18+ yrs at NDTV. Reporting stints in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar , West Bengal, Delhi bureaus + the north-east. Now in a camera shy avatar, mostly..
Mar 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Woke up to a deluge of newspaper and tv content ,paid and otherwise, announcing 4 years of the @myogiadityanath govt and claiming unmatched progress.The govt has every right to publicise its efforts, but here is a reailty check thread of 4 stories from last 4 yrs ...
Story no 1 . The horror at Gorakhpur . Months after the BJP govt took charge in UP . I dare say we still dont know(officially) what killed 60 + children on those nights ...
Shameful , appalling visuals from Balrampur . The body of 42 year old Mohd Anwar , who collapsed and died outside a govt office yesterday , dumped in a garbage van in the presence of @balrampurpolice and taken away ....
.... visuals shot by locals place an ambulance at the spot too but those manning it allegedly refused to touch the body because of fears over the #COVID__19 pandemic ...
Apr 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Truly bizarre story from UP , where a group of 69 #Covid_19 patients , transferred from the west UP city of Agra to a medical college in Saifai , had to wait outside the shut gates of the Saifai hospital for atleast an hr on Thu morning as medical teams scrambled to admit them ..
.... the patients has been brought by bus from Agra early morning on Thursday . But when they reached , there was no one to receive them outside the Hospital in Saifai . So the patients just remained outside the hospital gates like this for atleast an hour ...
Mar 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Hi @pilibhitpolice@Dmpilibhit , this photo is from your official tweet . Can you please explain why the police chief and DM totally disregarded safe - distance norms and led this procession at 5 pm during the #JantaCurfew ? ....
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