Another one from Maharashtra here is former DGP Praveen Dixit - a blue eyed boi of Fadnavis.
Fadnavis loves Dixit so much that even after retirement, a new post was created for Dixit to monitor medical supplies purchased by the state govt
No one’s ever reviewed his purchases.
The 3rd signatory from Maharashtra - U.D. Joshi (Ulhas Diwakar Joshi) was alleged by his successor officer to have filed a fake TADA case in 1991 against a Muslim man.
Also, UD Joshi remained DIG for a long time sans promotion based allegedly on his tainted service record.
Another fact from former Maharashtra IPS @AbdurRahman_IPS sir about Praveen Dixit’s unflinching loyalty to Fadnavis & the reward
How BJP is using proxy pages to run political ads worth CRORES targeting the Opposition & Facebook & ECI are openly allowing them.
Political advertising on social media has strict rules. However, this is how BJP is bypassing these rules using proxies 👇
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ECI rules require political parties to disclose expenditure on political ads. Also FB has rules around political ads & requires "transparency" on the sponsor.
But BJP is funding several proxy pages to run ads targeting the Opposition & spending CRORES
Here's examples...
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1. Meme Xpress
This is an FB page with ONLY 1700 followers
But, in JUST last 7 days, this page has spent 18 lacs on running pro-BJP filthy ads targeting the Opposition
The ads target TMC, INC, AAP, DMK, Shiv Sena & others & have been published with regional targeting
Why is Modi Govt compromising national security by favoring banned Chinese-govt-owned company?
Despite an alleged "ban", Modi Govt continues to give out tenders for equipment from Hikvision - a Chinese govt-owned firm.
And some of these tenders are for SENSITIVE PROJECTS
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First a background:
Hikvision is a company owned by the Chinese Govt that has been under the scanner & banned by several countries globally out of concerns of Chinese surveillance.
US, UK, Australia - all have banned CCTV equipment from Hikvision.
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Hikvision is also accused of being used for several human-rights-violating purposes such as by the Chinese govt for surveillance of Uyghur students and by the Israeli Govt for monitoring Palestinians.
Interestingly, India allegedly BANNED Hikvision in 2020
In response to my RTI, National Informatics Centre told me that PM CARES Fund has been allotted a govt website under "Guidelines for allocating website under the 3rd level"
NIC also said that the govt website domain was allotted on request of PMO