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Mg Editor, Financial Express. Edited opinion for Business Standard. Business Editor 4 IndianExpress & earlier IndiaToday. Co-author: Caste in a Different Mould

Mar 17, 2020, 6 tweets

The govt's telecom rescue package, as outlined in affidavit to SC, is too little and too late @rsprasad @narendramodi and will do nothing to help keep telcos like @VodaIdea_NEWS afloat
Hopefully, this is just the start and genuine relief will be offered
financialexpress.com/opinion/teleco…

Today's column talked of how govt plan to quantify the damage SC's AGR judgment would wreak was unlikely to work. Bcoz govt's weak affidavit didn't quite highlight the extent of the impact on govt revenues & banks
Well, guess what, SC wasn't convinced @rsprasad @narendramodi

The column

.@VodaIdea_NEWS can peacefully shut down now! Complete lack of application of mind by SC. Govt handling also incompetent & half-hearted relief:
financialexpress.com/opinion/teleco…
Govt will now say SC took matters out of its hand. Ideally @narendramodi should reverse this with an ordinance

The Honourable Supreme Court feels telcos trying to influence SC using media #AGRCase
So here's a question for the honourable judges:When the media was bashing @narendramodi govt & supporting judges after their famous PC,was this the SC trying to influence govt using the media?

If the Supreme Court is arguing that whatever the DoT has calculated is final and error-proof, can this be extended to, say, income tax notices?So whatever the taxman says is final,caste in stone?
After buying DoT's demands on AGR, seems SC is making another mistake @narendramodi

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