The Congress party has asked Twitter to affix manipulated media tag to 11 Union Ministers of Bhartia Janata Party (BJP) for spreading false and malicious propaganda.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Tuesday (25 May) said, “Urgent need to affix ‘Manipulative Media’ tags to the tweets of Union Ministers in the Modi Government for spreading false and malicious propaganda.”
“Any information that is put up directly by a Union Minister of the Government of India through his/her official/verified Twitter account, hence, it becomes all the more imperative to tag, ‘manipulative media’, on all such tweets made by Ministers of the Government of India on the above referred forged toolkit document created by the BJP,” Surjewala said.
We have now asked Twitter to declare all of the Union Ministers' tweets as manipulated media so that the truth comes out and is placed before the people.
— Congress (@INCIndia) May 25, 2021
For however hard you may try Modi ji, the truth will not go away. It will continue to haunt the BJP.: Shri @rssurjewala pic.twitter.com/pVJDRr8vUG
According to the Congress party, the alleged Toolkit document was forged by certain BJP leaders to gain undue and wrongful political advantage by spreading potentially dangerous, false, and fabricated material through their Twitter handles, against the Indian National Congress and its leaders.
Surjewala of the Congress wants manipulative media tag on the Twitter handle of Ravi Shankar Prasad, Smriti Irani, and nine others.
The Congress party also decided to inform Twitter that an FIR has been registered in Chhattisgarh which is a Congress-ruled state.
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