Deepesh Batra

Engineer.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Madam @navikakumar I’m aware comedy isn’t journalism. We are both funny, in VERY different ways. Here’s a fact, you posted asking people for their take. I responded with mine. Sometimes questions are followed by answers. I empathise, this seems like new territory for you. Anyway….imma bounce 🙏

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I visited the southernmost tip of India.

I stood at Indira Point. I walked under trees that have stood for centuries. I dove into coral reefs among the most vibrant on earth.

And I sat with the people who live there. Tribal communities, whose land is being taken away by violating the Forest Rights Act. Settlers, many of them former soldiers, placed on these islands by the Indian government, who aren’t getting fair compensation.

The Modi government and BJP tells you Great Nicobar Project is about defence. It is not.

Expand INS Baaz - we will back the government fully. The Navy has been asking for expansion for five years - it has been ignored.

They tell you it is about a transhipment port. It is not. India is already building one in Kerala, which is on the mainland.

What it actually is: 1.5 crore trees felled. Coral reefs erased from official maps. Soldiers and tribals displaced - so one businessman can build hotels and casinos on India’s most irreplaceable ecological land.

Every young Indian I have spoken to understands this. You know that no amount of profit is worth destroying what can never be recovered.

I stand for ecologically balanced development. These islands can be the most extraordinary sustainable destination the world has ever seen. That is the India worth fighting for.

#GreenOverGreed
#NicobarMatters
#WorldEnvironmentDay

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

A revealing chat with my fellow “anti-national Soros agents.”

Vedant and his friends are brilliant, brave young Indians who asked CBSE and the Modi government simple questions - but got insults instead of answers.

They deserve a bright and secure future. We will make sure they get it.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Read this story. Carefully.

CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.

Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.

TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.

And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.

Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.

So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?

Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.

The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.

To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.

And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Dharmendra Pradhan ji, you can attack me all you want but it won’t absolve you of your crimes. Nor will it stop me from demanding answers for 18.5 lakh children.

Why was the CBSE OSM contract handed to COEMPT - a company already mired in controversy under its old name, Globarena? On whose orders was it done? Why were no background checks done? What is the connection between COEMPT’s management and the Modi government?

Either you ran a background check and went ahead anyway - or you didn’t run one at all. Either way, you are complicit.

As for responsibility - if the PM cared, he should have sacked you long ago for ruining the futures of lakhs of students.

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

Never, ever, claimed to be a journalist. I was always just a mere news professional. Journalists are much higher than me. You, however, are a dalaal.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

जब लाखों युवा सड़क पर हों, 22 लाख बच्चों का भविष्य दांव पर हो और PM चुप हो - तो सरकार जवाब देने नहीं, बचने में लगी है।

जब तक धर्मेंद्र प्रधान का इस्तीफा नहीं होता और NEET जैसे पेपर लीक रोकने के लिए foolproof सिस्टम नहीं बनता - हम रुकेंगे नहीं।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

We get very good information these days.

Modi ji, did Norway agree to your personal request to remove Adani from their pension fund black list?

[Abhisar Sharma @abhisar_sharma]

Stop pretending to be a voice from opposition. You normalize hatred from the BJP and its followers. You are nothing but a sycophant of the establishment. Stop this charade of being a voice of the opposition . I hope even the Congress is not in a misunderstanding anymore about you. You and your brother. . Ek se badhkar ek. And here defending the indefensible .

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

When there is nothing to hide, there is nothing to fear.

What happens to India’s image when the world sees a compromised PM panic and run from a few questions?

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Ishan Kishan is a terrific cricketer who has just essayed an amazing international comeback.
He has also made almost a 100 crores just from IPL fees, not counting international duty and endorsements. This cheque is not a 100th of what he has already made and he's not the greedy sort.
So one can only assume this was literally a payout for a photo-op with him to ensure that the others in the picture got into the papers and all over social media.
Obviously, why spend one crore of government money on creating facilities or training centres or bankrolling poor athletes when you can instead use it to create a photo op by paying the one of the few athletes from your state who really does not need the money!
And that's why sport in India is where it is.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I have written to the Prime Minister recording my dissent from the CBI Director selection process.

I cannot abdicate my constitutional duty by participating in a biased exercise.

The Leader of Opposition is not a rubber stamp.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

BJP-EC के “चोर बाज़ार” में - जितनी बड़ी चोरी, उतना बड़ा इनाम।

[Arvind Kejriwal @ArvindKejriwal]

प्रधानमंत्री जी ने सुवेंदु अधिकारी पर खुद भ्रष्टाचार के आरोप लगाए थे, आज उसी सुवेंदु अधिकारी को CM पद की शपथ दिला दी।

सुवेंदु अधिकारी के खिलाफ ED नहीं जाएगी.. ED संजीव अरोड़ा, अरविंद केजरीवाल और मनीष सिसोदिया के खिलाफ कार्रवाई करेगी।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Assam and Bengal are clear cases of the election being stolen by the BJP with the support of the EC.

We agree with Mamata ji. More than 100 seats were stolen in Bengal.

We have seen this playbook before:
Madhya Pradesh.
Haryana.
Maharashtra.
Lok Sabha 2024 etc

चुनाव चोरी, संस्था चोरी - अब और चारा ही क्या है!

[Dr. Shelly Oberoi @OberoiShelly]

📢 Signature Campaign for Bad Roads📢
📍Patel Nagar

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

कह दिया था - चुनाव के बाद महंगाई की गर्मी आएगी।

आज कमर्शियल गैस सिलेंडर ₹993 महंगा। एक ही दिन में सबसे बड़ी बढ़ोतरी। यह चुनावी बिल है।

फरवरी से अब तक: ₹1,380 की बढ़ोतरी - सिर्फ़ 3 महीनों में 81% का इज़ाफ़ा।

चायवाला, ढाबा, होटल, बेकरी, हलवाई - हर किसी की रसोई पर बोझ बढ़ा। और इसका असर आपकी थाली पर भी पड़ेगा।

पहला वार गैस पर, अगला वार पेट्रोल-डीज़ल पर।

[Avinash Chanchal @avinashchanchl]

We did public audit of Delhi's bus stops and findings are shocking.

the audit by @ptf_delhi covered 231 bus stops in 10 districts and found that 40% of them don't have seating, 9 out of 10 have no ramp, 8 out of 10 have no pedestrian crossing, and two-third have no lighting. In a city facing extreme heat, 17% of bus stops don’t even have a roof.

Here are some of the other main findings:
- 20% do not have name board
- 43% do not have route information
- 99% have no drinking water facility nearby (the same is true for public toilets)
- Only 3% have both lighting and CCTV together
- 1 in 6 bus stops are 'High Risk' with no preparedness for summer heat

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I travelled through Great Nicobar today.

These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow.

The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs.

The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away.

This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language.

So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime.

It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

[Deepesh Batra @deepeshbatra22]

They kept closing chat even when the case was not resolved. Absolute disrespectful and unprofessionals you have as your support team
I want refund for this wrongful activity otherwise I'll take strict and lawful action against this fraud of yours.
@rapidobikeapp

[Deepesh Batra @deepeshbatra22]

@rapidobikeapp
I booked one of your premium cab today and got sent a filthy dirty sub standard car which was different model to what it showed on the app. The driver was rash and dangerous. When i reached out to support, they kept closing the chat without resolving.