Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

🧵 Curiously, @cepps’ handle on X has been deactivated as has its webpage. But on going to its proxy - the Advancing Electoral Democracy in Asia website https://anfrel.org/who-we-are/our-members/ we find that @LoknitiCSDS are its local partners. Notice who its Bangladesh partner is? 

Curiouser and curiouser turns out CEPPS is a joint project with the National Democratic Institute which in turn is funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation. Curious how everything keeps coming back to the same  puppet master. 

Now, while it is perfectly OK for US organisations to opine on indian politics, this crossed a dangerous and criminal line into active election interference. In that context this speech is important. We have emails showing this MP was in direct conversations with the US consul

General in Kolkata (on secured lines) one Patti Hoffman talking about getting out more voters - specifically Muslim voter in specific constituencies. All of this now makes perfect sense. This has crossed the line into grave criminality &amp; high treason 