andyGana

Avid lover of Indian classical music, amateur violinist , bibliophile (PG Wodehouse and Rex Stout being my all time favourites), crossword solver , Techie

[andyGana @AndyGana]

Great loss to IndianMusic #KishoriAmonkar @shenoyn @calamur @Raaga_Suresh @The_Kulk @tanjorean @msundr @diogeneb https://t.co/SLQoZcQuJR

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

the reason barkatullah is being erased is that modi/rss want people to forget that there were people who did things other than apologise to the british raj.
https://t.co/oBjoyulI54

[Pankaj Sekhsaria @pankajsekh]

4/4

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is blowing up entire villages and residential neighborhoods in Lebanon, killing 200 to 300 civilians every 48-96 hours, calling it a ceasefire, and proudly sharing the footage of international law violations online, with absolutely no consequences.

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

With elections done, PM Modi urges citizens to cut fuel use, avoid foreign travel.
PM to leave for 7-day trip to UAE, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway and Italy on Friday.
https://t.co/HpjbhsgzMS

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

MEA declined several requests for a response on whether India’s position on Palestine was isolated at the meeting. “There was no change in India’s position on the Palestine issue” an unnamed government source told news agency PTI on Sunday, attributing the lack of consensus only to “sharp difference of positions among members who are party to the conflict”.

[Subhash Chandra Garg @Subhashgarg1960]

Unlike oil bonds, sovereign gold bonds Scheme was designed, implemented and abandoned by Modi Govt only. Modi Govt borrowed Rs. 70,000 crore through SGBs. SGBs have already created a hole of about Rs. 1.5 trillion. Who will Nirmala Sitaraman blame for it? https://t.co/IVuC4SFW82

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Women’s reservation bill was NOT defeated on April 17. A delimitation-linked amendment was. The two are NOT the same.

Media misrepresented facts, PM Modi misled the nation in his address.

@AnindyaHazra96 & @OishaniB_'s report.

https://t.co/PyA9gK9sHS

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

BJP IT cell head @amitmalviya deleted all his Anti-Reservation and Anti-Women Reservation tweets.

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

MYSTERY OF CEC GYANESH KUMAR’S ASSETS

Gyanesh Kumar is a compromised CEC openly working for the BJP. Here’s something very alarming that raises serious questions:

👉 All IAS officers are annually required to submit their asset declarations also known as Immovable Property Returns (IPR). This information is PUBLICLY AVAILABLE & uploaded online on the DoPT website

👉 Therefore, I was looking for IPR records filed by Gyanesh Kumar for the period when he was a serving IAS officer.

👉 Now, normally, this information should be available on the DoPT website. Remember - these records are public. If you look at the DoPT site, you’ll find filings of all IAS/IPS officers

👉 Gyanesh Kumar was an IAS officer in Amit Shah’s ministry.
He was then appointed to the Election Commission in 2024 and became CEC in Feb 2025

👉 Mysteriously, without any explanation, the past IPR asset records of Gyanesh Kumar were suddenly removed from the website after he joined ECI

👉 Since these IPRs are publicly held records, I asked the DoPT for a copy

👉 Astonishingly, the Modi Govt refused to provide the copies claiming it’s “private information”

Question is:

👉 How did these records which were publicly displayed on the website for years suddenly become “private information” in Feb 2025?

👉 These records are available for every IAS/IPS officer. What is the Modi Govt hiding about Gyanesh Kumar to suddenly make these records private?

👉 Every candidate contesting elections has to file a declaration of assets. Even SC & HC judges do it. Why, then, are even the PAST assets of the Chief Election Commissioner hidden from the public?

Why is the Modi Govt hiding the past asset declarations of their stooge & why have they been suddenly removed from the website?

What exactly is it that they don’t want people to know?

[Gurdeep Singh Sappal @gurdeepsappal]

BJP looted 44 lakh crore rupees from taxes on petroleum.

They give three reasons for utilisation of this loot:

1. Repayment of Oil bonds
2. New roads were built
3. People are getting cash subsidies through DBT

All three reasons are misleading.

1. Oil Bonds repayments:

• Out of 44 lakh crore, only 3.3 lakh crore was the repayment.

• It is Just 7% of total tax on petroleum.

• For every ₹1 repaid, ₹13 was pocketed BY THE Modi government.

2. Roads were built

• NHAI debt in 2025 was ₹3.35 lakh crore, twice the oil bonds!

• The roads are being privatised and toll this year was nearly 73000 crore rupees.

• Roads were built on borrowed money, future tolls are pledged to repay loans and reward investors, and people continue to pay rising tolls to drive on those roads.

3. The money went to the poor

The subsidy bill has actually drastically fallen during Modi regime, since 2014.

• Total Subsidy share of budget: fell from 16.3% → 13.06%

• Petroleum subsidies: collapsed from 5.1% → 0.24%

• Fertilizer subsidy: reduced 9.6 % → 7.33%

• Housing subsidy is stagnant

• DBT didn’t expand welfare, it rebranded existing schemes and reduced the budgets

The Debt Trap

• the total debt goes up from 55 lakh crore rupees in 2014 to 218.63 lakh crore rupees in current financial year!

• India now pays ₹11 lakh crore/year in interest alone

• Every citizen carries ₹1.5 lakh in debt, not counting off-budget liabilities

I write for @NH_India ✍️

@INCIndia @kharge @RahulGandhi

https://t.co/wxXHHMWj09

[Shantanu @shaandelhite]

In Bengal, Gyanesh Kumar has deleted the names of HC judges, even the officers who are doing SIR from the voting list.

Yet, he will say eelection is free and fair.

— Listen to Yogendra Yadav

[Raju Parulekar @rajuparulekar]

In just 12 months, Amit Shah has captured Indian democracy's future from its very roots - voter lists. And entire INDIA alliance just watched helplessly.
Very Sad 😞

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

Shocking report!

Of the two constituencies’ data from West Bengal that @AltNews analysed, 66% of the persons whose right to vote has been “suspended till final adjudication” are Muslims. Two days back, Justice Joymala Bagchi effectively remarked “that’s okay, they can still vote in the next election”! Is this how the apex Constitutional Court of world’s largest democracy going to treat targeted mass disenfranchisement?!
https://t.co/rGkUkTFxxy

[andyGana @AndyGana]

@theliverdoc Hearty congratulations. Will get my copy of the book soon

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

A Sitting Supreme Court Justice BV Nagarathna: "Demonetisation was a good way of converting BLACK MONEY into WHITE MONEY."

A Cheap Bollywood Director wants you to believe that the Demonetisation ENDED Terrorism.

[Sujit Nair @sujitnair90]

Dr. Manmohan Singh Deserves an Apology

For over a decade, the coal allocation controversy was not just a policy debate. It became a moral indictment. Names were taken, motives were assigned, and guilt was assumed in the court of public opinion long before any court of law had spoken.

Now, on March 27, 2026, that long arc of judgment has turned.

In the Bander coal block case, a special court acquitted former MP Vijay Darda, his son Devendra Darda, former Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta, and others. But this was not a routine acquittal. The court was categorical. The Central Bureau of Investigation, it said, failed miserably. The case rested on conjectures, not evidence. There was not even an iota of proof of corruption, influence, or illegal gain.

For H.C. Gupta, the court granted an honourable acquittal, noting the complete absence of any wrongdoing or even a meeting of minds.

But this judgment does not exist in isolation.

At the time of these allocations, Manmohan Singh himself was the Coal Minister. The administrative chain, the decisions, the scrutiny, all ultimately pointed upwards to his office. The allegations did not just question a process. They cast a shadow on his integrity.

Today, when the very foundation of those allegations collapses in a court of law, that shadow cannot be selectively ignored.

This is not the first time such a narrative has unravelled. The 2G spectrum case verdict had already exposed how one of the most aggressively amplified corruption stories failed to stand legal scrutiny.

Yet, the damage had been done.

A media ecosystem, self appointed moral guardians, and ambitious political voices built their credibility on these claims. They shaped public perception, influenced electoral moods, and reduced complex governance decisions into accusations of corruption.

And now, when the courts have spoken, there is a silence that is just as telling as the noise once was.

Dr. Manmohan Singh was not just criticised. He was diminished in the public imagination. His personal integrity, once considered unimpeachable, was repeatedly questioned in a narrative that is now steadily collapsing.

If institutions can take years to deliver justice, society must at least have the courage to acknowledge when it got it wrong.

Because restoring dignity begins with a simple act.

An apology.

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Because India was the only country which didn't reduce the fuel price when crude prices has hit rock bottom for years. The govt was extracting the consumers for heavy profits. And even now, it is due to state elections.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: Yet another high profile corruption case from UPA era falls flat. ‘Not an iota of evidence, CBI miserably failed": Delhi court acquits all accused in 2012 Bander Coal block case. Please think of HC Gupta, former coal secretary, widely acknowledged in IAS circles as a man of integrity, whose reputation was destroyed by alleged coal scam. What does it say about CBI’s track record in such cases? https://t.co/akXu6ce8Rf

[John Brittas @JohnBrittas]

Government’s own data exposes a shocking distortion:

FCI rice is being sold cheaper to private distilleries for ethanol production than to States feeding people.

States paid up to Rs. 34/kg, while distilleries got it at just Rs. 20 - 23.20/kg.

States pay more, corporates pay less.

Result: Rs. 4,000+ crore cumulative sacrifice of public funds.

Processed food grain is cheaper for corporates than for feeding the poor!

Is this policy for people - or for private profit?

#rajyasabha #ethanol #blended #fci

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

“Breathe freely” 😂

Modi collected ₹38.89 lakh crore from petrol/diesel taxes, 2014–2024.

Total UPA oil bond burden? ₹3.23 lakh crore.

He “cleared” it using 12x the amount squeezed out of every Indian at the pump.

Seva or tax heist? You decide.

Now the part he won’t tweet:

India’s crude oil import dependence (PPAC, Govt. of India):
🔴 2014: 77.6%
🔴 2026: 88.6% - HIGHEST IN HISTORY

Modi promised at Urja Sangam 2015 to cut it to 67% by 2022.

It went to 89%. Under his watch. His policy. His failure.

UPA issued bonds in 2005–10 when global crude crossed $140/barrel; to protect the poor from price shocks while OMCs stayed solvent. That was the “sin.”

Modi hiked excise on petrol 9 times in 15 months when global prices CRASHED; pocketing the windfall instead of passing it on to you.

Excise on petrol: ₹9.48/L (2014) → ₹32.98/L (2021). +348%.

UPA’s “foreign bondage”?

We now import 9 out of every 10 barrels of crude oil from abroad.
That is the deepest foreign energy dependency in the history of the Indian Republic.

Built entirely on Modi’s watch. 🤫