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Sumedha

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Sumedha

@TweetSumedha

Reporter | Ex @newslaundry @occrp @IndiaSpend | DM Open

New Delhi, India

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Joined March 2017

Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Dec 24, 2024
In #2024LokSabhaElections, BJP won Meerut by just 10k votes. I found two booths have 27 % fake voters. These fake voters had vague, non-traceable addresses like "Uttar Pradesh", "Jhuggi", or "Naya". In fact, many did not even have addresses at all. Examples -
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Feb 5, 2024
IIT-B cancelled anchor Sudhir’s talk at the E-Summit’24 after students protested. But his team made a special request to the organizers not to share the news with the media, “especially Newslaundry”. I report 👇 tinyurl.com/2bcj9v5h
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Nov 27, 2024
🧵: In UP bypolls, BJP swept Muslim dominated Kundarki. On polling day, videos of cops barricading polling stations had gone viral. Data shows there is something really fishy. 2 booths, with over 1.8k muslim voters, clocked 0 turnout. In past, they had recorded 80% turnout.
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Jun 23, 2025
In 6 months ahead of Maharashtra assembly polls, Nagpur South West, seat won Devendra Fadnavis, added 30k new voters. 8.25 % rise, twice the 4% cut-off by the ECI. Poll officials said thorough ground verification was not carried to register new voters.
In 6 months, Fadnavis seat added 29,219 voters. Poll staff claim lapses
From newslaundry.com
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Aug 9, 2025
2.92 lakh Bihar voters in draft rolls have house nos ‘0’, ‘00’ or ‘000’. CEO office admits such “errors” occur. I examined rolls of 7+ crore voters in 235 assemblies. Probe in 8 seats stalled after EC made rolls non–machine-readable post Gandhi’s presser. hostlink.site/830H5O
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Jan 7, 2025
🚨Ahead of the #2024LokSabha polls, in Chandni Chowk: - On two Muslim booths, 18% of voters were deleted. - At another booth, where Congress candidate is also a voter, deletion rate was 24%. I found 147 cases of wrongful deletions.
In run-up to Chandni Chowk poll, most votes cut in Muslim locality, Cong candidate’s neighbourhood
From newslaundry.com
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Jul 2, 2025
Maharashtra CM responded with this data to shut all the criticism. But we found out data shared by him is inflated. Electorate in Malad West rose by 6 %, not 11% as claimed by CM. ECI responded they don't have data on additions in these 5 assemblies.
Devendra Fadnavis
@Dev_Fadnavis
Jun 24, 2025
Rahul Gandhi, It’s clear that the sting of Maharashtra’s defeat is growing heavier by the day — but how long will these baseless allegations continue? For the record, there are over 25 constituencies in Maharashtra where voter numbers increased by more than 8% between the Lok
Fadnavis vs facts? EC data doesn’t match CM’s claims
From newslaundry.com
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Jan 7, 2025
You may have seen @newslaundry’s reports on voter lists. I spent 3 months investigating it, and Aban Usmani edited the entire series single-handedly. We’re a small newsroom doing big work. Support us to do more. Subscribe & pay to keep news free: rzp.io/rzp/7nWcaPEsum
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Dec 24, 2024
Replying to @TweetSumedha
Over 200 hundred voters were listed in a RHA colony of Meerut. The colony does not even exist.
BJP won Meerut with thin margin. Its 2 booths have 27% fake voters
From newslaundry.com
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Dec 24, 2024
Releasing Part 3 of #BrokenBallots today. From a high-stakes battle in Meerut, where the BJP's popular Ramayan actor Arun Govil won by just ten thousand votes. We found two booths with 27 percent fake voters.
Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Dec 19, 2024
🧵Exclusive: Farrukhabad, Meerut & Chandni Chowk. Lok Sabhas won by the BJP in #2024GeneralElections saw massive targeted deletions of voters from communities who were less likely to vote for the party. Like Muslims, Yadavs & Jatav. newslaundry.com/2024/12/19/exc…
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Dec 19, 2024
🧵Exclusive: Farrukhabad, Meerut & Chandni Chowk. Lok Sabhas won by the BJP in #2024GeneralElections saw massive targeted deletions of voters from communities who were less likely to vote for the party. Like Muslims, Yadavs & Jatav.
Exclusive: In 3 Lok Sabha seats swung by BJP, many wrong voter deletions, violations of EC norms
From newslaundry.com
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Dec 24, 2024
Replying to @TweetSumedha
Fake voters have also become a huge problem for Vikas Chaudhary, postman in the area. He said, "I was tasked with distributing new voter cards sent by the EC but had to dump thousands of them at the local election office as I could not find their addresses.”
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Aug 29, 2025
🚨 In Bihar, over 1,000 voters are registered at a single house — that doesn’t even exist. Across the state, we found 2,243 such clusters with 100–1,000 voters crammed into one address. The EC says fixing this was “beyond the scope” of SIR. 🔗
In Bihar, over 1,000 voters in a single house that doesn’t exist
From newslaundry.com
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Sumedha
@TweetSumedha
Jul 10, 2024
Exclusive: Accused in Godhra asked #NEET candidates from Odisha, Bihar, Maharashtra, Rajasthan & UP to pick Gujarati as their language as their language to fill their OMR sheets. According to CBI affidavits accessed by @newslaundry. 🧵👉🏻
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