Indian media was meant to hold power accountable, yet when BJP poaches MPs, they flash it as Breaking News and cheer the spectacle. This isn’t journalism—it’s complicity in the destruction of democracy. Stop celebrating the rot, start questioning it. #DemocracyUnderAttack
क्या ये खबर सही है? क्या देश का सोना बेचा जा रहा है? क्या सरकार इतनी ज़्यादा कंगाल हो गई है? पिछले 76 साल में कई ऐसे मौके आए जब देश कठिन स्थिति में था। लेकिन देश का सोना तो कभी नहीं बेचा गया। इसका मतलब हालात बहुत ज़्यादा ख़राब हैं?
सरकार कुछ बताती क्यो नहीं? देश के क्या हालात हैं? मोदी जी कहते हैं कि वो तो झोला उठा के चल देंगे। पर हमें तो यहीं रहना है, इसी देश में रहना है।
@RahulGandhi ab aur kitna bada issue chahiye aapko sadak pe aane ke liye protest karne ke liye, har taraf paper leak ho rahe hai, aap aur aapko party sirf tweet kar rahi hai.
That's not the way Mr. Gandhi
COME OUT ON ROAD TO PROTEST AND DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY
#modiweakpaperleak
Dharmendra Pradhan's son
is studying in America, so did Nirmala's and Jyotiraditya.
Piyush Goyal's son is studying in Singapore, Anurag Thakur's son is studying in Canada.
S. Jaishankar's son is studying in the UK & even Smriti Irani (who hardly studied) sent son to study there.
Nishikant Dubey's son studied in Scotland
So why would these people bother about NEET paper leak
or CBSE scam or communal distortion of history by NCERT?
Or care about your children getting pushed around in trains and buses or even committing suicide?
Government of Hypocrites from Top to Bottom!!
Democracy doesn't function on X, @RahulGandhi. You can't fight autocracy from a smartphone. Get out on the streets! Protest the petrol price hikes on the actual roads, and watch the people join you. Ek baar karke to dekho. Real change happens on the ground, not in a timeline.
महंगाई मानव मोदी का फिर से हमला।
पेट्रोल-डीज़ल के दाम किश्तों में बढ़ाते हैं - ताकि चुपके-चुपके आपकी जेब कटती रहे।
मैं महीनों से आर्थिक तूफान आने की बात कह रहा था। पर मोदी जी तब हमेशा की तरह चुनाव में व्यस्त थे - और चुनाव खत्म होते ही पेट्रोल-डीजल ₹8 महंगा कर दिया।
और, ये बढ़त होती ही जाएगी।
महंगाई मानव मोदी का एक ही काम है - चुनाव में वादे, और बाक़ी समय जनता की जेब पर वार।
Not a single government department is doing the job it's actually supposed to do anymore. The entire routine has just become rocking up to the office, running out the clock, and clocking out right at 5 PM. Zero accountability, zero results. 🙄✍️
#CorruptionInIndia
From infrastructure collapses to administrative delays, it feels like every single day brings news of another system failure.
Is there even *one* government department in India right now that is performing its duty honestly and correctly? The citizens deserve better.
#Governance
अखिलेश जी, आइये तेल दामों की क्रोनोलॉजी समझते ��ैं:
> मोदी सरकार ने 2014 में कार्यभार संभालते ही पेट्रोलियम उत्पादों की ��ब्सिडी बिल्कुल खत्म कर दी, जिससे LPG और डीजल आम उपभोक्ता के लिए महंगे हो गए।
> 2015-16 में मोदी खुद को किस्मतवाला बताते थे कि उनके आने के बाद कच्चे तेल की कीमत $30 प्रति बैरल से भी नीचे गिर गई है। लेकिन उस वक्त भी उन्होंने दाम पड़ोसी देशों से ऊपर रखे। पेट्रोल और डीजल औसतन ₹59 और ₹46 तक बना रहा।
> 2016 से 2019 के बीच कच्चा तेल $65-70 प्रति बैरल रहा और पेट्रोल और डीजल औसतन ₹70 और ₹66 तक बना रहा।
> 2020 में कोरोना की आड़ लेकर त���ल के दामों में केंद्रीय टैक्स अप्रत्याशित रूप से बढ़ा दिए गए, हालांकि कच्चे तेल की कीमतें गिरती रहीं और लॉकडाउन में तो $20 प्रति बैरल भी आ गिरी। पेट्रोल और डीजल औसतन ₹84 और ₹76 तक बना रहा।
> 2021 में जब कच्चा तेल वापिस से $65-70 की पुरानी रेंज में आया तो हमें बताया कि अंतरराष्ट्रीय बाजार में कच्चा तेल ��छाल ले रहा है। इसलिए अक्टूबर 2021 में पहली बार पेट्रोल ₹100 पार कर गया और डीजल ₹90 पार कर गया। हालांकि कच्चे तेल की ये कीमतें 2019 के बराबर ही थी। लेकिन कोरोना के बहाने टैक्स का पहाड़ ऐसा खड़ा कर दिया गया कि 2019 के मुकाबले एक्साइज ड्यूटी लगभग 30 रुपए ज्यादा बढ़ा दी गई थी।
> 2022 में रूस यूक्रेन युद्ध की आहट से कुछ महीने कच्चा तेल $100 प्रति बैरल क्रॉस कर गया। सरकार ने कुछ महीने बड़ा एहसान जताया कि हम एक्साइज ड्यूटी ₹8 कम करके रिटेल प्राइस नहीं बढ़ने देंगे। लेकिन दिसंबर 2022 तक क्रूड वापिस से $70-75 की रेंज में आ गया।
> 2023-2025 के बीच हमें बताया गया कि भारत रूस से $25-$30 सस्ता तेल खरीद रहा है। बाजार में कीमत $75-80 थी, लेकिन भारत को $50-55 मिलता रहा। लेकिन फिर भी करिश्माई रूप से पेट्रोल और डीजल का दाम 90 रूपये से ज्यादा बना रहा। गौरतलब है कि 2015 में कच्चे तेल की इस कीमत पर ये दाम 55-60 रूपये था।
> रूस से सस्ते तेल के आयातकों में सबसे ब���़ा रिलाय��स था, रोजाना 4 लाख बैरल से ज्यादा। इस दौरान रिलायंस ने हजारों करोड़ का मुनाफा कमाया। तेल का शुद्धिकरण करके यूरोप को बेचा गया। यहां तक कि भारत में शुद्धिकरण हुआ तेल नेपाल, भूटान और श्रीलंका में भी हमारे मुकाबले 30 रुपए लीटर सस्ता बिकता रहा।
> सस्ते रूसी तेल का सारा प्रॉफिट अंबानी को और भारत को इसके बदले 2025 में अमेरिका से टैरिफ की सौगात मिली। लेकिन ट्रंप परिवार और अंबानी परिवार की सांझ बहुत अच्छ��� है, अब यही सैटिंग वेनेजुएला के तेल में शुरू हो चुकी है।
तो अब अगर कोई ये कहता है कि 2022 से 2025 के बीच में तेल के दाम नहीं बढ़े तो भाषा सरकारी है। कायदे से रेट घटने चाहिए थे, हमने अपने पड़ोसी देशों के मुकाबले ₹30-35 महंगा तेल खरीदा है 3 साल तक।
मोदी कोई महंगाई मई में क्यों याद आई, सबसे गहरा संकट तो मार्च और अप्रैल में था। ��ुनाव के तुरंत बाद ये माहौल क्यों बनाया जा रहा है?
इज़रायल के चंगुल में फंसकर ईरान की नाराजगी किसने मोल ली है?
ये संकट हमारे ऊपर मोदी ने लादा है और उपरोक्त आंकड़े बता रहे हैं कि जब संकट नहीं था तो मोदी सरकार ने रिलायंस के साथ मिलकर उपभोक्ता को लूटा है।
प्रणाम।
I am quite surprised that although Dhruv has covered my stories, which is great and I’m thankful to him for that, he wouldn’t care to name the journalists whose stories he relies upon. Please see @ravish_journo sir how he generously credits reporters whose stories he graciously covers. Frankly, a little disappointed. Hope he rectifies this because it’s not fair to even other reporters who put in so much effort to bring those stories out, often months together.
#ImportantNews: The controversy over the alleged Delhi liquor-scam case before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma is no longer confined to courtroom conduct alone. Now more troubling questions of proximity, patronage, conflict-of-interest, and the appearance of bias have come to light.
Several of the 23 dischargees in the case had formally sought Justice Sharma’s recusal from hearing the CBI’s challenge to their discharge. Even then, the judge has so far resisted calls to step aside, even as former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself appears in person to argue the recusal application. Arguments are now scheduled for Monday, 13 April 2026.
In my last Case In Point column for @frontline_india, I had already revealed, through an analysis of all the 165 criminal revision petitions of the same category as Kejriwal’s case, that Justice Sharma clearly departed from her usual pattern of handling such matters and had taken an unusually strange interest in this case. That, along with many other details that if read in singularity can be met with a shrug, but when read together, reveals a troubling pattern and credible fears of apprehension of bias in the liquor case. These by itself had raised serious questions. You may read my piece here: https://t.co/GtqFKFhRYY
What has surfaced now makes those questions HARDER to dismiss.
Justice Sharma’s son and daughter—Ishaan Sharma and Shambhavi Sharma—have both been empanelled by the Union government before the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court.
According to the empanelment details, both siblings were appointed on the very same days: 11 September 2025 for the Delhi High Court panels and 21 November 2025 for the Supreme Court panels.
1. Ishaan Sharma holds panels before both courts, including the highest Group A panel before the Supreme Court and Senior Panel Counsel status before the Delhi High Court.
2. Shambhavi Sharma, with mere four years of enrolment as advocate, too holds panels before both courts: Group C before the Supreme Court and Government Pleader before the Delhi High Court.
3. Ishaan Sharma also held a panel in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), under the Union Housing Ministry, till at least 2024 (Check: https://t.co/4DsDonRCyE).
4. He also held a panel in the Delhi State Legal Services Authority since 2021 until at least the end of 2024 (Check: https://t.co/KnfZFVJhCs).
Panel counselship is among the most coveted forms of government legal patronage in the system. Ask any advocate and they will tell you how through these positions, the government allocates litigation, visibility, professional standing, and income. But the more important and troubling part is that they are positions held at the pleasure of the very government whose top law officers are now appearing before Justice Sharma in one of the most politically explosive cases in the country. And that is where the conflict sharpens.
Of course, one need not prove an explicit bargain but justice must also be SEEN to be done, especially when it is a case of public interest. The test for seeking recusal of a judge is whether there exists a reasonable apprehension of bias and whether public confidence in the fairness of the process has been impaired. Like I had explained in my column, Indian law on recusal has long recognised that what matters is not just actual bias, but whether a litigant could REASONABLY FEEL that justice may NOT appear to be done. Here, several of the 23 dischargees feel justice may not be done impartially.
And now this issue of one advocate, who happens to be the son of a judge, accumulating large number of panels within a relatively short post-enrolment period as an advocate. Ask any lawyer and they will tell you how many more accomplished, brilliant persons, with many more years as an advocate have failed to secure a panel through the formal process. The concerns are many.
In this case, the question is whether a judge can continue to hear a politically sensitive challenge brought by the CBI, while her kin hold multiple Union government panels and receive work from the same legal establishment whose top officers allocate cases to them and are now appearing before her?
Note this: as per one RTI reply I received, Ishaan Sharma was allocated 2,487 cases in 2023, 1,784 cases in 2024, and 1,633 cases in 2025. In both 2024 and 2025, he was allocated more case files than even Zoheb Hossain, the top, most publicly visible Enforcement Directorate lawyer—by 91 in 2024 and by 582 in 2025. This of course suggests the sustained and substantial allocation of state work before the son. The allocation is done by the topmost in the legal system.
Also, this is not the first time that such questions of potential conflict of interest have arisen. In September 2024, I had highlighted the case of Padmesh Mishra, whose appointments across multiple union government and Rajasthan government positions drew scrutiny after his father, Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, was elevated to the Supreme Court. Check: https://t.co/TVr35PmPx3
The unease then was the same as it is now: when the children of sitting judges begin to accumulate government panels and positions in unusual concentration, something a regular lawyer, perhaps much more brilliant and of more history of practice, can only dream of, particularly after or around the parent’s rise within the judiciary, the issue is of institutional credibility.
And no one really needs to state that that credibility is already under strain. Recently, Justice Manmohan of the Supreme Court himself publicly flagged corruption in the appointment of panel counsels by the Union government, questioning whether such appointments are really being made on merit at all. In a system where even a sitting Supreme Court judge is warning that panel-counsel appointments may be infected by extraneous considerations, the appearance of conflict in the present case becomes still harder to shrug away. Check: https://t.co/RGSSDK7ekf
Seen in that light, the present controversy is again not whether Justice Sharma is actually biased. It is about whether the institution can credibly insist that there is nothing to see here. The CBI has just filed an affidavit supporting Justice Sharma. A judge who I have documented, as per her own orders, to show unusual interest in a politically sensitive matter now finds herself in a position where her own kind hold/held as many as SIX government panels between them, while their bosses continue to appear before her. Even if one were to assume the absence of any actual impropriety, does this arrangement augur well for the appearance of judicial independence, especially in this case? The question is whether this not enough evidence of apprehension of bias that should suffice for a recusal.
That is the question the High Court ought to have confronted with seriousness. Instead, by resisting recusal in these circumstances, the judge is unfortunately deepening this very suspicion that it should have avoided at all costs, or at least for the sake of institution.
Tell me one reason why this video deserves to be taken down from YouTube.
Is it because I questioned the Election Commission why it is functioning like a “Mughal darbar,” where decisions seem driven by whim: who gets to vote, who does not and even who is allowed to breathe?
Pls Retweet-
Samserganj, Murshidabad.
I invite the Election Commission of India to come meet its victims and see, on the ground, what this so called “voter purification” exercise is doing to the poorest citizens of this country who also happen to be Muslims.
I have covered wars, communal violence, and mass movements. I have never seen anything like this before.
ऑस्ट्रेलिया ने ऊर्जा संकट के असर से अपने नागरिकों को बचाने के लिए पेट्रोल की कीमतें कम कीं।
लेकिन अपने यहाँ, नरेंद्र मोदी जी ने excise duty घटाकर oil कंपनियों के मुनाफे को बचाया, लेकिन आम आदमी को कोई राहत नहीं दी।
इतने बड़े संकट क��� बीच भी मोदी जी को अपने उद्योगपति दोस्तों की ज़्यादा चिंता है, जनता की नहीं ।
Hello, @DainikBhaskar@JagranNews@AmarUjalaNews@NavbharatTimes this is the news which should be on the front page of tomorrow news papers with explanation of why it is going to happen, but as we all know it won't be able to make it even on the 5th page.
Thanks for attention.
India will borrow 8.2 trillion rupees ($86.5 billion) in the first half of the financial year beginning April 1, around half of the amount scheduled for the full 12-month period, the government said in a statement Friday. https://t.co/L5pu1XDW4w
India will borrow 8.2 trillion rupees ($86.5 billion) in the first half of the financial year beginning April 1, around half of the amount scheduled for the full 12-month period, the government said in a statement Friday. https://t.co/L5pu1XDW4w