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[calle @callebtc]

UPDATE: Bitchat is now mirrored on @Radicle — censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer code hosting:

iOS/macOS: rad:z2v9tRJz1oknFAqCSY5W5c76nVvm6
Android: rad:z347HbE1F4c77DVLvsPe2ApoEEw6f

Clone it. Seed it. Keep it alive. 👇

[Reetam Singh @SinghReetam]

Minister Ashok Singhal has two sons: Lokesh Anand Singhal and Vivek Anand Singhal.

Lokesh studied abroad in Virginia Tech USA. When he returned, his father made him directly the Director of Protech Group. Transferring all Tribal Belt lands around Guwahati under his name.

Vivek runs Social Media Campaign Agency for BJP where he handles @VoiceOfAxom @SouleFacts and Twitter Profiles of many @BJP4Assam leaders.

Ask yourself, how does Ashok Singhal who until 2011 was a Rice Mill Owner showing net assets of around Rs 80+ lakhs in his election affidavit; ended up getting all the viable lands across Guwahati worth thousands of Crores when BJP came to power? Finances horse trading in Arunachal Pradesh Government being the defacto financer of BJP?

Today his Protech Group operates illegal constructed buildings on Lakes, Beels and ponds of Guwahati. His children never gave a competitive exam in their lives. But he thinks he has the right to decide the future of Assamese students by leaking papers under his BJP Govt?

Even if you go to Protech Construction Offices. The Singhal sons refused to speak in Assamese to the customers. And Protech has buildings designated exclusively for Marwari people where Assamese or muslims or any meat eating Hindu family cannot purchase flats.

This segregation is their own company policy in Assam where they treat Assamese people as 2nd Class Citizens in Protech Projects. Every Protech Project has Marwari exclusive buildings in Assam. They have two seperate selling rates for Marwari people and Assamese people for their flats.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian.

New Delhi, 24 July 2026

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat.

The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored.

Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked.

BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off.

The order is illegal on at least four grounds.

1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts.

2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed.

3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code.

4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637.

The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code.

IFF demands that the Government of India:

1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub.
2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each.
3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers.

We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.

[jack @jack]

the government of india does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down

[Rahul @Wolverin3]

😂

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

आंदोलन को रोकने के लिए मेट्रो बंद करना बैड आइडिया है। इससे लोग कार चलाएँगे और E20 को लेकर आंदोलन होने लगेगा।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

How dare you threaten students for exercising their democratic rights?

Please note, you are the ones that will be held accountable when the time comes.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Ironically, Modi is the New Pappu.

😂😂😂

[Narundar @NarundarM]

Isliye me foreign me hi ghumta rahta hun.

[Amit Mishra @Amitjanhit]

Gujarat: Ahmedabad 🔥

देश के हर कोने में मोदी सरकार के ख़िलाफ़ आंदोलन शुरू हो ���ुका है।

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Appalling violence against an unarmed, youth-led civil disobedience movement in India.

Peaceful protestors were challenging the broken education system under the Modi government. They were met with tear gas and baton charges.

Solidarity with those demanding justice.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Hilarious! 🤣

This protestor in Patna says, he had never ‘tasted’ tear gas.

So, when the police threw tear gas, he jumped into the smoke!

After the experience, he gave a review-

“It's very kadak maal. 0% Ethanol." 🤣

[Rahul Saini @JtrahulSaini]

BJP वाले कितने बड़े नौटंकी बाज हैं ये वीडियो देखकर आप समझ जायेंगे -

दिल्ली जंतर मंतर पर आंदोलनरत छात्रों को कथित तौर पर राजनीतिक पार्टी के कार्यकर्ता..देशद्रोही.. टूल किट और न जाने क्या क्या कहा जा रहा है..!

वही दूसरी तरफ अपनी नक���रा टीम को कांग्रेस के खिलाफ सड़क पर उतार दी हैं..जिनमें महिलाएं है बच्चियां हैं..!

लेकिन इन्हें ये नहीं पता किसका विरोध करना है क्यों करना है..?

[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

Forget Sonam Wangchuk. Forget Abhijeet Dipke. Forget the CJP.

Did the exam papers leak? Yes.
Do they leak frequently? Yes.
Did many students commit suicide? Yes.
Do papers leak for other exams as well? Also yes.

The Government seems to suggest that a successful re-exam was undertaken, and the criminals have been punished - so what’s the problem?

The problem is that it doesn’t stop the next paper leak.

Putting some low level criminals behind bars and throwing money at the families of the dead isn’t the permanent solution. How many senior administrators and bureaucrats have faced the wrath of the law in the last 10 years?

It’s a post-facto reaction after the leaks have already taken lives.

Exam paper leaks in India are not confined to one state, one government, or one type of exam. In fact, the situation is even worse in State exams.

The attitude, by-and-large, seems to be, jaisa chal raha hai chalne do..

We’ll pick up a few people here and there, give away some money, do a re-exam and move on to the next cycle. Itna toh kiya, aur kya chahiye?

But the students have gotten restless. They are fed up. You see it in TV interviews after every exam that gets cancelled at the last moment. Police recruitment. Teacher recruitment. State Govt recruitment. Again and again. Year after year. Too many students have all hopes pinned on these various exams. It is their ticket out of poverty, to make a life for themselves and their families.

Why should they just “get on with it”?

Another line of argument seems to be that there were more paper leaks in the Congress era. And that this government has done better than its predecessors. And so people need to be ‘sensible’ about this issue.

Ok, but why should that be relevant to a 20-year old today?

She didn’t live in the Congress era. She is living and studying in 2026.

It is an argument that would perhaps resonate with millennials and older folks who have lived through both regimes. But the very young don’t have that old reference (and it’s a good thing) - they have the reference of social media.

This is a social media native generation, they don’t consume traditional TV or news. Social media gives them access to what the world is like, right on their screen, 24X7. And they will increasingly ask - why can’t we have the good things that the world has?

If Ethiopia can have decent roads, why can’t India?
If Sri Lanka can be clean, why can’t India?
If Vietnam can conduct exams well, why can’t India?

And this restlessness expresses aspiration.

To demand more. To want better. To want it quickly.

Chalta Hai.. is not going to cut it anymore.

Take the counterfactual - if there was no hue and cry, do you believe anything would change? There would be another paper leak somewhere in another month. Another series of suicides. Another round of compensation.

It may very well happen even now, but the students have expressed their rage and fury- that it can’t be business as usual.

“Chalta hai” is the defining attitude of India.

Road after road after road has potholes.. but chal raha hai.
Exam after exam after exam gets cancelled.. but chal raha hai.
Kachra on every street, highway, station… but chal raha hai.
Corruption in every other government service.. but chal raha hai.

The young (thankfully) don’t carry the baggage of the past. The older you get, the more cynical you become - that this is how the system is, and how things will always work. But the young, with their (hopeful) naivety, at least have the ability to dream of a different tomorrow.

In my early 20s, I wore the Anna cap and went around the area sloganeering with a bunch of other young people during the IAC movement. Nothing came out of it, and in hindsight I felt stupid for having supported any of those people. But the sentiment that it came out of - the frustration with rampant corruption - that was genuine.

As I’m sure, the sentiment is genuine with thousands of students who have been part of these protests.

I hope your movement has a more fruitful end than the one I supported.

PS: Is this movement foreign funded? Are there other forces involved? I will let people with far more experience than me on security and intelligence matters to comment on that. But I will say this - the issue has been genuine, and it has resonance among the public. Grifters will always find a way to latch on to popular issues and try to hijack it. We must not lose sight of solving for the core sentiment.

[Rahul @Wolverin3]

😂😂

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

We will thrash anyone who tries to disrupt our peaceful protest in Mumbai on July 26: Raj Thackeray.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

You are the one who has harmed the future of our youth the most.

You allowed and encouraged the total capture and destruction of our education system - and protected every person responsible for it.

The students’ demands are clear:
1. Sack Dharmendra Pradhan.
2. Apologise to the students.
3. Take action against those who assaulted them.

आपने ही हमारे युवाओं के भविष्य को सबसे ज़्यादा नुकसान पहुंचाया है।

आपने न सिर्फ हमारी education system पर पूरा कब्ज़ा होने और उसे बर्��ाद होने दिया, उसे बढ़ावा भी दिया - और इसके ज़िम्मेदार हर व्यक्ति को संरक्षण दिया।

छात्रों की मांगें साफ़ हैं:
1. धर्मेंद्र प्रधान को पद से हटाएं।
2. छात्रों से माफ़ी मांगे।
3. छात्रों के साथ हिंसा करने वालों के ख़िलाफ़ कार्रवाई करें।

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

Police continue to threaten students across India from participating in protests!

Mumbai Police: is the NCB now being used to plant fake drugs into pockets of students? This will not be tolerated.

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

23rd July at 2:00 AM

Delhi Police has just brought in a totally damaged car and placed it outside the protest site at Jantar Mantar.

Why have you placed this car here @DelhiPolice? What do you intend to show with this car?

Everyone should remember this car has been brought here in this condition - important to record before they can blame it on peaceful protesters.

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

A Young Lady stands up to an Andhbhakt in the Metro - A Public Space.

INDIA IS HEALING !!!

[Rahul @Wolverin3]

The absolute state of this country

[Mumbai Congress @INCMumbai]

एक वायरल वीडियो में दावा किया गया है कि @MumbaiPolice प्रदर्शन कर रहे छात्रों को धमका रही है कि अगर वे दोबारा प्रदर्शन करने लौटे, तो उन्हें झूठे ड्रग्स के मामले में फँसा दिया जाएगा और पूरी ज़िंदगी जेल में सड़ना पड़ेगा।

��गर यह सच है, तो यह सिर्फ़ छात्रों को डराने की कोशिश नहीं, बल्कि लोकतांत्रिक अधिकारों पर सीधा हमला है। अपनी आवाज़ उठाना अपराध नहीं है। छात्रों के सवालों का जवाब धमकियों से नहीं, जवाबदेही से दिया जाना चाहिए।

#Students #Mumbai #MumbaiPolice

@VarshaEGaikwad

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Dharmendra Pradhan should not let this country become Nepal. He should simply resign.

Then students can go back to studies.

Other protestors can go back home.

Police can go back to their stations.

And Modi can go back abroad.