Shruti Achesh

🤓 Aggressively Passionate Insane Scatter Brain
Atheist | Feminist
Actor | Theatre Practitioner | Writer | Educator
Unlearning Conditioning

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

What Palkhiwala said was not merely prophetic, but applies to the Judiciary today, apart from the ECI & other regulators

[Shruti Achesh @shrutiachesh]

At just 23, he had the conviction & courage to stand up for a generation & the willingness to pay the ultimate price for his beliefs. If we had even a fraction of that conviction, perhaps we’d understand what it truly means to stand up for our country.

Happy B’day, Comrade. 🇮🇳

[furquan ameen @furquansid]

Be it ECI or SCI, prompt out-of-turn hearing services for VVIPs seems to be a norm

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

This is shocking & shameful! Judges are becoming shamelessly brazen now!

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

26 Sept is the birthday of India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Excerpt from my @ProSyn article: "he insisted on the highest standard of honesty. When, in 2010, inflation was raging & some bureaucrats suggested that it might be best not to hurt his political standing by releasing so much price data, he put his foot down, insisting there should be no compromise on statistical transparency, even if it dented his poll numbers."
@ProSyn?referral=2da718 https://t.co/vMYfbdczdo

[Indian Express Hindi @IEhindi]

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[बाहरी बिहारी @Bahari_Bihari]

We have lived through hell over the last month. While the state was under the Election Commission, the EC did everything it could to help the BJP win.

— Prashant Kishor,
After winning the Bengal Election, 2021

Rajdeep: Do you believe the Election Commission sided with the BJP?

Prashant Kishor: I have never, ever seen a more partial Election Commission than what we are witnessing today. All political parties must come together and put pressure on the Election Commission to reform itself.

[The New Indian Express @NewIndianXpress]

Nearly two decades ago, Gyanesh Kumar was in the eye of a storm in Keralam after being named in the suicide note of a Malaysian project officer.

Amid protests against the CEC, his controversial Keralam tenure as the works secretary has resurfaced with senior CPM leader T M Thomas Isaac revisiting the case in a social media post.

🔗https://t.co/XA0xebRfxx

@drthomasisaac #GyaneshKumar

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

It’s an ultimate admission of guilt!

This is not a press release.
This ceasefire agreement of three ECs is a confessional statement.
Under its own seal, the Commission has now confirmed every serious charge against it.

Now it’s not just the CEC. All three Election Commissioners stand exposed.
Resignation is the only honourable option. Or else they must be removed.

#ElectionCommission #PressRelease #SIR

[Sanjay Raut @rautsanjay61]

ज्ञानेस कुमार हटाव चे नारे दिल्लीत सुरू झाले आहेत,
आजचा जंतर मंतर नजारा..
आर पार ची लढाई!
@ECISVEEP
@PMOIndia

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Ye karwayenge free and fair elections 👏👏👏👏👏

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

First, Gyanesh Kumar - then a serving IAS officer - was used to recruit for the BJP.

Then Modi and Shah made him the umpire and put him in charge of match-fixing India's elections.

[Apoorvanand अपूर्वानंद @Apoorvanand__]

If your parents or grandparents were not on the SIR 2002 list, you cannot enrol as a voter! This is mind-boggling.CEC Gyanesh Kumar has committed this crime. He must go and face the law.

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

The Election Commission has nothing to do with the government. Election Commissioners should not be going to the Cabinet Secretary. But they have already done so, which suggests that the Commissioners who went there believe that the decisions are being made from the Cabinet Secretary’s office or the Prime Minister’s Office. This is an alarming situation, said @parakala , an economist and author, to Rishita Khanna.

Edited and published by @sharmada_v

https://t.co/sdRt3Z9Cmh

[Shruti Achesh @shrutiachesh]

@NewspressX No

[Vaishna Roy @vaishnaroy]

Frontline's reporter @Vedaant_Lakhera was forcibly removed by @DelhiPolice because he asked them for names and badge numbers. He was dragged to the road and then released. We take strong objection to this high-handedness by the police.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

🚨IMPORTANT NEWS🚨

Since Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is in the news, I have some very important but sad news to share about a Supreme Court judge.

Supreme Court judge Justice Satish Chandra Sharma. Just two months away from retirement.

If you remember, the Allahabad High Court had imposed a penalty on Medha Roopam, the DM of Noida and daughter of Gyanesh Kumar with a fine of five lakh rupees for irrationally issuing NSA order against a student Activist for Noida labour protest.

That order was challenged before the Supreme Court of India. Live Law, the news portal, reported that Gyanesh’s daughter’s case was listed before Justice Satish Chandra Sharma out of turn and in violation of the Supreme Court roster and rules and convention. The challenge ought to have gone before Justice Nagarathna’s bench, known to be an independent upright judge.

Two days back, when the matter was listed for hearing, Justice Sharma‘s bench switched off the audio of the Supreme Court proceeding, which is highly unusual and almost never done. ALARMING. There was no explanation from the judge’s side as to why this extraordinary favour was done for Gyanesh’s daughter.

In any case the fine and the adverse remarks of the Allahabad High Court were stayed by Justice Sharma immediately.

Same day, in another case related to Gyanesh Kumar—the constitutional challenge that was filed against the 2023 law on election commissioners of India was finally decided by a two judge bench of which Justice Sharma was a part of.

Under challenge was the appointments procedure where the leader of opposition today holds only an ornamental seat in the Three-member selection committee that selects Election commissioner of India. The other two are PM and his Cabinet Minister. Justice Sharma dissented which led to a split verdict and the case has now been sent before the Chief Justice of India for constituting a larger bench. This has delayed the case by years probably. This split verdict itself came after three years. This is how the Supreme Court refuses to hear most important cases that affect our lives and the country.

A separate blanket immunity granted to past and present election commissioners of India by Modi’s government is also pending for last 9 months before CJI Surya Kant. Today, the Chief Election Commissioner has been exposed for gross illegalities and for stealing votes and elections at the behest of powers that be. Any sane, sorted, neutral, just person can see that the selection process of ECIs is not independent and tilted in govt’s favour. But not Justice Sharma.

And here’s the big news: his son holds not one, not two, but four big, plum government counsel panels, including income, tax department, GST, customs, and excise, and a Madhya Pradesh government lawyer panel. I need not explain the great perks and influence that come along when you hold such plum government panels. Read my Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma report where I exposed the same thing.

I am withholding the name of the son for now.

The important question is: how can a judge be expected to do impartial and fair Justice in politically sensitive cases if his family members serve at the pleasure of the government? The judge is also retiring two months later, and several lawyers have informed me that there are vacancies in NCLAT and other search plum tribunals.

I’M SORRY TO SAY such a system of judiciary does not inspire confidence in its ability to do impartial justice. There is a reason why the ethics code for judges require them to maintain a sense of aloofness and not do anything which can harm the their image and that of the judiciary.

Both in Justice Swarna Kanta’s case and several other judges case, including that of the Supreme Court, it is TRAGIC to notice the complete capture of the institution of the Indian judiciary. Can the judiciary go on like this?

[N. Ram @nramind]

Read “Deep rot,” today’s lead editorial in The Hindu: https://t.co/Jj0HMlMxJr

Electoral fraud is not uncommon in electoral democracies. But the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) conducted by the Election Commission of India under the authoritarian and arrogant reign of Gyanesh Kumar belongs to a special species. It is now beyond dispute that the SIR done in several States, and worst of all in West Bengal, has inflicted a grievous and seemingly irreparable wound on India’s electoral democracy. The revelation that Chief Election Commissioner Kumar pushed through decisions related to the SIR without the knowledge, let alone consent, of the two other Election Commissioners shows arbitrariness and lawlessness of the worst kind. The Indian Express must be commended for its investigation, which has exposed how deep and how high the rot has gone into the electoral system. Unfortunately, when the scandal of the ongoing SIR was taken to the Supreme Court of India in the expectation that it would act to uphold the constitutional guarantee of universal adult franchise, the highest court in the land failed the big test. Gyanesh Kumar must resign. An impeachment motion to remove the CEC is unlikely to make headway, given the numbers in the Lok Sabha. If Gyanesh Kumar, with the backing of the Union government, decides to brazen it out, mass democratic protest will be the only way to force him out.

[Dr.Medusa @ms_medusssa]

Godi media toolkit for the next few days wrt @RitikaChopra__ 's fantastic work.

#JailGyanesh

[Joy @Joydas]

What if all Opposition Parties, CJP Supporters, GenZ, Right thinking citizens who love the country come together? Peacefully Protest on Streets, Vocal on all platforms. Will EC be able to carry on with blatant crimes? Will Courts be able to pretend to be asleep? How we find out?