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Defame Kumbh, highlight Eid as ‘happy gatherings’

The document titled ‘Cornering Narendra Modi & Covid Mismanagement’ begins by highlighting how the ‘Kumbh mela’ is to be used to malign the Hindu festival and the ruling party. The “toolkit” suggests politicizing the congregation by repeatedly labeling it as a ‘super spreader’ to hint at BJP’s Hindu politics. 

The pointed instruction guide then recommends using international media reports to validate the point and warns to not comment on ‘Eid’ gatherings as it might be used as a trap.

The ‘toolkit’ encourages non-party office bearers and supporters of the party to propagate the message using “carefully selected images.”

The document specifically instructs Congress workers stating, “Non-party office bearers and supporters can be encouraged to use social media posts to highlight, by carefully using pictures, that Kumbh is a show of political power in the name of religion while Eid gatherings are happy social gatherings of families and communities.“

"PM Modi's vision is helping the poor and needy in fighting Covid. The Modi government is ensuring astute implementation of India’s vaccination programme. India is battling against Covid second wave bravely under PM Modi. India battling against Covid 2nd wave bravely under PM Modi. Modi government scaling up Sputnik V production in India. Modi government is ensuring astute implementation of India's vaccination programme," are some of the one-liners used by the BJP to counter the Congress campaign, indicating how the BJP is entirely banking on the personal image of the Prime Minister to face the growing criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on alleged Congress toolkit: Don't waste time spreading lies, start saving lives

Calling the BJP's national general secretary B L Santhosh's shared tweet, which claimed a document as the Congress' toolkit to malign the ruling party's image, as fake, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked the Centre to stop wasting time on spreading lies and start saving lives.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday in what appeared to be a rebuttal fact-checked the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) claim of exposing an alleged toolkit of the Congress against the ruling party. Calling the BJP's national general secretary B L Santhosh's shared tweet, which claimed a document as the Congress' toolkit to malign the ruling party's image, as fake, she asked the Centre to stop wasting time on spreading lies and start saving lives.

"Don’t waste time spreading lies, wake up and start saving lives," Gandhi tweeted with an image of the first page of what Santosh claimed to be the opposition party's toolkit.

In the afternoon, Santhosh hit out at the Congress party for spreading fake news and stirring up discontent among the people for the ruling party. Santhosh tweeted images of four pages of a document with the headline 'Cornering Narendra Modi & BJP on Covid Management'.

"When country was in the midst of a health crisis & every single unit of society from an individual to administration were rising up to the challenge, here was @INCIndia spreading fake, negative news & stirring up discontent. Disgusting," Santhosh tweeted with the images and the hashtag #Congresstoolkitexposed.

The images had details about the Congress' plan to use resources to corner the Modi-led government. "This note provides resources to corner the Modi government and various BJP governments in the country," the first page of the document read.
Other such ways planned to be deployed against the government that were mentioned in the shared images of the document include using the term 'super spreader Kumbh' to highlight Hindu politics of the BJP, non-party office bearers to use social media posts to highlight, by carefully using pictures, that Kumbh is a show of political power in the name of religion, tailoring international media coverage, use of the term 'Indian strain' whenever mentioning the mutant and 'missing' for Amit Shah etc.

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OpIndia