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8/ Fix the appointment law, and the "which loyalist gets the job" problem stops being a recurring headache. Chase one resignation, and you're just refilling the same bucket. The opposition's energy is going to the wrong fight.

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#Appeal

1/ The opposition's ECI strategy is muddled. Everyone's chanting "Gyanesh Kumar must resign" — but that's a demand with almost no teeping power, and even less payoff if it works. 🧵

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7/ Yet most opposition leaders are still stuck on the resignation slogan. It's louder, easier to chant at a rally — but it's the wrong target if the goal is actually changing how CECs get picked going forward.

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Ajeet Bharti’s political evolution:

LW → RW → GC → Now HPW
Hindu Phobia Wing. 😭

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

अभी श्रीमान लाल साड़ी पहन कर नाचेंगे भी नवरात्रि में। देखते जाइए।

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Meanwhile women

[tere naina @nainaverse]

Fun fact: Not a single Indian minister/politician has ever diligently discussed and actually worked on women safety

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The next step to bring improvement in the country should be that the caste of the accused is quickly confirmed.

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“ECI is a BJP agency.”

Anyway, here’s another clarification 😁

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(2/n)- CEC Gyanesh Kumar, along with ECs Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, insisted the SIR order and schedules were approved unanimously by all three. The ECI clarified a letter sent to the Cabinet Secretary wasn't about Commission policy — but about an officer's deputation.

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(1/n)- The ECI held its first press conference today (26 Sep 2026) since reports emerged of dissent among commissioners — two ECs had reportedly objected on record over a dozen times in 10 months to orders issued without their knowledge, per media reports.

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After the ECI press conference:

Govt: We won.
Opposition: We won.

At this point, even the scoreboard needs a press conference. 😭

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2- In ADM Jabalpur (1976), the lone dissenting judge H.R. Khanna, who opposed the government, was later superseded too and resigned in protest.

In both cases, a junior was promoted over seniors who ruled against the government — breaking a decades-old judicial convention.

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Two things everyone should know about India's judicial history

1- In Kesavananda Bharati (1973), judges who ruled against the govt — Shelat, Hegde, Grover — were superseded (passed over for CJI). A judge who sided with the govt, A.N. Ray, was promoted to Chief Justice instead.

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If threads like this — breaking down real court cases, PILs, and the people fighting them — are useful to you, consider following. I dig into stuff like this so you don't have to sift through legalese. More such threads coming. 🙏

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A name that keeps surfacing in some of India's most important rights cases, yet rarely gets attention: Advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi. Student safety, menstrual leave, transgender rights — and now a fresh petition against Gyanesh Kumar. A thread on his legal journey. 🧵

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Zoom out, and a pattern emerges — one advocate, repeatedly at the intersection of dignity and law: student safety, gender equity at work, and transgender identity. Some battles lost, one still very much alive. Worth following closely.