Bhupinder Kanwal

Retired Bank Executive

[Alok Sharma @Aloksharmaaicc]

टीवी डिबेट कोई चौराहा नहीं है जहाँ जो मन में आए बोल दिया जाए। यदि भाजपा प्रवक्ता विपक्ष को अशब्द कहेंगे तो फिर स्वस्थ बहस की उम्मीद कैसे की जा सकती है? देश बेरोजगारी, महंगाई और पेपर लीक जैसे मुद्दों से जूझ रहा है, और सत्ता पक्ष के लोग टीवी पर बैठकर ठहाके लगा रहे हैं।

[rathin roy @EmergingRoy]

India since 1947 successfully avoided $ sovereign foreign borrowing A stupid and malign attenpt at the behest of foreigners was foiled in 2019 Heads rolled in @finminindia
Now India faces external pressures, Jagat Seths are trying again

@ashwani_mahajan

[meetu jain @meetujain]

Morning gyan: Permission to travel is always given by the @PMOIndia. Judges of the #SupremeCourt and high courts concerned forward a request to Dept of Justice, Ministry of Law. A travel itinerary is prepared, the financial implications (TA/DA), official protocol etc worked out. The Foreign Travel Order is then forwarded to the PM who okays it.
Some 18 years ago, the Manmohan Singh govt had cracked the whip and read out the Code of Conduct to judges of the Supreme Court and high courts to curb the practice of judges going abroad for conferences and seminars even when the court was in session and a handful of judges were always away.
But even then, I don’t remember a judge going abroad to attend a private sports tournament!
In order to curb this practice, the MMS government’s law minister, Hansraj Bharadwaj, forwarded a story done by me for @CNNnews18 to the CJI and expressed his unhappiness at the “bad press”. The law ministry also came up with a fresh list of protocols following the story. The CJI then unhappily used my story to write to the high courts concerned sharing the government’s concerns. Some fresh rules were laid out.
It was decided that there would be proportional representation of judges accepting the invite and only one judge would represent the court. The invite would only be accepted if it was by the judiciary/government of the host country. The number of days was curtailed to what was considered necessary. Judges would travel by the shortest route possible.

The kill joy story that led to these seminal changes was me accessing through RTI the FTO of judges of the SCs and high courts from the dept of Justice since the #SupremeCourtifIndia was not under the RTI.

Then CJI KG Balakrishnan opposed my RTI tooth and nail, accused Hansraj Bharadwaj and then Home minister of conspiring with the media against the judiciary (untrue completely) and finally after nine months of my relentless pursuit, released the FTOs.

The travel details were an eye opener. The biggest “traveller” was ex CJI YK Sabharwal. He was out of the country for 45 days (the entire summer vacation) on tax payer expense, travelled to the US, went to Disneyland, visited his brother, went to Montreal via Vancouver (!!!) before going to Paris and back. The conferences in end May and mid July were at Montreal and Paris. (Why YKS went to Vancouver is another story. IYKYK).
KGB went for a conference to Pretoria, South Africa. His route was Kochi (three day layover at his house), then South Africa where he visited the famous Kruger National Park but skipped going to the Victoria Falls (the PMO was frowning) and some other touristy spots.
A few years later, I chased the story again. The RTI s came in a jiffy. Foreign travels had reduced to 10 per cent of what it used to be. Bharadwaj called me a killjoy but was secretly happy.
I can go on! There are hundreds of FTOs lying around which I got under RTI that gives you an idea how the tax payers money is spent.
But never have I heard of so many judges going for a private event, sponsored by the very companies they are sitting in judgement over.
@sardesairajdeep
@kthaparoffice
@maneeshchhibber
@sharmanagendar

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Your money is being used to buy MPs & MLAs.

You think Amit Shah is paying them from his savings account?

BJP steals your hard earned taxes. Traitor MPs & MLAs get crores.

The media praises this as “Chanakya Neeti”.

How long will the people silently tolerate this mockery?

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

MPs won in 2024 on TMC ticket. Mandate was NOT for NDA. All the greedy self-serving traitors with yellow-stained pants can please join BJP now- resign your seats & contest on BJP ticket. Let’s see what big heroes you are.

[Jawhar Sircar @jawharsircar]

My heart breaks to see crass Modi demolish Udyog Bhavan to build his pet Gujarati architect's ugly Central Secretariat Bldg. Bhavan was pride of Independent India's Indo Saracenic art, Rajasthani Chhatris & Chhajas blended with Europe's Beaux-Arts and Neo-classical architecture

[Harmeet Kaur K 🇮🇳 @iamharmeetK]

@NasirHussainINC @INCIndia @RahulGandhi @kharge @kcvenugopalmp @priyankagandhi "Gold is a dead asset"
This statement is a clear indication that this bankrupt Modi Government's eyes are now focused on Gold in home and in locker.
They are planning to monetize our Gold .

[Sanjay Singh AAP @SanjayAzadSln]

मैं तो पहले से कह रहा हूँ “भाजपाई चन्दा चोर हैं”
राम-राम जपना पराया माल अपना।

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

It is going to be a year since AI171 crashed as it took off from Ahmedabad which killed 260 people and we yet don’t have the final closure report. The families who lost their loved ones in the crash deserve justice and closure, especially the 92 year old father of Capt Sumeet Sabharwal, who’s fighting for the honour of his deceased son even at this age.

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

युवा पाकिस्तानी, students पाकिस्तानी, Opposition पाकिस्तानी, पत्रकार पाकिस्तानी, तो फिर क्या सिर्फ़ सरकार और उनकी IT सेल ही सिर्फ़ भारतीय है? बाक़ी पूरे देश को पाकिस्तानी घोषित कर दिया है? - @abhijeet_dipke

[MM @mmvp2005]

Writing this without an iota of hate of ill-will toward @Ram_Guha , @HartoshSinghBal , Harish Khare, @tavleen_singh @waglenikhil and many other Gandhi family baiters who have repeatedly targeted Rahul Gandhi and his politics of opposition to the Modi led BJP. I now understand that most of you are still fighting the @INCIndia of 1975 and 1984 among others just as the Sangh is fighting the Congress of Gandhi and Nehru. Much of legacy media and social media are dominated by these two groups. But here's a third group which became politicised in 1992 with the rise of Hindutva- the pro- Rahul Gandhi voice on social media is roughly this group of Gen X ers and a motley mix of a new millennials and GenX.

We are disturbed by the repeated attacks on Rahul Gandhi not because we are members of the Congress party or are blind followers of any cult- we are disturbed because the anti-Congressism of the earlier groups is blinding most toward the clear and present danger that stares before us - the existential threat to our Republic. Rahul Gandhi is among the very few of our politicians who has been able to consistently articulate that danger by his fearless attacks on the Sangh and its agenda of destroying the secular fabric of this country. He might never become Prime Minister of this country - but history will be kinder towards him than many of you would like to believe.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: ‘I call the shots,” says Trump. Urges Israel not to strike Iran.
A few hours later, Netanyahu bombs Iran. The real question isn’t what Trump says. It’s who Bibi listens to.🙏

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Why are 75 judges on a vacation in London with the Union Law Minister? listen in
https://t.co/HBQEqmkQru via @YouTube

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

Heard so much about Manav Suthar and I can see why. So enjoying watching him bowl.

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Well @nsitharaman is a Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka . As Finance minister of India, has she taken a single pro-Karnataka decision. Before her Venkaiah Naidu was also a Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Hello PM @narendramodi, This is your Minority leader doing press conference and openly asking 120 crore Hindus to boycott Indian Muslims in Private Jobs and Govt jobs. Not one News Channel stopped her and called her out for spreading hate. That's how normalised it is to spread hate in India. Not just right wing associations, but BJP is openly giving out a press statement asking Hindus to economically and socially boycott Muslims and the media isn't bothered, instead, they are happy to amplify her.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

An astounding Badminton tournament between Indian Judges & Lawyers is being sponsored in London today by the Law Ministry! Other sponsors are various corporates. Inaugurated by the CJI & Law Minister!~150 judges & lawyers are participating!
What happened to PM’s call for austerity?
What of the code of conduct for Judges?
What of the Independence of the judiciary?
Abominable!

[Saurabh Bharadwaj @Saurabh_MLAgk]

80-90% Visa applications from India to contain fraudulent degrees or unqualified people.

Seems USA is planning to send many Indians back to India.

[Sanjay Singh AAP @SanjayAzadSln]

ध्यान से सुनिए ये पाकिस्तान में अमेरिका की राजदूत हैं।
जिस देश पाकिस्तान में आतंकवाद की फैक्ट्री है, अमेरिका उसको मजबूत करना चाहता है।
मोदी और अंधभक्तों से मेरा सवाल है, जो ट्रम्प पाकिस्तान को मज़बूत करना चाहता है तुम लोग उसकी चमचागिरी कब तक करोगे?

[Akhilesh Yadav @yadavakhilesh]

समस्त विश्व में भगवान राम के उपासकों के लिए ये एक बेहद संवेदनशील समाचार है कि ‘राम मंदिर’ के चढ़ावे की करोड़ों की रकम गायब पायी गई है।

ये मंदिर ट्रस्ट के लिए अत्यंत शर्मनाक स्थिति है। कोई भी सफ़ाई देने के लिए सामने नहीं आना चाहता है।

न्यायालय से स्वतः संज्ञान लेने की माँग है क्योंकि इसका सीधा संबंध वैश्विक स्तर पर समस्त सनातनी समाज की प्रभु राम में गहरी आस्था से जुड़ा है।

सरकार की चुप्पी संदिग्ध है।