Overnight ‘Messiah’ Sonu Sood came under the radar for black marketing of COVID-specific drug. While the matter is under investigation (by Hon'ble BOM HC), we have some other behind-the-curtain findings.
This is going to be Three parts long thread.
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PR1. SM star Sood’s Twitter followership jumped by whooping 84times in May’20 (7K to 622K), by now he has 7.9Mn, adding 1.2Mn in just May’21 month i.e. avg 41K per day which is, for a perspective, almost double than that of NaMo, RaGa, BigB & Virat's numbers. 2/n
In a couple of months his stardom mushroomed, Sood drifted in oblivion of a larger-than-life Messiah image, 'leveling' himself to the national institution, backed up by his political friends, a section of media, and Bollywood.
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But obviously, something doesn't add up with numbers. On further investigation, we found that 90-95% of his newly add-up followers are ‘just-created' (new) handlers. We performed this experiment several times & captured one of the live demonstrations (check video). 4/n
PR2. Very peculiar pattern of the handlers Sood picks to respond in Messiah style- most of them are either recently created or have become active after 1 to 11 yrs of gap, all tweets related to Sonu, "request calls" found so ‘scripted' specifically on which Sood replies. 5/n
PR3. Worth to note that Sonu Sood, closely associated with restauranter Neeti Goel in many of his ‘flagship programs’, is business partnering with BotBakery, a digital marketing co. specialized in social media 'solutions' for business growth.
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Book release to political tadka, when Sonu's PR team is busy in making Messiah image, BOM HC whipped him in contrast for the same reason, he was 'appealing' ppl not to. (pic)
But hang on, this is just a starter.
The main course is– (B) Money🐝Bee [funding]
To be cont..
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Part-2 Money🐝Bee
Sood's series of crowdfunding campaigns: legal or illegal !?. 👇
The US COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM is a self-proclaimed 'freedom of religion' watchdog.
According to USCIRF, Bangladesh is not even "CPC (Country of Particular Concern)".
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USCIRF labels India as a CPC and often selects specific cases to build a particular narrative.
Check these headlines.
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In their 2025 Annual Report, they indeed mentioned that Hindus are being targeted in Bangladesh more for their political affiliation than their religion.
Instead of threatening legal action, why not explain, Madam @KotaNeelima, why PROTO founder Nasr ul Hadi featured your profile on PROTO’s homepage for years, prominently displayed alongside his own profile?
#RebuttalThread ++
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You have been featured on the front page next to the founder since (at least) Jun 2020 to date. Also listed as a speaker at one of PROTO's events, supported by ICFJ, on the subject of media narrative.
Snapshot from PROTO's event at FB -
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PROTO, ICFJ, OCCRP funding and partnering. All this information is available on the open internet.
The man character of this story influence the media-narrative in India, controlled by US & Jamaat elements.
At the centre of it – Congress spox Pawan Khera'a wife Neelima Kota.
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Did you know that Congress national spokesperson Pawan Khera's wife Kota Neelima is part of a company that decides which Indian journalists receive US funding?
The answer is going to reveal Congress's entire foreign-funded propaganda machinery.
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Kota Neelima sits on Congress Working Committee, ex VP of Telangana Congress, simultaneously being a part of PROTO, a Delhi based company that controls selection of Indian journalists to receive foreign funding.
Conflict of interest, is nothing in front of what's coming..
Shocking details! He brought a Soros-backed Pakistani-linked finance executive to the sensitive China border at Pangong Tso during his August 2023 visit.
Who is this fellow & why meeting at the border?
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Rahul Gandhi's companion's (whom we're going to talk about) previous firm tried selling Pakistani power to Beijing for $1.77bn.
Like, why Rahul Gandhi, Pakistan and China have to come in the same sentence?
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Meet Shakir Mohamed Nurali Merali. Managing Partner for Africa at investment firm Lightrock, which leverages infrastructure created and funded by Soros Economic Development Fund. Lightrock still co-invests with SEDF in India today.
Climate activism is very safe entry to this club. This is a pattern globally that many “movement leaders” begin with enva/climate stuff because it gets immediate traction and global limelight. Then they quietly turned into political movement.
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Finally the truth behind this iconic image came out and it'll shock you!
This was "PM Manmohan Singh's Peace Efforts with Pakistan" in 2006 that urged JKLF terrorist Yasin Malik to meet Hafiz Saeed advocate for peace.
In 2008, Hafiz Saeed executed 26/11 Mumbai attack.
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Last month, Yasin Malik filed affidavit in court stating that he was approached by Intelligence Bureau Special Director VK Joshi requesting to carry then PM MMS' back channel efforts to peace with Pakistan.
Yasin Malik was explicitly requested to meet Hafiz Saeed.
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It was his scheduled meeting with Hafiz Saeed and leaders of Jihadi Council in Pakistan where he "advised" them to have peace with India.
Malik did his job as requested to him by IB official behalf of PM.