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An entrepreneur, news junkie & a lover of sensible cinema. A proud Tifosi. Hates all kinds of extreme ideologies. Sydney City has my heart.
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Chandra Sekhar retweeted
History scripted in Nagoya! 🥉🇮🇳
Huge congratulations to Baranica Elangovan on securing a historic bronze in the Women’s Pole Vault at the Asian Games, India’s first-ever medal in the event.
The nation is immensely proud of you, Baranica. Keep soaring higher!
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
Saying it again, Pullela Gopichand doesn't get enough credit for the demons he's built in badminton.
2 TIMES in ONE WEEK! 🔥🔥
TREESA/GAYATHRI STUN WR 3 Japanese pair Matsumoto/Fukishima 24-22, 21-18 ;
Through to QF of Women's Doubles.
Earlier beat them in team event last week!
#AG2026withIAS #AichiNagoya2026
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
@ysjagan garu, your hypocrisy knows no bounds!
You now allege that 'the ruling party' misused its power during the SIR process. Here are some tough questions that will shatter your 'politics of convenience':
1. If you genuinely believed SIR was compromised or politically manipulated, why did your party’s MLC, Lella Appireddy garu, approach the High Court seeking local body elections only after completion of SIR and publication of the revised electoral rolls?
2. If you now question SIR’s credibility, why did your party rely on the same process in court? Which position should people believe: the one you took before the High Court or the one you take today?
3. Your party supported the 2023 Election Commission appointment law, but you now demand the CJI’s return to the selection panel. What changed?
4. Is this sudden change in your political positions linked to a larger political realignment with your parent party -Congress ahead of the 2029 elections?👀
#AndhraPradesh
@JaiTDP
Democracy can stand only when people have complete confidence in constitutional institutions such as the Election Commission. National media reports that two Election Commissioners raised objections on several occasions to decisions, electoral rolls and the management of ECINet have led to serious questions and doubts among the public.
Rather than an exchange of allegations, the public needs clarity on what objections were recorded, what action was taken on them, and how transparently the system functioned, be it for adding, deleting or restoring names on electoral rolls. Steps are needed to give people confidence on these matters.
Ultimately, we must strengthen public trust in the electoral process, protect every citizen’s right to vote, and strengthen the systems that allow people to exercise that right without fear.
In a democracy, transparency should not only prevail but should also appear to have prevailed. The very bill (Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 ) which had our support then, should be revisited now in the current background. The Central government (Ruling Party) should come forward, set the normal in place dispelling this fear. An amendment to the bill be brought forward where the election commissioner is appointed by the three member committee which has Leader of Opposition (LoP), Chief Justice of India (CJI) and the Prime Minister as members once again. Student appointing the examiner is always prone to allegations even though the examiner is thoroughly honest and it is always better replacing the process with someone neutral. This move would definitely regain the esteem and the confidence in the Election Commission
This is especially important because, during the SIR process in Andhra Pradesh, the party in power misused its authority. On many occasions, our appeals went unheard. In the local body election process too, our objections as an Opposition party to the manner in which divisions were redrawn were brushed aside. Such actions undoubtedly weaken public confidence in the electoral process. Transparency and accountability are the true measures of how any institution functions in a democracy, and safeguarding them is that institution’s primary duty.
@ECISVEEP
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
The unanimous clarification issued by the Election Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alongside Election Commissioners S. S. Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, reaffirms the integrity and credibility of our constitutional institutions and puts to rest all the misconceptions surrounding it.
The decisions concerning the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls are taken collectively and in strict adherence to established institutional protocols.
Attempts to undermine global confidence in India’s democratic framework or electoral processes for short-term political gains are deeply unfortunate.
Electoral outcomes reflect the people’s mandate. In a robust democracy, leadership also means accepting both victories and defeats with grace and humility.
Respect for our constitutional institutions is paramount. It is the collective responsibility of leaders across party lines to uphold public confidence in India’s democratic process.
@ECISVEEP
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
Client osthunnadu iyyala office ki andaru decent ga formals eskarandi annadu manager.
Cut chesthe client emo Avengers t-shirt eskoni ochindu🤣
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
Cashless health insurance is legally sanctioned house arrest.
The doctor officially discharges you at 9 AM. You are fully recovered, your bags are packed and your family is ready to take you home.
Then the hospital administration steps in: "Sir, the insurance TPA approval is pending. Please remain seated in your room until we receive the final payment."
You then spend the next 8 to 12 hours held hostage in a ₹15,000-a-day hospital room.
You are no longer a patient but you are collateral. The hospital doesn't trust the insurance company to actually pay, the insurer is deliberately stalling to find a typo in your medical history to reject the claim and you are stuck in the middle of a corporate standoff.
We live in a country where UPI settles transactions in 300 milliseconds and automated trading algorithms move crores in a microsecond.
The system is designed to exhaust you. They want you so frustrated and desperate to go home that the next time you get sick, you just pay the cash upfront and file for a reimbursement which they will conveniently reject 45 days later citing "insufficient documentation."
If my policy is active and the hospital is in-network, the final discharge should be an instant and automated API settlement. Man I paid insurance company for this service.
Until we force insurers to adopt automated clearing, stop calling it a cashless facility.
Call it what it actually is: an extortion racket with a waiting room.
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
BANGALORE DISTRICT COURT POSTED THE CHATGPT PROMPT IN THEIR JUDGMENT 😭😭 SON😭😭😭 indiankanoon.org/doc/1955248…
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
Understand New India through two cases. American mercenary gets mercy and bail; IIT Professor stares at jail for doing his duty. VanDyke Vs Prof Doolla
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
కచరా యూనివర్సిటీ లో చదువుకుని కాళేశ్వరం కట్టిన మేధావులకు ఇంతకన్నా ఏం తెలుస్తుందిలే🤦🤦
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
Just a little girl and her best friends..the level of unbothered they are by her..🐕🐾😊
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
India the Perennial Soft State
The decision to let American covert operative Matthew VanDyke and six Ukrainian drone specialists quietly leave India is more than an isolated legal reversal. It belongs to a long and uncomfortable tradition in which New Delhi invokes its tough criminal laws and then retreats when geopolitical pressure builds up.
VanDyke, a veteran of covert wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, was arrested in March alongside six military-trained Ukrainian partners. According to Indian court filings, the group belonged to a larger international network that smuggled drones into India before routing them onward to Myanmar. The National Investigation Agency initially invoked the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, India’s premier anti-terrorism statute.
Then came the dramatic climbdown. After U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally raised VanDyke’s detention with New Delhi, the NIA dropped the UAPA charges. VanDyke and all six Ukrainians have now been released on bail and permitted to return home.
The episode recalls a familiar pattern. From the Bhopal gas disaster and the Purulia arms-drop affair to the Enrica Lexie Italian-marines case and Ottavio Quattrocchi’s escape in the Bofors scandal, India has repeatedly seen high-profile criminal proceedings against foreign nationals or entities diluted, abandoned or rendered inconsequential under diplomatic or strategic pressure.
Different cases, different Indian governments, but the same question endures: What makes India such a soft state that it so often fails to enforce accountability when powerful foreign interests are involved?
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
My public life has been shaped by one constant belief: development must ultimately improve the everyday lives of people. In the 1990s, that meant building a technology ecosystem and creating new opportunities for a changing economy. Today, one of my deepest priorities is more fundamental — ensuring that water reaches our farmers, especially those at the tail-end who have waited for decades. Whether it is pixels or pipes, the purpose remains the same: to solve problems, strengthen livelihoods and build a better future for every family in Andhra Pradesh.
Thank you, @shekhargupta and @ThePrintIndia, for capturing this journey.
Long game: How Naidu is moving from pixels to pipes to recast CEO-CM image to reshape TDP’s rural appeal
Deepika Amirapu @DeepikaAmirapu reports from the ground
#ThePintPolitics
theprint.in/politics/long-ga…
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
A Para SF operator and a terrorist lay side by side after one of the most brutal hand-to-hand combat engagements.
The operator was reportedly shot five times by the terrorist with AK rounds, yet still closed in and engaged him in hand-to-hand combat.
The story of #RandoriBehak deserves to be remembered for generations.
In 2007, Kerala's Vigilance department opened a corruption case against a police officer.
Over the next 19 years he was promoted again and again.
He became Additional Director General. Then Director General of Police, the highest rank in the state force. He retired at the top in 2023.
Last week a court convicted him.
His name is Tomin J Thachankary.
The Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau registered the case in 2007, after a complaint by an anti corruption activist named Bobby Kuruvila.
The allegation was that between January 2003 and July 2007, Thachankary had acquired houses, flats and other property worth far more than he could have earned.
The chargesheet was filed in 2013. That is 6 years to write it.
By the time it was filed, he had already been promoted to Additional Director General of Police.
He challenged the proceedings and asked to be discharged, saying some of the properties had come to him through family partition and through gifts. The court rejected that and the trial went ahead.
While the trial ran, he kept rising. He reached the rank of Director General of Police, and he retired in 2023 with that rank.
On 17th September 2026, the Vigilance Court in Kottayam found him guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act. It held that he had amassed assets worth about 64.70 lakh rupees that he could not account for.
He was sentenced to 4 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined 30,84,892 rupees. If he does not pay the fine, he serves 2 more months.
The court said something specific when it sentenced him. Because he had held a top post in the state police force, he was not entitled to any leniency.
He was taken into custody and moved to the Central Jail in Thiruvananthapuram.
He is the first officer of Director General rank in Kerala's history to be convicted and sentenced in a corruption case.
One detail matters for what happens next. Because the sentence is longer than 3 years, he cannot get bail from any lower court. He has to go to the High Court.
The public prosecutor made one remark afterwards that is worth keeping.
He pointed out how difficult it is for investigating officers to build a case when the accused is a serving senior police officer.
Think about what that means in practice. The men investigating him were police officers. He outranked almost all of them for most of those 19 years. At various points he would have been in a position to influence their postings.
It still ended in a conviction.
19 years, one activist's complaint, and a man who reached the top of the force before the case caught up with him.
Chandra Sekhar retweeted
Limit yourself to politicians who function under the burden of power.
I will fucking rip apart a filthy pig like you in disproportionate measure if you ever even think of taking me on - legally or otherwise.
