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meghnad 🔗 Profile picture
@Memeghnad
Sep 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Do something today.

Share this video with the people who are obsessed with SSR case. Let them see how the people who are creating this drama are behaving like hooligans.

Help your friends see how TV news has absolutely degenerated & is now harassing citizens like them.
There comes a point in time when you have to say certain things out loud.

Our TV News channels have now declared war on citizens. This is next level psychological warfare being inflicted on us and powered by advertisers who want this to happen.

It just can't go on like this.
Please support independent media to change this broken model of news.

The only way out of this rut is to create an alternative model, which gets an incentive to cover actual news which is relevant to YOU.

Do it: bit.ly/paytokeepnewsf…
Also a shoutout to other independent media houses who are working hard to end this nonsense and serve you some legit news.

Check out these links in the tweet below. Try and support them in whatever way you can.

(Thanks @rgmlk)

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meghnad 🔗 Profile picture
Apr 10
How big is the Electoral Bonds Scam?

Electoral Bonds have enabled corruption, crony capitalism and fraud at multiple levels. It has spread like cancer.

This thread will show you how far this cancer has spread 🧵
ENABLED EXTORTION

21 companies bought electoral bonds after raids by central agencies.

It's worth asking why companies that are being investigated for money laundering and corruption are allowed to donate to political parties at all.

Ex: Future Gaming - A company run by Santiago Martin, a person who is being investigated by agencies since 2007. He has THIRTY CBI cases against him. This company has donated Rs 1,368 crore to multiple parties.

HOW? Why was this allowed? Why was this kept hidden?
scroll.in/article/106526…
LOSS MAKING COMPANIES MADE DONATIONS

33 loss-making firms donated electoral bonds worth ₹582 crore. At least 45 companies that donated electoral bonds to the ruling BJP have suspect funding sources.

How is it that a company that is not making any profit is able to donate crores to a political party?

Ex1: Bharti Airtel, made a loss of 76,000 crore in the last 5 years. They donated 198 crore through electoral bonds.

How is it that companies are able to donate more money to political parties than their actual profits?

Ex2: Qwik Supply Chain, made a profit of 144 crore in 5 years. But ended up donating 410 crore via electoral bonds.

thehindu.com/data/thirty-th…
Read 15 tweets
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Jan 30
in case you missed what was happening in that #ChandigarhMayorElection video, here's a thread breaking it down frame by frame.

🧵thread
Presiding Officer (PO) gets up from chair after "invalidating" with the opposition votes.

you can see the BJP Mayor candidate being rushed in. Image
BJP candidate is shoved into the chair and BJP starts celebrating.

PO watches on as people protest on the right side. Image
Read 12 tweets
meghnad 🔗 Profile picture
Jan 13
I've been on a journey to document what modi government has done in the last decade.

a thread 👇
why modi is everything everywhere all at once

how modi's 'brand' and its attributes are an absolute trainwreck for governing the country

what is vishwaguru making

10 years of "make in india" and why nobody is talking about it anymore

Read 6 tweets
meghnad 🔗 Profile picture
Dec 8, 2023
was going through the ethics committee report on Mahua Moitra's expulsion and found that stuff like THIS is being used as "evidence".

See no. 6. It's a question about allowing free and efficient trade between India & Bangladesh.

The reason given is Hiranandani has invested in Bangladesh so he wants free movement. 🤯

This evidence was given by Jai Anant Dehadrai to the committee and there are a lot more hastily scanned instances in the report of this.
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"They (Mahua Moitra & Darshan Hiranandani) would talk secretly on the phone... she would take calls on the speaker. So I would end up hearing these conversations."

ok then. Image
Nishikant Dubey was asked how sharing of login credentials of an MP's NIC portal to a third person amounts to compromising national security.

This was his response.

(If someone can make sense of this, please let me know because I have no idea what this means.) Image
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Oct 31, 2023
The ruling party (BJP) has received more than 5000 cr in donations through electoral bonds. The permissible limit for spending on elections in Lok Sabha is about 1 crore per candidate.

If BJP fields candidates in all constituencies, it will be max 545 crore that can be spent overall on Lok Sabha elections.

BJP has already received more than 10x of the permissible spending limit through electoral bonds in these 5 years. How is this allowed?

(I'm paraphrasing an argument made by Prashant Bhushan in SC)
The govt claimed during demonetization that they want to reduce the use of cash and turn India into a cashless society. But that doesn't seem to apply to political parties.

Parties and candidates standing for elections spend more than the permissible amount, but in cash or via proxies. The EC has admitted that it can't catch such candidates because they spend in cash.

If you want to reduce cash in politics and elections, just make a simple amendment saying 'cash spending by candidates during elections amounts to corruption'.

Instead of doing that, they have brought electoral bonds to donate to parties anonymously.

(I'm paraphrasing Prashant Bhushan's arguments in SC)
There is nothing in the Electoral Bonds scheme which says that the donation money is to be used only for election purposes. Political parties can spend their money any way they like.

Example: Party can use it to build swanky HQs, give advertisement to media houses in order to push their ideology, can be used to buy land, it can be used for anything.

The money coming through electoral bond is not tied to or restricted to only election expenses.

(I'm paraphrasing an argument made by Kapil Sibal in SC)
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Oct 30, 2023
ok frenz, the electoral bonds hearing is coming up in Supreme Court tomorrow and it is going to be one of THE most crucial judgments that the SC has ever delivered.

If you are someone who doesn't know why, this is an oversimplified thread for you. 👀
👉 Electoral Bonds what?

it's a piece of paper that anyone can buy from a bank and give it to a political party. the political party can then go to the bank and get money in return for that piece of paper.

simply put, it's a currency that only political parties can use.
👉 Electoral Bonds why?

why this roundabout way of giving monies to political parties?

because parties don't want YOU to know WHO is giving money to them, and what they are doing for that donor in return.

by keeping the bank as a middleman, they hide their donors from YOU.
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