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“The rot in the Election Commission did not begin with Gyanesh Kumar. I said this back in 2021, right after Bengal. BJP reached 77 seats with the EC’s help. In a truly fair election, it would not have crossed 50.” ~ Prashant Kishor, Jan Suraaj founder
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There’s a limit to how much perception-building you can force. Look at the frame. Modi is literally the only visibly older person there, surrounded by GenZ. 😭 The whole thing is clearly trying to sell one image. GenZ loves Modi. But GenZ is not that easy to fool. They live online, spot forced optics instantly, and turn staged moments into memes before the event is even over. 😂 Push the perception too hard and it stops looking smart. It starts looking desperate.
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends 'Bhajan Clubbing' at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Park in Delhi, on the occasion of Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya's birth anniversary. (Source: DD News)
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Nyvaan goes all-in on the Election Commission defence 🚨 Q: “You’re saying these elections were stolen. What’s your basis?” Nyvaan 🎯: “Pattern, madam. First, the CJI was removed from the EC appointment process. Then 13 crore names were cut nationwide. Bengal saw 27 lakh deletions, and 95% of the cases heard in court got restored. Delhi saw another massive deletion drive.” Q: “But how does that prove your allegation?” Nyvaan 🔥: “Kejriwal’s seat saw 40,000 names deleted before he lost by 4,000 votes. Mamata’s seat saw 50,000 deletions before a 15,000-vote defeat. Every time, it’s ‘small issue’. How many ‘small issues’ before it becomes a pattern?” Q: “What’s the one question you want answered?” Nyvaan: “Why was a law brought protecting the Chief Election Commissioner from criminal proceedings for official acts? Just answer that.” A rare debate that put the entire BJP-EC allegation into one frame. Each question may look small on its own, but put them together and the pattern becomes much harder to ignore.
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Abhijeet brings a fixed-match analogy into the election boycott debate 🚨 Q: “Do you really think boycott is the only way? Why not contest together with full strength?” Abhijeet 🎯: “If elections are being rigged and you still participate, you legitimise the process. People see a close contest, the match goes to the last over, and the illusion of a fair election survives.” Q: “So until electoral reforms happen, should opposition parties stay out?” Abhijeet 🔥: “Govts can be toppled overnight, parties can be broken overnight, but when electoral reform is needed, suddenly everything becomes a ‘long process’. Why keep fighting when you believe the match is already fixed?” This is where opposition unity becomes crucial. If every opposition party takes the call together, boycott stops being a sacrifice and becomes collective pressure.
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Anurag Dhanda flips “anarchy” argument back on BJP 🚨 Q: “If Rahul Gandhi keeps saying the system is broken, won’t people lose faith and push the country towards anarchy?” Anurag Dhanda 🎯: “Rahul Gandhi is not important. Congress, AAP, SP are not important. The country is. If democracy goes, no party or opposition leader survives.” Q: “Do you want anarchy in this country? Because that is what I felt from Rahul Gandhi’s statement.” Anurag 🔥: “If anyone is spreading anarchy in this country, it is Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. They have compromised the Election Commission and other institutions. Stop reducing this to party fights.” Questioning the system is not anarchy. It is part of a healthy democracy. The real danger is weakening institutions, which is exactly what the BJP is doing.
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“Two of three Election Commissioners were kept in the dark about decisions inside the EC. One learned through the media. A change was called ‘illegal and unauthorised.’ Yet the Election Commission says every decision was unanimous.” ~ Ritika Chopra, Indian Express journalist
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“The people in power are anti-fun, anti-intellectual and anti-science. They do not understand this generation or its language. Young people used memes and humour to bring them to their knees. Hopefully, they will remove them from power too.” ~ Saurav Das, CJP Co-convenor
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Ashutosh Ranka explains the election boycott argument with one sharp cricket analogy 🚨 Ajit Anjum: “If political parties stop contesting, what happens in states where they are already in power?” Ashutosh Ranka 🎯: “If the umpire itself is fixed, why keep playing? You may have the best batsman, but if he has already decided to give you out, the match is over before it starts.” Ajit: “Then why not start with Kejriwal in Punjab?” Ashutosh 🔥: “We are saying this to everyone. Kejriwal, Akhilesh, Mamata, Congress. If democracy itself is compromised, no party gets an exemption.” Boycotting alone is surrender. A united boycott becomes pressure. That is the real argument.
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The fear is understandable. If a party already in power refuses to contest, it risks surrendering everything without even entering the fight. But history has seen this dilemma before. In 1920, Congress chose non-cooperation and boycotted legislatures because participation itself was giving legitimacy to a system it rejected. That kind of non-participation only works with complete opposition unity. One party cannot make the sacrifice while everyone else quietly keeps contesting. And if the opposition takes a joint call to stay out but one party still jumps in for its own gain, that party becomes the Mir Jafar of Indian politics.
For opposition: Yes, elections are being rigged. But when you continue to participate in rigged elections, you legitimise these elections and help maintain the illusion that they are free and fair. Maybe you keep contesting because you fear that if you don’t, you will stop existing. But what kind of existence are you trying to protect when votes are being stolen, your MLAs and MPs are being poached, and your parties are being split? This is not political survival. You are simply trying to stay alive in a system that can weaken you, split your party or take away your elected representatives whenever it wants. How long can you survive like this? And you cannot talk about election rigging only when it happens in states that matter to you and remain silent when it happens elsewhere. If elections are being rigged, it should matter regardless of the state or which party is affected. You cannot keep saying the game is rigged while continuing to play it. Your participation is the only thing that gives these rigged elections legitimacy. Think about the nation and its democracy before thinking about your own political survival. Take a stand and stop participating in rigged elections.
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“They have already sent me to jail, disrupted our work and opened inquiries. Now only my encounter is left. I am ready for that too. If it wakes the country, let that be my final contribution.” ~ Sonam Wangchuk, demanding Amit Shah’s resignation over the Leh firing
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Saurav Das just put a disturbing judicial pattern in public view. 🚨 Gyanesh Kumar’s daughter gets relief from a ₹5 lakh compensation order after a questioned listing and a muted hearing. The same judge’s opinion sends the Election Commissioner appointments challenge to a larger bench. His son allegedly holds four government counsel positions. At this point, “coincidence” is doing a lot of work. Read Saurav’s complete post.
🚨IMPORTANT NEWS🚨 Since Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is in the news, I have some very important but sad news to share about a Supreme Court judge. Supreme Court judge Justice Satish Chandra Sharma. Just two months away from retirement. If you remember, the Allahabad High Court had imposed a penalty on Medha Roopam, the DM of Noida and daughter of Gyanesh Kumar with a fine of five lakh rupees for irrationally issuing NSA order against a student Activist for Noida labour protest. That order was challenged before the Supreme Court of India. Live Law, the news portal, reported that Gyanesh’s daughter’s case was listed before Justice Satish Chandra Sharma out of turn and in violation of the Supreme Court roster and rules and convention. The challenge ought to have gone before Justice Nagarathna’s bench, known to be an independent upright judge. Two days back, when the matter was listed for hearing, Justice Sharma‘s bench switched off the audio of the Supreme Court proceeding, which is highly unusual and almost never done. ALARMING. There was no explanation from the judge’s side as to why this extraordinary favour was done for Gyanesh’s daughter. In any case the fine and the adverse remarks of the Allahabad High Court were stayed by Justice Sharma immediately. Same day, in another case related to Gyanesh Kumar—the constitutional challenge that was filed against the 2023 law on election commissioners of India was finally decided by a two judge bench of which Justice Sharma was a part of. Under challenge was the appointments procedure where the leader of opposition today holds only an ornamental seat in the Three-member selection committee that selects Election commissioner of India. The other two are PM and his Cabinet Minister. Justice Sharma dissented which led to a split verdict and the case has now been sent before the Chief Justice of India for constituting a larger bench. This has delayed the case by years probably. This split verdict itself came after three years. This is how the Supreme Court refuses to hear most important cases that affect our lives and the country. A separate blanket immunity granted to past and present election commissioners of India by Modi’s government is also pending for last 9 months before CJI Surya Kant. Today, the Chief Election Commissioner has been exposed for gross illegalities and for stealing votes and elections at the behest of powers that be. Any sane, sorted, neutral, just person can see that the selection process of ECIs is not independent and tilted in govt’s favour. But not Justice Sharma. And here’s the big news: his son holds not one, not two, but four big, plum government counsel panels, including income, tax department, GST, customs, and excise, and a Madhya Pradesh government lawyer panel. I need not explain the great perks and influence that come along when you hold such plum government panels. Read my Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma report where I exposed the same thing. I am withholding the name of the son for now. The important question is: how can a judge be expected to do impartial and fair Justice in politically sensitive cases if his family members serve at the pleasure of the government? The judge is also retiring two months later, and several lawyers have informed me that there are vacancies in NCLAT and other search plum tribunals. I’M SORRY TO SAY such a system of judiciary does not inspire confidence in its ability to do impartial justice. There is a reason why the ethics code for judges require them to maintain a sense of aloofness and not do anything which can harm the their image and that of the judiciary. Both in Justice Swarna Kanta’s case and several other judges case, including that of the Supreme Court, it is TRAGIC to notice the complete capture of the institution of the Indian judiciary. Can the judiciary go on like this?
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The Election Commission declared a living voter dead. Then he appeared on camera 🚨 Q: “Kunne lal ji, are you alive?” Kunne lal: “Yes, sir. I am alive.” Q: “But the draft voter list says you are dead.” Kunne lal: “Yes, it says I am dead. But I am still alive.” Q: “How long have you lived here?” Kunne lal: “Nearly 50 years. Two generations of my family lived in this room. My children were born here.” A 65-year-old citizen who spent five decades in Delhi is now being forced to prove that he is not dead. The system erased him on paper while he was standing right in front of it.
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Vijeta Dahiya destroys the “caste no longer exists” argument with one brutal reality check 🚨 Q: “The PM comes from an OBC background, the President is tribal and a Dalit became CJI. Doesn’t that show representation has improved?” Vijeta Dahiya: “BR Gavai became CJI and still had a shoe thrown at him. Chandrashekhar became an MP, yet Ajit Bharti still used casteist language against him. Powerful positions do not make caste disappear.” Q: “Many people say they did not even know their caste until Class 12.” Vijeta 🔥: “Of course they didn’t. They were born into privilege. A Dalit child can be made aware of caste in Anganwadi itself.” Not knowing your caste does not mean caste disappeared. It means the system never used caste to hurt you.
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These demands go to the heart of the problem. Elections must be fair, and trusted. One more reform is essential. The ECI’s 45-day retention rule for election CCTV and videography needs to go. That footage should be preserved far longer and remain accessible when polling is disputed. You cannot demand trust while allowing evidence to disappear after 45 days.
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🚨COCKROACH JANTA PARTY’S THREE DEMANDS ON CEC GYANESH KUMAR🚨 Demand Number 1 -Gyanesh Kumar must resign within 48 hours. Initiate criminal proceedings against him. Answer who gave him the orders to steal votes. Demand Number 2 -Put on hold all upcoming elections. Freeze SIR immediately. Roll back the voters list to January 2025. Constitute an independent inquiry commission that commands public confidence to probe all SIR related actions. Supreme Court which has much to answer for legalising Gyanesh Kumar’s illegalities must immediately order seizing of SIR related files and records and submission to Court. Demand Number 3 Repeal the 2023 law on ECI appointments immediately. Draft a new law with active participation of civil society, an independent selection process that inspires public confidence. If the resignation does not come through in 48 hours, we will launch a nationwide agitation and will end it only when all demands are fulfilled. @Cockroachisback @abhijeet_dipke @AshutoshRanka
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Abhijeet spots the pattern that began after BJP fell to 240 seats 🚨 BJP entered 2024 shouting “400 paar” and returned without a majority. That was when the panic button was pressed. The regional faces that united against BJP then began falling one by one. Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, MK Stalin and other major challengers faced elections alongside massive voter deletions. One opponent losing can be politics. Every strong regional challenger falling through the same voter-list pattern demands answers. If the opposition is erased through voter lists, what remains is not an electoral victory. It is democracy being hollowed out.
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Abhijeet catches Sambit Patra answering for the Election Commission 😂 Q: “EC says every decision was unanimous. Why reject its press note?” Abhijeet Dipke: “Stop sending ChatGPT press notes. Put both commissioners on camera and let them address their 14 objections.” Q: “Why turn this into BJP versus the opposition?” Abhijeet 🔥: “I’m questioning Gyanesh, not BJP. So why is Sambit answering? Either Sambit joins the EC or Gyanesh joins BJP.” The most dangerous part is that questioning the Election Commission now feels like questioning BJP itself. The line between the ruling party and an independent institution has completely collapsed.
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“Gyanesh Kumar wants to flatter Modi so much, he should become his peon, mop his floors and serve his meals. He should not sit in the Election Commissioner’s chair. Resign within 48 hours or CJP will hit the streets nationwide.” ~ Abhijeet Dipke, CJP National Convenor
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“Who the hell is Gyanesh Kumar to take away our right to vote? First they remove your name from the voter list. Then they use it to deny your ration, pension and welfare. India’s youth must hit the streets.” ~ Ashutosh Ranka, CJP Co-convenor
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