Sanjeev Shukla

@parthpunter @A2D2_ @madhuparna_N One of the key reasons for continued defeat after defeat is naivete or more likely, blatant forgery and/or deliberate deception like ur tweet. Based on total votes polled, BJP has got 32 lac more. Even if all 27lacs has voted n for TMC.... Anyway....

Important story by @madhuparna_N 1.39 crore votes for the BJP vs 1.26 crore for Trinamool -- a gap of merely 12 to 13 lakh votes. But.... Nearly 91 lakh voters were deleted in the process, including around 27 lakh who were under adjudication and had to reapply for their voting rights. news18.com/elections/west… news18.com/elections/west… news18.com/elections/west…

@sardesairajdeep What is Hindutva dominance? BJP /NDA has won per due process with mandate of the people of India. Your tweet is highly communal and incendiary.

Data point: the BJP and its allies are now in power in 21 states from Rann of Kutch to Bay of Bengal and the North East with only Jharkhand an exception if a straight line is drawn from west to east. This is an era of Hindutva ‘dominance’. The Congress has only southern comfort (Himachal an exception) while regional parties are now on notice. What does it mean for the national picture after another dramatic election counting day? 9 pm tonight on @IndiaToday

@SaffronQueen_ @DamodarHegde4 Absolutely

She deserves a Rajya Sabha seat for her campaign in WB!

@nilanjanaroy For pottytically minded, real mandate from real voters, has no value. Regional Family and anti-national Parties shudnt b thr just coz Regional Parties shud b thr!

You'll hear a lot about "unstoppable forces" and "masterstrokes". But mass disenfranchisement + the use of Central force to win comes at a price. Winners celebrate, but remain uneasy: are the people truly with them? And losers blame the tilted board, not stopping to introspect.

@YashwantSinha Can't even say, खिसियानी बिल्ली खंभा नोचे ...that would be an abject insult to the cats

Modi, Shah and Gyanesh SIR. Nothing now stands between them and victory.

@GaurieD Great analysis & conclusions. Implications - BJP shouldn't be (can't) always look at no. of seats. Shud build perception of stayg with Principles based process n not outcomes-anyhow. Should build Organisation in TN Groundsup, with Annamalai & RSS. Shouldn't align with any party.

Tamil Nadu 2026. TVK has walked into a vacuum BJP helped create. But here's the real question nobody is asking: What if Annamalai was still leading BJP into this election? Would the result have been different? Let's think this through honestly. - First, who is Annamalai — and why does he matter for this argument. IPS officer. IIM Lucknow. Known as "Singham" during his police career. BJP Tamil Nadu president from 2021 to 2025. He rebuilt the party — expanding BJP's footprint into areas it had never reached, through his state wide padayatra. - The anti-DMK sentiment in TN was real. Corruption. Law and order. Youth unemployment. A government that had stopped being hungry. Most exit polls going in projected DMK in a tight race — anti-incumbency was already baked in as a major factor. - There was a wave. The question was always: who surfs it? TVK surfed it. But TVK was not the only party positioned. - Annamalai's entire political identity was built on anti-corruption, anti-dynastic politics, and positioning BJP as the credible alternative to both Dravidian majors. That is precisely the message Tamil Nadu's angry voters were looking for in 2026. Here is the structural overlap defining 2025 TN Polls : TVK's surge was strongest among youth, urban voters, and first-time voters in Chennai and western Tamil Nadu. Annamalai's base — the Kongu belt, western Tamil Nadu, Gounder community, young anti-establishment voters — overlaps almost exactly with where TVK made its biggest gains. Now, Annamalai lost Aravakurichi in 2021 by 24,000 votes. He lost Coimbatore in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections — his own stronghold, his own caste belt, a seat he campaigned hardest in. Two elections. Two losses. The brand was powerful. The electoral conversion was not yet proven. The honest answer is: Annamalai could not have replicated what Vijay did. Vijay brought something BJP structurally cannot — a clean slate. No caste arithmetic baggage, no Hindu nationalist tag in a state where that tag costs votes, no Delhi perception problem. BJP's core challenge in Tamil Nadu has always been that it lacks traditional vote banks — minorities, fishers, women — and must rely on raising issues rather than commanding blocs. What Annamalai could have done — and this is the real missed opportunity — is split the vacuum. A strong Annamalai-led BJP contesting 60-80 seats independently, not 27 through AIADMK's allocation, would have forced TVK to fight for anti-DMK votes instead of collecting them unopposed. TVK's leads might have been thinner. A majority might have been harder. BJP could have emerged as a 30-40 seat force — small, but important. Instead, BJP contested 27 seats — mostly difficult ones allocated by AIADMK — fielding senior leaders like Tamilisai Soundararajan, Vanathi Srinivasan and L Murugan. Zero disruption energy. The deeper irony is: Annamalai's own instinct in 2023 was to go solo — to break from AIADMK, build BJP's independent identity, and use 2024 as preparation for 2026. This was overruled as AIADMK came back into the alliance. The long game traded for immediate coalition comfort. So — would Annamalai have won Tamil Nadu for BJP? Almost certainly not. The structural barriers are too high, the timeline too short. But would he have made TVK fight for its majority rather than walk into one? Yes. TN polls ends with Vijay potentially becoming CM in his debut election. BJP ends with 27 contested seats and a coalition partner that absorbed NONE of the anti-incumbency energy. The lesson for BJP's southern strategy after 2026 TN Polls is now unavoidable: Alliance arithmetic gives you presence, it does not give you power. Sometimes the most powerful validation comes not from winning, but from watching someone else win the race you were built to run. #annamalai #Vijay‌ #tamilnadulegislativeassemblyelection2026

@akhileshsharma1 BJP is in power in more than 20 states & UTs. It is not reasonable for a federal structure & democracy that any 1 party is not in each & every state/UT. Democracy must have counter balance. That's not BJP's problem, but currently counter balance just doesn't exist.

पश्चिम बंगाल और असम की ऐतिहासिक जीत के उत्सव के बीच बीजेपी को तमिलनाडु और केरल के परिणाम निराश कर रहे होंगे। इन दोनों राज्यों में ताक़त लगाने के बावजूद बीजेपी की स्थिति में बहुत अधिक सुधार नहीं हुआ। पार्टी के मिशन 2029 में यह दो राज्य कठिन चुनौती बने हुए हैं।

@iSinghApurva Plastic kee ya....

बंगाल में काँग्रेस को कितनी सीटें मिल रही है?

@rameshsrivats Upset is upset that it isn't seen as upset anymore

West Bengal - UPSET. BJP finally taking the state. Tamil Nadu - UPSET. DMK relegated to a distant 3rd place. Puducherry - UPSET that no one is giving them any attention.

@MinhazMerchant You mean Muscat?

Is Rahul back from Nicobar?

@MinhazMerchant @IndiaToday Heart break? Heart attack.

Heartbreak at @IndiaToday TV.

@erbmjha @Anuradham1805 Is there a face?

Rajdeep is speaking very cautiously on live, saying, “People will post my clip and I’ll end up with egg on my face.” 😹😹🤣

Deception by @sardesairajdeep Keralam. BJP leads in 5 seats. In the outgoing Assembly, NDA/BJP 3 seats. But Sardesai says, "BJP has come down to 5 seats"!

@rahul_tverma @sardesairajdeep Assume it is Business (was it charity previously, did u, RS n others hv ever contributed to Exit Polls investment?) So there is no Freedom for anyone to run her or his business? U ppl can gv subjective opinion, but ppl can't evn run Polls? Fascism and Diabolical.

Is it Time for Exit Polls to Exit? @sardesairajdeep: what is a passion project for serious academics has now become a business opportunity for many, a game for some to gain prime time visibility. Sadly this enterprise no longer excites 😞 youtube.com/watch?v=Gg7Zwh…

@sardesairajdeep @ECISVEEP No source. No reason. Claimed Independent Journo, but just like a Pottytician just speculate, just aoq seeds of doubt... destabilise and kill India. Dallarisation....

Sunday musing: A friend raises a good point: why do we need 4 days @ECISVEEP after final voting for counting to begin? Think about Kerala and Assam: EVMs have been kept in strong rooms for almost 4 weeks. Doesn’t happen in any other part of the world.

@ShrutiDhore Comedian और comedian की अम्मा करें थम्मा थम्मा।।

To Understand #TheGreatNicobarProject, watch Kunal Kamra's 22-minute video, "GoodBye Nicobar." The Great Nicobar Project will destroy not just 850,000 trees, but approximately 10 million. The government's sole aim is to benefit Adani.

@ShrutiDhore @ravish_journo राम मिलाई जोड़ी। एक अंधा, एक कोढ़ी।।

@ravish_journo Thanks For Repost 🙏

@animalsaveindia @SrBachchan And Amitabh Bachchan is a Veterinary expert

Mother’s Milk Is Not Ours 👍 Even Shri Amitabh Bachchan ji has acknowledged a simple truth.. a mother’s milk in the dairy industry is meant for her baby, not for humans. Milk does not come from machines. It comes from a mother who is forcefully bred, separated from her child, and milked for profit. Her baby is deprived of nourishment and love, while we are taught to see milk as “normal” and “essential”. Motherhood is sacred; for every species. Respecting mothers also means respecting the right of animal mothers to feed their own babies. It’s time to question habits, traditions, and industries built on injustice. Choose food that does not come from suffering.

@maveinlux @abhishekaitc Not a sarcastic comment. This is actually an insult to Jhalmuri sellers in the streets n all such street vendors...they hv a tough life n work really really hard for a dignified living.

@abhishekaitc, the self-proclaimed Diamond Harbour warlord. Without being Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, this guy would be slinging jhal muri on a Kolkata footpath, not flexing in Parliament. Zero organic rise, just pure dynastic gravy. MBA from a defunct college, multiple terms handed on a platter, and now “ten lifetimes won’t dent my model”? Such assholes are not fit for public life, whose entire career is the model: aunt’s umbrella, muscle, and rigged turf where opponents get taped out. That post isn’t confidence, it’s the insecure bark of a nepo prince who knows one bad election cycle and he’s back to hawking snacks. But every asshole ultimately learns the lesson. People have buried bigger egos in this country. Keep challenging “Delhi godfathers” while ED keeps knocking. The entitlement is chef’s kiss pathetic. Touch grass (or jhal muri).

@GST_Council @cbic_india 1) Mandated & forced Service Tax 2) Charged Tax on Tax Both absolutely illegal @dmgbnagar