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The New India’s Bengal SIR graphic uses a real 91% restoration figure, but its BJP strategy claim is unproven

The New India’s graphic cites a real figure: 75,443 of 82,782 West Bengal SIR appeals with recorded outcomes had resulted in inclusion/restoration, about 91%. But only a small share of the wider appeals pool had been decided, and the evidence reviewed does not establish the graphic’s allegation that voter removals and later restorations were a…

The New India’s Bengal SIR graphic uses a real 91% restoration figure, but its BJP strategy claim is unproven
Open Post: The New India’s Bengal SIR graphic uses a real 91% restoration figure, but its BJP strategy claim is unproven

Modi’s ‘no Hindu-Muslim politics’ pledge conflicts with documented campaign rhetoric, though this reel misframes one clip

Narendra Modi’s 2024 pledge not to do “Hindu-Muslim” politics sits uneasily with his Banswara speech, where a reference to Muslims immediately preceded “more children” and “infiltrators”. The submitted reel captures that broader contradiction, but misleadingly strips context from a 2026 Bengal clip and wrongly says the Election Commission took no action; motive and electoral effect…

Open Post: Modi’s ‘no Hindu-Muslim politics’ pledge conflicts with documented campaign rhetoric, though this reel misframes one clip

Reprieve followed BJP switches in 23 of 25 opposition cases reviewed; political causation remains unproven

A 2024 Indian Express investigation found that 23 of 25 prominent opposition politicians under central-agency scrutiny who later moved to the BJP received some form of reprieve. The pattern raises a legitimate agency-impartiality question and sits in tension with Narendra Modi’s claim that enforcement agencies act independently, but timing alone does not prove that party…

Open Post: Reprieve followed BJP switches in 23 of 25 opposition cases reviewed; political causation remains unproven

The 2G record contains both criminal acquittals and a Supreme Court finding that the 2008 licences were illegal

The 2G record is not resolved by a single “scam” or “no scam” verdict. The 2017 criminal acquittals remain operative, while the Supreme Court separately held the 2008 licence-allocation process illegal and quashed it; the ₹1.76-lakh-crore figure was a presumptive audit estimate, not proven stolen cash. Keeping those findings distinct is essential to understanding what…

Open Post: The 2G record contains both criminal acquittals and a Supreme Court finding that the 2008 licences were illegal
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UPDATED : 13 Sep 26 / 11:33 am

Government advertising is a real media-independence concern; viral ₹76,000 crore figure is unsupported

The reel’s ₹76,000 crore government-advertising figure is unsupported; reporting based on government data puts central advertising at about ₹5,987.46 crore for 2014-15 to 2024-25. The broader issue is still real: government advertising, concentrated ownership and political alignment are documented media-independence concerns, but this record does not prove that advertising caused favourable coverage or that specific…

Open Post: Government advertising is a real media-independence concern; viral ₹76,000 crore figure is unsupported

A name in the Epstein files is not evidence of an Epstein relationship; viral rebuttal also overstates its case

The Technical Dost reel is right that Mahatma Gandhi died before Jeffrey Epstein was born, but that does not rule out Gandhi being mentioned in later documents. The stronger finding is evidentiary: a name hit in the vast Epstein archive can range from an incidental secondary reference to evidence of direct contact, so it cannot…

Open Post: A name in the Epstein files is not evidence of an Epstein relationship; viral rebuttal also overstates its case

Varanasi ₹50-crore land case tests property-registration safeguards; FIR allegations remain unproven

A court-ordered FIR alleges that a dialysis patient’s illness and family circumstances were exploited to transfer about 70 biswa of Varanasi property valued by the complainant at roughly ₹50 crore; BJP district vice-president Suresh Kumar Singh is among ten named accused and denies wrongdoing. The case raises a wider registration-safeguard question because Uttar Pradesh rules…

Open Post: Varanasi ₹50-crore land case tests property-registration safeguards; FIR allegations remain unproven

Rhetorical ‘missing’ scorecard collapses policy, accidents and allegations into one governance claim

Several subjects in the reel are real public-interest concerns, but its repeated “missing” frame turns a fire, policy choices, unresolved allegations, specific product failures and cumulative missing-person reports into one apparent governance scorecard. The evidence supports institution-by-institution scrutiny, not one proven cause or actor connecting the claims; some figures are unsupported, others are misleadingly framed,…

Open Post: Rhetorical ‘missing’ scorecard collapses policy, accidents and allegations into one governance claim

Communal safety cannot be inferred from religious headcounts; the Modi-Yogi reels compare an anecdote with a sweeping claim

Narendra Modi’s 2024 recollection of Muslim neighbours is a personal anecdote; Yogi Adityanath’s 2025 claim that Hindu safety changes with the religious composition of a locality is a population-wide generalisation not demonstrated by the interview. NCRB-based parliamentary data recorded zero communal/religious-rioting cases in Uttar Pradesh in 2018–2020, supporting a narrower law-and-order point but not the…

Open Post: Communal safety cannot be inferred from religious headcounts; the Modi-Yogi reels compare an anecdote with a sweeping claim

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