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Was Vineet Joshi the Education Secretary All Along? Vineet Joshi was removed as Education Secretary during the NEET paper leak crisis. His replacement, Naresh Pal Gangwar, faced a subsidy controversy. Now a new government order skips Gangwar entirely and names a successor to Joshi instead, as if the first replacement never happened. So who was actually running the higher education ministry these past three weeks? The government has not explained. Read the full story of @theprobeindia @premasridevi theprobe.in/education/was-vi…

Yes ! Police Brutality on 20th July, 2026 . Citizens will not let @DelhiPolice , RAF get away. These forces are directly under @HMOIndia @AmitShah. FIX RESPONSIBILITY & ACCOUNTABILITY. @consticonduct has demanded action (Attached)

STATEMENT OF 100 WRITERS AND ARTISTS OF INDIA EXPRESSING THEIR UNWAVERING SOLIDARITY WITH STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY . " We, the undersigned writers, and artists of India, express our unwavering solidarity with the students across the country who are demanding transparency, accountability, and comprehensive reforms in the conduct of public examinations. The repeated instances of question paper leaks and other irregularities have gravely questioned the integrity of public institutions. We are deeply disturbed by the reports of use of force against students engaged in peaceful democratic protest in different parts of the country, including at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. In a constitutional democracy, the legitimate concerns of young citizens must be met with dialogue and justice, not by violence and intimidation. We call upon the Government of India and the concerned State Governments to take swift and stringent action against all those responsible for examination paper leaks and related malpractice. We also demand an honest dialogue with the students and an impartial inquiry into the incidents of violence against students and unwarranted use of force. We stand with the students of India in their peaceful struggle for justice, accountability, and a trustworthy examination system. We urge fellow writers, artists and thinkers from all parts of the country to come out in support of the demands of students to decide the future of our democracy. "

A must read article by former diplomat @gmukhopadhaya . "SIR in Manipur is a pathway to Exclusion "

"One Nation One Election is sold as a simple fix — vote once, save money, end the permanent campaign. Look closer, and it isn't a scheduling reform at all. It's a rewiring of the federal compact. A former Chief Justice, a former Chief Election Commissioner, a public-policy scholar, a diplomat and several others have taken the ONOE bill apart, and what they found is buried in the fine print: ▪️ A mid-term voter's vote would be worth less than a full-term one — a model "found nowhere in the world." ▪️ The "policy paralysis" argument for ONOE is a myth — from a man who ran the Election Commission. ▪️ The 80% public support the government cites came from a form issued "only in Hindi and English." The real catch: ONOE would hand a government-appointed Election Commission the power to decide which states vote — and which wait." - @theprobeindia theprobe.in/elections/onoe-o… @premasridevi

A must read article by @DrSYQuraishi in @the_hindu today . "In India, Voting cannot remain merely a statutory right "

Citizens of India, Beware , the presumption of Citizenship has been inverted. For seventy-five years, the state presumed you were a citizen, and had to prove otherwise. Now the burden has been flipped onto you. No one at the conclave named that reversal more precisely than Dr Niraja Jayal, a scholar of Indian citizenship. The Constitution and the Citizenship Act of 1955, she reminded the room, were built on the principle of unconditional jus soli — citizenship by birth on the soil. Underlying it was something simpler still: a presumption of belonging. "The foundational conception of universal, equal citizenship in our Constitution," Jayal said, "was underpinned by a presumption of citizenship. That presumption of universal citizenship is being replaced, as we speak, by a presumption of universal alienage." Alienage — the presumption that a person is a foreigner until shown otherwise — was, in her account, the thread connecting a set of developments that are usually reported as separate stories. "It is the principle underlying the NRC. It is the principle underlying the SIR. It is also the principle underlying the latest salvo against passport holders." Each arrives dressed as something routine. "One day it is an amendment to the law on citizenship. Another day it is a new method for the routine task of revising electoral rolls. Yet another day it is a throwaway comment about whether passports constitute proof of citizenship or not. But all of these are tending towards the same purpose, the same objective — the presumption of alienage." theprobe.in/elections/sir-ci… @theprobeindia @premasridevi @consticonduct