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[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

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[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

• Mamata: ~47k deleted, not 51k. Lost by 15k. TMC still won most of the highest-deletion seats. 15-year anti-incumbency + vote-share collapse did the rest.

• Stalin: ~83k–1L deleted in urban Chennai cleanup. Lost by 8.8k to Vijay’s TVK, not BJP. His 2021 margin was 70k. That’s a wave + incumbency, not a secret list.

• Kejriwal: Lost 2025 by 4k. AAP itself claimed ~42k deletions. His vote share fell from 61% to 42%. Voters showed up and chose differently after 10 years.

• SIR existed because rolls hadn’t had a full intensive cleanup since 2002-04. Dead, shifted, duplicate, ineligible names. It started before these results, not because of them.

Coincidence hunting after three incumbents lose is not evidence.

[Cockroaches of India @CJP_for_India]

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?

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

IIT Kanpur RTI data the tweet cites is real: 257 professors, 0 SC, 0 ST, 3 OBC. That part is not invented. The rest of the framing is selective.12
Here are the numbers on graduates vs faculty:

- Current IIT UG intake is ~18,160 seats. SC quota seats: 2,586. ST: 1,300. Combined ~3,886 reserved-category undergraduates enter IITs every year. Over 10–15 years that is tens of thousands of SC/ST BTech graduates from IITs alone. Parliament data for 2016–2020 already showed 10,586 SC + 5,430 ST UG admissions across IITs in just five years.

- Faculty numbers do not match that output. Across 21 IITs that gave RTI data, faculty composition was roughly 80% General, 11.2% OBC, 6% SC, 1.6% ST. Older 2019 government figure for 23 IITs: 6,043 faculty, only 149 SC + 21 ST (2.8%). Professor rank is even thinner.6

- IIT Kanpur itself is not zero reserved faculty overall. Same RTI: 25 SC + 5 ST + 46 OBC among 581 working faculty. They are concentrated at Assistant and Associate Professor levels. Zero at full Professor. That is a pipeline and promotion lag, not nobody ever studied here.

- The actual feeder for IIT faculty is PhD + publications + postdoc, not BTech. PhD admissions in IITs have run well below quota: ~9.1% SC and 2.1% ST in one multi-year window versus 15% + 7.5% reserved. Without that pipeline, professor-level numbers stay low.

- Mission Mode recruitment (post-2019 reservation Act) still produced only 276 SC + 52 ST faculty out of 3,027 posts filled by IITs + IIMs till late 2024 about 10.8%, not 22.5%. Reserved vacancies form a large share of unfilled posts where category data exists.

- Most IIT graduates reserved category included take high-paying industry, US MS/PhD, or startup routes. Starting Assistant Professor pay and the multi-year grind to full Professor is not the default first choice for people who already cleared JEE Advanced. That is career preference, not a conspiracy unique to one campus.

- Faculty reservation in IITs was applied loosely or only at entry level for years; the 2019 Central Educational Institutions Act made it statutory. Existing 257 professors at Kanpur were hired under the older regime. You cannot retroactively convert them.

- Dropouts and suicides exist and are higher in some reserved-category cohorts; that is a separate problem of campus climate, preparation gap, and support. It does not change the graduate-vs-faculty arithmetic above. Pointing only at 257 professors while ignoring the tens of thousands who passed out and went elsewhere is incomplete.

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

Bhai investigative journalism nahi, press note hai.

1. Medha Roopam case mein SC ne poora HC order nahi rokha. Sirf strictures + ₹5 lakh recovery stay hua. NSA quashing abhi bhi kaayam hai. Student bahar hai. Tune fine stayed likh ke full rescue bech diya.

2. Roster violation, Nagarathna ke paas jana chahiye tha. LiveLaw ne sawaal uthaya, theek. Lekin CJI master of roster hai. Special assignment conspiracy nahi hoti sirf isliye kyunki tujhe bench pasand nahi.

3. Audio mute unusual hai, maan liya. Usse extraordinary favour for Gyanesh’s daughter banana alag level fanfic hai. Order public hai, clarification public hai, next date public hai.

4. EC Act pe Sharma ne case years delay kar diya? Datta 2-judge bench pe decide karna chahte the. Sharma ne kaha yeh constitutional question Constitution Bench ka hai. Centre khud larger bench maang raha tha. Dono ne CJI ko 5-judge ke liye bheja taaki 3-judge pe aur der na ho. Delay plot nahi, procedure hai.

5. Beta 4 government panels pe hai, naam nahi dunga. Naam chhupa ke allegation chalana reporting nahi, insinuation hai. Jo detailed report tune khud link ki, woh Swarana Kanta Sharma wali thi. Same surname ≠ same judge.

6. 2 mahine baad retire, isliye NCLAT mil jayega. Source: several lawyers told me. Yeh rumour hai, document nahi.

7. Bio padh le. Investigative journalist + Cockroach Janta Party co-convenor. Pehle CEC pe vote chor declare karo, phir court coverage ko neutral sad-news banao. Dono saath nahi chalte.

[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?

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

India 17 medals. NK 9.

Gold-first ranking saaarrrr
Famine dictatorship saaarrrr
Coerced athletes saaarrrr

That’s why I say stick to coaching and calories.

Be humble with incomplete tables.
No dharma. No snapshot despair.

[Paramjeet Singh Berwal @ParamjeetBerwal]

North Korea ranks higher than India.

GC merit saaarrrr
Democracy saaarrrr
Economic superpower saaarrrrr

That’s why I say stick to Hindutva and Sanatan.

Be humble and united.

No castes. No economic superpower dreams.

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

माइक के पीछे बैठे तीन बेरोजगार कॉकरोच लोकतंत्र हाईजैक मत करो चिल्ला रहे हैं, जबकि SIR में उनके 13 करोड़ वाले फर्जी-वोट बैंक की सफाई हो रही है और ये CEC को 48 घंटे का अल्टीमेटम दे रहे हैं जैसे ये चुने हुए प्रधानमंत्री हों।

[Cockroaches of India @CJP_for_India]

You cannot Hijack our Democracy and expect us to stay silent.

We are here to reclaim India.

We won’t back off, no matter what.

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

Ritika Chopra’s latest “fearless” ECI exposé is the same movie with a new CEC.

1 - She has been mining internal rifts in the Election Commission since at least 2019, when she reported Ashok Lavasa’s dissent over clean chits to Modi and Shah and the Commission’s refusal to record minority views. That work won her a Ramnath Goenka Award for stories on ECI autonomy. Seven years later it’s unprecedented rupture again. Institutions apparently only develop cracks when the political weather is right.

2. Her own LinkedIn description of the 2024 Chameli Devi award celebrates stories exposing lapses in government policymaking, attempts by the state to weaken independent institutions, and efforts to rewrite history. That is not a hidden agenda; it is the official job description she lists. The ECI beat is therefore not a surprise it is the product line.

3. The Commission’s official response did not deny the 14 notes existed. It called them normal internal deliberations and suggestions, insisted final decisions (including SIR and ~40 other initiatives) were unanimous, and said highlighting selected notes over ten months ignores the larger body of work. She still packaged it as two commissioners “kept in the dark” and actions that were unauthorised and illegal.

4. The video being circulated is about 97 verified voters in Goa who stayed off the final roll after a software issue. SIR removed 13 crore names nationwide. One number is a human-interest clip; the other is the actual scale of the revision. Guess which one gets the dramatic office-background treatment.

5. She has now spent the better part of a decade covering the same institution from the same angle: delay, dissent, autonomy under threat. The 2019 series was MCC inaction; 2025–26 is Form 6, ECINet centralisation and roll deletions. The pattern is consistent even if the names of the commissioners change.

6. Indian Express markets this as Journalism of Courage. Courage here means months of work that lands the week opposition parties are already demanding the CEC’s removal and the Supreme Court is hearing SIR petitions. Perfect timing is either exceptional sourcing or exceptional calendar management.

7. She recently moved to Mumbai as Resident Editor and posted about feeling like an “alien” finding her footing. Within months she is back on national ECI internals. The alien adapted quickly to the one story that always travels well from that newsroom.

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

@rraina1481 @zoo_bear Wo aaj tak baap talash raha hai Rajender ji 🤣🤣

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

Sahdev, advocate, fake robbery plus SC/ST on a man who was already in jail that day. Seven years.

Rekha Devi, fake gangrape plus SC/ST. Rajesh went to jail. Bhupendra died mid-trial. She got 7.5 years.

Rinki, dumped girlfriend, fake rape plus SC/ST on Deepak Gupta. 3.5 years.

Mamta, revenge FIR, no injury, admitted it. Three years.
Lakhan Singh, land fight dressed as atrocity. Ten years.

Sanno Devi, false dowry plus SC/ST on her in-laws. Court ordered the welfare money returned.

Parmanand Gupta ran a factory. Wife Sangeeta. Used Dalit employee Pooja Rawat’s papers to file 29 FIRs, pocket compensation. Court called him a wolf. Life.

Vishnu Tiwari sat 20 years because a Silawan family used the Act in a land-animal dispute. High Court called the charge false. The woman’s name was kept out of most reports. Husband and father-in-law signed the FIR.

Yes SC/ST act is draconian and I want these

Sahdev
Rawat
Lakhan Singh
Rekha Devi
Rinki
Mamta
Sanno Devi
Parmanand Gupta
Sangeeta Gupta
Pooja Rawat

People to be h@nged mercilessly in front of the media for using that draconian law🤨

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

@lordvishalkumar Buddhist me bhi dalit hote hai kya 😎

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

Anonymous letter, no name, no date, no complaint number. Drops the week an IIT invigilator is in an FIR. That is not testimony. That is a timing.

“Ye toh caste ka banda hoga” is ugly if it happened. It is also the oldest campus joke in India, thrown at low GPA from every category. Rajratna needs it to be a constitution case so the phone in Sahil’s exam becomes theology.

Front benches in MA 105 because “they will copy.” Exam halls sit by roll number. If category is printed on the seat, show the seating chart. Until then it is a feeling with highlighter.

Darshan Solanki 2023 is dragged in to prove “nothing changed.” What changed is the script. Every suicide now arrives with the same anonymous PDF and the same demand that due process is caste.

SC/ST cell “powerless.” Sahil’s family never used it while he was alive. Institute said no complaint on file. Silence is being sold as proof of a system, then used to skip the system.

If students fear speaking, file it. Name it. Put it before Crime Branch and the cell. A thread with four screenshots is not evidence. It is a press kit.

Caste did not “enter the classroom” last Thursday. A lobby entered a suicide and decided the invigilator was the syllabus.

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

@lordvishalkumar Kis liye hai aise tere jaise ch00tiyon ko gandi ki saja milni chahiye wo bhi beech raste me latka dena chahiye, ammi ke pakode proof kar pehle🐷

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

If the charge is you mentioned the exam, therefore you killed him, then every invigilator in this country should resign today.

The problem lies with the accused, the professor with a history of harassment and humiliation.

This is the Wire’s entire product. Three exhibits. All of them collapse if you read past the headline.

One. Raahovan, March 2024. Students staged a modern Ramayana. Complaints said Ram was painted as a devil and the Sita-Lakshman bits were crude. Videos went out. DAC sat. Fines followed.

Later reduced on appeal. Dean of Student Affairs signed the file because that is what the Dean of Student Affairs does when the campus files complaints. That is not a hate crime against Dalits. That is an IIT reacting to a play that spat on the epic and then got caught on camera.

Two. PhD scholars from HSS suspended for talking to the press without authorisation. One of them, Akshay Sawant, APPSC circle, quoted on a Ramadan row. Bombay HC later reinstated him after he gave an undertaking to follow institute rules.

The other case is still in court. Wire calls this tyranny. The rest of the country calls it a campus rule that applies to students and staff. Funny how the same people who want speak to media as a sacred right go silent when faculty walk onto a news channel after an FIR.

Three. An unnamed third-year PhD, 2024, wounded dog, three girls pushed her, she went to Doolla, he shouted about a missing date on the letter, she thought of jumping. No FIR. No name. Two years later it appears in The Wire the week a suicide needs a villain. That is not a dossier. That is a prop.

If this is history of harassment, every strict dean in every IIT is a war criminal.

The wife report. Sonali Wakode. The father’s statement. Read it without the candlelight filter.

First year: happy calls, passed Energy Science.

Second year: son tells them Doolla has been caste-abusing him for three months, on the director’s instructions, threatening to frame him.

What did the parents do? Consolation. Focus on studies. Future is bright. Endure. Visit on 13 September. Same advice. No complaint to the IIT SC/ST cell. Institute has said there was no complaint on record. FIR comes after the body and after the exam. Mother now says telling him to tolerate was the mistake. That is grief talking. It is also an admission that the caste file did not exist inside the institute when he was alive.

You can hold two things at once. A boy is dead and his parents are shattered. And a three-month caste conspiracy that never reached the official cell, never produced a written complaint, and surfaces the morning after a cheating case, is not yet a fact. It is an allegation. Crime Branch will test it. Neha already delivered the verdict.

The cabal.

Not the Faculty Forum. IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi faculty saying “
he followed Senate procedure, do not run a mob trial is not a secret society. That is professors who still think an exam hall is not a panchayat. Some students and alumni who actually sat in his class saying he is harsh, not a caste thug, same thing.

The actual cabal is the assembly line. AISA president at JNU, CPI(ML) Liberation shop, theatre PhD, family she herself called BJP-supporting, amplifying The Wire the same week she wants Umar Khalid treated as a constitutional question and an IIT invigilator treated as a caste murderer.

Same network that turned a phone in an exam into society’s caste common sense. Same network that needed the dead boy to stay a symbol and the professor to stay a surname.

Doolla may turn out to be a rude man. He may even turn out worse. That is what CCTV, the phone dump, and a charge sheet are for. What he is not, on the evidence Neha posted, is a pre-convicted tyrant whose only sin was catching a student with a mobile.

A boy is gone. That is the only clean sentence in this story. Everything after it is a political extraction unit running on a corpse. Neha did not write an inquiry. She wrote a caption.

[Neha @neha_aisa]

While Sahil's character assassination satisfies our society's caste common sense, maybe the problem lies with the accused; the professor with a history of harassment and humiliation.

Pls read the report by @thewire_in
https://t.co/C4w7CxoQvH

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

If the charge is you mentioned the exam, therefore you killed him, then every invigilator in this country should resign today.

The problem lies with the accused, the professor with a history of harassment and humiliation.

This is the Wire’s entire product. Three exhibits. All of them collapse if you read past the headline.

One. Raahovan, March 2024. Students staged a modern Ramayana. Complaints said Ram was painted as a devil and the Sita-Lakshman bits were crude. Videos went out. DAC sat. Fines followed.

Later reduced on appeal. Dean of Student Affairs signed the file because that is what the Dean of Student Affairs does when the campus files complaints. That is not a hate crime against Dalits. That is an IIT reacting to a play that spat on the epic and then got caught on camera.

Two. PhD scholars from HSS suspended for talking to the press without authorisation. One of them, Akshay Sawant, APPSC circle, quoted on a Ramadan row. Bombay HC later reinstated him after he gave an undertaking to follow institute rules.

The other case is still in court. Wire calls this tyranny. The rest of the country calls it a campus rule that applies to students and staff. Funny how the same people who want speak to media as a sacred right go silent when faculty walk onto a news channel after an FIR.

Three. An unnamed third-year PhD, 2024, wounded dog, three girls pushed her, she went to Doolla, he shouted about a missing date on the letter, she thought of jumping. No FIR. No name. Two years later it appears in The Wire the week a suicide needs a villain. That is not a dossier. That is a prop.

If this is history of harassment, every strict dean in every IIT is a war criminal.

The wife report. Sonali Wakode. The father’s statement. Read it without the candlelight filter.

First year: happy calls, passed Energy Science.

Second year: son tells them Doolla has been caste-abusing him for three months, on the director’s instructions, threatening to frame him.

What did the parents do? Consolation. Focus on studies. Future is bright. Endure. Visit on 13 September. Same advice. No complaint to the IIT SC/ST cell. Institute has said there was no complaint on record. FIR comes after the body and after the exam. Mother now says telling him to tolerate was the mistake. That is grief talking. It is also an admission that the caste file did not exist inside the institute when he was alive.

You can hold two things at once. A boy is dead and his parents are shattered. And a three-month caste conspiracy that never reached the official cell, never produced a written complaint, and surfaces the morning after a cheating case, is not yet a fact. It is an allegation. Crime Branch will test it. Neha already delivered the verdict.

The cabal.

Not the Faculty Forum. IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi faculty saying “
he followed Senate procedure, do not run a mob trial is not a secret society. That is professors who still think an exam hall is not a panchayat. Some students and alumni who actually sat in his class saying he is harsh, not a caste thug, same thing.

The actual cabal is the assembly line. AISA president at JNU, CPI(ML) Liberation shop, theatre PhD, family she herself called BJP-supporting, amplifying The Wire the same week she wants Umar Khalid treated as a constitutional question and an IIT invigilator treated as a caste murderer.

Same network that turned a phone in an exam into society’s caste common sense. Same network that needed the dead boy to stay a symbol and the professor to stay a surname.

Doolla may turn out to be a rude man. He may even turn out worse. That is what CCTV, the phone dump, and a charge sheet are for. What he is not, on the evidence Neha posted, is a pre-convicted tyrant whose only sin was catching a student with a mobile.

A boy is gone. That is the only clean sentence in this story. Everything after it is a political extraction unit running on a corpse. Neha did not write an inquiry. She wrote a caption.

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

18 years later, remember the name:

🇮🇳 Lt Col Osiris Das, KC
🦅 13 Rashtriya Rifles
⚔️ Kumaon Regiment
📍 Jammu & Kashmir
📅 23 September 2008

Wounded.

Still fighting.

Refused to let them escape.

Salute. Jai Hind. 🇮🇳🫡

#IndianArmy #KirtiChakra #OsirisDas #RashtriyaRifles #KumaonRegiment #JammuKashmir #Gallantry #MilitaryHistory

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

He had already been hit by enemy fire.

The terrorists were escaping.

Instead of falling back, Lt Col Osiris Das stepped into the open, closed the distance to barely 5 metres and took the fight to them.

What happened on the banks of the Jhelum deserves to be remembered. 🇮🇳🧵

[Bharat @TheBharatTake]

Gallantry citations often reduce extraordinary moments to a few formal lines:

“Conspicuous bravery.”
“Utter disregard to personal safety.”
“Tactical acumen.”

But behind those words was a wounded officer voluntarily moving closer to armed terrorists until only metres separated them.