BIG EXPOSE: CONGRESS TOOLKIT<\/p>\n
The real face of the congress party stands exposed. #CongressToolkitExposed<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rA4IgWgunf<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 TEAM BHARAT (@TeamBharat_) May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Part II of the document analyses PM Modi’s dream project of redeveloping Central Vista. This section lays down the opportunity cost of the project, including COVID vaccines, oxygen cylinders and monetary relief to victims. The document also lists the project’s adverse impact on the environment and architecture.<\/p>\n Toolkit Part 2: INC wanted to sabotage Grand project for the nation #CongressToolkitExposed<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/AGWDSGA1r8<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 TEAM BHARAT (@TeamBharat_) May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n “It\u2019s deplorable on their part to attempt to spread misinformation during this global catastrophe,” wrote health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.<\/span><\/p>\n LIE, DECEIVE & DIVIDE !<\/p>\n That’s all @INCIndia<\/a> has ever known!<\/p>\n It\u2019s deplorable on their part to attempt to spread misinformation during this global catastrophe just to swell their dwindling political fortunes at the expense of people’s suffering. #CongressToolkitExposed<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Dr Harsh Vardhan (@drharshvardhan) May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Among the other top BJP leaders who amplified #CongressToolKitExposed were Smriti Irani<\/a>, Tirath Singh Rawat<\/a>, Piyush Goyal<\/a>, Rajyavardhan Rathore<\/a>, Tejasvi Surya<\/a>, Kiren Rijiju<\/a>, Anurag Thakur<\/a>, P C Mohan<\/a>, Hardeep Singh Puri<\/a>, Shobha Karandlaje<\/a>, Biren Singh<\/a>, Pralhad Joshi<\/a>, Rahul Kaswan<\/a>, Manoj Kotak<\/a> and Dr. VINAY Sahasrabuddhe<\/a>.<\/p>\n The official Twitter account of ABVP<\/a> also shared the alleged document. Amit Malviya<\/a>, Sambit Patra<\/a>, B L Santhosh<\/a>, Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga<\/a>, Sunil Deodhar<\/a>, Priti Gandhi<\/a>, Suresh Nakhua<\/a>, Sanju Verma<\/a>, Om Prakash Dhankar<\/a>, Charu Pragya<\/a>, Y Satya Kumar<\/a>, C T Ravi<\/a>, C T R Nirmal Kumar<\/a>, Ashish Chauhan<\/a> and Anoop A J<\/a> were among the BJP officer bearers and representatives who amplified the claim.<\/p>\n BJP supporters \u2013 Anand Ranganathan<\/a>, Prashant Patel Umrao<\/a>, Ankit Jain<\/a>, Pradeep Bhandari<\/a>, Shefali Vaidya<\/a>, Shehzad<\/a>, Vivek Agnihotri<\/a> and Akhilesh Mishra<\/a> \u2013 too jumped on the bandwagon. OpIndia<\/a> and its editor Nupur Sharma<\/a> and Swarajya<\/a> did not stay behind as well.<\/p>\n Nearly every media outlet reported on the alleged ‘toolkit’ created by Congress.<\/p>\n Watch me on @ZeeNews<\/a> at 5pm on #CongressToolkitExposed<\/a> with @AmanChopra_<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/Hq5fettdlG<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n AICC Research Department chairman Rajeev Gowda told Alt News that the part of the document recommending social media and on-ground strategies (titled ‘Cornering Narendra Modi and BJP on COVID-19 mismanagement’) has not been prepared by his party. The section addressing the issues with the Central Vista project (titled ‘Central Vista Redevelopment: Vanity Project Amidst the Pandemic’) was made by the AICC’s Research Department<\/strong>, he informed.<\/p>\n “This (pages of the Central Vista document viral on social media) is part of a larger 6-page document<\/strong> which is a background note on policy and issues facing the nation. They seem to have obtained it illegally, and used it as a model to create a fake document, with forged letterhead<\/strong>,” Gowda furthered.<\/p>\n “The Research Department’s mandate is threefold \u2013 one, to support Congress MPs in their parliamentary work; two, to expose the failures of non-Congress governments; and three is to ideate about the future,” he said adding that what should or should not be said on social media is not the mandate for the AICC Research Department. “We tend to focus on factual\/ fact-checked information that is the basis for arguments, speeches.”<\/p>\n Gowda had also tweeted that the document on “COVID-19 mismanagement” is fake.<\/p>\n BJP is propagating a fake “toolkit” on \u201cCOVID-19 mismanagement\u201d & attributing it to AICC Research Department. We are filing an FIR for forgery against @jpnadda<\/a> & @sambitswaraj<\/a> \u2014 Rajeev Gowda (@rajeevgowda) May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Note: This article refers to the four pages of the COVID-19 mismanagement document as COVID-19 toolkit or toolkit, whereas the document on Central Vista has been referred to as the name suggests.)<\/p>\n The letterhead on the Central Vista document does not match the one on the COVID-19 toolkit. The Central Vista document was first made on Microsoft Word and a PDF version was internally circulated, as per Gowda.\u00a0While there can be differences in style and format on the body of a document, depending on the author, the header and footer on Word remain intact.<\/p>\n As clearly evident, a leaner font has been used on the COVID-19 toolkit. The page numbering doesn’t match either. The number ‘one’ has been written as ‘I’ on the Central Vista document while the other document reads ‘1’.<\/p>\n Gowda also shared an older document with Alt News, prepared by the AICC Research Department. The fonts and style match the legitimate (Central Vista) research but are distinct from the toolkit document. This further indicates that the toolkit is morphed. “I challenge them to produce the original document, and we will get it investigated forensically to expose their lies,” said Gowda.<\/p>\n The difference in the font used can also be spotted on the header. The top left corner of all pages say ‘May 2021’ but the ‘M’ in both documents are noticeably different.<\/p>\n The alignment on the footer is also distorted on the COVID-10 toolkit while letterhead, links and margins are perfectly aligned on the genuine document.<\/p>\n After Congress leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi<\/a>, termed the COVID-19 toolkit ‘fake’, several BJP workers and supporters shared what they claim is the properties of the toolkit. Patra also shared a screenshot of the LinkedIn profile of the author of the document, Saumya Varma, who works with Rajeev Gowda.<\/p>\n Friends yesterday Congress wanted to know who\u2019s the Author of the toolkit. \u2014 Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This prompted Gowda to post another tweet clarifying that AICC indeed prepared a document on Central Vista but the COVID-19 toolkit was “forged and made by the BJP”.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s be clear We made a research note on Central Vista for the party It\u2019s genuine & fact-based. I tweeted yesterday that \u201cCOVID19 toolkit” is FORGED & is a MADE in BJP product. Patra is showing metadata\/author of a real document & attributing it to a FAKEhttps:\/\/t.co\/qHc52C8DWw<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Rajeev Gowda (@rajeevgowda) May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n He further said that Sambit Patra is showing the metadata\/ author of the real document and attributing it to the fake.<\/p>\n Gowda shared the complete AICC 6-page research<\/strong> on Central Vista with Alt News (view PDF<\/a>). We also looked at the properties and it is identical to the one shared by BJP members.<\/p>\n It is noteworthy that the Central Vista document has six pages, which is what the screenshot shared by Patra also says. But a total of 8 pages have been shared on social media<\/a>, this includes four pages of the Central Vista research and four pages of the COVID-19 toolkit. It is clear that the two documents are distinct and the digital footprint shared by Patra is of the document Congress has vouched to be authentic. BJP has failed to provide the digital footprint of the COVID-19 toolkit. As one can clearly spot in both screenshots provided above, Patra has shared metadata of the document ‘Central Vista Vanity Project AICC’.<\/p>\n What is a toolkit? It’s a document that lays down strategies for future course of action \u2013 what needs to be done and how. The COVID-19 toolkit defines what should be the messaging on social media and the actions that need to be taken on-ground.<\/p>\n However, most of the directions of the toolkit refer to events that have already taken place. A document meant for suggesting courses of action for May 2021 and beyond, has several events which have already occurred in the month of April.<\/p>\n “International media coverage by foreign correspondents in India can be tailored to exclusively focus on Modi and his mismanagement,” says the document prepared in May, whereas international media has been critical of the Modi government since April.<\/p>\n Akhilesh Mishra, former director of the BJP government\u2019s online citizen engagement initiative \u2018MyGov India\u2019, shared Rahul Gandhi’s Instagram post depicting mass funerals of COVID victims. Mishra juxtaposed this with an article in The New York Times that also depicts mass funerals. Gandhi’s post is from April 29<\/a> and The New York Times article is from April 25, yet Mishra alleged that the ‘toolkit’ is responsible for the report even though the so-called document was prepared a few weeks later.<\/p>\n Tool: Collaborate with foreign media to magnify distress with dramatic images<\/p>\n Action: Again @RahulGandhi<\/a> leading from the front. What purpose does it serve to magnify personal moments of grief ?<\/p>\n Others fed into this gory politics of Congress to demean even the dead. 3\/10 pic.twitter.com\/25T6aWEidK<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Akhilesh Mishra (@amishra77) May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Mishra is connected with numerous pro-BJP propaganda pages. Alt News’s elaborate report on his ‘BJP connection’ can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The toolkit also instructs the repeated use of certain words and phrases to create a narrative on social media. To gauge its authenticity, Alt News checked if Congress members and volunteers were using these phrases in an organised manner or whether multiple individuals were using the terminologies. We found this wasn’t the case, and most of the limited usage was by people not associated with Congress.<\/p>\n Rajeev Gowda informed us that the Central Vista research was circulated internally on May 7. The COVID-19 toolkit also says ‘May 2021’ on the top left corner of each page. But in the almost three weeks of this month, none of the ‘strategies’ have been applied.<\/p>\n If ‘super spreader kumbh’ is searched on Twitter<\/a>, all the recent posts are made by pro-BJP or BJP handles in reference to the Congress toolkit. So we truncated our search till May 17, before the alleged document surfaced. The number of tweets posted with that phrase, having at least one retweet, is countable \u2013 15. Readers can check for themselves here<\/a>. None of these seem to have been posted by Congress workers.<\/p>\n At another point, the toolkit asks Congress workers to use the phrase ‘Indian strain’ whenever talking about the new mutant coronavirus. It also says that social media volunteers may call it ‘Modi strain’. The term ‘Indian strain’<\/a> has mostly been used by the media, both international and domestic. Between May 1 to May 17, there are five handles with at least one retweet that have used the term ‘Modi strain’<\/a>. Five tweets don’t make a campaign. Social media propaganda demands hundreds of tweets of the same narrative being put out.<\/p>\n BJP members widely shared a tweet by London-based author Sonia Faleiro to support their claim. However, neither has Faleiro used the word ‘strain’ (her tweet says ‘variant’) nor is she associated with Congress.<\/p>\n Sonia Faleiro daughter of Cong MP Eduardo Falerio labels variant as \u201cIndian Variant & Modi variant\u201d #CongressToolkitExposed<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/6I3EnKCK57<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga (@TajinderBagga) May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n We found a few more tweets<\/a> with at least one retweet where ‘Modi variant’ or #ModiVariant has been used. The most prominent among these are by Aparna Jain<\/a> and Seema Chisht<\/a>i, none of whom are Congress workers.<\/p>\n The ‘toolkit’ then advises the use of specific adjectives for senior BJP leaders. For instance, ‘missing’ Amit Shah, ‘quarantined’ Jaishankar, ‘sidelined’ Rajnath Singh, ‘insensitive’ Nirmala Sitharaman.<\/p>\n ‘Quarantined’ Jaishankar does not throw any tweet<\/a> where the word has been used as an adjective for the foreign minister. An advanced search of ‘sidelined’ Rajnath Singh<\/a> and ‘insensitive’ Nirmala Sitharaman<\/a> also do throw any results. A term has to be used again and again to leave an imprint on people’s mind. Propaganda is not built by scattered use (or in this case, no use at all) but repetition.<\/p>\n The document further advises Congress workers to not respond to COVID SOS messages unless Indian Youth Congress (IYC) is tagged. Below is a screenshot<\/a> that shows IYC national president Srinivas B V responding<\/a> journalist Aditya Raj Kaul who has neither tagged him nor his organisation.<\/p>\n Mam, Please check with @hansrajhansHRH<\/a> once.<\/p>\n Then use the toolkit created by BJP to copy-paste tweets. https:\/\/t.co\/dvBkmIp87O<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pvVk3JLpPi<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Srinivas B V (@srinivasiyc) May 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Srinivas had also tweeted photos of oxygen cylinders supplied to a person after anchor Rubika Liyaquat’s tweet. She had also not tagged IYC.<\/p>\n \u0926\u0940\u092a\u0915 \u0915\u0947 \u092a\u093e\u0938 \u0905\u0938\u094d\u092a\u0924\u093e\u0932 \u092e\u0947\u0902 #SOSIYC<\/a> \u091f\u0940\u092e \u0926\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0930\u093e \u0938\u093f\u0932\u093f\u0902\u0921\u0930 \u092a\u0939\u0941\u0902\u091a\u093e \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0917\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948 @RubikaLiyaquat<\/a> \u091c\u0940,<\/p>\n \u0939\u092e \u0909\u0928\u0915\u0947 \u0936\u0940\u0918\u094d\u0930 \u0938\u094d\u0935\u0938\u094d\u0925 \u0939\u094b\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u093e\u092e\u0928\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u0948 \ud83d\ude4f pic.twitter.com\/0Ac0oDKfaX<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\nWhen our country is devastated by COVID, instead of providing relief, BJP shamelessly concocts forgeries<\/p>\nForged letterhead<\/h4>\n
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\nAuthor: Saumya Varma
\nWho\u2019s Saumya Varma …
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That the home minister is ‘missing’ had become a talking point on Twitter after Nagesh Kariyappa, general secretary of the NSUI, filed a missing person’s report with the Delhi police claiming that Shah has disappeared when the country is facing a crisis. <\/span>Most tweets<\/a> are regarding his complaint.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/05\/aditya.png\")
There are many such examples, including Srinivas’s response to BJP MP Hans Raj Hans who had used the hashtags #SOS and #SOSDelhi.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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