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3 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Calls all day from BJP supporters that local BJP leaders have abandoned them. They are being subjected to a targeted pogrom “ukun baacha” (get rid of the lice) NOT ONE bjp leader is helping, turned off phones & run away. Great leadership @BJP4Bengal @KailashOnline @narendramodi
.These are some of the videos - people who were ever heard saying “Joy Sree Ram” are being targetted. - homes shops everything
Yet another
And yet more. I deliberately avoiding the pictures of people beaten & killed
.A resort being vandalised. This was the CCTV feed before the TMC goons destroyed the hard drive as well. The District Superintendent of Police was present - he stood by, did nothing & strolled off after 5 minutes.

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28 Apr
THREAD: 1n the state has browbeaten this “philanthropic gesture” out of him. But different pricing slabs were & are a sure fire market distorter. Why? There are 2 accepted pricing structures

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22 Apr
1n A quick thread on Oxygen supply. We produce a huge amount of oxygen in this country - enough for both the COVID surge and Industry. The problem is the oxygen supply is co-located with steel plants in Bihar-Jharkhand (Tatas), Odisha & Bellary (Jindals). The problem is a
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16 Apr
1n I knew Supreme Court judges seem economically illiterate, but I’m aghast to discover the extraordinary superficiality & outright nonsense history spewed by an allegedly “scholarly” judge. His history classes seem to be from 1921 not 2021. A thread on the inaccuracies here
2n First up Ptolemy did not start Egyptian royal consanguinity. It begins with the first dynasty, lasts through the old, middle & new kingdoms. Tutankhamen was perhaps the most famous product of incest with severe inherited diseases
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2 Feb
1 As usual this government has failed miserably in busting the “navreet shot” narrative, just like it did with CAA. Let’s just look at the visuals. First the “entry wounds” (they could also be exit wounds). I suspect it’s on this basis that the guardian concluded 2 bullets
2 now notice there is no charring - which would be the case if the bullets were fired close range. If they weren’t fired close range, the question is how did these two wounds get so close to each other? Physically impossible shooting skills you’d only see in fantasy movies. Let’s
3 now examine the “single bullet” theory that the forensic expert peddles. That begs the question where did the second hole come from & what did it come from? As we’ve seen the 2 bullet theory is out, but the single bullet theory implies impossible ballistics or a secondary wound
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17 Jan
Thread on the #ArnabGate #WhatsAppLeaks. Alleged Journos are outraging how Arnab knew a retaliatory strike for #PulwamaAttack was imminent days before. Well here’s a list of people who knew beforehand
1. @htTweets because the PM said so on 23rd FEB
2. The @IndianExpress knew because the reported Sambit’s speech TK this effect
3. @IndianExpress had been reporting @ImranKhanPTI saying this a full 6 days before the attack. Did Modi call and inform Khan as well?
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16 Dec 20
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1 @DisinfoEU (EUD) brought out a report on a “web of disinformation” set up by Indian intelligence. This kangaroo court drivel followed no consistent logic & by EUD’s own standards show EUD collusion with Pakistani intelligence & left wing journos in India. Let’s examine
2 first up we need to understand what this latest report is. It adds on a report released by the same group in 2019 claiming to expose the organisation of Madi Sharma. The target this time though is to link @ANI to the Madi Sharma network
3 it claims this is a 15 year operation, IE started by the UPA government under Dr Manmohan Singh. Curiously though in these 15 years it can find only 12 instances of where @ANI this news website called EU chronicle. IE less than once a year.
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