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30 Dec 20, 6 tweets, 3 min read
A few simple questions to @ECISVEEP and @SpokespersonECI on the current EVM-VVPAT design and the vulnerabilities therein.

Hoping that all political parties will also raise these questions to ECI & demand an answer in the interest of both transparency and national security. 1/n
1. Is the EVM-VVPAT connected (networked) to any external device after the elections are announced?

More specifically, is the EVM-VVPAT connected to any external device after candidates are finalised and booth allocation of EVMs is done? 2/n
- If yes, then what are those external devices and what is the network protocol used?

- If no, then how and at what stage information regarding candidate names and symbols are uploaded to EVM-VVPAT? 3/n
2. Does the EVM-VVPAT have a programmable memory?

- If yes, then at what all stages in the election process it is accessed by an external device?

- If no, then where is the names and symbols of the candidates stored in the VVPAT for it to later print in the VVPAT slip? 4/n
3. What is the probability of detecting manipulation to one EVM (PS), in a by-election to a single Assembly Constituency with 200 polling booths through the current VVPAT slip tallying guidelines? 5/n
I am sure @ECISVEEP and @SpokespersonECI won't answer me. Because, how dare an individual question an institution!

But I hope political parties, be it @BJP4India or @INCIndia or others are able to elicit a response from the ECI in the interest of national security.

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15 Nov 20
In an ideological battle, you can defeat the other.

In an electoral one, you need to win them over.
While electoral battles do have an ideological component.

they are not entirely or even mainly ideological battles.
If we consider people who voted for the opponent as our enemy, then we are fighting an ideological battle.

But based on a wrong data. Their voting preference.

And if we continue to treat them as our enemy, then we are only helping to consolidate the current power position.
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22 Oct 20
"The worst is over"!

Dear PM @narendramodi, here is a collection of "The worst is over" ft that you pulled off year after year. Imagine being able to say that every year and people believing it every year.

Here. This is 2017. The year after de-monster-stroke.
Beginning of 2018, and I think here economic survey guys honestly thought the worst was over.

But they underestimated the power of a stupid man in power. Yeah. That's you dear PM @narendramodi.
By end of 2018, some of your ministers were seriously hoping for that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Without realising that the light will come only if you move towards it.

We can't expect light if we are digging a grave and not a tunnel.
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12 Sep 20
On April 18th, we told China that we see their investment as hostile. That their money is not welcome.

Signalling a decoupling & possibly firing the first salvo without preparation.

This was some days before the unilateral aggression by China on LAC. 1/n economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/p…
The way we framed rules was very 'Modi'ish. That neighbours would need to take an approval route for investing in India. Without taking the name of China.

With that what we also conveyed that we put China and Pakistan in a similar category. As a hostile or an enemy nation. 2/n
For China, a limited skirmish with India would have always been on the table as an extension of their diplomacy. Considering the infrastructural advantage, historical disputes and distance from mainland, this was a region they could always pick to fight. 3/n
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30 Aug 20
Dear PM @narendramodi, this is just a heads up thread.

Your covid relief economic policies are pushing the country into a dangerous triple balance sheet crisis.

And unlike the twin-balance sheet crisis, this will impact families and households in an irrecoverable fashion. 1/n
No. That peacock is not asking for food.

Look here and listen please. This is important.

The twin-balance sheet crisis meant,

1. Over-leveraged companies - Meaning companies have a lot of loan & very less income.

2. Banks with a lot of NPA - Meaning a lot of bad loans. 2/n
And then there was another dangerous trend happening, which got accelerated after your demonetisation master-stroke.

Yes yes.. Zabardast! Kya stroke tha..

Par ab suno..

Household debts were increasing exponentially compared to the income. 3/n
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28 Aug 20
"Only Gandhis can hold INC together." is a statement often thrown around, repeated saying of which, is expected to validate its own assertion.

To analyse this question a bit impartially, first you have to ask whether INC has held itself together. 1/n
Let's start from 1997, when Mrs Gandhi came into active politics. A split happened around the same time.

1. In 1998, Mamata Banerjee, a congress leader, split from the party and made Trinamul Congress. She governs West Bengal now. Marginal presence of INC in the state now.
2. In 1999, Sharad Pawar split from INC specifically due to the rift with Mrs Gandhi and made NCP.

NCP is a major political party on its own right in Maharashtra now.
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27 Aug 20
Dear PM @narendramodi,

Give a Bharat Ratna to our NSA.

I’m not joking. Hear me out please.

Who NSA you ask?

Believe me sir. You have one. Mr Ajit Doval.

You make use of him like a bt constable. But he is actually National Security Advisor. 1/n
What is NSA?

Well, wiki says, “NSA is tasked with advising the PM on all matters relating to internal & external threats and opportunities to India... The NSA receives all intelligence reports and co-ordinates them to present before the Prime Minister.“ 2/n
And what is national security?

Well, national security is not just territorial security, but includes non-military dimensions, including security from terrorism, economic threats, energy threats, environmental threats, resource threats, cyber threats, pandemic threats etc. 3/n
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