Vera

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

Who is Gyanesh Kumar, the One-Man Election Commission Acting in Violation of Article 324? https://t.co/Hq9GTtjPNf via @thewire_In

[Anubhuti Vishnoi @anubhutivishnoi]

The CEC-ECs standoff taking toll, breaking long held conventions

No annual Spl summary revision of electoral rolls from 2025 on - Gen Z new voters waitlisted

Despite both ECs urging SSR repeatedly; June timeline well overshot

Bihar to poll bound UP, Goa kept waiting

Also- admin stalemate- ACRs of several officials kept pending as the top brass of ECI won’t do it together as required

@ETPolitics

https://t.co/uq954GYg45

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Vote chori is a crime against the Indian people and a direct attack on our constitution.

The BJP, RSS and EC who organised it have committed an act of treason.

Justice will be served.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Three independent journalists reported extensively on the deaths of tribal children in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat.

Then they were surveilled, followed, questioned, pressured and intimidated. Eventually, their Instagram accounts vanished. @AbhishekSay

https://t.co/XbyQg27fvP

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

मोदी सरकार ने चुपचाप UPI पर फ़ीस लगाने का रास्ता खोल दिया है।

अब ₹2,000 से ऊपर के merchant UPI लेन-देन पर MDR लगाया ���ा सकता है। इन ट्रांजैक्शंस की संख्या भले ही सिर्फ़ 5% हो, लेकिन UPI के कुल transaction value का करीब 65% इन्हीं में है।

सरकार कहती है कि ग्राहक से कोई फ़ीस नहीं ली जाएगी। लेकिन दुकानदार पर लगने वाली फ़ीस आखिर आएगी कहां से? कीमतों में जुड़कर ग्राहक की जेब से।

अमेरिकी payment कंपनियां लंबे समय से भारत की zero-MDR नीति का विरोध करती रही हैं। अब मोदी सरकार ने ठीक उसी दिशा में नीति बदलने का रास्ता खोल दिया है।

US Trade Deal की तरह ���ी, Compromised PM मोदी एक बार फिर अमेरिकी दबाव के सामने surrender कर रहे हैं।

[Vera @verasinh]

@sanjeevjsharma @sardesairajdeep @TVKVijayHQ Can you please share the video?

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

NEET। CBSE। SSC। और आज CUET।

चार परीक्षाएँ। एक करोड़ बच्चे। एक भी ईमानदारी से नहीं हो पाई।

दावे "विश्वगुरु" के, मगर देश में एक परीक्षा नहीं करवा सकते - मोदी जी ने पूरी शिक्षा व्यवस्था तबाह कर दी है।

जिस पीढ़ी का भविष्य आप बर्बाद कर रहे हैं - वही पीढ़ी आपका हिसाब करेगी।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

“हम तो तबाह ह�� गए हैं - और सुनने वाला कोई नहीं।”

कल दोपहर के खाने पर एक ऑटो चालक भाई ने यह कहा। एक वाक्य में देश के लाखों ग़रीबों की पूरी कहानी आ गई।

आमदनी का मीटर बंद। महंगाई का ब्रेक फेल। और सुनने वाली सरकार बहरी।

CNG से LPG तक। बच्चों की पढ़ाई से इलाज तक। दूध से लेकर खाने के तेल तक। हर बढ़ता रुपया इनके बजट पर, इनकी रसोई पर, सीधा वार है।

��हंगाई मानव मोदी जी सलाह देते हैं - “public transport इस्तेमाल कीजिए।” और जो लोग public transport की रीढ़ हैं वो आज महंगाई के बोझ तले टूट रहे हैं।

आज इनकी थाली में रोटी-दाल के साथ एक सवाल भी है - कल की रोटी कहाँ से आएगी?

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

NEET छात्रों से मुलाक़ात में एक बात बिल्कुल साफ़ हो गई - भारत का युवा नरेंद्र मोदी पर भरोसा नहीं करता।

उन्होंने मुझे बताया - पेपर WhatsApp और Telegram पर खुलेआम बिक रहे हैं। किस कीमत पर बिक रहे हैं, कौन ख़रीद रहा है, माफ़िया कैसे काम कर रहे हैं - यह सब इन बच्चों को पता है।

उनका एक ही सवाल था - जो हमें पता है, वो सरकार और संस्थाओं को क्यों नहीं? सच यह है ये बच्चे सरकार से बेहतर जानते हैं कि इस सड़ी हुई व्यवस्था को कैसे ठीक किया जा सकता है।

और दूसरी ओर कितनी शर्मनाक बात है कि जिस सेना का काम दुश्मनों से देश की रक्षा करना है, आज उसे मोदी सरकार के अपने भ्रष्टाचार से बच्चों के पेपर बचाने भेजा जा रहा है।

टुकड़ों के सुधार से अब काम नहीं चलेगा। छात्रों, शिक्ष��ों और Experts के साथ मिलकर पूरी परीक्षा व्यवस्था नए सिरे से बनानी होगी।

हम और बच्चे नहीं खो सकते। और एक भी पीढ़ी का भविष्य इस भ्रष्ट तंत्र के हवाले नहीं कर सकते।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

17-year-old Sarthak Sidhant has exposed how CBSE manipulated its own selection process to benefit COEMPT, using CBSE’s own documents.

The details in his blog reveal how CBSE changed the RFP to unduly benefit COEMPT, at the cost of TCS.

He has revealed the hollowness of Dharmendra Pradhan ji’s denials. The PM remains silent, as usual. The question is simple: who are they protecting, and why?

An independent judicial inquiry is now essential to uncover the full extent of this scam.

Sarthak’s work shows that India’s Gen Z is brilliant and fearless. And sooner or later, they will find out the full truth.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

PM Modi also personally supervised the NEET paper leak.

[Srivatsa @srivatsayb]

BJP controlled Governor’s rulebook reads two different things, depending on who the single largest party is.

KARNATAKA, MAY 2018

• Results declared 15 May. BJP - single largest with 104 of 224. Eight short of the majority mark of 112.

• Congress (78) + JD(S) (37) = 115 seats. (More than majority). With supporting MLAs, signatures of 117 MLAs were submitted to the Governor staking claim.

• Vote share: Congress 38.14%, BJP 36.35%. Congress polled more votes than BJP.

• 16 May: Governor Vajubhai Vala invites the BJP - the party with fewer seats than the post-poll alliance, and fewer votes than the Congress alone.

• 17 May: BSY sworn in as CM.

• Governor’s gift: 15 days to “prove majority” on the floor of the House.

• Supreme Court intervenes the same week. Slashes the window to ~24 hours.

• 19 May: BSY resigns 10 minutes before the trust vote. Tenure: 2.5 days.

The principle invoked in 2018: invite the single largest party first; let the floor of the House decide the rest.

TAMIL NADU, MAY 2026

• Results declared 4 May. TVK is single largest with 108 of 234. Ten short of the majority mark of 118.

• 5 May: Congress (5) backs TVK. Combined tally: 113. Five short.

• 6 May: Vijay meets Governor Rajendra Arlekar at Lok Bhavan, stakes claim as the single largest party, submits the Congress letter of support.

• 7 May: Governor’s official communiqué , the requisite majority support … has not been established.” Demand: produce signed letters from 118 MLAs before any swearing-in.

• 3 days since result. No invitation. No oath. No 15-day window. No floor test. Not even a date.

The principle suddenly invoked in 2026: produce 118 signatures inside Raj Bhavan before you can become Chief Minister.

Why this ARITHMETIC OF DOUBLE STANDARDS?

Same Constitution. Same Sarkaria Commission. Same S.R. Bommai (1994). Same Rameshwar Prasad (2006).

The rulebook bends for BJP?

When BJP is the single largest party, the floor of the House is sacred.

When BJP is not, Lok Bhavan becomes the new floor.

BJP will pay heavily for this new type of Vote Chori.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Really enjoyed meeting the young women from Gargi College and Delhi University.

Two things are clear:

1.The magician has run out of tricks. Young India can see right through him.

2.Gen Z is our future - and Gen Z women will lead the way. It is our duty to open every door for them.

The future of our country is in safe hands.

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

Pallo both Iran and US have thanked Pakistan and placed on record that they have tried their best. Khikhi is playing ambulance ambulance in Siliguri!

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

The SIR is a mess, but a mess that is a hassle for others but carries massive consequences for Muslims.

[Grouchy Maxx @softgrowl]

The absolute insensitivity to death and destruction

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Last para here explains what is going on. This is part of a devious modus operandi used by some Indians to enter US without documentation.

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

VERY IMPORTANT (because the media won’t tell you this):

PM Modi has been running a fake & malicious agenda for the last few days claiming that his Govt wants “early reservations for women in Parliament”. In reality, Modi is using women as an excuse to bulldoze his real agenda of delimitation (which is redrawing boundaries of Lok Sabha & Assembly seats in states to benefit the BJP)

Here’s the truth:

👉 Women’s Reservation was passed by Parliament in 2023. At that time, Opposition parties pointed out that the Bill would delay 33% women’s reservation till 2034 & demanded that it be implemented immediately

👉 Govt ignored the Opposition & said women’s reservation will happen after the 2026 Census followed by delimitation to increase total number of seats in Parliament

👉 Now, suddenly, just when Bengal & Tamil Nadu are going to elections, Modi decides that delimitation will be done BEFORE 2026 Census. Instead of conducting delimitation based on India’s actual population, the Modi Govt has come up with its own unknown formula

👉 But it will be IMPOSSIBLE to sell this sudden delimitation idea to the nation which has no basis. Therefore, Modi Govt is pushing a sudden delimitation claiming that “it will help in earlier implementation of women’s reservation”

Now, here are some questions that expose Modi’s real agenda & deception:

1. What is the connection between delimitation & women’s reservation? What is stopping the Govt from immediately implementing women’s reservation on the existing 543 seats in Lok Sabha without delimitation?

2. Why is the Parliament session being called from 16-18th April in the middle of Bengal & TN elections? Why could this not be done just 10 days later after voting is done in these 2 states?

3. Today, my party TMC has 39% women MPs in Parliament. Mamata Banerjee didn’t need any “law” to give women their due representation. In contrast, how many women MPs does Modi’s BJP have? ONLY 13%
So what has stopped Modi & BJP all this while from having at least 33% women MPs in Parliament & setting an example?

4. Where is a copy of the proposed Bill that the Govt wants to bring to Parliament in just 3 days? Why is Modi writing op-eds & conducting PR exercises instead of releasing a copy of the proposed Bill so that it can be studied?

It is utterly dishonest & shameful that Modi is cheating the women of India by linking their right to representation to delimitation. There’s nothing that stops his Govt from implementing women’s reservation immediately. Even the Opposition supports that.

But the real agenda is to change the boundaries of Lok Sabha & Assembly seats across states to benefit the BJP. The SIR process should make it clear how Modi-Shah are now desperate & will use delimitation to manipulate the entire electoral process just for clinging on to power.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Interesting Another twist in Karnataka: senior Cong minister accused of backing SDPI in Davangere South bypoll in line of fire. There could be another round of churning in Karnataka next month. CM change or cabinet reshuffle: the power nataka isn’t over yet. @nagarjund reports

[IndiaExplained @IndiaExplained]

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