Banning Tiktok is not just a digital surgical strike on China, it is a surgical strike on the Indian deep state as well.

With this, the government has landed a body blow on the Lutyens mafia too. Here's why.

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Read this tweet and ponder over its implications.

For Prashant, business is business. Someone has paid up to buy peace, how can anyone go back on their word? And that too restrospectively?

What a loss of face and credibility!

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Because for people like Prashant, any fund like PM Cares irrespective of which side starts it, is essentially a service provider for the donors.

The skeletons tumbling out of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation are a good example of how the Indian deep state works.

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So just like retrospective taxation was a huge loss of face and credibility for India as an investment destination, Tiktok's banning after its 30 crore contribution to PM Cares puts the deep state in a credibility crisis.

Only that PM Cares was never part of the deep state.

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But one wouldn't expect Prashant or Tiktok to know that, right?

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