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Bengaluru, India
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In conversation with Karan Thapar about the recent protests:
youtu.be/fwAJeCaPWEo?si=xgM2… via @YouTube
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🚨MASSIVE BREAKING : The Hindu Just drop Biggest BOMB on Traitor Gyanesh Kumar & Dictator Modi🔥
(MUST Read & Share)
ECI's own software EXPOSED.
In Delhi SIR, one community gets flagged again and again 🔥
The Hindu analysed Delhi's SIR draft roll:
Muslims are 13.6% of electors.
But 20.3% of those flagged by ECI's ERONET software for "logical discrepancies".
And 30% of those flagged under five reasons that point to family size.
The reason "progeny >= 6" (six or more children listed)?
58% of those flagged were Muslims. Over four times their share.
Per 1,000 voters flagged on these family-size reasons:
152 Muslims vs 56 non-Muslims.
And as per The Hindu, these "logical discrepancy" checks don't appear in ECI's SIR orders for Bihar or for Phase 2.
No public rule. Just software deciding who gets a notice.
Bro, imagine your school starts "checking documents" before exams.
The computer flags kids for "too many siblings."
Your friend Imran and his cousins get notices. You don't.
Teacher says "system ne kiya, humein nahi pata."
Would you call that a glitch, or a design?
Who wrote this logic? Who approved it? Why was it never announced?
If it's fair, release the code.
Modi ji, the question about your "sabka saath" is now in a spreadsheet.
Gyanesh Kumar ji, you didn't explain the reasons till Tuesday night, says The Hindu. Explain now.
ECI, a voter is a citizen, not a filter in your software 🔥🔥🔥
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This is an exhaustive list of accounts from journalists who were either detained, assaulted, or had their equipment damaged by the Delhi Police. There are around 30 accounts in total, with direct quotes from almost all of them.
thenewsminute.com/news/over-…
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Digital journalists deserve the same rights, protection and respect as any newsroom.
DIGIPUB demands unhindered access for all journalists, legacy or digital, to cover protests in Delhi and across the country.
@DelhiPolice @HMOIndia @LtGovDelhi @indSupremeCourt
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Once more, with feeling
At what point will a paranoid, insecure, deeply suspicious man begin suspecting that he is being done in by his own---all in the name of protecting his hyper-inflated ego?
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Satish Acharya and Manjul, two of India's leading political cartoonists, are facing restrictions by Meta on their cartoons mocking the ECI.
While @satishacharya Instagram account has been restricted, @MANJULtoons cartoon is not available in India.
thenewsminute.com/news/meta-…
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Should the right of an Indian citizen to vote be elevated to the status of a fundamental right? Yes, contends lawyer Kartikey Singh in this incisive, well-substantiated article published in The Hindu (September 28, 2026):
“Elevating the 'right to vote' to
fundamental status would not diminish the EC's authority to purify rolls; it would instead subject that authority to the heightened standard of judicial review reserved for fundamental rights, ensuring that the drive to centralise electoral administration is always weighed against, rather than allowed to override, the citizen's claim to be counted. In a democracy where software now mediates the relationship between the voter and the ballot, the constitutional status of the
'right to vote' can no longer remain a matter of legislative grace.”
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Well said,@thehindu: "The ECI must be reconstituted by a selection committee that does not give the government an overriding majority. Anything less would be a travesty of institutional democracy." #ElectionCommission #SIR
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EC Has Evaded the Question of 16 lakh Deletions in WB.
But @chhuti_is Finds West Bengal Voter Challenges By EC Can Be Traced to A Centralised Batch System,
*Not individually filed by officers*
Do read m.thewire.in/article/rights/…
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A study published by the South Asian Reporter for Environment Laws (SAREL) on 19 September 2026 found that, during the first six months of 2026, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) did not rule in favour of an environmental or public-interest party in a single appeal heard on merits.
119 appeals were filed before the NGT’s five benches between January and June 2026, and 52 were dismissed on procedural grounds which, in itself, is questionable. Of the 67 appeals heard on merits:
• 51 appeals were filed by industry, project proponents or property owners. They received favourable orders in 30 cases, or around 60% of these appeals.
• In contrast, environmental or public-interest parties filed 16 appeals seeking environmental justice. All 16 were dismissed, with none receiving a favourable ruling.
The contrast is particularly significant given that the NGT was established in June 2010 through an Act of Parliament to provide effective and expeditious environmental justice to the citizens of the country. Over the past decade it has been emasculated by the Modi Govt but recover and rediscover its courage it must.
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Delhi maybe witnessing the largest purges of voters anywhere. Over half its electors are deleted or sent notices to prove they’re genuine. VIPs get a route out, the poor bear the worst.
Report by @ShubhangiJourno, @DikshyaKoirala7 & @TweetSumedha
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reporters-collective.in/trc/…
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When the @ECISVEEP refuses to follow its own duties, & the Supreme Court supports their arbitrary exclusions - citizens must step in .
A Jan Sunwai In Delhi Shows the Way: Only Public Audits Can 'Purify' SIR Electoral Rolls. - The Wire m.thewire.in/article/rights/…
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#Bengaluru: What Happens Inside An #SIR Hearing? We Found Out & It's Not Fun
What should you do if you’re served with a notice to attend an SIR hearing? DH has the answers.
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Workers help train the machines that could replace them.
4C Radio investigates egocentric data — first-person worker footage powering Physical AI and humanoid robots and what it means for privacy, consent, and pay.
Listen now — link in bio.
#4CRadio #PhysicalAI #DataEconomy
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New York is shutting data centres down. Amsterdam has paused construction.
India is inviting them into ecologically sensitive zones like Great Nicobar.
Why? Our latest #LetMeExplain digs in: youtu.be/ZJJ36lK91cY