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‘Toolkit’ allegedly prepared by Congress reveals nefarious plans to defame India

May 18, 2021
The Commune

As India is fighting the Wuhan Virus together, screenshots of what is being alleged as a “toolkit” of the Congress party were exposed by various BJP leaders on Tuesday (18 May).

The Congress party led by the Gandhi family according to this toolkit has adopted various underhanded techniques to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP led central government during a time of great difficultly.

The document titled ‘Cornering Narendra Modi & Covid Mismanagement’ begins by highlighting how the ‘Kumbh mela’ is to be used to malign the Hindu festival while calling Eid as a ‘happy gathering’.  The “toolkit” suggests politicizing the congregation by repeatedly labeling it as a ‘super spreader’.

The toolkit created alleged by the AICC states “Use the phrase Indian Strain whenever talking of new mutant. Social Media volunteers can call it Modi Strain,“.

It also gives instructions to ‘dismantle the image of Modi’ by ‘targeting Gujarat’ and by using ‘dramatic pictures of dead bodies and cremation’.   

It also says how international media can be used to attack PM Modi and also using ‘liberal intellectuals’ to attack PM CARES’.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has attributed this “toolkit” to the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Research Department.

However, Congress has denied any involvement and has called the “toolkit” dated May 2021 a “forgery”. It has said that it will file FIRs against BJP president J P Nadda and spokesperson Sambit Patra.

The Chairman of the AICC Research Department Rajeev Gowda called the “toolkit” is fake and in a tweet said, “BJP is propagating a fake “toolkit” on “COVID-19 mismanagement” and attributing it to AICC Research Department. We are filing an FIR for forgery against J P Nadda and Sambit Patra. When our country is devastated by COVID, instead of providing relief, BJP shamelessly concocts forgeries,”.

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra in a tweet said, “Disgusting to say the least ..Rahul Gandhi wanting to use this opportunity of Pandemic to destroy the image of PM Modi. Congress workers instructed to call the mutant strain as “Modi strain” No stone left unturned to scar the name of India with the help of Foreign Journalists!!”.

 

The toolkit has the Congress symbol (watermark) on the top right corner of each shared page, and has instruction to use dramatic photographs of funerals and dead bodies as made famous by left journalist Barkha Dutt and Rana Ayub and says that such journalists can be facilitated by the local Congress cadre.

One of the screenshots shared by Patra states that it is important to work with “friendly journalists” to malign the BJP on social media and all effort must be made to amplify requests for Covid related help and response should only be made if the Indian Youth Congress’ handle is tagged.

The toolkit also contains instructions for journalists and social media influencers who should give top priority.

Also, on crosshairs in this toolkit is the systematic criticism of the Central Vista Project which incidentally the Congress party had proposed in 2012.

The term “toolkit” became famous after environmental activists Greta Thunberg on social media released a set of instructions on how to agitate and protests against the government during the height of the farmer’s protests which many experts believe led to the second wave of the Wuhan virus in Delhi and other parts of India. 

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