Rajesh

Engineer | Interest in Space Science | Tweets and Retweets are Personal | And I read between the lines😉

[Rajesh @rajeshKA70]

Raj B Shetty, a rare breed who hs mastered both mass and class.If a class movie like GGVV has such elevations,just imagine the out&out mass Tobby. it's unfair from both @rakshitshetty & @hemanthrao11 to cme right after Tobby,especially whn Raj hd informed Rakshit earlier

[Rajesh @rajeshKA70]

@itisprashanth @vamsi84 But the biggest Muruga (Subramanya) temple in India is in Subramanya, Mangalore.

And you're talking about Muruga as if he is only a Tamil god. 🤦 If we're going to talk about ownership, then the Tuluvas have as much, if not more, claim in that discussion than Tamilians.

[CricFit @CricFit]

KL Rahul has as strike date of 195 in last 2 ODIs he has played whereas Shreyas Iyer has a strike rate of 92 in last 2 T20Is 😳

[Voice of Assam @VoiceOfAxom]

Bring back Rahul Dravid as Head Coach of India. @BCCI

[Deepak Jha @deepakdarshil]

@bhogleharsha When Rahul Dravid was the coach, the Indian team used to send its 'B-team' against Ireland and Zimbabwe—and we would still win. Here, even our 'A-team' is losing. 😭😭

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

Sour-faced Gambhir should have been sacked long back. Making @ShreyasIyer15 captain was a wrong call. Not blooding Vaibhav against Ireland was the worst decision of all.

[Prasanna @prasannalara]

Opportunity for Suryansh Shegde over Vaibhav is an extremely complex logic to understand.

[Aditya Saha @Adityakrsaha]

Some shameful records under Gambhir and Agarkar:

Got whitewashed in the Test Series vs NZ at Home
Got whitewashed in the Test Series vs SA at Home
Lost ODI Series 2-1 vs NZ at Home
Got whitewashed in a T20I Series vs IRE away today*

[कट्टर INDIA समर्थक 🦁🇮🇳 ™ @KKRWeRule]

Jaha matter bade hote h waha sarpanch sahab pavilion m hote h 🦁

[Varun Bahl🇮🇳 @bahl65]

Can you resign @GautamGambhir The worst coach ever. Idiotic team selection

[MARCUS @MARCUS907935]

SHREYAS IYER 🤡

He can't play in overseas conditions yet the BCCI made him captain. What kind of rubbish decision is this?

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Bengaluru T2 airport: what a world-class airport, sir ji. Now if only the city could get its public transport right (not easy when motorable roads cover only a small part of the land area), Bengaluru would be unstoppable. But what really makes Bengaluru special is not its infrastructure—it is the easy warmth of its people. A welcoming city like few others. 👍👍👍

[Priyanshu 🕊️ @KLassified_01]

- Highest Scorer on 19/11
- Rescued Indian Batting on 19/11
- Saved India's Honour on 19/11

People will Forget who Failed, People will troll who Tried, thats our India 💔

[𝑫𝒆𝒆𝒃𝒂🦩 @ItzDeeba]

Lockdown Kids who are trolling Shreyas Iyer, doesn't know that INDIA were 76-2 in ICC WC 2023 Final then Shreyas Iyer came and INDIA score were become 76-3

[Rajesh @rajeshKA70]

Unpopular opinion: Every time I hear "Kanla, Kanammi, Haiklu, Hottare" in a Kannada movie or song, my expectations immediately drop.🙃

[𝗥𝗔JA KRISHNAPPA BAIR𝗬𝗔 🎟️ @RKBTweetss]

The same combo gave this banger 8 years ago

[Ahmed Says @AhmedGT_]

BCCI needs to understand that you can't win matches in overseas with players like Shreyas Iyer and Tilak Varma. You need someone who can anchor and build the innings under pressure. Until Shubman Gill returns to the side as captain before the World Cup, BCCI should give players like Rajat Patidar and Sai Sudharsan chances in T20is instead of these frauds.

[Priyanshu 🕊️ @KLassified_01]

Indian Cricket Team without Virat, Rahul, Rohit 🔥

[HXF @huzaiff_02]

Never lost or drew a series as a captain
Meanwhile someone is struggling to win against ireland 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

[Rajesh @rajeshKA70]

@MichaelVaughan Gautham Gambheer doesnt like star culture, becs he never became one himself.

[Kadubu @Kadubuchutney]

ಈ ತರ third class movies, songs ಮಾಡೋದು-> ಜನ support ಮಾಡ್ತಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂತ ಅಳೋದು 🤡

ಇದನ್ನ ನೋಡಿದ್ರೆ ಯಾರಿಗಾದ್ರೂ theatre ಹೋಗಿ ದುಡ್ಡು ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಸಿನಿಮಾ ನೋಡ್ಬೇಕು ಅನ್ಸುತ್ತಾ?

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Bengaluru finally has a minister who cares.

Let me explain, this is good news. :)

For the last nine years, Bengaluru's city development portfolio was either sitting with Chief Ministers or with ministers from other districts.

DK Shivakumar managed it for three years while being based out of Ramanagara. Before him, Parameshwara held it from Tumakuru. Siddaramaiah and Yediyurappa both kept it for themselves during their respective terms.

The last time a local legislator actually held this job was 2015, when KJ George had it briefly.

So the person in charge of fixing your roads, your drains, your footpaths, and your garbage had no personal stake in any of it. They didn't drive through the same potholes you did. They didn't watch the same streets flood every monsoon. They governed Bengaluru from a distance.

That changed on June 3 when DK Shivakumar became Chief Minister and handed the Greater Bengaluru Development portfolio to Krishna Byre Gowda.

Now who is this man and why should you care?

KBG, as people call him, represents Byatarayanapura, which is a constituency inside Bengaluru. He has won from here multiple times. Before that he won twice from Vemgal in Kolar. He has been an MLA for over two decades.

His educational background is unusual for Indian politics. He studied business management at Christ University in Bengaluru, then went to American University in Washington DC for a master's in International Affairs.

He came back, worked on his family farm in Kolar for two years, then entered politics after his father passed away in 2003. So he has both the formal education and the ground-level reality of Indian agriculture and governance.

More importantly, look at what he did when he was Revenue Minister in the Siddaramaiah government from 2023 to 2026.

He ran the Bhoo Guarantee scheme, which focused on digitising Karnataka's land records and actually giving title deeds to people who had been living on land for generations without official documents.

His department distributed title deeds to 2.2 lakh families in roughly 1000 days.

These were families who for the first time had legal ownership papers for homes they had been living in for decades. The department also digitised 69 crore pages of old land documents and brought pending cases before tahsildar courts down from 10,774 to 488.

Average days to resolve a case went from 212 to 67.

Now, he reportedly did not want the Bengaluru portfolio initially. He was keen to stay in Revenue and finish the land digitisation work.

He reportedly delayed taking formal charge for several days after being sworn in because he was unhappy that the Bangalore Development Authority and BMRDA, which handle major land and infrastructure projects worth tens of thousands of crores, were kept with Chief Minister Shivakumar and not transferred to him.

His argument is simple. You can't hold me accountable for Bengaluru if you don't give me control over the agencies building Bengaluru.

He eventually took charge after raising this publicly and having conversations with the party leadership.

And from the day he walked in, the pace has been different.

His first review meeting covered solid waste management and monsoon preparedness. He personally reprimanded civic engineers over the state of Rajakaluves, which are the stormwater drains that flood every year without fail.

He issued an ultimatum that if drains overflow onto roads during the upcoming monsoon, the responsible engineers will face disciplinary action.

On potholes, he has directed that the box-cutting method be used for all repairs, where the road is properly cut, filled with jelly aggregate, and surfaced with tar, instead of the usual practice of just pouring tar over a hole and hoping it sticks.

He has allocated 77 crore for pothole work with specific priority to junctions and signals, and 70 crore for footpath repair and restoration.

And then yesterday, he announced the footpath encroachment campaign, launching July 1 across 2,000 km of priority roads.

Shop owners and commercial establishments have been given until July 1 to voluntarily remove everything they have placed on footpaths.

Signboards, goods, structures, vehicles. After that, demolition drives begin and penalties kick in.

Footpaths are not government property. They are not the shopkeeper's property. They belong to the 1.5 crore people of Bengaluru.

This is a politically unpopular move. He is going after the small trader community, which votes and organizes.

But he is doing it anyway.

Yes, Bengaluru's problems are too large and too interconnected for one minister to fix them.

Yes, the BDA and BMRDA sit outside his control. The 27,000 crore Business Corridor and the 18,000 crore Bidadi township are with the Chief Minister.

The big infrastructure money is not his to direct.

But the underlying problem with Bengaluru's governance for the last decade was that the people making decisions had no electoral cost when their decisions failed.

That has changed. Whether it is enough remains to be seen. But the incentive structure is finally pointing in the right direction.

But for the first time in nine years, the person in charge of Bengaluru actually lives here. :)

I'm watching this closely.