As the discussion heats up on the alleged Congress party “ToolKit” that was created to undermine the Modi government and exploit the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the country, the so-called ‘fact-checker’ Alt News has declared that the document allegedly prepared by AICC Research Department is forged on a real letterhead
Alt News, which has a notorious history of peddling propaganda and fake news, gave a clean chit to the Congress party after it examined the ‘original’ document of the Congress. AICC Research Department chairman Rajeev Gowda in fact gave documents and statements to Alt News to proclaim the toolkit to be fake.
The article which appeared on their website says, the letterhead of the Central Vista document it received from the Congress party did not match with the one on the party’s COVID-19 toolkit and therefore the document was fake.
According to them since the font on the header and footer of the two documents were different, it was a fake document and not created by the Congress party.
However, fonts could have deliberately kept different for plausible deniability by the Congress party, which is now trying to keep distance from the document if it becomes public.
The Alt News argument lay thin when they said that all documents published by the Congress party have to use the same typographical style because even the same person can use different fonts in different documents and for a political party like Congress, it is not possible to maintain the same style of fonts on various documents published as people have a different style.
Alt News then says the toolkit is a document for the future course of action and strategies as most of the point of actions suggested in the toolkit had already taken place and therefore it not genuine.
However, actions of the toolkit had already been implemented as part of a strategy where it calls to support friendly journalists and social media influencers and the maligning of the Kumbh Mela as a ‘super spreader’ event are one such example that appears on the toolkit.
But the fact remains that the attempt to malign the government and the image of India was part of the toolkit strategy and it is impossible that the document is only just a few days old and has been in use by the Congress IT cell for the same time period.
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