Journalist — Do you think Gyanesh Kumar will resign?
Revanth Reddy — If Gyanesh Kumar doesn't resign now, things will go further and Prime Minister Modi too will have to resign 🔥
“SIR must go back, GK must back”, he further added.
Not just Modi but Amit Shah will also have to resign if Gyanu doesn't go now.
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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Time to ponder Gyanesh Kumar 's past
A suicide note by Malaysian contractor Lee See Been
Before Gyanesh Kumar became the Chief Election Commissioner of India, there was a disturbing chapter in his Kerala posting .
Gyanesh Kumar was a 1988-batch Kerala-cadre IAS officer served as Project Director of the Kerala State Transport Project (KSTP).
The KSTP involved Malaysian contractor PATI-BEL.
Lee See Been was chief project officer of PATI-BEL, working on the World Bank-aided KSTP.
In 2006, Lee See Been, the Malaysian project manager of the World Bank-aided Kerala State Transport Project, died by suicide.
In his suicide note, Lee See Been clearly named Gyanesh Kumar, who was PWD Secretary then and alleged that bribes were being demanded and that funds due to the project were being withheld and delayed.
This was not just a random allegation floating around years later.
It was an allegation recorded in the suicide note of the man at the centre of the project dispute.
Gyanesh Kumar was transferred.
Today, that same Gyanesh Kumar sits at the helm of the Election Commission of India and was entrusted with safeguarding the integrity of the electoral process.
How did an officer whose name appeared in a suicide note alleging bribery and withholding of funds eventually rise to become the custodian of India's elections?
https://t.co/psp13cAlI2
Mamata Banerjee’s constituency:
51k votes deleted. She lost by 15k.
M.K. Stalin’s constituency:
1 lakh votes deleted. He lost by 9k.
Arvind Kejriwal’s constituency:
40k votes deleted. He lost by 4k.
Was this the real reason behind the introduction of SIR?