BIG! 🚨

Recall India's 🇮🇳 coronavirus lockdown of March '20?

How was that planned, who was consulted, who advised etc? @PMOIndia consistently stonewalled RTI requests.

Info? Denied.

We NOW have a 👇CLEAR order to PMO to provide those details.

Took us almost 2 yrs.🧵 Nov 2020 – is when we sought info.

Jan 2021 – is when we heard back. DENIED.

What information was sought? See pic.

Sup?

Last week our govt told us – how India 🇮🇳’s 1st, self-made civi 🛫👇took to the skies AND ALSO - how ‘India’s 1st commercial airline to fly 🇮🇳 made plane’ was finally here.

You heard so?

Well - that was NOT THE CASE🤷‍♂️

I'll prove. Stay.

Thread 🧵 1st step - let’s spell out what was said.

Tweets are self explanatory. India’s aviation minister, law minister, culture minister, government machinery and full might of India’s governing BJP sold us this story.

Y'day I noticed something. Was reported that @nsitharaman said this in the Rajya Sabha 👇

"10 years of Indian defence history has recorded NIL purchases..ten years were lost..after 2014 rapidly we had to buy from pin to aircraft."

Really? Is that so?🤔

Short #Thread 🧵 Here's the reported bit.
Can read it 🔗indianexpress.com/article/india/…

Indian students & citizens stranded in #Ukraine 🇺🇦:

What are the facts?

Thread🧵

#IndiansInUkraine A. India has about 20,000 students studying there.

That they would be in harm’s way should a conflict breakout was – a no-brainer.

So, what was done?

🚨BBC Investigation🚨

We discovered a BIG, YouTube-based network spreading disinformation in India. The influencers - who were making money doing this - were fearless and had visible links with a political party.

What happened next?

Thread🧶 Disinformation can have disastrous consequences. Indian govt gets that. Which is why in the last two months, nearly 55 YouTube channels + several other SM accounts have been blocked.

Our work bore fruit around the same time that GOI announced its actions.

🚨BBC INVESTIGATION🚨

In the pandemic era, how has Modi govt treated India's #HealthcareWorkers?

I wanted to find out.

1st stop - in UP’s Bareilly with deceased ASHA worker Shanti Gangwar’s family.

#Thread 🧶 Shanti took govt’s fight against COVID to the grassroots – till she could not, due to the virus.

Over 4 months but her family has not received ANY of the promised support from govt – despite asking.

Are there more like Shanti? What has been done? What has been ignored?

IMP 🚨 INVESTIGATION

India's lockdown was called world's largest, strictest etc. @ BBC, we wanted to know how the govt planned it.

So, what're we looking at?

Govt docs that reveal every department/agency who was consulted by PM Modi before imposing #lockdown.

#Thread How did we access the docs? Well, for months my colleague Arjun Parmar and I filed RTI applications with the relevant govt depts - State & Centre. Hundreds in fact. We then filed appeals, then filed second appeals..phew!

In the run up to #370repeal this is what was fed to the public.
#Thread

JUST IN: Following months of unprecedented chill on the Line Of Control (LoC), things are now heating up. Earlier in the day, @OfficialDGISPR accused India of using 'cluster bombs' - an allegation denied by Indian Army as 'deceit' and 'deception'. Indian Army: Pak army regularly attempts to push terrorists through infiltrations and opens up with multitude of weapons to assist them. India has maintained the right to respond. Such responses are only against military targets & infiltrating terrorists aided by Pak army.

EXCLUSIVE on @BBCHindi: Union Minister @jayantsinha tells me that BJP, members of the BJP and he - all of them bore the legal expenses to help lynching convicts get bail in the Alimuddin Ansari lynching case. Watch this space. Do these images ring a bell?
Last summer when convicts in Alimuddin Ansari lynching case were granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court, they went to the residence of the minister from where these images emerged causing a furore.