V.T. Balram

MLA, Kerala Legislative Assembly | Vice President, KPCC | Member, AICC | RTs are not necessarily endorsements

[V.T. Balram @VTBALRAM]

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is an utter flop. That’s why crores of Indians are still homeless and have their house numbers as 0, or 00, or 000 in the voter list.

#VoteChori
Pathetic explanation from #ElectionCommissionOfIndia

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One Man Stands Up
And the History Begins…

#RahulGandhi 💪
#VoteChori #OnePersonOneVote #ReclaimIndia

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This Text
This Man
This Symbol
India’s Hope is still alive 👍👍👍

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A photo taken from the other half of the globe decades before Richard Attenborough released his film on Gandhi

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EC writes letters to BJP and Congress 🙏

Idea courtesy: Cartoonist VR Ragesh

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Even he can’t afford to have LPG for cooking. So he just avoided it and invented a new technique of cooking without fire😃

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Petrol and Diesel prices 😌

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The real Kerala Story!
A Hindu temple and a Muslim Masjid have together raised a welcome board across a street near Thiruvananthapuram, and students from different communities are walking through it holding each other.

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

Here’s a quick first analysis of the Electoral Bonds data disclosure that the SBI put up last night, after weeks of attempting to postpone it until after the election:

��Over 1,300 companies and individuals have donated electoral bonds, including over 6,000 crores to the BJP since 2019

So far, the electoral bonds data exposes at least 4 corrupt tactics of the BJP:

1)Quid Pro Quo:

There are many cases of companies that have donated electoral bonds, and immediately afterwards gotten huge benefits from the government:

a.Megha Engineering & Infra has given over Rs. 800 crores in EBs. In April 2023, they donated Rs. 140 crores, and just one month later, they were awarded the Rs. 14,400 crore Thane-Borivali Twin Tunnel Project.

b.Jindal Steel & Power gave Rs. 25 crores in EBs on 7 October 2022, and just 3 days later, they won the Gare Palma IV/6 coal mine, on 10th October 2022.

2)Hafta Vasooli:

The BJP’s Hafta Vasooli strategy is simple – raid a target through the ED/CBI/IT, and then seek hafta (“donations”) for the company’s protection. At least 14 of the top 30 donors have been raided.

a.Earlier this year an investigation found that after ED/CBI/IT raids, companies were forced to donate to the BJP via electoral trusts. Many of the same companies have donated through EBs, like Hetero Pharma and Yashoda Hospital.

b.The IT department raided Shirdi Sai Electricals in December 2023, and in January 2024, they donated Rs. 40 crores through Electoral Bonds.

c.Future Gaming & Hotels, has donated over Rs. 1200 crore, making it the largest donor in the data so far. Here is the chronology:

2nd April 2022: ED raids Future, and 5 days later (7th April) they donate Rs. 100 crores in EBs

October 2023: IT department raids Future, and the same month they donate Rs. 65 crores in EBs

3)Kickbacks

A pattern emerges from the data, where immediately after receiving some handouts from the Central government, companies have repaid the favour through electoral bonds.

a.Vedanta got the Radhikapur West private coal mine on 3rd March 2021, and then in April 2021, they donated Rs. 25 crore in Electoral Bonds.

b.Megha Engineering & Infra got the Rs. 4,500 crore Zojila tunnel project in August 2020, then donated Rs. 20 crore in Electoral Bonds in October 2020.

c.Megha got the BKC bullet train station contract in December 2022, and donated Rs. 56 crore the same month.

4)Money Laundering Through Shell Companies

One huge issue with the electoral bonds scheme is that it removed the restriction that only a small percentage of a company’s profits could be donated, paving the way for shell companies to donate black money. There are many such suspicious cases, such as the Rs. 410 crore that has been donated by Qwik Supply Chain Limited, a company whose entire share capital is just Rs. 130 crores according to MoCA filings.

Another major issue is missing data

•The data provided by SBI only begins in April 2019, but SBI sold the first tranche of bonds in March 2018. A total of Rs. 2,500 crores in bonds are missing from this data. Where is the data of these missing bonds, from March 2018 to April 2019? For instance, in the very first tranche of bonds, the BJP bagged 95% of the funds. Who is the BJP trying to protect?

As the analysis of the electoral bonds data continues, many more such cases of the BJP’s corruption will become clear. We also continue to demand unique bond ID numbers, so that we can precisely match donors to recipients.

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@Jairam_Ramesh BJP are dacoits 😡

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The SFI goons have once again shown their true colours. An innocent student was tortured & killed in a Uty campus in Wayanad, Kerala. A bright future extinguished. CPM party is responsible for nurturing this hooliganism through its student wing. We demand #JusticeForSidharthan

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@aswathykuttycg @vdsatheesan ഈയവസ്ഥയുടെ യഥാർത്ഥ ഉത്തരവാദികളായ സർക്കാരിനെതിരെ ഒരു വാക്ക് പറഞ്ഞതിന് ശേഷം പ്രതിപക്ഷത്തെ ചോദ്യം ചെയ്യുന്നതല്ലേ ഭംഗി?

[K C Venugopal @kcvenugopalmp]

No words are enough to condemn the shameful graphic on the BJP handle comparing Sh. @RahulGandhi ji to Ravana.

Their nefarious intentions are clear, they want to murder him.

He, who lost his grandmother and father to assassinations.

They withdrew his SPG protection to score petty political points. After evicting him from his secure residence, they haven't allocated another house that he has requested for.

All this points to a well-planned conspiracy of the BJP to eliminate their fiercest critic, someone who attacks the very core of their hate-filled ideology.

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On this day in 1972 PM Indira Gandhi made her speech at the UN Conference on Human Environment at Stockholm. This address, which looked at environmental issues from a development perspective & developmental challenges from an ecological standpoint, has been truly historical.

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Medals are earned by hard work,
Not through “Operation Kamala”

BJP must know how to appreciate the value of the years long hard work of our proud sports women and stop insulting them.

Prosecute Brijbhushan Singh, MP

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#नफरत_मुक्त_दक्षिण_भारत

#Nafrat_Mukt_Dakshin_Bharat

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3 : 32,000 = 0.01 : 99.99
All Sanghi propaganda are 99.99% lies in the pretext of just 0.01% truth.
Kerala’s Story has always been of inclusiveness and peaceful coexistence. We don’t therefore subscribe to the Sanghi stories of lies and hate mongering

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@jaytweetss Making of a Viswa Guru?

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Do anyone knows any graduate other than Modiji who passed this MA course from Gujarat University in 1983? Let’s have a #NationwideSearch for them.

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The Strength of Truth 👍