DirectFromRK

Back up account for Dr RK Radhakrishnan, journalist and academic

[DirectFromRK @DirectFromRK]

BJP will always be unbeatable in any poll anywhere in India 🇮🇳 as long as Gyanesh Kumar is CEC!

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

The dance of democracy in Andhra Pradesh!
A woman’s nomination papers were snatched from her hands as AP police officers stood by, watching without intervening.

[Arfa Khanum Sherwani @khanumarfa]

1.5 million views in just a few hours.
Raj Thackeray tweeting this ‘blasphemous’ video is a big turn in indian politics.
Modi should be worried, very very worried.

[The Rebel @TheRebel_IN]

🚨MASSIVE BREAKING : The Hindu Just drop Biggest BOMB on Traitor Gyanesh & dictator Modi🔥
(MUST Read & Share)

India's voter list now has an ON/OFF switch. And it sits in Delhi, not in your state.

→ ECINet is ECI's one portal for everything: voter list, SIR forms, officer logins.
→ An audit of its code by an IIT Delhi-IIM Calcutta data scientist found a built-in "disable" button for every State Nodal Officer.
→ The pop-up literally says: "the user will no longer be able to access the application."
→ Viewing voters' SIR forms can be switched on or off, state by state.
→ The code even has a ready message: "not enabled for selected State".
→ And in West Bengal alone, the officers responsible for the voter list are blocked from these forms.

And the joke doesn't end there.
→ How did the audit find all this? Not by hacking.
→ ECINet's login page loads a big code file before anyone even logs in.
→ Menu names, screens and API paths meant only for officials are sitting in it, readable by anyone.
→ The platform guarding almost 100 crore voters' data can't even hide its own officials-only menu.

Now the bigger shock.
This warning didn't come only from outside. It came from inside ECI.
→ Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi wrote against the "gradual centralisation of the electoral roll database".
→ Sandhu wrote that he came to know about new ECINet modules "from media only".
→ Joshi asked for an outside IIT expert to audit who can change the voter database.
→ Finally, the two ECs wrote to the Cabinet Secretary.

Now connect the dots.
By law, the ERO in your area decides whose name stays on the voter list.
On ECINet, what the ERO can actually do is decided by the IT team in Delhi.
Law says decentralised. Software says one switch.

Bro, imagine.
Your society has a watchman, but the main gate lock is controlled by someone sitting in another city.
He can lock any building he wants, anytime.
And when two other committee members ask "who has the key?", nobody answers.

That's not digital transformation.
That's a remote control on democracy.

Gyanesh , if two of your own Commissioners couldn't get answers, how will the voter?
Modi, who holds the switch, and whom does he report to? 🔥🔥🔥

[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.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

US DOJ releases a picture of Epstein with Hardeep Puri. Congress party says image timed with Marco Rubio’s visit to India in an attempt to blackmail

Will the Modi government come clean about this meeting the cabinet minister lied about

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

A narrative is being set that it was because of protesters that shopkeepers are forced to shut their shops. But local journalists covering the protest say, Protestors, scores of them were buying stuff from local shops. It was the police that asked the shopkeepers to shut down their shops for “some time.” This was at Mandi House yesterday.

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

#India: @the_hindu's investigation shows a clear skew against Muslim electors.

The SC must now halt the SIR, built on arbitrary criteria with no basis in electoral law & which discriminates against specific communities - Editorial today
https://t.co/09T4Ts27tU

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

#India: If you're following the protests in India, demanding the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner over the rot in the country's chief election body, do read @rohini_mohan's excellent first person account of fighting to stay on electoral rolls https://t.co/Kthp8Yy0PB

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

#India: Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday (October 4, 2026) said any process disenfranchising millions, making them second class citizens without the right to vote, was intrinsically arbitrary, and violative of universal adult suffrage and right to equality.

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

Freezing democracy: The ECI’s acts of omission and commission clearly suggest that it is acting in tandem with the interests of the BJP - @the_hindu editorial on the Election Commission of India and West Bengal

Read full article: https://t.co/XFqT4URlb7

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

JUST IN | Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay launched the expansion of the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Breakfast Scheme to students studying in Classes VI to VIII in government and government-aided schools at Gandhi Gramam Corporation School at Thiruvanmiyur in Chennai.

🎥 @nscwrites

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

#SriLanka: An interim governing body, comprising senior officials, local body representatives, artistes and professionals, has been set up to run the India-built Jaffna Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.
https://t.co/KY2V6uMdg3 via @the_hindu

[Rahul Biddappa @rahulbiddappa]

@ShivaniGupta_5 Sure, but i think more importantly it was a rather pedestrian menu. One could say that's not objective, but as is Indian tradition, we serve food that is more celebratory, grander when we have guests at the table. The menu didn't reflect any of that.

[Sriram @SriramMadras]

I believe this company’s headquarters is India, and they already have their operations in Chennai. Could somebody confirm ?

[Meera Srinivasan @Meerasrini]

#SriLanka is "one of our most important partners" under the 'Neighbourhood First' and 'MAHASAGAR' initiatives, says Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh while departing to Colombo.

[மு.குணசேகரன் M.Gunasekaran @GunasekaranMu]

YouTube has announced changes to its Partner Program (YPP) that will introduce new eligibility requirements for creators seeking ad and YouTube Premium revenue sharing from 2027. New creators applying to the programme will need either 8,000 qualified watch hours in the last 365 days or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. https://t.co/eb5LFwNFY4

[DirectFromRK @DirectFromRK]

Mitron, In back on ⁦@RKRadhakrishn⁩

[DirectFromRK @DirectFromRK]

Won’t happen. The witch-hunt begins today. Wonder how many have already been “picked up!”

[Cockroaches of India @CJP_for_India]

Dear @samrat4bjp & @SuvenduWB,

Don't break the assurance given by @JPNadda & @DrJitendraSingh. Drop all criminal cases put on the protestors.

[DirectFromRK @DirectFromRK]

What I warned begins. There will be FIRs and complaints filed across the country and parents will be threatened. This was never a democracy @Cockroachisback @abhijeet_dipke

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

A social media content creator has been booked in Madhya Pradesh’s Niwari district for allegedly using “highly abusive” language against former Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Delhi Police in a video clip amid the student agitation.

✍️@MehulMalpani

https://t.co/qLOVUtwrLa

[DirectFromRK @DirectFromRK]

@MaxFx23 @RKRadhakrishn Not hacked. Unable to access after a DMCA notice. As always no mails after that

[DirectFromRK @DirectFromRK]

I’m not going to block obnoxious comments here. After 17 years on Twitter, I can confidently confirm that those who abuse a point of view are paid stooges. The more these vermin comment on my post, the more he/she/IT Cell will stand exposed.