Dream Merchant

Nomad/Agnostic/Adventurer/Reluctant Writer/Ardent Book Reader/ And so on... வாழ்வியலின் மீது பற்றும் நம்பிக்கையும் கொண்டவன்.

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

The judge who said this is the same judge who gave bail to BJP leader Kuldeep Sengar in Unnao Rape Case

That’s all you need to know about the state of judiciary in India today.

[Neha @neha_aisa]

The rule of law exists to ensure that the rights of citizens even with no special status or power except the status of being citizens of a democratic country are not trampled over.

The rule of law cannot & should not in itself become a weapon in the hands of the state to silence dissenting voices that it prefers not to hear.

The continued JC of @SauravDassss & @AshutoshRanka sets a dangerous precedence.

We must speak now! Refuse to accept the weaponisation of the rule of law against our democracy!

[Yazhini PM @yazhini_pm]

So Parandur Airport was scrapped on orders from your Delhi masters just to pave the way for Chennai Airport’s privatisation?

Now we know who made the call, and whose interests it serves? @TVKVijayHQ

[Urvish Kothari ~ उर्वीश कोठारी @urvish2020]

Rape-accused sworn in as a Governor.
A normal day in the life of BJP rule.

[कुंभकरण @_kumbhkaran]

My brother and I are being burnt today because my brother did something evil, and I stood by him. I advised him to return Maa Sita, but he refused.

But if we were living in today's times, I would have suggested him to join BJP.

Not only would we have been saved, but he would probably have been made country's president or at least a governor.

[Hareesh Mohamed Ibrahim @hihareesh]

Dear Ms.Akshita & Ms.Vasudha,

You both are covering extensively the TVK Government to length and breadth 24/7/365 even if they do nothing . And you both have special interest in well being of people of Tamilnadu which is appreciated.

But atleast Ms.Akshita had pinch of Journalism left in her bones to put A SINGLE TWEET WITHOUT THE CULPRIT image (I’ll help her in identifying the culprit) who got arrested by Union Government agencies for producing 137kg of Meth.

But Ms.Vasudha, I’ve gone through your profile and searched for last one week I couldn’t even find a single tweet about the same.

I know it’s your prerogative to tweet or speak on the subject which matters to you the most. I firmly agree.

In other words it’s called selective journalism / favouritism.

Nothing to hurt you but if you got hurt then I can’t help it out. Calling a spade a spade needs to be done at any given point of time.

Cc : @Akshita_N @Vasudha156

[Niranjan kumar @niranjan2428]

My question is simple

முதல்வர் பற்றி தனிப்பட்ட முறையில் விமர்சித்ததாக நாம் தமிழர் கட்சியின் கார்த்திகா அதிகாலையில் இரவு உடையிலேயே எந்த விதமான காரணமும் சொல்லாமல் கைது செய்யப்பட்டு ஐந்து மணி நேர தொடர் விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டு தற்பொழுது 15 நாள் காவலிலும் அடைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

அதுவே பாஜக மாநில தலைவர் நயினார் நாகேந்திரன் ஒரு முறை அல்ல பலமுறை முதல்வர் குறித்து தனிப்பட்ட விமர்சனங்களை வைத்திருக்கிறார் ஆனால் அவர் மீது எந்த நடவடிக்கையும் இல்லை!

தமிழக வெற்றி கழகத்தின் நிர்வாகிகள் சமூக வலைதளத்தில் கூட நயினாரை கண்டிப்பதில்லை?

ஏன் ???

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

ECINet, the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) comprehensive digital platform, has a feature through which viewing of enumeration form details is enabled State by State. This means that access for State Nodal Officers (SNOs) could be switched off anytime making it a centralised platform, according to an audit by ‘Charchagram’, a civic tech initiative.

✍️@sreeparna_c
https://t.co/QLdMjEAq2Q

[romaissa @RomaissaTahar]

If you're outraged that churches are burning in France but were silent when Israel bombed the 3rd oldest church in the world, you're a hypocrite.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Priya @PriyarajanDMK]

நான் பொது வாழ்வில் இருக்கிறேன் என்ற ஒரே காரணத்திற்க்காக என்னை பற்றி ஆபாசமாகப் பேசுவதும், என்னை இழிவாக தொடர்ந்து பேசுவதும் தான் த.வெ.க அரசின் கொள்கையா?
ஏன் பெண்கள் பொது வாழ்க்கையில் ஈடுபட கூடாதா?
மாண்புமிகு முதலமைச்சர் அவர்களே,
த.வெ.க virtual warriors என்று சொல்லிக்கொண்டு,
Virtual abusers உருவாக்குவது நியாயமா?
என்மீது, தொடுக்கப்பட்ட அத்தனை, ஆபாச, கேலி இழி செயலுக்கும் தலைமை காவல் நிலையத்தில் புகாரளித்தும் உரிய நடவடிக்கை இல்லையே ஏன்?

கொள்கை ரீதியாக எதிர்காமல் இப்படி ஆபாச ரீதியாக பெண்களை சித்தரிப்பது எந்த வகையில் நியாயம்?

த.வெ.க வை சேர்ந்த பெண்களுக்கு மட்டும் தான் மாண்பு உள்ளதா?
இல்லை மற்ற பெண்களுக்கு மாண்பு இருக்க கூடாது என்பது தான் த.வெ.கா. அரசின் நிலைபாடா?

[Naveen Patnaik @Naveen_Odisha]

Jai Hind

The judicial custody of #AshutoshRanka and #SauravDas must be urgently reviewed and they must be released immediately.

Hoisting the National Flag, even in a prohibited area, should not warrant such prolonged detention. The judiciary and the executive must rise to the occasion to ensure that the youth of this country do not lose faith in the rule of law and constitutional rights.

[Apoorvanand अपूर्वानंद @Apoorvanand__]

How courageous and intellectually honest to launch an attack on a young man incarcerated on spurious charges for more than 6 years without a trial! What timing! @ShekharGupta

[Shivam Dwivedi @DwivediJohn]

Telling you all again, A day without humiliation is a day wasted for IT cell.

[Samyak Ghosh 🌈 @GhoshSamyak]

Be ashamed if you write for The Print or associate yourself with Shekhar Gupta. You are enabling an unethical digital media platform. Publishing hit pieces, that too hiding behind a pseudonym, about a person languishing in prison is bad. Opinions can differ but Gupta is evil!

[Kushagra S🇮🇳 @KushagraSaxena_]

Election Commission's own software contains a lock written for one state, and only one - West Bengal.

An independent audit of the Commission's portal ECINET, reported by @htTweets has found a feature that can bar Electoral Registration Officers and Assistant EROs, only in West Bengal, from two critical functions:

🔹Reviewing voters' enumeration forms
🔹Viewing the notice and hearing dashboard

Officers in every other state have access to both. The audit found no such exclusion anywhere else in India.
The audit was carried out by the civic-tech initiative Charchagram. Its data scientist Saurav Rajput examined ECINET's publicly served code on October 2, 6, 7 and 9. The feature was still there in code fetched as recently as October 19.

In his words: West Bengal is separately hard-coded in the codebase & excluded from it (for ERO and AERO).

Understand what is at stake.
The enumeration form page holds each voter's details - name, voter ID, who submitted the form, the documents uploaded & the booth level officer's recommendation. It holds the ERO/AERO-Document & Hearing-Order files, along with the buttons to send a form back to the BLO or flag it.

The notice & hearing dashboard is where notices are tracked and hearings processed. It is where the decision is made about who stays on the roll and who is removed.

Under the law, the ERO is the officer responsible for preparing and revising the electoral roll. If ECINET can shut Bengal's EROs out of the forms & the hearings, the country has a right to know who would be reviewing them instead.

On September 24, the Election Commission told the country that ECINET is a decentralised platform and that nobody else can perform their statutory function on ECINet, including any other officer of ECI.

If only EROs and AEROs can perform these functions, and the code can bar Bengal's EROs and AEROs from the forms and the hearings, then the Commission's two claims cannot both stand.

Now look at the timeline -
🔹September 26: After two Election Commissioners raised objections, the Commission set up a committee to examine whether ECINET complies with the law, following complaints that control of electoral rolls had been centralised.
🔹September 28: Bengal exception has existed in the code at least since this date.
🔹October 16: A new build of the app is introduced. Bengal exception is still in it.
🔹October 19: The exception is still present in the live code.
While the Commission said it was examining whether its system had been centralised, the code continued to treat one state differently from every other.

When Hindustan Times sent the Election Commission a questionnaire, it did not respond.

Nation demands-
🔹Explain why ECINET's code contains a West Bengal-only exclusion for EROs and AEROs.
🔹Name who ordered this code to be written & when.
🔹Disclose whether this restriction has ever been switched on, in which constituencies, and for how long.
🔹Reveal who reviewed Bengal's enumeration forms and hearings during any period the restriction was active.
🔹Publish ECINET's access rules and access logs, and place the portal before an independent technical audit with the findings made public.

Code does not write itself. A hard coded exception for one state is a deliberate choice & someone made it. The Election Commission must tell nation who made that choice & why.

From Karnataka's "dead" voters to Delhi's "untraceable" citizens & now a Bengal only exception in the Commission's own software, the same question keeps coming up: who is really in control of India's voter rolls?

The vote belongs to the people, not to whoever controls the code.

https://t.co/PywR2BoV3M

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Emergency is Back! @instagram Account of a Prominent Cartoonist @satishacharya is currently restricted in India. Wah @narendramodi Wah!

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Suddenly, YouTube reporters are being labelled ‘reel-baaz’.

Reason: They're challenging the hegemony of godi media, and they're not letting them stay in control of the narrative.

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Mr Gupta, I’ve spent a little bit of time in jail. You’re lucky you haven’t.

When a man is locked up & deprived of his basic freedom to move for 6 years without trial, guess what? He will become bitter.

He doesn’t have the luxury of sipping on champagne & talking “Constitution” & “liberalism”.

Dont expect him to worship the Constitution when it hasn’t done jackshit for him in 6 years.

Cheap dog whistling but no one expects any better from you.

[Ratna Singh @whattalawyer]

We have moved the Delhi High Court and requested an urgent night hearing.

Saurav and Ashutosh should not spend a single minute behind bars. Their liberty must not be curtailed because of political games.

Justice must not wait.

@Cockroachisback

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

The RSS is an al male anti-constitutional cult that believes women are the property of men.

I believe in Shiva-Shakti.

That's why it gives me such joy to fight them.

What's beautiful is that many of their “own” women are on my side.