Congress has filed an FIR against BJP national president JP Nadda, Union Minister Smriti Irani, BJP general secretary B L Santhosh, and spokesperson Sambit Patra.
Over an alleged toolkit doing the rounds on social media platforms for the last two days, the Congress party has now filed an FIR against BJP national president JP Nadda, Union Minister Smriti Irani, BJP general secretary B L Santhosh, and spokesperson Sambit Patra.
Rajasthan Congress secretary Jaswant Gurjar filed the FIR against BJP leaders at Bajaj Nagar Police Station in Jaipur. The Congress leader has accused BJP of indulging in politics of lies, deceit and hypocrisy.
The action by the Congress party comes two days after BJP released a “toolkit”, claiming it to be made by Congress to tarnish the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Centre over the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Calling the allegation a fake narrative propagated by the BJP, the Congress has hit back at the ruling BJP.
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!! pic.twitter.com/i1ykMB00MA— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) May 18, 2021
BJP president JP Nadda was one of the first BJP leaders who tweeted about the toolkit, slamming the Congress party. Later, the allegations were subsequently taken up by other saffron party leaders such as Smriti Irani, Santhosh, and Sambit Patra. They shared a document seemingly printed on the letterhead of the “AICC Research Department”.
NSUI, the Congress’ student wing, has also filed an FIR in Raipur against former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh and Sambit Patra for printing “false and fabricated” content.
Akash Sharma, state chief of the National Students Union of India, has filed the case at Civil Lines police station. BJP leaders circulated fabricated content using a fake letterhead of the AICC Research Department, Mr Sharma alleged.
The case was registered under IPC sections 469 (forgery for purpose of harming reputation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 505(1)(b) (circulating rumour or report with intent to cause fear or alarm).
The alleged toolkit shared by the BJP leaders, attributing it to the Congress party, asks Congress workers to use phrases such as “Indian strain” and “Modi strain” on social media and to “keep using the term super spreader Kumbh”.
It also allegedly asks party workers to use “dramatic pictures of the funerals and dead bodies” while saying that “PM Modi’s approval ratings have been high and have not dipped despite the crisis and mismanagement”.
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