Ritika Chopra ✓
@RitikaChopra__ · Mumbai · joined 02 May 2013
Resident Editor, Mumbai @IndianExpress; Awards: @globalfreemedia India Award '20, Ramnath Goenka Award '21 & Chameli Devi Jain Award 2024
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@RitikaChopra__ Rahul Gandhi has been repeatedly holding press conferences informing the nation about #VoteChori, with proof but SC ignored it when they ought to have taken suo moto cognisance. Why is everyone is ignoring the rotten stench emanating from the corpse of democracy?
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10. Investigations like this take months. If you think this kind of reporting matters, subscribe to @IndianExpress :
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So why should you care about this unprecedented rupture in the Election Commission?
BECAUSE being eligible to be enrolled as a voter is no longer enough. In one state, 97 people proved they belonged, the officer agreed, and the software, controlled from Delhi, never let him http
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There's been dissent in the Election Commission before.
In 2009, a CEC recommended a colleague's removal. In 2019, a Commissioner boycotted meetings until his dissent was recorded. Each time: one member, one issue, settled by a vote.
But this is different. Two of three, the ht
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The dissonance within the EC came to a head in late July.
A new officer was put in charge of the EC's administration division in Delhi and, within hours, issued a work allocation order that potentially changed who controls the IT files. Neither of the two Commissioners were
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Bengal.
The Supreme Court handed the state's SIR to judicial officers. They heard 60 lakh voters flagged for "logical discrepancies" and retained 33 lakh on the roll. Then lakh appeals were filed to get those voters (retained on the voters' list) deleted.
When the court asked
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Form 6 is what you fill to become a voter. Only the Government can change it.
In July it got a new question: Were your parents on the last SIR roll? No answer, no registration.
Both Commissioners had said in May this couldn't be done without the Government amending the
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The software.
In January the EC launched ECINet, "in strict accordance with the law," the CEC said from the stage.
Within months, both Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi were writing that the platform was UNRAVELLING: local officers, who by law add and
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We spent months investigating the inner working of the EC.
What we found: the majority of the Commission, kept in the dark for almost a year.
Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected on record at least 14 times in 10 months, FOUR times on a single
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The Election Commission is three people, not ONE: a Chief and two Election Commissioners, equal in rank.
By law they decide together. Unanimously if they can, by majority if they can't. Two of three is a majority.
(2/10) https://t.co/Acr2oUnGyG
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Something rare is playing out behind the scenes...
For the first time in nearly a decade, Maharashtra's anti-corruption bureau wants to prosecute a sitting judge.
The allegation: he colluded with his court clerk to demand Rs 15 lakh for a favourable order.
By @sadafmodak &
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The Q paper walked out of an Agra printing press, hidden under shoe insoles. The employees who carried it out had been cultivated for JUST Rs 8,000.
Two months on, Maharashtra's TET leak case is moving. A chargesheet against 16 accused is expected in 10 days, & the trial goes to
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"Chehra pan pahila navhta mi ajun." I hadn't even seen his face yet.
Swapnil Borge spent the morning distributing sweets outside the hospital. His son was born the day before. He had no idea a fire had already taken him in the
Three newborns died in a NICU fire at Amravati. A
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Reporting like this takes time, trust and presence on the ground.
If it matters to you, subscribe to @IndianExpress
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Maharashtra's tough new anti-conversion law comes into effect Aug 28. But its shadow has already fallen on Christian congregations across Mumbai.
Pastors across Mumbai are now asking worshippers to fill a form before Sunday prayers, declaring they attend of their own "free https
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Two stories from @IndianExpress's Mumbai team today. One about grief no parent should face. One about fear no worshipper should feel.
Both will stay with you long after you've finished reading. 👇
(1/4) https://t.co/P6qneuwGgc
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No one warns you that being on social media is a full-time job 😓. Back after a bit of a break. And with a story worth returning for! 🎉
Pakistan's new recruits don't cross the border. They're Indian teenagers, broke, unschooled, addicted, scrolling Instagram.
A garbage https://t
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"It's my way or the highway."
He gives no interviews, avoids rallies & lost the only poll he fought. Yet 6 months after Ajit Pawar's death, little moves in NCP without Parth Pawar's approval.
@alokdesh on the man whose rise shadows every crisis in the NCP, from the veterans' ht
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Against accounts of the same size
19 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views16 883this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %25.98%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.14%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 16 883 | 924 | 18.3× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 25.98% | 3.62% | 7.18× |
| Engagement rate | 2.14% | 1.52% | 1.41× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
3K25 Aug
1.1K26 Aug
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225.1K23 Sep
416.3K
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105.7K
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.26%25 Aug
0.55%26 Aug
1.75%
3.78%23 Sep
3.57%
3.74%
3.77%
2.14%
3.97%
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1.65%
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4.47%
2.78%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes73.8%41 411 in total
Reposts22.0%12 375 in total
Replies1.3%747 in total
Quotes0.7%368 in total
Bookmarks2.2%1 233 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 17 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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