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🚨SCOOP: For Adani projects, Gujarat govt asked Centre to delete forests earmarked for conservation under PM's pet project. Env ministry hesitated, but with twist, the job was done. I report for @reporters_co
tapasya tofuss
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tapasya tofuss
@tapasya_umm
Journalist. Wannabe poet. ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism, 2024. Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity, 2025. Ex @reporters_co
New Delhi, India
Joined June 2011
- 🧵1. Ramdev and associates have a different life when they are off-screen. Once the yoga poses are done, and the cameras are gone, a twisty business empire gets to work. Hollow charity orgs & firms are created to "serve" the nation. What do they actually do? A detailed thread👇
- 🧵 Baba Ramdev used to once talk of ending black money. But his Patanjali group has a web of shell firms that trade in Aravalli forests for huge profits. @shreegireesh & I at @reporters_co studied hundreds of corporate & land records to expose their modus operandi. Read on 👇🏽
- 🧵1. Before the deluge of rains hit North India, Uttarakhand CM was lobbying the Centre. To prepare for monsoon? No. Our investigation reveals: For hasty approvals to continue mining 4 rivers, even during rains. In 5 days, he got it. My colleague @aggam_walia & I tell more 👇
- We @reporters_co are making public all documents related to electoral bonds, including those now removed by the State Bank of India from its website. And those that it never disclosed in the first place. You can find them here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…All the PDFs related to #ElectoralBonds are removed from the SBI website. @TheOfficialSBI should come up with an explanation.
- 🚨Uttarakhand govt violated a Supreme Court order, went against Centre's warning to mine rivers for money that should've gone towards conserving forests. It instead gave away its power to check illegal mining to private firms. I write for @reporters_co
- 🧵1. The Supreme Court sat on the #ElectoralBonds Scam too long. The Union gov't has built a more comprehensive (and simple) surveillance system over all manner of political funding. All kinds of donations to every political party. @nit_set & I reveal. Stay with us and read 👇🏽
- 🧵 #Thread: #Uttarakhand has become a communal tinder box. @HemantGairola25 & I uncovered how it's a concerted campaign of hate, running on impunity and state support. It's fueled by leaders from the BJP and its affiliates. While the police acts blind. We collected proof. 👇
- IMPACT: Apex court has overturned Centre’s business-friendly changes to forest law, and ordered it to go back to court’s previous definition of forest. A @reporters_co investigation had exposed how gov’t diluted protection to forestlands for businesses.
- 1. #Thread: A Fact Check Recently Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh engaged in a heated debate. Ramesh said Modi government diluted tribal rights. Minister Yadav said no rules or law had been diluted. Who was telling the truth?
- #Thread: The Union gov't wants to become the judge in cases it's an accused. It has proposed new rules to take down news from online platforms once PIB (govt's publicity arm) calls the news 'fake'. Let me show you how malafide and bad 'PIB Fact Check' business of the gov't is:
- Part 2🚨 #Patanjali shell firm made 365% profit selling Aravalli forestland. Thanks to Haryana govt denying the forests legal cover. #Ramdev's firm did no biz, only traded in lands & pumped profits back in Patanjali. I report, with @shreegireesh
- THREAD 🧵1. India is launching a controversial new carbon market. To trade in greenhouse gases. Why should citizens care about some companies making legit (or illegitimate) money from selling tonnes of a gas in a market? I and my @reporters_co colleague @nit_set explain 👇🏿
- 🧵1. Uttarakhand's forests burned. Several died. Meanwhile, the state govt violated a Supreme Court order and snatched away forest conservation funds earned from river mining. It also outsourced its duty to check illegal river mining to private players. 👇
