The elephant in the room is Pakistani military. Pakistan was recipient of large some of foreign investments during military dictatorship yet no one was held accountable for what happened to the money. Pakistani military groomed and established todays civilians leadership. So rather than comparing Pakistani politicians to Indian politicians we should compare Pakistani military to Indian military and their role in politics.

known-unknownfacts

It is not simple to point out the differences. I am Indian here. 
Continuous democracy and fair elections helped India in getting a few good leaders. Democracy is not perfect but it helps in identifying good leaders in long term. Also Democracy bring stability. Pakistan lacks this. 
In fact India is not a country, I would consider it a continent and each state is like a country. They have different cultures, different languages and different political parties and different policies.  
After independence, with limited funding, Nehru concentrated on higher education initially than primary education, this churned out a few good educated people and they travelled abroad and brought in good remittance. This is main reason for growing India's currency reserve. 
There are leaders in south India who are corrupt but they did a lot of development. There is a competition between states for developments. There a few initiatives which had huge impact, like free healthy food for all school kids, free books, free education, free uniforms etc. Out of this free food is a game changer. This improved the literacy and in turn churns out talent. 
Next initiative is increased number of engineering institutes. Even though quality of these institutes is not good, it churned out lot of large number of engineers and with technology (like online), students started learning themselves and this lifted lot of families out of poverty. 
What you are reading in media about politicians is biased and hyped. Whether US or UK or any nation, most of the politicians are corrupt but whether they are intelligent to get right people and lead the state/nation with right policies is important.

bestoninternet

1) freedom of business is way better. In Pakistan it is so difficult to run a business. 
2) Lumber 1 intentionally wants incompetent politicians so that they can have power
3) Fuedals

MelodicSalt9589

Some are even saying feudals are the reason. Which is absolute joke. Feudals influence is way over exaggerated. Larger farm holders, yield lot higher than small farmholders. You can verify it from the statistics of wheat yield. The true reason why India excels is, because their government has given incentives to industries/private sector and people love industrialists there unlike here, where we bash industrialists for everything. 

Pakistani Government periodically prioritizes electricity, gas and water for residential users over industries. Residential users pay lot lesser than generation cost, while industry has to pay higher tariffs to cover the losses from residential users, be it gas or electricity. Our SEZ's, are laying useless even after industrialists purchasing the plots and wanting to invest here. All it takes is a few kilometers of road and government would rather build road to every home to win the election rather than do it first for industries. Same for utilities. Much of our new SEZ's still lay unused, because utility agencies won't give the connection there. Our people just want money to flow magically out of thin air. 

Tata, Birla, Ambani, can you even imagine that big conglomerates here and how much hate would be for them among our people?

InjectorTheGood

In India our centre opposition has been very weak for the last 8 years. On the other hand at state level their is good competition in major states (Maharastra, West Bengal,Tamil Nadu,UP, Karnataka etc). 

Some state leaders go extra mile to ensure development in their state to project themselves on centre stage as PM candidate(that's what Modi did when he was Gujarat cm)

and you are pretty wrong on saying only yogi, assam cm, and Shiv Sena are fascist. we have Mamata(Bengal dictator almost😂),  Patnaik (Orissa's king) , Stalin(Tamil supremacist), Vijayan(commie), Kejriwal(most political politician ever, imo he will be India pm in 2029/34).

Very interesting observations. I think issue might be that here we have a lot interference from army in our democracy. So many leaders here are given an unfair advantaged and propped up throughout their career while subverting true democracy.

If we have democracy, we would also be voting in extremists in smaller offices but hopefully saner voices would be getting more important positions.

First of all, thank you an insightful thread which takes a more holistic approach when looking at the country’s decline. It’s a breath of fresh air when compared to the usual topics of discussion which are just non-PTI political party and army bashing. 

What I think the major leadership difference, other than what others have pointed out, is the fact that they’re goal oriented. All their leaders, regardless of political affiliation, have a target, a common goal all of them work towards. This is something seriously missing in Pakistan and one of the reasons why IK is so popular with the youth. In India their CMs and even PMs speeches are all focused on a specific goal and that’s further development. It’s like a competition on who can outdo the other. After the IK government, this phenomenon is also taking root in Pakistan also, finally. Specially after PML and PPP saw how focusing on economic development can get you massive support, even if on the surface it looks like little progress is being made. And that’s what spurred SS to suggest drafting a charter of economy, which I personally think is a brilliant idea and something all the political parties should work on. That way, instead to each party steering the economy in a different direction, they’ll all have a common target they can work towards.

Indians own( respect and love) their country and work towards a single goal of making it better  


while here we just want individuality to succeed.  


just look at this sub, Pakistani's will gladly throw their own country under the bus and will not even try to defend its image
  
on the contrary you already know what the indians do

Totally_not_sad

What I have noticed is that Indian news channels are very large in number in comparison to Pakistan which makes them competitive and in order to get more viewership numbers they’ll promote anything and usually grab viewer attention by big banners running below screen screaming Breaking News and what not. Moreover they also sometimes push a radical narrative and you’ll notice yourself that there’s a lot of screaming involved in Indian news channels not to count out our own channels

MrMusha06

I think we need CMs that are from the province, know its weaknesses and know its strengths and potential. I fucking hate the Sharif family for this reason but no one else besides me seems to see this. Punjabis from villages or even cities, know Punjab the best. These sharif fucks don’t know shit, they’re not even real Punjabis.

Buzdar was an example of a person from Punjab that was a “real” Punjabi but he was, in my opinion, incompetent. But if theres anyone like him and competent, that would be great.

Stability stability stability ... unfortunately our army/usa doesn't want stability in Pakistan. instability every 3years has fucked us..

So India had leader ship in their early years. Nehru died in 1964 and he left behindany reforms, A strong party and good bureaucracy. Their party had governed before independence and so they were experinced too. The Civil service post 1857 was mostly dominated by Hindus and areas in modern day India.When partition happened and the Mojahirs came here, they constituted 33% of the Bureaucracy despite having a population of &gt;5% in Pakistan, This was for the same reasons stated above. They were also ill equipped and had little infrastructure to work with. India was also hesitant to give us our due share, Its good that the military and bureaucracy came here because they were muslims, Otherwise they would have deprived us of man power too. The 2nd reason is a lack of leader ship. The Quaid for as long as he was alive resolved many of our issues, the refugee crisis, the war, the lkmited supplies needed to run government etc. He and Liaqat Ali khan were dead within the first 5 years of Pakistans making. After that we had 2 Governer Generals and 6 PM's  changed. 




The only good thing we inherited was the military. Most of the regimental centres and the GHQ itself was based here. It was old, organized, had a history and a purpose in our new state. After the above stated events, Ayub Khan took power in a coup. Not everything was fine and dandy under him, he did not take any long term critical measure to prevent future coups, to fix civil institutions etc. He is also one of the people that caused the fall of Dhaka, he rigged the elections and bad mouthed Fatima Jinnah. We did see some GDP growth here, Pakistan was indutrializing rapidly and we were set to become the next regional power in South Asia, that is until 1965. After that our economy took a hit and so did Ayubs reputation. 



Following this, More military Dictatorships followed and without crucial land reforms, More waderas dominated politics in the name of 'democracy'. Everyone had their own way of doing things, some Nationalised, Some Islamised, Some were corrupt and took unsustainable loans for unsustainable and useless projects. Throw in Geo politics, Wonderful neighbours and terrorism in the mix and now we are here in 2022.

Ejtablishment

i would say it's down to the institution Pakistan imo only right now is getting the same level of public engagement in politics that is the norm for a place like India  


any political ideology in Pakistan is a top to bottom story where usually an over reaching executive in the form of the military,Buraeucracy basically chooses the ideology for the people and then backs the politicians they believe are most likely to either represent or pretend to represent said ideology   


Positives of that are clear to a degree politically backed religious violence doesn't happened here (operative term here being politically backed) and when it does happen unless it's in the interest of the state the law does come down on such people   


on the other hand our politicians aren't beholden to the people as much as they are beholden to the people that got them in power i.e. Bureaucrats,Generals and wealthy billionaires   


which means that the interest of these lot always get first priority and public well being is generally a secondary concern of our leaders.likewise said interests of the elites get labelled as "nationalism" and Pakistanis being the overzealously nationalistic lot that we are go on with their policies without really introspecting much (for a real life example look no further then Bajwa who before the recent us backed soft coup had millions of fanboys among PTI supporters who foolishly thought that he was on their side)

Moist-Performance-73

Jani why this group is so anti Pakistan, all this pdm supporters only talk shit about Pakistan. Find something better to do.

dontaskmyname0

SWATKats7

Post in legal advice group for better clarification. I also want to know the answers.

Just do it and open for partnership. Catch is it gets into risk profile, when donation exceeds 10 percent  of net income. If you justify and classify your self as politically influenced person, should work. We can work tougher and find legal ways as well.

Elegant-Ad1415

You have my vote if you introduce flat personal income tax at 12%.

Not an expert but I think atleast 100 signatories are required and they should be registered voter. You need not register party in ECI but it is preferrable. Charge is Rs 10k. Your party should have a constitution and that should be communicated to ECI.


So very much possible to have a politcal party of your own. Now for further safety just contest the local elections or may be MP/MLA election. Win or loose it doesnt matter. 


Buy flats cars lands in party name and enjoy life.


But if this so simple then why not everyone is doing this? Why not CAs are advising this?

You cannot be a politically active person if you want to be hired, if you want to start the political party, start it on your father’s or mother’s name, don’t get involved yourself. Get a reliable person and let that person handle the political front even for the name sake. And then you can donate and enjoy the benefits of donations.

So IT department knows this loophole . There was a notification from IT that they will send summons to show clear proofs for all 80G donations to political parties especially if the party is not recognised by ECI. If required they will audit in person as well and audit the political party as well. Also there is a rule that says only 10% of your annual salary can be donated to a Politicsl party through 80G in a year . If it exceeds there will sure be an audit.

kichasworld

Donations above a certain limit require records to be kept of each donor

KaranSheth

You don't need to. There are parties that give  receipts for donation for 5% commission.

user89045678

If we start a political party in our neighborhood.
All people will donate only so much that their net tax becomes nil.
With the donations received, we build good roads, parks, or even schools if possible in the neighbourhood.

Is there anything illegal in this?

ElvisOgre

You’ll be raided by IT. There are many such examples. Google it

RepulsiveAd115

Aeon_Sam

Don't invite unnecessary trouble. 

Couple of my friends have done this exactly same thing. 
One of the friends gf was a CA so everything was sorted until one day ......

They were making similar 50+ PA / PP through corporate/ freelance and other contracts.  


PS: Please don't try 🙏 You can go the other route as NGO or something but not political party.

Update : Guys I can't say anything more here. I am sorry 😞 This is not my throwaway A/C , and I don't want to invite unnecessary trouble.

the-night-journey

Dude I can imagine your party dominance in metro cities like pune, Mumbai, Gurgaon, banglore where corporates are majority. Gofor it

earthizzflat

Did see an insta video regarding the same thing. Unblacking black money fr
Would you not require few members to join your party before getting approval?

No-Refrigerator-8902

oh man count me in I will donate , to cash it

Different-Doctor-487

Recognized national party, which has one elections is eligible for this.


We all saw this starting a political party to save taxes fantasy once.

ImmortalTimeTraveler

is this why i saw a doctor campaigning yesterday? 💀 lol

Username_checksout0

You have my vote if you cap income tax at 12% OP

hemi_srt

Imagine u actually become a mla or something

spcd_stallion

Man if you do this, how can my belauved leader Rahul Gandhi provide freebies to the poor?

JitenMahajan69

bro mereko bhi party mein lele, mujhe bhi donation karna hai. I am serious

_ronki_

Wide_Strength_5791

Old_Application_5722

Anti_Max19

cprash

aadill77

Rest assured, GOBHI will send ED/IT to recover his share of the loot...

gumnamaadmi

Become a farmer instead..
You can grow corers worth of cauliflower in your balcony and claim agricultural income

naturalizedcitizen

Starting political party required atleast 100 member

Any-Lengthiness1103

Well let's do this, let's donate our own party every year, and lets actually develop our country with these donations. It would be revolutionary and would make a joke out of every current party which is working for greed. Well we would work for greed as well but we will give the people development as well

calm_thinker_101

Any new updates on this? Many people were/are interested in joining the party. I too was trying to browse through the topics about creation.

fell_over

Or you can sell grass to your company &amp; claim it as agricultural income to save all the tax as suggested by my school senior here: [How to save 100% tax](https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/how-to-save-100-income-tax-karnataka-man-s-satirical-video-for-salaried-class-is-viral-101722060140168.html) ;)

Own_Improvement9268

Just write it off, man. That's the one simple trick.

5haitaan

sr6033

Ins_anI

rah-owl

azraell_

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This is India's revenue split. Income tax is 19% of total revenue. If everyone starts doing this, India will become Pakistan. This post must be deleted as per sub rules and OP must be banned. All the free loaders in the country can go fuck themselves in some other country if they want. If you are in this country stfu and pay income tax.

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Just to let you know "bad mood" visa rejection is only a phony reason. Every visa application interview is recorded and you could appeal via specified means. 

The reason for rejection is clearly mentioned in the letter you have.

MlNlME

Getting US Visa is tough. I work in a company where a guy was being sent to NYC office (headquarters) and even though the company was supporting the Visa process, it still took him almost 1 year to get his visa and move to USA.

vegarhoalpha

OP, do you recollect what questions were posed to you during the interview?

Specifically, were there any questions that will highlight why you will need to return back (to India, I presume)?

For example: say, I am going to attend a business training session for a few weeks. After that, I will need to return to India as my work is here, my family is here, I have outstanding home loans here, etc.

This provides sufficient grounds to establish that the applicant will return back home (to India) for a business / tourist B1/B2 visa.

It varies for different visa categories, of course.

tribal_learner

Go there illegally then they will welcome u

I once walked in for my visa interview, just after someone who had been having 30 min fight with the VO. He was speaking in Tamil and there was a translator provided and the VO was speaking in English. The translator was very loud and I could hear everything even though I was waiting 5-7 feet behind.

This guy was found to be trying to travel to US on a tourist visa but was going to work somewhere illegally. They were giving him 2 options - either to accept and get a 5 yr ban or deny and get a permanent ban. He kept denying. He just kept repeating that he's going as a part of a YMCA church tour. They had evidence that he had paid an agent a lump sum and he inadvertently accepted that too during one heated exchange. Yet, they were repeatedly giving him the 2 options I said above.

And I have been waiting for 30+ mins behind him while people in other queues who had come after me had already left. He was denied a visa and sent (not sure about the ban as I couldn't hear that) and I was literally shivering as I was going to be interviewed by an irate VO.

When I walked in and said good morning, she responded pleasantly and after 2 basic questions my visa was approved in 13 seconds. 

Not sure mood can be blamed 100%. There could be something wrong with the application even a typo or silly mistake in DS160. The problem is we can't ask the reason and it is just trial and expensive error.

RealityCheck18

As an Indian, you are not owed, nor is the united states obligated to grant you a visa.

nimboo12

tawayawat1

Got rejected twice, I had applied for B1/B2 visa from my organisation, plan was to go to clients place in US for knowledge transfer. 
I had Request letter from client(Managing Director) to grant visa for business meetings.

5 people from my team applied, 4 rejected. I was the highest earner amongst all. The person who was granted was the lowest earner.

Reson for rejection which they don't highlight - No strong family connections back in india (should be married), you should someone for whom you will come back. All 4 who were rejected were unmarried. 

The person who was granted was married.

WeakPhilosopher9060

Getting a US Visa have always been a treacherous task. Their protocols have been strict towards all internationals except Chinese. One without top-notch political connections or strong money finds it challenging to enter the US. You’re in luck you win the draw. 

Here, it seems to mention that you need to show the proof of residence in an international country or source country that ensures your departure after a brief visit. Perhaps, they weren’t convinced with your evidences present. That to mention, did you present your residency proof?

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The Election Commission of India has initiated a revision of electoral rolls, requiring proof of citizenship from electors registered after 2003, drawing criticism from opposition leaders as a targeting measure.

Electoral Roll Revision and Controversies in India

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