When most journalists & TV anchors are busy carrying the ruling party’s brief, @RitikaChopra__ is doing her job quietly .
No theatrics. No manufactured noise.
Just digging the truth, asking uncomfortable questions, following the evidence and putting the story out. 🫡
Yesterday, @IndianExpress reported an unprecedented rupture inside the Election Commission: TWO of its three members objecting on record, 14 times in 10 months, to decisions taken without their knowledge.
Today, the second part of our investigation looks at the concern Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged most often: Who really controls our electoral rolls?
We followed that question to Goa, where we found something deeply concerning.
Stay with me....
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The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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No-this is not crass humour. This is not immature behaviour. This is a much-needed long-awaited phenomenon. To fearlessly lampoon a PM is a democratic right long denied to Indians.
#WATCH | Indore, Madhya Pradesh: At the 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' programme in Indore, Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, "...The 'andhbhakt' says development is not needed. Modi ji is an incarnation of Vishnu. But the andhbhakt never asks questions. An andhbhakt will never ask why the condition of our schools and colleges has become like this. Why has our infrastructure broken down? Why are our papers leaking? A student is the one who raises this voice."
(Video source: Congress)
धर्मेंद्र प्रधान का इस्तीफा हमारे education system को फिर से संवारने की दिशा में बहुत बड़ा कदम है।
शाबाश देश भर के छात्रों, आप सभी पर गर्व है।
सड़कों पर आ कर लोकतंत्र, संविधान और अपने भविष्य की रक्षा में डट कर खड़े होने वाले हर एक युवा, हर छात्र को बहुत-बहुत बधाई।
2 मांगें अभी भी बाकी हैं - प्रधानमंत्री छात्रों और भारत के भविष्य को सम्मान देते हुए माफ़ी मांगें और छात्रों पर हिंसा के दोषियों पर कार्रवाई हो।
ये समाज के दूसरे वर्गों किसानों, मजदूरों, गरीबों, हर वो व्यक्ति जिसे इस सरकार ने दबाया है, कुचला है - अपने सम्मान के लिए संवैधानिक तरीके से डटकर खड़े होने में ही असली साहस है।
इस सरकार को हटाने का वक्त आ गया है।
डरो मत!
How dare you threaten students for exercising their democratic rights?
Please note, you are the ones that will be held accountable when the time comes.
You are the one who has harmed the future of our youth the most.
You allowed and encouraged the total capture and destruction of our education system - and protected every person responsible for it.
The students’ demands are clear:
1. Sack Dharmendra Pradhan.
2. Apologise to the students.
3. Take action against those who assaulted them.
आपने ही हमारे युवाओं के भविष्य को सबसे ज़्यादा नुकसान पहुंचाया है।
आपने न सिर्फ हमारी education system पर पूरा कब्ज़ा होने और उसे बर्बाद होने दिया, उसे बढ़ावा भी दिया - और इसके ज़िम्मेदार हर व्यक्ति को संरक्षण दिया।
छात्रों की मांगें साफ़ हैं:
1. धर्मेंद्र प्रधान को पद से हटाएं।
2. छात्रों से माफ़ी मांगे।
3. छात्रों के साथ हिंसा करने वालों के ख़िलाफ़ कार्रवाई करें।