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[Paul Manning @mobinfiltrator]

At a time when many residents are focused on taxes, roads, and the cost of living, I question whether a professionally produced video featuring Aston Martins and helicopters reflects the image #NiagaraFalls residents want from Mayor Diodati.

#MayorTikToc
#onpoli #cdnpoli

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: Premier Ford says Stan Cho “did the right thing” resigning from cabinet after spending $16K taxpayer dollars on Toronto hotel stays.

11 other Toronto-area cabinet ministers took advantage of the “special circumstance” expense but Ford won’t say if they should also resign.

[John Fraser @JohnFraserOS]

Any cabinet minister who abused taxpayer dollars with unnecessary hotel stays like Stan Cho—such as Nina Tangri ($19k) and Charmaine Williams ($16k)—should immediately resign from cabinet.

@fordnation cannot accept Ministers acting this way while families can’t make ends meet.

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

How come all Ministers, both State and Central, are flying on private jets even for small interviews? They keep pushing useless policies like the Ethanol push while spending taxpayers' money as if it's their personal property. Taxpayers deserve accountability.

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

Re-NEET isn't proof of accountability. It's proof that the system failed in the first place. Accountability means ministers and officials responsible for repeated failures face consequences, not that students are forced to suffer twice.

[The Pearson Project @ProjectPearson]

Every one of these MPPs needs to resign

[Manoj Arora @manoj_216]

Now what?
To protect their ministers, they may very well declare that the Doctors Body is anti-national and Soros funded.
Or even send ED and CBI to the homes of their key body members.

[Vedant @VedxntR]

Everything which can possibly go wrong goes wrong. First they failed at conducting NEET exam in fair way. Now they also failed at declaring result properly.

Lot of students getting above 600-700 marks in their OMR have been given below 200 marks in final result.

Ek kaam dhang se nhi kr paate ye log.
Shame on you NTA.

#neet #neet2026 #reneet

[Shantanu @shaandelhite]

On 16th July, my marks was 710 and in the morning of 17th, my marks got reduced to 155. I have come to Delhi to lodge a complaint with NTA.

— Arushi Patel from Ayodhya, who appeared in Re-NEET exam 2026

It seems that Rafale, INS Arihant and Brahamos were not deployed and hence such problems are appearing.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Arya Singh, a NEET aspirant from Kanpur and daughter of an ex-serviceman, initially calculated her score at 609. However, the score first reflected on the official portal was 540, which was later drastically reduced to 167. She is currently at Jantar Mantar in Delhi along with her parents, protesting the discrepancy. The family has said they will approach the court if the National Testing Agency (NTA) fails to resolve the issue.

[Amit Behere @_amitbehere]

Pehelgaum terrorists aur rapists toh arrest hote nahi inse.

Chalo at least painters ko toh dhar liya ...!!! I feel so safe now.

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

The Revolution on Paper

Let's say there's a 5% chance the sangh actually moves Pradhan out of Education.

After the victory bugles silence, the reality will hit.

He gets handed some other ministry to run into the ground instead. Someone else's problem now, not students'.

But that's not even the real question.

Because moving one man solves nothing.

Does the paper leak stop? NEET, UGC NET, SSC... they've all bled. A reshuffle doesn't fix a system built to leak.

Does it create a single job? Lakhs of vacant teaching posts, sanctioned but empty, for years. That's not one minister's doing. That's the machine.

Do the textbooks get fixed? Chapters dropped, history rewritten mid-syllabus, pages saffronized. But nobody questions Pradhan's boss.

Do the sanghis sitting in VC chairs... appointed for loyalty, not merit - get removed? That's an RSS pipeline, not a Pradhan pipeline.

Do the schools that are shutting down, one after another, in the name of rationalisation, reopen?

None of it. Not one bit of it moves.

And that's exactly what the Sangh wants. Let the anger burn itself out on one name. Pradhan. Let students celebrate their "moral victory".

The most likely scenario.

Pradhan gone, mission accomplished, back to the group chats. Meanwhile the leaks continue, the posts stay empty, the textbooks stay rewritten, the VCs stay loyal. The anger that could've forced real answers gets spent on a scalp. The battle won, the war lost. And the machine that actually needed dismantling keeps chugging untouched.

Swap the face, keep the machine. That's the game. And as long as the conversation stays 'will Pradhan go', nobody's asking the only question that matters.

Who's actually accountable for what's broken, and what would it take to fix it.

Are you?

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

The Indian education system never improves because the rich and the powerful ship off their kids abroad. They don't care about what happens in Indian educational institutions. These exploit the middle-class taxpayer to mint money for the politicians who own them

[Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC @ccleighton]

Some of Ontario's physicians manage to work 24 hour shifts (sometime longer) and yet still are able to get themselves home without a hotel stop on the way. Imagine.

Ford knew this was going on -- They were about to codify the practice with legislation. His remarks are farcical.

[Desi Diplomacy 🇮🇳 @DesiDiplomacyin]

Anti Student Government Protest
Dharmendra Pradhan — Narendra Modi, Resign!”

The students have spoken. Enough is enough. Time for accountability!

Jantar Mantar

[. @CapitalsLad]

@kutsavajra @Randomshhm @goldenhues018 Yes, UPA ministers did resign because there was some sort of accountability. We voted them out because we thought that accountability wasn’t enough and the new guys are backed by you idiots who refuse to see things and ask for better basic living conditions

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

"If they’ve abused taxpayer money by taking advantage of a loophole in a rule, should they really be ministers?"

Following Stan Cho's resignation from cabinet, the Liberals are calling for the resignation of all cabinet ministers caught up in the hotel-billing scandal, while the NDP are demanding to see the receipts: "They can all resign. It’s not going to stop me from demanding answers." https://t.co/IWAxHYBDs8

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

Japanese ministers resign over a mislabelled expense receipt. Ours hold press conferences about the charges. Same dictionary, very different entry for "accountability." @Grok

[Dont Be Afraid @RebelVista31]

The defense that a Minister should not resign because they did not physically execute the operational tasks-like setting or invigilating an exam-misunderstands the concept of political accountability. A Union Minister’s role is systemic oversight and policy governance. If a systemic failure occurs on their watch, the accountability stops at their desk, regardless of who physically signed off on the operational details

[Gurjot Ahluwalia @gurjota]

Mad respect for @_soniashenoy for such beautiful articulation on the current state of affairs.

Day by day, more and more people are voicing their opinion, especially women, an absolutely fantastic sign for a vibrant thriving democracy!