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Send him this 1.5 mins to open his eyes.
Hathras case a small issue, woman was not gang-raped, says UP minister
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Allahabad High Court suspends conviction of murder convict who wishes to contest election on BJP ticket
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We stand by our claim. Did you intentionally replace 13.4 cr with 1.4 cr to make it look silly?
The claim made by @roadscholarz that elections cannot be held in UP bcos the SIR final list (1.4 cr) is much below projected adult pop (16.2 cr) is easily falsified by Table 5 from ssbhalla.substack.com/p/much… - look at low registration of 18-29 yr olds!
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Groups Associated With India’s Far-Right Receive Millions Through US Donor-Advised Funds.
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Gems of UP SIR :
17 people. 34 voter IDs. One booth in Bulandshahr.
15 filed just ONE Form 6 each as per available data available on UP CEO website, yet all 17 appear twice in the final roll with different voter IDs.
Hello Mr. Navdeep Rinwa @ceoup, We were told, SIR was supposed to remove duplicates. How did your process create them? Who is responsible?
Instead of trying to intimidate “Mr Fact-Checker,” do the job entrusted to you. Explain these discrepancies, fix the rolls and answer the public. Bullying those who expose failures is no substitute for accountability.
#UPSIRFiles
Hello, Mr. Navdeep Rinwa @ceoup. Stop acting like a troll by threatening citizens who point out flaws in SIR.
The SIR exercise in Uttar Pradesh was completed and the final electoral rolls were published in April 2026. Yet duplicate entries remain unresolved. Wasn’t eliminating duplicate entries one of the central objectives of this entire exercise?
Also, do you understand sarcasm? “Buy one, get one free” was precisely that.
In your own tweet, you acknowledge issuing four voter ID cards with different EPIC numbers to one person. How did four applications in the same person’s name pass scrutiny and result in four separate voter IDs?
Submitting four Form6 applications is wrong. Accepting and processing those duplicate requests exposes an even bigger failure in verification. What is the point of SIR if your system cannot detect repeated applications from the same person? If someone applies for fresh enrolment ten times, will @ECISVEEP issue ten different voter IDs?
Further, according to the Form 9 records uploaded on your own UP CEO website, Mr. Sundar submitted Form 6 on January 6 and again on January 14. We have the data for that booth. These are your own official records. This data was uploaded on your own UP CEO website. Also Please upload all Form9s on your website. Many are still missing. Instead of threatening us, Please put more efforts on fixing the failures instead of threatening citizens who expose them.
There are many such cases, Let me share a few more examples here.
Follow below thread. 🧵🔥
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There is no way Gyanesh and gang can be allowed to continue running the ECI and hold polls.
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पहले किसी लड़की को ‘कॉल गर्ल’ और ‘प्रॉस्टिट्यूट’ बोलो, न्यूज़ चलाओ; जब विरोध किया जाये तो ‘सॉरी’ बोल दो! तमाशा बना दिये हो?
तुम्हारी इस ‘फेक न्यूज़’ और बड़ी दलाली पाने की कोशिश ने मेरी क्या मानसिक हालत कर दी है इसका अंदाज़ा है तुमको?
कोर्ट में मुलाक़ात होगी. मुझे न्याय चाहिये माफ़ी नहीं.
@ABPNews
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Students fainted at a govt-organised sports meet in #Madurai amid shortages of drinking water & electrolyte drinks.
Toilets lacked latches, forcing students to stand guard as friends used them. Sewage overflowed & biomedical waste lay strewn around.
My colleague Jaden reports.
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Crisis alert: The number of voters on the SIR final list in UP (13.4 crore) is almost 20% below the projected adult population (16.2 crore)!
How can elections be allowed there?
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Records show that as many as 5,38,320 voters have been struck off West Bengal’s final electoral roll through Form 7 objections without any person having filed them..
Interestingly that too without a reason & we have to believe elections conducted are fair 😂😂😂
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Mr Rubio has summoned his employee to Mumbai.
Modi ji, your officials in the External Affairs Ministry are confused about what's going on.
You might want to explain.
Unless, of course, you want me to.
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This is going to be disastrous for India.
India's RBI has spent half of $140 billion FX capital haul in rupee defence, bankers estimate reut.rs/4yj4wN9 reut.rs/4yj4wN9
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It is not surprising that the US Ambassador to India has just given more details on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s forthcoming visit to Mumbai. It is also not wholly surprising to hear him say that Mr. Rubio will be meeting Govt of India officials in Mumbai.
But what is quite extraordinary is his statement that “we expect the Minister Dr. Jaishankar to be joining us there along with other individuals”.
Since when has the announcement of India’s Minister of External Affairs meetings within India been outsourced to somebody other than official spokesperson of the MEA? India gets to know from the US Ambassador just as it first got to know from Mr. Rubio himself on the evening of May 10, 2025 that Operation Sindoor had been halted.
Why is the MEA silent on the External Affairs Minister’s tryst with Mr. Rubio in Mumbai?
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BREAKING: Justice Abhay S Oka, former judge of the #SupremeCourt says the Election Commission @ECISVEEP doesn't have the power to decide who is a citizen of India and who isn't. He says the #SupremeCourt should reconsider its decision upholding the constitutionality of Special Intensive Revision(SIR) of electoral rolls
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For every 1,000 Muslim electors in Delhi's draft roll, 318 were flagged for “logical discrepancies”.
The corresponding figure for non-Muslim electors was 197 per 1,000.
@vrsrini @pon_vasanth
thehindu.com/data/muslims-di…
