New Delhi: The BJP has released what it called a ‘toolkit’ by the Congress to tarnish Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Centre over the handling of the Covid pandemic.
BJP leader Sambit Patra named Saumya Varma as the author of the toolkit, a social media campaign playbook, that his party said on Tuesday was prepared by the Congress to defame Prime Minister Narendra Modi and to build a biased narrative over the Indian government’s handling of the second wave of Covid-19 , and the Central Vista Project.
The Congress accused Patra of naming the author of a real document (from its metadata) to claim that she also authored the fake documents. It reiterated that the document on Central Vista was genuine, but that the BJP had concocted the other one on Covid-19 to defame the Congress.
“…We made a research note on Central Vista for the party It’s genuine and fact-based. I tweeted yesterday [Tuesday] that ‘Covid-19 toolkit’ is forged and is a `Made in BJP’ product. Patra is showing metadata/author of a real document and attributing it to a fake,” said Rajeev Gowda, the head of Congress’s Research Department.
The document circulated by the BJP included instructions purportedly by the Congress asking its followers to track people seeking help, and to ensure they tagged the party’s leaders in reply.
A number of BJP leaders, including Ministers, through the day attacked the Congress attaching hashtag ‘CongressToolKitExposed’.