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New Delhi, India
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Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
From Nehru to Manmohan Singh, we have never seen a ruling party take to the streets to save democracy under its own government. Now, under Modi, BJP is holding nationwide Save Democracy protests against the opposition. The opposition is questioning those in power, while those in power are protesting against the very people questioning them.
Make a donkey PM, spend thousands of crores portraying him as a lion, and this is what you get.
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
Big Big Expose on AQI
Water is being sprayed directly on top of AQI monitoring stations to manipulate Delhi’s AQI data.
They reduce the pollution, but like GDP, they are fudging data to show AQI is coming down.
This is dangerous and life-threatening, as elderly and kids will trust the fake data and risk going outdoors when unsafe.
The BJP Govt also added 20 new stations in greener areas of Delhi to mathematically lower the average AQI. That’s another fraud on ur health.
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
Absolute buffoonery! Country is being run on drama, PR, and marketing.
#WATCH | Hyderabad, Telangana: Union Home Minister Amit Shah leads BJP’s ‘Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao’ march in Hyderabad
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
The most normalized open extortion in Indian middle class life:
The Sub Registrar office on property registration day.
You spend 10 years saving every rupee from your salaried job.
You pay 30% TDS on your income.
You pay 7% official stamp duty online via net banking.
You pay 1% registration fee through a government treasury challan.
Every single paisa is accounted for on your bank statement.
Then you reach the government registration office with your builder or seller:
The deed writer pulls you aside into a dusty corridor:
"Sir, ₹25,000 to ₹40,000 cash alag se lagega for the desk. Official receipt nahi milegi."
You: "Bhaiya, I already paid ₹4.5 lakhs in official government stamp duty online!"
Agent smiles with complete indifference:
"Sir, mat do. Phir file 'Property Under Valuation' mark hoke audit me chali jayegi. 6 mahine chakkar kaatna."
You stand in an airless hallway, walk to the nearest ATM, withdraw ₹30,000 cash, and slip it inside the file folder just to get your own thumb impression scanned.
We aren't a digital, cashless economy.
We are a country where honest taxpayers have to withdraw physical cash just to get legal permission to own what they already paid for.
Did your property registration happen 100% clean, or did you have to pay the "corridor settlement fee" too?
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
Delhi-Haryana border clogs as cops turn away non-BS VI vehicles due to anti-pollution checks
Express Video By Gajendra Yadav
Read: indianexpress.com/article/in…
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
Every serious educationist I spoke to is worried, concerned and frustrated. The ‘Viksit Bharat 2047’, is an empty slogan, throwing the ball a couple of decades away to cling on to power.
As we speak, India's higher education is on ventilator.
1. Reform bill in limbo. The VBSA Bill went to a JPC, deadline was extended twice and adoption meeting cancelled twice. The monsoon session ended with no date.
2. We have a Part-time minister who holds Education as additional charge. The higher education dept. had 3 secretaries in 3 weeks.
3. Pending VBSA, we are running on Stand-in regulators. UGC has had no regular chairman for 19 months running. It is run by the ministry's own secretary, though the UGC Act bars government officers from the post. AICTE has had an interim head for 10 months. The bar council is run by the same person for 10 years. Files don’t move. Policy decisions are never taken.
4. Empty classrooms. At least 14,617 of 46,151 faculty posts are vacant (31.7%):
• IIITs 54%
• IITs 38%
• AIIMS 35%
• IIMs 32%
• NITs 28%
• Central universities 26%
5. While all this happens, the government indulges in data blackout. Asked in Parliament how many posts are vacant, the ministry now reports only how many it has hired. The real numbers come from RTI applications.
All that govt. does is building perceptions, hiding realty and playing politics. India’s education is on a ventilator. The hospital has no doctors. And the bills keep getting piled up.
Who is responsible?
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
In a highly populous nationlike India, winning three consecutive elections- in 2014, 2019, and 2024, gave Narendra Modi and the BJP ample opportunity to fulfill the expectations of the people.
Over the past 12 years, he could have focused his attention on critical areas such as India’s overall education system, rising economy, modernization of the armed forces,
public services and foreign policy.
Instead of doing so, he has prioritized securing funds for his own party, and fostering the prosperity of a select few businessmen within his inner circle- showing complete disregard for the nation and its people.
Furthermore, he has installed individuals closely affiliated with the BJP and RSS at the helm of every government institution, a process of "saffronization"- which the public has never viewed favorably.
And now, the people have begun to speak out.
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
We will see apologies like this soon. Many of them.
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
The affidavit that the ECI has filed before the Supreme Court raises more questions than it answers about its functioning during the ongoing SIR. The objections recorded by the two ECs were part of the consultative process, it says — this papers over the fact that most of them were about decisions taken without keeping the two informed. The ECI rolls back controversial changes made to Form 6 for first-time voters online, and sets up a committee to review ECINet. It does so, however, without acknowledging the mistake, or holding anyone accountable. The SIR process continues to stumble. The Court must now nudge it towards a course correction.
Read: indianexpress.com/article/op…
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BREAKING: Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro steps off a private jet in Miami after President Trump approved his entry into the United States despite a court order banning him from leaving his home country.
Bolsonaro reportedly used an Italian passport to cross into Argentina with his family before boarding a private plane that stopped in Ecuador on its way to Florida.
The Trump administration confirmed it is granting visas to Bolsonaro and his family, just days after his election defeat.
For the latest details, read the full story: foxnews.com/world/sen-flavio…
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
The Instagram crackdown is not going to work!
The government is taking down thousands of posts and accounts every day, but it seems to be missing a fundamental point.
Instagram is just a platform where people are raising their questions. The reasons behind those questions exist far beyond social media, and taking down accounts won't make them disappear.
If anything, this censorship risks creating even more distrust among the very people the government is supposed to answer to.
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
BJP protesting at one of the three designated protest sites after applying for permission 10 days in advance.
All traders happy in Delhi.
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
13Cr + voters have been deleted from the voters lists, during this SIR done ostensibly for removing foreigners. But only 1600 foreigners have been found in 6 States!
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
Be scared. Be very scared.
The truth is being set free, finally! And the youth is leading the wave. 🪳
I think @narendramodi govt is losing the battle of perceptions particularly on @instagram. Every day hundreds of propaganda reels are being made against the govt that is being forcibly pushed on the timelines of everyone, even when you don’t follow the makers. The platform has clearly picked a side. And @AshwiniVaishnaw’s ministry seems to be either clueless about it, or the babus are compromised. @blsanthosh
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
Here’s what fate a well trained Agniveer lad met.
Look at what he’s doing after a 4 year training.
Such are the shallow schemes and policies of PM Modi. Youth are left high and dry, jobless and dejected.
Yet no accountability.
#ModiHaiTohVinaashHai
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
Hats off to the person who made this.
He's hit the nail on Social Media's head and analysed the monster top to toe.
Atanu Bhattacharya retweeted
CJP declared to hold protest at Jantar Mantar, it got denotified as protest site
CJP declared to protest at CP’s Central Park, it got closed
I think CJP should declare Gyanesh Kumar’s office as next venue 😉