How tweets with hashtag #CongressToolkit gained momentum: Research
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What triggered the hashtag #CongressToolkit event, who gave it momentum, and how much of a role did influencers play in this event are some of the key questions Joyojeet Pal, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, and Rynaa Grover, research intern, answer based on their research. Pal and Grover analysed the engagement of tweets with #CongressToolkit between May 18 – May 22 by studying the tweets of politicians and influencers that used the hashtag.
Last week tweets with an image allegedly claimed to be Congress’s toolkit to misrepresent the government’s pandemic efforts were doing the rounds on Twitter with many prominent BJP politicians tweeting about it. Things took a turn when Twitter labelled these tweets as “manipulated media.” The government asked Twitter to remove this tag and the Delhi Police sent a notice to the social media platform asking it to share information that i
Why Does a 10-Day-Old Twitter Thread Look So Much Like the âToolkitâ?
A pro-BJP Twitter handle talked about a ânew toolkitâ 10 days before the âtoolkitâ attributed to Congress was made public by BJP leaders.
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On May 18, the top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the opposition Congress of conspiring a nefarious plan to gain political capital from the pandemic. The plan, documented in a âtoolkitâ, included sullying the image of the country, using COVID volunteerism as a PR and marketing activity and using phrases like âModi strainâ to shame the Prime Minister. In an article published on May 19, Alt News explained how the toolkit was created on a forged letterhead.
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New Delhi, May 19
The BJP continued its attack on the Congress over the alleged “toolkit to target PM Narendra Modi”. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra today presented what he termed as “proof/evidence” of the Congress’ “direct involvement” in the “toolkit”, authored by “Saumya Varma”, who, he claimed, was associated with Congress leader Rajeev Gowda.
Gowda, however, trashed the claim as “completely fake”. He said it was a research note on Central Vista for the party, which is “genuine and fact-based”.
Gowda said the section addressing the issues as regards the Central Vista project (titled ‘Central Vista Redevelopment: Vanity Project Amidst the Pandemic’) was made by the AICC’s Research Department. “This is a part of a larger six-page document. The BJP seems to have obtained it illegally and used it as a model to create a fake document, on forged letterhead,” Gowda said.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala accused the BJP party of deploying "forgery" to divert public attention from the government's alleged failures in managing the coronavirus pandemic.
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BJP s forgery to divert public attention from govt s failures: Congress on toolkit row
The Congress party has hit out at the BJP over the toolkit issue, accusing the ruling party of deploying forgery to divert public attention from the government s alleged failures in managing the coronavirus pandemic.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the BJP does not want to answer the public over its alleged failures to provide life-saving medicines, ventilators and ICU beds during the pandemic, and thus was resorting to such tactics.
On Tuesday, The BJP had slammed the Congress over an alleged toolkit of the opposition party, saying it wants to tarnish the image of the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi by calling the new strain of the coronavirus the India strain or the Modi strain .